these are very prosperous times for us as a people and us as a nation. and the prosperity benefits the republican party. my favorite word. and you knew television coming. not everybody in america is happy. not everybody is content. you see, not everybody in america. the civil rights movement is the most important domestic movement in the second half of the 20th century. and the baby boomers in the 1950s. those folks grow up to be the flower children of the 1960s. yes, i'll share some stories. not everybody is happy and not everybody is content in the 1950s. those are all lectures for another day. questions that you have? >> who are some of the names? >> probably some of the names would be gardner. it's not just screen writers, but it was directors and producers all this was sort of hush-hush. to keep their jobs they wrote with assumed names because no one would hire them. it's a great story about survival. yes, ma'am. >> didn't the soviets -- [inaudible]. >> they did. in order to try to acquire that many personnel, they are forcing -- would probably be t

this hurt wall street, this hurt our military, this hurt us as a nation, it hurt our international friends were here with us; it had all these different impacts of all sorts. i think our resolve was stronger right after 9/11 than probably ever before. although we were uncertain, some were afraid; some people never ride airplanes anymore, it took five or six years for some businesses to recover from the impact of 9/11, but the resolve was always pretty clear, and i think that was felt throughout the majority of our population. >> joyce rumsfeld: facing the reality of what happened and then feeling the strength of the country and the... how together we were; i mean, that's a powerful feeling. for those in positions of responsibility, that is a gift, to receive that from your country. >> shortly after the attacks, the pentagon renovation team set forth on an ambitious plan to rebuild the pentagon in one year, a dramatic symbol of our national resolve and a visible reminder that america could not be defeated. but in time, our old divisions took hold again, and many of the flags were put away.

these are very prosperous times for us as a people, and us as a nation. and the prosperity benefits the republican party. my favorite word -- and you knew it was coming -- not everybody in america is happy. not everybody is content. you see not everybody in america is white. and the siecivil right movement the most important domestic movement in the second half of the century, that's the next topic for the next look chuectl. and the babyboomers, of the 50s. grow up to be the flower children of the 1960s. yes, i'll share some stories. not everybody is happy and not everybody is content in the 1950s. but those are all lectures for another day. questions that you have? [ inaudible question ] >> probably one of the most famous names of writers that -- that would be on the list would be ring lardner. but there is a list of -- not just, screen writers, but it was directors, producers. you know, all of this was sort of hush-hush. these folks sort of went underground and wrote to keep their jobs, they, they wrote with assumed names, because no one would hire them

analyze what's out there, if you want to understand what other people say about you as a company or about us as a nation, then speaking those languages but also understanding that language in the current context and the context of the culture is absolutely crucial. >> dr. godman? >> thank you, senator. dan mentioned in his testimony that language conveys values and sometimes it conceals intentions. and we need people skilled at understanding both. to me the same is true in the cybersecurity areas. the internet is an english-speaking world, a lot not exclusively, and it's being used by people with many different values and many different intentions. and so i think part of our recommendation in the task force to focus on this is to try to understand those people who are speaking english using the internet and have intentions that are very different than the ones we associate with simply sharing more information. >> thank you. dr. davidson, your testimony notes that there is a general lack of knowledge of how to develop and implement language training from early childhood, and you recommended using the k t

when they occur, they often revolve around the constitution with the rights that define us, as a nation have always been secured. first ten amendments to the constitution are known as the bill of rights. spell out personal rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to every american, including freedom of speech, religion and the press. right to petition the government, right to bear arms and the right to due process of law. most of the later amendments sought to explicitly extend rights, granted in the constitution itself to individual who's had been excluded from full participation in our democracy when the constitution was adopted in 1787. three post civil war amendments abolished slavery, made former slaves u.s. citizens and granted them the right to vote. the 19th amendment grant women the right to vote and another grant access to the ballot by 18-year-olds. we may view founding documents as timeless, but the government they envisioned and that we inherited was not inevitable. it required devotion of citizens like you and me. a national respect for the rule of law, and the wise exercis

billion dollars a lot of money but not so much in the grand scheme of things it's affordable to us as a nation people also have a lot of confidence that germany will repay their debts for example so german bonds right now only pay one point three six percent and the reason germany pays an even lower rate than we do is because last year when the republicans threaten to shut down the government over raising the borrowing cap on our national debt foreseen president obama to go along with slashing unemployment benefits our national debts bond rating was downgraded by one grade which pushed up the interest rates we pay the republicans bragged about this on their website a g.o.p. dot com pointing out last august right after it right after it happened that quote the downgrade hours after markets closed on friday is a first for the united states since it was granted a aaa rating in one nine hundred seventeen republicans also crowed on their website that obama's downgrade could push interest rates higher and further on subtle the economy. republicans forced a crisis and it hurt the american economy and

