as hosni mubarak to be to step aside i don't think so united states should. every every arab country who faced uprising united states should immediately as the head of that seems to be a step aside i think this is would be simplistic unrealistic and doesn't reflect the reality on the ground i think and doesn't reflect the complexity of the social politics of the different countries in the middle east. t.j. geopolitical elements are very important but i think we have really a new phenomenon year if you see like what i notice is that you seen united states or european countries are not taking in regard with syria or egypt or other libya or yemen they're not taking a unilateral actions if you see their. mind when you when the united states as well here hillary clinton says this leader must go ok that's pretty unilateral sounding to me and sounds very definite as well what right does the united states have to say look at what leadership and what they should go if if i might come in here jump in jumping if i might come in here yes you know i i think that what we h

i think this is really a signal to the united states that if the united states or israel attacks iran and iran's nuclear facilities then iran can increase the support to the taliban. so far we haven't seen very sophisticated weapons go to the taliban including advanced surfa surface-to-air missiles that could target u.s. helicopters or explicitly foreign projectiles that do so much damage to the u.s. forces and cost so many u.s. casualties in iraq. but there is the possibility that iran could step up its support to the taliban in case of an attack and this fits iran's overall national security doctrine of letting others do the fighting for it. there have also been reports of iran having significant ties to al qaeda. iran is known to host senior al qaeda members within its territory. it's not clear how active iranian support of al qaeda is currently. a lot of al qaeda members are known or reported to have been actually under house arrest in iran and iraq could be using al qaeda members as a negotiating -- as leverage against the united states. again, if the united states attacks iran,

>> hinojosa: has the first latino president of the united states already been born? some say, "yes." as the youngest mayor of a top 50 u.s. city, my guest today symbolizes the emergence of a new generation of latinos in american political life-- the mayor of san antonio, texas, julian castro. i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. mayor julian castro, welcome to our program. >> tnk y vermuch f having me. >> hinojosa: so your mom was a big time political activist in the 1960s and 1970s-- chicana activist. your brother is in state government in texas. you're the youngest mayor... or one of the youngest mayors in the country, san antonio, and people are saying, "this family has got a political future." so is that kind of the way you had it all planned out? >> oh, it's... well, that's the way that it's working right now, it seems, but not the way that we planned out. >> hinojosa: so you didn't even think, like, when you were a kid you were like, "i'm going to become a politician like my mom." >> no. you know what's interesting was that because my mother was so involved

the united states have to deal with. as long as i ran it says the state announced it to your weapons, this could be even longer. so if president obama said, nuclear armed iran is unaccustomed. so that leaves us with one option. it is not an attractive one and there are many downside is. it's better than the alternative. a u.s. military iran could almost certainly destroy the capabilities and it's difficult to estimate with any capability, but i has to it would set the program back between three and 10 years and this would create a lot of time for some thing where it ends up without nuclear weapons. there is a significant upside to strike. there's also downsides to military action, but i think that these risks are often exaggerated and are not as crazy as many people believe in the united states of putting a strategy. so the most obvious cost of military action bpa ronnie military action. it's important to understand iran does not have a strong conventional military said that there has been in the military actions. so a ma

of mexico, and it is consumed here in the united states. so the energy that we are create ing here in the united states is partly responsible due to fact alone we imported less than a million barrels a day than we had in the prior year. a million barrels a day. so the energy that is being produced here is, in fact, being used here in the united states. on the issue of gas prices, as everybody here in this audience knows, it is determined through global economics no one has the abili ability, not even harry potter, to wave a magic want and say we're going to have gas prices $259 or $2.50 or $3. it doesn't work that way. it doesn't happen that way, and that really is the point that i hope most americans understand, that there's no silver bullet, there's no magic want. and if we're going to find our way to addressing the -- one of the very most important fundamental questions of the united states, you need to have an energy framework and energy policy in place like the one president obama and his team have put into place, and that's an "all of

