this is probably the case for the united states of america. it should not move too quickly. we cannot be complacent again. the u.s. debt exceeds 100% of its gdp. curbing the growth of entitlement spending and raising more revenue. the recovery is being held back by the burden of household debt. some of the statistics are just mind-boggling. over 1.5 million mortgages are seriously delinquent. measures have to be taken to restore the capacity of those households by taking advantage of it easier refinancing and mortgage write-downs. the u.s. administration has made good proposals in that regard. remember, banks were helped to give credit again. households must be helped to begin to consume again. jobs. there is no magic bullet. it allowed to be reinvented from the ground in each economy where it is needed. there are over to order million people -- 200 million in search of a job. to see those young job-seekers in pretty much every country -- their so much renaissance for those looking for a job who have the training and whose trading is adjusted for the needs of the job market.

as being the big rock in the road to the president's promise of fundamentally change the united states of america >> is it different than what other presidents have done and? >> there have been times, our 236 years of existence where presidents have tried to concentrate power in the central government. richard nixon used his powers to expand the powers of the central government through a variety of programs. but this has been different exponentially in terms of the degree and extent to which the president has tried to concentrate the power of the government in washington, d.c. unit, the beauty of the constitution is that it is an instrument and a set of ideas, again, that limits government. it believes that free men for free women and free markets can do just about anything. and at the end of the day, it is that constitution that has made us an exceptional nation. in 236 years we have become the most prosperous, the most democratic republic in all of human history. and so to ignore, to try to get around it, over it or under it is a fundamental challenge to our exceptionalism and the whole notion

the president of united states of america, president of the united states of america, only contact people with the presidential politicking good afternoon of the standard of regulations and laws in jesus christ, i ain't got beat the devil and god -- but the main thing is -- see, the thing is, the regulations of a good board to help schools out and would help mental illness people, and physical education is good, so keep that in schools. recycling is good. basically, just have a good world. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> nice note to and on. i just wanted to speak briefly in regards to the comments that an individual made earlier about the board taking opinions on public or international affairs. i just want to appreciate the board for always taking courageous stands on things that happen on the state level or national level or international level the impact our very international city, and those other issues that we care about very much. thank you. supervisor chiu: are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public, it? seeing

election in 2008, said, his own words, we are a week away from fundamentally changing the united states of america. if you look at the constitution and its overriding purpose, is as an instrument that is structured to put a check on the growth, the power, and the intrusion of government, the way that you grow and expand the power of the central government, is to change the constitution or to ignore it. and so what we did, ken and i, in "the blueprint" was to do an expo say on the activities of the obama administration to fundamentally ignore, go around, under, or over, the constitution, and so we saw, and we see, the constitution as being the big rock in the road to the president's promise to fundamentally change the united states of america. >> host: is it different than what other presidents have done? >> guest: there have been times within our 236 years of existence where presidents have tried to concentrate power in the central government. richard nixon used his powers to expand the powers of the central government through a variety of programs. but this has been different exponentially in ter

one out of every gang member in the united states of america resides in los angeles. so i have a lot of people to observe. and i have a lot of people that i spend my time with, who i talk with, who i live with, who are my sisters and brothers, my godchildren, and they are my guides. i've interviewed and done life histories on over 300 gang members. and i think it's very important, we've heard a lot of stories today and are going to hear a lot of stories here today but i want to mention a group that hasn't been mentioned, which are women and young girls. and i'm looking out at some of your faces knowing that your sisters are part of gangs or at risk for joining gangs in our country as well as transnationally right now. now, as i've listened to these voices that we rarely hear, and we're so lucky to hear them today, as i listen to these voices that i rarely hear, there's a young man who is 18 years old, one month past his 18th birthday. he was facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. precisely like mr. hill harper offered the account of in that letter. hi

