the more that they can trust that alliance with the united states perhaps that. less likely they are to find themselves in complex i think alliances can also be a source just quickly respond to that state's a source of stability ok john i'll go to you first then i'll go to nick you want to rebut that go ahead john so you know this issue of alliances causing those countries to have more restraint is belied by history what's going on right now for example in the asia pacific is that the united states is boosting military and economic support for its for all of china's neighboring rivals so if you think about for example the maritime and territorial disputes that the philippines has with china the philippines has been you know pushing out its navy and provoking chinese naval ships and china has been doing its own kind of aggressive actions as well but in a normal situation the philippines which is a tiny tiny nation would never be so bold as to challenge a rising regional great power like china the only reason they're doing so is because we have a security agreement

possible to avoid criticism while applying critical thinking to american role in foreign affairs the united states has a democracy and one of the responsibilities of citizens as i see it is to speak out and try to influence policy and that's particular the case when the policies that are being followed are either unrealistic or counterproductive. and in the middle east in particular u.s. policy has been pretty consistently counterproductive in recent years so i don't see a contradiction at all between my service for the u.s. government. own view of myself as an american patriot and criticism of my government's policies now many of the policies that bureau i analyzed in your book america's misadventures in the middle east tend to have some sort of recurring patterns you know some of the mistakes tend to be made over and over again and yet i think. there is so little self reflection on the part of both the american public and the american decision makers i wonder why is that we are a continental sized country of three hundred and fifteen million people very self-absorbed we are. slated from the worl

the molecule government well the answer is none and not that anything could actually help the united states state spent nine years applying hellfire missiles and drones and automation and attacks of all sorts of kinds and none of that worked it is the definition of of mental illness to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results introducing weapons into iraq at this time from the united states will likely have as much success this time as it did the last time ok richard if i can go to you in new york i mean this is kind of deja vu all over again do you do the same thing again we try these united states and its western allies try to stabilize a regime that it actually installed in the first place. it was elected. it has behaved incompetently in terms of reaching out as a majority shia government to these sudanese over iraq and it's paying. a heavy price for that it is repeating mistakes that we made ourselves during the occupation but we have an obligation you know so i think so an obligation to. those that don't are for the investments we've made and for the far

part two of your book we begin to see the rise of what you call institutionalized racism in the united states and now the have blacks, hispanics, blacks, hispanics, spanish, indigenous folks years of now this is becoming a much more complex racial demographics that the of his state's is starting to deal with. tell us about that. what was the rise of institutionalized? give us some examples. >> it happened partly because we reject common feature of you did psychology to seek people you can identify with as well as those that you exclude from communal tensions are those that is the attention of you would psychology. if you want to sympathize with some people to it differentiate from others. but the basis of that you talk about with a particular historic period beattie and 20th centuries because science endorsed it it was supported by pseudoscientific analysis with the relatively uninvolved and relatively more involved. you can see racism at the expense of black people with the saving which and the deep south and was transferred to hispanics by people from those regions. so icy to with the peopl

first of all in terms of obligations by by the united states to the iraqi people if we could we should go back to the fifty's and undo the damage that was done to the developing a society then when we manipulated events so that the bath is ended up in power because they were afraid communists of socialist would end up in power so you had with the ba'ath this trend over time still the development of a civil society a secular society a material base for you know a decent economy and then the united states decided to involve iraq in its project to undo the iranian revolution and so it had iraq go to war with iran and the iraqi people suffered there again when that was over they weren't satisfied there was a fabrication of babies being murdered in a nursery and a bunch of other things and apparently saddam hussein exerted more influence than washington had ceded to him in you know any kind of a grant occupied kuwait and that became a reason to go to war again then there was the period under clinton with the iraq economy was made to scream in a way that would drown out the screams of chalet

tonight we talk about china and and the united states with cui tiankai, china's ambassador to the united states. >> i hope the united states will have a better understanding of china's history, culture, china's past, china's present, and maybe china's future. and i do hope that the u.s. will not be so much worried about possible challenge or threat from china. we have no intention to assert everybody. the so-called rise of china is rise from our own past. it's not to prevail over anybody else. certainly not the united states. >> rose: we conclude this evening with kate tempest. he is the a brilliant and eloquent poet and former rap artist. >> i came from a school of rap and of rhyming and telling poems where you just knew it. you put it -- you commit it to memory so that you can go anywhere and be doing it with people and so the idea of reading something from a page, it putsing? between me and you. and if i want to tell you a poem i want it to be almost occurring spontaneously. and if you commit it to memory so well that you don't even have to reach for the words it's just -- you can jus