to me in the present i mean the chinese are watching the united states tear itself to pieces ok and the chinese just keep slowly going up and now i mean it's remarkable to watch from a distance. yeah i think the chinese are going through an industrial revolution of sorts in a similar way that the united states has gone through it in the twentieth century taking over the power of europe and europe in in the nineteenth century so i think you're right that there is a lot of parallels to be drawn here between the declining power of the united states and the declining powers of europe but let us remember that even after the decline in european quality of live g.d.p. per capita air quality. education level control of the corruption are still much much better than then most emerging markets so to say that china. only needs the united states to grow is also i think an extreme point of view i believe that china i think there's now i'm just simply by growing internally in the same way that the united states grew internally in the twentieth century ok joshua jump in go ahead. i think there

and states like the united states and the soviet union and others that signed the treaty initially as nuclear states, they have an obligation to move towards disarmament. i think actually the obama administration shares the view that there are obligations on both sides, which is why they moved aggressive forward on new start, which was not an insignificant political risk. i think matt thinks some of those cuts go through too deep but i don't know if that's true or not. but in any case, i think the administration believes basically we also have to make good faith efforts to start to shrink our arsenal. but it doesn't excuse iran's commitment under the npt. the fact of the matter is iran gave up the right to have nuclear weapons when they signed the npt. unless they're willing to pull out of the npt, the iranians are not a member of the npt, we are a member and committed to drawing down forces, that member is ironclad no matter what we're doing. >> kbh you put yourself in the place of the leader of tehran, they're probably thinking what nuclear weapons serve our interest, can we build n

and settled in the united states, at united states children and citizen wife. as a whole we want to address this issue. >> host: palm beach, florida. >> caller: thank you. very hard work. i want to comment on the integration of the u.s. army with the mexican army and heading towards north american union and something that might be dangerous for our health and safety laws friday while enforcement perspective. >> host: do you see a lack of sovereignty? >> guest: that won't happen. very simple, mexico is a sovereign nation. they are proud to be a sovereign nation. we are sovereign nation in the united states. we all need to cooperate as neighboring countries for the security. not just of our region but the security of the entire world. we work closely together. i want to say i am proud of the service, work very much on our

nuclear weapons it would face nuclear retaliation if it takes any bold action against israel or the united states. because we're not in the habit of launching nuclear attacks on nonnuclear states, but if iran insists on weaponizing, it is possible they would suffer a devastating nuclear strike. and so i don't think that nuclear weapons change the iranian regime's determination to survive, and i don't think that nuclear weapons change the fact that iran cannot prevail against an israeli-u.s. coalition. so i don't know which of the actions that iran would like to take and can't take now, which of those it would take the future chur as a result of having nuclear weapons that would, in fact, create serious trouble for advertise reel and the u.s. while at the same time not risking the survival of the iranian regime. still on this question of involvement, if we strike iran preventively, we can expect the iran regime to be particularly rational and indeed restrained in their response. we can tell them, we're only going after the nuclear program so don't go overboard in your reaction. and matt expects th

to turn the frowns upside down that's pretty darn sure since nine eleven the people of of the united states of america all suffered greatly and we are suffering more and more every day because it's turning into a police state and i think that the outcry of trayvon martin is the finger of the pulse has to be touched it's an outrage because it's happening in every state everywhere the brutality and the invasion of privacy by law enforcement and now it's going to continue in the jails and if you look at what happened in this case what happened to albert lawrence you know you guy who was strip searched this is right where the kids came from he's in the passenger seat his pregnant wife is driving he's got a four year old son in the back seat they're going to the mother in law's for dinner and she gets pulled over for speeding and he says this is my car here's the registration sir you have an unpaid ticket well i really don't and i have a piece of paper proving i've paid this ticket i keep getting pulled over so i carry proof i paid the ticket get out of the car and you can skate it was dismissed

