and before the soviet union collapsed. it ended by negotiation in the interest of both parties. then communist rule eroded in the soviet union not because of our pressure, but because of gorbachev's policies. when he saw the party on opposing the reforms come he began to take the party out of control. and once he had done that then the internal contradiction within the soviet union brought it down a. so the people who feel that our pressures or that it was something like a military victory did it all wrong because we didn't bring the soviet union down by external pressure and the soviet union didn't come down because they lost war. it came down because the system itself could not be maintained without force, and when gorbachev took the four south. so when people mixup these things -- and of course they had been been very quick succession. it happened when most people didn't expect them and so they complete this in their mind as if the end of the soviet union was the end of the cold war but that is not the case. >> host: yo

the soviet union problems were intro. and by trying to change the extra policies we made it possible for gorbachev, when he agreed, to think of an internal reforms. >> host: ronald reagan, the perception is that he came to office determined to launch a whole brigade against the soviet union. and he said a lot of things which, at the time at least, sounded pretty provocative. evil empire stuff, today most people would agree with it. including probably on russian leaders. but at that time it was quite controversial, yet you are telling the book this fascinating story about president reagan shortly after the assassination attempt writing now to brush up against advice of state department. can you tell about that? >> guest: yes. i think that shows his initial instinct wants to reach out to try to make human contact, to try to deal with the soviet leaders as leaders who were not only communist ideologues, but also had the interest of the country at heart, if we could explain them. and, of course, brush and if turned down that

it is not a union town. it wanted to be the a non-union alternative to san francisco. with the demographic transformation of los angeles into plurality and to what is a majority latino city, some interesting stuff went on. some very successful campaigns for the fledgling cantors union in loss angeles really is seized the moral imagination -- for the fledgling janitor's union. that is probably the single most striking example of unions taking the type of high ground increasing both their perception of the public and their power. but it led to all kinds of things. it became a cadre of within loss angeles -- within less angeles of this militant activist core of workers, almost all of them immigrants, with the janitor and hotel workers which spearheaded the transformation of los angeles politics. no one walked let alone precinct walks before the transformation. in a broad sense, i will not bore you with details, a lot of the transformation of california to a red, to provoke, to blue -- a red suit purple, to blue has to do with the latino population which was the court. thi

it was not really about the labor union, but i wound up in the labor union. about the way to get to racial justice and other things was by building workers' movement to inside of another movement. i still believe that to be the case. but a lot of people did not exactly believe that with me. in which case it is my job to got to persuade people that building a social justice movement requires building a labor movement and then all together figuring out how to get it accomplished. i still accept the job. >> well, i joined the labor movement because i realized that us acting as individuals, we have -- our voices are not as strong until we come together collectively. that is what the union movement is about. i hope we can appeal to more young people to start to realize that. it certainly is a big problem that many of you in this audience know, but probably friends or relatives do not. so that is the big challenge we have ahead of us. as their numbers have gone smaller, we needed to reach out and build community alliances. that is where our strength comes in. if we

unions are not. they're representing their members and unions are trying to fix this economic crisis by putting more money into the economy from the wilson wagesy they're turning on you. >> no, that's not true. that's not true. >> neil: all right. >> that's not at all true. >> neil: democratic mayor, democratic governor, 6 of the 17 states run by democrats. i don't have to be -- >> it's hard bargaining and tensions run high and people have different roles on different sides of the bargaining table. but we're going to be all right. >> neil: all right. well then, stuart, always good seeing you. >> great to see you. >> neil: if unions don't give in my next guest says -- you've been crunching numbers and they're big numbers, aren't they? >> they're huge. the average union retirement fund is funded at -- they can only cover 62% of their liability. the government calls 6 are a% or below critical. if you bail out all the pension retirement plans it's trillions of dollars. >> why are we assuming we're at tha

