>> i think, what the united states excels at is we make some of the most innovative products, technologicallyanced. lower lifetime costs. maybe the actual cost of the buying it initially might be more expensive. if you look at the total lifetime cost, the locomotives, airplanes, solar technology, lifetime costs are far less. we are selling high quality products. >> just one last question. if somebody is interested in this, where do they go? you are making it sound easy. we guarantee the financing. we find people for you. it's not that easy. where do you go to take the first step? >> it's not that easy, but it's not as hard as people make it out to be. if you want to figure out where the buyers are, department of commerce is the first place to go. if you need financing, working capital, insurance, go to the export/import bank. exim.gov. >> thank you for coming on. we have been getting so many questions about this particularry right now. it's very helpful. >> happy to be here, j.j. >> a strong business plan is very helpful to launching any successful small business. want help writing yours? che

made immense contributions to israel's security, security cooperation with israel and the united states is an excellent rate today. we've developed anti-missile technology that is absolutely ground breaking. we stood together in the face of terror in the face of iranian nuclear sclags, an excellent relationship. >> done more than any previous administration? >> every administration contributes its own mix, its own contribution israeli security, but again the relationship today is truly outstanding. >> you would i guess prefer he not put your government in the middle of all of this? >> we have an interest, i'll be up front with you, john, we have an interest in bipartisan support in israel in this country, we have an historic bond between the state of israel and the people of the united states, both democrats and republicans. we want to keep it that way. >> mr. ambassador, appreciate it. thanks for coming in. >>> still ahead, tonight's number will climb tomorrow. but will that be the end? next, a washington tradition. a late friday document, this time involving one of the most controversial programs. t

united states. we have an excellent and esteemed panel of experts with us tonight.n hadley, james steinberg, and james c ondon. i would like to introduce our moderator for this evening she was the chief white house correspondent for u.s. news and world report. some of you in the audience may recognize him. [unintelligible] you have a complete biography in front of you. i do not want to take up too much time so i can turn the program over to our speakers. please join me in welcoming ken walsh and our most distinguished guests. [applause] >> we have a wonderful audience and a wonderful panel. i thank you all for coming and thanks for the smithsonian for assembling such a panel and asking me float -- asking me to moderate again. i have served as moderator for five smithsonian panels. our goal is always to generate -- shed light on things and not generate heat. i am sure we will keep to that premise again tonight. talking to our panel in advance of just before we started, they have a wonderful pratt of knowledge, not only of their time in office, but also our history of

united states. pediatricians are an excellent position to detect and prevent abuse because of their unique relationship with families and experience in child development. pediatricians are trained to identify injuries and behavioral changes resulting from abuse or neglect and to understand the physician's role in treating or reporting abuse. however, there were inconsistencies with what is considered suspicious and sometimes limited understanding of the child abuse reporting process, even within the medical community. as president of the american academy of pediatrics, i can assure you provided the necessary specialized education and training to report abuse in a cloud in serve these children appropriately is embraced at the very highest levels of leadership within our organization. the academy respectfully submits the following recommendations. every one half to report maltreatment to proper authorities could support as you've heard and training is crucial and every adult has his or her responsibility to report and to protect children who may be children of abuse. one common reason mandatory reporters

excel. gm sold more than 200,000 of them last year. but as gm's business in china continues to grow, that doesn't necessarily mean more jobs will be created at home in the united states general motors we largely build where we sell so we have excellent production facilities in the united states and in europe and in china, in korea. we try to ship in those countries on a normal strategy. >> china isn't just an attractive market because ofity size. local demographics and social norms have played a key role. car buying is done mostly with cash. you'll use your debit card to buy this camaro? >> yeah. >> reporter: another difference between the u.s. and chinese markets? let's say this isn't your father's or even your grandfather's buick. >> the average age for someone buying a buick, for instance is around 30 in china compared to 60 in the u.s. >> a lot of them have a buick. >> reporter: niles wang brought his buick lacrosse three years ago for about $33,000. >> i rely on gm because they produce cars in u.s. longer than other producers. >> reporter: would you ever buy a chinese-made car? >> i don't know! not right now. >> reporter: chinese consumers like niles have helped

