american international broadcasters do target china iran the middle east and other nations the voice of america and others but audiences are shrinking the baby jesus and others two thousand and ten showed that. one percent. listen to the voice of america in mandarin just a decade ago american and british outlets dominated the international broadcasting market. but today's multi-polar world is reflected in its broadcast from china and its well cut to russia. international news if you're watching. this new media landscape has top officials in washington worried that u.s. broadcasters are losing influence we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up the english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive critics say the diminishing audiences are the result of the u.s. desire to influence rather than inform they're going to try to go into these countries and probably try to bind is

station voice of america and al qaeda detainees are being scrutinized and interrogated at the u.s. naval base at guantanamo bay cuba only a select few american servicemen and u.s. officials have direct contact with the prisoners. u.s. officials insist the detainee are not tortured or subject to any cruel treatment during interrogation sessions in fact they say some interrogators go out of their way to make the captors feel comfortable hoping to coax information from them in an easygoing fashion. exactly right here the story could have ended if it wasn't for this man we saw in a public square in stockholm is marty's father and he had a feeling if things were not good at guantanamo. one two two four one eight forty two forty five degrees of heat locked up and chained and the day and night totally isolated not allowed to speak to see or to hear but mountings father didn't know that it was the other way around it was mad together with most of the other prisoners that had in fact decided to stop talking. rumor now was that it wasn't forty degrees one hundred going tandem or any more of

forty three years ago today bill what silence the voices of america's greatest civil rights leader and frankly one of our nation's greatest leaders period thankfully reverend dr martin luther king jr his message continued to live on as the march for social justice continued all across our nation but on this forty third anniversary of his death it's important to remember what dr king was doing on the day he died. he was standing up for the rights of workers to unionize the rights of sanitation workers in memphis have gone on strike. take a look at what dr king himself had to say on the mission. your automatic. you are reminding. you not only for this. bug you are reminded of amazed. that the product. you. to the skin this returning from under the sea starfish the way the the. sun breath so with a renewed effort to this panel labor unions across the nation isn't king's message not just on race relations but labor relations as well all the more poignant. well our waldron joins me now to speak on this issue is j.f.k. historian and co-wrote with me the book legacy of secrecy a long shadow o

cia daily intelligence briefing the president reagan and had become one of the leading voices of dissent in america speaking out against our unconstitutional foreign policy and the erosion of our civil liberties thank you so much for joining us now you were at an event where secretary of state hillary clinton was of all things talking about free speech in the middle east we have a clip from that let's play that. sound bite see can it last year. so this is america this is. what you. know. so ray. charles what you were doing there what were you trying to accomplish what happened well i was there to hear the speech actually as the george washington university but i got really turned off with a standing ovation and you know the offensive kind of. so i confess i'm sad so i can fancy that when greeted her so i took off my shirt and i had veterans for peace and my shirt turned my back and decided i would i would not have her get away thinking that everybody support or oppose your answer to the standing ovation yeah and so i stood but i didn't sit down and i had my back to where i was about twelve yards in

adding the voice of america $8 million, cutting out the mandarin service, which the chinese that has made we can have a pledge week and will pay for it, it's important to us. but we need to look at what is the role going to be, because i don't see any other alternative other than the journalism of public broadcasting, and maybe of two of the strongest newspapers. and it's not $450 billion. and i probably the only one in this environment saying we should be talking about tripling or quadrupling that amount of money so that the issues that the congress is trying to cope with are understood by the people that will have to vote and decide that. it's foolish, it's pound foolish to not to do that. >> okay. with that i think will have to bring this discussion to an end, and thank you so much to our wonderful panel for being here today. and we will be back in, let's say 10 minutes to continue the discussion on digital platforms. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible co

what the government should be cutting or what the government should be funding, cutting the voice of america, $8 million and cutting out the mandarin service, the chinese have now said, we will pay for it, it is so important to us. we need to look at what is the role going to be, because i don't see any alternative, other than the role of public broadcasting. and it is not $450 million. i will be the only one in this environment that will be saying we should be talking about quadrupling or tripping -- tripling this kind of money. so that the issues are understood by the people that will have to vote and decide that. it is foolish. it is pound foolish to not -- not to do that. >> i think we will have to bring this discussion to an end. that you so much to our wonderful panel for being here today. we will be back in 10 minutes to continue the discussion on digital platforms. thank you. [applause] >> tomorrow on "washington journal" at :45, harry holzer. at 8:30, mike glover. and donald ritchie talks about compromise in congress. >> live saturday, the white house correspondents annual black tie

