united states. there are over a million haitians who live in the united states. it has strategic importance for the united states. and i also think the u.s. has a capacity to be helpful in haiti. ah, this is a country that's had a tragic history, had a tragic earthquake, a devastating earthquake, ah, and i think the commitment has to be strong. it's difficult. it's frustrating. we all know the problems that, ah, the u.s. has encountered over time. we know the difficult circumstances of haiti, it's the poorest country in the western hemisphere, virtually no institutions, strong institutions. ah, but there's a lot at stake and i think the united states cannot afford to look the other way. i think it needs to help be part of an effort to try to rebuild and reconstruct the country. >> you said, "historic responsibility", what's the us's historic responsibility to haiti? >> well the u.s. occupied the, the country for almost 20 years in the early part of the 20th century. ah, it supported, ah, dictatorships, the duvalier dictatorships for a long stretch of time. so, it

after that the united states state department and embassy wanted to evacuate all united states citizens out of pakistan saying it's dangerous here but i had a lot of work to get done so. i called my wife and asked her what should i do and she said stay there with the people you love. finish up your work because you need to be over there right now. and when i was in pakistan after 911, everywhere i went i was touched by outpouring of empathy and hospitality. i remember a poor elderly widow that brought me five precious eggs and pushed them in my palm and said bring these back to the widows in new york suffering. this is all i have to share with them. i was invited for prayers of piecen the mosque and every whether i went people apologized even though they didn't have anything to do with it. finally it came time and i went back and when i got to corefa, hangele had passed away. i went to his grave and stood there look at his box in the ground and thought, how can i go on, this man had become my father, mentor and guide. he told me to sit down and be quiet and take a bath and so many thing

of california -- >> the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the statef california. >> -- against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> -- against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> -- that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states. >> -- that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> that i take this obligation freely. mayor lee: without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion. >> without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. mayor lee: and that i will well and faithfully discharge. >> that i will well and faithfully discharge. mayor lee: . >> the duties i am about to enter and during such time that i hold the office of. >> historic preservation. >> historic preservation. >> relocation appeals. >> relocation. [inaudible] mayor lee: for the city and county of san francisco. >> for the city and county of san francisco. th

bear true faith and aline of scrimmagens >> to the constitution of the united states. >> to the constitution of the united states. >> and to the constitution of the state of california. >> to the constitution of the state of california. >> that i take this obligation freely -- >> without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion -- >> without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion -- >> and that i will well and faithfully -- >> and that i will well and faithfully -- >> discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter. >> discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter -- >> and during such time -- >> and during such time -- >> as i hold the office of -- >> as i hold the office of -- >> mayor for the city and county of san francisco. >> mayor for the city and county of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you very much. board of supervisors for this fantastic opportunity. i also want to make sure i thank the mayors that i've worked for that are standing with me. mayor brown, wonderful years working with you. i learned a lot. and i want to really thank you for the tutelage you've given me, for the gui

i don't know what do you think because if you're taken over by i think the united states has no business the united states has no business trying to tell the libyan people or the people in other countries of that region how they should conduct their affairs and the united states has a one hundred percent failing record of intervention we go in there and we mass everything up and that's exactly what we're going to do now and we're going to go live to the revolution the only ones you need in cairo where you are going to hand off you know you kind of we don't have remains and will already know you're going to we're in cairo. yes all right now eric again i think the principle you're defending is perfectly sound but i'm a little bit worried about the self-righteousness of the principle when you apply it then it turns into a disaster yes the united states has no business intervening in the middle east but the fact is since nine hundred forty five the united states is in the middle east it is there every day it's there in israel all there is doing is trying to fix the problems that they create going to if you wa

his friends who committed acts of terror in the past and our policy of united states policy is articulated by the prez united states states so he should go and he should not stay in power. wow so it sounds like he really doesn't like get off easy he did twice in a five minute interview with the libyan dictator needs to be held responsible by the u.s. for what he's done and then goes on to say that could be has american blood on his hands. there he is a proven quantity he is the blood of americans is son his hands because he was responsible for the bombing of pan am one hundred three he is from involved in other acts of terror. now his go approach to libya if it why he's earned a special spot in the show tonight but rather it seems to be his case of amnesia he just a few years ago the u.s. had much different sentiments when it came to libya during the bush era efforts were made to mend ties and that included sending weapons to get off the himself and good old job you boy here accompanied by joe lieberman and lindsey graham took a trip to tripoli in two thousand and nine to visit the dictator and self just days befor

