russia is not the united states. is never going to present to be the united states. the russian empire and the soviet union were not accidental. it bound together economically and politically regions that had a mutual dependence your division of the liberals in russia and the united states was that following the fall of the soviet union they would reorient themselves towards europe, the united states. they fail to understand that these countries cannot compete in any reasonable time frame in europe, the more dependent they became on your of the week became. and also russia as a geopolitical entity. it experienced some terrible wars in its history, and its extremist cautious about expansion of things like nato. it regards made as a military alliance. we regard it as a club of nice people are fairly mismatched about what it is. and as the united states moved into the balkans and nato moved into the baltics, as the orange revolution, the ukraine took off, as the united states became very influential in central asia, the russian saw a second encirclement taking place. so

difference does it make to the united states? >> well, what difference it would make to the united states is obviously if there was a peaceful transition and a coalition of groups came forward an opposition came forward working with each other to put together a transition to a responsive and non-repressive government, that would be a positive thing for the united states. interesting there is the opposition is beginning to kohl together. very difficult for oppositions to arise these places and it's really been amazing if you think about it. in libya, for example, the opposition, the t.n.c., has come together in a place-- and i've reflected on this-- where for 40 years there was no civil society. qaddafi and his crowd crushed everybody. >> rose: it was a tribal nation. >> b they've come together and presented themselves to e world. syria, we'd like to see the same thg, an opposition come together. they he a meeting outside syria and in istanbul last week that president erdogan and the turks-- the turks--osted. >> rose: right. are t

is not very well liked in the united states either right now. and that always has to do with how perceptions are being managed or are being stated. if you, if news daily is that pakistan is the source of trouble for american forces in afghanistan, that without the detail of what the context is if it is said that, you know, the u.s. asked pakistan to do x, y, z and pakistan refused, etc., the ordinary guy in mobile is not really an expert on foreign policy. although there are those who would argue there aren't many experts inside the beltway either -- [laughter] but the poor guy in mobile, alabama, is catching that 30-second sound bite on radio as he's driving home from his job, and he hears something negative about pakistan, that's how his perception is being created. in pakistan the reverse is happening. and the u.s. made a huge mistake several years ago when you shut down your united states information agency which was a huge public diplomacy operation which, basically, was about explaining america to people. now your attitude is we give you mo

before foreign citizens and the united states. i mean george bush still holds that george w. bush still holds the record on executions when he was governor perry is close behind but the idea is perry knew that there was a five to four decision in the u.s. supreme court to refuse to stay the execution while the senate considers legislation to bring the u.s. including all the states and territories in line with this the end of convention on consular relations and by basically snubbing this international treaty that the u.s. has signed up to texas is putting every american traveling abroad who gets arrested for just the filed for or i'm just to file the reasons they're put in jeopardy because what this individual said is he wasn't afforded quick. consular services from the mexican consulate without the les that's what the treaty says that was what he used as a basis to have the execution stayed you mentioned the role that it has played internationally and i read that this by least in the one nine hundred sixty three treaty that was s

the united states, by contrast, does not have a solvency problem. the american economy remains one of the world's most competitive with many of the fastest-growing companies in most of the advanced industries. it houses the best capital markets in the world, the greatest universities, the most dynamic society. america is demographically vibrant thanks to immigration. it will be the only rich country that will see its population grow over the next 25 years. america could face a liquidity problem, that is it could have difficulty financing its debts and deficits if markets lose faith in it, again, let's be clear. this has not happened yet. in fact, right now, the world is lending to america more cheaply than ever before. the most important difference between greece and america is this -- america has many paths to solve this deficit problem. were it to implement the simpson-bowles plan, congress would allow the bush tax cuts to expire, returning rates to where they were under bill clinton's presidency, where american created almost 25 million jobs. tha

it means united states. but who in the united states? mexicans in the united states clacks which mexicans? manly mexican women in the united states. basically what i say is the social cultural mental transformation of mexican migrant women in the united states can be the single most important lever of transformation of mexican culture mentality and everything. why? because mexican women who come to the united states to work illegally that's not the issue of that's not what we said, i'm not interested in those matters. i'm just as mexican as a pretty else is. fight? [laughter] mexican women who come here tend more and more to come alone. they are not coming, they are not being brought to the u.s. by the family and even when they are once they are here they say goodbye and that's it. mexican women who come here, they don't half -- they make their money, they decide what to do with their money, they may send some home, maybe they don't, they may have kids, maybe they don't, they hook up with one guy, they leave that guy, they filled up with

