of france, before the united states joined the united nations, any such thing. so america's economic story is a very different story from that of empire and yet, and this is where we all get stuck, we say, yes, but, the u.s. is the primary guarantor of world security. why do we get involved? why are we involved in all these other countries? by the way, the japanese call this more or less the yoshita doctrine, which translates more or less into "let america do it." this came out of world war ii. and in fact, one of the interesting parts of this story is that there wasn't one country other than the united states that was willing to sign a peace treaty with japan at the end of world war ii because of its behavior in that war. you think nazi germany was bad, and it was horrific, but because of the treatment of prisoners of war, nobody was willing to sign a peace treaty so it wasn't until 1951 that australia became the second country after the u.s. to sign a peace treaty. why? because this all took place in the same week, a foggy week in san francisco -- this is wher

theit doesn't explain why united states got involved, why withnited states jumped, both feet, in 1947, into the today. continue to have and i think that the answer is not just an answer which naturally enough historians will say, world war ii and then the cold war and the soviet union the verge of being western europe, everybody else wouldvastated, who else take this up, and this is true. all that is true. british were on war-time rations until 1955. until 1955, the british were on rations for butter and cheese and meat and other basic foods. in any case, the united states, i think, did this for reasons go beyond simply the historical moment. there's something in our d.n.a. our d.n.a.,thing in and it goes back to this word "umpire." it was a word that our founders used to explain what they were trying to create by creating a of sovereign states that would prevent ultimately these sovereign states from falling out amongst each other. and so in the federalist papers, they explain this, and if you read the federalist papers, quotes.ee such john jay, one of the authors, dispute between th

i think this time the president of the united states, the vice president, secretary of state, secretaryf commerce telling the -- encouraging the u.s. business community to take africa seriously, i think this time we'll make it. [ applause ]. >> good. >> of course, i think that our states -- africa states are extremely interested in promoting relationship with the united states with the american business community, of course. because if we want to solve some of our social and economic problem, we badly need the support of the united states and the american business community. but i must say also that we have to learn from history. let me think -- let me try to imagine the problem from the prospective of african woman, african young, african citizens. for them, of course, it's very important that, you know the figures are better, that there is an improvement between the united states and africa and so forth. but i think what is most important for those citizens is to improve the quality of the life. so get better services, health, education, and so forth. and sometimes, you know, having a

had snake belts and fairly large planes that they might advance toward the united states. there was talk about altering the wouboundaries of the united iffulties might there skrechd. be? and it failed despite the fact they ush erd a. it was still out and told that they had lost something and she had won. . >> this is why many of the historians have divided that the war of 1812. the draw to me in part is that the two fairly evenly matched forces failed to achieve success in a contest. but the united states and great britain couldn't even be matched. the war then ended not so much as a draw but as a stalemate that was born with the inability of confidence to find ways to continue conflict. having come to that point toward the end of 1814, both eventually settled for peace that restored the status quo and that peace was signed in 1814. we might even qualify that verdict a little further. we might say we won, but there were no losers in the war. all historians agree that the real losers in the war of 1812 were the indian peoples, a good many whom fought on the side of the brit

so the united states has international treaties. the state department usually sends a delegation is usually sent to defend the united states performance on treaty. -- on treaties. these are usually multilateral many's -- that many countries are signatories to. in february, the u.s. was being evaluated by the u.n. human rights committee on its covenant on political and civil rights. the panel asked me to attend. the delegation asked me to attend. i attended and you can imagine what this is like. there is a panel of experts from around the world that are critically questioning the united states delegation, and there is a delegation of american officials that have to take a beating, in some respects. and they asked questions about the death penalty, guantanamo, homelessness, and all sorts of other issues. there is a wide range of federal government officials there. one of the committee members started pressing me on what if the united states just apologized to the tribes and be done with it? that was sort of the attitude, and i said you

at that time ohio was northwest of the new united states. this is land over the appalacian allegheny mountain chain. britain had made settlement there illegal proclamation of 1763 to remain indian country. in 1801, president jefferson aptly described the new settler states and tensions for horizontal and vertical continental expansion stating however present interest may restrain us we have our own limits. it is impossible not to look forward too distant -- distant times when our rapid multiplication will expand itself beyond those limits and cover the whole northern if not the southern continent with people speaking the same language governed in a similar form by similar laws. this vision of manifest destiny found form a few years later in the monroe doctrine signaling the intention of dominating former spanish colonial territory in the americas and the pacific which will be put into practice during the rest of the century. we are now in some of that territory in spain and was annexed. oh i forgot, it won their freedom. narratives from the p