you know essentially be the loss of any deterrent for the united states in your book you mentioned. you know that the lack of that caution that we have seen in some of the misadventures that your country has been engaged into over the past. several decades and i think one common thread that we can see in your book is that regardless of how valid the policy objective may be it seems that it often lacks a thoughts through reality based implementation strategy you know the united united states proclaim some certain goal but it never follows through and never a brings it to any sort of completion and you give the example of the first iraqi war which you believe was a tactical success but a foreign policy failure simply because it was sort of abandoned pathway and i think we can see the examples of that in many other american adventurist so if you don't mind me comparing the united states of finding a matter for four b. years foreign policy with comparative person with a the age the who is eager to. many things but than sort of abandons them halfway because he lacks i don't know discipli

what's provocative about what the united states has done? >> well, in trying to put pressure on the government. basically inciting violent acts -- >> rose: demonstrations in the streets in kiev are because of the united states government? >> no, not because of the united states government, but when the government tries to take measures in order to prevent people from destroying downtown kiev and the united states says riot police should be withdrawn from downtown kiev, knew could be viewed. like threatening sanctions -- like to place sanctions on government officials or like completely disregarding the acts of those people who are trying to destabilize the situation in ukraine this is a very disconcerting policy. first of all, it's a policy which seems to be regarding very lately the interest of the ukrainian people. >> rose: what is your government's position about gays in russia? >> no discrimination. we do not discriminate anybody. we do not differentiate -- >> rose: but do you have laws that are not enforced? >> we have a law about which

we can start of a talking about the population of hispanics in the united states. in 1980 there were about 15 million hispanics in the united states and by 2012 nearly 53 million by 2015 we are expecting 128 malignant. your book helps give the foundation and explain how the population are right in the country and we will talk about where it's going by the time we reach that 128 million. >> guest: that's very kind of you to say that. you think of this relatively

invaded iraq through lowish to iraq you took advantage of the presence of the united states now the war shifted more than against it for occupy l.a. but then secondly that purpose for i agree with you that's history but if we look at syria right now again the united states to one degree or another is supporting groups that a take the mantle of al-qaeda and because the united states wants assad to go i mean i just don't get this here ok there's some good al qaeda in there some bad al qaeda. well that's what's funny peter. and i don't let you go ahead like you are i'm speaking answer this one i will go quickly back to dan you go ahead sir go ahead first of all the united states you know the u.s. has been criticized all over the united states and the president is reluctant to be involved in syria in order to avoid inflating the support for al qaeda because of its invasion and he's being criticized i think the united states is very cautious not to interfere personally in the. conflict in syria and be it there are elements of al qaeda i mentioned two of the groups that have been most

which us officials deemed the vehicle was to inspect the united states. in two thousand eight a us court ordered the dvd release. some of the nice that he did at salvador switzerland island east and often dollars china has previously due monday. we used to be returned to china. the us government says i will not do so because they face prosecution in bed. we could see all the topix speaking most people. china's restive far eastern region of cgi many believe is shaped and restrictions that culture language and religion the government insists it wants them to proceed in this region has been beset by violence. she's ninety one people including seven police have been killed in august can see john. since april according to steve to get the bolts. china has seen some of the violin so it's not just militants had connections to foreign groups including al qaeda. teen who the war. i am. thus the acting united states by its statement on the net that isn't measured by china its nz and while the autonomous region. chinese foreign ministers of the united states the bac

it's something very widely assumed in the united states.i was quite shocked to find that people have this attitude towards the country. it's completely contrary to all of the historical. you don't need to have one language to share a common allegiance or to collaborate. i do predict in the book that hispanics won't maintain their language in the future and i greatly regret that and i think that is a terrible shame because if this were a genuinely binding country it would be twice as a good because [inaudible] you know how this enriches your life and how it doubles your vocabulary and opens up the different possible faults and gives you access and the literatures and it is life. the united states doesn't understand and they think it means teaching -- then you could have a bilingual country and would be culturally so much more exciting to live and generate. i suggest it would generate so much more achievement and look at every other great society and the history it had more than one language. >> host: if that projection is true, one of the th

