the americans with disabilities act of 1990 was enacted to protect all americans from discrimination on the basis of disability. i am proud that we are able to look back on the passage of the americans with disabilities act and recognize the importance of this legislation and the changes made in american society, but our work is not yet done. the law must continue to evolve. we must continue to revisit the ada and to examine whether it is accomplishing its purpose. where we find that it is not, we must be willing to make changes. one recent example occurred in the last congress when we passed the americans with disabilities act amendment of 2008, which was assigned by george w. bush and went into effect into the asinine. this restored the ada to congress as original intent by clarifying the coverage of anyone with disabilities and over rowling -- overruling a court decision that anyone with a disability would list their aid it simply because the treatment was available. we hope that this kind of determination and cooperation will continue into the future so that individuals with disa

but american families see things a little differently. the economic policies of this administration have failed. last year the obama administration said that its trillion-dollar "stimulus" plan would create jobs "immediately" and keep unemployment below 8%. today unemployment remains near a heartbreaking 10%, and since the stimulus bill became law, our economy has lost about 3 million jobs. and if they haven't already done enough to wreck our recovery, democrats in washington are pushing more spending, more regulation, and right around the corner: more taxes. democrats in washington are now actually talking about embracing what would be the largest tax increase in american history. let me say that again. after 18 months of runaway

sort of sharing a hamburger with the american president so maybe the american president barack obama wasn't very pleased that it should be at that moment. it could be a decision that the director of the f.b.i. said we could delay perhaps he thought they might fly the coop if they didn't do something quickly but anyway they were there was one shot of the two heads of government cheerily sharing a hamburger about three days later. this is a humiliating story for four from moscow the ten eleven of their agents picked up one got away to cyprus. but that can't cannot have been available and very embarrassing for moscow and let's talk about that one that got away what do you think could have happened to him if he skipped bail was gone that oh one has to remember cyprus he got to sort of cyprus where he was arrested and some magistrate with more as presume a bigger bank account than he's got brains gave him bail despite the protests of the american consul inside the courtroom. as soon as you go bail he vanished well for obvious reasons i mean there are a lot of wealthy russians who live in

it's not enough to simply buy american, we have to sell american. we have to sell our products and goods and services throughout this world. in fact, over 80% of our trade deficits today is with countries that are not trade agreement partners. that are not level playing fields for the united states. that's why we push hard for those agreements. five years ago the united states, for example, five years ago, the united states had a $1.2 billion trade deficit with central america. last year the united states had turned that around because the agreement to a $1.2 bill trade surplus. we are on track to surpass that surplus again this year. last year the united states had a trade surplus in manufactured goods with our central american partners of almost $2 billion. we are on track again this year. nor is cafta the only example how trade agreements can improve u.s. trade balance. this week also marks the eighth anniversary of the final house vote on the trade act of 2002, under which we have resoundingly successful trade agreements with 13 countries now in

the americans i hear from in letters and town hall meetings, americans like lesley ann and jim and denise are not looking for a handout. they desperately want to work. right now, they can't find a job. these are honest, decent, hard- working folks who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own and who have nowhere else to turn on less -- except unemployment benefits. tomorrow, we will have another chance to offer them that relief, to do right by not just the gym and lesley and denise but all the americans who need a helping hand right now. i hope we seize the opportunity. it is time to stop all the workers laid off in this recession hostage to washington politics. it is time to do what is right, not for the election, but for the middle class. we have to stop what the emergency relief for americans out of work. we have to extend unemployment insurance. we need to pass the tax cuts for small businesses and extend landing for small businesses. times are hard right now. we are moving in the right direction. i know it is getting close to election but there is a time when you put e

and american troops used the p.t.t. rain. during the iraq war in two thousand and three which may have that high radiation levels across the country. freezing your future russian clinic is the only one in europe where you can raise.