excellent. >> third biggest department in the united states, didn't even exist ten years ago.oes it need to exist? >> yes. and i can say that as someone who worked as a u.s. attorney in the '90s. so i saw the pre-9/11 iterations of a lot of these agencies and departments, to leverage resources so that we're not duplicating things all through the federal government makes a lot of sense. >> do you think it's become bloated just because you're so young and it's grown so quickly? >> we are always looking at what we are doing and reassessing and we have actually stopped some major projects on the theory that we shouldn't throw good money after bad and things really have to be value added where safety and security are concerned. >> the secret service has 3200 agents, doing a lot more than just looking for counterfeiters and protecting the president. >> if someone is willing to kill themselves they're going to find a way to do it. there's no way you are foolproof. >> this is the department of homeland security, not the department of guarantees. there are no guarantees here. what we'r

excellent. >> third biggest department in the united states, didn't even exist ten years ago.o exist? >> yes. and i can say that as someone who worked as a u.s. attorney in the '90s. so i saw the pre-9/11 iterations of a lot of these agencies and departments, to leverage resources so that we're not duplicating things all through the federal government makes a lot of sense. >> do you think it's become bloated just because you're so young and it's grown so quickly? >> we are always looking at what we are doing and reassessing and we have actually stopped some major projects on the theory that we shouldn't throw good money after bad and things really have to be value added where safety and security are concerned. >> the secret service has 3200 agents, doing a lot more than just looking for counterfeiters and protecting the president. >> if someone is willing to kill themselves they're going to find a way to do it. there's no way you are foolproof. >> this is the department of homeland security, not the department of guarantees. there are no guarantees here. what we're about is ma

a significant positive note that the united states is supporting the excellent program at u.s. pharmacopoeia which is helping developing countries to identify unregistered illegal medicines where they cause problems. most will. from different research, colleagues of mine have undertaken, it is simply getting the medical parties to control the market is important. the united states program is deserving of continued support. the second major problem related to increasing resistance has already been mentioned, this telamon of therapies. -- the sale of mono therapies. some companies in china, vietnam, and india still producing them. this is again a major contribution to resistance. in order to combat those sales and credit taste -- and replace them with a combination, there is a subset -- there's a suggestion of subsidization. the affordable medicine facility for malaria is currently being funded by the global fund in those countries. it may have significant impact where it works well. but from my assessment of this, this is a project that has run ahead of itself. it is not achievi

it happening in iraq, but iran -- id there is an excellent chance that this year, this election year, israel is going to attack iran and the united states is going to be drawn into a scary, violence situation. >> there is a nightmare scenario for you, mark. who's's hope that evan, rarely wrong, is wrong. if we are about to embark upon that, let's do it the right way, by a full and complete debate and declaration of war, a statement calling in about what our objective is and what we are willing to do, as a people, nation, military, and when we get out. >> mitt and newt have been fighting. has anybody been watching ron paul in iowa? >> i did not write them, i did not read them at the time, and i disavow them. >> these things are pretty incendiary. >> because of people like you. >> no, no, no, come on, and these are very incendiary, like saying that israel is responsible for the bombing of the world trade center. >> good buy. >> all right, goodbye. ron paul and cnn's gloria borger. talking about newsletters from the 1990's with racially charged comments. this comes back to haunt you if you don't take care of them in advance. >> ron paul ha

united states. pediatricians are an excellent position to detect and prevent abuse because of their unique relationship with families and experience in child development. pediatricians are trained to identify injuries and behavioral changes resulting from abuse or neglect and to understand the physician's role in treating or reporting abuse. however, there were inconsistencies with what is considered suspicious and sometimes limited understanding of the child abuse reporting process, even within the medical community. as president of the american academy of pediatrics, i can assure you provided the necessary specialized education and training to report abuse in a cloud in serve these children appropriately is embraced at the very highest levels of leadership within our organization. the academy respectfully submits the following recommendations. every one half to report maltreatment to proper authorities could support as you've heard and training is crucial and every adult has his or her responsibility to report and to protect children who may be children of abuse. one common reason mandatory reporters

united states. pediatricians are an excellent position to detect and prevent abuse because of their unique relationship with families and experience in child development. pediatricians are trained to identify injuries and behavioral changes resulting from abuse or neglect and to understand the physician's role in treating or reporting abuse. however, there were inconsistencies with what is considered suspicious and sometimes limited understanding of the child abuse reporting process, even within the medical community. as president of the american academy of pediatrics, i can assure you provided the necessary specialized education and training to report abuse in a cloud in serve these children appropriately is embraced at the very highest levels of leadership within our organization. the academy respectfully submits the following recommendations. every one half to report maltreatment to proper authorities could support as you've heard and training is crucial and every adult has his or her responsibility to report and to protect children who may be children of abuse. one common reason mandatory reporters

