its track record is very negative as many serious american historians admit to themselves through of the cold war period when the begin to me was communism the united states not just in the middle east but also in south america it was prepared to tolerate tyrants to date. butchers of their people because it's there in cross with the end of the cold war. humanitarianism became one of the ideological pillars except in those countries where it wasn't convenient so we've seen in the middle east in particular . the dictatorship in egypt which appears to be collapsing as we speak which has been there for the last twenty five to thirty years we have seen regimes over twenty years long in the market i b m concrete eastern is morocco algeria we've seen the toleration of a completely authoritarian brutal monarchy in saudi arabia jordan itself has been reduced to the status of an israeli american protectorate and iraq has been occupied. the occupation of iraq had very little to do with democracy course it had a great deal to do with the establishment of us again really now we have a waiver for

for his words after the 1950's, americans were hungry for these words. over here. wait for the -- there's a woman behind you. wait a minute. >> when i went to school, i always thought about -- all the people in the world, being patriarches. when i think about that, that speech, i always remind myself, we are that, because i think what one -- he always made people come to the country for this. it is true. opportunity. well, it's another reason, but they never say it. if you ask them anything about the founding fathers, there's absolutely no interest. so i think about that speech still, americans ought to be more patriotic. whether you support anybody. that doesn't have to be -- go to the peace corps, do something, you know? think about what the values of the country should be. at least learn to speak english, if nothing else. or to think about what other people are doing for the country you know? >> well, kennedy tell that it was -- he felt as did robert kennedy in his campaign that they -- that one of the things that you did in a presidential campaign wa

i believe in american exceptionalism. and i've been in many places over the world that you see this in action. and i've been in many places in america where you see this in action, where somebody selflessly takes care of other individuals. or lt night i was at the korean embassy and we were talking about what's taking ple in north korea. and one of the people working there at the south korean embassy was just amazed that people in the united states would care what happens to people in north korea. i said to one of the people with me were just saying that that's how we look at the wld. if somebody else is in bondage, if somebody else is in difficulty, we -- we feel that and we want to help out and deal with it. and that, to me, is part of what american exceptionalism is all about. this is a special place, and has a special calling, and if it isn't us doing it, in many cases around the world, it doesn't get done. i've been in the sudan and they aren't calling on the chinese to lead sudan into a freer time period. i've been

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

they hispanic americans are probably the most violent group in american television. latinos are usually portrayed as doing harm to others or is deserving of white violence and justice. and beyond the world of fiction in the so-called real world. with little in the world of t.v. . over and over again in popular talk programs all in the context of a single issue. and . these one sided representations seem. more. even though it is the f.b.i. the opposite seems to be the case with crime in historic low over the past ten years in major cities and border cities like los angeles new york chicago miami san diego and el paso where the immigrant population is actually at all time highs. we can't stop all murders rapes and deadly drunk driving accidents but our officials should be doing everything possible to prevent those committed by people who have no right to be here so without positive representations to balance the bad the meanest members of minority groups are allowed to stand in for all the rest creating a distorted and menacing picture viewers feeling under attack and

heritage month, every month can be african american heritage month. every month can be seen the demise of. every month could be irish american, every month could be women's history month. don't you agree with me? [applause] this is a place where we all call home. we recognize there are a lot of issues in our communities these days, but this is a place we all call home, so the message that the apa heritage celebration committee would like you to take with you after this celebration is that we believe heritage and culture is something that we are proud of and something that we can all share. there is common ground in many traditions and common values among communities of all colors that we can all appreciate. we, the committee, are committed to take every opportunity to invite all communities to come together in occasions like this, to connect, to open doors ..., to get to know each other more. we need to do that in this city, and i know that today is not the first day, but every day can be the first day of forever. i want to thank you for coming as we

health center and the native american aids project in celebrating american indian heritage month. we proudly celebrates the diversity out northern california by commemorating american indian heritage with more than 60 programs this year -- this month, in fact. these programs are highlighted in a guide along with listings of community resources and local events, and you can find that actkqed.org/ -- at kq ed.org/heritage. i wanted to point out a couple of films we have coming up on our films series. one is called "real injun" and it is an interesting trip through the history of north american native people as they have been portrayed in the history of movies from silent did today. the second explores the life and death of fred martina's and the spiritual nature and gender. two spirits is going to come on kqed television in june of 2011, but we are also sponsoring the american indian film festival this year, and that will be premiering at the festival i think next week. then, just this past month in october, helped dialogue with a special theory from kqed public radio did a report o

