here in the poorest country in the western hemisphere twenty five percent of children are chronically malnourished. reduced to eating mud cakes made from dirt salt vegetable shortening in filthy water to curb their hunger pangs unfortunately we can't simply put our wasted food on a boat and feed haiti. and that's not what haiti needs to become whole again. but the contrast of our excess and their lack exist side by side as with the needy and marginalized in our own wealthy country if nothing more it is an unsettling reality that calls into question our flippancy with food waste. and in spite of the complexities around in food production consumption and waste we can no doubt eliminate both food waste and hunger in the united states as a start while looking more seriously at the dire needs of neighbors around the globe. hungry for the full story we've got in first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. i'm.

in the western hemisphere.there are always challenges of intent to have a trade deal. in the 1990's, they try to put a free-trade agreement with the americas, which was basically an extension of the north american free trade agreement that includes canada and mexico, and a united states now has a bundle of agreements with chile, and columbia, which i think congress is supposed to ratify. with brazil, there is a different scenario because it is part of a customs union, the common market of the south along with argentina, paraguay, and hear a glide along with -- year ago why, along with venezuela. it is somewhat similar to the european union. they do not have specific trade deals. they have an issue-by-issue our arrangement with the united states appeared in the case of brazil, there is -- . united states. in the case of brazil, there is intense trade, but in terms of a major comprehensive trade deal, there is not one. but, it has been one of the major priorities in the u.s. and brazil's administration during the

this is the western hemisphere, and this is hurricane irene, which looks from that picture like it could swallow the eastern seaboard. it's a big storm. as we told you yesterday, its reach extends 250 miles in every direction. the carolinas are starting to feel the affects of irene, and it's expected to make landfall as a category 2 storm on the outer banks and then move north. along the east coast cities and states are taking precautions and urging people close to the water to get out before it's too late. and there is shutdowns of the public transportation systems tomorrow. amtrak will shut down service in the northeast on sunday. more than 5,000 flights have been cancelled so far. sorry vacation nervacationers. president obama sent a message. >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don't wait. don't delay. we all hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst. all of us have to take this storm seriously. >> more than 2 million people have been ordered to evacuate including a quarter milli

as our politicians continue to refuse to acknowledge the root of what ails the entire western hemispherep, jonathan? i hope sooner than later. our show starts, right now.

they're playing is actually tied to the underlying perceptions of future prosperity of the entire western hemisphereefore we become too anxious about the immediate state of affairs, however, two silver bullets left in the gun before we actually have to get to real structural reform, real structural debate which will actually be where this will end up in a year or two from now and that is this -- jean-claude cliche runs the european central bank and reserves the right to buy every bond in europe if he so decides. as soon as he does that, the marketplace knows he could do that, has the capacity to do it, in which emboldens the bond envesters to annihilate italian bonds, greek bonds, portuguese bonds, because he knows that bond trader know, if you start to push italy off a cliff, greece off a cliff, trichet will step in and become a bond buyer creating the relief, by the way the reason the market relief today was on speculation indeed the european central bank will be forced to step in and be a buyer. just another kicking of the can down the road but gives you a short-term understanding. >> better if p

[laughter] >> before we go to the audience for questions, mauricio cÁrdenas, tell us about western hemispherereactions to all of this. >> i lost the argument. brazil is not going to replace the u.s.. [laughter] >> obviously, i think if we think of the debt as the issue, and the debt is going from 70% of gdp, to 80% of gdp in the next four years by. inertia, if we think that the u.s. has supremacy, there is now a contender, the next one in the marathon as miles behind, we can enjoy the summer, white for the bipartisan commission proposal and if nothing comes out of that, we wait until after the elections. i think that sense of complacency is misplaced. is this place for one reason. the damage it is -- it is misplaced by one reason. the damage is not empowered and competitors. the damage is the u.s. economy. to do too many things at the same time making the welfare state, in infrastructure reject its priority is becoming the -- it is priority is becoming a global supplier of last resort, and in many cases of all may resort. with all of those burdens, and the current levels of taxation, i think