>> vietnam could be an excellent partner of the united states in the region and certainly cultivatingrelationship in addition to the legacy from the war that the united states was an active participant in leads to a natural conclusion that cooperation would be beneficial both to the vietnamese as well as the united states. >> tell me what you think needs to be done now. you're there and on the ground. what's happening? what needs to be done there? >> i think that as we see the stas ticks that come out, almost four decades after the war, we still have a lot of victims on a daily monthly basis. to move forward, three particular actions we can take. first of all, we hope that the u.s. government being our number one donor in mine action in vietnam would be able to increase its assistance to vietnam together with other donor agencies and international development organizations. and second of all, the vietnamese needs to include the mine action into its over all developments plan so that's not a stand alone program. instead it is brought into the mainstream development forum to discuss wit

united states. pediatricians are in an excellent position to detect and prevent abuse because of their unique relationship with families and experience child development. pediatricians are trained to identify injuries and behavioral changes resulting from abuse or neglect and to understand the physician's role in treating or reporting abuse. however there are inconsistencies with what is considered suspicious and sometimes limited understanding of the child abuse reporting process even within the medical community. as president of the american academy of pediatrics i can assure you that providing necessary specialized education and training to report abuse and neglect and serve these children appropriately is embraced at the various highest levels of leadership in the organization. the academy submits the following recommendations. every adult has a responsibility to protect children and to report maltreatment to the proper authorities. support as you heard for education and training is crucial to insure every adult knows his or her responsibility to adult and protect children who might be victims of abus

president of united states bill clinton approved the national aids memorial grove act, identifying the site as a national treasure. in addition, the growth was bestowed an award for excellence in 1999. truly a sacred space, it is cared for by those who have suffered the effects of aids either directly or indirectly. a healing sanctuary of space, anyone who has experienced a national aids memorial grove work day immediately feels the light and love by those present and memories of those lost. this group works. a renovation of the old waterfall is under way. 17 defined areas are being planted and maintained by volunteers. six flagstone gathering areas are intended to regularly and the placement of an enormous sea are granite boulder, the 15 freestanding benches, have all been donated. the heart of the growth is the people. all who joined together to stand in solidarity against the tragedy of aids, by action of space on a monthly basis. on behalf of the san francisco recreation and park commission, we honor the thousands of volunteers and our partners at the national aids memorial grove. take a little picture. [applause] >> thank you for this honor. my name is john cunningham.

-the idea of these courses is what has come from europe to the united states and an influence to civilization that it would be an excellent idea for all sections to read the federalist papers. i would also even consider in the literature course, perhaps, in the last week doing a week on emerson and whitman. c-span: the other... >> guest: there are no american--not many american texts here. c-span: the third one was marx in our list, and you... >> guest: yeah. c-span: tell the story about the kolikowski. >> guest: well, lesa kolikowski, a polish historian of marxism and a kind of liberal in the f--in the '50s--that is, an anti-stalinist in poland--who wanted marxism with a human face, you know, and socialism with a human face, and was defeated and left and went to oxford and then to the university of california and wrote--and has written a big three-volume history of marxism came to columbia just as we were reading marx, within a few weeks. and it was--it was after the f--the fall of the berlin wall and the ending of soviet communism. and he was incredibly derisive towards marx, to my astonishment, and just ridiculed him.

