and he stood up and said he needed to know there would need to be more transparency about the united states was choosing the targets for these convert operations he was essentially told to mind his own business and he came back in november two thousand and ten with a thirty page report explaining exactly in what way no balls hold that thought hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on drones stay with r.t. . please . choose your language. according. to the consensus to. choose the opinions that you think great to. choose the stories get him to. choose access to. welcome back to crossfire we're all things are considered true mind you we're discussing obama's drone policy. ok david if i go back to you you know if there were any part of the memo talks about the inability to catch people ok i sense that they don't want to catch these people they want to kill them there's little there's no trial we don't have to show any proof no evidence it's very cynical you know my suspicion from the moment that they announced you know they lea

and he stood up and said he needed to know there would need to be more transparency about the united states was choosing the targets for these convert operations he was essentially told to mind his own business and he came back in november two thousand and ten with a thirty page report explaining exactly in what way no balls hold that thought hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and out for that short break we'll continue our discussion on drones stay with r.t. . there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty two percent of those patients i diagnosed with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to have a lot less h.v. a lot less human suffering. the. technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered. mission to teach. us. we're discussi

and he stood up and said he needed to know there would need to be more transparency about the united states was choosing the targets for these convert operations he was essentially told to mind his own business and he came back in november two thousand and ten with a thirty page report explaining exactly in what way no false hold that thought hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and out for that short break we'll continue our discussion on drones stay with our team. choose your language. without. the consent of. the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories go to. choose access to. are you pleased with. the. welcome back to crossfire we're all things are considered to remind you we're discussing obama's drone policy. ok david if i go back to you you know part of the memo talks about the inability to catch people ok i sense that they don't want to catch these people they want to kill them there's little there's no trial we don't have to show any proof no evidence it's very cynical you know my suspicion from the moment that they announced you know they leaked to the shows and

united states was moth balled. auctioned off. >> it was a great opportunity but a little bit sad at the same time. >> very sad. but i thought to myself if i and other collectors don't gather some of this material together and keep it it will be lost forever. this represents what a first class dining table would have liked like on the s.s. united states. >> reporter: by coincidence our colleague here at cbs producer charles howland happens to be a leading collector of s.s. united states memorabilia. >> this was was a chest of drawers that would have been in a state room. >> reporter: his apartment is a living shrine to her furnishings. >> these tables all had a propeller design. >> reporter: from cocktail tables to state room linens. you eat breathe and sleep this ship. >> yes. reporter: howland's ship shape rooms are a sight to behold. but he and the s.s. united states conservancy have grander designs in mind. they're searching for a final home port where she is be converted into a museum, hotel and conference cente

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and he stood up and said he needed to know there would need to be more transparency about the united states was choosing the targets for these convert operations he was essentially told to mind his own business and he came back in november two thousand and ten with a thirty page report explaining exactly in what way no balls hold that thought hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and out for that short break we'll continue our discussion on drones stay with our team. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else some other part of it and realized everything is. welcome to the big picture. at. least be told language. programs or documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world's hot spots the v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing story for you to. try. to. visit. please. welcome back to all things are considered. obama's drone policy. ok david if i go back to you you know part of the memo talks about the inability to catch people ok i sense that they don't want to catch these people they want to kill them there's

so i don't think this was a revolution as you pointed out just how proficient united states was in waging with a less proficient adversary. in the more philosophical and fundamental way that the ultimate goal of the conflict was a political goal so the military planning with the air war were designed with a traditional military conclusion which in truth was not revolutionary at all so i cannot see it in revolutionary affairs i do see we're running at a time by one to give him a chance to comment. >> as i alluded to the revolutionary of military affairs the something that came at the time goldwater nichols was passed to join the military and was all that was talked about back in the '80s and what it meant to me is finally, coming at a vietnam , we had thinkers in the military said said it worked through what it takes to wage war act of very high level using all the tools in the toolbox. navy, air force marines come a wide you have for airforce because we need them. the marines, nav, and marines, the airforce. [laughter] but when you're fighting you picked tools out of the tool box for what

