also with us from boston but having stepped off the plain from dublina daniel to be lynn a writer at emer son college. i want to start by reflecting back that those of you folks endeavored to reveal hidden histories of your family lives. we have spoken in advanced of today's conversation. it's clear to me you pursued the stories of your families histories for decades through genealogical work and writing and reflection. i'm wondering if can describe how you dot work you do and where the seeds of your curiousity, how they were planted and want compelled you to do this work. >> i would say that i was have much inspired since i lived in san francisco, california. we are a country of immigrants. in san francisco in particular, we have so many first generation americans. my husband is just became an american citizen a couple of months ago. i have friendlieds who are first generation from vietnam. palestine, israel. mexico, as i watch them struggling with their cultural identities and trying to maintain the identities and have the respect as the american citizens they are in this country,

now and joins us from boston. jean, welcome. you looked at a couple of these sorts of programs set up in particular since the obama surge began. these exist outside the formal afghan police and army structure. what was the thinking behind it? why do this? >> well, the thinking behind it was to increase the numbers of security forces as quickly as possible. and to try to get some handle on a situation that is deteriorating quite rapidly. they wanted to use the disaffection of that many communities feel towards the taliban, focus that and direct it in a form that has a chance of counteracting the insurgency. >> warner: let's look at the first one you looked at which was one in a province fairly close to kabul. the road between the two early last year was a no-go zone. marines went in there and also set up a local militia. how did it operate and what were the results? >> it operated by bringing about 1200 men into something called the afghan public protection program. or ap-3 for short. these men, many of whom had returned from wor

she joins us from boston. catherine mann, private sector hiring up but not very much, what does that tell you? >> well, you know, this is really a picture of a struggling economy. when su have job gains of maybe 10,000 in one sector or 10,000 in another sector, it's really not enough to put a dent in the amount of number of people of unemployed. s stated in the opening segment, you know, the only reason why the unemployment rate fell was because 650,000 people left the labor force. they're not even looking any more. so this really is not a good picture for the economy. you know, at this rate of job creation over the last six months, it would take us a decade to add back the jobs that were lost so far in this recession. >> you mentioned the various sectors, are there any bright spots? >> you have to look very hard. leisure and hospitality at 27,000 people employed. but you know, that's offset by 22,000 in construction having lost their jobs. a couple of sectors, businesses services and so forth, you know, in do

he joins us tonight from boston. harry, good to have you on this program. >> thank you for having me. tavis: having gone through the text, i understand it, for those who know the story, they understand why you would call the book "no one would listen," for those who don't know the back story on what you did to uncover bernie madoff's scandal, you called the book "no one would listen" why? >> because we had an 8 1/2 year journey, my team and i we crossed fourth continents. we turned them in repeatedly to the s.e.c. i never let the s.e.c. know i had a team tracking in the field tracking madoff. it was too dangerous of a case. tavis: when you say too dangerous, true that you slept with a gun sometimes because you thought that someone was going to get on to you and maybe harm you? >> after june 2002 when i went to europe and i saw the offshore nature of the funds, funds and i knew that madoff at that time, it was pretty clear to me, he was stealing from organized crime. if he was doing that, he had to be criminally insan

host: sebastian junger, author of the book "war" joins us from boston. e con kls a story about a platoon of soldiers who served in afghanistan's valley in 2007-2008. thank you for joining us. guest: my les pleasure. host: -- you write that the valley is the afghanistan of afghanistan. too remote to conquer, too poor to intimidate date and too aweton mouse to buy off. when the 10th mountain division rolled into the valley in 2006, they may have been the first military force to reach its southern end. share with us more perspective on this region we're talking about. >> well, it's a small, six-mile long valley. it served as a sort of weigh point on the trail from pakistan into comba bull during the mu gentleman ha deen days. the local population is very independent and very tough and the americans probably did as well as anyone has in terms of bringing outside influence into that valley that i was with the battle company of 150 men and they saw almost 500 fair to fights during the course of their deployments. host: and you're saying they grabbed their deer,

host: jill is joining us from boston where the nga meeting is wrapping up today. she has written for "usa today" among other publications, and now writes for politicsdaily.com. good morning, a caller from california. caller: good morning. i'm calling you from orange county which is heavily republican. i have been republican for many years, however, myself and my family as well as my brothers and sisters have been republicans, we're not going to be joining the democratic party. due to the fact that we have now come to the conclusion that the republican party has some about the latinos. they are completely against latinos. they have enacted laws, are not against the arizona laws, and are trying to portray latinas as the bandits of this country. they have totally degraded our society. i just cannot believe the way the republican party has been portraying the latinos, so we have to abandon the republican party. in this next election we will be democrats. i'm sorry that this happened, but we no longer believe in what the republicans have to say, really. host: jill? gue