these unions have one thing in mind.hey want to keep their pay regardless of everyone else and i tell you what, those cities and counties a lot of those mentioned are going to have to declare bankruptcy, but the unions say, hey, listen, we have the contracts signed. >> that's right. >> the question is, eric, who pays, the unions or the taxpayers? >> this is going to play out. it's going to be very, very interesting. i think they're going to be under a lot of pressure to get the unions to play ball, to renegotiate these contracts or break them. probably too hard to break them they'll need them to renegotiate. if they don't taxpayers are going to pick it up. the problem is if they push too hard, these municipalities and states say we need you to play ball they're risking, political, i don't know, armageddon because the unions wield amazing political power and they have to do the tightrope dance. i don't think the guy at the dmv making me wait three hours for my driver's license needs a 5% raise this year, i'm just saying.

part of the european union. 3 million jobs depend on our membership of the european union. half of their trade is with the union. 750,000 businesses -- i am sorry it is not your business -- but 750,000 businesses trade with europe. the idea that we should be isolated and on the margins and not in the mainstream of europe would be a terrible, terrible mistake. i worked with the european leaders through the global financial crisis. i had to persuade them that we had to restructure our banks and they had to restructure their banks. i had to restrict -- i had to persuade them that they had to work with america in the g-20. when we work with america, we are stronger to do with the economy, stronger to deal with international crime, stronger to deal with terrorism. let us never again be an empty chair in europe. >> thank you. david cameron. >> i interest and let people like christopher are frustrated with the european union. one of the reasons people are so angry is that politicians that have given way powers to brussels without asking us, the people, first, people felt particula

even he is leaning on the unions. >> he is trying to get the unions to make concessions.ornia is at the tip. they have a huge unfunded portion of their pension. also, there are other obligations, post-retirement op ligation like health benefit and none is covered. $46 billion, none of it is funded. they have to do something immediately. >> if the unions don't cave and the courts don't interfe interfere, will non-union workers be working for less money so union workers can continue to receive the higher hourly wages and cadillac health plan negotiated by the government when they thought the money would never run out? >> we are past the rrubicahn on that. franklin roosevelt said the margin cannot be applied to the public sector. we put to book "municipal doomsday machine." we were 40 years too early but now the bargaining agreements are coming to a head in a difficult financial time and it exposes the difficulty that the states will have to fund the contract. >> put the gap chart on the screen, showing gap, difference between private and public sector. isn't that crazy, cha

by unions. host: thank you. we will move on to bedford, new jersey, maria. caller: i just want to ask his opinion of futility about getting any more training or education when congress and the president are not going to ever did any of the trade agreements. actively we could walk through fire and they will still be indemnified from losses. they make thousands of percent of profit and pay no taxes on it. so unless the american people speak up about these trade agreements, it is just another leech on all bill sammon and no one will get ahead and it is really a betrayal. guest: a couple of things. i think the administration is moving and congress is moving swiftly to try to put in education and training. i think that is definitely one of their priorities, moving on that front. trade agreements -- i know this is a big debates -- big debate. economists and people i talk to -- i think trade, from by reporting, it is not a zero sum game. it helps when there is trade going on in the country. i think it

you better be in a union shop. it steers federal contracts to union friendly companies.ine outs of ten workers are not in a union and that's way you say it's bad for jobs in america. >> unions are getting their money's worth. charles, 85% of construction worker force is nonunionized but they're telling that 85% to take a hike. whatever happened to a better bid or a better company who can construct something better? what ever happened to the level playing field that this administration talked about before they came in? all they're doing is give aways to the good budsies, total favoritism and cronyism a will hurt the construction industry. >> it is transparent, you have to admit. >> quite. >> scott. >> economically, what would -- listen, here's the thing, we had the stimulus plan, shovel-ready projects yet unemployment amongst construction workers 25%. so economically, what is this going to do for the industry? >> isn't that funny, charles? when those things dried up, the construction industry is adding jobs. once the government got out of the way -- it's it. the economic