few people in the western hemisphere have shorter life expectancies. males, on average, live to just 48 years old and females to 52. almost half of all people above the age of 40 have diabetes. unemployment rates are consistently above 80% and in shannon county inside the pine ridge reservation is under $8,000 a year. but there are funds available, a federal pot now worth over a billion dollars that sits here in the u.s. treasury department waiting to be collected by nine sioux tribes. the money stems from a 1980 supreme court ruling that set aside $105 million to compensate the sioux for the taking of the black hills in 1877, an isolated mountain range rich in minerals, that stretches from south dakota to wyoming. the only problem: the sioux never wanted the money, because the land was never for sale. >> the black hills are very important to the sioux tribes because they are the spiritual center of the sioux people. >> reporter: for tribal attorney mario gonzalez the compensation fund is the embodiment of indian mistreatment by the u.s. government and

>> i am from the department of commerce western hemisphere division. if your strategy is partnership for citizens' security is the same thing as the central american regional security initiative. i heard a lot about that and i know something about it. that is a factual question but i have been working -- my second point is the partnership for growth is something we have been working on quite a bit and the economic competitiveness or growth initiatives that are part of that have a lot to do with security and crime. my point is and i hope you will comment on this the need in government in the united states when coming up with a strategy how to deal with central america, could we get greater cooperation or sharing of ideas between various groups that are organized to address these challengess? and i mean your group and other organizations. i often feel we address problems -- that is an internal question. my third is -- >> let's break it to get other people into the conversation. there was a question right here if we could. this gentleman on this side. >>

it was the first time communism in the western hemisphere, sputnik, soviet men in space, and at the time of the berlin confrontation, a large celebratory, much like that has been going on in beijing in the last few days, celebratory congress of the communist party of the soviet union was taking place. and so, you know, it's not too difficult to understand why crushe have in his meeting at the vienna summit really was convinced that communism would triumph. with the perspective of 2009 or as mary beth said 1989 seems ridiculous. but one can understand why khrushchev could believe it because he was at the apex of his power and i think that could have been stretched more. secondly, dick does not stress the berlin context in the influence of the spring of press which was on the americans all the time for not acting more strongly. and i can remember on the eastern section affairs division which dick and i were part of and we were responsible for reporting on the gdr and we did not have any german firms and if we were caught talking to an east german official it would be in the papers the next

el paso of pasco actually six of river juarez,m nora's -- from arguably the bloodiest in the western hemisphere. these are facts we need to consider going forward. >> let me ask one more question, and we will open it up to present your questions to the panelists. i mention that something unanticipated was the border safety challenge. there have been unintended consequences of this effort. there have been a lot of unintended consequences us with any major transitional effort now. one has been driving migrants to increasingly dangerous areas, and that has led to 5000 people having died in the desert, which we can know because you help make an effort to quantify that tragedy, but also it has really increased the cost common and which is one of the goals -- the cost to come, which has made it more challenging to enter the united states, but there is something different, because they are not just paying the to help smuggling seefee find new rate that is the safest. many smugglers are under the auspices of the drug cartels, and drug cartels to have their hand in basically all smuggling operations alo

the latino community is part of the history and our world and the western hemisphere is more pronounced. we are dealing with populations up and down. when you compare the eastern seaboard your looking at population shifts that are coming to the southwest with one big exception and that is where we start and that is florida. florida is a place of economic wealth and population growth. the latino population of all latino groups, mexican, cuban, puerto ricans and dominican. it is centered what we call central florida. orange county and osceola county and those environments. what we're seeing in that shift is an incredible opportunity. florida happens to be in a position to gain two congressional districts. people are speaking where to put new districts. i have done this for quite a few years. there are few times i had an opportunity to talk to the organizers about creating a new opportunity and new district. most of the time i am dealing with population decline or stagnation. florida is the opposite and to its credit lot of work we have been doing regarding providing workshops and maps, he