between american people. i don't think the american people will stand with them, but will stand with these policies we are offering now in this moment forward on making it in america. and i just have to ask the question because it is really startling if you think about, you laid out all of the things we did to try to stabilize the economy and all the actions were -- were undertaken and have been undertaken where we can make products in america and lools enable our communities, workers and businesses to make it in america. and every once in a while, they turn on the tv and hear our counterparts on the other side and they sigh over and over again and if the american people won't notice, where are the jobs? where are the jobs? the reality is we are putting the bills on the floor and you are voting against the jobs. so don't -- there's this idea that they insult the american people by suggesting that somehow the jobs are missing. you are voting against the jobs and now you have a chance to join us. . mr. garamend

i think we can all agree, regardless of political party that american elections must be decided by american voters and u.s. policy must be decided by the u.s. government. i would also add that this provision is much tougher than the minority's motion to recommit. that motion would have only banned certain activities by lobbyists for states that sponsor terrorism. this bill bars such lobbying altogether and secondly, the motion to recommit was clearly unconstitutional and destined to be struck down. the proposal would have allowed the government to prohibit an american citizen from making campaign contributions or independent expenditures on his or her own behalf on the basis of a business contract this would have clearly violated the first amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for an additional minute. mr. hall: in con last, h.r. 5609 is constitutional. these foreign countries have no first amendment rights. i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 5609 and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from c

agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a foreign based workforce that's making sure that. make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former president george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans used to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors aren't convinced the average american could step in their shoes not even for a day. to hire a. white person is too hard. i haven't seen any american here working here in the fields said you'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberry fields and now in an effort to employ out of work americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodied in american citizens to take the jobs of these farm workers would

guest: that is a very common view of the americans. one reason that the obama administration has been slow to pick up pro-trade policies. the national manufacturers showed that we had a trade surplus in our free trade agreement partners. it is not strictly a trade deficit with those countries. there is no agreement with china, which is the big deficit. most of them are not free trade agreement countries. it is not strictly free trade that is causing the deficit. >> youngstown, ohio. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. thank you for taking my call. did you think that trade adequately account for the cost of social disruption as an industry moves offshore? second, i wanted to said companies have patents to protect them from other companies to not have the development costs so tha they can produce. tariffs actually protect countries fro the same thing. from generational processes that take generations to develop. othecountries are taking those processes away. i wanted to see if i could get an answer. thank you. guest: the 19th cen

agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a foreign based workforce that's making sure that. make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former president george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans have to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors. the average american could step in their shoes not even for a day. to hire a. white person is too hard. i haven't seen any american here working here in the field said you'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberries she fills in now in an effort to employ out of work americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodying american citizens to take the jobs of these farm workers wouldn't be surprise

of americans and people around the world. it's a bank breaking job not everyone is fit to do most of these workers arrived in the united states illegally some from as far as central america and many are oblivious to the political firestorm centered around you know what's happened here for leave and you're going to leave any time i mean all of this is about lawful citizens versus illegal invaders if you want to build a fifty foot fence i'm in favor of the fifty foot fence you know there's a living million illegal immigrants in the united states. those could be american jobs those could be tax paying jobs but some industries especially california agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a foreign based workforce that's making sure that. make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former

deals that americans don't want to do i haven't seen millions of americans going to your farm fields in california texas or florida picking up tomatoes or ruffles so engrossed create jobs . they bring crime down the justice. stating that crime has been going down in the last decade despite the fact that the immigrant population has doubled so violent crime stopping going down thirty five percent robberies twenty five percent so there's a lot of misinformation but if we realize that it's a great business to have immigrants in this country hopefully people just my church change their minds as they're almost one of your main arguments in your book is that immigrants are needed because there's going to be such a large population of people that are retiring these are the baby boomers and that immigrants will be needed when there's a labor shortage you say this in your book but the term labor shortage is very hard to swallow for most americans right now many of whom are out of work it just doesn't seem feasible that there's going to be a labor shortage anytime soon it's very simple if you