able over time to basically bring them into the al-qaeda ideology of attacking the far enemy, the united states. >> our community is chiming in. nick agrees . . . and lisa we should add yemen as well. and al-qaeda's number 2 said al-qaeda's most important strategic goal was quote seize control of a state or part of a state somewhere in the muslim world, and without achieving this goal our actions will mean nothing. and another goal is for the united states to achieve death by a thousand cuts. does the new al-qaeda share those goals? >> absolutely. they do share the same goals. as to the first one we can see this by the fact that they do control some territory. in northern syria, it has been controlled for quite sometime. in somalia, al-shabab, they still control some geographic area in the southern part of the country. and when they do, one of the first things they try to do is establish their very harsh version of sharia law. as so the second their goal was instrumental. there was a good study done by a g jihadist think tank. if he were to target the saudi regime, they would have the saudis do

but the united states certainly is. and the reason -- one of the big reasons we've been able to become the most free -- until obamacare, perhaps -- but the most free nation in the world with the least government dictation and intervention in our private lives and been the most blessed country, i believe even more so than solomon's israel, is because we're a nation of laws as the founder's described it. a nation where no one was perceived to be above the law. i even paid a parking ticket because people perceived i had violated a law in a national park -- and a national park policeman who did not know the law, was ignorant of the law, decided to give -- it was easier to pay the $25 thans to have help teach the national park policeman the law on parking in washington, d.c. nobody is above the law. nobody is supposed to be above the law. and there are verses throughout the old testament and new testament so many of the first ndred years of this nation's existence had scriptures quoted from the old testament and new testamen

since the end of the cold war the united states has not faced any kind of existential threat from anyone certainly not from russia or the other remnants of the so. i thought after anon eleven i thought that this would lead to an upsurge in american public interest in for a news but it did and it was interesting to read explanations of why. these basically centered around lack of familiarity with foreign conditions such that the readers of newspapers said well i don't have enough background to really understand foreign news so i don't bother to read it because i know i won't really understand it so we are actually very. much less well informed on the mass level than we ought to be now if you mentioned earlier that there seems to be much less caution in the american foreign policy following be collapse of the soviet union and the following be. you know essentially be the loss of any deterrent for the united states in your book you know you mentioned. you know. the lack of that caution that we have seen in some of the misadventures that your country has been engaged into over the past. seve

fundamentally destabilize the country the united states just completely disassembled the iraqi state as it existed and not only didn't really put anything in place but actually set up a structure which made it sort of bit official for forces to become more at the serial to divide along sectarian and other sorts of lines of what we're seeing now is the real fruits of all of these time bombs land mines that were set by the u.s. occupation all coming to fruition all at the same time we saw two thousand and thirteen one of the most deadliest years over eight thousand people died in iraq and i think this situation of pollution the body is very related to that horrific and i think it seems like fallujah i know a lot of people that comes to their head when they hear the word flu shot because of course travesty after a travesty during the height of the occupation we heard that as one of the main pillars of the war why are cities like fallujah ramadi so bloody specific. those cities yes and i think that's something that really resonates the americans actually a former neighbor of mine d

end of the deadline set by the united states has lost. the visiting officials gave no indication of how much longer the government might tweak. i'm still sort of seeing releasing the business would try to find his name. the talks and talks. gates said he was optimistic that it would soon be reached on the long delayed by lax security agreement. off to the meetup site i'm convinced. its result of our long meeting with karzai we have narrowed those differences. and i believe that we can look forward to designing the city and in the implementation of that sooner rather than later the state's only recently songs. isn't it the wrong done that so often did to become citizens of dancing with the government and non stop which is fighting. i didn't want to sit and see the united states dollar has this to handing over the facility. the goals of the individual to consider that they do this. he is. it says that this is said to be the response of the full moon day of getting fifty seven dollars and sixty us pull its troops. billions of dollars it will

there was every indication in thetext agreed between united states, russia, and the united nations -- accept the invitation, you accept the conditions that are there. so iranians were prepared to accept the invitation -- >> but when they asked if they accepted conditions, they refused to say so? >> wait -- asked, they were said no. >> they did not say no. they said they were not prepared to come without preconditions. all other participants, some of them have interpreted the geneva communiquÉ completely differently from what was said. but they were not required to swear in blood that they were not going to differ from the communiquÉ. the requirement was only made exclusively of iranians. >> secretary kerry suggested they had troops on the ground and in syria. >> the united states was very reluctant about iran. but i have reason to believe that the united states understands the iranians need to participate in this. it is very encouraging in the interview shown yesterday on american television between the foreign minister of iran, he indicated iranians are prepared to participate in the

