points, the also raised some unpleasant issues and negative points. i enjoyed the freedom of expression and watched it. in those debates. and the fact that the islamic establishment has managed to go to the help of the people and help them to decide better. this is what i enjoyed. but the parts, the deficiency, made me sad. for supporters of the candidates, again, there are the negative actions that i mentioned. the supporters did not like those parts either. and it was done on both sides. here, at this friday prayers, on this platform, as part of the prayers, i should reveal the facts. both sides, both candidates, in the debates had their own problems and deficiencies, unfortunately. on one hand, there are the most current president of the country. even two or three months before the debates, their speeches were given to me, and i could see for myself, and there have been allegations and insults'. -- and insults. this was to a president of the country. they made wrong -- to him. they accused him of lying. this is no good. they fabricated some documen

the candid this kind of lost their temper during their they also raised some unpleasant issues and-points. -- and negative points. i sat and watched all of these debates. i enjoyed the freedom of expression and those debates. and the fact that the islamic establishment has managed to go to the help of the people and help them to decide better. this is what i enjoyed. but the parts, the deficiencies made me sad. for supporters of the candidates, those parts in which-aspects that i mentioned, supporters did not like those parts either. it was done on both sides. here on this platform, the sermon which is part of the prayers, i should reveal the facts. both sides, both candidates in these debates had their own problems and deficiencies unfortunately. on one hand, they were most explicit insults against the incumbent president of the country even two or three months before these debates. they had -- the speeches were given to me. i could see for myself and sometimes heard there have been allegations and insults to the president's of a country whose votes came from the people. then it wrong re

speaker, on unpleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from illinois -- i am pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from illinois. >> mr. speaker, i rise in response to be non-violent movement for social change in iran. the middle east is in need of a non-violent movement for social change, not only in iran, but also in the gaza strip, a non- violent movement in syria, a non-violent movement for social change. martin luther king once said that non-violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time. the need for man to over, oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. -- the need for mental over, oppression which a four-man to overcome -- foremen to overcome -- for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. this is not only in that country but also among nations, so today, mr. speaker, we rise in support of non violence in that movement. >> mr. speaker, we just have one additional speaker, and i would like to call on behalf of the resolution, and member of the foreign affairs com

and the problem is that "a" it was flawed going in and "b" refuted by the unpleasant experience of trying to put iraq back on its feet. colin powell said on the eve of invasion of iraq, remember the pottery rule, if you break it, you own it. and we owned it for years. host: what is the state today? guest: iraq, so far so good. there are unresolved questions, the kurds in the north are essentially an independent country, they have their own flag and passports and oil. and the question is will iraq tolerate this session there. and second, once the united states is gone will the bitterness that's prevailed for generations continue to subside? or will be a resurgence of it? i don't know. host: cape coral, this is bill, democratic line. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. mr. will, i understand you have a vast amount of knowledge of this world. personally i consider you one of the vanguards of the party of no. you have a lot of proposals for the administration all the time. but i have never heard you seek a solution. now just like the house yesterday and the senate came up with

[unintelligible] >> has she had any unpleasant experience in germany as an african-american woman in the '80s? how long do we have to wait? [laughter] if this is a commitment, i would like that very much. >> we will have to talk about it. >> my second question is addressed to you on climate policy between the house of representatives and the senate. how optimistic are you that the more stringent rules will be successful? what will be the consequence of that if they are unable to do that. have you received a reply to this? >> first of all, in terms of my emotional maps, the times that i have visited germany have been extraordinary. i have had a wonderful time. and the people of germany have received me with great warmth and affection. keep in mind that i visited germany even before was elected president, and we had a pretty good rally in berlin. it wasn't bad. i will always have a warm spot in my heart for germany, in part because of the response and the reaction that i received from the german people. i will tell you that part of the warfield for germany is because i like the chancel

it is also something that can bring us into very unpleasant political dependencies. it is good to look at new technology. you want to deal with it responsibly and economically. it is something that i have come out very strongly in favor of. let me say something about the but "dreams for my father," she is telling us about our impressions. on the one hand, she describes as a country where each and everyone needs to fend for his or herself. there is not a big sort of community, a sort of family network that protects you. as you go on throughout the book, it was also something good, maybe. it strengthens people's on awareness of their own self and their own responsibility. i think it is important to look at this. on the one hand, we accept the way that we live is very tough. on the other hand, we should perhaps address how certain things can be dealt with more efficiently. it was, for me, a very enriching experience reading the book. >> thank you very much, everybody. host[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellit

officer, i can tell you the toughest briefing you ever have to give is the one that contains "the unpleasant fact." let me lay out a challenge i think you are have. you are choosing to live in the nexus of the world as it is. is your job to report on that and reflect that. then there is the world that the policy-maker wants it to be. you have to be relevant to both. if you are not relevant to that policy-maker, your sound is just noise and not wisdom. in the relevance to the policy- maker, you still have to maintain that autonomy. you have to describe the world as it truly exists. it is not always easy. it involves telling a president that the strategy in iraq is not working in the summer of 2006. it involves telling the congress in the spring of 2009 that the techniques actually did work. it is tough work, but it is very rewarding. as you go into the agency in the marble hall that has become the iconic image of the cia, off to the left there is a quotation from the scriptures of saint john. "you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." that is your task. i envy your future.

without some restraint on healthcare spending, the choices that faced us were quite unpleasant.sharply higher taxes, deep cuts in nonhealth programs or budget deficits that would begin to balloon and at some point would explode. no one paid much attention to these dire warnings isn't surprising. we had a president who had no real interest in pushing for fundamental health reform and a deficit that while unsustainable in the long run appeared to be on the right path in the short run. from 2004 until the economy tanked in 2008, the deficit was coming down. and people tend to forget this. by 2007, it reached a mere $180 billion or 1.2% of g.d.p., which is a lower figure than any that was experienced in the 22 years between 1975 and 1996. that the budget wonks were predicting fiscal disaster in 15, 20, 30 years fell on deaf ears, of course, because the long run that counts in washington is the number of years until the next election. by this measure, the wolf wasn't anywhere near the door and the economy, while it wasn't great, was certainly okay. of course, the last year has seen a

we have nobody that will buy them that is a very unpleasant feeling. but this is why one must me cautious in terms of real estate but again in terms of refinancing real-estate cbn is on our crew be said i lowered my monthly expenses by $800 to refinance the mortgage and got an extraordinarily good rate and a nice package that worked well for him. he is not going anywhere for the rest of his life he will not sell the house and for him it is wonderful. if somebody is going to move in one month or one year or two years and may not be a good deal. all of this is here in the book "right on the money" and some of the chapters i would like to read to you just to show you what is here but first it says why aren't i rich. [laughter] and the second one says why do i run out of money and the one says where do i get credit where credit is due? what's my score? what is my road map to 12? what is my engine to 12? what if i don't like risks? mutual funds and exchange traded fund options and futures? will i be a homeowner should prepay my mortgagor refi my mortgage? h

because they teach global feminisms now and terrorists are freedom fighters, and if they resort to unpleasant tactics, it's because the oppressors, that's because the united states and israel, force them to do so. that's the curriculum today how did it get that way? well, one of the pioneer and most important women's studies departments, which is now called the department of feminist studies at the university of california santa cruz, was architected by a woman named t batina, who spent nearly 20 years on the american communist party. i actually took a force with her father at a communist party school in the 1950's, pretty well known figure, batina was a lifelong political activist with a very, very narrow intellectual horizon. she wasn't even aware, she operated out of berkeley, which was a cornucopia of left wing theater of all kind. she was not even aware of non-communist left wing thinkers. by her own accounts. she's written an autobiography, which is how i know what i'm about to tell you. she was given -- when she was a graduate student, the interlocks to women's studies course at santa

you will see spam, too, some of the of a rather unpleasant nature. there, and list the help of your community, but count on a lot of personal engagement for a long time. i do suspect we have a better mix of anonymity and identity on the net, that will be easier to deal with, but i am committed to this stuff but only as long as i live. >> i want to probe on that, because there is a strain of thinking in this community that highly prizes anonymity, and i think on craigslist, you have come to the conclusion that sometimes, identifying people helps the community to be better, and you have talked about how sometimes you want to do that. talk about where people should be identified, where should blogs be kept, so, i assume, you can point the finger at people to be a badly -- where should logs be kept. >> this speaks to my dual role in my eighth day job, -- in my day job. the privacy and bill of rights issues. dating back -- i think i've found a bug in the phone, but this goes back to a civics class, where he introduced this thing called the bill of rights,

there are women who circumcise their sons, who use dispose nl diapers who are smug, snarky and unpleasant. i may be one of them. but there seems to be a particular brand of sarnt moanny practiced by those who choose to exclusively breast-feed, use a family bed and wear their babies in slings. proponents of attachment parenting wean their babies as late as possible. that baby is so disgusted with me. i know, it's terrible. you're so lucky. think of it that way. [laughter] there are eight principles of attachment parenting developed by dr. william serious, but they are, frankly, too dull to enumerate. i have been informed by at least one attachment parenting adherent and not as the punch line of a joke that a baby's body should be in constant contact with one of her parents for her entire first year of life. anything less is child abuse. now, look, i know of course the majority of devotees are marvelous, generous people whose sole interest lies in doing the best they can to raise contented, secure children. don't you dare go, that baby is providing that right sound effects. but why are ther

