war policies and the militarization policies were maintained that we're fighting wars now in yemen afghanistan was done by keeping troops in afghanistan we haven't cut back on the things that we all found so odious of the bush about the bush administration and obama has added some of his own the drone policy obama had more drone attacks in his first eight months than bush had his entire presidency and these are very very dubious international legality and peters were hopeful on the second term that we have to be some more flexibility we hope so there is a system in place that is enough.

war policies and the militarization policies were maintained that we're fighting wars now in yemen afghanistan which i keeping troops in afghanistan we haven't cut back on the things that we all found so odious of the bush about the bush administration that obama has added some of his own the drone policy obama had more drone attacks in his first eight months than bush had his entire presidency and these are very very dubious international legality and peters were hopeful of a second term that we have would be some more flexibility we hope so there is a system in place that there's enormous. political interest. that's on the cards as it almost seems like you know the cia policies and just branded them so it's now acceptable to the nation. the extrajudicial judge jury executioner of people without due process it's fascinating i mean we complained during the bush years that bush was actually conducting surveillance without judicial review surveillance obama's killing people targeted assassinations without judicial review that is obviously a much more serious similarly. here and to the history yo

well there's no blowback on that when predator drones are killing innocent people in pakistan afghanistan yemen hey that's ok so you know they say that the fish rots from the head down and that's what's going on in america it's rotting from the head down and this is just another part of the culture of violence that sweeps this nation a culture of cruelty so what they're trying to do is blame it on guns and now they're reagan talking about putting the national guard in schools and more surveillance and more why it's happening we can't let this happen and of course they're not talking about it all about what kind of drugs this kid might have been on like so many of the other mass murderers these young people that have been on ritalin on prozac zoloft on all of these drugs they're not bringing that up at all they're blaming it on guns well i got an idea you know gerald it's you mention the culture of cruelty in the united states of course there at the same time pro life so i thought maybe a transitory thirteen would be to arm fetuses in case someone tried to abort them they could shoot their way o

a lot of guns in circulation we have more guns per capita in this country than pakistan or afghanistan or yemen or the sudan but that's no reason not to start doing the same thing for the coming generations which is to look at the numbers and the what's rational and get some controls and this is a serious long term problem as well as a short term problem that we're seeing week in week out richard marc harrold thank you both for coming you bet thank you. after the break which poses the greatest threat to americans gun violence or terrorism the answer may surprise you and so too will our government's responses to these two threats for tonight's there we took. a look at the worst if you are going to. wipe out six of the radio guy minutes from a click. i want you to watch what we're about to do because you've never seen anything like this i'm selling. books. no more. solutions. for. iraq. thank you. now it's time for tonight's the good the bad and the very very oxy a k at the silly ugly the good. governor jay nixon nixon is a democratic governor dealing with a republican controlled state legislatur

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lot of violence around the world we do have a military that we send to places like afghanistan and pakistan and yemen that are killing people all the time innocent people children. and this is almost normal i mean people have generally accepted this as ok and justified. we do have a very violent culture in this in terms of yes we do glorify violence but there haven't really been any direct link to watching something violent makes you more violent but it does desensitized to violence it makes you i guess work that thing of violence is what that is just so i don't mean that that may play a role but i think you know first and foremost i think it's really important to point out that yes this is a complex issue and we can talk about all of these things that one but the first thing we need to do is it address is gun control we're going to have all these guns in this country and we're going to continue to let anybody that's guns not just legally but the people can get them as well and you know there's no back just as all these issues that we need to deal with it's not just one thing but i do connect gun con

running from 1898 -- you can say 1846 with mexico -- but we're tracing from 1899 up to iraq and afghanistan and yemen, and to the current administration. >> a lot like great historian williams who argues empire is a way of life. you call your book "untold history of the united states now now and in some ways williams -- >> we're following that. that's been on -- standing on on the showereds of a lot of great historian. this is not really untold to university audiences. it's untold in the public schools and untold to the popular u.s.a. audience. some people get their history from television and movies other than oliver's, and we're trying to challenge they that americans don't know much history. the national record card says u.s. high school seniors are worse in understanding history than math and science. they always bemoan the fact they're so week in math and science but only 12% of high school seniors showed profifth si in u.s. history. 12%. the amazing thing is that the report also said that only 2% actually could explain what brown vs. board of education was was about. even though the answer was