and soviet union superpowers were nuclear weapons. we could destroy the world not once, twice, but some said seven times over. now, why you need that much power i don't know. but we never had the power to change the world in our own image using military force, nor did the soviet union and look at old problems in the world the middle east in particular. if we could have solved it then we certainly would have. and the idea that we emerge as the sole superpower able to use this great military power now that it was clearly much more than the successors of the soviet union i think it was a great illusion and we talked about a unipolar world and the russians thought we were acting arrogantly as if we were the only power that counted and others said well it won't last forever but there is a unipolar moment. and i say there never was because when the cold war ended particularly when the soviet union collapsed there was no longer a threat, perceived threat out there for the united states to protect others from so our power, our soft power whic

>> the union army? >> no.he people you're supporting, they tortured and killed africans who were slaves and you're sitting here by saying they invaded. come on, do you even hear how you sound? >> i think i sound perfectly rational. i'm giving you what happened. >> i think you sound delirious when you can't even recognize how they destroyed human beings. this was a -- >> you're giving a perfect reason why this whole era needs a full study. >> but you're not -- i just want to give you an opportunity to respond to what mr. martin said, you do recognize that, you know, slavery was inherently evil and africans who were -- >> i do. i do. i make no defense of slavery. but we live in 2010, we don't live in 1860, where slavery was a world-wide institution. it's a completely different place now. >> and it was wrong then. and the governor's statement, he even said we need to recognize the times people lived in. i'm sorry, sir, i reject evil then and i reject it now. >> we have to leave it there. we appreciate your perspe

unions. it is very hard to get over that period. guhost: she is part of the agricultural committee, and they rode a large part of this when it comes to the derivatives. some are surprised by what she brought to this legislation. guest: this is a move over to the left, especially for her. and this is something that many of the bank's do not like. they do not like what this puts on the practice. and there has been some speculation that she was moving to the left on this because of the challenge from halter. she has got a lot of press out of this, and she has a lot of attention from this. this was approved in the agricultural committee and she was able to get one republican to support this. this is something that she has been mentioning more, and we expect this during the first debate, she will be talking about this as an example of working against wall street. the message against her has been trying to paint her as an advocate for wall street instead of main street. host: the first debate will

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not just after the collapse of the soviet union. and the fissile material, the uranium was sitting in those canisters without a single guard on a moscow afternoon. a few weeks later i visited south of moscow. another famous russian nuclear research institute. there are 10 tons of fissile material there. a lot of it are in very small disks, about 2 1/4 of them. they're not numbered. they're not inventoried. you could put a dozen in your pocket and walk out with them. and they were struggling when i was there that day to begin the process of keeping track of those disks. in the year 2000, the doors swung open for me at the institute of applied microbiology, also south of moscow. this laboratory was the scene of some of the most diabolical and bizarre research and genetic engineering carried out in the secret soviet biological weapons program, which i'll talk about briefly today. what really amazed me is i had the ability as a journalist to walk around the big tall central building where these experiments had been done. it's the first

violence prompting the teacher's union to investigate. last week we reported on shania's story and since then parents have come barred with -d with similar stories. since then students have been suspended for bullying and others for other tacks. and the real number of incidents is probably a a lot higher. >> i do believe that the principals still want to keep this school zone as safe and the least expensive the school is the better the school is. they do try to keep the numbers down. >> reporter: we asked the principal to do an interview on camera regarding the bullying, but they denied the requests. some tell us that the administrators want the trouble swept under the carpet. the teacher's union is stepping in to investigate this matter. the president is expected to be at the school later this morning. megan gilliland, fox 45 early edition. >>> baltimore county police have identified the young mother killed after being struck by a truck. her family is calling her a hero for getting her 2-year-old son out of harm's way. 17-year-old mavi m

and democratic base most people want to join labor unions. poll after poll shows most want to join. why would you not pass the legislation which wouldn't strengthen the workers and their ability to make a family and contribute to the economy which is what is wrong with the economy but would contribute your main base so this is my question which is who is he listening to weekend why? and part of that is our fault. you think we are not articulating, we are not making the demand that he feels, but again, the distance between the political class and average on a celebrated americans is the last fast on the surmountable amount of things. >> the next question over here. >> first full congratulations on the book. [inaudible] i disagree on one thing and that is what you call a failed the state. i have the opposite view and something you did in one of the stories that you wrote that i have seen about race and the impact on politics from the diverse society [inaudible] nations like sweden and scandinavian countries develop [inaudible] [inaudible] what