the work of the task force is to remind every american of the contributions of african- americans made in the construction of this building prior to the end of slavery in washington, d.c. in 1814, some build the capital. both buildings were completely gutted. the effort to rebuild was extensive. a transported the stone here. they cast the bricks. they rebuilt the wings and help construct what we now know his the greatest symbol of the greatest government of the world. the plaque that we are dedicating today says we will not forget. american slaves not only help build the capital, but also the nation. we are very grateful for that. frankie. [applause] parenthood -- thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the hon. mitch mcconnell. >> speaker pelosi, senators, distinguished guests and friends. as we all know, we have come here to take the -- tell the rest of the story. the slaves must set suffered in building this great monument. jefferson wrote in an immortal document. because of remembering the slaves who labored here, they were so cruelly denied dignity in life. for all of these

in the case of the spanish-american war, americans learned you did it, if you like coming to believe in the spanish and blown up the battleship u.s.s. maine and have an harbor, and the hearst press and the other yellow journals trumpeted the theory that the was the spanish deed. the admiral in the 70's headed a panel of experts to look into the probable causes of the explosion and can to the conclusion, which many people had come to before, but because battleships of that era were fuelled by kohl and the stores gave off gas in the case of the main gun powder magazines of the ship was placed directly above the coal stores it would have taken nothing but a spark to throw the man out of the water of the bottom of the harbor lay and even politically one could also have reached the same conclusions by recognizing that neither the spanish nor the cubans had anything to gain by seeking the main. nevertheless, that's not why we went to war. this certainly played a role in building up the probe for sentiment in america. but it's much more important to notice that for months and months before

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

-- a loyal and disloyal american. this she'lled must not be used. it stands as a state of sclugs that must be prepared topre tekt all citizens of prejudices. we are at a decision influencing the passage the act was not justified but resulted from race prejudice, and failed political leadership. for the rest of his life until his passing on march 30, 200 #, he dedicated himself to the education of the public particularly school children and young people about the history and standing up for the rights of others. on january 15, 1998. president clinton awarded him the presidential medal of freedom on behalf of all rights and liberties saying in ii 1942 an ordinary american took a stand. after being convicted for failing to report for relocation, he took his case all the way to the supreme court. the high courtroomed against him. 39 years later, he had his conviction returned to court giving him what he said he wanted most of all, the chance to feel like an american once again. some names of ordinary citizens came from mi

militia it's americans against americans overwhelmingly because the americans who had settled in upper canada were at least 60% and perhaps two-thirds of upper canada's population by 1812. it's also a symbol war of irish people against irish people so it is a civil war within the british empire over whether the british empire extends river its subjects go in the world. and then finally is a civil war might involving native people who are on both sides of the border and of the war. ultimately by telling the story of this border land war, i want to say that it is less about some sort of nationality understood as ethnicity than it is as a contest between a republican the empire for the allegiance of diverse peoples who lived on both sides of the border. both republicans and here i am talking about people who ideologically are committed to a republican form of government. both republicans and loyalists and here i mean anybody who is committed to the mixed constitution of great britain. republicans and loyalists suspected the continent wasn't big enough for the rival systems. republika and

not good for americans. not good. some 30 million people would lose their opportunity for insurance. i yield back my time, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york. ms. velazquez: madam speaker, will will small businesses lose if health care reform is repealed? the small business tax credits of up to 50% will be lost. insurers will be able to continue price gouging. insurers will be able to deny small business coverage without any justification. new health insurance upshoots for small businesses will be eliminated. small businesses will be unable to pool resources to purchase coverage. insurers will be able to delay small businesses access to health insurance. new health options for the self-employed will be abottle issued. i urge a no vote and i hope that we stand the remainder of this congress measures that truly get small businesses hiring and creating jobs. what we need is to get this economy back on track. by repealing health care reform, we will not achieve that. i yield back the bal

americans do work in restaurants. americans do landscaping. americans do construction. these are all jobs that americans do when the jobs are there. they line up to do those jobs, even working in the meat packing industry. and i don't see how anyone could argue that we don't have a greater obligation to our own citizens, especially african-american descendants of slaves. and i feel like what the liberal elite has done is they've abandoned one group for the latest group, and, you know, maybe they abandoned the latest group for yet another group. and i find it problematic. and if we want to help the poor of the world, then don't just help the ones that can walk across the border illegally. create some type of lottery system where the poor from any part of the world would be able to compete for a certain number of visas and rather than have a situation where we sort of privilege the poor that can, like, mcgill that can sneak across the border and get it over here. what about the par poor in burr -- about the poor in burma and african nations or places where you can't cross