lines running you can see 1846 with mexico but we are choosing from 1899 up through iraq and afghanistan and yemen. >> it is a way of life, so in some ways -- >> we're standing on the shoulders of a lot of great americans and it's not really the diversity offices. some are told in the public schools and it is untold to the popular audience and people that get their history from television and so that is what we try to challenge the they don't know much history and they say that there were some at understanding u.s. history than they are understanding the math and science with to this gimmick in the u.s. history 12%. the main thing was only 2% could explain what the brown v board of education was about even though the answer was implicit threat so our kids don't know much history and a lot of what they know is wrong to read this book is based upon the work of great historians and you mention of great historians or doing some kind of work but we have a big sweep and because we are able to couple this with showtime documentary and a get more dramatic. disconnect it's like history one-on-one. why cann

it has been tried to some degree in places like pakistan, yemen, in afghanistan, there's a big effortver the last couple years training village defense forces. there also train afghan special forces and working with special police units. so that is all getting afghans ready to secure their own country. host: back to the peace from foreign affairs because you have quoted a key player in all this, retired army general stanley mcchrystal in which he talks about drones and special operations, which moved the speed of war. can you eexplain? guest: that phrase he used really describes a huge effort to that was put into a special operations forces in the last decade and pudding cooperatives on the ground with the special operations forces -- putting car tags on the ground with special operations forces. they would hit a target and bring in the signals intelligence, get their picture, and move out. minutes later or hours later they would move to the next target. their operating at a very high level in afghanistan and iraq, up to 14 raids per night. it's a paradigm of unilateral raiding and th

are going to be failing and deem them as failing and they're not small countries, afghanistan, pakistan, somalsomali, yemenfor the united states here is how we manage this. for 15 years we've been talking about 19th century belonged to britain, 20th belonged to the united states, 21st will belong to china, asia more broadly. how politicians manage that is critical. >> is this a fait accompli or can we fiscal cliff off our position. >> it makes the fiscal cliff look small. makes politics look petty. our nation's leaders know all of this, they get the reports and read all of the reports from congress about the chinese economic and security commission and all of this stuff. they know all of this. what we do in the country and our policies in this country are in a world that's changing quite rapidly. more quickly than the french revolution, industrial revolution, these are the seismic shifts but it's happening quickly. >> because of technology? >> yes. >> the world is flat, as tom friedman said and we can do things quicker and that's why so many can be part of the middle class. happy holidays to you. >> it's c

we have ad hoc strategies to deal with al qaeda and its affiliates in pakistan, afghanistan, yemen.t about libya, what about egypt, what about tunisia? we need a whole government approach. once the terrorist attack gets to the compound walls it is already too late and already a failure. jenna: we would like to see the next step. if i can stand by we have breaking news. we'll get back to you in a moment. jon: president obama making remarks at funeral for former late hawaii senator daniel inouye. >> he would remain my senator until i left hawaii for college. now even though, even though my mother and grandparents took great pride that they had voted for him, i confessed that i wasn't paying much attention to the united states senate at the age of 4 or 5 or 6. it wasn't until i was 11 years old that i recall even learning what a u.s. senator was or, it registering at least t was during my summer vacation with my family. my first trip to what shows of us in hawaii call the mainland. so we flew over the ocean and with my mother and my grandmother and my sister who at the time was two, we

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capability of our allies we've seen this approach with our counter insurgency campaigns in iraq and afghanistan and yemen and somalia. we are expanding to partners in order to address a broad range of security challenges in asia-pacific and the middle east, and as i said in europe, africa and latin america. to implement this element of the strategy, a the service is or retaining the security cooperation capabilities that we had held over a decade of war and making investments in the regional expertise through the army is regionally aligned brigade structure they are able to end fact engage on a rotational basis to assist other countries. the entire u.s. government is working to make our security cooperation particularly foreign military sales more responsive and more effective to cut through the bureaucracy and to cut through the red tape to be able to provide the assistance that we need to other countries without delay. seeking the defense trade with rising powers like brazil and india. i visited these countries recently to help advance those growing defense partnerships and s carter has also made an ef