the final objective, united states troop aircraft assemble for the long trip back to the united states to the united states armed forces. despite the dust the giant , planes airlift men and equipment back to united states safely and on schedule. it is important to realize that for the first time in our history, an entire army airborne brigade with all of its heavy equipment was transported 12,000 miles on an ally's call for assistance to help stem the tide of aggression in their country. united states military officials have devoted considerable effort to the evaluation of exercise delawar and the contributions to the defense of the free world. they believe the success of the exercise has given a strong boost to the central treaty organization. united states and iranian fighting men have gained invaluable experience, both in staff and command function and combined operations in the field. this effort helps prove the differences in language and customs need not be a barrier to allies working and fighting together for a common cause. the exercise demonstrated that joint operating procedu

dollars in the united states only last year. i stand before you to make it clear that these numbers can and should be greater. essentialpansion is in allowing for this to take place. , my the past two years staff and i have worked closely with our friends in the administration and on capitol hill to get poland into the visa waiver program. wayll that would pave the for poland and other allies to enter the program has passed in the senate earlier this year. 165house version has cosponsors from both sides of the aisle. but the house version has been stalled for months. speak for many when i say we want the bill to see the light of day and be placed on the house floor for a vote. thisl indications suggest, is broad bipartisan suppport that would lead to its passage in the house. let me conclude by thanking and plotting the heritage foundation applauding the heritage foundation for the broad support of these a waiver program expansion over the years. for those already heavily invested in poland, as well as those just getting into th

because if you're serious, the best place to be is in the united states. oh, yes, don't let anybody tell you differently. a woman in the united states diagnosed with breast cancer has nearly 90% chance of surviving it. in europe her chances are less than arithmetic, it means she is twice as likely to die there.. you do the arithmetic, it means she is twice as likely to die there. nearly 1 of every 4 men in prostate cancer in europe dies from it. and if someone in your family, has what we currently call an incurable illness, this is the nation of hope. this is where the cures are developed. since 1950, the united states has won more nobel prizes than the entire rest of the world combined and that's why defeating this law is the fight of our lifetime. that's right. we're not going to give up on this. congress has taken this bill and put it in the paper slhredder ad given us a 20-page bill. a bill that members of congress would actually read before voting on it. 20 pages aught to be enough. the framers of our constitution established the entire federal govern

we came from different positions for this issue. -- united states shows to chose to pressure. pressure,n terms -- in terms of isolating russia in the international arena. not workable. we hear less about isolating from thed more secretary of state about the need for russia and the united states to work together on the challenges that we face, .ncluding isil also, economic treasure. something that is discussed in the united states and russia. do not like the idea of being under pressure. we run some difficulties and economic development because we are integrated now in the international economic life. it is no longer the soviet union that was holding a set of economic instruments. it is a country that is why the integrated into the international economic sphere. we have developed relations with the european union and our regional trade is about 400 million -- $400 million a year. , your trade yours with the european union is about $500 million a year -- billion dollars a year. very much comparable. time, the quality of economic relations with the united states is significantly l

i think this time the president of the united states, the vice president, secretary of state, secretarycommerce telling the -- encouraging the u.s. business community to take africa seriously, i think this time we'll make it. [ applause ]. >> good. >> of course, i think that our states -- africa states are extremely interested in promoting relationship with the united states with the american business community, of course. because if we want to solve some of our social and economic problem, we badly need the support of the united states and the american business community. but i must say also that we have to learn from history. let me think -- let me try to imagine the problem from the prospective of african woman, african young, african citizens. for them, of course, it's very important that, you know the figures are better, that there is an improvement between the united states and africa and so forth. but i think what is most important for those citizens is to improve the quality of the life. so get better services, health, education, and so forth. and sometimes, you know, having an

it was never the first priorities of the united states. the biggest area of our failure was helping to develop rule of law and governance. afghanistan during the period of the war against the soviets and the civil war produced a class of warlords and group of people who were so horrible to the population they often welcomed the taliban in their place. when we went in, we adopted some of toes people. we kept some of those warlords around, we used them because it was cheaper, and it was a big mistake. a lot of those people are here. when the taliban come in and say we're going to be tough on people, but we're not going to be as bad as those other people that the united states supported, sometimes they get purchase with the local people. throughout our time in afghanistan, we spent way too much time focused on military issues and not enough time focused on political governance and rule of law issues. >> right now, by an estimate from the united nations office of drugs and crime more than 90% of the entire world's supply of opium comes from po