you can go back and look at any of the wars the united states has fought. but, if you consider why we're there and the fact that thank goodness we've not been attacked again since 9/11 and we have dismantled al qaeda thanks to a lot of great work when leon was at the cia before going to the defense didn't. i think there is no doubt that america is more secure. afghanistan is more secure. but, we're not resting on our laurels. we're looking forward to what kind of relationship we will all have, nato and the united states after 2014 to help afghanistan continue on this path. >> you trust afghan's president mr. secretary? >> he is a leader of afghan tan. >> you trust him? >> i have sat down with him. we talk pretty frankly with each other. he is the leader and she the person we have to deal with. >> does that mean you trust him, though? >> certainly you trust the leaders that you have to deal with, but you always kind of watch your back at the same time. >> that doesn't sound like a reigning endorsement of the leader of afghanistan. >> it is true for any leade

chamber's agenda here in the united states. and after a tenure as president maybe tom donohue will invite you back to the chamber to talk about how we can work together. i thought that was a terrific comprehensive speech, not only because you also plugged the u.s. chamber's mexico leadership initiative, and we thank you for your strong support, but because it gave you a true sense of what has happened in mexico under president calderon's leadership. i'd like to open up the floor for a few questions. go ahead. ahead. even though you are known to all of us, please introduce yourself. i want to congratulate the president for his great speech today. mainly because of the numbers you have presented to us today the i am sure i am speaking on behalf american chamber of commerce to mexico to congratulate you during the five years. you have really supported free trade. you have really supported foreign investment in mexico. and that is something that is helping the country and the numbers are showing it today. congratulations, mr. presi

but the united states has global responsibilities. it can choose and in the past has chosen on occasion to deny those responsibilities and let the world go its way. the consequences have generally been negative. you can also point out that when we have not let the world go its own way, there have been negative consequences to. there is an intermediate position and that's the that i would try to find. the details of the budget are such that you can argue with a lot of the individual pieces of it. and our budget has not done the same way as other countries do theirs. health care is about $60 billion of the defense budget. in other countries, that is not in the defense budget. i am talking about not only active duty people and families and everything else, but the health care system is outside of the defense budgets in other countries. another way of looking at it is this. the defense budget of the united states is now -- 5% or will be 4% of the gross domestic product. in the good old days of 1950s it was about 8 #%. so in some sense def

the united states did in libya. primarily with our force, the air force and supplying arms. the secretary panetta said that the united states legally could not intervene in syria because the u.n. security council had not authorize the operation as it did in libya. as a member, the obama administration waited three weeks to get the un security council before intervening. we have a debate. we can always talk about whether mr. panetta is also correct when he said we don't need congress's permission, but the u.s. permission. there you have the secretary of defense publicly saying that we need the permission of one of these neutral independent international organizations to give its approval before the united states can do something. another one is in the alien tort statute litigation that has been going forward against american corporations, the supreme court has a case right now called the coble case where the question is , of foreign governments violates international law and the treatment of its own citizens and alle

such as venezuela or at least political adversaries and the united states was not on account of her gender whereas on the other hand brazil was on the top of obama's agenda and he visited last year in march and one of his first visit to latin america it was his first stop so i mean there could be some stuff going on here in terms of getting back in retaliation against the brazilian government because they have any relationship with the united states a priority certainly a lot of people are looking at that and saying pointing out what you pointed out which is that visit to venezuela pointing out the visit to cuba also kind of looking at what happened back in two thousand and ten brazil did join with turkey to vote against sanctions for iran at the u.n. certainly that was another thing that u.s. leaders weren't necessarily happy with but there are other people and let's talk about this really quickly about i mean in what ways are has that relationship improved over the last few years. their relationship with the united states is hanging out in faith and where there are well i mean