susan is joining us from boston. do you support the idea? caller: i am reading about and watching michelle rhee. i think the d.c. schools were a grave situation where probably 80% of the teachers were functionally illiterate. they were destroying children's lives. with the support of the mayor and civic leaders, i don't think they had any other choice in this situation. host: tiffany is joining us from baltimore. you are an administrator. caller: i am a teacher. i think it is wonderful. i cannot wait until they get most of the teachers out of the d.c. public school system. i taught summer school last year there, second grade, and some of the comments, disparaging remarks, attitudes among the teachers and some of the other personnel in the school -- it is incredibly -- there is no positive way to even describe it. i agree with michelle rhee and everything she is trying to do. the d.c. public school system is bad from the top to the bottom and teachers need to be held accountable. i decided to step away from the classroom and i work with after

host: joining us from boston, mass., is dan mccue, the research analyst with the joint center for housingtudies at harvard. he is here to talk to was about the housing market and jobs. guest: good morning. host: tell us about this report is in that job growth will be a key factor in whether the real estate market can extend a recovery afttr the end of the federal home buyer tax credit. guest: first, let me tell you about the report. it is basically with the joint center here does every year to assemble, analyzed, and explain as much data as possible about housing over the past year. this year we -- it was hard to get away from the relationship between housing and the economy. part of our analyses we did for the report look into when housing turns around and what could signal it. one of it was the relationship with jobs. there is all lot of talk about employment being a lagging indicator of a turnaround. and a lot of talk about the housing market's being a leading indicator, so we want to see the relationship between them. when we laid out the data we saw that in the last few housing downt

host: joining us from boston is governor gary herbert.arlier by calling bob, -- earlier i called him bob, for that i apologize. welcome, sir. guest: thank you. good to be with you. host: what seems to be overarching priority at this year's governors association meeting? caller: there are a lot of issues that we are going through. health care is certainly on everyone's mind in the role of states in the new nationalized health care. different states have different perspectives. economic development. clearly everyone is concerned about jobs. we have a particular interest in utah regarding energy. that is on the mind of everyone because of the gulf oil spill. some of the corporate sponsors that are here have got their own agenda. wanting to talk about issues that pertain to them specifically. host: there was a report earlier this week in the examiner with the headline, immigration summit. how is this the same or different from what we find in arizona? guest: i think that the issues are similar in some ways and if there is a case regarding ill

> today, the national governors' association annual summer meeting -- please stand by joining us from boston is governor gary herbert. earlier by calling bob, -- earlier i called him bob, for that i apologize. welcome, sir. guest: thank you. good to be with you. host: what seems to be overarching priority at this year's governors association meeting? caller: there are a lot of issues that we are going through. health care is certainly on everyone's mind in the role of states in the new nationalized health care. different states have different perspectives. economic development. clearly everyone is concerned about jobs. we have a particular interest in utah regarding energy. that is on the mind of everyone because of the gulf oil spill. some of the corporate sponsors that are here have got their own agenda. wanting to talk about issues that pertain to them specifically. host: there was a report earlier this week in the examiner with the headline, immigration summit. how is this the same or different from what we find in arizona? guest: i think that the issues are similar in some ways and if t

demonstrated the race from start to finish beating poles sent us a boston to tell him so said musclesahead of the laws of the forest a forty eight laps before moving aside while the south finished ahead of overall championship leaders lewis hamilton and jenson button rushes without a big trough meanwhile earned one one for coming to town while he has more experience three notes he made all of it here but so was sadness mcclaren and red bull occupy the top four sports in the driver stable however with a loan so this now. if you are so very strong are sold for the team. top three in qualifying. and in the race you know the feeling as well as the make up keep improving. every soul down to the weather can these two and what do you know if you know about these i will performance from the team and hopefully next week in hungary we can i will do we can as well have been scoring some strong points for the team. now that's a cool don has done it again they twenty seven year old also now ride to securing his second straight and said korea victory in the two to france just as usual sunday's fina

once you go in boston latinos living off charity slammed the government for doing nothing to help the country recover from the financial meltdown leaving many to fend for themselves they used to be the fastest growing group in economy but suffered more than other member states from the recession. and now for part two of the all you want to show and there are reports that hip hop.

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people who live in boston know that this year for the first time they've gotten rid of their contract for liquid natural gas, liquefied natural gas, from areas that are very friendsly to us, some in the caribbean -- friendly to us, some in the caribbean, that's been done away witha and now contract for the next -- away with and now the contract for the next 20 years is with yenl. i know there are nice folks, there are nice folks from yemen, but they also happen to harbor terrorists. when people from guantanamo were released to yemen they ended up getting away and those terrorists are at large, maybe back here in the united states now. and another thing, of course today that occurred in addition to this massive appropriation, came out of committee, we find out the senate has voted to seppeds the so-called financial reform -- send the so-called financial reform bill to president for signature to become law. break mice heart. now, there's some things in there that are good reform rules and changes that needed to be done. but there are also poison pills in that bill. for example, the systemic risk council in which we have some federal unelected, unconfirmed by anybody in con