what we have also learned is 1 twenty nine million americans, 1 twenty-nine million americans have pre-existing conditions and could lose their health care coverage. those under 65, 1 twenty-nine million americans under sixty-five. seventeen million children have pre-existing conditions and could lose their health insurance benefits. in short, they already have, went into effect in december. we will hear the voices of parent, children, students at small business owners, the real places of reform and the one and only hearing where the americans can share their concerns before the vote to repeal their rights. republicans have closed off the processes by not having hearings. the stories we will hear today will highlight the cost, at a time when children with pre-existing -- people with prostate cancer could be thrown off the -- these stories will remind us of repeals costing the american taxpayer $250 billion added to the deficit in the next decade. on behalf of these americans liberal democrats have made a firm commitment we will judge every proposal that comes before us whether it creates jobs,

arab-americans are not the other. our community is not to be feared. our community is to be relied on. it is a rich community in culture and talent and heritage. we are the defendants of people who build great cities like casa blogging, baghdad, cairo, jerusalem, damascus -- casa blanca. we are the people of the world who have given the world great profits and religions. -- great prophets and religions. thank you. [applause] >> every year that i have been in city hall, i have tried to take an intern from the community and try to teach them the ways of politics to make sure we have leadership that keeps coming, so eventually, we have candidates for office. like when a friend on the school board. is she here? -- like winifred on the school board. a couple of years back, i was wise enough to bring on an intern that has made all the difference for our community, especially with arab heritage month. he worked so hard for last year's event and has made this year a success. we were really concerned about timing, and we were not sure he would get to it, and sh

we are part of the american family. we believe that in a country where every race and faith and point of view can be found, we are still bound together as one people. we share common hopes and a common creed, that the dreams of a little girl in tucson are not so different than those of our own children, that they all deserve the chance to be fulfilled. that too is what sets us apart as a nation. ( applause ) now by itself this simple recognition won't usher in a new era of cooperation. what comes of this moment is up to us. what comes of this moment will be determined not by whether we can sit together tonight but whether we can work together tomorrow. ( applause ) i believe we can. i believe we must. that's what the people who sent us here expect of us. with their votes, they've determined that governing will now be a shared responsibility between parties. new laws will only pass with support from democrats and republicans. we will move forward together or not at all, for the challenges we face are bigger than party an

could i have all the native americans please remain standing? all native americans, stand up. how about a big round of applause for our native americans here for native american heritage month in november. all you non-indians, just look around. this is what custer saw at the little bighorn, and you know what he said to his men? where did all these indians come from? once again, welcome to the sixth annual nida american heritage month celebration here at city hall. -- annual native american heritage month cicelebration. i would like to thank our host for this month, native american aids project, the mayor's office, the san francisco native american health center, and kqed public broadcasting. how about a big round of applause for our host? thank you. at this time, when indian people -- when we gather, we throw on our regalia, our outfits. we do not call them costumes. if you are from oklahoma, we call them in being close -- clothes. it is good to see all these dancers and singers as well, their families. when we gather like this, we start out with prayer, so please stand if you

they hispanic americans are probably the most violent group in american television. hold still. usually portrayed as doing harm to others or is deserving of white justice. in the so-called real world. the world. over and over again. all. these. even though. over the. san diego. everything possible to prevent those committed by people who have no right to be here so without positive representations to balance the bad the meanest members of minority groups are allowed to stand in for all the rest creating into stored and menacing picture that leaves viewers feeling under attack and reinforcing a mentality that feeds and feeds off of anger and rage he doesn't have the right to be in his country what put that does nothing to do with you that's. one of the should have been deported here in a police chase. the mean world creates people cultivating irrational fear and anger among those whose primary knowledge of latinos regardless of whether they're citizens or legal or illegal immigrants seems to come from media. nearly everybody back country and our stuff. this has nothing to do with

