what was it like to be covering the state department at the time of the arab spring and how was the state department handling all of these things happening at once? >> guest: do know they were really scrambling to keep up with a the change. i think everybody was. the europeans and the russians, the chinese into a lesser extent they are much further like to have their own domestic concerns but again going back to the point i was making at the beginning, what a reminder that the power is run by real people who are certainly thinking of go my goodness what is going on, what are we going to do and what are the long-term consequences and how should we handle this and what happens if we say to mubarak we have to go? what happens to relationships with other countries in the region's? if we suddenly tell mubarak you have to step down what are the pakistanis going to think when we are just trying to rebuild their relationship with them so it's a reminder that. i think the arab spring, the chapter around the arab spring is an example of what the book is trying to do. it's trying to bring the reader

state department that was released last week. i as a citizen will choose -- >> that was cowritten with a trans-canada associate. >> yeah, yeah. you can listen to scientists, or you can listen to a celebrity. >> let's talk about -- let's talk about science. if you can try to diminish me, but -- >> no, no, i'm not. >> -- from reports that i've read and studies, if you want to listen to science, why don't you listen to the science of, say, the pentagon or the world bank or the last citibank report? the world bank report that came out about the climate crisis said that if we continue using fossil fuels and especially these carbon-intensive fossil fuels like tar sands, we are looking at total systems collapse, and they recommended, the world bank, recommended themselves that we end our use of fossil fuels as quickly as possible. now, the good news is, if solar energy continues to grow and expand the way that it has the last five years for the next five years here in the united states, we will be getting 50% of our energy from solar. y

they work with the state department but it goes from the state department in italy to the state department in the united states. most extradition treaties say that the requested country, in this case the u.s. can diskreugs nare lee -- discretionarily decline to turn over their people. there is no motivation and they will not want to turn her over in my opinion. >> the political motivation could be that years down the road or months down the road if we had the reverse kind of situation where the italians are holding somebody we want they could use this as an example. >> that's a very good point in the've built up credibility in the bank. in other words we extradited here later if we ask you to extradict -- >> it's only on procedural grounds here not truth or in sense, guilt or in sense all on procedural ground of what the cops did or did not do. >> and we don't know yet why they have overturned that acquittal, right? >> apparently no knifed was presented. we have to think it's the forensics again but we don't know. >> in terms of an extradition they are not look at guilt or in sense per se.

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the state department officials say that the decision to send the b2 bombers was part of the a normal exercise. it is believed that north korea does not have missile technology but capable of targeting selected u.s. military bases and countries those regions. >> elizabeth, you bring up the point that kim jong-un's decision hurt his people in the process. how and north korea's talk of war affect thingy i troops on the border there. >> hare- here's more from the general. turning to the role in afghanistan. our role is winding down after a decade of war. u.s. special forces turning over one of their key bases to afghan control. the withdrawal satisfying the demands from karzai that all u.s. special forces leave the area and transfer control to afghans of the prison. that houses most taliban fightsers and insurgent in the country. all of this is a part of the drawn ow done of forces. most of our combat troops scheduled to be out by 2014. we know the identity of a navy seal killed in a training exercise. bret shadle was a highly decorated member of seal team six. the same unit that carried

of state and state department it was an office headed by daniel fried to study and to you know it's actually carry out the closing of guantanamo that's now been closed it seems that there is no one in the government in the administration that would call to help with the closure of this phase as we continue to just challenge the detention in our courts cindy i'm running out of time about i want to ask you this why should the washington. the war about what's happening in one town i'm of a. because the reputation of the united states in the world is at stake here if the us does not come to table the government authorities here are committed to go and discuss with. the improvement of the contributors here there are men who are going to begin to die for no reason at all when a simple solution would be to stop the searches of the program or if not to allow them and to turn older carouse seriously are not search and simple as zara would say it's a man who needs leaving tomorrow and the city back on track to be healthy are right now they're very very secure very weak to be very. loyal cindy