with the russians on further reducing our nuclear arsenal s in the environment we have in the united statesgress now is difficult. and what the president is doing is stating the obvious, that it's going to be difficult. we're not going to have the flexibility to sit down and talk with people in this congress that are going to be able to listen and be able to work with us. probably between now and election day. shannon: karl, fair to say the president was just stating the obvious? >> look, that is just insane. the president didn't say to the russian president look, i can't get this done because we've got an american election and congress isn't going to be willing to deal with this issue, he said to him specifically, tell vladimir to back off, i'll have more flexibility after the election. the president of the united states was basically saying i'm will to go do something for russia that you'll like, but that the american people won't like, so don't press me between now and the election. if the vice president was accurate that this is only stating the obvious, then tell the american people no

the regional foundations are in china, in europe, in the united states. we expect to have another presence in brazil at the end of the year, by the end of the year. and we also have best practice institutes which focus upon energy efficiency policies for appliances, for power, for industry, for agriculture, for land use. we -- and for transportation, for urban development and autos and trucks. we promote policies that promote prosperity. we ask no countries, and we're active in about eight, we ask nothing of any country that is not in its economic self-interest. we are efficiency, and we have some of the best people in the world. one of our institutes, the transportation and development worked with a city in southern china copying cortiba in brazil to promote the conversion of a ten-lane traffic road serving nine million people in that community to bus rapid transit, which now carries 800,000 people a day, with drastic reductions in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and more congenial way of life. that is but one of the interventions that we have, an

i think we're going to have big changes and i think it's the history of united states that will show us in the depths of the great depression of the thirty's much worse than today a roosevelt became president who ended up creating social security not cutting it like today creating an unemployment compensation system not limiting it like today and hiring twelve and a half million people between one thousand thirty four and forty one we haven't even discussed it today that is the future of the united states the discovery of what we did once before that we should have been doing all along now from your lips or to god's ears let's hope so dr richard wall thanks so much for being with us tonight thank you tom one interesting cons consequence of trickle down austerity in france is that it's fourteen political alliances that we have here in the united states are very familiar with it we'll see how all this plays out. just. the. kids the good the bad in the very very prose. is slowly ugly the good german bank west l.b. last week the german bank announced that it would not provide any fi

not really a valid argument you can treat her iran and iran you know you are insulted and the united states oh and in fact you can because iran is an independent sovereign country in fact contrary to the claim made earlier that the international community is united on iran it is not the nonaligned movement which consists of three sets of the country of the world supporting iran but in the west the nonaligned movement in other words the majority of the world tonight are not considered as the international community the international community as well as our western countries they represent us and they are the ones who make the decisions. in their eyes the iranians are not going to accept that the iranians are working with the frame within the framework of the international law and they will continue to do so those countries that are not pursue a working within the framework of international law are those countries that are threatening iran with a military attack which is barbaric those countries which have placed an embargo on the iranian central bank in order to prevent iran from even impor

the iran cannot conquer the united states. the united states if it decided to could conquer iran. it would be big mess. i don't support doing so. in terms of material power, there is simply no comparing the two countries. given that, if you look at things from iran's perspective, any diplomatic deal would involve making lots of substantial security assurances to iran. if you do this, not only will we not -- not only will we do something on the one hand but we also agree not to do something in the future. the question becomes how could iran trust assurances provided by a country with overwhelming power and indeed i believe is still a uni polar power in the international system? how do you make credible assurances to a relatively weak state as a uni polar power that if it decided to do renag at any point. this is a point not terribly well grasped or at least i don't see evidence it is well grasped by the administration or certainly by the congress, and it is just very difficult no matter how genuine the intention to kredably convey that to a country with which coming from both sides

move many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clout now this comes on the heels of the united states building up its own military presence in the region. syria says government troops will stop all military operations on thursday morning in accordance with the u.n. brokered deadline for a ceasefire with opposition fighters despite some western countries again lashing out of the assad regime for its alleged failure to stick to commit acts. and a powerful earthquake and subsequent aftershocks triggered tsunami warnings in indonesia and several other countries in the indian ocean there were no immediate reports of deaths or damage following the eight point six magnitude quake. china is poised to become the next global economic power player but just how soon will it happen and to find out right now are crossed. and you can. start. to. build. a low a welcome across the uk i.q. level rising and surpassing this is one way to describe china's truly amazing ascent on the international stage but with success comes challenges is the u.s. ready to be second best in china and as china becomes numb