listening to the voice of america, louis armstrong, listening to lionel hampton and all this stuff, jazz is a more comfortable aesthetic. it's not preaching war at you. german intellectuals told us they adapted jazz because it's a softer thing. i was in an elevator in belgium, and i got on the elevator, and the people were gloomy and depressed. as soon as armstrong came on, man, people lifted right up. so these are our weapons, these cultural -- this is how we influence the world. because people all over the world -- i went to jordan, they were playing hip-hop. in jordan. i mean, there was this thing that ignited, helped to ignite this thing against ghadafi called ghadafi-enough. it's a web site. this guy said he was inspired by hip-hop. you go to egypt. although the american newspapers made light of this, one of these kids was quoting langston hughes. what happens to a dream deferred? it dries up like a raise sin. kids in egypt. kids listening to hip-hop using hip-hop against these old men who don't want to give up power. so i think we've spent all this money in defense, maybe some of t

cutting the voice of america, cutting out the mandarin service. chinese have now said that maybe they could have a pledge week and pay for it. it is so important. what is the role going to be? i do not see any other alternative, other than the journalism that public broadcasting and maybe a few of the strongest newspapers can do. it's not $450 million. i am probably the only one that is saying that we should be tripling or quadrupling that amount of money. the issues that congress is trying to cook with are understood by the people that will have to vote and decide that. foolishlish, it's pound not to do that. >> ok. with that, i think we will have to bring this discussion to end an end. thank you so much to our wonderful panel. we will be back in 10 minutes to discount -- continue the discussion on daschle platforms. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> on a c-span this morning, virginia governor bob mcdonnell talks about the economy and state and federal bu

of america and we owe you a debt of gratitude. [applause] senator dement, thank you for your inspiring leadership. you are a clear voice common sense. there's not much of that in washington. thank you for coming tonight. we appreciate that as well. [applause] i am delighted to be here with the other potential candidates for 2012 -- michelle bachmann, my good friend mitt romney, herman cain, rick santorum, and the others. these are all wonderful people. we are on the same team because we have the same goal -- taking back this country and restoring america to its greatness again. [applause] the question before us is about jobs, the economy, and government spending. to answer that question we should talk to the people who provide the jobs in this country. when you do, they give you a clear answer all day every day. it is not that complicated. it is at this -- get the government off my back. [applause] it varies a little bit by industry, business, employer, or sector, but some are barry concerned about taxes being too high. others are concerned about regulation, the time, expense, and the late. they are worried about energ

in their prime in the music business looking to discover and mentor and ultimately find the voice of americanderstand it -- let's talk about the judges. you have serious judges. christina aguilera. >> the voice of the generation. she's fantastic. she's like mother hen on the show. adam levine from maroon 5, blake shelton and cee-lo green is having a heck of a year. they want to be a part of the show to offer the same advice they got on their way up to other people about being judgmental. they have competition amongst themselves because the four judges want to be the ones to find the voice. >> how do they pick them? >> they don't know anything when people walk out on the floor. if they get goosebumps, get moved by the performance they can turn around and see them. those are the blind auditions which start tonight. >> and they get the power -- >> the power shifts to the kid who's star struck. then he interviews them. why should i be on your team? what can you do for me? it's different from the other shows. it's great. >> we want to remind people it premieres tonight at 9:00/8:00 central. >> we

of america. if y are going to win in this space you have to begin to look at how to incorporate all these voices, you must to even play long term in this business so i believe over time you will see much more integration but i ink it's going to take -- it's the first move. who's going to be the first company? again i think nbc has done a good job in terms f increasing minority managers and employees and raising them throughout the company but i think we need more. anif you look at the other companies, there are very few companies that are really looking at this seriously to figure out how they are going to win long-rm. >> two things come to min the arab community in the u.s. right now there's a growing american comedians who started around 2003 and they perform a function very similar to a jewish comedian, and richard pryor and eddie murphy and chris rock facing head-on discrimination for comedynd arab-american communities sold-out a theater on broadway about four or five months ago it was the first time they managed to sell out a broadway theater and was a great moment, and soon after that we be