i'm in the process of looking at the state department findings. and i'll be interesting in listening to public comment on this. >> congressman chris van holen, always good to see you. >> thanks, chris. >> jackie, you know you know environmentalists are furious about this state department report. >> i mean, does it give him more -- does it make it easier for him to sign off on this? >> it does. it does. it does in a lot of ways. but that is not going to stop the environmental lobby from pushing back. they're going to be -- there are certain groups that are going to have protests every single time that obama or secretary state kerry have public events. so they're going to make their voices heard on this, no matter if the president feels he has cover or not. >> and lauren, what do you think? what are the chances that the president gives this an up or down? >> this is part of his above energy strategy here. what we're going to see is the president is not running for re-election. this is not going to harm the environment, like i said, they're going to

what does the state department has to say about all this? >> reporter: just a few minutes ago we heard from the state department one of the officials explained in the statement that these costs are nothing out the ordinary. they are in line with high level travel across multiple administrations. the contract costs cover entire range of support including accomodations for military, communications secret service staff and other support professionals. security experts are required to travel in advance of the president's or vice president safety and security are not negotiatable. we saw earlier this week another story about half a million dollar hotel bill for the vice president in london. the reason for that high amount, it is safety. jamie. jamie: peter doocy live in washington. thank you so much. that report saying charges like this don't seem out of the ordinary are they really necessary? we'll have a fair and balanced debate on that coming up. bill? bill: we are just about an hour away from the supreme court taking on california's voter-sup

state department to do resettlements. each of those 10 organizations have a network of affiliates or regionalal offices across the united states. we're affiliates with two of those organizations. basically, once someone has gone through the interview process and has been approved in the initial interview to come to the u.s. as a refugee their biogoes to this network of 10 organizations and each organization has refugees that they are responsible for resettling and they send their bio to an affiliate like us. we get a piece of paper that the us that how many in family, what language they speak, if they have serious health problems. we take if we're going to take the case or not take the case, whether it is will be successful in atlanta. we usually always take the case. then we may see the family in a month or a year. after that interview there's an entire process after that that includes health screenings, security screens,. refugees take out a travel loan to fly here. one thing we can say is that they arrive in this count

the second thing is today, or soon, the state department is going to release the first preliminary findings about the keystone pipeline. it might be a way for the administration to finally say okay. we can see the benefit of $127 billion a year. 552,000 jobs annually. then you see all the money coming in the treasury, that is real money. we have don't have to talk about whether or not $85 billion is real cuts or fake cuts. >> bob: the real income for americans fell 3.6% in january. one, the vacation from fica taxes, social security and medicare has come back on. the other thing, a lot of big wall street firms gave their bonusebonuses in '12 opposed to. with that, consumer spent more money the month before. housing starts rup. there is a growth -- >> dana: we are going to talk about this in the "c" block and have a debate about it. >> greg: did a reverse one more thing. >> eric: things are getting better. things are getting better in spite of president obama not because of him. quickly, think about this for one second. we are pumping $85 billion sequester number, we are pumping $85 billion i

state department did not have them when it published the yalta documents. the result is that many revelations that are in those papers have been secret for low these many decades. these papers it turns out are at the university of virginia in charleston. and i was able to get them there and you'll find many things they are that are not in the official tell the compilation but the main thing that i want to stress is that they show the role of hiss farm extension of anything that is in the official compilation. hiss was probably the one american at yalta who knew what he was doing. and i say that an almost literal sense. the secretary of state had been there for two months at the time of the altar chosen novice and he knew almost nothing about foreign policy. president roosevelt distressingly, the record shows almost did. very, very confused on many issues. alger hiss was not confused. he knew what he was doing, and he was the person at all the paper, had all the documents, all the cables went through him. he was all over the place. that is in the stettinius

