an underground garage. 500 cars on the corner of washington. it is only four lanes for one block, and they want to take that away. this is ridiculous. folks, please use some common sense. [inaudible] the 555 washington street condo died for good reason, and it was not because of special interests. it was because it was wrong, and this is wrong. connect the boat to the water. this is a travesty. i do not understand where you are coming from. the tower that contradicts the waterfront study plan in the first place, and you cannot go wrong with this. you have to make this a beautiful thoroughfare, so connect the land to the day. do not block the ferry building sites. this is in direct contrast to where the ferry building is. you will not be able to see it, and that is just iscoit tower. you have to protect that view. so again, you  tower. you can have valet parking. you can have shuttles. you cannot get to the bay bridge now, with n. with the exploratorium and other things coming down the pike, it is going to be ridiculous. this contradicts your o

washington as the heat wave goes on. washington as the heat wave goes on. this is the "cbs morning news" captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. it has been 98 days since the deepwater horizon exploded and sank, killing 11 workers. 98 days since that bp oil well began spewing crude oil into the gulf of mexico. now it appears bp's board has had enough of ceo tony hayward. bp is denying it so far, but it is expected hayward will be forced to step down today. >> i'm devastated. by the accident. absolutely devastated. >> reporter: unfortunately for tony hayward, too many of his comments about the disaster in the gulf spoke much louder than those. terry mcalister, energy editor of "the guardian" in london says the decision to oust hayward is an attempt to salvage the bp brand in america where the company earns 40% of its profits. >> the company cannot continue in its present state in america. the only way of giving itself a fighting chance is to get rid of the boss. >> re

what was the slight, playing him, in washington? >> i do not think that i will ever have as good of an experience as playing thurgood marshall as i did in washington. he went to school in washington and was born in baltimore, and he went to school at lincoln. the supreme court was right there. we actually have the opportunity to stand at the lectern in the supreme court, facing these justices, which is a very powerful thing. the airport in baltimore is named after him. we had a standing ovation every evening. much of this, some of this was for my performance but i have to give credit where the credit is due. most of that is because of his legacy and his work. as a hometown person. tavis: there is no follow-up question here, i am just curious. you mentioned that certain justices came to see this, including sonia sotomayor. what about justice thomas? >> he was not there. tavis: where was i? [laughter] >> you were waiting for me to take you out. tavis: i was just asking. a little birdie told me that this show is even better now than wh

but after 20 years in washington, d.c., we just disagree. his amnesty bill, $2.6 million to illegal aliens. $700 billion for wall street and $150 billion in earmarks. his cap and trade bill with joe lieberman. and john voted against in 2001 and 2003 calling them tax cuts for the rich. i really loved working with the old john mccain. this new john mccain is somewhat like john kerry. that's why it's time for a consistent conservative in the united states senate with the endorsement of joe arpaio, i ask for your vote in the upcoming republican primary. >> mr. deacon, looks like you will get the next turn. >> thank you for having us. next time pop sickles. we've got brighten the mood. it gets a little heavy in here some times. in 1989 when i was discharged from the navy, i moved to arizona. i moved here because of cost of living, the opportunities for business and education and employment. it was a great place to come. we have great outdoors. we can hunt and fish. the cost of milk was very cheap. the cost of gas was very cheap. we could live in

up front page of ""the washington post." the washington teachers union will contest the dismissals. this represents the second game changing developments for michelle rhee's efforts to amass more control as to how teachers are removed from their jobs and placed the school system at the head of the movement started by the obama administration race to the top grant competition to more wriggles -- two more rigorously assess teacher performance. we will hear more in education from the president as he delivers his speech on thursday. we will get to phone calls first. tacoma, washington, good morning to you. caller: good morning. i oppose this. i oppose firing two of 41 teachers right now because of the slowness of the economic recovery and the softness of the economy and i think we should put in some sort of national standard, not just to local standards for teachers when reviewing them. host: the school boards often dictate the funding of school districts, should that come from the local level? caller: know, everyone should get an equal amount of money across the board. it should be don