the relationship with the united states when the united states and brazil well i mean it's improved it's always been a pretty good relationship i think there even during the time of the previous president released last year that it was a relationship that was very cordial was still a strong relationship at the same time brazil has been growing as a power not just not in america but around the world as you were pointing out before and so it's trying to distance itself from sort of being underneath the power of the united states the relationship continues to grow in terms of cooperation are there the two presidents are discussing all kinds of stuff in the area of science and technology cooperation spatial cooperation economic cooperation social issues that they'll be caught reading on education reducing poverty things like that at the same time brazil has a specific agenda it matters that it has been very insisting she will on this and this visit or continue to request that the united states backwards eels move to get a seat on a united nations security council and a permanent seat back an

macro economic research institute united states that we could see a doubling of our exports to russia. over a five year period well now let's find out what russians think of the countries that will ship spotlighted energy neither went out into the streets of moscow to ask for people's opinions. hi al throughout the eighteen years russia was trying to get its w.g. all manned by ship there was bitter debate inside the country under its leader that membership but now that russia has finally been accepted into the world trade organization the dispute on whether it will benefit or damage the country's economy still goes on so let's hear one russians expect from the country's w.-t. all accession just now give the store what he says so the russian economy will get foreign investment will start producing goods which will be sold abroad and we'll be able to say good going to all dependents on real materialism and this was a. whole lot of question i think we should never have entered the w t o at all we're perfectly well without it you know it's just wonderful i expect life to become better peo

united states -- "the united states of fear" is what one guy could produce in a year of reading, writing, talking and considering the american world and the absurdities in it that are accepted as ordinary reality. as those of you who read tomdispatch.com know i'm right along myself. despite what everyone thinks about brevity and attention spans and the internet. before jeremy and i talked i will read two pieces from the book both on the shorter side. the first is you will see is really my thoughts about guys in rooms. i wrote it in march 2010 before the military was out of iraq and just after the supreme court issued its citizens united decision but before it was clear that the floodgates that opened so wide that what might be called the politics of the rich in america which soon becomes simply american politics i called it on being a critic, all the world is a stage for us. in march of 2010 i wrote about a group of pundits and journalists eager not to see the u.s. military leave iraq. that piece was on the op-ed page of the los angeles times and a longer version at tomdispatch.com and b

iran very much wants to talk directly to the united states. iran feels the united states is the country which is going to deliver the goods and the beginning of this process from 2003 to 2006, the europeans were doing most of the negotiating and the united states was not even present at the table. diplomats told me they always felt the iranians were looking over their shoulders so see where were the americans to guarantee the kind of security guarantees, the delivery of technology that would make a deal work. i think a key sign of success of this meeting will be if there is a bilateral talk between the iranian representative and between the american representative. the talks in this segment of geneva, the last two talks, there were no bilaterals between the americans and the iranians. if we get through this first round, and if we get to a second round, which would happen fairly quickly, that's where the real difficult things begin because you want to have a confidence building measure. if this can't be a fuel swap, what would be a smaller sort

any time anyone wants help, they come to the united states and we do it. we want to to send our people on humanitarian missions if they were going to prosecuted in rogue courts all over the country -- all over the world. so it is something that seems to me, even president obama, who apparently is personally authorizing drone strikes potentially could be vulnerable i think people ought to think about it. it would lead to isolation for the country and that would be a terrible thing in my view. at the inflexion point of world war ii and the end of the cold war and the truman administration, the defense department, the cia, the national security council, internationally the world bank, imf, united nations, all of those things happened in that period. and they have been serling us in various ways over the decades since. we reached the inflexion points at the end of the cold war and beginning of the information age and we have not stepped up to adjust those institutions to fit the 24 1st century and we need . they are not working well. they are rusty. nato made