joining us right now, christian white men, former state department's senior adviser. welcome back to the show. is good to have you here. >> thanks. good to be here. adam: it will win this standoff? this seems to happen on a regular basis when we conduct military exercises. the north ramps up its rhetoric. is something more serious going on. >> something more serious is going on. it was foreign-aid. all amelia wallet is doing this very publicly and privately proliferating weapons engaging in activities that help fund this despotic regime. >> we a scene of fire on south korean territory. and there's been no retaliation so why should they not be aggressive? that the they don't have the political will to defend themselves. underestimate the political will. this could lead to an escalation. they don't seem terribly concerned. adam: the cost was unchanged. we know that north korea is an appearance of the. it's not the direct attack from a nuclear weapon, why should we be focused on something else and not that >> they no direct nuclear assaults on u.s. allies in the united s

department because on page two of that memo, he talked about the fact that we at the state department supported the prime minister candidate in libya that the people in benghazi didn't like. i know that's kind of convoluted and confusinconfusing. but those militant groups warned us that they weren't going to protect our consulate. they weren't going to provide us protection unless we got rid of our support for mr. jabril. and then the attack happened literally about 12 hours after that warning ambassador stevens had given to the state department back in washington, d.c. so two hours into the attack they put up a social media message and said they were going to attack our embassy in tripoli. so it's pretty hard to think that they weren't involved in this. and somebody we have to deal with there in eastern libya. >> all right. so you believe that they are. obviously as susan was reporting at this point, and obviously it's preliminary, but there is no evidence that this man is actually linked to that militant group. the bottom line question is this, though. you say at least a dozen or mo

department hey administration why are you doing this. well exactly. and i think that they owe the people that they govern an explanation of what they're doing in our name. and oftentimes it's really really difficult to drag that out because one the policy is inconsistent or two. they don't know they don't really know what they're doing you know i think the arab spring took a lot of people by surprise and there was a lot of confusion and no one really knew exactly what to do and i think that continues to this day look at what happened in tunisia which was going to be the model that you know the first country to overthrow its. to oust its strongman. you know if that was going to be the model they have elections everything was fine and now the opposition leader gets clipped killed you know there's a lot of concern about what is going to happen in tunisia about what is going to happen in libya itself particularly after the attack on the qana on the diplomatic the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi egypt is a big question i mean it's complet

the state department steps in because they are the ones who oversee this program. when you hear about violations like this, it's probably not heard as loudly because it's foreign exchange students. it's not an american infrastructure. a lot of these people feel as though they don't have a voice. well josh idol son they do. he is a writer for salon.com and we welcome josh in to talk about this, and jorge rios, who you saw in that piece from argentina, here to talk about the protest itself. i welcome both of you. josh i want to ask you what brought your attention to this story and to cover something that we don't see a lot of coverage of? >> thank you. so i have a feature that i was reporting for in the magazine next month about this frontier of organization among guest workers. you have hundreds of thousands of workers who come in and out of the country each year and their condition sometime extreme say a lot of about the state of u.s. economy protecting workers, decline in job security. that's through my contacts with the national guest worker lines. that's how i b

saudi arabia, iraq and then i applied for a bbc job to cover the state to cover the state department of the to cover the state department to us over the course but in beirut that i was running for others as well, but i listen more and more for the bbc. i dimensionally -- eventual path is to determine job which was an amazing opportunity for me to see and other, another perspective on what i had been covering in the middle east. i knew lots about the use. i traveled there. i've been here in holiday. i have an american brother-in-law. a dj front row seat to the other side of the story. >> host: you are, if i'm not mistaken, the only non-american foreign correspondent and the traveling press corps, is that right? >> guest: that is correct. although my colleagues and want to point out that they are not american but i'm also nonwestern. i have a dutch mother, but for all intents and purposes o i'm very much an arab woman. i grew up there -- i lived there my whole life and that's kind of what i bring to the table. although i have a western perspective on some things because my background.