on cuban television after four years again puts into focus of on his complicated relationship with washington obama calls u.s. policy on cuba failed what needs to be done to make it a success. and. to discuss the future of u.s. cuban relations i'm joined by cathy areu in new york she's a publisher an author and a journalist in denver we have dr michael bell a toady he's a cuban refugee and a professor of school of theology and in washington we go to frank oz on he's the executive director of the center for a free cuba and another member of our cross talk team yell in the hunger all right folks across talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and first i'd like to go to you frank am obama says u.s. policy towards cuba has failed it's a failure how would you characterize his interpretation is it a failure because the united states wasn't able to enact a forced regime change after the last sixty years in havana well president obama has said a number a number of things one he lifted sanctions on travel to cuba by cuban americans and he also will lift the sanctions so remitt

on cuban television after four years again puts into focus of on his complicated relationship with washington obama calls u.s. policy on cuba failed what needs to be done to make it a success. story. to discuss the future of u.s. cuban relations i'm joined by cathy areu in new york she's a publisher an author and a journalist in denver we have dr michael bell a tortie he's a cuban refugee and a professor at the school of theology and in washington we go to franco zone he's the executive director of the center for a free cuba and another member of our cross-talk team yelling the hunger all right folks across talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and first i'd like to go to you frank am obama says u.s. policy towards cuba has failed it's a failure how would you characterize his interpretation is it a failure because the united states wasn't able to enact a forced regime change after the last sixty years in havana. well president obama has said a number a number of things one and he lifted sanctions travel to cuba by cuban americans and he also will lift the sanctions

the washington journal is next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . . host: among the issues that lawmakers will be facing in the week ahead. sunday, july 7. live coverage under way in about two hours here on c-span of our nation's governors in boston. the deficit, spending priorities, and state budget. we want your thoughts and comments. short on money, long on problems. that is how they put it in ""the washington post." for democrats, 202-737-0002. for republicans, 202-737-0001. for independents, 202-628-0205. join the conversation online as well as journal@c-span.org -- as well at twitter.com/c-spanwj or send us an e-mail at journal@c- span.org. beginning with a political note this morning, dan brown says " the battle for congress will play out between now and november, indicating how president obama might govern the second half of his first term. but no one underestimates the significance of the state falls. one way that the governmen

with reports of america spying for washington. russia remains in the grip of a heat wave some region suffering a severe drought. without a harvest.

on cuban television after four years again puts into focus of on his complicated relationship with washington obama calls u.s. policy on cuba failed what needs to be done to make it a success. can. you discuss the future of u.s. cuban relations i'm joined by cathy areu in new york she's a publisher an author and a journalist in denver we have dr michael bell a tory he's a cuban refugee and a professor of school of theology and in washington we go to frank oz on he's the executive director of the center for a free cuba and another member of our cross talk team yell in the hunger all right folks across talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and first i'd like to go to you frank am obama says u.s. policy towards cuba has failed it's a failure how would you characterize his interpretation is it a failure because the united states wasn't able to an act of forced regime change after the last sixty years in havana. well president obama has said a number a number of things one and he lifted sanctions travel to cuba by cuban americans and he also will lift the sanctions on re

i come from the state of washington. the other washington where we will have at least one new united states senator and at least two new coressman this year november 3rd. i promise you that. because the tail wind of the freedom are reaching even the left coast. i know some of you are relative new to politics and every one of these gray hairs has a man of the campaign on it. i've been involved in a long time. i'm a student of history and let me share with u a few thoughts about where we are today. we are at a crossroads of american history. november 2nd we will decide if we are te america of the ann jones and reverend wright or the america of james madison and thomas jefferson. that is what we will decide on november 2nd. [applause] let me assure you ifwe do not win on november 2nd, the obama administration and the left will feel justified and affirmed by the american people. and if you think it's been bad the last year-and-a-half, just wait if we fail to take the majority on november 2nd. it would be worse than you can i

