well. let me give you some background my library is thirty thousand books there's no john question it's either great literature or the state of the world for we are and so i've read a couple of thousand books on the environment i've studied history there's not one government on the planet i respect that clearly the value system if you watch t.v. is money and power over not power but power over this is what we're teaching young people they watch t.v. they they want money and power over they don't want humanism there's no humanism education on t.v. and so in studying those things we. and the the environmental environmentalists know that we are a very fragile species the reason i have no pessimism is i don't think it's too late with there will be a point if we don't change where we as a very fragile biological species will not survive in and this century will be that century that we decided thank you thank you very much for being with us in just a reminder that my guests here in the studio tod

wells. and we look forward to your remarks. >> good morning. chairman graham and chairman riley, thank you for your invitation to appear before you today. and bp was asked to give you a status update on our sub c collection efforts and our relief wells and i'm pleased to do so before i start, i want to echo some of your comments. this has been a tragic event. 11 men lost their life. some of them have worked in this industry as long as i have and some of them are the same age as my son. this is a difficult and everlasting memory. as you go out there and you see the oil on the gulf, it is not a pretty picture and we know it has had had tremendous impact on people's lives and livelihoods and that is also an emotion to deal with. but what you can assure you is b will bp and the men and women i'm working with every day are fully committed and are submitted to doing everything we can to stop the flow of oil to clean it up, to learn from this event and share our learning so that something like this

and the players are so realize that as well we have to change i watched. the chances of russia winning the next european championship in two years today are estimated as twenty one how much aiming to change these chances but in the coming to the first of all the priority is that we are qualifying. after that if you go to two tournament and there's always a focus from the national to the hole and if we go to one tournament like the world cup we have to try to become the world champion if we are qualifying for the tournament in green we have to go for the first place. mr first incarcerated first into the head of the russian football union and you're your friend as far as i know you worked in the need to get a digit when he became the head of the russian for bill union he said we're going to win the world cup in two thousand and eighteen most of the people in russia said he's crazy and he doesn't know a thing about football do you think he's crazy. because there's no senate when i arrive at senate he said we will become a major force in europe and at that. ze

good russian culture as well but for all of the reasons. they choose me the must be a reason for that because there's not only misrepresent to make that decision he probably has this was a result of people who are involved in football so probably thought now we need a foreign coach and need. a new russian coach you know the thing. that was pretty funny that they said let's cut the salary of the players because they're overpaid but but increase the bonuses do you think that they're literally were does more for club teams seems not for the national differently but this was speaking about club teams don't you consider a football player especially in russia to be overpaid all good players make good money not only in russia but also in broad so it is always the first answer they make too much money not only football but probably also in the television world i've got another question for from my website from a viewer what should be improved in the team's game what are the strong and the weak points in russia has seen the promise a little bit that

but sort of like everything with this whole deepwater horizon well, ally called the macondo well. nothing has gone quite according to plan. but you have to give the engineers credit that they have done several things here that were very complicated in the deep-sea. it is a mile below the surface. they are doing everything with robotic submersible, you know, using the robotic claws. they are-- they had to take off the old top of the well, the sort of jagged chimny that they had in place. they removed the old top hat. they put a whole new complex, 75 ton capping stack, they call it, put that on the well. last night they had a leak in part of that new stack. they had to take this choke valve back to the surface. then they had to replace it with a new one. they still had a problem. brought it back up, sent it back down again. finally today this afternoon, they got the well shut in. >> lehrer: and the point you make, it's hard for people to focus on this, that this is being done a mile down there. and with roboticsment and here somebody is working something and turned something today t

still plans to complete drilling a pair of relief wells to shoot mud and cement into the leaking well and block it off for good. thad allen said nay written statement that he was encouraged by this development but this isn't over. and now to joel achenbach of the "washington post", he's been covering this oil spill story for several weeks. joel, welcome. >> great to be here. >> lehrer: so as we speak right now, there finally is no oil going out into the water of the gulf of mexico? >> something went right. you know, this has been an incredibly difficult process. just for all of us to watch. i mean, this gusher, this black plum of oil has been a fixture on tv. i know people have told me they've had nightmares about it and at least for today, it's gone. i mean, the gusher is gone. the plum disappeared when they closed that choke line about-- it was at 3:25 p.m. eastern time today, 2:25 central that they shut it down. now we wait to see what the pressures show. >> lehrer: and the pressure could-- that's why we're still not out of the woods, right. the pressure could what, cause leaks fur