isis is a creation of the u.k., the united states and the zionists.again i go back to what i said earlier that the pragmatists are willing to work, they said this openly, they are willing to work with united states to get isis and when foreign minister came to new york during the assembly in a speech at the council on foreign relations and he remarked that isis was created by america. they dismissed him as a conspiracy theorist but two weeks later the supreme leader came out consistently and said that isis was created by the united states. the reason why i say this is because i think there has been a tendency as of late to conflate our hopes about iran and our analyses. we all hope that we will see a government in iran which starts to prioritize national interest ahead of ideological interest. the government of iran that opens up to the world iran is good for america and good for the region. i think we oftentimes delude ourselves into thinking that the folks that come and say these things and the united states have real power and influence over these

bangor, maine for refuelling. >>> in dallas, the condition of the first patient diagnosed in the united statesmas eric duncan has been downgraded from serious to critical. >>> in delaware, a child from liberia has been placed in an isolation unit. he was past the incubation period for ebola. the likelihood for infection is extremely low. cnn's elizabeth cohen

, to the united states, right?sit to the united states, yes. >> and there's some suspicion, because he had been in contact with a woman, a pregnant woman, in liberia, monrovia, just before he boarded that flight for brussels and then washington and then dallas and this woman had ebola, that he may have known he potentially could have had ebola and wanted to get out of liberia and get to the united states for treatment. you've heard that suspicion to which you say? >> well, as far as we're concerned, in liberia, is a country we help one another. this pregnant woman was walking and was falling and he ran to help her so she can't drop and hurt herself. nobody ever know he had ebola because ebola is in the system, it's not on the body. i think you run to help the person, that's all. that's what we heard. the information. he didn't know the woman according to the story. he was pregnant woman and what we do in liberia, our tradition is to help somebody who needs help. >> he went to help. the trip that he had to the unite

-- elect and president of the united states. why would that be? the reason why is whoever becomes president holds the key to the world's largest atm machine, and the people who are giving the money to elect the president want access to the atm machine. for my remarks i mentioned solyndra. that is exactly what it was, an individual organization giving lect barack obama president of the united states, and lo and behold they get hundreds of millions of dollars and shazam it goes up in smoke and too bad, it is the taxpayers money. it happens over and over again. too pollyanna, but in minnesota we have limits on what you can spend on elections, actual limits. when i ran for the state senate for the first time, our limit with something like $50,000. ng mom anda youhng kitchen table maker, i thought $50,000 was the moon and the stars. how would i raise that kind of money? asay i have his distinction the member of congress who has raised more money for a house seat than any other member of congress. tops always nancy pelosi's order to d

to operate like the united states senate. don't leave that hanging. don't walk away from this. lets invest in these candidates and see if we can't -- i think we will have success if we have the necessary resources. this is not an appeal for funding of candidates. it is the challenge we face. as republicans, we are not raising the money that the democrats and their organizations are raising and spending and races. >> before the election, a lot can happen. with the republicans lynn -- when a narrow majority? what you predicting? >> i wish i knew the answer to the question you just asked. -- what i canense say about that is that the polls are moving in our direction. becomingmore races are the gap in which the republican is ahead of the democrat. the gap is increasing. the number of races in which the gap is increasing is increasing. the polls show the enthusiasm is on the republican side. our voters are much more interested in the election then democrat voters. i would say the issues that are now servicing -- had we done this p

if you look at the five wars that the united states conducted since 1945, we achieved the stated objective in only one. which is the first gulf war. it was sort of a draw and that we withdrew from. each of them started like this one now with great enthusiasm, great public support, and at some point, the only key debate was how do you get out of its? and it was the only strategy accepted as a general consensus. what i would say to the president and security adviser, what i would say to you is tell me how it is going to end, and tell me -- let's get a plan. i think it was correct, in -- americans are murdered on television with improvement of intimidating regions and ourselves, i think it is right for us. we also need a strategy of how it will end and what we're trying to achieve and i would tell him that it does not risk public speeches here, should be the most important thing that he can do. >> could you stand up? you will project better. >> back in the 60s, the u.s. supported the removal of lack of american governments and establishment of governments in the region, dictatorships that we