series untold history united states thank you so much for. really pushing us back on and that's it for our show tonight you guys thanks for watching. millions around the globe struggle with hunger. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. against g.m.o. and we think that's. the. priest. there is no. evidence any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is. a free. enterprise. golden rice. speak your language. programs and. documentaries in arabic it's all here. reporting from the world's hot spots fifty yard p. interviews intriguing story to tell you. visit. some of the sixteen. words came from. the european union is ironic taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for. a day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. you can jump in anytime you want. as the media leave us so we leave the media. by the see bush and securi

now safety united states doesn't change its policies toward cuba and these countries are just not going to go along with the united states has put it's symptomatic as part of a broader international lessening of u.s. influence we see what's happening in the middle east crisis can really influence the situations are war making we've got this powerful military the most powerful military in the history of humanity and it doesn't work since world war two you look at korea you look at vietnam you look at afghanistan you look at iraq i mean we we can we can invade grenada and we can defeat a couple dozen cuban construction workers and reagan could go on television saying it's morning again in america the united states is back at standing proud but this the military solutions don't work to any of these problems even the libya situation there is falling apart we need some we need to rethink how we approach the world as . enjoying it really truly enjoyed it not as a dominant partner but as a co-equal partner and that would really take an act of enormous mental you military and i don't

united states. i'm not sure most americans feel that way, but that was the saudi argument. they promised to give the government of lebanon $3 billion worth of arms, and to buy them from the french. that is also somewhat supposed to be a spike to the united states that we won't get the arms from the united states. and the media is filled with saudi anger and disappointment for the united states. but at the end of the day the united states-saudi relationship is not broken. this is our oldest alliance in the middle east that dates back to 1945. they continued to function in many ways despite public irritation. the reason it does and the reason we don't have that much leverage is we need each other. saudi arabia not only is important global energy supplies, it may not provide very many americans with their oil anymore but it's critical to the functioning of the global economy. and without saudi oil being distributed at a reasonable price, they would be severe financial energy disruptions. secondly, thei

where must the united states involve? where must we have operations underway on the time? everywhere? and that was the concept of guided the dulles brothers and the foreign-policy establishment the rule this country for the first half of the 20th century ride into the 1960s. what is remarkable about this is how small it was. and in those days american foreign policy was really a problem of a very small group of people that went to the same schools and they were all white protestant males and they were all wealthy and they all worked for the same law firms and the same investment banks and they all have the same outlook on the world. it was a very inbred group and they all shared the same view of the world. the dulles brothers were perhaps the ultimate exemplary part of that view. and now in my book i do not just talk about the dulles brothers as political figures but individuals. that is why take their story all the way back to early childhood and before. and they really were individuals of american history. and so let me

series untold history united states thank you so much. really. and that's it for our show tonight you guys thanks for watching. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough to. say where it's a story. it's just this guy like you. but smear about john stead of working for the people most issues the mainstream media are working for each other bribe writers vision. they did rather well. i know c.n.n. the most obviously i have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admired their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth to mike think. it's because one call attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. at our teen years we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. i feel about. you guys talk to the jokes i will handle them it's not that i'm. well the. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the fut

he's giving too much credit to the united states. the president obama administration has been surfing the news cycles, accommodating to outcomes that egyptians have been producing. my message is, "it's in your hands. we effect things at the margin. we don't have the influence we believe we do. this is about your country, you need to pave the way forward. >> what do you think the u.s. role should be moving forward. >> i agree with that steven said. we should step back and look at local actors and see where there's countries with local countries that we can work with. were there isn't, we should step back. there's a broader public in the region. i think most people want accountable governments in some form. they wants security and be part of the global economy. they want to be part of the international community. we should be humble and use economic tools and work through and with local partners and stand by the principals. people see our hypocrisy when we are not substantiate. >> thank you for all of our guests for your discussion. we