bring us up to date on the status of this well. >> well, the well is capped. it has been shut in.and we have our scientists reviewing this on a regular basis. there have been some bubbles. there has been some seeping. at this point they're not concerned. but we have directed b.p. to provide ongoing monitoring, seismic, other analytics that our scientists review. and if there isn't a problem we'll continue. if there is, obviously we'll have to move to containment which means bringing the vessels that can capture the oil back on to the site. >> woodruff: so for example the leak or seepage that was identified over the weekend, a few miles from the site, no concern about that? >> not at this point in time. but all of this is being watched very, very carefully. and we will continue to watch it until we're concern that there is no problem. again 24 hour approval for the cap to stay on to make sure that we're getting the kind of analysis, the kind of monitoring that our scientists need to make these determinations. >> woodruff: and same question about the bubbles around the site of the w

well well i said i was there can be certain all and the. well let me say that the reason right now that we still have this embargo in cuba the reason the united states has done this and continue this failed policy is because of the d.s. blood brothers in congress and because of ileana ross lane and when they want to get reelected they talk about being cubans and what castro in power and outcast in power mean to them and how we took away our houses and he took away our money and he took away our island and took away our land so it's very emotional and we're going to keep voting them in because they are cubans talking and singing our song however it is a failed policy and over sixty percent of the cuban americans actually in miami right now do not want the embargo and they want to retain change in cuba we all want to redeem change in cuba but they don't want the embargo they say let's stop fighting this old fight let's do something new because it is failed so we are slaves on the d.s. bill our brothers are actually singing the tune that their

wells. and we look forward to your remarks. >> good morning. chairman graham and chairman riley, thank you for your invitation to appear before you today. and bp was asked to give you a status update on our sub c collection efforts and our relief wells and i'm pleased to do so before i start, i want to echo some of your comments. this has been a tragic event. 11 men lost their life. some of them have worked in this industry as long as i have and some of them are the same age as my son. this is a difficult and everlasting memory. as you go out there and you see the oil on the gulf, it is not a pretty picture and we know it has had had tremendous impact on people's lives and livelihoods and that is also an emotion to deal with. but what you can assure you is b will bp and the men and women i'm working with every day are fully committed and are submitted to doing everything we can to stop the flow of oil to clean up, to learn from this event and share our learning so that something like this ne

well it's a joke because they call social security entitlement but. people paid into it it's you my money in other words if i go to the bank and i say i'd like to take the thousand dollars out that i deposited last week and they say well you're not entitled to your own title mitt and like whatever someone title mitt that's my money social security is owned by the people but the money into a slot in title meant that's a euphemism for oh we're abdicating our role is to do cherie stewards of the economy and instead of just going to give everybody on wall street a huge bonus levels to go pound sand it was the previous fed chairman alan greenspan who convince congress to raise the tax on workers so that towards their social security and that increased the pool it created a savings pool for the baby boom generation that everybody foresaw that this was going to be a big strain on the social security system and two and a half trillion dollars instead of saving it as they were supposed to. they use that to fund their wars and tax cuts for the rich that's just