it was, i don't understand why anyone would possibly want to attack the united states. we are such a peaceful nation. all we want to do is go about living our lives with freedom and liberty, yet people seem to really hate us and it's impossible to understand why. the question that was asked of the mirkin people was -- of the american people was the famous "why do they hate us" question, and the u.s. government needed to provide an answer because people wanted to know why they were attacked. the answer was, they hate us for our freedom. what's remarkable about that, that was understandable because muslims and their grievances have been basically excluded completely from public discourse. the reason americans did not know that is because they were not subjected to it. they were never exposed to it. 11 years later, here we are, after the united states has full-scaleo invasions and invasions of predominantly muslim countries, has bombed many others, has created a worldwide torture regime, has created a lawless prison in the middle of the ocean that has brought thousands of

where he said in part, how could i come and representative of the government of the united states of america, be intolerant of a government that prevents any experimentation with legalization of marijuana? if two of the 50 states of the united states of america have chosen to walk down that road. so i think that's the end of an answer of the profound impact of the changes, changes in the united states already having on the debate. so a couple other housekeeping issues. you are welcome to join this conversation on twitter, #bimj, and without further ado, wells. >> john, let me begin by expressing my gratitude to be a part of this panel. i'm really glad to see all of you be taking part in the discussion. weekly, i just wanted to essentially say two things. one, set out some of the international legal contexts as it applies to the united states. involving experiment with marijuana, including the united states argument as to why it is in compliance with the international drug policy. and just for ever briefly under we'll get into this in the discussion in the q&a, talk about the upside an

a democrat has not been elected to the united states senate from kansas since 9 32. we are a republican state, we are a conservative state, and the trend is that way. here's what's happened is that the democrats seeing that their candidate probably wasn't going to win -- i should say wasn't going to win -- encouraged him to get off the ballot. and then the hope is that an independent -- so-called independent can win a general election. the independent was the democrat was a democrat candidate against senator roberts in 2008. the independent -- so-called independent -- is a contributor to president obama financially. a contributor to harry reid. so i think -- the word independent has some appeal to people. we all like people who are "independent skt but the reality is this is not an independent, this is someone pretending to be an independent to overcome the problems that a democrat would have running for the united states senate. >> but looking for everything else and where governor brownback is at the moment how tough of a race is this for your colleague? >> i think

strategic air command jet tankers refueled the fighters en route from the united states to iran. turkey was the first stop for the battle group on their global track. the troops remained during their stay -- state alert by top conditioning exercises. of course, like soldiers everywhere, time was found for that moment of relaxation. a chance to nourish the inner man. in iran, elements of the royal guard assisted by their united states military advisers stage a warm-up. the reigning fight cruise in airborne officers -- iranian flight crews and airborne officers went over the plan. and skill ofe these men testified to their qualifications as paratroopers and reflected the excellent training given them. on d-day, the airborne brigade flew through the narrow corridor between turkey and northwest iran. did --ntacted -- they they then conducted a powerful airborne assault. and then in amphibious assault in the persian gulf. they were supported by jet fighters. exercise delawar's nerve center. , the the first to land joint task force staff. communications equipment and personnel also arri

if you look at the five wars that the united states conducted since 1945, we have achieved our statedobjective in only one. the first gulf war. the korean war was sort of a draw. and the other three war's we withdrew from. but each of them started like this one now is, with great enthusiasm, great public support, and then at some point the only key debate was, how do you get out of it? and withdrawal became the only strategy accepted as a general consensus. so, what i would say to the president, as security adviser, and what i would say to him, would say to you, is tell me how it's going to end? and tell me how -- get a plan -- i think it was correct that when americans are murdered on television, for the purpose of intimidating regions and ourselves, i think it is right for us to respond. but we also need a strategy of how it will end and what we're trying to achieve. and i would tell him, internally, not with the public speech here -- should be the most important thing that he can do. >> halfway back. yes. >> could you stand up? project better. >> back in the '60s, the u.s. supporte

the republicans potentially could take the majority in the united states senate. s from three key battleground states, that would be iowa, colorado and virginia, do not, repeat not want the president of the united states who is a democrat campaigning for them. our chief political analyst gloria borger is with us right now. these are states that the president carried, i believe, both in 2008 and in 2012. yet these democratic candidates who have problems getting elected are reluctant to let the president come in and campaign with them. >> don't forget, iowa was the place that first gave birth to the barack obama we now know that was a crucial win for him in the caucuses when he first ran for the presidency. if you look at his approval ratings in all three of these states, the disapproval is over 50%. that's a real problem. i think what we're seeing now is that candidates are saying, you know what? i can no longer run on that obama brand that was so dependable that brought out younger voters, that brought out minorities, that brought out women particularly young singl