it's that politics one of the united states to. the right and danielle say that agreement is no reached so how will that damage the u.s. refutation well light i think it would be a very significant prayer. mainly because again not because there would be you know a week or two debate of interest payments to countries that want us dead now but obviously that would obviously be something these countries with the right the biggest are going to be this concert reputation in the back of the united states has never defaulted on its debt is something that it's something that is the reason people are attracted to buy u.s. debt in the first place and it's what's enabled to the united states to deficit spend good decades now because there's a insatiable appetite for its debt defecting i would say that would be like i said it would be the third strike against the u.s. in three years it would make it look we're responsible it's going to be harder for the united states to go to china and say you need to. allow your currency to appreciate china o

>> rose:ight. >> and in the united states, does the united states take kindly to the prospect of deine? you bet it doesn't. does the tea party... do many ordinary americans take kindly? who would, to the prospect of decline? so that even if you haveise and enlightened and far-sighted leaders on both sides the passions and tensions coming out from those societies may push them different directions. >> rose: speaking of barack obama, did you once write that your judgment of him was that his order of priorities were security first, development second and human rights third? >> a poor third. >> rose: a poor third, you said. >> a poor third and i'm not the only pson have noticed that. and i see in his retoox the arab spring an attempt to address that because, after all, what you had on the streets of tunis and cairo was young arabs risking their lives for democracy and for human rights, often in a purely non-violent way. it was the civil rights movement that inspired barack obama as a young man but on the streets of tunis and cairo and he had to react to that. >> rose: and can he do that wi

of russian adopted children children in the united states. i resisted united states of america just three weeks ago and we know this was not the first time. it was a special visit to center internet in a national center for missing and exporting children and not me american specialists told me that the arrow of violence and cruelty in the american family is too high too so you can see it as a situation the sausalito is russian children towards all children want to move toward all children even their own children yes absolutely so you want your saying now that american families are generally cruel. i didn't say so but. it's nice is that all cruelty monitors more and more and more every year among among native americans or among immigrants or first wave immigrants of i can cheer you can share and. i think in the. kinds of families where we can find it and i can compare the situation is in that it is an american in russia because russia has a problem of cruelty and violence in our families against children not only gives. or the children used to

of the united states towards collapse is the decline in our economy but this isn't unique our economy declined during the one nine hundred thirty s. during the great depression and we eventually got out of the great depression so i would see where you can see whether the united states is going to collapse but many people including you and you and i think every thinking person is concerned about the future of the united states today what might a collapse look like if it were to happen to american society. what might a collapse look like if it happened to american society we can think of a variety of scenarios beginning with the worst and going to gentle it was the worst the worst scenario would be a nuclear war in which civilization was wiped out and most people were killed and the people left alive would be my friends in the highlands of new guinea who recently were using stone tools and can figure out how to use stone tools again so that would be a grass to collapse. a gentle a collapse would be conditions such as those we see today on the island of haiti and somalia graduall

now what iee in the united states is a particular problem. now it's not surprising that a european uon of 27 sovereign states, nations, speaking different languages with different histories has a problem getting its act together. but it's quite shocking to see one nation, one state-- the united states-- having such difficulty getti its act together. and that, it seems to me... when they all agree on the problem they just can't agree on the solution. >> rose: exactly so. but a well-designed democracy has mechanisms for addressing that because people don't agree. that's what happens in democracy. you have parties. your problemit seems to me if i may say so, is that you have an increasingly dysfunctional political system-- both a the federal level, meaning congress-- and in individual stat. think of california. and that's not aecessary feature of a liberal democracy, it's a particular problem of the united states. the problem is no longer george iii. (laughs) you don't need the system of checks and balances which was designed to prevent the retur

united states to have a special relationship. they want to give israel large amounts of diplomatic assistance and material and to give that assistance without qualification and give it to them no matter what they do. that is what makes this relationships so special. we have a large interest group called the israel lobby working overtime for decades now to put the united states into a position where it supports israel unconditionally. a few of have an open debate where israel is criticized for pursuing policies in ways to make it clear the american and israeli interest are sometimes at odds with each other, then you begin to question in the special relationship to say why are we supporting israel when the interest of the two countries are at odds? the lobby does not want people like john mearsheimer saying israel and united states have different interests because that might undermine the special relationship. instead what the lobby wants is for everyone to be on the same page to say israel is the indispensable lie and nothing that