welfare state been marked then if you put anything in this european large market then i think even united states getting wasn't this may be the unique period in human he sporty after world war two would the welfare state better so many people live in such safety. freedom and so on don't make too much fun of course to get anything as far as you can last fall it was a disastrous spirit your your is a cultural scene part it's significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state it just took us out of the plight i have had personal i personally experience with a socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like you have a fighting but it wasn't going to have the official experiences from the it's something that's broken there the sweet the swedes have no morals david striving towards your target the striving towards a better position even if even if the position is liberty it is more liberty but is a striving a direction that he. i wish to have if they can measure and temper events by the direction of the hooks and ideals have we now abandoned that true religion bec

in response to the horrors in syria, the united states and our partners at the united nations have supported an immediate halt to the vie leps and negotiated peaceful transition and a responsible democratic process. despite russia and china twice vetoing security council action, the united nations general assembly and human rights council have repeatedly and overwhelmingly condemned the carnage and the united nations has played an important role in supporting arab league efforts to end the crisis including through the joint appointment of special envoy co-fee annan. in line ya the u.n. led gadhafi from massacring his own people. to end nuclear weapons programs, the united states pushed the security council to impose the toughest sachss ever on iran and north korea. as the president has made clear, we will prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. and as long as iran fails to meet its international obligations, the pressure will build. the united nations played a critical role in supporting the creation of a newly independent south sudan. the u.n. ensured a democratically elected presiden

at the second is why the united states in particular needs to be engaged? and the third, why corporations are so vital and why does the imf must play a bigger role? let me begin with the global economy. i think it's fair to say that things have improved quite a bit over the last few months. there are signs of an prevent after probably the longest and hardest winter that started back in the summer, if you look at where this crisis of which the epicenter was europe, started in the middle of august. pretty much like every financial crisis in the last decade. peoples should never go on vacation. some seen encouraging signs of financial stabilization in europe. we are clearly seeing some encouraging signs in the united states as well, not whether you turn your eyes to the employment situation or the manufacturing activity. but as you rightly said, we should not delude ourselves into of sale the sense of security. the recovery is still very fragile. the financial system in europe is still under heavy strain. that is still too high, both public and private -- debt

in 2004, the mek gave up their weapons to the united states military. sense that time, name one terrorist act that the mek has committed since 2004. >> it is not our contention that the mek can be -- has committed an act since the group was disarmed. >> there has not been an act of terrorism by the mek against the united states since they gave up their weapons to us. is that right? >> we do not allege that there was such an act. >> do they have the capability today, 2012, to engage in such a terrorism act against the united states? >> we have not come to a conclusion on that. >> you don't know whether they can -- i mean, you're the guy who is supposed to tell us about terrorism and the world. you don't know whether tek has an ability to commit a terrorist attack against the united states? >> mr. poe, no one has been in to inspector otherwise investigate what is in the camp right now and we also cannot rule out the possibility that the mek may have weaponry elsewhere. >> well, you don't know that. you don't have any evidence that the mek has a stockpile

sometimes you need not intelligent politics that he he that he's out of he's the cape was that the united states as fact even the. com came close to losing the position of unique voters the power under bush you're not that states last effectively control over a lot in america and so on and so on and i think and this is not i don't say to some lefties gee finally we got united states but i think we are entering even tempt we're going to be due a very dangerous. weather all of these dreams that america is somehow a game controller for me over and again i'm not saying this to be any you know what i mean of these lenses angel yeah you said dangerous what a good idea get it lance will unite you not is war bad listen let's face it and for this many lefties to be let us be off your scent that it's them or whatever other european welfare state deem moderate then. if you'll permit me the european lab mark then i think even united states that in motion this may be the unique period in human he story after one of our who went for a statement of so many people in such safety. three daum and so on don't make