to call on the united states army and the united states army must maintain capableties across an entire range of military operationings and keep ourselves in a high state of readiness. >>> so the first message, we don't know what the future holds. the second one, because we don't know, we have to be prepared for lots of different possibilities and we have to maintain ourselves in a high state of readiness. how do we do that? analyzed and did an review of veet nap. and they determined that the united states military, you know, we lost the war in veet nap and one of the reasons that we lost was the will of the people was broken. we know that war is an act of violent means. and by engaging in the act of war, you are determining one person's will or one group of people's will over another group of people's will. it's a political contest. in the vietnam war, it was assessed that our will broke. and he said what can i do? he said what i'll do is redesign the force so that the united states army can never again be committed to a ground combat situation, a ground war, without bringing along the

a anger, whatever it is against the united states? >> it would be better to ask someone younger than myself. sometimes i don't understand. i can tell you -- this is true. basing that -- after september 11th, the secrecy of the unaided states was not so high as it was after september, real solidarity and sentiment of the support of the american people and very important and sometimes i ask myself how much in that period the changes, sometimes is point, don't understand the other side. some time some the impression among young people is the americans want to be supermen to teach everybody and young generations they don't like and have to explain not to impose something. there's style of life and understanding and the curious situations many young people are in and all so they are thinking of their interests -- many of them now in the united states and other places in china or some other places because maybe it is the wrong perception about the american style of life. because we don't have enough exchanges, enough work and this is also t

but no one more so than the united states. not only is it missing out on tourism revenue, but more importantly our relations miss out on the critical people to people contacts, the bedrock of our strong relations. last week, secretary of commerce led an official vis delegation to poland to promote greater economic links between the countries. during the visit she highlighted poland's extraordinary political and economic transformation since the cold war. what president obama recently called, and i quote, an economic mirac miracle. my country's incredible progress has placed poland among the top 20 economies in the world, enabled poland to avoid a broader european recession, and made poland the sixth largest, as well as the fastest growing, economy in the european union. as secretary pritzker stressed this is part of the reason we have seen u.s./poland commercial connections grow at such a rapid pace in recent years. among the 100 largest u.s. companies, 56 operate in poland. more than 300 u.s. companies are invested in poland

but without the united states, the war wouldn't have ended and we certainly turned the tide. >> the united states was involved in the war in various ways, from the beginning. whether it's economic, providing arms for the allies, whether it's volunteers go to europe, to the red cross, you have americans following what's happening in the war and we mentioned that immigrant communities that have a clear connection to it is in terms of their relatives and family members, so when the united states got involved, formally in the war, i think in the spring of 1917, it wasn't as if this was just suddenly thrust upon the american people. these were questions, issues that americans have been confronting and debating for quite some time. burr trying to mobilize american population was a different story. and that's, i think where woodrow wilson becomes very important in terms of how he frames the war as a war to make the world a safer democracy, kind of tapping into the democratic idealism of the united states and was quite effective in terms of mobilizing a country that was wholly unprepared for war,

the united states economy is growing again. as you mentioned, europe is a growing and you are not really back on track. we are in a situation where we are living with diminished expectations about the future. those were underperforming. this is a lesson that applies both to the banff economies and emerging markets. so the emerging markets during the past four years where we've had really unconventional monetary policy and relatively acquiescent periods have not taken full advantage of that window of expansion of monetary policy to implement in their own economies key reforms that greater investment, infrastructure in some cases, financial sector reform, places like india, key impediments in the labor market. those are forms when times are good so you can begin to release the growth process. emerging markets, even though they learn many lessons in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, they themselves need to stick to what i call long order discipline and continues with the policies that allow them to grow. as far as the united states and

the resolution was vetoed by the united states. typically is a double veto. the resolution is not implemented, and the event is vetoed from history, so you have to look hard to find the record, but it is there. that has set the pattern that has continued since. the most recent u.s. veto was in february, 2011, president obama, when his administration vetoed a resolution calling for implementation of official u.s. policy opposition to expansion of settlements and it is worth bearing in mind that expansion of settlements is not really the issue. settlements, unquestionably legal along with the infrastructure projects supporting them. for a long time there has been an overwhelming international consensus in support of a settlement along these general lines. the pattern that was set in january, 1976, continues to the present. israel rejects a settlement of these terms, and for many years, has been devoting extensive resources to ensuring it will not be implemented with the unremitting and decisive support of the united states -- military, economic, diplomatic, and