are something like over ninety percent of americans are eating on a daily basis genetically modified food stuff they don't know what that it is genetically modified but they're still eating it and the studies are showing on at least on these other mammals that it's causing health problems well this takes us to the next headline the big five fifty million americans are now uninsured that's the number of americans lacking medical coverage now exceeds the population of spain this is one fifth of non elderly americans are uninsured well this is the equivalent of the final solution and nazi germany they claimed that but i'm agreement toryism burnt them america is going to get a mob from hell supply and all kinds of excommunicating from the digital money supply and they'll die in the street this is america's version of the final solution thanks obama a frickin nazi it's the american population itself because i witnessed with my own eyes massive anger against even the notion that we should ever extend health care to those twenty percent of americans non elderly americans that have no health

the american people deserve a full hearing. they deserve to see this legislation go to the senate for full vote. >> reporter: following repeal, the house will vote tomorrow on a republican resolution that orders four committees to draw up an alternative health care plan. >> ifill: for more on today's action on capitol hill, we turn to "newshour" political editor david chalian. not 254 as i said leading in. but that aside, tell us about the answer to eric cantor's question. why won't the senate take this up now? >> senate democrats don't want to have this conversation because mitch mcconnell as soon as the house passed the repeal bill tonight, gwen, mitch mcconnell said "we must vote on this" and you saw the political pressure going out to all the potentially vulnerable democratic senators running for reelection this next sake. hey, join the republicans, we need a vote on this, the american people won't a vote on this. you can sense the republicans want to pressure harry reid as much as possible to give them a vote even though t

, throughout american history? with that i would like to introduce our panelists starting from my far right but definitely not politically on the far right angela oh is the executive director of the western justice center and the western justice center is involved in conflict resolution. it brings different parties, different groups to the center for very candid discussions about race, about identity and about pluralism. some of you may know that angela also became a very outspoken figure during the 1992 unrest in los angeles and was really part of the process in los angeles. next to her is rashad hussain. rashad is president barack obama's envoy to the organization of islamic conference. he was formerly, is formerly also the deputy associate counsel to the president and he has received his jurist doctorate from yale university and a spinning gauge with several conversations here and abroad on the status of muslim americans and u.s. policy toward the muslim world. next to him is fernando kiera. fernando and i had t

and celebrating great counts for the bosh while pomp american marriages end in divorce. and a break in freedom to run and even friends. one of those paradise lost paradise robert turner is returned to the republic of applies it to venice he hopes to reveal the treasures played by a boy and legs of. the king of financial thought mike kaiser explains why we can legs should be celebrated and talks to a self-proclaimed groucho the new me. sure this is the kaiser report we're on the front line markets and finance there is a global war going on savers versus speculators financial terrorist versus the rest of us and the front line on this markets and finance extends past just banks it also includes companies like mom santo symbol m o n new york stock exchange stacey hurt me more yes max kaiser they are in the first headline wiki leaks u.s. ambassador planned retaliation against france over a ban on one santo korean so apparently former ambassador craig stapleton was concerned about france's decision to suspend cultivation of month santo's m o n eight ten corn and warned that a

economy. >> they do american leadership. they do need a strong america. because you cannot solve any of the major problems and crises in the world without american leadership. >> reporter: there have been serious risks... rifts with europe over the u.s. invasion of iraq, for example, and more recently wikileaks which revealed what american diplomats really think of some european leaders. but the common bond in europe even as geo politics shift. >> we're never going to have the political links with china or russia the way we have them with the u.s.. >> reporter: tim marshal diplomatic editor in london for sky news. >> i don't think america is in decline. i think it's an overstated case. people mistake the fact that china is growing in power, that japan and germany will be greater economic powers and so there's going to be competition. that doesn't mean america is becoming weaker. militarily america has got a good 50-year lead everybody else. >> reporter: and much as europeans have recented american military supremacy, they still depend on it. >> if the u.s

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they love americans. the fact of the matter we are all sitting here talking about this, very openly, a very diverse background, that's a good sign. there are a lot of cultural- political-factional power is out there that these kinds of discussions would have ever happened, nor would any thing happen as a result. [applause] we have to not be ourselves up. but now i will answer your question about china. it is the rate of growth. it's like companies. mature companies grow slower, met -- china, we have been telling them how to do things, do it this way, and eventually they do, when they did it, it worked and the rate of growth is much faster. their attitude is very different. they are a lot hungrier than us. but they also have issues that attempted the to grow peacefully, and i'm sure we will talk about security somehow, if they don't continue to grow peacefully cut the political and social stability will be called into question. as such, right now, if you ask the chinese people, the majority of the 300 mill