they do create a kind of on comfortable and unpleasant self restraint and that is perhaps not necessarily the worst about comes in a region that is very dynamic and unpredictable and prone to violence. this is not an overwhelmingly optimistic prognosis but does suggest there are options for the united states and the first option is to explore what is feasible regarding an outcome with which we can comfortably live and that is an of arrangement whereby iran is induced to become a more active member of the international community and is given greater opportunity for its own national development and it is induced to operate in the climate which is owned fanaticism and nationalism becomes less extremist and as a consequence of which also iran becomes a partner in more diversified set of of arrangements regarding distribution of energy in europe and asia from which to some extent iran is excluded by virtue of the ongoing conflict that would be beneficial to the europeans. so there are great stakes involved and i think the president has made a commitment in his speech to pursue something along

capers too and he was, he talked about, he said he just got mud this one time and it was a pretty unpleasanterience. he said if it would have been studs terkel, and the guy had tried to mug him, he would probably with out his taperecorder and tried to interview him. [laughter] >> studs got burglar after i did died. >> he invites the burglar in. [laughter] i have got $8, that is all i have got. why do you want to rob anybody? and then they played this line on the door after the taping that would have scared nobody. it is like, dog insider something. [laughter] >> and there is a dog bowl. >> a dog ball outside. >> there is never any water and grass growing out of it. but, remember he always used to say i have been a victim of a hostile takeover. [laughter] >> i think you sense in this book, and just saying it brought to life in this graphic way just tells me and i know you know this paul, and i think you too harvey that he was as engaged with life, of meaning life and other people as any human being i have ever met him into his 90s. until hours before he died. i want to know from all three of

they are to be congratulated for its careful research ton an unpleasant but absolutely necessary subject, the ugly facts that the report documents makes for painful reading. in 2008, they noted 1,352 reported incidents of vandalism, harassment, and physical assaults on jewish people or jewish-owned property nationwide. sadly and shamefully my own state of new jersey had more reported anti-semitic incidents, 238, than any other state in the union. the attack on the holocaust museum is the most ominous aspect of this evil wave we have seen world wye and in our own con-- worldwide and in our own country. the holocaust museum is a unique institution. it is a memorial, a center of holocaust scholarship and promoter of tolerance. it is a very powerful symbol of the sol late of america for those murdered in the holocaust and with the jewish people as well. mr. speaker, at this critical moment we need government officials at all levels to denounce without hesitation or delay every anti-semitic act wherever and whenever it occurs. no exceptions. at this moment not to speak out enables the purveyo

the bottom line of which i think of all the flaws and unpleasant ways of raising significant amount ofrevenue, this might be the most acceptable, but it is a very complex issue because in addition to expensive plans being ones that are more generous than cheaper plans, as mark suggested, there is this issue of geography that it cost a whole lot more for the same plan, for the same person in miami than in minneapolis. but also within a single area, the cause very significantly by the size of the plan. and by the risk factors associated with the covered individuals. a hundred person plan would average age was 50 cost a whole lot more than many average age is 25. in thinking about how you can moderate those perceived inequities i think is important. but then there's another dimension which people haven't talked about very much your and that is that this could have a negative effect on the social solidarity that occurs within a firm. we have categories of insurance in this country, worker only, worker plus kid, family. and nobody really cares a lot about that in the firm because they perce

you know, and at the time i worked for bill clinton that was part of the -- >> host: it was the unpleasantnessn our house. >> guest: i worked at bill clinton who changed his own party. he made it more mainstream party which, you know, we were part of. james was part of as well. not just that election. it was something that brought me to him, you know, it's what i was working on and it's what bill clinton was working on and i thought, you know, in a lifetime -- you know, making the party electable in the south and ultimately nationally. and so there was a political project at the core and probably what i do when it's working for leaders who have a purpose. >> host: let's go specifically to polling, which is on its face neutral. it's numbers. it's the gathering of data and you go through in the book, if we can do a little tutorial on the polling profession in gallup it was a great tool. and i -- i still think and the work we still do, i don't do at your level, it's a way to have a dialog with people. and i understand the other side of your argument which you raise repeatedly in the case of these