to, which is true, is if we can convince the united states government and the government of iraq that the services we provide, which have always been excellent been provided with good governance and accountability and they accept that, then it's proof positive that we've changed this company. >> what about afghanistan? are they going to be making another decision on private contractors in march. president hamid karzai has called security companies like yours, quote, thieves by day, terrorists by night. obviously you're counting on remaining there. where is the biggest growth for you now? is it really just still iraq and afghanistan? >> in afghanistan in particular, the growth really is in training because -- >> police forces and -- >> police forces because, as you kind of alluded to is he wants to take all of the security forces inside the government. there's no infrastructure, not enough infrastructure and people trained inside the government, so the biggest opportunity for us is training. >> i'm curious in some of these countries when i've traveled there there's a lot of skepticism about what you do. you lobby so well in the united states

to, which is true, is if we can convince the united states government and the government of iraq that the services we provide, which have always been excellentve now been provided with good governance and accountability and they accept that, then it's proof positive that we've changed this company. >> what about afghanistan? are they going to be making another decision on private contractors in march. president hamid karzai has called security companies like yours, quote, thieves by day, terrorists by night. obviously you're counting on remaining there. where is the biggest growth for you right now? is it really just still iraq and afghanistan? >> in afghanistan in particular, the growth really is in training because -- >> police forces and -- >> police forces because, as you kind of alluded to is he wants to take all of the security forces inside the government. there's no infrastructure, not enough infrastructure and people trained inside the government, so the biggest opportunity for us is training. >> i'm curious in some of these countries when i've traveled there there's a lot of skepticism about what you do. and they say, well, look, y

focus only on its relationship with the united states, not even with europe, but to think also about its relation with the other emerging countries. >> excellent. i'd like to open it up now to the audience, please. introduce yourselves, affiliation name, before you ask your questions. the gentleman there in the middle. >> thank you. >> please stand up and tell us who you are, please. >> thank you for organizing this timely event. with china news agency. my question is really two additional resources for ms, for the panel. recently as the britain is reluctant to give share to 200 billion euros, additional resources to imf, the european countries hasn't got the 200 billion euros for the mf. so should the united states and china step in or step out for additional resources for the mf at this particular time? as for the united states, due to the strong opposition from republican senators, we haven't given the 108 billion euros that were promised, and for countries like mexico and china, they have their analysis, additional resources is not related to voting share. so, this is my first question. and secondly, there is also differences among the imp

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strong farm pharmaceutical industry and foreign companies locate in the united states because it's conducive to that and 800,000 excellentbs, one of the few net exporting industries we have left in the united states, so let's not forget the benefit that it provides the country in terms of a very strong industry along with, for example, the computer industry of silicone valley. we don't have that many really strong industries to sweep them aside, but getting to the cost side of thing, that is the challenge. there's a great deal of transparency worldwide now on the cost of drugs, and countries like the united states or germany, for example, germany wants to pay the same price that croatia and bulgaria pays, and the doctor world in which you live, two things happen. first of all, you take away the inseptembersive for innovation -- incentives for innovation as we talked about, and second, you remove the incentive for differential pricing because people who cannot afford to pay more are forced to pay the same amount, and you discourage the use of drugs in those poor countries, and to me, that's not actually a moral position t

plus an excellent source of omega-3 dha in a great tasting gummy. one a day, gummies for grown-ups. >>> are the united states at war with iran? iran's claim that it shot down a u.s. drone and the explosions outside the british embassy this week have led some to wonder if a covert effort is underway to scuttle iran's nuclear program and push them towards regime change. michael hersch is senior correspondent for the "national journal" and join us now. good afternoon, mike. >> good afternoon, martin. >> just today, the obama administration launched what they're calling a virtual u.s. embassy with iran. as we look at the new website, which the white house says is designed to encourage dialogue with the iranian people, do you believe this is sincere, or is it just a smoke screen for what's really going on behind the scenes? >> well, fortunately, the virtual embassy probably can't be raided and attacked the way britain's actual embassy was just last week, which i think was, again, part of what we're seeing, which is a covert war and retaliation to increasing degrees by the iranians, the british ambassador himself

united states. they have to think about the relation with the other emerging countries. >> excellent, i would like tos, affiliation, name, before you ask the question. the gentleman there in the middle. - >> thank you. >> please stand up and tell us who you are. >> thank you for organizing this time the event. -- timely event. i am with the chinese news agency. recently, if britain is reluctant to give its share to the 200 bureaus, european countries have not got the $200 billion euros for that prized. in china, a step in our step out for this particular time -- as for the united states, due to the strong opposition from republican senators, the have not given the 108 billion euros. for countries like mexico and china, they have their cost and benefit analysis. is not related to the voting share. this is my first question and secondly, there are differences among the important players for countries like germany going to to the general resources. for countries like the united states, they want money going to special accounts to reduce the contagion across the imf membership. how should countries seldo