he said because there are more of her in the united states than dr. king's. his vision of american democracy is found when ms. hamer gets respects, credit and access she deserved. what is is interesting for us is before becoming a black power icon and this image and symbol of political revolution. before he is with castro and others, stokely carmichael is pursuing radical freedom in the deep south. that is what he is doing. and one of the most interesting parts for me was the relationship between dr. king and carmichael. they were friends. they met at 1963 at howard. stokely was his body guard during freedom fest. they march together during selma and that relationship really comes to the fore once stokely is chairman of the committee in 1966. the march from june 7-june 26 is the march that transforms stokely carmichael's life and the civil riots movement. that is when the student is shot on campus and they march to prove a black man with march through mississippi without here but he is shot and injured and carmichael, dr. king, and the civil rights leaders ar

we don't have a lot of good people running for office in the united states.hey go. i had the great privilege of a rising to work every morning and then second largest in the world and the young men and women who were part of the foreign service military and part of any one of the four different agencies they were the best and brightest and the brightest and incredible public servants and if i could have bottled up what they did and the work ethic as they brought a very patriotic way it would have blown away the taxpayer in this country than he can complain and it was great working with such people. the governor is a totally different feeling so if you can imagine working in the atmosphere of the embassy is what it was like in china, highly department and they speak a different language literally and figuratively working on many issues americans will never hear about. going from there to an open campaign there anything goes and it's kind of a free-for-all environment of what should begin. you have little control over your soundings. they take the message out a

if you look at the five wars that the united states conducted since 1945, we have achieved our stated objective in only one. the korean war was sort of a draw and the other three was moving through but each of them started like this one now with great enthusiasm, great public support and then at some point the only debate was how do you get out of it? and withdrawal became the only strategy accepted as a general consensus. what i would say would be, what i say to you, tell me how it is going to end and tell me -- let's get a plan. i think it was correct, when americans are murdered on television, for the purpose of intimidating regions, ourselves, it is right for us to respond but we also need a strategy of how to end and what we are trying to achieve. and i will tell him about public speeches, should be easy most important thing that he can do. >> half way back. could you stand up? it would project a better. >> back in the 60s, the removal of some of the lack of american government and establishment of multiple governments in the region and in some countries dictatorships that we wou

we've been working for many months to ensure that the united states is protected. out our first guidance to state and local officials on july 28th and it's been followed with six additional sets of guidance and the latest was just issued yesterday. in addition, we have enhanced our laboratory testing capacity in states to make sure they're able to detect cases. been in regular and repeated contact with state officials and health departments, including developing guidance and tools for departments to conduct public health investigations. we're continuing to provide guidance for flight crews, emergency medical service units at airports and customs and border patrol officers about reporting ill travelers to the cdc. and we're continuing to work with hospitals and health care workers around the country to prepare most effectively both in terms of detecting symptoms and then responding appropriately. as we saw just a few months ago, almost two months ago, in carolina's medical center in charlotte, north carolina, and at mount sinai in new york, hospitals and health care

that's what is hitting us here in the united states. only had a few people, yet we're starting to hear about the poll that said that people are not going to travel internationally, the calls from congress on a travel ban or visa ban for people coming in from that part of the world, what is the impact likely to be in the united states if we get more ebola cases? >> like you say the economic impact is completely disproportional to the number of cases. so if the health system is able to take care of the cases that are currently in play, and show it is possible to contain these, and i'm optimistic that that is the case, i expect we'll see a pretty quick reversion to regular behavior at least in the u.s. economy. if that's not the case, i would expect the same fear factor to have the same disproportion at it impact here in the u.s. >> dave, thank you for your time. >>> i want to take you to some picture we're bridging in from dallas right now. this is what melissa chen was talking about. we have the first nurse that was infected. nina has be

-- ebola in the united states and they missed it. the travel history, when you have a patient that says look i'm from liberia, i have a fever, i'm vomiting, i fit the criteria that the cdc has set out for the hospitals, very, very clear and they just missed it. as much as we talk about vaccine trials and experiment with medications and contract tracing, this is 101 stuff and it didn't get done properly here. and as a result, i will point out, there are other people who had contact with him after he was sick. and that has got to be hugely frustrating for him and especially for those people, that did not need to happen. >> it didn't. and to your point, that we know now he was sick and went to the hospital and was sent home with just anti-biotic and pain killer. and so another 48 hours go by before he comes back to the hospital so that is 48 hours where he was having symptoms and others could have been exposed. >> no question. he got an anti-biotic, because they said he had a viral illness and didn't think it was ebola. anti-biotics wou