daniel schorr died today in washington. he was 93. schorr covered the world for more than 60 years, 24 of them here at cbs news. >> this is cbs moscow calling cbs new york. >> couric: edward r. murrow recruited daniel schorr to work for cbs in 1953. >> my territory is central europe, the region that straddles the iron curtain. >> couric: as a correspondent in moscow, he persuaded nikita khruschev to give cbs his first television interview. >> i bring this now to a question because it leads towards disarmament. >> couric: later schorr became a member of the storied cbs news washington bureau. >> schieffer: he had a great way of irritating government officials because he always came up with the truth. i mean he came up with these stories. people couldn't figure out how he got it. >> couric: schorr lead cbs news coverage of the watergate scandal. when he got hold of president nixon's infamous enemies list, he read it cold on live tv and was stunned to hear himself say: "17th, daniel schorr of the columbia broadcasting system in washingto

to good washington pushed back on them. when harry reid is saddled us with controlling shares in car companies that union bosses had driven into financial ruin, we did not complain. we drove ourselves to a tea party in harry's backyard. [applause] when harry reid started counting down to the end of the bush tax cuts, we started counting down to november 2nd anthe end of harry reid and his democrat majority in the senate and the house. americans have had enough. they have had enough. the fog is lifted from their eyes, the kool-aid has been drained from their veins. they are asking one simple question -- how we take our country back? i'll tell you. we take our country back when we retire harry reid. we take our country back when we fire nancy pelosi. we take our country back when we send good, conservative, principal leaders to washington. when we elect a governor who understands people. when we elect state officials from comptroller to attorney- general who are going to fight for the people, not against them. it's time to go

i believe we will not take washington -- we will not break what is broken in washington until we break the connection between money and policy. we need to pass the third elections act, which will remove the influence of big money in campaigns. we need to enact a ban -- a lifetime ban that you can never become a lobbyist if you were a member of congress. we need to mitigate as much as we can the decision of the supreme court so corporations cannot influence elections. if we do not fix that, being limited to six years or 10 years, you would still operate in a broken system because of the power of money over campaigns and a special interests. by breaking the connection, you will amount brokers to make decisions based on chores, free from this disproportionate influence of special interests in washington. i believe if the voters have that opportunity there will make the right decision. i think it is wonderful of chairman went to talk about 12 years. the reality is we are all asking voters to give us a two-year term. if we do not give good results, we will be out that first term. [applause]

and running washington being broken saying i'm so thrilled to be outside of washington, be away from washington, that's great for ronald reagan. that's great for an anti-government conservative it doesn't work for a leader of the democratic party. >> i do think that messaging, if i were a house democrat i wouldn't be angry at that messaging. obama's tendency is to transended differences within washington rather than stick with his team. he is a more transending figure than a partisan figure so i have been struck by a semi active semi disloyalty down on that nonetheless i still don't think it really made that huge a difference. people didn't need to be persuaded to dislike washington these days. >> it isn't just communications as an art. i mean the health-care bill was handled so badly. that it became a process fight for so long. we still didn't know what the white house stood for so we never knew what the product was of the health-care bill until a year and a half into it. and all the rest of it was the process back and fourth. and you know, i think that's a failure of white house le

and dana priest of "the washington post." live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week with gwen ifill." produced in shorks with national -- in association with national journal. funding for "washington week" is provided by -- boeing. exxonmobil. the ethics in excellence in journalism foundation. the annenberg foundation. the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, sitting in for gwen ifill this week, gloria borger of cnn. gloria: good evening. if you follow the economic news here in washington this week, then you would know that president obama signed one of his most far-reaching accomplishments. the financial reform bill. and it's designed to prevent another economic meltdown. meanwhile, democrats in congress and a largely partisan vote finally passed an extension of unemployment benefits for nearly 2.5 million people. and the chairman of the federal reserve, ben bernanke, was quite cautious when describing t