however since the western hemisphere travel card which limits certain approved ways of entering the countryfrom mexico and canada. the problem with false documentation is still there to be sure. it is much more manageable than it has been in the past. the ending over time and the careful way after the president's decision was made will be a big plus to the economy of the united states in particular. i do not think it will contribute to the illegal migration problem. checks that are ordinarily in place on all trucks coming to the united states. as a national matter, we have 60,000 containers coming into the united states. 27,000 trucks a day come into the united states. we have replaced the mechanisms and the protocols to inspect them. >> thank you. my name is jose from mexico. i would love if you could comment on narcotic flows to the u.s. at i understand that this is mostly emigration. it would help to know whether the narcotics seizures have grown or increase during this period. i would like to ask you about a leaked document by cbp regarding the strategy by president calderon not having

arguably the bloodiest city in the western hemisphere. these are facts that we need to actually make a part of the calculus as we go forward. >> thank you. i'm going to just ask you one more question and then get your questions ready because we'll open it up for you all to present your questions to the panelists. but there's this -- i mentioned it in my opening remarks and you mentioned it, too, that it was something that was unanticipated was the border safety challenge. there have been some unintended consequences of this effort. there's been a lot of unintended consequences as there are with any kind of major transformational effort along these lines, one has been driving migrants into increasingly dangerous areas and that has led to unfortunately over the last 15 years 5,000 people having died in the desert which we can know because you guys have helped make a deliberate effort to quantify that tragedy. but also it is really increased the costs for people to come, which is one of the goals obviously of making it more challenging to en

in the western hemisphere.there are always challenges of intent to have a trade deal. in the 1990's, they try to put a free-trade agreement with the americas, which was basical an extension of the north american free trade agreement that includes canada and mexico, and a united states now has a bundle of agreements with chile,nd columbia, which i think congress supposed to ratify. with brazil, there is a different scenario because it is part of a customs union, the common market of the south along with argentina paraguay, and hear a glide along with -- year ago why, along with venezuela. it is somewhat similar to the european union. they do not have specific trade deals. they have an issue-by-issue our rangement with the united states appeared in the case of brazil, there is -- . united states. in the case of brazil, there is intense trade, but in terms of a major comprehensive trade deal, there is not one. but, it has been one of the major priorities in the u.s. and brazil's administration during the 1990's, a

in the western hemisphere.there are always challenges of intent to have a trade deal. in the 1990's, they try to put a free-trade agreement with the americas, which was basically an extension of the north american free trade agreement that includes canada and mexico, and a united states now has a bundle of agreements with chile, and columbia, which i think congress is supposed to ratify. with brazil, there is a different scenario because it is part of a customs union, the common market of the south along with argentina, paraguay, and hear a glide along with -- year ago why, along with venezuela. it is somewhat similar to the european union. they do not have specific trade deals. they have an issue-by-issue our arrangement with the united states appeared in the case of brazil, there is -- . united states. in the case of brazil, there is intense trade, but in terms of a major comprehensive trade deal, there is not one. but, it has been one of the major priorities in the u.s. and brazil's administration during the

combined mission of the americas society and the council of americas is to unite leader inside the western hemisphere for the -- to promote solutions to ongoing challenges. we believe strongly in this tenth anniversary year of the democratic charter that healthy democracies are critical regional well-being, and we seek to promote democratic institutions through social explosion the rule of law, and we're joined in our program by three other top institutions of study and learning on hemispheric issues here in washington. the center for international studies, represented by steven johnson, the institute for national strategic studies of the national defense university, represented by colonel jay cope, and the center for hemispheric defense study, represent bid their director, dr. richard down yes. i thank you all for your participation here as well. ladies and gentlemen, central america was once the lens through which washington viewed latin america. indeed, many of us here in this room, including me, were first introduced to the region through the conflictive 1980s and then the democratic consolidatio