does the united states stay the course? do we remain engaged in a leadership role as we fight for democracy? and as the ongoing negotiations are moving the forward, there is a serious fire immediately. i hope there will be a broader focus. including corruption chrks is one of the main challenges. what role might the united states be asked to play monitoring the cease fire. what additional resources might we bring to the table or be called upon to bring to the table to make sure they're successful. and what additional resources, if i might ask, in both the administrative networks do we need to be deploying in order to be effective in our humanitarian relief efforts. >> again, thank you for that question. i'll turn to my colleague. we've been viewed by both sides as an honest broker. we been accused of supporting each of the other sides. and so i think we probably got it right. and we're looking at how we can support the efforts to ensure that there is peace, and each side honors commitments to a cease fire. we're looking at

it was the united states who actually revoked his passport. making him unable to travel with legal papers. and ultimately, he was extended temporary asylum by russia. the irony, of course, is he is probably safener russia now that is he is anywhere else, and i recognize in saying that, even in terms of it's previous history not a pair gone of human rights and civil liberties yet he is probably safest there. returning to the united states is out of the question, that's clear from all of the statements being made. i mean, look, i know what i face when i was here within the united states, they actually confiscated my passport and i had severe travel restrictions. so his future in returning to the united states would be fought with enormous peril, i don't believe he would have ha the ability to receive a fair trial. my trial alone was quite revealing. it is really foundational if you go back and read the filings, regarding the government intent. >> what penalty was ultimately brought in your case? >> my case, i was able to prevail, i was able to p

. >> i never heard him say that he was grateful to the united states. >> the cold war mentality of the 1980s defined the u.s. relationship with south africa's apartheid rulers and others across the country says former president jimmy carter. >> all the other presidents were in bed with military dictators. >> he is in the country to attend the funeral of nelson mandela. he reflects on u.s. policy and l how it has changed. >> mr. president, thank you for joining us. at the time you were in office, nelson mandela was still in jail. there were americans who will remember back, and said we were not always the best friends we so have been to the antiapartheid forces in south africa. >> when i was in office we were looking for an end to apartheid. we worked hardest on changing to what became zimbabwe, and also were working to make a change in south africa as well. my vice president, walter mon mondale, called for one person, one vote in south africa. but that was kind of an anomaly in those days. after i left office, the united states administration went back to its previous time of being ali

as puerto rico being part of the united states has the same minimum wage as the mainland. but the per capita is only half of the state of mississippi. for income level in puerto rico, the average minimum page is $15,000 a year, whereas the per capita income is about $60,000 a year. so that means that having that disproportionately high minimum wage discourages employment among the youth. >> because the welfare check is great in puerto rico. >> and welfare, that's the other point that the paper makes. welfare payments are tied to income levels in the mainland. and puerto rico with just half of the income of the poorest state in the union, that means that a lot are eligible for welfare and one-third actually receive welfare at a level that discourages them from looking for work. >> puerto rico's senate has approved measures for the island to take on new loans, but is this the best solution with the $87 billion debt looming. if you're tweeting us right now, if you are, look behind me. ♪ >> protestors shouting this fight will continue, no matter what happens in response to plan

places like piute county, utah and elsewhere within my state and elsewhere within the western united states. in order to protect against this kind of concern, the kind of concern that the delegate from massachusetts described on september 5, 1787, congress adopted a practice when admitting new states into the union of incorporating language into the enabling act for each new state describing what would happen to public land within the new state's boundaries after statehood. they adopted this practice and set of language each time a new state was admitted into the union. that language was included in utah's statehood enabling legislation, legislation that was adopted about 18 months before utah finally came into the union in january of 1896. section 9 of utah's enabling legislation says that public land located within the state, lying within the state of utah -- quote -- "shall be sold by the united states subsequent to the admission of said state into the union." adding to that, section 9 of utah's enabling legislation said that 5% of the proceeds from the sale of that land would be given t

what's in it for the united states? i actually got a tweet from the chairman, merideth, from california, who is a loyal streamer. he said: so it's a summary of what's happening in egypt. and you can continue to tweet us. >> to pave the way to democracy is upon us. the military now in power, and introducing reforms to roll back freedoms that egyptians had hoped for, is it is this a return to the mub artic era? the support of the egyptian military, despite opposition and a law that prevents it. we'll get into that. 49% of americans are against further aid to egypt. only 7% believe that it's good for the u.s., and 43% say that it has been bad for american interest. so as u.s.-egyptian relations are put to the test, does the u.s. have to regret its choice of friends? to talk about this, steven cook, council of foreign relations. david rhodes, held by the taliban for eight months. he wrote beyond war, imagining american influence in the middle east. and david pollock, a former state department official, and now for institute