the gentleman from washington. mr. mcdermott: mr. speaker, i can't help but respond to the change of subject from the gentleman from louisiana. i guess fishermen aren't worth anything. fishermen are worthless, all that sea stuff that comes up and they sell all over the place they don't care about that. all they want to do is drill for oil. that the president is careful and prudent and says, let's look at this drilling before we go on with it, because we've just proved that the oil companies are reckless, they've proved it for 79 days in the gulf and if you can't learn from that and realize what it's doing to crabbers and to shrimp fishermen and to oyster beds then you have missed the point. mr. boustany: will the gentleman yield? mr. mcdermott: i yield to the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. people all over illinois and all over america are waiting with baited breath and they're waiting to pay utility bills, to pay house notes, t

in washington state are leaving. this is an extraordinary electoral environment. there will be more opportunities. >> one follow-up, if you don't mind. north of $4 million. i know your committee was down. do you think this movement in cash on hand is due to republican donors channeling their money to the nrss as opposed to the rnc? d.c. donors avoiding michael steele and the rnc to bring your money -- to bring their money to you? >> well, we are where the action is. of course, in a mid term election the congressional races are where the action is. in a presidential year, the rnc is the titular committee for the presidential nominee and they would tend to get more attention. it is no secret that the rnc has had some problems this time. frankly, we have reached out to major donors and said, for this cycle, we would encourage you to contribute to the senate committee, because of the structure of the senate, because of the importance of 41 votes. every additional vote we can get in the senate is going to be our chance to

washington, d.c., is debating it, right? >> it is aptly put -- here's what the republicans are saying, listen, 33 billion is fine many but give us the cuts to be able to get there. >> as in what? what are we going to cut. >> i didn't say a word when you all were talking. barack obama said the democrats gave us the -- oar the republicans gave us the deficit. they left us $200 billion in debt, we're now $1.4 trillion in debt. the republicans say, we'll give you the 33 billion, but find a place where we can make cuts so we can do it. >> i think michael's right on this than dana. i don't think the point is extending unemployment benefits, they want to find a way to cut the deficit. the republican party hasn't given us any good ideas on how that can happen. the republicans are pushing back because it's election season. barack obama is publicly spanking the republicans right now, because he's fighting for worker's rights. yes, republicans have been absolutely disastrous in bloating spending and refusing to raise taxes on the wealt

ok if i go back to you in washington i mean there's the u.s. hopes in one way one fashion or another that the pakistanis this is what they're pakistanis what they're supposed to do in the deal is to bring the taliban to the negotiating table in one form or another hopefully not have to deal with them directly they're the intermediary but in a broader picture and i think i want to address this to everyone here and this is my own opinion all across the region everyone's just watching really waiting waiting for some kind of strategic withdrawal defeat of the united states be it. 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

hello again from fox news in washington. day 90 of the oil spill in the gulf, here is where things stand. government announced a one-day extension of the test to determine if the new cap on the b.p. well is holding. the test is set to end late sunday afternoon. but the president point man retired admiral thad allen says even if the cap is working they plan to go to a containment oil to bring oil to the surface. phil keating is reporting from the gulf for the latest. what can you tell us? >> reporter: b.p., thad allen and the engineers and scientists like what they have seen and not seen so far. we are 65 hours in the testing period with no new oil gulfing in the gulf of mexico -- oil gushing in the gulf of mexico. they have not seen or detected any new oil over the integrity test. a small fleet of remotely operated vehicles and multiple seismic and sonar readings conducted from the service. it indicates that the well's integrity appears to be sound. but instead of leaving it cork and waiting for the relief well, the plan rem

washington politicians just aren't listening and the american people know it. with nearly 15 million people unemployed and the pelosi-led congress poised to take a six- week paid vacation, the american people deserve better. now, president obama says things are getting better. 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