isnow the united states mobilizing to help. so i commend our men and women in uniform for taking this mission on. i know they will do an creatinge job facilities for health care for the sick. and i want to commend you because you are really on the , how to make sure we control, people coming and you might be bringing this disease to our country. i appreciate what the chairman not earlier about this being a political issue and we have to make sure we avoid making it one. this is an american issue for the safety of the people we represent, and it is an american issue for what we always do so well, and that is help other countries who were not able to do what they need to do for themselves. and i do hope, mr. chairman, as we look at what is needed here we as members of congress will return after the election fully committed to providing the funding that is necessary to provide the resources that are necessary for and for our men and women trying to protect the nation and address this disease. i want to go to a question that ,as co

the ability to public health programs and research has declined in the united states. ince 2006, the cdc's budget adjusted for inflation dropped 12%. funding for the emergency health preparedness agreement which provide state and local health departments has been cut from $1 billion in the first year of funding in 2002 to $612 million in 2014. they were also subject to the sequestration and those who allowed that to happen by closing the government have to answer to the american people as well. we need to commit adequate funding to public health infrastructu e and hold the systems accountable for preparedness. based on what we know it appears that texas health didn't meet those standards but i suggest that several hospitals around the country would struggle with this. we have to solve this problem. i want to acknowledge the health care workers in the united states and those going west africa who are helping during the outbreak. it is a dangerous work they are doing and they are put themselves in danger and deserve our praise. you have our confidence and i appreciate you

i think the united states has a role to play in that.have the cdc i think has stood up 130 individuals more than they ever have outside the united states before. we have our military there. we have technologies that hopefully will be available to those countries and if the u.s. can play a major humanitarian role in this. and while that's going on, we need to do everything that we can to make sure that we're screening properly, that we're putting clear procedures into place into those countries that have ebola that individual who is are traveling back to the united states are properly screened. and then obviously when those individuals that are showing any symptoms that we get them tested as soon as we can. i'm very comfortable that the professional way that texas has handled this, that presbyterian hospital has done a great job -- >> it's done a great job. i'm very aware of this. i don't think most people know this, it was on whitehouse.com that the very same day this liberian national entered this hospital later to be diagnosed with ebo

in the united states, each state has health care plans. they do it differently, and as the chairman mentioned, some of them have good ideas, those spread to others, what will work in canada, with a smaller population, or denmark, with a smaller population, or france with a smaller population, might not work in the united states. especially under the form of government that we have got. i am pretty sure that affordable health care initiative was designed to fail. that was predicted by senator graham 15 years ago. he thought that they would come up with a system that would fail, and we could go to universal, single pay health care. i think that would have worked, except for one thing, the debacle with the design of the exchange reminded people in america what happens when our federal government tries to handle everything for this vast united states with one plan. and of course, i am in the homeland security system too, we are trying to work with another one of those government agencies, called the post office. that is another example of what

the united states to abandon that principle for this over here. so we are always stuck with their principles being the guiding principle. our covenant chain has grown rusty over the last century. the old days, you used to say let's knock the rust off and find a way to polish it. sometimes i think it has been abandoned. it is not the first time. 1659, a long time ago. a mohawk speaker was in albany. he said we have been here before and made an alliance, the dutch. the dutch say we are brothers and join together with chains. once we have something to offer, they want to negotiate. today, the beaver has been replaced by cigarettes. tax-free gasoline and the hope you will get rich at the casino. 1819, after the war of 1812, red jacket echoed this. all the promises made by one president are handed down to the next. a little foolish in that thinking. we expect to comply with our engagements. we have persistently said this despite the french and indian war and the revolutionary war and the war of 1812. we have said we will still try to uphold our covenan

because this is the united states of america.of course people whose salaries we're paying are supposed to be protecting americans, not protecting the rest of the world. the way we help is by developing a cure. we don't -- we didn't discover the cure to aids by having scientists hang out at studio 54 to fight it at the source. no. you distribute the cure. you don't send over the 101st airborne to be changing bedpans which is all they can be doing now. >> it's frightening, isn't it? >> yes, it is. you keep saying, why is he doing this? why are they behaving this way? it doesn't contradict the thesis that only hates america and wants to do everything to hurt him. it certainly does not contradict that conspiracy. >> travel ban, doctor? >> i think it's inevitable. there's a lot of things we could have been doing, like front-end screenings earlier, and we didn't do that and that's partly why we got ourselves into this situation. >> and also the nih is spending money on gender reassignment surgery. the cdc is investigating global warmin