still americans are without jobs. but this congress didn't stand still, the democratic leadership in this congress didn't stand still. we passed significant job legislation. first the stimulus package that created jobs across this country, saved or created 3 1/2 million jobs around this country in every single state, in every single congressional district, so that americans could continue working. but we said that wasn't enough. we need to be on the progress of building up our economy and creating more jobs for the american people, creating jobs that are about the 21st century, making sure that americans don't just get extended unemployment benefits, which i agree we ought to have done, it was the right thing to do and it was wrong for republicans to say that people who receive unemployment benefits don't deserve that because somehow that keeps them from looking for a job, those around the americans that i know. the americans that i know get up every single day, they want to work hard and they do work hard to take car

american citizens to take the. of these farm workers wouldn't be surprised if after a day or two they find themselves appreciating those who are taking the jobs we stop by the unemployment office to find out if people who are out of work would be willing to take the job of an immigrant farm worker if a farmer came up to. do you want to job here as a farmer. and now. we give them do that do gardening in my own house if i had a job that got me out there got me some exercise but no heavy lifting was at least eleven dollars an hour i would take it but i doubt that it's usually a lot of heavy lifting it doesn't pay too much there farmers and they're willing to pay slave labor of course they have an advantage conservative radio host tony katz is among the growing number of supporters immigration crackdown he thinks the threat to the u.s. isn't just financial it over this is about people who may be coming with diseases we've already eradicated bring them back into the united states america has paid a significant price bec

he is also african american. his father is from american, the fatser is from africa. but this call about anger on black on black crime. i think we ought the be upset about all crime. not whether it's black on black. then we say we'll separate that out and not worry about the rest. all crime brings us down as a society. it has a greater effect i think when you're living in a black community and you see it being perptrate by people living there. so we've got to have a broader discussion about that. and the issue about unwed motsers. what about unwed fathers? here is one, i had four or five kids by the time i was 21 years of age, high school dropout, no where to go. didn't choose to abort. found myself a way to get working, taking odd jobs because i had a basic set of values that i think is missing in many instances among a lot of men. we were taught work hard, play by the rules, take care of your responsibilities. and give back. and so this discussion just can't be about unwed mothers. it's got to be about unwed fathers. and how do we get beyond the mistake of having a

thing to do right away for a gun at chuck regal's simply being a good american by staying in the house of reps while everyone and their mother knows that he is corrupt and guilty as sin and not only is wrangel invoking being a good american in his defense for not stepping down he also seems to feel entitled to keep his job and is genuinely upset that anybody would even question that he should be in public office. just a little bit you. would. just relate. to what a good medical research i want you to think you're absolutely right that you think that if. you were using drugs or the drug your specific speculations were your students know what they should look in their missing what do you think you make it so basically push. your use or. is that going to answer anyway it's also been a report of the only reason the wrangel ethics violation is going to house trial. is the deal that was being negotiated broke down the way he barked at the notion of a public apology we all know that you're very very popular chuck but being elected does not make you innocent you know what really bothers me abo

agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a form based workforce that's making sure that these strawberries make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former president george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans have to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors. the average american could step in their shoes even for a day. to hire a. white person is too hard. i haven't seen any american here working here in the fields said you'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberries he fills in now in an effort to employ out of work americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodied in american citizens to take the jobs of these farm workers wouldn'

some of bin laden killing american citizens and what we have here somehow is making use of these leaked documents to make a case that pakistan is not playing straight in this war in this so-called war against terror and that's of course wrong what i see is and i have proof for that and i've written three books on it america itself is playing a double game and it's forcing pakistan to play this double game alongside america that's what's going on right now and all the rest of this is a dirty lie and we should not believe anything of it. war veteran groups in the u.s. are becoming increasingly angry over what they claim are broken government promises they say the country they fought for has turned its back on them leaving many out on the street the want to speak with some of them. beyond san diego's picturesque. ugly truth a wounded military community neglected by the very nation to defend. the mentally able to do this country. and i came home to be medicated and pushed it was. morally ethically unjust like a monster we're creating when our bad i think. about not just. the service people

we raised a flag the american flag on the surface of the moon congrats. i really believe that the soviet union drove the us to the moon. in our day and we did that in the sixty's and i think it was because there was serious competition between the two countries. didn't get to see strong take the first step on the lunar surface he died in one nine hundred sixty six during summer. his anonymity died with him and his identity was finally defied triggering a wave of the. streets when. monuments and plaques were unveiled in his own even room said. that he never realized all the work could be done by just one person. my father liked to say that people can travel into space and issued by train he was absolutely sure that outer space was not empty and people must live and work there he said you know. could. see americans and russians in space together. in one hundred seventy five the so he. put an end to the space race. i'm approaching so you. less than five meters. three meters. i like chocolate so. most of all like the trickle of a lot of chocolates along this.

agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a form based workforce that's making sure that. make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former president george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans have to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors aren't convince the average american could step in their shoes not even for a day is to hire a. white person is too far. i haven't seen any american here working here in the field said you'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberries she fills in now in an effort to employ out of work americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodied in american citizens to take the jobs of these farm workers would

accent and the american people will take an american accent in a better way that's right well george bush proved that you could fool the american people into accepting anything if you sent a dummy and he sounded deep south enough and texas enough so he said look george bush we're going to completely destroy your economy and you're now left with nothing and everyone bought into it now you've got tony hayward's got that kind of british accent and of course everyone's like oh no it's foreign we don't accept it so they put in an american what's his name dudley robert dudley robert dudley so he'll get on there for b.p. and say well the girl goes completely destroy what we totally eviscerated a big body you economy and we're occupying your country and you know a bunch of peasants now but does american accent suits ok and i want to be like. peasants i feel like i could have a beer with him. well this however you know they're going to have an american accent to explain to the population of america which is suddenly interested in b.p.'s role in the release of the lockerbie bomber but for. the

many americans have not even heard of it. president obama has not turned health care reform into positive feelings. bbc news, washington. >> goldman sachs and has agreed to settle some charges. some accuse it of being responsible -- of leading a penalty. and several people have been killed and injured in southeastern iran. it is the result a horrific attack that secretary clinton has condemned. there was a south korean war ship that sunk. officials reported the crisis. one person has denied involvement in the sinking of the ship. the hunt goes on for a renegade afghan soldier. in man says he is the soldier. he says he was acting on the taliban. here is more. >> the conversation was arranged by the taliban. the 21 year-old afghan army soldier says the reason he carried out the attack is because he is angry with british forces. he claimed to the british forces committed atrocities in afghanistan including killing civilians and launching attacks. before these killings, he was not a member of the taliban. he says it was his own i

american presidents thank you very much for sitting down to speak. this time that you have been on an on line campaign to prosecute george w. bush and members of his administration for what you call violations of international law domestic law the constitution why have you not given all this because the administration of george w. bush was particularly lawless i don't think there's ever been a time in american history when we had the highest officials in government so flagrantly break the law and show no respect at all for the rule of law they just created laws just out of whole cloth they created laws in secret behind closed doors that were in them a cold to american democracy. and shameful to our international image some of those laws for instance redefined torture so that it made it ok for the c.i. a to brutalize prisoners and detainees. supposedly even doing it legally for instance allowing the waterboarding to be done legally one in fact it is a violation of international law and u.s. law but it didn't matter provided that they did these laws in

that everybody already knew but is this just an excuse to not question the war effort itself next are americans america's wealthiest and most highly taxed are notorious for avoiding paying their taxes at all with tim geithner announcing that the obama administration will allow the bush tax cuts to lapse meaning tax increases for the job earners is there any way to make them pay or is it time to head to something a little more simple something like a flat tax we're going to bait that issue and it is a llama phobia it's on the rise in america with some groups going so far as to advocate for the burning of the koran we'll have a pastor from the dove world outreach center go head to head with a palestinian blogger who says that they are spreading a message of hate and next it's time to look at all the latest news from the relationship world everybody knows that what happens in vegas stays in vegas but apparently women are more likely to follow this golden rule and who knew the many women also like to keep their clothes on while having sex we'll get to the bottom of the strange phenomenon but now le

agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a foreign based workforce that's making sure that these strawberries make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former president george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans refuse to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors aren't convinced the average american could step in their shoes not even for a day is to hiring them for. why a person is too hard. i haven't seen any american here working here in the field said you'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberries he feels and now in an effort to employ out of work americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodied in american citizens to take th