>> well, it certainly is in order. and governors and state legislators have been doing a lot of that over the past few years. governors and their colleagues and the general assemblies have cut huge amounts of money. laid off employees as governor rendell noted, we've closed some welcome centres. we've cut hours at historic sites. we made cuts to all kinds of prompts and that's happening across the nation. but the sad irony of a recession is that when revenues are soft the demand for the safety net social services is even greater, so for the first couple of years after the end of the recession people aren't back to work. they don't have the resources to pay their families bills. and so we have to help them get through that difficult time. >> margaret a lot of thosecos that you referred to, and he is absolutely right, they are mandated. so for example if people are eligible to sign up for medicaid, we can't turn them away, nor should we. we have to pay for that. if the judges send additional prisoners to our state correc

that won't come until the relief wells are completed and the damaged well is plugged. but president obama called it a positive sign and when investors saw the gusher was gone, b.p.'s stock shot up, closing with a gain of more than 7.5%. mark strassmann is in houma, louisiana tonight. mark, we could almost hear the sigh of relief all the way up here. >> reporter: yes, you could, katie. but consider this. this is just really a promising start. every engineer with this operation says that this test really needs more time and also warns that at some point they may have to release some oil just to release some pressure on the well. even so, for gulf residents, they saw something today they've waited almost three months for: signs of hope emerging undersea. a mile under the sea, b.p.'s spill cam showed the usual thick plume of smoke start to get thinner. engineers were choking off the well's three valves, trapping all the oil inside before closing the new containment cap completely. this is the image gulf coast residents have waited 86 days to see: no leak at all. now they'l

at the same time, work continues on the relief wells, one of which could intersect the crippled well as early as next week. but all of that is contingent on the stacking cap holding. as big as a school bus, it may be leaking. apparently not seriously. that little bit of good news today offset by word that bp is selling off $7 billion in assets to help cover its liabilities in the gulf. at the same time, in hearings in new orleans today, the company also under fire by government panel for ignoring warnings about that critical blowout preventer that caused the disaster in the first place. ronald was a well site leader on the rig. >> suspend further drilling operations until the pod is operable. >> was that done at the deepwater horizon? >> well -- no, it wasn't. >> reporter: now, with those investigations, bp's financial woes and of course that urgent need to kill that well, there is now more trouble, potentially, on the horizon for bp. a possible tropical storm headed right for the gulf coast, maybe this weekend, diane. >> another storm on the way. well, matt, as you know, the high oc

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who is he doing well with and not doing well with? >> for the white house the worrisome thing is among independents he's down under 50%. we have him athe 47%. gallup has him at 48% among independents, the lowest he's ever had them. he is not doing well mooping white voters. 40%. he's doing well with younger voters. he's over 50% there. >> and always has. >> he did very well with them in november, but they don't tend to vote in midterm elections. he's up side down. older voters, he's lower. so all the sub groups that may be critical in november he's not doing well with. >> how do you think this may go? you're a scholar of these things. >> it's a little of all that, doyle, and you can pick whichever one you want and we know that congress is more unpopular than the president, but that's almost always true. if you look at presidential approve -- approval there is a fairly direct correlation with what happens in midterm elections. presidents over 60%, for example, tend to sometimes be able to defy the historical trends. george bush, he did

>> well, we did.ne of the primary lessons which was just discussed is that you have to attack the system as a whole, the network that implaces the weapons. putting more armor on vehicles, producing new vehicles such as the mine resistant ambush protected trucks we now have, using countermeasures such as electronic jamers. those are all good devices, that's good things to do to mitigate the damage to our troops. but they only protect at the point of attack. what you want to do is roll back the network because there's someone who finances these devices. there's someone who builds them. there is someone who implaces them. there is someone who hooks up the hires. there are other people who act as lookouts. and so there is a whole network behind these devices. and to roll that back you have to get out among the populace and you have to secure the battle space. >> suarez: todd bowers, when you try to peel the populace away from cooperation with the insurgents, can you protect them after that? can the united

well he has no i mean that consensus wasn't entirely. followed by everyone the consensus was around open more open economies and more open system countries that followed particularly an export oriented strategy south korea taiwan much of southeast asia and particularly china and now india have profited very well i think what's going to but the degrees of state involvement varied greatly within that consensus was more or less in force more on the poorer countries who are heavily dependent on the i.m.f. and world bank resources but i think what's going to change now is that the opportunities the system worked well when the west in particular the united states was an enormous consumer economy and export led growth paid off in very large terms we're going through a period now in the united states where we have to rethink if we can play that role anymore and even in europe there is going to be some concern about that and now i think one has to look at what are the strategies for countries and i think china is already beginning to look at that