united states, don't worry. >> there is still considerable spare oil production capacity globally and the united states and other major economic economies possess substantial strategic reserves of oil. >> treasury secretary geithner testified thursday before a u.s. senate committee. he said united states is ready to coordinate closely with international financial institutions such as world bank to extend support to middle east and north african nations. >>> now to new zealand. the grim search for survivors of last week's devastating in christchurch continued -- earthquake in christchurch continued on friday. authorities say the search is focused on the collapsed building where many people are believe to be trapped. 163 people have been confirmed dead in the quake. the number of dead and missing is expected to total about 220. police are trying to identify the remains of those recovered. a japanese rescue team along with teams from new zealand and china, continue search operations at the site of the collapsed ctv building. it housed a language school attended by international students, including japanese. a disas

gentlemen place eric said you know the united states should get out of the region ok eric if you don't mind i'll refine that a little bit maybe the united states it will save the region because it has been their business interest trade interests but the united states should be determining political outcomes islam do you agree with that statement i'm talking about the us know if oil oil is not a well developed terry we should not be defending the oil prices you are saying this or any other what is the idea in the middle east here i don't know that you know the military is going to go away should be abolished islam but i am actually i have got to you've got the floor go ahead sir i'd like to make two points first of all the oil business libya is not libya produces less than two percent of the world output so this is one thing this is really not about oil specially when we're talking about the united states had this conversation been about saudi arabia maybe the conversation would be different their interests here is really not the u.s. of course it would be about the united states would be to that let me. finish please this is about if we're spe

in a "washington post" op-ed article, he says, "the united states states spends $50 billion a year on automatic salary increases based on teacher seniority. but seniority seems to have no effect on student achievement." and he questions spending $15 billion a year on so-called salary bumps for teachers who get advanced degrees. he says such raises have almost no impact on achievement. the head of the nation's largest teachers union disagreed. >> i was a high school math teacher for 23 years. and i can guarantee you that what i took as part of my masters degree program in mathematics made a difference to me as a teacher. >> reporter: gates is even challenging the notion that smaller class size is better. he proposes that the best teachers actually take on more students, five or six more per class. and be paid more. so more children can benefit from what those teachers are doing right. and, of course, a lot of teachers are going to take issue with gates over that. they say that the more students in the classroom, the harder it is to each every child. but some parents may say, diane, as

question we really have to come back and look at is a question of process within the united states within the united states there's all this happened because barack obama goes to the security council and gets a resolution and the united states under the u.s. constitution the war powers are very carefully divided between congress and the united states and following not only the law but our historical practice the president has sold the case for going to war and no make no mistake about it that's what we're talking about here he sold the case to the american public gotten the support of the public and they've gotten congress' support what is happened to this effect forty eight hours ago we have the national security adviser saying the united states had no imperative because it is not about this we're going to have a civilian population we're not trying for it so that's why there's a massive. and i think that term is wrong and misleading to the people i think there's a lot left resonator here it's use that term i think there's a lot to be debated here but unfortunately that's all the time we have right now th

but i also think that the united states and president obama is mindful of this, cannot go into this alone. one, the united states have the same length in libya as it did in egypt. and also, again, as pat said, this is a european affair. if anything is going to be done, it's going to have to be done through the international community. it can be on led by the united states and it's going to be led by the europeans, and just one other word of caution as we saw happening in egypt. there are lots of things that are happening behind the scenes, out of the public view, that we don't know about yet. so while everyone is criticizing the president for not doing anything, i think down road we're going to hear about all sorts of things the administration has been doing behind the scenes to get a handle on the situation, to protect american lives on the ground, to protect not only american interests but european interests, because let's not forget, oil. >> okay, more moammar. >> moammar gaddafi spoke to the libyan people on thursday by telephone. his one-hour message was transmitted by libyan tv and rebroadcast on the al-ja

united states is our country. very rich culture of this diversified land, diversified population, this is our country. i am wondering what effect is this going to have when we see the united states states begin to for example speak spanish and english becomes a second language. how do we maintained our culture, how do we maintain the diversity and keep the land of the land of opportunity? >> i will go ahead. i think that as with most things i have experienced in life i think there is room and opportunity for everything. i don't think that one faint needs to be replaced completely by another. i think that in a civil -- in a country of educated people and of such advanced thinking it is definitely possible to continue being a country of immigrants where the rich languages of spanish and english can be spoken without the need of one to completely take over the other. it really does seem to me there's plenty of room when things are handled in a civil manner that there's room for diversity without the need to shadow or obliterate anything in particular. [applause] >> i sayre really agree with you. i also think tolerance is the word that comes to mind. we have to come to an understand