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i think after the "state of the union" but might have been right before. he went to the republican retreat and actually spoke to and with and took questions from the republicans. now, both sides did an awful lot of posturing. unfortunately the whole program was televised. it probably would have been a little better if they had both the televised part and a portion of the program that was not publicized so that there was some effort to actually engage in debate as opposed to making -- creating sound bites for the camera but if in fact the president continues that effort and is serious about it i think it will help immensely but he didn't can't do it himself. going to take an awful lot of work and conscious effort to break the part san ship that we have in washington that is born of and facilitated by what we in this country have allowed to become a monopoly two party system. that centers around one party being in charge. one party not being in charge one party controlling the leaveers of power and one party not controlling anything except whatever time they

and so we've talked to union workers. we've talked to offenders and people who were business owners who don't want their taxes cut and so a lot of people have a lot of different opinions about the world. one of the chapters -- the chapter i will read from we both did personal shoppers. my personal chapter was about my own family. it was about my family centered around my grandmother, daisy mae francis. and my family moved off the plantation of 1975 and that is not a mistake. that was 1975. i was 7-years-old when we moved away from the plantation and so we talked about that whole -- that is meant to sort of serve as the connection from slavery to the presidency and i will read a little bit from that chapter. for most of the zinni's life expression was not an option. on the plantation everyone understood the rules. white people talked, black people did what they were told. the plantation was named for alice colder the wife of the man who once owned the property in the black slaves who worked on the fields. the main plantati

we negotiated agreements with the soviet union and the height of the cold war and the soviet union was obligated and for the most part did comply with the provisions of these agreements. so, this agreement will hold. again, both sides, if either side thinks agreement is no longer in its national security interests, all trees have such a clause to say either the u.s. and russia can pull out of the agreement. the united states did that with the anti-ballistic missile treaty under the bush administration in 2002. but again, i think this agreement is so abundantly in the national security interests of the u.s. and russia that it will be in their interest to continue to adhere to it. host: kingston reif from the center of arms control and nonproliferation. he will talk about this issue until 8:30. the numbers will be on your screen. you can tweet us an e-mail us. davenport, iowa, go ahead on our independent line. caller: i am sorry i have to disagree. i had a much older relative who was there in 1963. there were no negotiations. he was at a base in north dakota -- he got the call to put the

what i learned when i was there was this: the european union is not perfect. of course not. this is a club that took 15 years to define chocolate. anybody that takes 15 years to define chocolate is efficiency. but what i learned was there are a whole lot of things whether we like it or not or whatever your views on europe and the european union which we simply can't do on our own, we can't deal with international crime which touches and affects every single community in this country on our own. we can't deal with climate change on our own. the weather doesn't stop at the cliffs of done. we can't regulate the wretched banks that got us into trouble in the first place that strawls over countries.

we need to change the european union. you change clubs of which you are a member by getting stuck in and not standing on the side lines and complaining. >> these two guys remind me of my two young boys squabbling at bath time. they are squabbling about whether to have referendums on the european union. what we need is jobs and growth and economic recovery. we work with our partners to get that. the sooner nick realized also we had to work with america and europe to get economic growth in the future the better. i am afraid david is anti-european and nick is anti-american and both are out of touch with reality. >> it is a question of wanting to get things for your country and standing up for your country. one of the things the liberal democrats want to do is actually take away britain's seat on the united nations security council and replace it with a european one. that's one of the things that gives us the ability to punch up our weight in the world. >> nick clegg. >> there is no chance to get a seat in the security counci