thus far, the state department has shut down the foreign affairs committee. they have made a formal request. we have made a formal request. thus far, they will not share that information. >> how delicate is this? if we are talking about people working in clandestine circumstances, where it may be dangerous to reveal their identity or their family members, how would you be able to have them testify or get information from them, while balancing that delicate interest? >> we review classified information on a regular basis there is a way to do that with nose people. have you a host of people, just involved at the state department, not in the classified type of setting. we haven't been able to access them. the state department will not physically give us, for instance, unclassified information regarding what happened. it's just -- for the president to continue to say that he is the open book and providing us all the information, it is factually not true at this point. >> shannon: as much as we may not like it, the truth is in washington, it's about deal making. y

. >> the state department said friday that they have offered f.b.i. investigator to help the singaporians. the family expects that the authorities may be part of the cover up because of the sensitive nature of todd's work. a congressional investigation is the only way to get to the bottom of what may be the sinister murder of an american citizen, harris. >> it sounds like there may be more behind this than what meets the eye. what is the root of the suspicion? >> the family was suspicious about his death after they discovered inconsistency by the. apartment was not propertily sench and the suicide noit was totally out of character said his mother and the scene of the death didn't match the description given bypass the police whenment family went to visit. pathologist shoyed that his body found evidence of a struggle rather than the suicide. that's what leads the family to believe there to than this. >> it will be curious to stee what the f.b.i. can turnover. since the state department will make them available, we'll start to see the answers. >> and al

joining us right now, christian white men, former state department's senior adviser. welcome back to the show. is good to have you here. >> thanks. good to be here. adam: it will win this standoff? this seems to happen on a regular basis when we conduct military exercises. the north ramps up its rhetoric. is something more serious going on. >> something more serious is going on. it was foreign-aid. all amelia wallet is doing this very publicly and privately proliferating weapons engaging in activities that help fund this despotic regime. >> we a scene of fire on south korean territory. and there's been no retaliation so why should they not be aggressive? that the they don't have the political will to defend themselves. underestimate the political will. this could lead to an escalation. they don't seem terribly concerned. adam: the cost was unchanged. we know that north korea is an appearance of the. it's not the direct attack from a nuclear weapon, why should we be focused on something else and not that. >> they no direct nuclear assaults on u.s. allies in the united

we have heard only slightly different things from the white house pentagon, and state department. can you sort it out? reporter: the white house only said it had no evidence as regards to rebels using chemical weapons. the pentagon said it has no evidence that either side used them in the syrian civil war. as you noted, syrian state-run tv was first to air the allegation, showing images who the regime said are victims of the attack. but the state department here in washington all but accused the government in damascus of lying. >> we've seen reports from the assad regime, alleging the opposition has been responsible for use. let me just say we have no reason to believe these allegations represent anything more than the regime's continued attempts to discredit the legitimate opposition and distract from it own atrocities committed against the syrian people. reporter: beyond that, serb u.s. officials refused to speaker citing need for intelligence sources. >> shepard: there was more to it than that. >> you hear spokesman say it, the president has been very clear about this and we he

magma is disappointed in the lack of response from the white house and the state department. but says she won't give up. she says through it all, she and her two kids have grown stronger in their faith and the prayers of fellow believers. >> my worry was they would resent christ for taking daddy away, but they've grown and they worship and pray every night. and now they're proud he is in prison because he loves jesus because they love him so very much, also. >> wendy: incredible testimony. after sharing her story with congress, she came to our bureau in washington, where she spoke with our lori johnson about this spiritual trial's impact on her family and her faith. >> tell us what this experience has been like for you and your kids. >> it has been a very emotional road for all of us, especially the kids, and especially for me as a mom, watching the kids suffer. there is one thing to go through all of the emotions as an adult, but when you see little kids missing their dad, then -- and really longing for him, and having to go to sleep crying and missing him, it's been very ha