edition also includes a segment from oliver stone's showtime series the untold history of the united states a film adaptation of the joint book authored by stone and historian her cousin that take a lot. if the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike. that the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. but with his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan leaders who had systematically destroyed the promise of kind of these last year as they returned the country to war and repression joining me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project oliver stone excellent to have you both on thank you very much although i want to start with you it's clear that you're serious j.f.k. apart from other presidents what makes you think he would have been different if. he was different in those three years he came into office after thirty years of national security state build up a monstrous build up we had we had thirty thousand nuclear weapons by sixty mandated by eisenhower and national security comp

it's difficult to get to the united states. if we had the same share as 2000 we would have had 35 million more visitors to the u.s. that's one million more jobs, one industry. that says nothing about the retail and the restaurant and all the other things that take place with that travel. fortunately, what we've seen is the obama administration and the hill seemingly to really get it. >> what changes? what has to happen to make this a better experience. a lot of people choose not to travel to the united states. as a result we lose conferences to the middle east and far east. the problem starts as soon as they get off the plane. >> it starts before they even get off the plane. we have to communicate a welcome to folks. and basically say we want you to come visit the united states. the word on the street in china, for example, a few years ago was you may not want to even go through the application process because you're not going to get it in the end. we erect a barrier, and we need to say, no, you can get a visa. we do want to yo

hispanic resurgence in the united states. the program is about an hour. >> of >> host: the felipe, thank you for being with us. >> guest: thank you for taking an interest in my book. >> host: we can start by talking about the population of hispanics in the united states. in 1980 there were about 15 million hispanics in the united states and by 2012, nearly 53 million, and by 2020 we expect 128 million hispanics in the united states. your book helps to give the foundation and explain how this population arrived in the country and how it potentially -- we will talk about where it's going by the time we reach that 128 million. >> guest: you think of the recent period and which profile has been revolutionized by the resonance of the global phenomenon which is migration and that is a very long one and which hispanics have to be long and in the united states but by virtue of the first one that has a long history in this kind of reverting to that now. the statistics you mentioned are restoring the united states but more and more a s

wayne pacelli, president of the humane society of the united states. i suppose it would be no stretch to say that your organization would be opposed to this. tell us why. >> there are many aring species in the world, the black rhino is the rarest. the idea of linking a trophy hunting exercise with conservation may make sense to folks who are involved with trophy hunting but i don't think it makes sense in the grand scheme of things. a thousand rhinos have been poached in south africa in 2013. there are only 5,000 black rhinos, there are some white rhinos that have been poached part of that 1,000 we need to do what we to protect them. >> in this case, we know that -- first of all it is a permit that is given, even though the dallas hunting club isn't involved in that that permit would be given osomeone. >> the nimibians, to start auctioning off, where does it end, we want to offer an auction for an or angutang, where does the poaching work have to be involved with giving the person an opportunity to to shoot one of the rarest animals in the world? they

the united states is our country. we have the kind of country that we want. no one is saying that we ought to be ruled by france and that the united nations has a right to rule us and for just that reason, nobody should think that we ought to be ruled by people that have been dead for to under 50 years and whose country is not any more. paradoxically, the most important three words in the constitution, we the people are actually violating by obsessive obedience to the constitution. what the people means is we've the living people, and getting rid of our obsession with zero being the document written by people who are dead is the beginning of reclaiming the country. >> host: what about the amendment process. why can't we use that for the constitution? >> guest: it's not only the oldest in the orld but it is also the most difficult to amend that requires a two-thirds vote followed by ratifications in the state legislatures. that means that a tiny number of citizens from one-fourth of the least populous states in the country can block an amendment and as a practi

cohen are here with what they call the growing antagonism of the united states russian relations it's all next on politicking with larry king i. i i got a ticket with larry king we begin with neil grossman financial expert managing partner chief investment officer of t.k. energy capital and author of the new e-book generation w.t.f. how millennial is can stop the mushrooming cost of social security medicaid and medicare what is what is w t f well i'm not sure i can say this on the say a lot less sense for what the. really that's what you want it to mean that you have a generation that's got one hell of a problem in front of them and who are the millennial as well you know they're generally thought to be people under the age of thirty and they're a growing part of the population obviously but they're being in combat with a massive headache by you know my generation the baby boom and you know generations that have preceded this is you're saying they're going to face future problems in medicaid so sure you know i because the burden we put on them because of the burden we've been putting