and the soviet union and the u.s. and russia. the treaties and experiences we have had thus far have never actually verify the part that goes boom. it has always been the delivery systems. i remember briefing members of congress a few months ago and i realized they did not realize that arms control had never dealt with the part that goes boom. that's how i explain it. there is the part that flies the thing and a part that goes boom. we have destroyed this parts that fly but never dealt with the parts that go boom and he said, you are kidding. i said there are weapons that have been dismantled, it just was not verified and counted. many of the lights when you turn on your lights in your state, the power is supplied from the fuel by that. and he said you are kidding me. >> you are talking to children this way? >> and member of congress. [laughter] >> at some point, when the experience of arms reduction, what it goes further beyond the u.s. and russia, we will be into this new domain of trying to count warheads and verify warheads w

together as americans, and as trade unions, we must decide whether to wither in the face of our current economic adversity or work like hell to wrestle it into submission.

i lived at least half of my professional life in the soviet union. i do not remember ever seeing such an outcry of anti-nato, and that-western movements at the grassroot lovell of the russian public as in 1999. the more official propaganda was coming against nato. the more russian people like nato. but that changed dramatically after 1999. then, russia started to judge nato not by the nature of the state's which are native members, whether democratic or not quite democratic, but by the nato actual functions. by the actual operations. the operation in iraq, which was not a new operation, but the united states and a number of nato allies, intervened without

that's how virginia left the union. >> they refused to take sides against the union with the rebels? >> they refused to send their sons to kill their kinfolk. >> to bring back the union? >> kill their kinfolk. >> i think that's a technical point. virginia had slavery and believed in slavery and would have kept it had there not been a civil war. >> wait a minute. there were eight slave states in the union at the time of fort sumter and seven in the confederacy. >> gentlemen, that's not the point. >> the point of the civil war was slavery. >> the point today is bob mcdonnell missed an important opportunity. i'm also a proud great great granddaughter of slaves and we were owned by the phinneys of virginia. that is an american story. there is a broader american story, if we're going to elbright our history, let's tell the whole story and the whole history let's celebrate the whole history and not pick and choose the facts we like and don't like. >> this is the facts i think you like, pat. this is from your battle flag organization, sons of confederate veterans. the citizen soldiers who f

and union bank. >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> and now "bbc world news." >> barack obabama pushes for reform on wall street, but what chance of changing a culture that bankrolls the political parties? a series of grenade blasts in bangkok. the standoff between protesters and government forces. tackling foreign affairs. britain's leaders go head to head and a televised debate. welcome to "bbc world news." broadcast to our pbs viewers. coming up later, catholic bishops apologize for the abuse of children by priests. they admit chain it has brought on the church. shame -- they admit brought on the church. and nasa's aircraft. aircraft. new the question, how to prevent a repeat at the economic collapse? in the u.s. president obama set out his case for reform of the financial system. this is a speech a few feet from wall street. reining in the banks and practices blamed for the crisis. even in one year of midterm elections, signs are republicans and democrats may be moving towards agreement. this report from

the european union has banned thousands, but ours are still allowed. they have banned mercury, cadmium, flame-retardant, all these toxic chemicals 50 you says is not allowed to be in electronics, but we still allow them -- chemicals but you says is not allowed to be in electronics, but we still allow them. tavis: what is the as the nation for why they are progressive and we are not? -- the explanation for why they are progressive and we are not? >> they have a different relationship to the state. there is a broader social relationship and a sense that it is appropriate for the state to take precautionary action to protect public health, while there is still a hesitation about the state getting involved. we have allowed corporations to dominate the political process. in europe say -- they say, take the chemicals out, and they say i do not know how, and the government says i do not care. here, they say, you do not have to. tavis: i think it was calvin coolidge who said the business of america is business. if we believe that and behavior in that way, how