department closed the office that was in charge of closing the prison i went to a state department briefing earlier this week again never got a chance to ask a question it's either they watch our t.v. or the media person they're just didn't take questions from anyone who is not attending to the briefings on a daily basis which i don't one way or another our questions remain unanswered they're the only person who has been responding to our inquiries about the situation with the detainees was robert during the spokesman for guantanamo but the only comments he can offer are about the health of the detainees which is apparently deteriorating and also the latest numbers as far as how many detainees are on strike at the moment the latest we have from him is thirty one person but that's it there's complete silence on the most important questions about the future of the prison what's going to happen to these people president obama's spokesperson said the president's team is closely monitoring the hunger strikers guantanamo bay and i can tell you that the administration remains committed to closing

behind them are a growing number of people in the state department, in the administration. i think the principle opposition of that is the white house and the president himself. when you have drown a red line, if the evidence is clear that the syrians have used chemical weapons, he is going to have to act, chris. you shouldn't make any mistake. he has to act. he doesn't want to. he is afraid of getting drawn in. you need to watch very carefully what they say about the evidence. >> he drew that red line last year. he is not going to be able to -- he will completely lose -- chris: we're using the red line term a lot these days. >> he can put those to good use and get some public support back home. >> our leader of the democratic opposition to the iraq war resolution, very interesting. chris: so impressed, exactly. he is not a war hawk. as we have been saying iran's ahmadinejad may not be taking us seriously, the big question is whether we should take him seriously. was made famous in this movie. this ahmadinejad seems to take his own rhetoric seriously. >> i come before you t

last week the state department issued its report, the latest report which did not take a pogonia proval. the latest fox news poll indicates 70% of respondents favor building the pipeline. just 23% as you see disagree. not everyone is convinced president obama has the nation's best interest at heart. mitt romney says he thinks the president is still playing politics. the defeated presidential nominee talked with fox news sunday chris wallace. we have a part of the interview you have not seen yet. >> in his first interview since election night, mitt romney added his voice to a growing chorus in the g.o.p. that president obama is more focused on winning the 2014 mid-terms than reaching a compromise on the debt. >> i think republicans feel that the president may be more interested in getting nothing done in these next two years and trying to replace republicans in the house to have an all democrat house and senate. be able to run the field. he really doesn't want to get the job done. if you are a republican, you say whoa. we better be careful here. the interest of the american people are be

but the state department expressed how dubious they were about these documents and the likelihood that they were forged. >> at the time, no one from u.s. intelligence had actually laid eyes on the documents. and they will ultimately turn out to be forgeries. but when a dia report on the yellowcake claim is presented to dick cheney, he orders the cia to dig deeper. the agency sends a veteran diplomat with extensive experience in africa. former ambassador joseph wilson. >> i knew the foreign minister who was subsequently prime minister. i knew the minister of mines. it did not happen. it could not have happened. just because of the nature of uranium mining operations in africa. the french maintained control. >> the most important thing to know about the yellowcake story is that the cia never believed it. >> but even as speculation, it is enough for administration officials to move ahead with plans to take out saddam. national security adviser condoleezza rice goes on cnn to alert the nation. >> the problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquir

what was it like to be covering the state department at the time of the arab spring and how is the state department handling all these things happening at once. >> guest: they were scrambling to keep up with the change. everybody was. the europeans, the russians, the chinese perhaps to a lesser extent. they're much fer their away and their own domestic concerns, but going back to the point i was making at the beginning, it was reminder that the superpower is run by human beings. we're people. what are we going to do? what are the long-term consequences, how should we handle this? what about mubarak. what happens if we say to mubarak, you have to good. what happens to our relationships with other countries in the region? the u.s. is often seen as a friend. if we tell mubarak he has to step down. what will the other countries think so. it's just a reminder of that. i think the arab spring -- the chapters around the arab spring are a perfect example of what this book is trying to do. it's trying to bring the reader into -- give the reader a front seat row to diplomacy in action. it's a grea