pealed of a report called on washington oh no to the vietnam war legacy of the deadly chemical agent orange. for decades. three ethnic chechens arrested by french police have been shot with having links to a terror network. seeing double a new bollywood film starring bin ladin spitting image takes a humorous look at the post nine eleven world. and. six percent in london after the company reported encouraging early signs of progress in stopping the gulf of mexico oil leak and much more in business in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome this is r.t. live from moscow. the u.s. house of representatives has convened for a third time to discuss the impact of the deadly chemical agent orange during the vietnam war while the effects are still being felt to this day washington insists there's no evidence to link it to illnesses that continue to afflict later generations you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. i was born with and with too late and missing a hand it is because of america's chemical war against her people in the jungles of vietnam that has left tran in these c

discuss whether we're experiencing a paradigm shift i'm joined by princeton lyman in washington he's an adjunct senior fellow for african policy studies at the council on foreign relations in kiev we go to shawn roberts of the elliott school of international economics at the george washington university and here in the studio with me is but a common he's the director of global governance initiative of the american strategy program at the new american foundation and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want princeton i'd like to go to you first in washington it's been about twenty one months since the financial crisis hit has capitalism taken a major hit is it is it created doubts in the world that it can really pull itself out or is there just simply an indictment of neoliberal capitalism a certain model that has come out of the west during that say the reagan years. i think it's more of the latter if you look at the debate going on for example in the united states you find there's a lo

our team washington d.c. . sensors have also been at work in pakistan this week and new bollywood comedy featuring an osama bin laden lookalike has been bombed also issues where war that's a comic depiction of the world's most wanted man could trigger a terrorist attacks his current saying when tossed those behind the indian comedy the wall is really ready for post nine eleven humor. this could well be the biggest scoop of my career interviewing the world's most wanted terrorist however this man does not have a twenty five million dollar reward on his head in fact he's not osama bin laden but an actor in a bollywood bin ladin or without you lot in but just in case you think this is a movie glorifying a terrorist it is a general sort of. biography it's a film which is on the post nine eleven world of which bin laden happens to be a very very important character and this is a fair number of feet bin laden and that's how you're using it's not insensitive or offensive in any way and anybody from any part of the wor

r t washington d.c. investigative journalist contributor wayne madsen thinks the idea that someone simply press the wrong fax machine button is a poor excuse i think this is part of the carry over from the bush cheney administration where the u.s. basically thumbs its nose at international law and we've seen it time and time again it seems like the reset button doesn't work at the state department fax machines but the idea that there's a bank of buttons that they push it i guess if they push the next one they would have gone to rule rwanda which is next in the alphabetical list so that sounds like a very strange story and i don't think anyone would buy that why didn't they contact the russian embassy or the russian government itself why wasn't justice department to the ministry of justice in moscow you know direct talks between. let's take a look now at some other news stories from around the world this out it's emerged that a loan system of the oil rig which exploded in the gulf of mexico was partially

also still to come the victims of the deadly chemical weapon agent orange are calling on washington to make a bit of knowledge once about the toxic legacy of the. first eleven people have been killed and fourteen injured after a bus plunged off a cliff in a mountainous area in the republic of south ossetia the bus was on its way to russia's southern city of logic of chaos the crash happened on the trans caucasian highway connecting russia's republic of north and south ossetia and georgia the russian emergencies ministry's the bus plunged over sixty meters the driver is among those injured and he's in critical condition it's not clear at this stage what caused the crash this week russian security services broke up a suspected terrorist cell in the southern republican dagestan in the homes of six arrested women one of them just fifteen years old they found suicide belts disguises and wills two men were also detained one of whom is linked to the deadly moscow metro blasts in march. this report. so young but deemed old enough one of the alleged terrorists in the russian republic of the goo

washington d.c. . from the campaign group vietnam agent orange reef so is the use of chemicals during the vietnam war was responsible for an ongoing monetary crisis and that vietnamese victims should continue to fight for justice and compensation well dioxin is unfortunately the chemical that keeps on killing their oxen is probably the most toxic substance known to science and so there's a number of ways that people have young people who weren't even born during the war have been affected one is they may live in a park the cops part so that you can fish they thought well they get in the water but the even more common way is that it gets transmitted genetically through the fatty tissue with a number of years ago of course it took some time for people to figure out what was going on then the u.s. for trans had to fight for justice in compensation and they're still fighting in other children and grandchildren beginning to fight and i think there's been a great amount of understanding and mutual assistance