i'm not talking about the american. india but its existence, it's an element of containment of china because of its reality. not because we invent it, not because we want to contain it, it's there. so if china takes the position which i don't think it is, that they cannot be contained in some way by india, that mean india has to be impudent forever. as far as america is concerned, we should not build our relationship with india on the proposition that this is a way for us to diminish china. we have a lot of positive agents with india. there is no organic reason. i mean there are strategies of central asia there were appropriate when the british empire was contesting with russia. china wasn't very strong. in china asked us to give up our relationship with china that's not good start. >> charlie: do you think you know how china thinks. >> i think i do more than anyone about how chinese think about northern policy. there is a difference opinion in china about what this means in any given point. as there would be in the uni

it has failed the american people. the american people have rendered their judgment. nearly 93% of the american people who pay taxes have voted no to this system. that ought to give us good guidance as to where we can find savings to bring down our national debt. as i understand it, we're going to have an amendment from the democratic side of the aisle which causes any money saved here to go to bringing down the debt. i hope it comes forward, i will support it and i hope we have the support of our colleagues for this bill. the chair: the gentleman from illinois has a minute and a half. mr. roskam: the minority leader was on the floor a couple of minutes ago, i know the weather situation is urgent, i didn't want to prolong this drama, but it seemed to me to make the argument that this doesn't do anything as it relates to economic growth is an overstatement. one thing we continue to hear and the.'s -- the president's own debt commission spoke eloquently about the nature of debt and the stifling nature of debt on the economy and the stifling nature of spending on the eco

americans agree. a gallup/"usa today" poll shows that only 13% of americans supporthe law. the american people want this law repealed and so do i, as i promised. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. miller: i yield twminutes to the gentlewoman from california, mrs. davis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. davis: thank you. thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, my mother always told me if you have your health, you have everything. which is why i've always believed every american should have access to the care they need to be healthy. now, my colleagues want t repeal health care without an alternative. it's easy to say you reject something but it's harder to come up with solutions. americans deserve to know how my colleagues' plan protects patients. women should not be denied care bad on gender, nor should they need a permission slip to see an on gin. the 22 million americans without insurance need access to coverage. insurers shoul't deny children covera because they've b

american indians have the highest rate of diabetes and other americans 195% higher. native americans have the highest rates of alcoholism. suicide is one of the highest health disparities that impact our community. access to treatment and care is the lowest for native americans in san francisco alone. they are clearly underserved populations, the city and county of public health. one of the key issues to really underscore is why we're here. we're healthy, but we're here. i think one of the other important things to point out, it is not all american and alaskan natives. we have a post-colonial stress disorder. we don't come to city funded programs and therefore we must not exist or we are very healthy. that is not the case when you look at all of the other statistics. in talking about all of these health disparities, one of the key things that we helped speak to that we demonstrate when asking for funding, what is that we have to show need -- one is that we have to show need. we have statistics and numbers that really impact whether we are going to get funding or not.

islamic in terms of understanding the american people -- i don't think the americans were in any doubt at all about what was being said and why it was being said. i don't recall the precise conversations i had but by we, this is entirely consistent with what i was saying publicly. i don't think it was a secret i was right alongside america on september 11th and continued to be tvd and one of the reasons why when we had the meeting there was so much international focus is britain and america were standing together. what i was saying to the americans, i was trying to get them very substantially to amend their position. their position as we are going to do it, then the position okay with an ultimatum, within his system it was going to be we are going to put this back in the lap of the united nations and some of the people in the administration were saying you're crazy, you're going to put back into the bureaucracy of the u.n., swallow them up and be back for all this playing around. in the meantime you got this guy doing what he's doing sitting there and nothing happening. so i was having

the american economy. the only acceptable outcome is to restore prosperity and good- paying jobs. our most important job is to fight for american jobs, to make it in america. democrats will judge what comes before congress from either side of the aisle as to whether it creates jobs, strengthens the middle class, and reduces the deficit, not when the new speaker of the house, john boehner, and the new republican majority -- and congratulations again, come forward with solutions that will address these american challenges, you will find us a willing partner. [applause] as we congratulate speaker boehner and our republican colleagues, as we wish them success, we must stand ready to find common ground, to solve problems, and to build a more secure future for all americans. and as we take the oath of office today to support and defend the constitution, we must be ever-mindful that it makes us trustees for the american people, with an obligation to do what is right for them, and custodians of the american herita