first is security as us as individuals as a nation. second is the intelligence with which we as a group, i mean, the broader use of the word intelligence, not just being informed, but allocating budgets, solving problems and then adaptable budges that the can move in a way that serves our interest. it doesn't feel that that is obviously where we are at this point. do you need to increase the level of awareness? that's your first goal it make people understand this better. what did you need it make people more aware of how dysfunctional this is so we can care for the problem and ultimately get more of what we all want? >> first of all, i think the tsa needs to tell the truth. and the fact that they kept coming out and saying these scanners might have caught this underwhere bomb, why don't they test it? i challenge them right now, test an underwear bomb and then show us the scans. . and show us whether or not they work. michael chernoff promised rapiscan in 2006 to purchase these machines. clearly there wasn't anything in place to make su

is something we are trying to do, whether there is something we are aiming to do for us as a whole, for us as a nationnize and value and take responsibility for how everybody does in the country, or whether we are just looking out for ourselves. it is an interesting question. it is a central query in what kind of nation we are. and in the midst of today's dumb, fake fight that we're having supposedly about campaign tactics, this important point keep comes up. >> this is part of the debate that we're going to be having in this election campaign, about how do we create an economy where everybody, from top to bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street, have a shot at success. and if they're working hard and they're acting responsibly, that they're able to live out the american dream. when you're president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot. and so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is, i knew how to make a lot of money for investors, then you're

what do you think this will mean for us as a nation? >> we are divided. plit about half and half. 53% of it supports it nationally. but as you said, this is the 30th state of 50 to place -- to pass a constructiontutional ban. between that and the fact that you have independent who are at about 57%, republicans -- >> in favor. >> of gay marriage. >> 22% in favor, i think it's that independent voter that you want to pay attention to. i think the other thing you have to remember is you have 4 battleground states that have bans in place, ohio virginia north carolina now. i think we've all got to watch the battleground states but accept the fact that we are still divided. >> this issue about the battleground states is important, donny. obviously north carolina is a pivotal state. do you think this decision in north carolina will dissuade the obama administration from moving forward? >> the obama administration is stuck in a bit of a quand rehere he can't continue to sit on the fence. the voters more than anything want leaders who say what they believe and stand

as a core element of u.s. national security. and not just as a tool of national security, but strategically as a part of how the u.s. government now thinks about the use of financial power and situation. and david is now leading as second undersecretary the office that is the vanguard of that strategy, of those tools. the vanguard of those global elements of influence that really put treasury at the center of the core. whether we're talking about iran and north korea, al-qaeda, transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, treasury not only has a seat at the table, but is often the center of debate as to what we're doing about those issues so i'm very happy to have david here with us to talk about the evolution of treasury's role and to get into some of the thorny issues that the u.s. is dealing with. so david, welcome. thank you, again. >> great to be here. >> david, one of the things i find fascinating is the fact that there's a lot of continuity in the evolution of these powers and efforts. you in fact were at the treasury department in 1999 through to the beginning of the bush administration. and then you've come back first as assistant secreta

would be a fine birthday present if we could figure out as a committee how we really advance of good, strong energy policy for this nation, using the ingenuity, just the opportunity that we have as a nation to build on all of our strengths. so thank you for that recognition. i would like to welcome mr. augustine to the committee here this morning, also mr. jenkins. it was a report on competitiveness, rising above the gathering storm, that serve as a foundation for legislation that passed by an overwhelming margin back in 2007. it would not surprise me if your work on energy innovation encapsulate in the report we are going to hear about today ultimately could lead to a similar result. i think most would agree it is time for us to renew a coherent, long-term approach to energy development, truly and all the above approach. innovation, of course, is absolutely at the core of that strategy. i think it is one of the few areas where the government can and should be providing greater funding. at the same time, i am aware that if we do decide to spend more on energy innovation, we will have to make some very difficult choices about th

us know that. you have seen the regulators backing off saying this is a very complex situation. they don't even know. i just think it's important for us as a nation and a nation that's gone through the crisis we've gone through to understand what is legitimate, what isn't legitimate. >> cnn's poppy harlow is outside of the shareholder meeting taking place in tampa, florida. does jamie dimon know if this trade violated the volcker rule? >> reporter: good morning to you, carol. jamie said he does not believe that this even would have violated the volcker rule which isn't in effect. it's still being written. because it is a "economic hedge." what does that mean? he means and bank believes they were offsetting risks in other parts of the bank by making this big bet. that is what bank lobbyists have pushed for to be included in the volcker rule. we'll see if it ends up in final rule when it's written. i will tell you i spoke with shareholder who was just walking into the meeting, i asked him what are you going to ask? what is important to you? is this $2 billion loss going to consume the meeting? he said it will but probably shouldn't. we're talking a