united states to continue to stand with us. i believe that iraq really matters to the united states. if the united states, god forbid loses the war in can stand, this will not be a major, long-term strategic blow. if the united states loses its objectives in iraq, i think that would be a fatal blow for the united states and the region and internationally. with that, i'll stop, and will be ready to answer questions. thank you very much. [applause] >> the ambassador does very much welcome questions. he had a wonderful afternoon fielding questions from students. please just wait for a microphone. there's one we will recognize here. then i will come back over. >> ambassador, i want to first thank you. i understand my own democracy better than i did before, which is humbling but very, very true. thank you. and i wonder if, as you talked about pluralism, the success with the kurds what your thoughts are in the short-term about sunni and shia pluralistic issues. >> thank you. this question of sunni-shia tensions was on forcefully played up by the americans instead of being played down. tradi

in favor of removing gadhafi because saddam hussein was a legitimate threat to the united states senate from united states us never threat to united he was having no weapons of mass destruction never even threatened to attack the united states nothing to do he was attacking united states every day come a no fly zone didn't the asking the united nations in american jets and there he jets were there maybe he was not attacking the united states at all come on you know i was a huge relief i was like you to pass the the fighter pilots in question they were being shot at why he doesn't fire my lesson so i'm going to go on my theory being before i think that is a mosaic arbitrary there beforehand it was saddam hussein a threat to the united states before we went to war well again there was a global intelligence and when you do that that turned out to be inaccurate i mean the great shadow is the answer what world are the facts the matter is i wouldn't be there six years later but i was there to do whatever they told us then they said five days five weeks five months that would be the max we're going to be a model

each child would be taught bad the united states is -- would be taught that the united states is the greatest nation in the world based on free enterprise capitalism. [applause] i remember i was green and i leave -- and naive. i introduced the bill and you just drop it in the clerk's box and it would work its way through the system. the next morning, ient inside the house chaers and every democrat had their lights on. they wanted to talk, everyone of them. i am sitting there this innocent baby. they would get up and said, speaking introduce this bill. the audacity to say that the united states is the u.n. challenged greatest nation in the world. he wants to get rid of multiculturalism. th took turns beating on me. i am sitting there thinking, what is this hyperventilation about? aren't these things true? i will go further. i believe god guided our founding fathers. he moved them around like men on a chess board to ship this nation. we need to defend and uphold what they did. it is not just to protect what we had. it is not just to declared that the shining cy on the hill has been achi

i very use the united states -- either you use the united states to coordinate, and you're running behind the united states, and if it is not the united states, and it is right that they should not do so because of the sensitivity of our public opinion, why should i stand against nato machinery being you? if indeed the political steering is in the hand of the coalition? you think the french to be the one to take cover from the united states? are we not committed enough already? this would mean that i would have to come up with a system that would compete with nato machinery. they would think that would make any sense? look they are military headquarters or we all presence in naples, italy -- the european country close to the mediterranean. why not use what is available? honestly, i do not see what kind of political problem that could give rise to. for us long as the coordination is and the hands of the coalition, i didn't get it. it is not nato forces protecting the civilians in libya. it is the coalition and in order to coordinate, since there were 60 planes flying in libyan skies, there

driving democracy you know i pay any district manager can i should pay any half the united states japan attacked the united states and then these historical references ok didn't attack the united states well . ok you know a lot of these countries are hotbed for terrorists you know and they're helping contribute to producing these terrorists and i think that the u.s. does have a self interest in protecting ourselves we don't want to you know foment more but it was a great. grant is the common weal know in iran for forty years the united states actually perpetuated terrorist groups developing in the greater middle east because of its policy don't you have it in reverse i do believe i do i blew do believe that the united states and its own self-interest which is entitle to protect has tried to pick and choose the least worse of a volatile situations and sometimes in hindsight you look back and you say you know i didn't really we didn't realize that you know these people's weight it would turn out the way they did and a lot of times it's a gamble but what are you going to do when you want to you know prevent another

they believe god is publishing united states -- the united states. the case was overturned on appeal. >>> the supreme court is planning to protest the laramie project. the churches website calls for a protest on friday. it chronicles commute to reaction to the slaying of matthew shepard in wyoming. >>> following some developing those were a bicyclist suffered severe injuries. the accident happened at the intersection of eighth avenue and judah street. a fire department dispatcher says that the victim was taken to san francisco general hospital. it appears the bus struck the bicyclist. >>> the san bruno fire chief appeared before a panel today. as carol hawn reports, he had no idea that a major pipeline ran to the city until after it exploded. >> we did not know that there was a transmission line through the city. >> the fire chief told investigators that prior to last september, pg&e was not open with information or specific training tips on how to deal with its gas pipeline. >> obviously the situation on september 9 was not something we could ever i