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is it in the united states? or is it in lines in the foreign countries, people waiting to come into the united states? i would submit that if those who are in the united states illegally are too go to the back of the line, it's not a line in the united states. the people in line to come into the united states legally are by definition not in the united states. they're outside the united states. they're in their home country. they're following the laws of america. they're lined up to come in the right way. god bless them for doing that. but that line that line of legal waitees, the line of people willing to respect american immigration law, get in line and wait in line, isn't scrust some short little old line you can put 11 million to 20 million people behind and think you'll process them through. that line of people who are respecting american laws and are waiting to come into the united states legally, none of them are in the united states. it's 50 million strong, mr. speaker. 50 million people have taken the t

and ceilings united states of america this is a win tonight is this we're going to get free is the goal for example is the case over. which now is leaving there's a family in the state of iowa and the problem is that these parents who are not parents exactly because they don't have any judicial status. to work to raise a child they don't want to adopt him. do not want to let him go home to russia this is a zero situation says part of the presidential commission therefore children's rights spotlight will be back shortly will continue to interview after a break they'll go. down the official anti application to your i phone i pod touch from the i q saps to . life on the go. video on demand. minefield costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the. wealthy british style. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on are. going to be soon which brighten if you remove the sun from feinstein questi

how the scandal is being covered in the united states. not particularly well is the short answer there's been been very little in television coverage c.n.n. has done has done a bit of fox and fox news channel has done almost nothing frankly and in fact c.n.n. reported. on the fox news channel's. media criticism program called fox news watch during a commercial break the people on the on the program were discussing how they weren't going to discuss this story. so kevin makes a very special very strong and powerful point that concentration of media power in very few hands will lead to this sort of thing it's it's natural that a corporation is going to protect its own interests and news corp is an enormous company so no other no other news corp property is going to go to too terribly far out on a limb to to investigate this story. the wall street journal the bible of the wall street. is now owned by news corp or news corp and it is is not going to give shareholders in news corp a real the real story on on this and what it could mean to their

own data about terrorism in the united states take a look at this chart it breaks down the f.b.i.'s numbers on what groups and carried out terror attacks in the us between one thousand nine hundred and two thousand and five including nine eleven turns out muslims are responsible for only six percent of all terror attacks the rest is primarily homegrown domestic terror mostly committed by christians so it doesn't p.h.s. have it backwards should there be more people at the department looking into threats beyond islamic terror for example threats from right wing christian fanatics like anders breivik who brought unspeakable violence to norway last week here offer his take on this is brian fisher director of issue analysis of the conservative american family association brian welcome. good to see you thank you brian only one guy a d.h.s.s. looking into the possibility of a right wing killers in america when they're responsible for untruths of deaths and hundreds of attacks in the last decade now. well i'm not familiar with the numbers that you're looking at but i know for instance in t

the second round of the united states. quantitative easing that has created some of those low interest rates that you were talking about and all of that liquidity that hasn't spurred the economy though i want to go back to something you said you were talking about you don't really know what would cause a hedge fund manager to deserve so much income i want to as though about kind of the american eat those because right now as we see republicans demanding spending cuts but not tax increases we see this issue of you know a corporate jet tax be made kind of political fodder but the united states really is built on kind of a free market economy obviously and notions of the american dream that americans should be able to get rich and should be able to earn as much money as they can and if they can good for them so they are go given that do americans what rich people and not want to have them have their taxes raised. well look americans have a lot of problems but you know what we're not that stupid it turns out that we can tell t

competition and flashing knives are between the various media enterprises in britain or here in the united states for that matter but you know there has been a tremendous tendency towards concentration of all of the media and there are fewer and fewer hands and unit to look at the united states with the federal communications commission has been giving a.t.t. and their eyes and you know tremendous powers to combine with the some of the smaller carriers the same thing for the television broadcast murdoch was very influential in the united states in having the federal communications commission put aside roe ules and regulations that who granted that kind of media consolidation where one in or primes can own the newspapers and the television stations in one city but i think the deeper question here is not just about the silliness of the british media which is the well known for many many years i think you just said good thirty years you know people have looked at the this secretary there i'd choose the british tabloids but i would make an analogy that goes much deeper than than just the competition