. >> the united states was also instrumental in the french victory. >> reporter: it certainly was, the united states offered big military transport aircraft to bring french trucks and french soldiers here into mali, they also offered midair fueling for french planes, including fighter planes and going forward the united states is going to pledge more than $10 million to try and train up those malian troops so they can secure their own country in the months ahead. >> elizabeth palmer on the road from timbuktu. thank you, elizabeth. >> pelley: here at home negotiations are continuing this evening with the alabama man who is holding a five-year old boy hostage in an underground tornado bunker. the standoff in midland city is now in its fifth dayable and manuel bojorquez is there. >> police have shared few details about negotiations with jimmy lee dykes. they are speaking to him through a four-inch ventilation pipe connected to his underground shelter, his five-year old hostage has been identified only as ethan, dale county sheriff wally olson. >> he told us he has an electric heater and b

shocking. >> if i were a family member and one of my loved ones was killed at benghazi, i would be sick to my stomach. the president of the united states secretary of defense for 15 minutes, never talked to the secretary of state until after the attack was over, never made a phone call saying how close are we to help these people? where is chris stevens? what did he do when he was told the ambassador was missing? we've had one ambassador killed in the last 30 years? the president of the united states has to account for his leadership here and i intend it hold him accountable. thus far the white house has delayed, denied, deceived and stonewalled and this has to come to an end. he has to account for his leadership. >> sean: this was an eight-hour ordeal and as you pointed out they didn't send in any help and now learning they could have. what was the the time frame. wasn't it early right after the attack started and panetta talked to obama, and eight hours went by and didn't talk to obama once. >> he talked to president obama for 30 minutes around five o'clock in the afternoon, when the attack was about an hour old. our ambassador was m

university and he stood up and said he needed to know there need to be more transparency about the united states was choosing the targets for these convert operations he was essentially told to mind his own business and he came back in november two thousand and ten with a thirty page report explaining exactly in what way no balls hold that thought hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and out for that short break we'll continue our discussion on prone stay with our team. please. download the. application. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. else. technology innovation all the list developments from around russia we've got the future covered. me it is easy to. get in to. see. the for. the. wealthy british style. the tireless. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report on our. blog . go to alabama. law. book

bosnia was an easy call for the united states because this was a conflict at the heart of europe, one of america's core security interests, but also an economic one as well. >> the kind of physical and geopolitical disruptions that the war in the balkans was causing and the ripple effects that it was having throughout europe were politically dangerous, but economically as well. >> when nato, under a u.n. mandate, moved into libya in 2011 it showcased a renewed readiness to stand up for threatened populations. >> you had these extraordinarily dramatic sort of scenes playing out in the security council where you have the deputy ambassador of the libyan government essentially saying, you know, gaddafi is, is massacring people. you know, i mean, his own diplomats were saying "we need to take action to stop this guy." so, you know, that's not something that happens every day. it really changed the whole dynamics of the council, made something that seemed to be impossible, possible. >> i think, first and foremost, it showed us that nato can work and work fast. we had a u.n. security council

and he stood up and said he needed to know there would need to be more transparency but the united states was choosing the targets for these covered operations he was essentially told to mind his own business and he came back in november two thousand and ten with a thirty page report explaining exactly in what way no boats hold that thought hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and out for that short break we'll continue our discussion on drones stay with our team. please. speak your language or not at the. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news i want to turn to angles didn't story. here. the spanish find out more visit i too early to teach. the government no longer represents the belief. that people are going to take the terms. we. believe in the traditional. live. the way or. live . live. live. live live. live . the ceiling. is a. welcome back to crossfire we're all things are considered true mind you we're discussing obama's drone policy. ok david if i go back to you you know when a part of the memo talks about the inability to catch people

the united states was a nation in name only. it was pre state nations.t was new england, the middle states, and the south. each of them had one major city. philadelphia, the largest city in the nation, with all of 40,000 people. one of the things martha washington found not altogether to her liking was the fact she was uprooted from the agricultural, rural life she knew and had been poured into. -- born into. it is only the latest chapter of her sacrifice which, in its own way, you could argue it matches anything her husband sacrifice. >> that is true. she did not want to go to a city. she wanted to be home at mount vernon. but, she had to be there with her husband to do what her husband wanted to do. she gave it up. the thing that made her so very unhappy was to discover washington had decided with john adams that presidents cannot have a personal life. any entertainment, and the going to visit people, and having people in was a public act. they could not just go hang out with their friends or ask their friends over. that was for one year. the first yea

was also worried about the risk of drawing the united states into another military conflict. but it was questions over benghazi that led to the most heated moments with secretary panetta and general dempsey defending the administration's response to the deadly raid on the u.s. consulate. >> for you to testify that our posture would not allow a rapid response, our posture was not there because we didn't take into account the threats to that consulate. and that's why four americans died. >> we never received a request for support from the state department. which would have allowed us to put forces -- >> so it's the state department's fault? >> i'm not blaming the state department, i'm sure they had their own -- >> who would you blame? >> i stand by the report of the accountability review board. >> are you surprised that the president of the united states never called you, secretary panetta, and say, how's it going? >> you know, normally in these situations -- >> did he know the level of threat? >> let me finish the answer. we were deploying the forces, he knew we were deploying