. >> before we go to the audience for questions, tell us about western hemisphere reactions to all ofhis. >> i already lost the argument. >> if we think of debt is the issue, and the debt is going from 70% of gdp to 80% of gdp in the next 10 years, if we think the u.s. has supremacy, there is no contender, the next one is miles behind, we can enjoy the summer, we can wait for a bipartisan commission to come in november with a proposal and if nothing comes after that, we will wait for the election. i think that is misplaced. it is misplaced for one reason. not to the contenders. the damage is the u.s. economy. the economy. with all of those burdens and the current level of taxation, that is not sustainable. i think the motivation for doing something is not necessarily because of losing supremacy. it is because of the weakening of the economy. by the way, back to brazil. countries are thinking, let's find ways of mediating the costs associated with a weekend u.s. -- weakened u.s. economy. let's promoted dialogue between emerging countries. let's figure out a way of offsetting the sec a

edition of the americas society and council of america's is to unite leaders throughout the western hemisphere for the exchange of ideas and develop policies that build opportunities in the region and promote solutions to ongoing challenges. we believe strongly in this tent anniversary year of the democratic charter that help the democracies are critical to regional well-being and we seek to promote democratic institutions through markets, social inclusion, and the rule of law. we are joined in our program this morning by three other top institutions of study and learning of a hemispheric issues in washington. the center for strategic and international studies represented by the director of their americas program, stephen johnson. the institute for national strategic studies at the national defense university, represented by kerneled jake hope. and this address for studies are represented by dr. richard dawning. thank you for your collaboration with us this morning as well. ladies and gentleman, central america was once the lens through which washington views of latin america. many of us in th

latino population from the caribbean part of our history and our world and our presence in the western hemisphere pronounced there, as you well know and as a result we are dealing with populations up and down the seaboard. secondly, when you compare the eastern seaboard to the entire united states, you're looking at population shifts. most of the population shifts are coming here to the southwest. with one big exception. and that's where we start and that's florida. florida is an incredible place of both economic growth and population growth. and when it comes to latino populations the growth for all latino groups, mexicans, cubans, puerto ricans, dominicans, is very, very high and a lot of that growth is being censored in what we call central florida, osceola county and those environs and what we're seeing in that shift as an incredible opportunity. florida happens to be in a position now to gain two congressional districts. at this present point if time people are speaking to florida to create these new districts. i've done this worth quite a bit a you been in of years. there are a few times th

he has sanctioned acts of terror in africa, europe, and the middle east, as well as the western hem hemisphere michael reagan. first off, we know your stepmop, nancy reagan, had a fall and everyone is really concerned, writing us today. do you know how she's doing? >> i think she's doing fine, from the news last night. that's really all i know and the people at the library where she was with marco rubio. he did a great job of keeping her from hitting the floor when she tripped. big kudos to marco rubio. but i think she seems to be fine. remember, she's 90 years old. for 90 years old, she's getting around, which is good. >> brian: absolutely. what do you think your dad's reaction would be with gadhafi forced from his compound, the people rising up demanding freedom? >> i think my dad would be very happy to see that happening in that area of the world. the concern he would have is now what do we do? it's 135, i think, different tribes in libya. it's a tribal society. they haven't been free since 1969. you have to learn how to be free. they're going to need a lot of help. i think he would underst

illuminating brushes imperial past also the rundown of the hemispheres treasures to be complete without mentioning the museum still in collection of western europe which states with thirteenth century onwards michelangelo money goes matisse on its watch collection is like the who's who of oz history. really a hole on the first floor was designed in an eclectic style by and with a second start in eighteen fifty eight in serious here are just breasts aching it occupies the northern territory of the small helmets and that the main focal point is this amazing peacock clock. from seven hundred ninety seven to the present day the peacock cloak as you will hematologist most famous exhibits the figures of the peacock cuckoo and the form part of this elaborate fine piece of the chain with mechanisms that set them in motion today so it's one of the few of its size still in working condition. see how fast everybody was but it's really interesting to see so many people from different places gathered together to see something so unique very very beautiful especially when it came back ten year alligators may even see the famous school room a collection