of the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn they. illegally should pull five hundred days you might be detained without charge but that hasn't stopped us. today we're on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. today i am joined by intellectual superstar. so i've always you're a former anti communist dissident now turned so described communists together we call david horowitz a former left wing radical black panther life now a fiery right wing zionist i want to know what they think about the future of europe and the united states the conversation becomes heated you get asked to be physically restrained we shout rant and talk calmly about nothing and palestinians black panthers and israelis about of karma romney and stalin. david you describe yourself as a conservative and you describe yourself as a communist but nonetheless both of you have had a picture of stalin. going to make free money don't mess. up the many many shots. yeah right. she's an international shark tank. all right david can you tell me what

this publicly in congress in the united states. and i said things exactly the way i believe them. i said them outright. there is a great deal of discrepancy between points of view. it is a very complex political issue. but it is very important to underscore it. and i believe that's the only part of the question that i can answer it and i would say that what president obama has already answered was very well done. >> just very briefly with respect to the presidential elections in mexico, vice president biden met with the candidates to express sentiments similar to what stephen expressed here with regard to the u.s. elections. that is that the friendship between our three criminals, the partnership between our three countries extends beyond and is more fundamental than any particular party or any particular election. that's the message we have to send with regard to mexico. i've had an excellent working relationship with felipe. i expect to have an excellent working relationship with the next mexican president, whoever that candidate

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so this gives them tremendous incentive to locate profits and businesses outside of the united states. >> brown: is, i'll start with you martin sullivan, is all this bringing about a larger debate about, with states at the federal level about changing the tax code as technology changes, as commerce changes? >> well, there's an enormous debate going on right now in the international tax community on the one hand there's the argument by conservatives and republicans to totally exempt foreign taxes, foreign profits from tax. and meanwhile, you have folks on the other side of the spectrum who say we need to close these loopholes in order to help pay down the deficit. there is some middle ground. the middle ground would be to reduce our corporate tax rates to improve our competitiveness, as i think almost everybody in washington is arguing for that right now, the president and the republicans. but we need to pay for that some way, and to pay for that we must close loopholes. and this type of loophole that charles is talking about is probably the biggest loophole we have. >> brown: charles,

was pressing for him to be taken to the united states but the russian citizen was in. jail for some two years and during two different courts hearings type courts refused the u.s. extradition request the russian federation also said that mr putin a russian citizen and also former soviet military officer are should not be extradited to the united states nonetheless in november two thousand times mr boot was taken out of thailand by a group of u.s. officials according to documents released by wiki leaks the u.s. government spent an enormous amount of time trying to get custody of viktor booth following his arrest in thailand according to u.s. cables u.s. president barack obama was urged to personally call thailand's prime minister directly about in addition the state department and the attorney general of boardings will weaken the documents were encouraged to call the thai embassador highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration's commitment to thailand to the u.s. federal judge says she will recommend that mr bloom remains in the prisons general population fo

finally mature enough as a nation to ask the question can the united states do better than capitalism and your book coming out now called occupy the economy challenging capitalism k. great answer some of those yes i tried to show some of the new ways to organize a reorganize our economy that would avoid the problems we've now seen and learned from our experience and begin to move in a different economic direction and i think that's a reasonable way i don't expect everyone to agree but what i mostly hoping for is to reignite a national debate and discussion like those who like capitalism defend it but those who criticize what's wrong and offer some alternatives and i try to do that in the book and i have to leave it there thank you very much for setting out our take my pleasure thank you. the filmmaker. and. the. directors cause real life in prison on the margins. i. was told stories the russian capital was rocked by two major fires with seventeen people killed in a marketplace moscow's outskirts and the deadly inferno came after flame struck the top floors of a business tower at the w