>> look, there's no question in my mind the president of the united states was concerned about americann: oh, with all due respect, the president does not care for he is a cad and a scoundrel. [ laughter ] it's a plan as the alabaster tone in my creamy skin and as simple as my maid kicked in the head by a donkey. this president lies like all the other men who woo you with their lives and leave behind nothing but broken dreams and a torn cotton negligee you ordered special from a yankee catalog. [cheers and applause] [laughter] anyway, the point is he got his panetta testimony. so now the senate can finally go forward with hagel's confirmation and the c.i.a. directorship. the general business of the senate, cut to three days after panetta's testimony. >> i don't think we should allow brennan to go forward for the c.i.a. directorship, hagel to be confirmed as secretary of defense until the white house gives us an accounting. i want to know what our president did. what did he do as commander in chief? did he call anybody? >> jon: you said after panetta. hagel has nothing to do with benghaz

the united states was at war. ability to convert the american economy using the gnp information would be critical for our survival. our war program for the coming fiscal year will cost $56 billion or, in other words, more than half of the estimated annual national income. we shall produce 60,000 planes. we shall produce 45,000 tanks. we shall produce 55,000 anti-aircraft guns. we must convert every plant and tool to war production. when roosevelt led the country into world war ii, he depended heavily on the gnp framework to predict our military strength. the economy exploded during those four years. 17 million new jobs were created. the index of industrial production doubled. the gnp grew $75 billion. richard gill points out that estimates of gnp were helpful during the war. without knowing our real gnp, we could not have judged how much war production was possible. we needed to know how many goods would be left over for civilian consumption and what taxes the government would have to levy. look at our circular fl

there is not an individual in united states was watching this -- in the united states watching this program who cannot go back a few generations or several generations and find somebody in there family who came to the united states to better their lives and the lives of their families.it is important we recognize as we work on this problem, that we're dealing with individual people and a collective problem. both of those things should characterize not only what we say about the issue, but how we legislate about the issue as well. >> you laid out the idea that at one extreme, you have a pathway to citizenship. on the other, a path to deportation. -- mass deport ation. whatever the reasonable middle ground is, people fear that you would be creating a permanent underclass, people who will never be able to attain those rights afforded to the rest of us. >> no one is talking about creating a bar to citizenship. we have 20 million or more people who enter this country every year on various types of temporary visas, and no one says, now that they are here in a temporary visa, naturally they have a

military affairs so much as a vivid demonstration, as you point out, of just how proficient the united states wasging war especially against a less proficient adversary. but it also was military affairs in a more philosophical, fundamental way, and that is claus wits still has a vote here, and the ultimate goal of the conflict was a political goal and, therefore, the military planning and the air war being a classic case in point of this were designed with a traditional military conclusion which in truth was not revolutionary at all which was getting the enemy to do what you wanted. so in this sense i can't see it as a revolution in military affairs. i am getting a revolutionary sign from the back that we're out of time, but i do want to give the general -- >> yeah, let randy comment on this. >> well, as i alluded to, the revolutionary military affairs was something that was, had come at the time goldwater-nichols had just been passed that tried to jointify the military, and it was all, it was all that was talked about back in the '80s. it was this revolutionary, revolution of military affairs. a

was. kind of a you know a bad thing that the united states is just ignoring you know the ball is now in the court of this little island while the copyright left is now an official option to cash in on and to go hopes it might be able to negotiate a deal with the u.s. that is good for all before all ships have sailed and r.t. reporting from n t going barbuda in the caribbean. so that's it for me for the moment i'll be back with the team with more news for you in just under ten minutes from now stay with us if you can. i never knew adam lanza personally but i was in the same high school as adam he was younger than me just a little bit younger. i always thought he was different i always intercity funny he rarely talks and you don't he was a shy kid. i don't know of anyone who is friends with him i also don't know of anyone who is particularly mean to the what i do know is that it was very clear that this person was not like everybody else. can imagine the level of mental illness that would be present to murder show. america's hero so when you go on news there would be an american behind every