don't think any of us know that you have seen regulators backing off and saying that this is a very complex situation. they don't even know. i just think it's important for us as a nationcrisis we've gone through to understand what is legitimate, what isn't legitimate, and i'm really surprised that there's been such a pushback from the banking committee to have a hearing on this. it's something we all need to understand. >> you talk about the hearings. we know there are hearings that will involve federal reserve, the securities and exchange commission, treasury department. i want to play sound if i may, senator. this is sheila. she suggested to me the fed is part of this problem. >> i think the structure of the fed's regional banks is a real issue. the new york fed is the primary regulator of these large institutions. they have industry people sitting on boards and that's true with other regional banks. >> so do you think anything could have prevented this? do you agree with her? >> really, i don't think anything has happened here as it relates to regulatory capture or anything like that. i think there's a question. one of the authors of the volcker rule yesterday i un

that was a momentous occasion, and at the time governor romney congratulated the president, he congratulated our armed forces and our intelligence community. this brought us together as a nationad to see a year later the president use osama bin laden as the opportunity to issue a divisive and partisan political attack against his opponent. that was more than a bit unseemly. >> i want to ask you about, obviously, the big event here. your foreign policy spokesman rich grenell, he quit two weeks on the job. he's gone. he had come under fire, of course, as we're all aware now by conservative activists for the fact that he was gay. he had supported a u.n. gay rights resolution. the family research council president, tony perkins, was -- said he was glad. he said brian fisher, the radio host had attacked grenell. and he said, i quote, when he quit, this was a huge win. did he leave because he was gay? >> well, first let me correct you. he wasn't two weeks on the job. he was scheduled to start may 1 and of course we were disappointed that he chose to resign ahead of his start date. we tried to persuade him to stay. look, we hired rick because he was supremely qualified to serve as o

as a nation. here's some inspiring news for all of us. t exercise, so in case you were wondering why we're fat and all the rest it have as a nation, or obese, i guess, is the word, it's because we don't exercise along with, i suspect, a wide variety of other factors which are undiscussed at this point. at the end of the day -- i probably just said 50 things i shouldn't have said, susan, but the fact of the matter is -- i look at this as a cultural issue, much as the way we make decisions in our government, i see the cultural issue much as the way we make decisions in wait we run our companies. a culture that exercises is a culture that exercises. because of the culture -- >> it's a healthier culture and right now it's going to be based on -- we're looking at owe bosebose ty -- obesity rising. there is a sense of responsibility here. >> what happened to the culture? >> you used to do things in a different type of environment, the way we lived. >> karen, what happened to the gym class or whatever it is? >> i'll tell you what happened. budget

level of dialogue that calls to our lowest common demoninators and not things that will unify us as a nation he felt nauseated when he realize he had don't opposite of what the campaign sent him out there to do. if he was blasted by david axlerod who said it was wrong for him to criticize that message. the president said that's what his campaign was about and mayor booker has been trying to walk it back ever since. to the campaign trail. a new call to arms from the catholic church. you don't hear that very often. u.s. bishops asking for civil disobedience from the faithful. you also do not hear that very often. in protest of the president's healthcare law. with 68 million registered members. the catholic church can have considerable pull in this country. it sounds like what we saw when some priests and nuns protested the vietnam war and civil rights issues in the 60s. michael reagan is a devout catholic himself. i want to highlight it for our viewers. they are calling for what they are describing as a fortnight for freedom asking catholics to not only support these lawsuits that have between

the murder case supporting north korea's missile program and consequently, it's become time for us as a nation to look to our deterrent ability to take care of ourselves and work with our allies to make sure we are doing everything necessary to detour and be able to defend ourselves against any future belligerence or future threats from north korea and this is a reasonable amendment and conduct a study i hope my colleagues would support the amendment. i would oppose this amendment and urge the committee to do so with we take north during a very seriously we have substantial u.s. military presence and we've been working closely with the south korean military and is significantly increased their capabilities we are in no way assuming somehow north korea can be negotiated out of the alleged behavior. we are taking every step to be in the military position for that and i don't think there's any evidence that we are not taking the threat of north korea very seriously making sure we have adequate forces to deal with it. second, one of things in the committee will try to avoid doing and never seem to