in iraq if if the state were to not be a solid is the americans had hope when there is hard to believe they're always already talking about leaving afghanistan i mean the united states is talking about the future and for americans the future comes real soon in the region it's a lot more long term so how can we. be talking about a negotiated peace when at the same time the obama administration or enormous pressure is being pressured to actually leave the region and leave it in not on the same level of where troops are and security forces are just and lowered and moved back how can you do both at the same time. well i think you have to be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the past and that is to have a very precipitate it would draw which is what has informed a lot of the cajun is and the caution on the part of the pakistanis that as happened after the the the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan that the americans after having helped pakistan would do enjoy being in and installed a government in kabul basically took off in the middle of the night. that is unlikely to happen this time

we are americans. we have american problems. not just with the black community. those are problems i see with the mirn community. educational inequality. problems with unemployment. all that stuff. we share that. when we can focus on that and quit trying to segregate everything we can take another step forward with race relations. >> al with is that right? >> i think that if we are realistic and say that the progress made was made because people struggled to make that progress, that we should engage in continuing, at this time, in the struggle to make that happen. i think that if we're honest we would have to say if a white child, a black child and a latino and asian child were born tonight they will not face the same life in terms of hrk and education. we've got to fight until they do. it's a lot better than it was 40 years ago but it's not equal and i don't need marx to tell me that. i fight for the right for people to be wrong. >> larry: thank you all very much. another chapter in america's long and disturbing racial history. >>> speaking of that, hugh hefner

by that most americans agree with that. it is a complicated question, but to make it a simple based on very basic principles of accountability. it is something our federal government is absolutely failing to do. congress has pointed this down the road and is being held hostage by this comprehensive immigration reform instead of dealing with things we know we can agree upon now. border enforcement should be at the top of that list. there are too many interests that want to see amnesty. if you look at the big picture, people want to change the equation as to who gets to vote in this country. there are many interests that want to see felons vote, illegal aliens, and i want to open it up to puerto rico and other types of places that truly change the demographic and two votes in this country. that would have severe impact on who we are as a nation. i don't want to ramble on but what i would like to do is answer some questions and thank you for having me here. i appreciate it. >> we do have [applause] ] questions. [applause] you

they were the architects of the american and russian space programs. eternal rivals in the battle to reach out to space. and make their first attempts to reach for the stars in their childhood as a boy in the soviet union designed simple ideas but as time went by he came up with a more sophisticated. craft as for venice at the age of twelve he created a prototype rocket by equipping a crate with fireworks he also built a wagon that he launched in his hometown and apparently this wagon in the ad had. rockets he had made on it and it. ran down the main street of his hometown and. who was von braun's long time private secretary says venet attracted police attention many times for firing things into the air nowadays buckbee often takes people on a tour of the space museum in huntsville where each exhibit is related to von braun . but the best storyteller of. exploits is his only daughter natalia she wrote about him in three volumes of memoirs simply titled my father. with this this is a picture of the first soviet rocket it was launched on august seventeen

i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it

i have a series of eight painted banners that are retellings of american history. i am particularly interested in transition history between native and european histories and retelling them as if they were a popular myth. there is a mix of eras and characters and times drat these banners. -- and times throughout these banners. i use the olympics and the melting pot, or things reduced down, and come out of this reduction. and something else transforms out of it. they had this strict code of who we should be as americans, and then i had andrew jackson fanning the flames. this first contact, down to george bush in 2008. all of the characters that appear are real characters that are taken from my research. we are an interesting mix and i want to provoke wonder about who we are. every one of the characters are taken from actual photographs or documents that i found in my research on american history. in a lot of my banners, you conceal -- uc the melting pot, the imagery and myth that we use in our culture. talking about these reductions of all these different mixes of p