the president who so often said this is not about the state of america, the state -- the red state of america, the blue state of america, but the united states of america. where has that barack obama gone? he once promised to hold themselves accountable, but now he spends time making excuses -- hold himself accountable, but now he spends time the excuses for his failures. he blamed the arab spring. he blamed atm machines and earthquakes in japan and even bad luck. excuses will not pay the mortgage. his class warfare will not create a single job. like all of our candidates, our next speaker understands that. we're grateful, honored, and blessed to have governor romney with us today. the governor is running a remarkable campaign, unlike president obama. governor romney is not afraid on running on issues, solutions, and an incredible record. and what our record he has, as senator mccain just laid out, turning around companies, turning around the olympics, and turning around a state. if there was ever an entity that needed a turnaround, a new direction, it is the united states under barack obama. throughout his career, governor romney has

i bet if i asked the people in the united states of america to do a poll how many people were water boarded at guantanamo, the answer would be some people would say probably 100, 200. others would say 10, 15. others might say i think i read three might have been. the answer is none. zero. not a single human being was water boarded by the u.s. armed forces in guantanamo or anywhere else to my knowledge for the purposes of interrogation. the cia did water board three people, but think of how that's all been conf lateed and what the general opinion in america is about waterboarding and at guantanamo bay which is in my view one of the truly in the wo. zawahiri said more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. we're in the media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of muslims. lawfair, briefly. what is it. what's happening is that increasingly lawyers and prosecutors are using the concept of universal jurisdiction to file lawsuits against u.s. government officials and military personnel. they are putting american officials and intelligence officials at risk

need to use it i think there needs to be an accounting in the united states of what was going on over the last eight years and name of america there is a precedent because of the second world. united states actually executed japanese soldiers who had. used torture. against american prisons they took action against the japanese when the u.s. has been on record as opposing. other countries so there is a clear legal case to say that you know action must be taken we're still evaluating two weeks before taking office u.s. president barack obama steered. we are of saving america's historic commitments to international justice obviously we're looking at past records. and don't believe that anybody is for the law on the other hand i also have a belief that the year before that's rose as possible looking backwards last june obama's u.s. justice department dropped a ninety nine out of one hundred in one cases against cia interrogators over the use of torture i'm afraid but the current ministration wants to keep those options open they don't want to label these techniques just as crime pure torture because that would prohibit them from

if i rule the world, or if i was the head of the department of education in the united states of america. i would probably create a push to rename english departments. it's important to start teaching kids the skills they need in order to vet information. and how to handle a lot of incoming information. to teach kids digital literacy that it is to teach them in a language they're fluent in by high school. does that answer your question? all right. >> i'm going take one question from the twitter verse, of course. and this one -- who was it? what's that? >> this one comes from michael b eno in chicago. >> your alter ego. michael asks, we are digital and social media professionals and we are expected to be constantly connected. if the expectations we set ourselves and others have for us. is there a middle ground where we can still be accessible enough? >> a lot of people get confused. i think it's because we made a lot of mistakes when it came to the idea of a diet over the past last half the century. we said that a diet is about eating less. we started to hammer that home. it actually caus

washington policymakers insist on calling these people freedom fighters rather than terrorists united states of america. and the definition for terrorists from the united states of america. for freedom and who are fighting really for freedom and i guess that's true of united states and. this is the case and if you talk about. we have. no. organization of course this is also the syrian opposition but it faces goals and ways of achieving them are strikingly different these kurdish women are against the entrenched discrimination of their ethnic group others in the crowd call for free elections and stopping arbitrary detentions still the main slogan they're rallying under is for peaceful change. we think that bashar al assad has stepped down but we are totally convinced it can be achieved turn on violent means the only way for this democratic revolution to proceed peacefully all size has to stop the violence small rallies like these are almost the wicklow occurrence in damascus but this time even syrian state t.v. came to fill my heart travels grabs all the attention the syrian opposition has many faces an