of strong local voice and that's why i'm supportive of it. and hope to move forward working with superintendent dean as the americas cup discussions go, but also as we protect critical species and endangered wildlife as well. thank you. president chiu: supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you. and i just want to acknowledge think a appreciate supervisor elsbernd's desire that we have collaborative relationship with the ggnra and i just want to be clear that i don't think both are mutually exclusive. when you have a partnership with another organization or another governmental entity, you can be very collaborative with that person and still -- or that entity a -- and still say when you think that that entity is doing something that is wrong. they're not inconsistent. and in fact the language of this resolution makes very clear that we can intend to continue to work with the ggnra and frankly before this resolution was introduced there was a very different dynamic in terms of ggnra's willingness to collaborate with the city. so i think this has been a very productive process and i have every confidence that we're all grown ups and everyon

>> hi, i particularly loved hearing you the voice of reason on air america. >> i thought you meant around our dinner table. [laughter] [laughter] >> i thought of myself. >> sure. [laughter] >> so is anything brewing, any chance that we can hear you again nationally on radio? >> it is possible. although there are -- there has been talk already with our publisher about doing another book. which i think i would like to do. i'd rather like the process and the whole rhythm, as opposed to the daily grind of the three hour show and temperament tally, i'm not as well suited to radio as i would be to something like this it seems to me. i'm not a yeller. there's a lot of that going on. they do the book tours and radio satellite, where you sit down on the phone and they keep throwing the host from this town and that town. we got to tampa, florida. the ted and jack show. you might want to avoid the ted and jack show, or at least ted. ted was -- i'm going to use some language that might offend some. i'm sorry. within one minute of getting me on the air, ted had called me on asshole, threatened to kick

cutting the "voice of america" $8 million and cutting out the mandarin service, which the chinese have said maybe we'll have a pledge week and we'll pay for it, it's so important to us, but we need to look at what is the because i don't see any other alternative and maybe a few of the strongest newspapers. and it's not $450 million. and i'm probably the only one in this environment that's saying we should be talking about tripp eling or quadruple ling that amount of money, so that the issues that the congress is trying to cook with are understood by the people that are going to have to vote and decide that. it's foolish, it's pound foolish to not -- not to do that. >> ok. well, i think we'll have to bring this discussion to an end. and thank you so much to our wonderful panel for being here today, and we will be back in, let's say, 10 minutes to continue the discussion on digital platform. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning substitute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> coming up on "the communicators," intel corporation vice pre

of? >> i think that there was a thing that happened in the 60's where there was a unity in this nation, in north america that the voicee spirit of the youth were so connected and the music really became the voice of that generation. and at this time in the 70's, that dream and that idea wasn't the same as what it was then. and you just had to look at it through a different lens. >> when you look back on that era, you've chosen in this project to be open, to be authentic, to be transparent about your own personal journey. >> the good, the bad, the ugly, the drugs, et cetera. why at this point in your life be so open about all of that? >> i'm not sure. that's one of the things about song writing that the creative path just takes you sometimes. you're not in charge all the time in doing this. and on this record, most of the time in writing these songs i would sit down and something would come and i would follow that and see what was around the next corner and what was around the next bend. and all of a sudden i would realize what i was writing about was revealing itself to me. that's where i was starting to feel what was

i am proud of the democrats and the voice that they lent on behalf of middle class america during these many days of discussion. we have an alternative plan that will grow jobs. this plan will reduce jobs by millions. i am proud of the efforts the democrats are making. let's not allow them to end medicare and go forward with this republican plan for a 2012 budget. thank you, everybody. >> let me just say that first of all i'm proud to stand with my democratic colleagues and with the ranking member chris van holland who did a wonderful job arguing the democratic case and saying that today was a sad day in our country, frankly. today the republicans made a statement that they were willing to break the social contract in our country. it is completely unacceptable to say that just because this does not impact you if you are 55 years and older to take the generation and throw them under the bus for everybody that is under 55, this is just unacceptable. if you take medicaid and put medicaid in the form of a block grant, we have states that are in crisis all across our country. if they had to