concern about this idea of china being attacked china against the world and that the united states was leading this global attack against china if we do look at the numbers though u.s. china relations have never been as as close as they are now in terms of capital flow from one side to the other in terms of people to people networking and ideas exchange this is not the cold war it is not the united states against china so i think that really needs to be highlighted and never has the white house declare that china is the enemy but at the same time of the washington is very concerned about is the military modernization of china and the the building up of arms by china that that is certainly something that is being considered seriously by washington and that is at the heart of the rebalancing towards towards the asia pacific region but again there is the threat of north korea there are other concerns it is a rear and it's also wants to the united states also wants to burden share its oversight of safety in the asia pacific region and it really wants to reconsider and re re define its alli

and she and the president made the decision that the united states was dramatically underinvested in asia. >> rose: and overinvested in the middle east. >> overinvested certainly in terms of our military efforts in the middle east. absolutely. and that it was going to be, in order to get the freedom of maneuver to reinvest in these places in the world that are really about the future of the world, and the future for u.s. interests, we needed to draw down these military, the military face of foreign policy in iraq and get on that path in afghanistan and reinvest tremendously in asia. secretary clinton's first trip as secretary of state was to asia. that's the first time a secretary of state has taken his or her first trip to asia since dean rusk in 1961. and from then on she just kept on pushing our efforts and our efforts in asia. you look at her work with as on. you look at her work on the south china sea. you look at her work with burma in terms of bringing burma not community of democracy, potentially. right? that's a good list of contributions. >> tom donilon national security adv

there's no question in my mine the president of the united states was concerned about american lives. >> well, with all due respect i don't believe that's a credible statement if he never called and ask ued you are we helping these people, what's happening to them. >> reporter: panetta also said he was helping those but president obama decided against it. >>> also on capitol hill hill john brennan was a key issue. brennan defended the program. he said drone strikes are used against targets that pose an imminent threat, not for retribution. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: protesters held up the start of john brennan's confirmation hearing. officers removed demonstrators upset over the u.s. drone strike program brennan helped manage. the president's pick for cia director then faced senators. lawmakers recently got a look at a see cent document explaining why the obama administration believes drone strikes can also target americans who joined with terrorist yoefrs seas. >> it's the idea of giving any president unfettered power to kill an american without checks and balances tha

was a very short lived phenomenon in the us. the average american it's hard to get americans interested in what happens outside the borders of the u.s. or the facts of what the united states government is actually doing abroad people weren't that interested it was a very very short period where we were a part of the worldwide active anti-war movement so to begin with we it's the united states is probable to really anyways since this is where the war machine chen aerated in this is really the mass of the protest needs to come from but it's not that's not typical in the way americans generally think they don't vote on the issue it's not a foreign policy is a high priority even when they do know about it or it's interesting that people are kind of preoccupied with domestic issues when really the state of our horrible economy is in part because of this perpetual war fare that we're waging so it is kind of this disconnect angela but you know i think a lot of people when they think of the antiwar movement at its best i think a vietnam really successfully bringing that war to an end but as we know i mean this was this global effort much bigger than that i mean of course that spa

one is that the principal strategic challenge that the united states had in the beginning of 2009 at the president obama's mad wartion was to restore the power, prestige and authory of the united states around the world. we h gone toughan this not a partisan comment but we had gone through an exhausting period of foreign policy in the eight year, seven years leading up to that. and it was essential for the country if we were going to pursue our interests and the projects we need to do going forward that we restore american prestige, power as and authority in the world and she was essential to that through tireless effort, working with leaders and with people around the world, really did restore u.s. prestige, power and authority in the world and reestablished the united states i think in a lot of plac in theworld as a leader. second, secretary clinton was a tireless advocate for restoring economic power for the united states. and her working on economic state craft, her commercial diplomacy, her really turning the state department and focus toward economics was really critical. third, the state department modernized unde

it was not published anywhere in the united states. he was about to withdraw from birmingham and a colossal failure but he was talked until one of the greenest risks in politics either if they don't retreat until you invite high school students can a junior high school students in elementary school students to demonstrate in birmingham. and there were in birmingham about whether he had lost his sanity. to lose a campaign like this, to create such tension, he was criticized by everybody from president kennedy on down. these are untimely, don't pay any attention. he took supremists can allow children to march and that's when they unleashed the dogs and this is the great tipping point psychologically for the united states because until that point, many people, including myself and alders said the race issue is troublesome aggregation is wrong, but it's somebody else's job to do something about it and i might write a petition or in my case wait until a good old and secure it dirty and do something about it and i turned around their seat wro