>> this group is growing in washington, d.c. they are the largest prsrael organization in the united states with over 400,000 members. they have a lot of help. on thursday of thisweek, they are on capitol hill. this is cufi, christians united for israel lobbying on capitol hill, talkg to congreman, senatorsbout israel, about supporting israel. they are a growing group. a lot of clout, senator joe lieberman, israel's ambassador to the u.s.mike pence, and democrat shelly berkel. this is a growing influential group no doubt. >> what is their opinion towards obama's administration? >> it is not too high. mike pence out of indiana said the obama is the most antiisrael administraon in american history. that summeup the sentiments of the cufi crowd unfortunately. it can't be ignored what the obama administration is doing with israel. recent photo op with israel prime nister benjamin netanyahu. they want to see more policies out of this administration, policies that line up with the policies of every administration over the past 50-60 y

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they came back a few times from washington. they said we're not exactly sure what the united states wants from us. i think this has been symptom atic of a real problem, the fact that the two leaders haven't come to an understanding with each other, that they can spend as much together h time together in the oval office and still not really understand each other. today was about trying to current temperature to a new understanding. >> ifill: there was something that prime minister netanyahu said that was interesting at the very end of the meeting today. he said we are both two leaders who (inaudible) is this a case in which they can con found the cynics? >> they certainly could. if they were able to reach a peace agreement the one who confounded the cynics would be netanyahu. people are judging him or misjudging him. the perception is he's not going to be able to go as far as his pred sezors and his pred sessionors didn't go as far as the palestinians wanted him to go. it's pretty hard to see how they're going to get there which

washington, your way. "washington journal" continues. host: senator tom coburn, republican from oklahoma. here to talk about the economy overall but specifically the job benefits that's been a debate for the last month, weeks. looks like senator reid would like to bring legislation to the floor to extend the unemployment benefits. but he feeds to wait for the 609 vote from west virginia, because republicans have refused to support this. and extending them. >> well, i wouldn't characterize it that way. we're all for extending them. we're just not all for charging our grandchildren with the bill. and when we have the waste and duplication and fraud in the federal government that we have today, we just believe we ought to make hard choices and eliminate things that are of much lower priority and wasteful rather than to go further in debt. so it's not like we think we ought to help people that are unemployed. we ought to pay for that. americans know there's waste, and we ought not be borrowing money for something like that when we have thing

"washington journal this is "washington journal."> > . \. the u.s. recently opened itself to the most intense scrutiny yet by the international monetary fund, and on thursday was offered a bitter pill when the agency criticized some well-defended aspects of american culture. cheap fuel, sub deciding housing and a government retirement check. >> we want to get your reaction to the imf calling for the u.s. to make lifestyle changes. call the numbers on the screen. you can also tweet us at twitter.com/cspanwj or send an email to journal@c-span.org here are the numbers again to call in. this is back to the "washington post" article on the imf report calling for the u.s. lifestyle changes. the risks are tilted to the downside david robinson of the western hemisphere said as he presented the annual assessment of the u.s. economy in its first-ever review of the financial sector. host: now we got the imf report that just came out yesterday, and here's what it said -- in part of this report, and this is at imf.org if you want to read it for yourself. the obam

washington d.c. . investigative journalist and contribute to wayne madsen thinks the idea that someone simply press the fax machine button is a poor excuse i think this is part of the carry over from the bush cheney administration where the u.s. basically thumbs its nose at international law and we've seen it time and time again it seems like the reset button doesn't work at the state department fax machines but the idea that there's a bank of buttons that they push it i guess if they push the next one they would have gone to rule rwanda which is next in the alphabetical list so that sounds like a very strange story i don't think anyone would buy that why didn't they contact the russian embassy or the russian government itself why wasn't justice department to the ministry of justice in moscow you know direct talks between. well you can see among the stories we're covering online that r.t.e. dot com what else is on the site like a woman trying to claim that it's given birth to a puppy it's mums is ten.