the american side and the al qaeda side. why should the american people care about the al qaeda-backed story? >> well, why should americans care about the nazi-backed story in world war ii? if you doesn't have the nazi-backed story in world war ii, world war ii is not comprehensible. and if you don't understand what al qaeda was trying to do on nivente -- on 9-11 or a sense of who osama bin laden is as a person or what al qaeda, the organization, was on 9-11, 9-11 appears to be more or less inexplicable. we've had a lot of stories, histories of the last decade or so, told largely from our perspective, and i try to inject the al qaeda perspective into this narrative. not to suggest moral equivalence so we understand what happened. tavis: there are three presidents who you dissect their administrations what they did, or did not do as it were with regard to this american al qaeda fight. let me take them one at a time. and top line these presidents in order. bill clinton. >> bill clinton i think had a reasonably good grasp on th

they didn't lose thanks to the american surge of american tactics. they lost thanks to black & decker. what we mean by that? black & decker is power drills. if you find a corpse in iraq, he was killed but sunni militias. if you found a corpse in iraq with the marks of power drills, that was the signature of shia militiamen. you had in 2006 a strong cooperation between shia militiamen, iraqi police and iraqi army. they pounded and punish sunni neighborhoods. to the point where sunnis began to depopulate baghdad. when i visited in 2007 it was totally empty. thousands of homes close, kitchens still fall but nobody was living there. sunnis were defeated. they were leaving. they're in syria, jordan. this was important to stress, six months before the surge and sunni militiamen began to realize they had lost, what this meant was they were also paying attention to discourse coming out of washington u.s. rhetoric from d.c. democrats are urging the u.s. to pullout from iraq. there is a lot applause. i had sunni friends in iraq who, for a couple of years, had

we see a sort of disappointment really on the american side on the side of the american strategists with the people who they've been supporting for so long. but you asked me earlier about a cold war mentality absolutely that's very much it's very clear that these groups both as i say the political groups and the theoretically nonpolitical ones are pursuing indeed what one can rightly call a cold war mentality to the extent that they are going beyond the boundaries of their own country and seeking help from foreigners in this case from the americans whereas of course the normal thing to do if you're fighting a political cause in any country is to fight basically at home and to try and carissa curry support at home not from abroad and not. only that washington seems to be somewhat disappointed in the opposition do you think that it just doesn't take opposition here in russia seriously it's. all going to. do you think washington think is non-parliamentary opposition groups have a future in the country. well i mean you know we were only looking i've only seen a few cables i suppose one would

that is not american. host: the question, do americans have too many freedoms? guest: coming from a russian talking about a violent society, russia is a mob oksy. if you're a journalist, you're lucky to be alive. if you make money and criticize putin you're going to be put in the ghouling a. americans have a lot of freedoms. russia, you're lucky if you speak out if you're going to li the next day. guest: be careful john. host: karen. guest: you know, it's a tough question because, it's interesting that the shooting happened the week after we had the reading of the constitution, which i think is an opportunity to go back and reflect on the rights and privileges that we have in america, which i am very grateful for, i know we all are. and our democracy, we are constantly trying to make it better. and i believe that with our second amendment rights there have got to be ways that we can protect that right but then ensure that people like mr. love anywhere don't get any weapons in their hands. and i think that's a part of making our democracy a more perfect union. ho

american indians have the highest rate of diabetes and other americans 195% higher. native americans have the highest rates of alcoholism. suicide is one of the highest health disparities that impact our community. access to treatment and care is the lowest for native americans in san francisco alone. they are clearly underserved populations, the city and county of public health. one of the key issues to really underscore is why we're here. we're healthy, but we're here. i think one of the other important things to point out, it is not all american and alaskan natives.

there's a lot of anti-american going on. it helps to have president hu jintao come here and indicate how important a solid relationship with the united states is and why it's on both sides interests, and i think that both men see this as a relationship they have to mana , but we both recognize we get this right, or both of us suffer a lot of losses that should be avaded. >> host: yet, steve, a lot of questions coming up is why give china the platform of a state dinner when there's problems with human rights and debates between the countries. >> guest: that's right. president bush had a different view. he had a close relationship with president hu jintao and at the beginning of the administration, a similar relationship at the time. he decided to only have a working visit, rather than a full state's visit. this symbolism of a full state visit is important to the chinese. it happened before in the clinton administration, and so from my point of view, you know, i think we look at the world as having changed a great deal. our ap

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