the united states was hit on 9/11. there's no doubt about it. completely out of the blue. one fine morning, as it were, and it has every right to be concerned and thus it has taken every kind of precaution, rightly, and has maintained that high level of security. its bam -- ambassadors were killed recently, we saw this diplomat killed in benghazi so we need to be concerned about it. at the same time the united states is more than just one aspect of its concerns about security. it represents something much bigger, and on the global stage, peter to me, at least, the united states symbolizes something i think very few countries symbolize and that is a vision of the world, a vision of society itself, which is different from other societies and that is essentially compromised when you have these killings which do not accept the normal processes of law, and end up by very often killing many, many more people than the so-called bad guys. >> host: ambassador akbar ahmed is a professor of islam studies here at american users, and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings instanc

concern about this idea of china being attacks china against the world and that the united states was leading this global attack against china if we do look at the numbers though u.s. china relations have never been as as close as they are now in terms of capital flow from one side to the other in terms of people to people networking and ideas exchange this is not the cold war it is not the united states against china so i think that really needs to be highlighted and never has the white house declare that china is the enemy but at the same time of the washington is very concerned about is the military modernization of china and the the building up of arms by china that that is certainly something that is being considered seriously by washington and that is the heart of the rebalancing towards towards the asia pacific region but again there is the threat of north korea there are other concerns it is a rear and it's also wants to the united states also wants to burden share its oversight of safety in the asia pacific region and it really wants to reconsider and really re define its all

was transport it to another spot -- by water, or a river. most of the first sewer systems were on the east coast of the united states, often in places that already had developed a citywide water supply system. sullivan: in 1630, boston was basically three mountains, there were very steep hills. waste would run down quickly and dump into the harbor. and the tide would carry most of it away. well, this worked well for a while. the problem was, as boston wanted to expand, it started filling in the mudflats. the water could come rushing down the hill, it would hit the flat area and slow down. at high tide, it couldn't get out at all. it got so bad that the city took over, 'cause the city has a responsibility to protect its citizens. boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well

the fact the united states was the world's biggest technology stealer to the entire 19 century didn't give a about partners and granted to people in the country who stole it. we're a nation of astonishing hypocrites i sent they need to come to grips with. it is a good way of starting conversation. the author himself to say why he wrote this book and what he hopes to achieve by doing so. hot act >> thank you, mark. so a few of my punchlines, but that's okay. i thought it would be useful to tell you a little bit about the book before people comment on the book. it would be strange if he didn't know background about it. first i will tell you briefly what the motivation was. the motivation is really that i can't think of any policy debate today in washington, which suffers from a more severe case of amnesia and discussions about order control, border policing, illicit trade trafficking of all sorts. the area have been working on for quite some time feels like you need to date not just years or decades, the centuries. this is bringing history back in if you will. the argument is really the

revolution of military affairs as a vivid demonstration as you pointed out on just how proficient the united states was in waging a war especially against a less proficient adversary but it was a more philosophical way and that is and the ultimate goal of the conflict was a political goal so there for the military planning involves both smart and some weapons and they were designed with a traditional military conclusion which in truth wasn't revolutionary at all which was getting the enemy to do what we wanted. so i can't see the revolutionary military affairs. i am getting a sign from the back. >> as i alluded to the revolutionary military affairs was something that had come at the time goldwater nichols had been passed that tried to join the military, and was all the was talked about back in the 80's it was this revolution of military affairs and what it meant to me is finally after coming out of vietnam we have thinkers in the military that had worked through what it took to wage war at a high level using all the tools in the toolbox. the army, navy but when someone says why you have the four air fo

>> there is no question in my mind a president of united states was concerned about american lives. >> with all due respect i now believe that is incredible statement you never called to ask are we helping these people, what is happening to them. >> dempsey admitted he had seen the august 16 cable that ambassador chris stevens wrote to the state department warning that benghazi could not sustain an attack. senator graham wanted to know why secretary fenton testified she never saw that. >> i did not know that. >> are you stunned? >> i would call myself surprised. >> senator mccain said the u.s. providing weapons to the opposition. >> do support the recommendation from the secretary of state clinton and then head of caa general pretoria's we provide weapons to the resistance in syria? did you support that? >> we did. >> last week in "new york times" reported clinton and betrayed us and asked the white house for permission to arm the syria and rebels and paul rand said it may have been involved moving weapons to syria through turkey. lou: thank you jennifer griffin. the senator breaux th