a number of countries have indicated that theyl united stas in certain counterterrorism efforts, for instance, in providing evidence or extraditing suspects if we intend to use the cooperation in pursuit of a military commission prosecution. although the use of military commissions in the united states can be traced back to the early days of our nation, in their present form they are less familiar to the international community than our system and article three courts. however, it is my hope that with time and with experience the commissions will obtain similar respect in the eyes of the world. when cases are selected for prosecutions in military commissions, prosecutors and ve investigators work together to support the prostitutions. the bomber of the "uss cole" is being tried before a military commission. and we'll continue to reject the false idea that we must choose between military commissions and federal courts instead of using them both. if we were to fail to use all necessary and available tools at our disposal, we would undoubtedly fail in our fundamental duty to protect the

really global market, and while supply is up in the united states and demand is down many tin the united stas has been discussed in the hearing, globally demand is still rising because of the developing countries. at the same time there's been discussion by my colleagues of some of the supply issues.that although it's not what your constituents would obviously like to hear. >> right. but it does speak to the fact that given that, even if we dramatically increase supply here and reduce demand, we're still going to be at the whim of what happens in the global markets. >> well, if you -- i think one thing to say about that would be that reducing demand, you know, does not put you -- i mean, it basically -- if we were not -- and we're not going to get there easily because oil does a lot of good things. it heats our homes. it -- in your area. we drive around with it. >> yes. >> but, i mean, the bottom line is, you know, if, in fact, one can find alternatives or displace oil demand, then you're less at the whims. in terms of supply contributing to -- you know, we are part of global supply and contr

united states. >> thank you. >> is the sta student from ohio is with us. >> first off it's a pleasure to speak to you. i want to switch gears to business a little bit. you say you are going to lower the marginal rate how do you do that and still manage to balance the budget. >> that's the rub always. the answer is by lowering marginal rates across the board we will have two things we also do. one is to limit the reductions and exemptions for people at the high end of the income spectrum so we maintain progress civet in the code and we are keeping the revenue coming in if by getting rid of some of the exemptions or deductions -- not getting rid of but limiting them. we will get a growth effect by lowering the amount of rate particularly for small businesses you allow them to hire more people at higher wages that creates growth. the combination of those two make sure we add to the deficit. we already have a deficit so we have to go to part 3 which is cut spending. i laid out a series of steps i would make to get america a finally balanced budget. it is unethical and uneconomic and i am moral for my

ormy sta or -- army t was accused of killing 16 afghan civilians. >> karzai has accuse the the united states for not cooperating were the -- with the investigation. >> this is the end of the rope this form of activity. this behavior. cannot be tolerated. it is past, past, past the time. >> after the defence secretary and kabul president demanded that american troops be with withdrawn from villages and bases and transfer security to oafghan soldiers by next year. the taliban announced they are suspending negotiations. i'm pleasesse pleased to have gl dempsey here at this time. >> what do we know about the ofu awful thing that happened to these civilians in afghanistan. >> we know it's an awful thingan investigation. we have to be aware of the fact that we have had 8 or 900,000 men or women ro rotate through afghanistan. they have served honorbly and they have maintained their sense of disminute. we want to keep it in perspective. >> all of the people there are trying to do their job as they see best and serve their country and work in the interest of other people. but it is something t

united states may not stay a proceeding in state court. so both of those formulas the tia and the no injunction against at stake for are directed to court. the anti-injunction act like the sta constitute says no suit shall be maintained. that is argued that that is suitor directed in contrast to court directed. >> right. this court has said several times that the tax injunction act was based on the anti-injunction act. you're quite right, the language is different. but we submit that the anti-injunction act itself by saying that no suit shall be maintained is addressed to courts as well as litigants. after all, the case may not go from beginning to end without the active cooperation of the court. >> but how is that different from no civil action for i think fringement shall be instituted? >> well, it's -- i mean it is perhaps a party could initiate an action without the act of cooperation from the court but to maintain it from beginning to end again requires the court's cooperation. and even if -- if the court were inclined to say the initial matter, if this statute were coming before us for the first time today given the recent decisions on jurisdiction but you might be in

sta state. russia not that dissimilar. so the idea that you can have popular resolutions support the by the united states and topple the elite bureau is not something that appeals to either of the regimes. in principle. then on the other side. they have friends in those regimes they don't want to throw under the bus, like some people criticize the united states for throwing friends under the bus. for iran, it's business interests. they have business interests with oil and natural gas and want to keep them. they want to keep them at almost any cost. >> gordon, you have the last word on this. if you were mediating the mutual interests of china and the united states in the middle east, what would be the one thing you would try to get them to agree to? >> i think the first thing we need to do is get china to stop its commercial relationships with iran. but also stopping the sale of ballistic missiles and components and materials and proliferating nue ining nuclear technology. that threatens us in an important way. >> thank you for the reporting. >> unless you want to stop the rival between the u.s. and china. social car. >> that

sta nominations. you cannot have a boat in the united states senate to fillunit some vacancy where there is no one from the united states. get the job done, get the nominees up here. as you can tell, i'm going to be a bit wary of the vacancy being blamed on senate republicans. as on numerous occasions, with which i undertake the functions of the senate intelligence, a pleasant personality, and inspiring life story, or a prestigious clerkship. when i became ranking member of the judiciary committee, i articulated my standards for judicial nominees. i want to be sure that the men and women who are appointed to the lifetime position in the federal judiciary are qualified to serve. factors i consider important include intellectual ability, respect for the constitution, fidelity to the law, personal integrity, appropriate judicial temperaments, and professional competence. in applying these standards, i have demonstrated good faith in ensuring fair consideration to judicial nominees. i have worked with the majority to confirm consensus nominees. in fact, of the 138 judges confirmed so frarks i voted in favo

united states. what you see on this chart is that we have a 50-sta -- we have the 50 state governments, thousands of general-purpose governments. host: how are they defined? guest: county governments, city governments, towns and townships. when people think of services they use, that is generally what they are thinking about. in addition to those general purpose governments, we can also see that we have about 50,000 special purpose governments. it is in a special purpose governments that we get special districts. about 37,000 special districts. special districts are all priced by state law to provide one or a limited number of functions. this is where we have water and sewer districts, police protection, fire protection. in addition to that, we have a 13,000 independent school districts. host: when you at the census bureau look at this, is this the totality? or is this just the ones that you measure? guest: we need to distinguish between cities and city governments. we are talking about is the number of city governments there are. for example, when we think about counties, there are just over 3100 c