and union bank. >> union bank has put its global financial strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> we are a nation of explorers. we seek new ways of listening, thinking, and expressing ourselves. we take risks. we learn from experience. we keep moving forward. that is why we encourage and celebrate the explore in all of us. >> and now bbc news night. >> russia's hidden heroin epidemic. this week, more than 2 million at six. 30,000 russians died from heroin every year in what has been likened to a tsunami sweeping over the country. we have a special investigation. >> sometimes to commit crimes. sometimes we have tension. some addicts might even kill someone. >> why is the president of america getting ranted at by the president of afghanistan? after the date for the general election is announced in britain and the political parties look to woo voters, we attempt to gauge the mood of the swing voter. russia has accused the united nations -- states of conniving with afghanistan's drug producers by refusing to destroy opium crops. last year, they reversed the

i said in future, when we do it, there'll be no chefs allowed in from outside the european union. then i talked to some care assistants -- no care assistants come in from outside the european union. we are a tolerant, we are a diverse country, but the controls on migration that i'm introducing and i will see go further are the right controls, the right policy for britain. >> david cameron. >> gerard, what i would say is that immigration is simply too high at the moment. it has been these last ten years, and it does need to come down. i think the pressures that we've put on housing and health and education have been too great. if you look at the --what's happening with immigration, the difference between the amount of people going to live overseas and those coming here, it's been often as high as 200,000. that's equivalent to two million across a decade. it's too much. i want us to bring immigration down so it is in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds of thousands. how would we do that? i think we need to have not just a points system, but also a limit on migration when people

what do you think of the jefferson formula for an effective union? a perfect individual made perfect [unintelligible] noting that, in our time, it has never been so feasible to stop being selfish. >> not speaking as a historian or sociologist, but we are a long way from human perfection. one thing senator obama said in his speech was that he is an imperfect vessel for the hopes of the perfect union of america. i would just be humble about the possibility. thank you. >> martin made the comment once or twice that the masses must come together and actually force our leaders to make the changes that we want given that racism and racist -- that we want. given that racism and resists have to hide their feelings to get to positions where they do what they do to keep others down, will we ever really have a conversation on race? will people ever be honest about where they stand as it deals with persons of another color? >> go ahead. >> i mean, you know, the question is really how do we create a climate, or continue to create a climate for what we're doing tod

poll after poll shows most people to join labor unions. why would you not pass that piece of legislation, which would not just sort of strength and workers and their ability to sort of make a living and raise their family and contribute to the economy, which is actually what is wrong with the economy, but to also contribute your main base. .. you called call that a failed state. i have the opposite view. [inaudible] about race and a diverse society [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] in the sense of the polls that you are looking at and talking about are asking people a basic question. and most of them say yes. what if all these people-- [inaudible] [inaudible] the reason why the opposition of barack obama is so girl and is it accomplishes to get that mindset. it is not just because he is listening to a few people who disagree with them. the majority of people feel strongly. >> u.s. may specifically, so i see what you are saying and i agree with you. it is no quinn says that if you look at a country like one piece i have thinking about wri

union station in kansas city missouri is the host of this talk. it's about 50 minutes. >> i want to thank everyone who's been involved in bringing me here to kansas city. it's been a whirlwind two days and now we are here in this building i must say i've spent a lot of time in the last six years in writing the history about fred harvey while fred harvey lived in leavenworth and the company was spread from its peak from cleveland to california. the second floor of kansas city union station was not slowed hub of the fred harvey business everything is all about america they took to people was from kansas city, few. and before this building there was the union depot before it burned down so why have spent a lot of time in your town in my brain over the last few years. i think the easiest way for me to get you into the destroy all of this book and the idea we what we want to do is to for have imagery from the beginning of the book. so who the hell was fred harvey. on the spring night in 1980 to the trunk and cowboy is writing from northern mexico was i