united states, president of the united states. we have low born people who are presidents of the united states. we have one now. we had one in abe lincoln, in jackson, low born. maybe not only in america but it's very distinctive. two of the four guys up on mt. rush more not members of any formal church at the time of their ascension to the presidency. pretty striking stuff. the rest of the world even today is up to. gordon wood would want me to remind you of one other thing. you mate be annoyed the people in congress take your money and don't pay themselves, don't help the rest of us so much. don't resent congressional salaries. the remarkable democratic future that we pay our lawmakers because if we don't the only people who can serve are aristocrats. to make public service open to low-born folks who aren't independently wealthy, england doesn't do that until 1911. we're that far ahead of the world. now where are all these democratic ideas coming from? i don't think these guys at philadelphia are geniuses. they're lawyers and i know a lot of lawyers, very few of them are geniuses. lawyers copy what has worked before. on issue after issue after issue they actually borrow from best st

your outstanding work at the u.n. >> thank you, sir. >> not only in standing strong for the united states of america and our interests but for the interests of the united states' most important allies and friends. thank you so much for your work, your good work, and effective work. i do have a question about unesco. and i understand the point that you were making that there will be consequences to the palestinians for going against the u.s.'s advice and directive not to pursue independence through the united nations. and then avoiding direct negotiations with the state of israel. the most important strategic ally and friend the united states has in that region. but what are the consequences, or what would the consequences be to -- under a waiver to unesco, the body that actually voted in favor of the palestinians' request? i've got a couple of these, dr. rice.

and i would say this is probably the case to the united states of america. you should not move too quickly, but it should certainly moves steadily in the right direction of cutting deficits and redressing debt. because we cannot be complacent again. the u.s. debt exceeds 100% of its gdp. the country needs a stronger push to fix its public finance in the years ahead, including by curbing the growth of entitlement spending and raising more revenues. equally in the united states, and the recovery is being held back by the burden of household debt. some of the statistics here, and you get them, are mind-boggling. over 1.5 million mortgages are seriously delinquent. and obviously measures have to be taken to restore the capacity of those households by taking advantage of easier refinancing and mortgage write-downs. the u.s. administration has made some good proposals in that regard. it will be a matter of implementing aggressively and learning the support of larger institutions. because remember, banks were helped to give credit again, while household must be help

i do this job because it is singularly the best job of the united states of america on this cabinet and i enjoy fixing problems for the american people, and we have made tremendous progress in the last three years, and so that's what i focus on every day. >> the interior department has been promises regulations for months but the rules have yet to materialize. what ease the status of these regulations and why is it taking so long for them to be released? >> natural gas is a very important component of america's energy future. the president has endorsed natural gas even during -- in the campaign of 2008 when he spoke about the importance of trying to move forward with the alaska natural gas pipeline and the meetings i had early on in the administration to move forward with that agenda, so we are strong believers in the future of natural gas and it's a way to power our economy. we know and believe we have a supply which is an american supply and frankly not as expensive as oil today, cl could power the economy of the united states for the next 100 years. so we will move forward and contin

of america. you said the united states needs to challenge rye ran, representatives of the u.n. security council plus germany sit down tomorrow with iran's nuclear negotiator. what does iran need to agree to to make those successful f. they are not as so many have been with iran, what should the u.s. do next? >> well first of all, i think it's a tactical decision whether one talks to the iranians. i think we get caught up in that. what do you say once you're talking to hem. i think there are a couple of things that have to be said. the world has to be reliably confident that iranians have been shut off from a bath way to a nuclear weapon. the problem with reprocessing to a lower percentage is that it is basically the same process that you can pursue higher percentages later on. once you solve the science problem it's just an engineering problem. there are grave dangers in saying to iranians you can entrich to this level and no further because you leave the capacity in place. secondly, i think the iranians do have to be told that they are going to have to shut down the sites that

made in the united states of america. where was it put together? in the united states of america. you do not have to steal it when we seal it. >>neil: the final payment has not been written on this fine novel. it is possible that jobs will not be lost or they just could be written by russian check writer but you argue, regardless, it's offensive. >>guest: regardly it's offensive. where are the democrats? where is the congress of the united states? again, it is another investment of our taxpayer dollars, going to an area that biden and president obama wanted to go to, they are walking away from oil, walking away from shale, walking away from pipelines to putting they can of our tax dollars in to this energy plan of theirs and every time they do, it goes bankrupt, and it costs the american taxpayers. when it is going to stop? will we give these people four more years to do more of this with our money? i hope not. >>neil: i can thing of your dear old dad, michael, and if he saw something like this, my goodness, i cannot imagine. >>guest: trust but verify. >>neil: and then sell out. t