we have differences definitely, it's a cultural gap between united states and all europe, between united states and france in particular. the french still have in their mind the pictures of television, when strauss-kahn arrested by the police, by two policemen. having the handcuffs and everything pushed into the car. the impression they were working at the new york police department theory on television. and all of a sudden now they say, come on, prosecute events, the men who pushed into rikers island prison now comes up and say the house -- the maid at the soffitel hotel is not reliable, she's lying. so the french say, my god, what kind of justice do america have? >> sure, but like you say, it happened here in the united states. have you to respect the u.s. justice system. i want to point out this poll coming out tomorrow, saying 54% of the french do not want strauss-kahn to run for president. back to the socialist party here, why is it that the socialist party seems willing to bend its own rules? maybe change that july 13th deadline to allow a little more time to determine whether this

all right and the countdown began united states now has just one month to agree on raising the fourteen point three trillion dollar debt the. which the us has already blown through along with it other deadlines now the treasury the reaffirmed that obvious second that deadline they set is the drop dead date they reaffirmed that today before the united states blows past the debt ceiling and defaults on its debts now politicians though they're still playing chicken with the debt ceiling making investors like the chinese nervous getting ratings agencies warning about the u.s. credit rating being threatened all trying to get a deal on deficit cutting done that at the end of the day appears political now obama blasted lawmakers we heard them him say this yesterday malia and sasha. generally finish their homework a day ahead of. the leaders thirteen such as tim it is a person that they don't wait until the night before they're not pulling all nighters . they're thirteen until. you know congress can do the same thing if you know you've got to do something just do it. meanwhile we've seen lawmak

>> the president of the united states is elected to lead. the president of the united states, every previous president i know has been not only active in the process, but led in the process. that is the job of the president. >> greta: heading up, making phone calls is considered leadership if dispatching vice president biden up to talk to people and making phone calls and putting people in the same room. things we might not see? is that leading or not? >> what is leading is to say here is my plan. here is what i want us to do. >> greta: has he put a plan out? >> never. he's lectured. do you remember rich nard nixon had a plan? this is the best one since then. he has not come forward with any specific plan. and maybe i'm wrong, but i remember president saying this is what we've got to do. a, b, c, d, e. my dear beloved friend lindzy gram coming on in a minute or two may disagree. but one thing we're on agreement on is that president is not leading. the job of the president is to lead. so this issue may be decided by boehner, mcconnell, and...

now here to the united states where we have the most expensive health care system in the entire world yet fewer americans can afford it more people are sick people are getting poorer but health insurance companies are getting richer you don't have to believe me let's look at some facts about the costs so between two thousand and two thousand and six wages in the united states that green line they increase just three point eight percent health care premiums though they increased eighty seven percent let's take a look at a few more if u.s. health care system was a country it would be the sixth largest economy in the entire world the u.s. spends two times more per capita on health care than other industrialized nations and medical bills while they're bringing people down they are a major factor in more than sixty percent of bankruptcies in the us seventy five percent of those people they have health insurance now one hundred sixty five just to compare what out of fifty americans were on medicaid now today one out of six americans are on medicaid so people are getting poorer now u.s. heal

childhood poverty rates of the right to work states in the south and much higher than anywhere in the united states i would say that's good but how can you link poverty with whether it's a right to work state or not because workers make less than a right to work states have less money to give their families but those four implants they mean according to what i've read they match their wages to what u.a.w. wages are and they cited you know u.a.w. wages that they've had to negotiate lower wages which is fourteen dollars which is half of what it used to be it's a tradition that has to expand to union states as well well i mean i think what you're looking at here is so you don't have any of the pension costs that there are and they don't have companies that built them in that way so we have we do that in some cases not sure but if you look over all of the general trends roadworks that you know manufacturing carmakers are highly skilled industry so you have to pay workers a decent wage but if you look at other areas in the south they have very they also have very high property ridge and there's a direct

do they run the united states senate? no. the democrats do.madam president, you and i just won reelection. you were the longest-serving woman ever in this united states senate. i'm so proud to know you. you have had some hard races in your life. i had the toughest race in my life coming back here, but i came back here. leader reid came back here. patty murray came back here. michael bennet came back here and we run the senate. president obama is the president. he happens to be a democrat. and the house won a huge victo victory, the republicans, a huge victory. the republicans run the house, the democrats run the senate, the president is a democrat. let's see, that's three branches, two-thirds run by the democrats. the republicans want it all. if one of my kids did that, if they were arguing with the other one, i'm say uh-huh, that's not right. i'm not even asking for two-thirds. as senator mikulski said, we've come a long way from where we want to come. where have they come? they haven't come toward us. now the plan that the republicans want i