as well, there should be. however, that will in the long term hopefully shorten the waiting time that individuals need to get their disability. however, in the short run, that could increase the waiting time because you have more people applying. so these rules need to be matched by an increase in the providers who are capable of doing evaluations as well as the treatment that these individuals deserve. >> brown: explain that a little bit more because i think i gather today the v.a. was suggesting that they don't think they will need more providers to implement all this. you think that is probably underestimating the problem? >> definitely far underestimating problem. the wait times are far too long for individuals to get the benefits they need. between the time that someone applies for a benefits and actually gets them can be six months, eight months or 18 months, excuse me. which is far too long. the v.a. even when ... has far too long to provide an adequate level of care. >> brown: how do you see this? >> v

well sean flynn i think. joining us now here. in fact it isn't very sorry about your joining us live from sorry about that that. now tell me you just mentioned about the fact that there are accusations being put forward against the u.s. government tell us what are you actually complaining about here. we are actually complaining about the fact that the unfortunately the obama administration is continuing some bush policies that they were going to threaten countries with trade sanctions for simply trying to make medicines more affordable to their people including in. the obama administration is kind of continued a bush era policy that actually created watch lists but it didn't feel like. you have a job. actually promised that he wouldn't do that do you know that during his election campaign exactly in fact exactly he in fact did that to me personally he put in his platform a promise that he was going to break the stranglehold of a couple of drug companies over the power of treatment but now we see a situation where they're continui

hot temperatures showing up well inland well into the 90s.riple digits as you enter in toward the center valley. the heat has been on for the past few days but there are signs that high pressure finally beginning to break up somewhat. as it weakens, we will see cool air begin to filter in along the coastline. sunshine squeezing into the coast. patches of fog there in the distance you can see. high pressure weakening and marine layer will deepen. here comes the fog and cooler weather. all right, if you're headed out this evening you're looking pretty good. you've got warm temperatures still inland. numbers running up easily through much of the evening in the 70s and upper 80s. clear skies inside the bay. little bit on the breezy side. not bad. nice and clear. up toward the coastline. couple of patches of fog. that's it. cool breeze blowing around the bay area. tomorrow still hot in spots well inland. mid-90s into antioch and brentwood. 80s and low 90s as you head else whereby. patchy fog trying to break up late in the day. just a few patches h

>> well, i hope so. we are -- we are rooting for the success of the american effort and of the iraqi effort to stabilize iraq. it went through a very difficult period. we want to see a peaceful middle east. we want to see a moderate middle east. i think there's a larger battle taking place between the forces of modernity and the forces of medievalism. i cannot describe this militancy that tries not merely to eradicate israel but to bring down any moderate government in the arab world and in the middle east. in a way, there's a -- this is the first time in my lifetime that the -- many of the arab governments and israel understand that there's a great -- a great foe that threatens all of us. and that is the basis of a broader understanding. i don't think peace should be merely forged by common dangers. it should be forged also by the benefits, the blessings of peace, economic blessings, the human blessings of every sort. but today, the context of a peace is made perhaps more likely and more possible becaus

and we did as well, which is complex in this community, we did as well have some tea party activity. the tea party endorsed a different candidate and then at least shortly after the election decided not to endorse the republican nominee. that's a very interesting race. the other one, of course, is congressman perry ello in the fifth district. he knocked off a long-term republican last time around. he is in what very similar circumstance having had i think six or seven republicans lined up to fight for his seat. those two are very interesting particularly in the second because congressman nye voted against the health care bill as a democrats. some democrats are very unhappy with him for that. i think the take on the part of trat gists was he thought it would help him with republicans. that may not be the case. >> ifill: one of the first things the president said today announcing his new budget chair was to talk about health care and defend the health care bill. listen, thank you all very much. john myers, julie philip and cathy lewis for providing us the intersection of the economy an

well it definitely seems like two different worlds here in washington d.c. where everything is booming and the rest of america where the recession is still very strong and people are indeed suffering tom thanks so much for joining us and slowly are coming up on tonight's show will have we do not mix one o one smaller california marijuana growers are up in arms over the possible masters of mass distribution of the once taboo drug so what will big distribution centers do for the mom pot marijuana shops we'll speak with an expert on the issue after the break. still to. get through the most news in. the. congress. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. well everybody knows by now about california's attempts to legalize marijuana through prop nineteen but there's a new twist to this story and see the u.s. patent and trademark office created an entirely new division for naming strains of medicinal marijuana so you can imagine dispensaries and growers all over were rushing to get their favorite s