we chose war in iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, libya, yemen, somalia and perhaps later on iran. inexplicably we've created openings for al qaeda and radical fundamentalists as a result of our interventions. at home we choose a false notion of security over personal freedom. even if it means we look the other way when the very language of this bill opens the door for indefinite detention of americans. and we choose poverty over plenty by giving over a half this will dollars for the pentagon and nearly $90 billion for wars including afghanistan while facing reductions in domestic spending. we put war on the nation's credit card, including a $5 trillion charge for the war in iraq which was based on lies. we gather at a fiscal cliff of our own making and refuse to see the implications of our unrestrained spending for war. but when it comes to providing for the long-term security of our seniors, a cynical ploy using the consumer price index is being used to cut seniors' social security benefits. when did america become more concerned about the control of and the security of foreign l

afghanistan and the threat we face here. we continue to face al qaeda elsewhere, not only in pakistan, but yemen and elsewhere. e had success going after special operations. we are continuing to do that. the main challenge is to make sure there is no safe haven, but the key to that is in afghanistan that can secure and govern itself. they can lock in terms of the mission in afghanistan. >> you can hear more from the defense secretary on erin burnett out front. 7:00 eastern. >> bottom of the hour now, brooke baldwin's hugo chavez suffered complications from his operations. rafael romo with what happened. a hemorrhage? >> that's right. a few moments ago, the minster for venezuela gave a speech it all confirming that that's right. the president chavez in a surgery for cancer in cuba experienced a hemorrhage and said the surgeon his to take corrective measures to stop it. he said it will take time for him to recover because of the complexity of the operation he underwent as far as complications that arose during surgery when there was a hemorrhage that required measures to get it under control. it's a nation that s

yemen somalia and pakistan it turns out the u.s. has had a record number of drone strikes in afghanistan american drone strikes reach a record of four hundred forty seven attacks in two thousand and twelve about one hundred fifty more strikes than the u.s. launched just a year earlier so it seems like the death of mastermind osama bin laden in two thousand and eleven didn't mean less drone strikes. us a letter on ours he legislators on capitol hill made some adjustments to the video privacy protection act after the break will shed some light on the new bill and what it could mean for your privacy. the worst you are the only one of the. radio guys. what. have you ever seen anything like. and now do a story explaining what your legislators have been up to shortly before they left for christmas break u.s. congress carved out some time to look over the video privacy protection act part of what this bill does is loosen privacy protections and it appears it was a legislative priority for the company nothe likes now netflix can have its customers a splay the movies they're watching on their facebook pages it's a nice holiday gift for netfl

afghanistan, but it is in pakistan. it is nigeria. it is in libya. it is in syria. it is in iraq. it is in yemen. and the whole thing is metastasized. >> romney in the first debate. president obama in the second debate. >> gabby giffords who came back from a real tragedy and is now back and deserves all the commendation that you can muster up. >> that's a lovely tribute and choice. >> massachusetts campaign was looking sad and troubled there for a while. but she has stuck to it and came out the winner. >> republican governor scott walker. this has been gummed up already by buchanan. despite a bruising show down recall, plus organized labors national money war chest lined up against him, scott walker won handily. does he have a future? >> he does. and you copied mine pretty well. >> most original thinker? >> my magazine the american conservative, which an awful lot of people are looking at and commenting favorably on. something different than the consecutive interventionist. >> do you have a membership to that magazine? >> no, i don't get a dime for it. >> thanks for clearing that up. >> original

amy goodman: and so, today, the war in afghanistan, the drone war that president obama is conducting in pakistan, in yemen, in other places, with the "kill list," that the times called it, that he personally keeps and names the people he puts on the list-your thoughts? rep. john lewis: well, i think it's time for us to end, end the efforts in afghanistan. we cannot justify the killing of people that we don't see. about't know anything them, or very little. war is not the answer. war is obsolete. it cannot be used as a tool of our foreign policy. it's barbaric. someplace, somehow, people must come to that point and say, "i ain't gonna stay the war no more." amy goodman: have you talked to president obama about this? rep. john lewis: i have not had an opportunity. but i've spoken out on the floor of the house against the war in afghanistan, as i did against the war in iraq. amy goodman: you voted in-three days after september 11, 2001, to give president bush the authority to retaliate in a vote that was 420 to 1. you have described it was one of your toughest votes. talk about how you decided to do that. re