. >> "washington journal" is next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] host: the queen of england will address the united nations today, the first time since 1957. expected to give broad remarks on unity and peace. live coverage at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. in washington, president obama meets for the fifth time what is route's prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the oval office this morning. expected to talk about the peace process, gaza strip blockade and sanctions. go to c-span.org for more information. good morning this july 6. house and senate members are back in their districts. campaigning for this november election. we turn our attention to the election. front-page of "usa today" say independents are gaining favor with voters. will you vote for an independent this fall? the numbers are on the screen. here's the article in "usa today." it says the duty -- it says -- the story continues inside the newspaper. it is there a cover story. say

the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: mr. speaker, i yield one additional minute to the gentlelady from south dakota, ms. herseth sandlin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from south dakota is recognized for one minute. ms. herseth sandlin: i want to submit letters in support of h.r. 725. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i yield 30 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from virginia, the chairman of the interior subcommittee on appropriations, mr. -- mr. rahall: mr. speaker, i yield 30 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from virginia, the chairman of the interior subcommittee on appropriations, mr. moran. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. moran: the only argument i hear is a jurisdictional one. the chair of the judiciary committee

to good washington pushed back on them. when harry reid is saddled us with controlling shares in car companies that union bosses had driven into financial ruin, we did not complain. we drove ourselves to a tea party in harry's backyard. [applause] when harry reid started counting down to the end of the bush tax cuts, we started counting down to november 2nd and the end of harry reid and his democrat majority in the senate and the house. americans have had enough. they have had enough. the fog is lifted from their eyes, the kool-aid has been drained from their veins. they are asking one simple question -- how we take our country back? i'll tell you. we take our country back when we retire harry reid. we take ourountry back when we fire nancy pelosi. we take our country back when we send good, conservative, principal leaders to washington. when we elect a governor who understands people. when we elect state officials from comptroller to attorney- general who are going to fight for the people, not against them. it's time to go

home there's still an hour of mystery reports in america that he was spying for washington. russia remains in the sweltering grip of a heap.

and his guests discuss washington's continued embargo against cuba that's up next here on a. particular. story. to. follow me and welcome to cross talk i'm peter all over oh well he's back fidel castro's appearance on cuban television after four years again puts into focus of on his complicated relationship with washington obama calls u.s. policy on cuba failed what needs to be done to make it a success. story. to discuss the future of u.s. cuban relations i'm joined by cathy areu in new york she's a publisher an author and a journalist in denver we have dr michael bell a tory he's a cuban refugee and a professor at the school of theology and in washington we go to frank was on he's the executive director of the center for a free cuba and another member of our crosstalk team yellin the hunger all right folks across talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and first i'd like to go to you frank am obama says u.s. policy towards cuba has failed it's a failure how would you characterize his interpretation is it a failure because the united states wasn't ab

lansing and washington are polarized places. it is customary for one party to amass enough votes to get something to pass unilaterally, and then the other party sits back and hopes it fails. we have had two government shutdowns in michigan in the last couple of years. the current state budget is developing not familiar odor. what will you do to create an atmosphere of cooperation and bipartisanship in lansing? >> thank you. i will do what i do now as attorney general -- but for strong ideas and follow through with leadership. -- put forward strong ideas and follow through with leadership. people complain about partisanship. people don't complain about it when things are getting done. the current governor does not provide leadership. you end up with more sniping. her allies realize it is not worth sticking with her. her opponents realize they can outwait her. i will be a strong leader, emphasizing the things i learned as a young man in the marine corps, as a homicide prosecutor, and as attorney general. i will stand up for the ri