he was as slave african- americans. he figured out how to disassemble the plaster model by attaching an iron hook to the statute's head and lifting the top section until a hairline crack appeared. the crack indicated where the joints were located and he then repeated the operation until the five different sections of the statue were discovered. we know about him today because the son of the foundry owner share of the story with historians back in 1869. it describes filphilip reid hasn expert and highly esteemed by all who knew him. we stand here today not only because of him, but for other enslaved african americans like him who worked tirelessly to sacrifice in the face of strife. these plaques in their own right will serve as a symbol of their sacrifice, and will be seen by visitors to enter the building for evermore. in closing, i would like to thank the members of the slave labor task force. and senator chambliss that was an original cosponsor of the legislation to honor the enslaved flavors. this incredible sacrifi

to win all of these movies used to be about american exceptionalism americans save the day save the entire world and all of a sudden we don't do that anymore i think the bigger question here is whether this whole concept of american exception exceptionalism still applies and still exists i mean the world today in two thousand and ten is not the same world that we used to be in one nine hundred forty s. and it's a lot more difficult to sell this idea of an america as a uniquely special country that ranks in the international hierarchy somehow as above the rest based on the fact that it's america all alone there are other democracies there are foreign policy to. issues that america makes that you know isn't well accepted by everyone around the world and so perhaps the bigger question to be asking here is whether we should still hold on to this notion of american exceptionalism in today's day and age well it looks like hollywood has let it go and who knows you know captain america is the first victim who knows what a great american comic book hero is going to be ok i'm just i am excited at th

where american citizens can find and. welcome. we're in a recession the unemployment rate is over nine percent and yet there is even more bad news for americans because many of the lost jobs simply aren't coming back and not because these industries are necessarily outdated but because the american worker simply can't compete with other countries with quickly developing economies can pay pennies for the exact same work so in essence it turns out that the biggest a loser in globalization has turned out to be america's middle class and i've a feeling that wasn't always in mind when free trade in the global economy were first brought up but what should america do now in order to stay afloat or earlier i caught up with the boer steingart author of the war for wealth the true story of globalization i first asked him if he thought of this result of globalization when i've been and i've inevitable. i'm not quite sure that it's a little bold but it's a matter of fact today it is a matter of fact it but you don't think that this could have

elderly asian-american victims allegedly committed by african-american youths has raised the question of whether the growing

american u.s. foreign policy and this is actually the objective of the quote unquote terrorists if you will to get the west to show its true face in the international arena to show itself as an imperialist power to show itself as an ideological power that is false and so the more they suppress domestic rights the more they are exposed for each and every muslim to see and the more muslims will take the view that we are at war with the west hundreds of hate crimes have been committed since nine eleven and the end of the decade of fear is not yet in sight and our new york. as a consequence of america's misadventures abroad is that in the eyes of the world it is losing any authority as role model and that's the view of one outspoken rapper in the us we spoke to our team. i think america's nightmare is a mirror. reflection of the ugliness we have to remember that. america is this model for democracy you know it's just the facade of you know everybody is the make up is there but behind the make up is kin

in iraq if the if the state were to not be a solid is the americans who told me when there is hard to believe there always are already talking about leaving afghanistan i mean the united states is talking about the future and for americans the future comes real soon in the region it's a lot more long term so how can we be talking about a negotiated peace when at the same time the obama administration are enormous pressure is being pressured to actually leave the region or leave it in not on the same level of where troops are and security forces are just too low or to move back how can you do both at the same time. well i think you have to be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the past and that is to have a very precipitate would draw which is what has informed a lot of the cage inus and the caution on the part of the pakistanis that as happened after the the the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan that the americans after having helped pakistan with the majority in an installed government in kabul basically took off in the middle of the night. that is unlikely to happen this time i

african-americans and asian- americans. do you novak when the agent exclusion act, the chinese exclusion act was before congress in 1870, the first national leader to speak out against that was frederick douglass. the same man who fought against slavery. do you know that when the chinese exclusion act was voted on in congress, there was one black senator named blanche bruce, the only african-american in the u.s. senate, voted against it. similarly, we work side-by-side for semel -- civil rights and improve public education. in '86, and laundry owner sued the san francisco board of supervisors for a racially discriminatory law, and it brought equal protection to minorities, and that overturned the 1857 dread scott case, which held that minorities were not protected by the u.s. constitution. we have the landmark case of brown harris is board of education, 1954, to thank for equality in education. -- brown v. board of education. seven years later, the chinese community here worked shoulder to shoulder with the african- america