been keeping their bull's eye over locations like yemen somalia and pakistan it turns out that the u.s. has had a record number of drone strikes in afghanistan american drone strikes reached a record of four hundred forty seven attacks in two thousand and twelve that the hundred about one hundred fifty more strikes than the u.s. launched just a year earlier so it seems like the death of the mastermind of nine eleven mastermind osama bin laden in two thousand and eleven didn't mean less drone strikes. and now to a story explaining what your legislators have been up to right before christmas eve the u.s. congress carved out some time to look over the video privacy protection act why so that it could loosen the privacy protections afforded in the bill it appears this was a legislative priority for the company netflix now netflix can have its users display the movies they're watching on their facebook pages it's a nice holiday gift for netflix and facebook but what about its consumers this of course comes as congress is in negotiations to prevent the country from falling over the fiscal cliff another interesting aspect congress cut a provision t

we have seen its approach with our counterinsurgency campaigns in iraq and afghanistan and our counter-terrorism efforts in yemen and somalia. we are expanding our security force assistance to a wider range of partners, in order to address a broader range of security challenges. in the asia-pacific, the middle east, and europe, africa, and latin america 3 to implement this area of strategy, the services are retaining the security cooperation capabilities we have honed over a decade of war and making investments in regional expertise. for example, for the army's new regionally aligned for grade a g brigade structure, they are able to engage on a regionally aligned brigade structure, they are able to engage on a rotational basis. to cut through the bureacracy and red tape to provide assistance. i visited countries recently to help advance that growing partnership. also made an effort in a new joint u.s.indian initiative to boost cooperation and trade and streamline our control processes. in order to remain the security partner of choice, the united states must maintain our decisive military edge and adapt to meet

day and night on how to prevent the next 9/11 from being launched from a cave in afghanistan or a training base in yement perhaps, just perhaps, now is the time they start obsessing on how to stop the next attack on a movie theater or in a shopping mall or on a college campus or in our children's first grade classes. the battle we now must fight and the battle we have to win is for the safety and the sanity of your children and mine. and that is a war at home that we must win. of course, this is not all about guns. it's not all about violent movies. it's not all about video games. but we can no longer allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good in this case. and we must not excuse total inaction by arguing that no single action can solve the problem that will save our children. you know me. i am a conservative republican who received the nra's highest ratings over four terms in congress. i saw this debate over guns as a powerful symbolic struggle between individual rights and government control. and you know what? in the years after waco and ruby ridge, the symbolism of that debate seemed even more po

have seen this approach with our counterinsurgency campaigns and iraq and afghanistan, and our counterterrorism efforts in yemen and somalia. we are expanding our security forces assistance to a wider range of partners in order to address a broader range of security challenges in asia-pacific, in the middle east. and as i said, in europe, africa and in latin america. to implement this element of the strategy, the services are retaining the security cooperation capabilities we have honed over a decade of war. and making investments in regional expertise. for example, for the armies new structure, they are able to, in fact, engage on a rotational basis to assist other countries. the entire u.s. government is working to make our security cooperation, particularly for an military sales, more responsive and more effective, to cut through the bureaucracy, to cut through the red tape, to be able to provide the assistance that we need to other countries without delay. we are particularly seeking to boost defense trade with rising powers like brazil and india. i visited these countries recently to help advance those gro

afghanistan. and the threat that we face here. we continue to face al qaeda obviously elsewhere. not only in pakistan, but yemen and somalia and elsewhere. but we have had remarkable success going after special operations against al qaeda here and we're continuing to do that. i think that, you know, the main challenge here is obviously to make sure there's no safe haven for al qaeda in which to conduct attacks but the key it that is an afghanistan that can secure and govern itself. those two are inner locked in terms of mission thatted with in afghanistan. >> what if they choose a taliban. you know, i'm very confident that the afghan people want to be sovereign. they want to be independent. they want to be free from the taliban. but they want to be able to determine their future. and that's okay. that's what needs to be done here. just to have an afghanistan that can determine. >> when you talk about defeating al qaeda, just thinking about some of the statistic here, there is still insurgency, 93 policemen in one day joined the taliban. do you think al qaeda will be defeated, even here? >> i think you can reach