don't think that humanitarian aid is and sort of the principle of a voice has always been the family factor and foreign policy in america in the west there's a lot of branches however i do want to was whether whether or not we believe that this is not a coincidence of interests and if i can also personally what do you think the motivating factor was in order to go into libya. because i think it was a combination of factors the main one i think the main factor was a lack of clarity about what their posture was going to be in the arab spring in general and they wanted to position themselves in a position of being on the right side of history that corresponded with us also differently with unpopular forces right and but we do have to separate what i might want to happen as an individual person what i want isn't really the point i would have wanted maybe for a revolution at the very very beginning that very first day when they when people in benghazi faced the same kind of attack that the people in yemen faced. i think they did make their own choices. and guess their choice. is was ok don't we can argue that he wasn't going

voices instead of have full participation in the process. and i hope, mr. chairman, this is not an effort to silence voices of seniors in america because my understanding with regard to medicare, medicaid and social security, there separates underweight to cut benefits and i hope that this house -- willing to do the hearings that it takes to show the american people we're working for them, not against them. i yield back the balance of my time. >> mr. kind is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i went to thank you for your presence here today. your patience is appreciated and to echo what my colleagues in california said, you know, you may think this to be some kind of cruel april 1st joke colony before a congressional committee, but it really is him. whatever you are subjected to a prosecutorial congress committee is a serious matter and i think it's unfortunate he has i do want to describe in a modest on the other side, but the surface appears to be or may selective retribution or political retribution. there are many other organizations and individuals who could be sitting out there right now it's in the

india's new breed of middle class money rapidly rising generation spanners for finding business is booming. ten am in the russian capital you're watching r.t. with me or even josh america's voice for democracy in the arab states could see even spiral out of washington's control groups with radical islamic wings are lining up to fill the power vacuums which are emerging as artie's policy or reports ratifications for america's closest middle east ally could be huge. these gunmen mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher. education regime design is the enemy trying to stop us for interest in girls or but we always got the weapons we needed to fight the zionist enemy. and now they're getting more than they could ever hopeful but for me gyptian president hosni mubarak's being gone the borders couldn't be easier to get through to go the. whole world. who. have much more freedom to do whatever they like. and they doing it smuggling weapons into gaza the result two attacks in three months on a natural gas pipeline that supplies a quarter of israel's electricity which is why is the u.s. claims it's bringing a new tomorrow to egypt most israelis would rathe

voices instead of have full participation in the process. and i hope, mr. chairman, this is not an effort to silence voices of seniors in america because my understanding with regard to medicare, medicaid and social security, there separates underweight to cut benefits and i hope that this house -- willing to do the hearings that it takes to show the american people we're working for them, not against them. i yield back the balance of my time. >> mr. kind is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i went to thank you for your presence here today. your patience is appreciated and to echo what my colleagues in california said, you know, you may think this to be some kind of cruel april 1st joke colony before a congressional committee, but it really is him. whatever you are subjected to a prosecutorial congress committee is a serious matter and i think it's unfortunate he has i do want to describe in a modest on the other side, but the surface appears to be or may selective retribution or political retribution. there are many other organizations and individuals who could be sitting out there right now it's in the

americans who contributed to the victory of our current president is their voice not being heard what does anyone have a voice in this democracy because america doesn't matter how loud somebody yells and i mean letters the likes of a congressman or how much they complain very little can change what is set in motion by the nature of the political system which is simple it's of it's applied to dictatorship when certain powers very little anyone any of us can do and since the entire thing is is serving to corporate interests through taxation and everything else you see that the political corporate interest in what john perkins calls the corporatocracy this is the phenomenon that exists so the public is always going to be given the short end of the stick and always. has been since the divinity here nothing's really changed we live in a dance form of feudalism and nothing more in the past you pointed out the dangers of our massive debt problem here in america do you think that this is an issue that's just impossible to resolve even with the massive austerity measures that are being proposed measures or are abomination please try to be against the

frank sherry is the founder and executive director of america's voice.enior policy analyst at the center for immigration stud ystudies. frank i want to talk about these kids. one texas lawmaker called these babies, quote, terror babies. is there a national security concern about these babies born on u.s. soil to illegal parents? >> no. this is a imagined threat made up by the far right if somehow people are going to be born here and come back and attack us. there's no evidence of this. the real question is, what do we do about the fact we have 11 mm-h million people here without papers, emily's parents are established, rooted in their communities. do we try to get rid of all of them or find them to meet requirements and eventually become u.s. citizens? >> jessica, what do you think about these so-called terror babies as a lawmaker put it. is that the issue here? >> it already has been a problem. anwar al awlaki is a u.s. citizen simply because his parents were here on temporary visas, a long time ago and they took him back home and raised him abroad and