washington d.c. . censors have also been at work in pakistan this week and new bollywood comedy featuring an osama bin laden lookalike has been banned so wishes were worse that a comic depiction of the world's most wanted man could trigger terrorist attacks kyra saying when to ask those behind the indian comedy if the world is really ready for post nine eleven. this could well be the biggest scoop of my career interviewing the world's most wanted terrorist however this man does not have a twenty five million dollar reward on his head in fact he is not bin laden but an actor in a bollywood for their new bin ladin or without you lot in but just in case you think this is a movie glorifying a terrorist it is a general sort of. biography it's a film which is on the board. of virgin london happens to be very very important character and this is a fair number of feet below. that of you using it's not intended to vote in any way anybody from any part of the world is going to enjoy this from i can guarantee you

george washington. hollywood high school. they have english, latin and greek. this is a middle school in long beach. it wasn't centralized authority. they chose the architects. the main constraint is there had to be an engineer on site. there there is berkeley. and piedmont avenue in oakland. this is in nevada city. these schools, like so many of the new deal are beautifully built. this is the school you just saw. teaching, they employed tens of thousands of teachers and librariance. new nutritionist. starving children don't learn well. they give them lunches. this is an art class in san francisco hospital. art class for crippled children. the photographers that i find of san francisco indicate that schools were integrated at the lowest level. you could mitigate the racial problem from the bottom up. there was also adult education too. this 1 learned one learned to read as many did. many of the community colleges were a result of the new deal. sacramento. i gave a talk at santa rosa and the city college in san francisco was largely a product of the pwa and has

there's a lot of different definitions, and we come up washington, d.c. with a one-size-fits all approach where i would rather see a states out there, laboratories of democracy, trying to find their own ways to solve those health care reform issues. and in utah we do have one of the health care exchange windows out there that is having some success in bringing scapentition in a private sector setting with defined contribution as opposed to defined benefit for employers, where employees can go to a portal in the web and match up their needs with what's available in the marketplace with a defined contribution. i don't think it solves all the problems, but it's a step down the right road. i think it will give us competition in a private sector setting. and i think that will help us to keep costs down and help give us access to health care. but my dismay is the states have not been from the very beginning at the front of this discussion helping lead the charge with goals and objectives set out by washington. >> governor. >> at the risk of redundancy, i want t

host: spokane, washington. caller: the only way did you create wealth is through farming and mining, hanging paper everywhere, as long as there is no sanction on the crime, let them keep doing it. people are worried about hyperinflation if you do not know if the currency of your land will be any good. guest: i agree. the federal government does not have any money. the federal government is printing money, we know that there has been a lot of that going on. the problem is that in this country, politicians have lost this fear of inflation. what it does, you actually want to invest but you have no idea what the value of your dollar is going to be. if you do not know how much you can sell it again for is worth, i absolutely agree. the stability that needs to be injected, understanding of limitations, stopping spending other people's money, printing money, pretending like it is money falling from the sky. host: veronique de rugy received a ph.d. from the sorbone in paris. what was your pieces? guest: tax revolt. i l

it is washington and the world, your way. nevada's senate republican nominee spoke at the nevada republican party convention unity dinner on friday. she talks about the differences between her senate campaign and democratic opponent senate majority leader harry reid, who is running for fifth term. it took place in henderson, nevada. hours after, president obama left the state or he was campaigning for senator reid. [applause] >> whoa. i hope you can see me. [laughter] there is no hand-held microphone. good evening, republican levers of liberty. thank you so much for being here. [applause] >> that is a little better. [cheers and applause] >> i had a press men say i did not expect you to be so little. [laughter] and i said, i do not let it fool you. i have been fighting about this all my life. there is, you know, an old adage about folks that are a little on the short side. anyway, i am so glad you are here, and i am so grateful to andanny for those wonderful wor. thank you. [applause] great. now we are cooking. i'm want to tel