cha the united states is in the business of delegitimizing china and united states is trying to destabilizethe chinese leadership. these things are never said in polite conversation, which is presumably why they've asked an australian to speak to you this morning. we never managered in politeness. but i think at this stage of this very important relationship of china and the united states, it's important we have some very clear baseline reality checks of where things actually lie within china's perceptions. let me flip the table and i think this is very important because the level of misperception is profound and, i believe, growing i think the american perception of china, i don't seem to describe any official, just my observation of the foreign policy establishment that china for america and the global interest is important economically. that the chinese political system, however, is inherently instable and unsustainable and the american perception is that china is pursuing an assertive form of nationalism to mask its own internal political vurer inabilities. firstly by means of the econo

work on this issue the last several years comes in the form of a negative to the economics of the united states of america, to immigration and the fact is, as gabriel just stated, even the chamber of commerce and leaders from across this country and business world see the positive economic impact of immigration in this country if we have a system that in fact does work. so i think when people raise that issue, it is in fact a red herring. i think second of all, the response, i do think that the whole issue, the uac issue, the unaccompanied children issue across the border really allowed those who were opponents to comprehensive immigration reform to essentially raise their flag that says, our border is broken and we need to build more walls across the border. and they use that as evidence of a broken border. reality of it is, that when you look at what's happening today in guatemala, in honduras, and in el salavador where most of the children and their families are coming from, you have people in those countries who are living in very dire conditions and there is a reality there that i think, t

and if you look at the wars that the united states conducted since 1945, we have achieved our statedobjective. the korean war was withdrawn and the others we withdrew from. but each of them started with great enthusiasm, great support and then at some point the only debate was how do you get out of it. and withdraw became the only strategy is the consensus. so what i would say to the president and the security advisor and what i think i would say to you is tell me how it's going to end and let's get a plan. i think it was correct when americans were on television for the purpose of intimidating the regions and its right to respond but we also need a strategy of how it would end and we are trying to achieve. [inaudible] should be the most important thing that he can do. >> to do standup? back in the 60s the u.s. supported the removal of some of the latin american government and establishment of law and nongovernmental and in some countries the dictatorship that we would consider barbarian by all means nowadays. when you look back today, do you think it was the right policy for the u.s

in the last few weeks in canada and the united states, there has been talk of chatter. concerns. a heightened sense of there might be something going on. >> reporter: in fact, that is what led heightened state of alert here at the u.s. embassy in ottawa. because of that chatter, we believe that is why that happened. however, there seems to be no linkage between that and what happened here this day. at least at this point. that's what we are hearing. >> susan, thank you very much. there was a victim here. friends are remembering that victim in the ottawa shooting as a proud army reservist. corporal nathan cirillo. standing guard at the memorial. this was not supposed to be a risk. cirillo's social media page says he leaves behind a son who started kindergarten this fall and loved rescue dogs and rescued animals. friends remember him as ai carig and funny person who put his life on the line for his country. what a loss. >>> as we talked with susan, before the parliament hill attack, jihadist chatter had heightened official concerns in canada and in the united states. administration

i will continue to support the rsf and do that as your next united states senator. >> if i can respond, i am not sure that is what she said at the koch brothers meeting and said she was philosophical opposed. my support has been clear, strong and unequivalent. i stood up to big oil at every opportunity because their interest are not iowa values. >> i would like to respond. congressman, you are not running against these other people. you are running against me. i am a mother, soldier and independent leader. you are being funded by tom styer who is a california billionaire extreme environmentalist. so remember you are running against me. not against any of the other groups. >> i realize that and president obama's name is not on the ballot. i am not going to owe president obama anything on election day. you are going to owe the koch brothers everything. >> please continue. thank you, i owe no body anything except for the iowa people. i will stand up and do what is right for iowans and not california extreme environmentalist, president obama, or harry reid. but for the iowa people. i amsom

in the whole structure of power in the world that hasn't been absorbed by either israel or the united states richard falk, thank you for being with us, just completed his term as special rapporteur on palestinian human rights for the united nations human rights . prolific writer, his book "palestine: the legitimacy of hope," has just been released today. richard falk is professor emeritus of international law at princeton university and research professor in the global studies department at uc santa barbara. he presented the edward said memorial lecture last night at columbia university. when we come back, mumia abu-jamal in his own words. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> we turn now to pennsylvania, where today republican governor tom corbett is set to sign into law a bill critics say will trample the free speech rights of prisoners. last week lawmakers openly said they passed the bill as a way to target one of the state's most well-known prisoners: journalist and former black panther, mu