in its infinite wisdom, god has a special place in his heart for fools, drunk ardz in the united states of america. so more democratic than you were taught, more pro-slavery than you were taught and, finally, much more about maturity. that's andrew jackson, too. why would 13 -- and you know the history of the world, up to 1787, why would you ever think a continental democracy could work? there's no model in world history. why would you think this could work? madison says and the federalist number, what is the federalist number? diversity will be good and the democracy will work better if it's modest diversity. mad madison persuaded everyone. federalist 10, that's what we're all talk. no one reads federalist 10. no one at all. nor for the next 100 years, you read federalist 10 because there was a certain scholar who thought federalist 10 was front and center, really important. that scholar was named charles beard. okay? it's all about the class issue and religious diversity and other things. madison's federalist 10 is brilliant. i disagree respectively. i give madison tenure on the basis of federal

cultural relevance to the citizen of the united states of america. go to alice island. get to that museum. look at the faces on the wall, those pictures of people came to this nation forever part of the world, many with all the things they could carry. people who work that eight hours for 10, 12, 16, six or seven days a week. no such thing, not for themselves so that their sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters might have an opportunity. that is what is culturally relevant. hundreds of years before that hundreds of immigrants came in slave ships and even harder for less but they too had a dream that one day their great grandsons and granddaughters might pursue freedom and prosperity in this nation and of all the nations in the world, this one, and the united states of america is the only one big enough and great enough to allow all those people from all those background to achieve their journeyings. and that is why every single one of us is culturally relevant to every single one of us. and that is why we are called the united states of america. and we would do

and religion. >> what that says is that's more important to him than the interests of the united states of america make that whisper to a russian officials, he cares more about getting re-elected and pandering to other countries than he does the interests of the united states of america which gets back to the arrogance of this president and this administration that a lot of people have got to wake up to. >> all right. herman cain, you are a great american, and we appreciate it. >> thanks, sean. >> and coming up. >> thank you. >> you don't want to miss this, the exclusive sit-down you will only see here tonight on hannity. the father of george zimmerman tells us his son, george's side of the story as it relates to the trayvon martin shooting. we will examine the 911 calls. media's rush to judgment and his son's state of mind as he remains in hiding. that and much more coming up tonight on hannity. strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. challenge that. olay smooth finish facial hair removal duo. first a

to a citizen of the united states of america. go through that museum. look at the pictures on the wall, the people who came to this nation from every part of the world. many with only the things they could carry. people who worked not only eight hours a day, 10 or 12 hours a day. no such thing as a minimum wage. so that their sons and daughters and granddaughters and grand rounds could have an opportunity. hundreds of years before that, immigrants came here and they were hired for even less. they, too, had a dream, that one day they are great grandchildren might pursue freedom and prosperity in this nation. of all the nations in the world, this one, the united states of america, the only one big enough and great enough to allow all those people from all those backgrounds to achieve their dreams. that is why every single one of us is culturally relevant to every single one of us. that is why we are called united states of america. we would do well to recognize that our diversity is not a weakness. it is determined as blessing and a terminus strength. i wa

more confident that there is no country better position then to leave the country in the united states of america. only a free state in the course of iran. looking forward and not in the rearview mirror. thank you ladies and gentlemen. they got protect our children. -- may god protect our children. i have travelled well over half a million miles and many of them to foreign countries all around the world. like many of you who have traveled, students and non- students here, we have the same kind of feeling when you get home -- the same sort of intuitive feeling -- there is no country like america. there is no potential like america. i was asked earlier how would i best defined america to a group of high-school students? i said one word -- possibilities. possibilities -- i am absolutely convinced, i am more certain after having served 40 years in government that i was when i was an idealistic young center at the age of 29. i'm more confident and convinced that there is no country and we want all countries to do this, there is no country better positioned to lead the world in the 21st century than th