>>> well worries. a leak in the capped oil well could be a sign of more trouble. but bp has a plan. >>> and a lockup. lindsay lohan becomes the latest star to serve time in just a few hours. >>> good morning. and thanks for being with us. for the first time, afghan leaders are setting a date when they will be ready to take over national security. >> the big announcement came just hours ago meeting of leaders from around the world, including the u.s. secretary of state. it was a meeting that was nearly interrupted by violence. >> nick schifrin is live in kabul this morning. >> reporter: a busy day. good morning, rob. good morning, vinita. afghan president, hamid karzai, has viewed the that his hope t security forces will be able to take control of security in the country in five years. but he never used the date 2014. that is now the date that he hopes that his police, his army, can take control of all 34 provinces across the country. that is a very ambitious goal. afghans here widely think of the police as corrupt. and the army here is not ready or large enough to

past milton friedman is a we're well past neo liberalism we're well past barack obama is a member barack obama is a chicago school trained economist to believe in milton friedman is a believer in. liberalism but we're well past that we're into why more republic hyper inflation currency collapses i'm actually on this according to the telegraph in the u.k. the biggest book by city bankers in the city of london this year they're all fighting to get in so much that there's so much demand for that is that seven hundred dollars now dying of money lessons of the great german and american inflation's which with the hyperinflation zone and the crises of the the great depression whether for of course from ben bernanke thank stacey herbert for being on the kaiser report thank you max already will be back with a scintillating interviews don't go away. welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to new york city and speak with michael kramer fund manager and financial writer michael welcome back to the kaiser report it's great to be back max and stacy thank you for having me all right michael th

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and they handled it quite well. i think they did win, you know, one of the prism awards because of that. and how would you let people in recovery know how important it is for them to get engaged and get involved? well, i think it has to be a story of hope and there is life after addiction. how i would get it is, you know, now that i'm sitting here thinking is i'm going to do it on intherooms.com, the mass membership of people in recovery to get involved and to watch these shows and to make comments and to respond to what they see right and to respond to what they see that's inaccurate. writers do listen to audience comments. so if viewers, you know, disagree or are concerned about something and they write to writers and producers, they talk to us all the time about the feedback they get. it is heard. that's really important. the other thing one recovering addict said to us, we had a panel discussion at the writers' guild in january and we brought together experts in recovery, people in recovery, and about 100 writer

i think that based on what they did this time, the material was handled well by the guardian and well by "the new york times" and i assume by derr spiegel as well. but wikileaks, to put raw information out without any kind of effort to protect sources or to guard legitimate secrets that's dangerous. >> david leigh, what about that? how much of a conflict do you see there is between your mission at the news organization, obviously, operating under different rules in great britain and those of an organization like wikileaks, which as alex jones said is to get everything out there? >> well, it's nice to hear that people recognize that the guardian and "the new york times" and derr spiegel went to a lot of efforts to make sure there were no legitimate secrets, we took out anything that might contain informants, and much of the rest of the stuff lost its tactical secrecy because it's several months ago. wikileaks were persuaded that the right thing for them to do, despite their purest ideology was to hold back a lot of files which they thought might contain dangerous material. sensitive ma