latin america will have a greater voice in our politics because they'll be a bigger part of our economics is as well. >> yes, absolutely right. the columbia free trade agreement is important not just economically but strategically. columbia is a great ally of the united states. it's ashame this free trade pack was languishing in the senate as long as it was. thanks goodness there's another outstanding trade agreement that should be moved on and that's the panama free trade agreement as well. but you're absolutely right about china. china and -- chavez is playing a central role, reaching out to the chinese and iranians and russians. their influence now is growing in latin america. >> can you specify -- am -- >> go ahead, you're fine. >> what is china precisely doing? isn't it building that railroad that is supposed to compete with the panama canal and want a port south? >> let's separate those if we can. in the case of panama to the good point because unlike columbia, panama is a service economy. it does not have the labor issues, doesn't have the baggage, it doesn't have the leftist upris

i am proud of the democrats and the voice bay led on behalf of middle-class america during the many daysussion. we have an alternative plan that would grow jobs. this will reduce jobs by millions. we cannot afford that kind of destruction on the economy. i am proud of everett that democrats are making. -- i am proud of the plan that democrats are making. thank you, everybody. >> let me just say that first of all, i am stand -- proud to stand with my colleagues, and the ranking member chris van hollen and saying that today was a sad day in our country. today the republicans made a statement that they were willing to break the social contract in our country. it is completely unacceptable to say that just because this does not impact you if you are 55 years and older, to take the generation and throw them under the bus for one that is under 55. this is just unacceptable. we have state senator and prices all across our country. if they had to deal with a plot granted the time of recession when unemployment is highest, that is when medicaid needs to be most flexible. it is unacceptable that m

then we faced the university campuses, the incarceration of the jena 6 and rising anti-islamic sentiment in america. the bsu create a student voice to be heard through social media and traditional protest methods. >> today the bsu has continued in that spirit of unifications. when faced with an antiaffirmative bake sale we felt while the first amendment guarantees the freedom of speech, it does not guarantee that all voices in the conversation are heard. in addition to holding a nonviolent educational protest, we facilitate the opposing size. disagreement can no longer divide. but it must always call us our collective american heritage. the past and present have shown us that campaigns are seasonal but hate is not and thus the tools to resist hate should not be either. it is not about reacting but rather proactive engagement of all parties regardless of race, creed, gender or sexual preference. >> the black student union of the george washington university pledges its commitment to the efforts of the stop the hate campaign. >> as the dr. martin luther king, jr., once said we are in an inescape web of destiny effects one affects a

latino immigration has changed the shape of what america looks like and it would be a real tragedy if the literary world fails to echo all of those american voices that are still waiting to be heard. once again going back to my work and the university, and those in turtle mental and emotional struggles that i mentioned, i have been doing that work professionally for 12 years now. personally always been an avid observer of human interactions so in essence i have been doing it the greater part of my life. when i say that i know what it looks like when someone feels disconnected, when they have no sense of belonging and can't find their place in the world is a very vivid image that comes to mind. unfortunately the heart wrenching consequences that can come of that feeling of disconnected this is also something that i have seen far too many times. my riding, both nonfiction and fiction both of which are based firmly on mike very real experiences as anwriting, both fiction both of which are based firmly on mike very real experiences as an immigrant it is my attempt to help people struggling to stay afloat. thank you for this opportunity to be here an

of the cosmopolitan islam or minority groups, speaking of a minority group, as a voice representing about 50% of the muslim population in americahich is the black american muslims, and also a native of washington d.c. here in the washington d.c. area, how do we, the u.s., speaking of the u.s. islamic relations, how do we as the u.s. reconcile sending a message of freedom, justice throughout not just libya but the muslim world in general, and not have voting rights here in the washington d.c. area? among the citizens of washington d.c.? thank you. >> thank you. [applause] do we have a third question to go in this round? this young man right here. and then you walk in kind of pick and choose. >> hi, i am a student at american university, a volunteer here. my question goes to anyone on the panel and it comes to the issue of cosmopolitan islam. with the distinguished gentleman on the board be willing to humor the idea that the problem is not so much in modernizing islam so much as organizing the way that we look at islam. for instance i remember the gentleman over here nabil fahmy brought forward the idea that in the west, the way