immigrant workers are picking the heat consumed by millions of americans and people around the world. it's a bank breaking job not everyone is fit to do most of these illegal workers right in the united states illegally so from as far as central america and many are oblivious to the political firestorm senator brown that no one spat in your family of and you're going to leave any time i mean this is about lawful citizens versus illegal invaders if you want to build a fifty foot fence i'm in favor of the fifty foot fence you know there's a living million illegal immigrants in the united states. those could be american jobs those could be tax paying jobs but some industries especially california agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them so that they will have noticed which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a form based workforce that's making sure that these strawberries make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long after. undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired

as american as the lee's, the kennedys. none sound american to me. i am not a shamed. jose can you see. i pledge allegiance to this country. land of commercialism. if i can win gold medals. if i can sign my life away. ain't no language. this is my country too. i believe in free dom and diversity, need to get the hell out. [applause] >> i have one more performer. can you believe that? i am so excited. he is a very kind man to be here. he's a total icon. tales of the city. his book that was made do a city. he's here on his book tour. thank you very much. well, i would not have missed this evening for anything. you and i both know these things can be boring. not tonight. i like to read, since i'm back home from a tour. i would like to read the chapter that my editor wanted me to remove. i have to set it up for you. michael toliver is 55 years old. they have gone to florida because his mother has died. and they have been out to the rest home, to the bear bar in orlando. they meet a black bear, that is a husky african-american guy and the guy basically propositions them. pr

american and south korean forces are taking part in joint military exercises. they have been taking place at sea and in the air. they involved the dozens of ships and thousands of personnel. a south african judge found four former students guilty of humiliating a group of black domestic [unintelligible] it was recorded on video and placed on the internet. ourselves african correspondent has been at the court. >> guilty of criminal behavior, humiliating their victims. four former students -- shame after what was a racially charged attack, they admitted their guilt but claimed it was an innocence that. it was this video that shows a black staff and a mocked initiation ceremony displaying their athletic skills and forced to eat food that had been urinated on. students say they never intended it to be shown widely, but the video ended up on the internet. when it first came to light demonstrators took to the streets, but the man claimed it was part of a process for racial integration. the residence has been shut down. this case has been deeply symbolic in a country

he'll be bp's first american ceo. >> he's not only american, he is someone from the district, from the gulf area, which is a big thing. he is someone who is actively involved with cleaning up the mess. >> reporter: personnel shakeup may also help bp's bottom line. the company reported a loss of $17 billion for the second quarter and plans to sell up to $30 billion worth of assets to cover damages and claims in the gulf. bob dudley has risen quickly at bp since the oil spill. as analysts put it, he has two things going for him. he speaks with an american accent and he's not tony hayward. >> we know the reaction here. but what's the reaction there? >> reporter: there's been a great deal of sympathy to the disaster in the gulf and the ecological situation there. but not to put it callously, there's a lot of brits who have their pensions tied up in bp, so the sooner bp can get past this disaster, get past the cleanup and get to a healthier bottom line, the better for everybody. >> charlie d'agata in london for us. thank you. >>> in other news, in afghanistan this morning, nato confirmed it

that helps us in the american goal. so i don't think you can ask for everything. >> rose: so it is a very tenuous relationship but we are getting something from it? >> the other thing that we are getting from pakistan is basically a secure route from karachi through the khyber pass for all of the clothes, all of the water, all of the vehicles, all of the necessity day to day living things that nato and american soldiers need to fight the war. >> right, right. >> so two big deals. >> rose: i thank you very much. thank you, eric. >> thank you, charlie. great to see you. ♪ >> rose: for nine decade it is new yorker magazine has been home to some of the tifs, wisest, most moving sports commentator anywhere, it is profiled legend from ted williams to michael jordan and captured the wonders of ping-pong and dog sledding, the only game in town sportswriting from the new yorker is an anthology of 32 notae essays, joining me now is david remnick, he edited the book and editor of the magazine since 1998 and also with us roger an