>> reporter: well, good morning.f you live in san francisco and report a nonviolent or non- emergency crime you may be surprised to see who shows up to investigate. it might be a civilian investigator instead of a uniformed police officer coming out in a patrol car like these. now the idea is part of a pilot program set to get underway here in san francisco next year. according to the san francisco chronicle police chief george gascon is backing the program saying it will allow officers to focus on dangerous crimes and crimes in progress as well ace giving crime victims better response times. the city's new budget includes funding to use civilian investigators to respond to none-violent and property crimes like burglaries and car break-ins. chief gascon has been contemplating using civilian investigators for five years now modeling it after a program already underway in the united kingdom but the idea is getting opposition in san francisco from the police officer's union. union leaders are worried that civilian ledde

as well. there are changes. there are some things that look like change but not really change as well. what we have to be doing is identify what is the real change and we have to decide how to cope with it. that is exactly what governments are around the world, i think, is doing, and our government in tokyo as well. i would like to talk about security area, economic area, and social issues, quickly. starting from security area. people say that after the cold war, and stability persists in the asia-pacific region. -- instability persists in the asia-pacific region. look at what happened to bo months ago. north korea sank south korea's ship, and also, we do not forget that only last year, the country has fired at a typo dong -- a taepodong missile at the country, and also, there was nuclear testing as well. so the situation is far from stable. china is our important partner. i have to say, those of us in japan to not know why they have to continue their military revitalization the budget has inc

so explain the opposition to the moratorium. >> well, we've had 42,000 wells over 60 years. this one major incident shouldn't shut down the petroleum that we need and also the jobs that gulf coast families need. there are new safety standards in place since this blowout. and i think they should give us a comfort level. the new endeavor that senator nelson spoke about should make him feel even better about resuming this. but the practical matter is our economy needs this oil. our gulf coast families need the jobs. and a moodies study just the other day said actually the economic devastation from the more for-- moratorium could be more than actually from the oil spill itself. >> brown: senator wicker, just to say with you, if not a moratorium what do you want to see from the federal government at this point. how heavy a hand. there's a lot of talk about what kind of regulation, what would you like to see? >> well, i support the new safety regulations. new regulations about different kind of cement, new regulations about the casing. and i think as a matter of fact, most of the

actor and activist danny glover is just as well known for his acting skills as for his activism taking on some of the most important political issues of our time and sometimes even getting into trouble for it well the actor joins me today to talk politics and pop culture anything he's so much for being here you went from you know making headlines about your films to making headlines about your political activities you know we solve danny glover arrested in washington d.c. danny glover arrested in maryland but you know most people know you as the actor you know the character a lot of different characters how do you sort of bring those two things together you're acting on your activism because you have said time and again that you consider yourself a cultural producer what do you mean by that well first of all the first thing i see myself is as a citizen. with a we think of myself as a citizen of the united states or more broadly as a citizen of the world this certainly there is certain responsibilities to that role that we played as citizens so i don't abdicate that responsibility just

and a pretty hot weekend, as well. so cool off at the coast. >> thank you. >>> silicon valley has been hit by a series of business burglaries these will be going on for several months. this is not really a crime- ridden area what you expect to see just a lot of office buildings and that is the target of these burglars. they are hitting at night, smashing windows, and grabbing whatever they can see electronics, laptops, monitors, flat screen tvs. this has been going on since february, seven six -- six or seven burglaries. this is the area in the east bay shore corridor in palo alto. near embarcadero road just east of highway 101 and then south to san antonio road. so that area of palo alto. but this has also been going on in neighboring cities. so what police are telling businesses right now is to hide everything away from windows. they might want to improve lighting and even hire private security guards has police investigate. the mercury news is reporting that they also have some blood evidence from one of the crime s

well yeah. and that's a real tragedy is that if it were news in their name and they're not presenting news saying any further ninety seven that would have been arguably illegal also the white house went out on the sea you know about a year ago you'll probably recall the fuel bomb administration seamlessly didn't invite fox to appear with you about was that were the case that was you know they were not going to give an interview and there's no reason why was pretty explicit they're not a news organization and now they you know it walked back from that watch as if it is a news organization it's actually the official or unofficial voice electronic voice of republican well that's what i want to know is what happened to the white house because you're right a year ago they didn't by fox news a year ago the obama administration came out criticizing fox news they had so much confidence and then all of a sudden they're completely backtracking and is it really are they scared of her of the can party are t