story in the defense establishment and in the military establishment for example in the united states of america we have the top military officials and defense officials for example defense secretary leon panetta who's been very frank about the situation in syria say one of the syrian opposition so when you want to hear the truth you go to these officials the defense officials the military officials and i think guns is the one who is really speaking honestly what is going on on the ground so if you want to hear the realistic scenario yes you do resort to the military i think that the israeli military is the one which is speaking to the general situation what is really happening on the ground all right i'm afraid that's all the time will have ali risk an expert on the middle east live from the lebanese capital in beirut thank you. a massive explosion at an alleged rebel bomb making lab has killed up to seventy people in the syrian city of hama state t.v. reports says militants accidentally triggered an explosion resulting in a blast that leveled an entire row of houses that made revelations that

but really, what does that term mean, cultural relevance to a citizen of the united states of america? go to ellis island. go to that museum. look at the faces on the wall, those pictures and people who came to this nation from every part of the world, many of them with only the things they could carry. people who worked not eight hours a day but 10, 12 and 16 hours a day. not five days a week at six or seven days a week. not just for minimum wage, so there grandsons and granddaughters might have an opportunity in this land. that is what is culturally relevant. hundreds of years before that hundreds of immigrants came here in the bottoms of slave ships working even harder for even less but they too had a dream that one day their great-grandsons and great granddaughters might pursue freedom and prosperity in this nation. of all the nations in the world, this one, the united states of america is the only one big enough and great enough to allow all those people from all those backgrounds to achieve their dreams. and that is why every single one of us is culturally relevant to every sing

but nobody so used to hear the proximately eighty percent of the votes in the united states of america are counted by di both were e.s.p.n.'s in his continuing effort to demand accountability and to publicize his story when curtis ran for congress against tom feeney in two thousand and six feeney refused to debate curtis and outspent him by a factor of twenty six to one there's was one of four congressional races in florida that were contested in two thousand and six prompting florida's new republican governor and a republican legislature to mandate that they would vote on paper ballots in the two thousand and eight election where curtis will run again against tom feeney maybe as george allen's spent years in the courts fighting both yang's and after ultimately she was reinstated with full back pay and awarded a large settlement from the florida department of transportation. in august two thousand and seven deeble changed its name to premier election solutions inc i think what quinn curtis is is really an object lesson in what can go wrong and how easily it can go wrong in fact we don'

whole set of cuts that we believe will make it harder for us to accomplish our goal for the united states of america to accomplish the goal of outeducating and outcompeting and outbuilding the rest of the world, which we have to do in this very competitive international economy. that's why we take a balanced approach. we make some tough cuts. we adopt all of the cuts that were made as part of the budget control act. we appropriate additional cuts in the area of mandatory spending. but we also propose additional revenue. we propose additional revenue from having the tax rates on the very high income earners go back to where they were during the clinton administration. we have revenue from closing a lot of the corporate tax preferences. and all told, like the president's budget, we have about $1.5 trillion in revenue as part of our budget. in fact, our budget adopts pretty much the framework of the president's approach. not every detail, not every recommendation. but the overall framework the president took in his budget. and because we have a revenue component, it means we don't have to decimate impo

ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states of america. thank you very much. please have a seat. good afternoon and thank you to dean singleton and the board of the associated press to inviting me here today. it's a pleasure to speak to all of you and to have a microphone i can see. [laughter] feel free to transmit any of this to vladimir if you see him. [laughter] clearly, we are already in the beginning months of another long, lively election year. there will be gaffes and minor controversies, there will be hot microphones and etch-a-sketch moments. you will cover every word we say and we will complained vociferously about the unflattering words you write, unless you are writing about the other guy, in which case, good job. but there are also big, fundamental issues at stake right now. issues that deserve serious debate among every candidate and serious coverage among every reporter. whoever he may be, the next president will inherit an economy that is recovering, but not yet recovered. from the worst economic calamity since the great de