i look at the strategic interests of the united states and our allies and how this nation can either mutually cooperate or mutually conflict. >> finish the sentence -- "the state of the country today is what?" >> an opportunity waiting to be seized. >> why has it not been seized? because a lot of institutions such as the government and big banks have failed us, and i think the crushing weight of the government and the crushing weight of the failure of the financial markets have had -- have helped to inhibit the american people to move forward. it is not the american people. that is not what we are in a stagnating economy. it is the failure of governments to affect larger institutions. again, for a time, when you hear that something is too big to fail, they already have, and they continue to fail the people of the united states and continue to drag down the ability of the american people to move forward. as we have learned in other times in the country where we have had other such situations, if a change to actual leadership, a change to make difficult decisions, a change to bring gove

the united states is the largest. each of our country's are taking countries areoun taking positive steps. we are recommending comprehensive energy reform to replace excessive dependence on fossil fuels. we want to replace oil with cleaner, cheaper, and safer alternatives including natural- gas and wind energy. the need for alternative energy is acute, especially for hawaii and the u.s. territories. in puerto rico, we realize 69% on foreign oil. a why and the -- hawaii and the u.s. territories are not connected to the u.s. power grid. it debilitates our respective economies and a facts consumers and businesses alike. -- and effects consumers and businesses alike. in the case of puerto rico, we have energy policies that focus on renewable energy generation and natural gas. in 2010, we passed legislation setting up renewable standards . it requires that 15% of our energy be produced by renewables forces by 2020. we also created a green in a refund -- a green energy fund to jump-start these markets and create jobs. we ar

that was set at this favorite words, i'm in for both the united states would join forces with the soviet in the general assembly saturday ordered a cease-fire. unilateral action by the soviet union, eisenhower stated, would be forcefully opposed by the united states and ordered the sixth fleet stationed in the mediterranean order to place on alert. this was election eve. distresses retake and it's on the president. after a tense meeting over the message, eisenhower found the president heartbeat irregular. he laid down and developed a headache. after all, he'd only eat eaten a dish of carrot and a glass of yogurt since breakfast. the president agitation recorded was due to what he termed an ultimatum that had been served upon him. he crowd i'm concert was soldierly profamily. he crowd that if he were a dictator, he would tell russia if they moved a finger he would drop our entire stock of the public weapons on him. tuesday, november 6 was election day. i cruised to an even greater turmoil. in a meeting that morning, he was somber. our people should be alert, eisenhower said. the president

but by the way i think that it's also the united states single most important issue with mexico. here are even or 12 million mexican citizens residing in the u.s. quote there are more than 30 million mexicans in the u.s., there are important states in the u.s. by california, texas, arizona, nevada, illinois where mexicans make up a very significant part of the electorate or the population at large. it is a central issue and it's a reason that has to be addressed that nobody wants to address forthrightly. >> how should it be addressed? >> it should be addressed the way that we sit back and 2001 and 2002 with my good friend former secretary steve colin powell away president bush and fox wanted to address and the way president obama wants to address it now. legalize the people here without papers, establish a migrant worker for people to continue to enter the united states as the u.s. economy needs their labor support and help the areas with mexico where the migrants come from so that they start stating in their home towns of less they are needed in the u.s.. and once that you have d

at the beginning of the green revolution when people were standing, asking where the united states standstands essentially new on those issues, that is a form of withdrawal, retrenchment. when you have the president of the of the states take the recommendation of the most forward leaning and impact full military leader in afghanistan when he calls for the complement of surge troops to be a round out their maximum level of little while longer, not for 10 years or 20 years' worth of nationuilding. but the logical and intermediate next step go of makingure the security forces are trained in volumend quality so that i can reasonably take up more of the charge and the challenge of security and afghanistan. notwithstanding that recommendation and compared to the political calendar, it strikes me as something that is a sense of with a droll, retrenchment, and decline. the list goes on. we have the president of the united states saying to syria -- is an enabler to terrorism, send an ambassador back to damascus, refuses to address in any moral clarity, all of those things support that statement. >