finally mature enough as a nation to aerschot the question can the united states do better there than capitalism and europe are coming out now a hard occupy the economy challenging capitalism ok answer some of those yes i tried to show some of the new ways to organize a reorganize our economy that would avoid the problems we have now seen learn from our experience and begin to move in a different economic direction and i think that's a reasonable way i don't expect everyone to agree but what i mostly hoping for is to reignite a national debate and discussion let those who like capitalism defend it but those who criticize tell what's wrong and offer some alternatives and i try to do that in the book and i have to leave it there thank you very much for save our party my pleasure thank you. loser league. world. series technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we've got the future coverage. thought reporters are examined to gain a crucial inside chance for the last minutes of a plane which crashed in western siberia it's been revealed the aircraft wasn't dion's

and i also think that the brazil in particular would like to have a close relationship with the united statesne of the interesting back stories about the president's visit this week was that she didn't get a dinner. it wasn't a state visit. he had lunch. and that was something that the brazilians were upset become they'd like to have an elevated relationship with the united states. >> i think they were upset because the argentinan president visited with -- with what's his name, hugo, and the brazilians were pleased about that. but they have not themselves had any contact with hugo chavez. >> securities council. >> chavez is really ill. >> they want a permanent seat on the security council, but so also does japan and so also does india. >> and the united states is lukewarm about offering support. >> they ought to be! >> by the way, the president and his wife's visit to south america flew over argentina, they didn't like that at all. flying over and not visiting argentina. >> they know how the midwest feels. >> we'll be right back with predictions! >>> forced prediction, yes or no? rob portman

why the united states in particular needs to be engaged? why corporation is so vital and what does the imf must play a bigger role? let me begin with the global economy. things have improved quite a bit over the last two months. there are signs of improvement -- this started back in the summer. right in the middle of august. people should never go on vacation in august. [laughter] we see encouraging signs from financial stabilization in europe. we are seeing encouraging signs in the united states as well. manufacturing activity. as you said, we should not delude ourselves into a false sense of security. the recovery is still very fragile. the financial system in europe is still under heavy straits. debt is still high. stubbornly high unemployment is straining the seams. oil prices are another cloud on the horizon. policymakers make use of the current moment. breathing space to put in place the policies and contained the job they have started. i would say to take a matter of completing and continuing the job. remember that we are here not be

united states get rid of then and the taliban in afghanistan immediately afterwards the united statescalled iran an axis of evil and i would also like to remind you that the person who actually restarted the iranian nuclear program at the end of his term in office was president hard to me and the reason why he did it was because iran halted its nuclear program for two years and it allowed intrusive inspections through the additional protocol that are implemented an emotional rage will be all right out of time fascinating discussion we go on for another hour for sure many thanks to my guest today in washington and in beirut and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember. you. still. want to. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then even something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. life. market why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global econ

the assets that exist reside outside the united states. >> did they have any in the united states? >> i don't think there is any material amount. not surprising because we have pretty tough protections. but we believe we have frozen a substantial amount of resources. and now we have to figure out a way to help them recover. >> about how much, is it hundreds of billions? >> i don'ts think it's that large in how much we've frozen or identified. but substantial relative to the needs of that country. >> also i've been corresponding with your office and you on the challenges that americans living abroad, i represent many americans that are working abroad and they are reporting that they are having problems gaining access to bank accounts abroad. and i know that we requested a meeting with your office, you granted one in april. i want to publicly thank you for that. so that they can work out on why they are being denied these bank accounts. your sofs saying there is no policy in the american government that in any way denies american citizens or makes it more difficult for them but the t

osama bin laden declared war on the united states. nobody paid much attention when he did it and i think 1998, because of the presence of american troops, have been left there after the first gulf war. so the united states has gotten ourselves into a position where importing now a little bit less because of these improved technologies. we are still dependent for half of our oil from foreign sources, so the only way that we can prevent the united states from being taxed if you will, every time we have any type of economic growth by increased oil prices that are set by cartel that would not be legally possible if it were operating inside the united states is to diversify our fuel simply along the lines that we mentioned. so even though i'm a conservative and i support free market principles, this is not a free market problem. it is a military and national security problem and it should be looked at in the same vein as if we're buying another couple l squadrons of f 35 or another aircraft carrier and the technology that bob had talked ab