i bet if i asked the people in the united states of america to do a poll how many people were water boarded at guantanamo, the answer would be some people would say probably 100, 200. others would say 10, 15. others might say i think i read three might have been. the answer is none. not a single human being was water boarded by the u.s. armed forces in guantanamo or anywhere else to my knowledge for the purposes of interrogation. the cia did water board three people, but think of how that's all been conflated and what the general opinion in america is about water boarding and at guantanamo bay which is in my view one of the truly impressive prison systems in the world, and zahiri once said more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. we're in the media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of muslims. law fair. they're putting them at risk in an attempt to intimidate them and their families. it a trend that threatens subordinate people to foreign courts and rogue prosecutors. this is a sizable threat to american sovereignty. i'll give you one example. i

it's about the creation of the c modern united states of america, and why do i say that? because the confederatest to create a separate nation had to fail. richmond had to fall for there i to be the modern united states of america that we know today. you can't make up a more ned i dramatic sequence that occurred, the government trying to create a separate southern republic, abandon its capital on april 2,a 1865. the southern army evacuated thea city, fire burned the business e district. the union army marched in.e slavery ended and abraham lincoln himself walked through s the burn, smoldering ashes of the city and sat in jefferson f davis' chair and all that happened within 48 hours.th you just can be imagine and make up a more dramatic sequence of events.w now, to set the stage by 1865, the spring, the civil war was coming to a close, even strongest confederates goon seed their cause, the military situation was indeed dire and richmond was surrounded by of ulysses grant's army and in theo spring of 1865, general lee could not hold out against thate army, and he saw that h

it will be good for the energy security of the united states of america. it also would be good for the entire gulf of mexico because it is, after all, only one pond. it is a pond which is frankly shared mostly between the united states and mexico. and it is a place that we know that we have the largest proven reserves of oil and gas in our country. those are two simple things that the congress could do. codify what we have are redone, approve an agreement that we worked on very hard in the gulf of mexico in the maritime boundary. they might want to do a few other things. i believe that americans also want to see congress implement a policy that makes for a long-term sustainable renewable energy economy. that includes making tax credits for renewable energy. and refundable portions so there is financial certainty so we don't face the bus that many of us witnessed in the 1970s with solar power. we need a clean energy standard. we are moving forward with their own in the executive branch, but it would be good if the united states congress were to pass a clean

ceremony was about the united states of america as much as it was about these five women. these five women were tied to america long before they took their oath. they considered themselves americans. and the united states of america had an obligation to them for many years. at the ceremony we saw hope coming out of tragedy. a fair result out of an insane injustice. and compassionate concern out of impersonal laws and regulations. the united states intends to provide and strives to give hope, fairness, and compassion, but these are not automatic. cruel fate or happenchance often threatens to crush hope and opportunity. irrational human passions and prejudices comport justice and fairness. the demands of life in a busy complicated society and the complicated legal code can crowd out compassion. in 2001 all across america americans reacted in dismay when they heard the news of the hate crime. when they learned that the murderer committed his brutality in retaliation for september 11 11 attacks in an act of twisted patriotism, they knew it was a block on our country. americans

it'll be good for the energy security of the united states of america. it also would be good for the entire gulf of mexico because it is, after all, only one pond. it is a pond which is, frankly, shared mostly between the united states and mexico. and it's a place where we know we have the largest proven reserves of oil and gas in our country. so those are two simple things that the congress, i believe, could do, you know? codify what we've already done on offshore safety approve an agreement that we've worked on very hard in the gulf of mexico and the maritime boundary. but i believe they might want to do a few other things, you know? i believe americans also want to see congress implement a policy that makes for a long-term sustainable renewable energy economy. that includes making tax credits for renewable energy generation permanent and refundable so there's financial certainty. and so we don't face the boom and the bust that many of us witnessed in the 1970s with solar power. and we need a clean energy standard where moving forward with our own in th