deal, the budget control act is the law, it is signed and we have so many challenges ahead of us as a nation, we cannot afford to relitigate bipartisan deals every time members of the extreme end of the republican party make some noise at a meeting. but, mr. president, house republicans are not only trying to relitigate that budget control act, they want to pretend it never happened. as part of that deal, in addition to the $1 trillion in discretionary spending cuts, a joint select committee on deficit reduction was formed to reduce the deficit by at least an additional $1.2 trillion. in -- if that committee couldn't come to an agreement, the budget control act put in place automatic spending cuts, sequestration, which spread evenly across defense and nondefense spending. we all knew at the time that sequestration was not the ideal way to reduce spending but we wanted to have that in place so that painful cuts were prominent and would help both sides to come to a bipartisan compromise. mr. president, i was called on by the majority leader to cochair that committee with republican representat

as a very ineffective policing practice. it is sloppy, it is counting on guesswork. i think the notion that we as a community or we as a nation must use racial profiling to make ourselves secure or to sacrifice civil liberties is not only false, it reeks of hypocrisy. if we were truly worried about national security in a sense of compromising civil liberties, then it would make sense that we would also ask or those engaging in profiling would ask for the prohibition of firearms. we lose over -- we have left over 100,000 americans to gun violence since 9/11. that is more than we have lost in terrorism and the wars in afghanistan and iraq combined. yet, there is not this equal call for gun laws. i'm not suggesting that there should be. i'm offering that the idea of compromising civil rights for national security does not work. what is equally troubling with the idea of using race, national origin, or religion in the national security context, that it suggests the most powerful nation in the world. a nation that is equipped with law enforcement, national security experts second to none must rely on bias and guesswork to make ourselves se

as norman finkelstein indicated used to see israel as as a nation at war rather as a nation that was consistently being attacked by its neighbors but i think increasingly they're coming to a realization that israel is in fact a state that makes war on its neighbors that occupies its neighbors and is therefore incompatible with their old liberal values ok norman jump in here. fair time here daniel said that there is no evidence what's the evidence. oh you know it's very difficult in the short time to summarize a huge amount of poll data israeli jews as well as american jews are very very heavily polled but let's take the most recent poll about two months ago quite exhaustive poll was taken of american jews and one of the questions that was put to those who are sampled they were asked what is how do you see your jewish identity how do you identify your jewish identity about half of those surveyed said they see their jewish identity as being bound up with what they called social equality basic struggles for equality under the law quite surprisingly even to myself only twenty percent of

and indeed fine birthday present if we could figure out as a committee how we advance some good, strong energy policy for this nation usinge -- just the opportunity that we have as a nation to really build on all of our strengths. so thank you for that recognition. i'd like to welcome mr. augustine to the committee here this morning. also mr. jenkins, mr. zindler. it was your report on competitiveness, rising above the gathering storm that served as a foundation for legislation that passed by an overwhelming margin back in '07. it wouldn't surprise me if your work on energy innovation encapsulated in the report that we're going to hear about today ultimately could lead to a similar result. i think most would agree that it's time for us to renew a coherent, long-term approach to energy development truly in all of the above approach. innovation, of course, is absolutely at the core of that strategy. i think it's one of the few areas of where the government can and should be providing greater funding. at the same time, i'm aware that if we do decide to spend more on energy innovation we have to make very difficult choices ab

a grateful nation. as a country -- [applause] as the country, all of us should ask ourselves how we can help your shoulderalone. as we honor your mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, we have given -- who have given their last full measure of devotion to this country, we have to ask ourselves how we can support you and your families and give you some strength. one thing we can do is remember these heroes as you remember them. not just as a number or a name on a headstone, but as americans often far too young who were guided by an abiding love for their families, each other, and this country. we can remember the pilots who met his wife on an aircraft carrier. if anything happens to me, just know i am doing what i love. we can remember the former track star, always the first one into action, who quit his job as an accountant and joined the marines because he wanted to do something more meaningful with his life. we can remember brian kennedy, the lacrosse fanatic who told his father about the marines were some of the best men he had ever dealt with. they would be his friends forever. we can remember kenda

countdown the sun sees a surge of violence as a nato soldiers and a top afghan peace negotiator are killed in the lots three day the us coalition colleagues as foreign nations increasingly consider pulling out of a complex earlier than planned. because one of britain's queen elizabeth reportedly gets half a million dollars in financial support from a fugitive a russian oligarch and there are now questions over how bodies put his office in scatcherd was used and what he expects and returned to. syria says it's being targeted by terrorists alliance of al qaida on to foreign backed into groups as a jihad azour group at mit's there's days twin blasts in damascus that killed fifty five a series of deadly suicide bombings is deepening fears that extremists are driving the country's secretary that's up. next up andrew is here with the latest sports. thank you for joining me again and this is what is coming up over the next game in a frantic finish spotlights snatch the second and last champions league spot in t.s. garner a dramatic end to the russian football season. while the blue of manchester is celebrating out the city's big a p.r. three team to be crowned eng