united states for our excessive spending. the european union has criticized the united states for our excessive spending. canada has done a lot better than the united states has in containing spending. the world is watching. what is the united states going to do? is it going to get its house in order like the other developed nations are working to do? have they made a national decision to reform their unsustainable actions or not? some say these $61 billion in cuts would hurt growth. i contend that absolutely is not so. in terms of the total government spending, we spend spend $3,500,000,000,000, $60 bi llion reduction in that spending total is not going to throw this economy into a -- a recession. indeed, what it would do would be send a message to the financial world that the american people have gotten it, that the congress has gotten it, and they are at last beginning to end the unsustainable trajectory that they -- this government is on. the idea that we can borrow money, pay interest on it and create jobs has not worked. if it were such a good idea, why don't we borrow three times as much and spread

united states. the emerging markets, the developing countries are improving credit, they have better balance sheets than the united states. brazil, for instance, has half the debt relative to gdp that the united states does. as does mexico. so these countrys are moving ahead, growing more strongly, and actually have better balance sheets than what we have here in the united states. so look outside the united states as well. >> bianca: interesting advice, and we'll be watching carefulfully to sew what you do with all that cash you have on the books. thanks, bill, for coming on the program. we've been speaking with william gross, pounder of pimco. >> tom: here are the stories in tonight's "n.b.r. newswheel." stocks stumbled on this two-year anniversary of the bull market. the dow and the s&p 500 were both off a point while the nasdaq lost 14. trading volume was lower on the n.y.s.e. but higher on the nasdaq. exxon's c.e.o. told investors there's plenty of oil to handle global demand, and he's not now worried about supply disruptions. but rex tillerson said higher gasoline prices could be a big problem for american consumer

pretty amazing stuff the nuclear power plants here in the united states here's a map of the united states first of all what is the n.r.c. say about this is this information by the way from the union of concerned scientists and in their findings they made to state a nuclear power plants continue to experience problems with safety related equipment and worker errors that increase the risk of damage to the reactor core and that's. to the employees of the public nuclear power plants continue to experience problems so what are these problems so let's look at a few of them is actually a fairly long list i'm just pulling five out. for example diable kannur diablo canyon california what's actually been going on there right here this is you know pacific gas and electric this from the n.r.c. or from the in you concerned scientists the n.r.c. by of the union of concerned scientists a misguided repair to valves that would not open fast enough preventer other key valves for opening tests after the valve repairs failed to detect the problem. then there were the reactor operator for nearly eighteen mont

united states. and the united states can actually shut up and don't talk about it. human rights is actually a very important issue, too important to have united states government involved. human rights issues in iran should be dealt with by you and the humans rights organizations and also countries that have a better record, especially countries in europe, scandinavia , have a much better basically track record on the issue of human rights and when they actually intervene in iran, they have been taken much more seriously. and iranians who cut families in jail nowadays actually find it more advisable to go to sweden or denmark and get those governments to intercede rather than to come to washington because they know washington is not what it's been. so i would argue that the best administration is actually to not get involved in issues in the reform movement is talking about encouraging for cell phones or twitter or whatever. these can be used by the governments to undermine reform. the second issue about sanctions . he came with great hopes of change. he had actually

in favor of removing gadhafi because saddam hussein was a legitimate threat to the united states or to the united states yes never threat to united he had no weapons of mass destruction never even threatened to attack the united states nothing to do he was attacking united states every day come a no fly zone without the blocking the united nations in american jets and an american troops were there maybe he was not attacking the united states at all c'mon you know i was a junior is i would like you to ask the the fighter pilots in question they were being shot at while we live in a fire and my lesson something i always i.d.r. a day i go for it is i think that is saying what was in our building area near beforehand and it was saddam hussein a threat to the united states before we went to war what again there was a global intelligence community that the turned out to be inaccurate i mean the great shadow is the answer what world the fact the matter is i wouldn't be there six years later but i wonder if you are never heard they told us then they said five days five weeks five months that would be the max we

in favor of removing gadhafi because saddam hussein was a legitimate threat to the united states of the united states yes never threat to united he had no weapons of mass destruction never even threatened to attack the united states nothing to do he was attacking united states every day come a no fly zone or provoking the united nations are going to american jets and there are contracts where there maybe he was not. attacking the united states that all outcome or no i would be doing really i would like you to ask the the fighter pilots in question they were being shot at why doesn't the fire my lesson somebody told me the area being built for it and i think that is a measure of our getting there in there before hand it was saddam hussein a threat to the united states before we went to war well again there was a global intelligence a plan to do that that turned out to be inaccurate i mean the british had no is the answer what what what probably the fact of the matter is i wouldn't be there six years later so i wonder if you are never what they told us then they said five days while we five months that