we're going to issue taxable union licenses to anybody who wants them. -- issue civil union licenses to anybody who wants them. european in the well and inviting me to drink from it -- you are peeing in the well and inviting me to drink from it. [laughter] >> your argument was wiped away by the last metaphor. it is a very serious question and i am grateful that you asked it. this is my response. first of all, it is never going to happen. it is a kind of esoteric argument. in england, for example, the pragmatic english art -- this is typical -- they have civil partnership, but they all say we're getting married. that is how they get around it. the english are so good at this kind of thing. [laughter] that is why they irritate me actually, because they just avoid the subject and try and find a way to euphemize their way around it. it is good manners. i believe a cultural institution of marriage and the reasons for its. i believe that it gives us a status, social status. it gives status to people who are prepared to say in front of the world, i am here for this other person forever. i a

we live with a nuclear soviet union, britain, france, india, pakistan, israel. so i would say yes, of course we can live with a nuclear iran. the most prominent effect of having nuclear weapons is that it tends to moderate policy. it tends to make people think very deeply because of the tremendous consequences of use of nuclear weapons. and i should think that the iranians, just like the chinese or the soviets or any of the other nuclear powers, it would have the same effect on them. and the consequences of using military attack against iran to try to deprive them of nuclear weapons it seems to me would only slow it down and would be catastrophic for the united states. >> i tend to agree with you but there is another dynamic at work. it goes like this. i think the primary reason the iranians want a nuclear weapon is survival. they want to guarantee their regime. from israel's point of view, the existence of an iranian nuclear weapon could potentially represent an existential threat to israel. will you bet your nation, your children, on the intentions, proper int

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i don't know what that makes the president of members states of the european union, i don't think they'derize themselves as governor. we have president sarkozy of france here today having a meeting with president obama. i suppose the closest thing we could imagine the president of france is governor of massachusetts. i think that's probably the closest analogy. but the european union, the new president, herman, the former prime minister of belgium said in his inaugural address, which i'm sure you've all read; right? he said -- he described 2009 and i'm quoting as the first year of global governance with the establishment of the g20 in the middle of the financial crisis. the climate conference in copen haggen is -- copenhagen is the first step. this is the approach of many people who favor moving towards global governance. i think we are entitled to ask one year what is the president's view of american sovereignty? how does he view these issues? and i think we can see already that the president has -- president obama has a very different view of american sovereignty that the long line of

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and by the way, i don't entirely agree with you that civil unions are unproblematic.n illinois we've been fighting for many years to get them. and catholic church opposes tooth and nail. and we haven't it got. the vast majority not only of citizens but of catholics support it. but it's the fact that certain legislators do not want to risk the ire of cardinal george and other leading -- why should they have that aggravation. why should they bother with it they just bottle it up in committee. it's a second class status in the south we had a thing called transracial union and we said you can have that, you just can't have marriage and you could see what would be wrong with that. >> thank you very much for coming and speaking to us. it's been a great pleasure to listen to you. and i want to thank you for writing this book. it reminds me of a book from about 10 years ago which was a popular book by michael warner, "the trouble with normal." >> great book. >> and he's, you know, coming out of year theory. and i'd like you to go into the issue of -- that you said you at the

the union disagrees. >> our fire department is not getting less busy. they are also using the fire apparatus of our members to help support the ems system. which is fine. the problem is we do not have the resources to do everything for everybody all the time. >> cartwright would like to see data supporting the theory that the rotating closures have negatively affected public safety. >> we have dedicated and committed members. anytime we get a call, we are going to be there as fast as we can. >> the new budget starts july 1. it is not finalized. cartwright is optimistic it will include money for the fire department to continue doing that. the firefighter who was injured remains in shock trauma tonight but is expected to be ok. kevin cartwright says the department sends their best wishes to him and his family. i am reporting live from west baltimore. >> i hope he makes a speedy recovery. you could not help but feel the dramatic temperature change when you left the house. when will warm temperatures make a return? let us check in with chief meteorologist t