american u.s. foreign policy and this is actually the objective of the quote unquote terrorists if you will to get the west to show its true face in the international arena to show itself as an imperialist power to show itself as an ideological power that is false and so the more they suppress domestic rights the more they are exposed for each and every muslim to see and the more muslims will take the view that we are at war with the west hundreds of hate crimes have been committed since nine eleven and the end of the decade of fear is not yet insight and. new york. now perhaps some of you are still not convinced perhaps that you think stereotypes affect everyone not every religion is allowed holidays and school and that not every religion is allowed as many houses of worship as they like to build but take this next example a church in florida with signs in front of it that say islam is of the devil is planning a burn the koran day on september eleventh they say that their mission is to warn but wh

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we're americans. i mean, for crying out loud, have we forgotten how to do anything that it would take us 85 days to figure out how to plug a seven-inch hole? what has happened to us? and you could make a list of so many things of how our culture has just, you know -- i mean, nothing works anymore. you can't get anybody on the phone. you know? if you do get anybody on the phone, you know, they're in the philippines or some place. i just -- i just -- i just think that historians, when they write about us, are going to say we allowed these corporations to become the government. and we, the people, thought we still had a say, but really don't. and that's -- >> larry: when we come back -- >> -- a pretty sad statement. i hate to make it. >> larry: when we come back, we'll get a tweet on this question of bp. i want to run a marathon. i'm going to work with kids. i'm going to own my own restaurant. when i grow up, i'm going to start a band. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. th

surprisingly don't give the moon away to the americans. much time wasted. the american flag. i really believe that the soviet union. the us to them. in our day and we did that in the sixty's and i think it was because there was serious competition between the two countries. who. didn't get to see strong take the first step on the surface. with him and his identity was finally. triggering a wave of. his own even. though he never realized. just one person. from my father liked to say that people can travel into space on doubters issued by train butin and he was absolutely sure that outer space was not empty and people must live and work there he said. could hardly have been magine seeing americans and russians in space together the film brought in one hundred seventy five the so you support their project put an end to the space race. i'm approaching so use. less than five meters. three meters. i like chocolate smallest of all like the circle of a lot of chocolates a look. cosmonaut valeri could bounce off was part of the soyuz apollo project and often visits this museum he reme

at the same time, they're determined to track down and return the two americans. u.s. forces launched a massive search for the missing sailors, setting up checkpoints, searching for the slightest clue. in kabul today, joint chiefs chairman, admiral mike mullen. >> there's a tremendous effort going on to find them, to search. >> reporter: what happened to them is still a mystery. friday, the two americans left a compound in kabul, where they train afghan soldiers for a scheduled visit to a u.s. base nearby. driving an armored suv, they were due back some two hours later. but never returned. inexplicably, the pair reportedly showed up 80 miles away in logar province, afghan officials say the americans were ambushed by taliban fighters. in a fierce fight, one sailor was killed and the other taken hostage. their bullet-riddled suv was found stripped clean, but no sign of the sailors. u.s. forces are distributing leaflets with their photos, translated, they read, this american troop is missing. and they offer a $20,000 reward for information leading to their location. milit

they're just american workers. their jobs, these are their hope, their dreams and they didn't do anything wrong. they paid for the bailouts of other industries, they just want to go back to work, on the rig that's been safe. historically these energy workers, 50,000 wells in the gulf, this is the first accident. it wasn't their fault. you don't ground the ball because of it. if their lives are at stake, our energy prices, our energy independence, revenue to our state and federal government, small businesses who will never survive this moratorium ever if it goes the full six months did nothing wrong, whose reach is all throughout the united states of america. we have a lot at stake here. we are asking republicans and democrats in congress to join us in asking the president to end this moratorium. accept, do not the safe practices, -- adopt the safe practices proposed by experts in the industry. allow the safe drilling to go forward. stop sending our rigs overseas. stop sending our jobs overseas. stop accepteding our