and an award she's not going to get now since the state department put it on hold. >>gretchen: let's do other headlines. brand-new details emerging about that deadly lion attack at a california cat wildlife sanctuary. we know the lion escaped from a feeding cage while an intern was cleaning the other cage. the corner revealing she died almost instantly after the lion broke her neck with one swipe. >> she was vivacious. she loved her work. she loved big cats. she had cats in her past and cats now in her life. she was doing what she loved, and she did it with joy every day that she worked here. and she's going to be missed. i'm so sorry this has happened. >>gretchen: cat haven remains closed while the investigation into the attack continues. a shocking security breach at one of the nation's busiest airports. an undercover t.s.a. inspector with an improvised explosive device, in his pants successfully got through two security screenings at newark airport and allowed to board a passenger flight. the agent was pulled aside for a patdown and passed. the t.s.a. said the po

his state department says less than 5,000 temporary jobs. but more importantly, what happens if you've got the obama pipeline, now it's the obama pipeline. and it leaks? his legacy could be the worst oil disaster in american farmland history. he's got to make a tough choice. >> but that is a lot of "ifs." i have a question about the president and his policies. you heard the president during his inauguration and he made a very big deal and a very strong statement about climate change during his speech. if he backs this pipeline, do you think this undermines his argument? >> that speech brought tears to my eyes. after he gave that speech after his inauguration, if the first thing he does is bringing a pipeline bringing tar sands through america, the first thing that pipeline runs over is the credibility of the president on his climate policy. what is the go-forward strategy on climate now? you've got -- you may have a situation. it's hard to tell. has the administration made a decision they're going to give the right rhetoric to the environmen

the state department report was bad. she gets to be the arbiter of what government report -- i will let you know which reports are good -- are good and which reports are bad. every single person in this country is benefitting from this. if we did not have this fracking boom, imagine where our unemployment would be, where our economy would be, where gas prices would be. every single person in this country has benefitted from it. stuart: all right, everybody, in a moment i'm going to talk football with one of the great coaches of american football. okay? just wait for it. it is coming. first, here's the market, yeah, new high, if it closes here, it is a brand new high, just shy of 14,300. our next guest, here we go, changed his strategy in 07. that change helped lead him and his team to two super bowl victories. joining us now is the head coach of the new york giants. and he's the author of "earn the right to win". coach coughlin, first time ever interviewed by an englishman. i do declare. >> yes, sir. stuart: we're not go

department closed the office that was in charge of closing the prison i went to a state department briefing earlier this week again never got a chance to ask a question it's either they watch our t.v. or the media person they're just didn't take questions from anyone who is not attending to the briefings on a daily basis which i don't one way or another question is remained an answer there the only person who's been responding to our inquiries about the situation with the detainees was robert during the spokesman for guantanamo but the only comments he can offer are about the health of the detainees which is apparently deteriorating and also the latest numbers as far as how many detainees are on strike at the moment the latest we have from him is thirty one person but that's it there's complete silence on the most important questions about the future of the prison what's going to happen to these people president obama spokesperson said the president's team is closely monitoring the hunger strikers guantanamo bay and i can tell you that the administration remains committed to closing the det

state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week but was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgery i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child sized bunk bed in a basement with seven other people in filthy conditions and for this service he had to pay the restaurant three hundred dollars a month overall real swallowed up paying the burger joint to work for them what a way to not make a living though this story sounds funny on the surface many foreigners in working. study and work and travel programs do experience exploitation upon arrival in the usa i've even personally met some of them so i know but more than that in a time when millions of americans are struggling to put food on the kitchen table why are companies searching for thousands of exploitable

department for those. detainees who were judged to belong to no longer pose a threat or have been mistakenly brought to judge guantanamo the first place to transport those back to home countries third countries and that has simply had tried that had over time made the challenges smaller unfortunately the state department has been forced because of funding issues to close that office down so it really is congress that has basically frozen you know the situation in place the president is right now unable to move forward to reduce the population close to population and obviously that's having an effect head over to our timeline r.t. dot com for more response to the situation you get most plus of course we're interested in your take on the issue in our online poll today we're asking what the result of the protest is likely to be and see the opinion is stacking up so far more than half of those voting think the debt's think deaths among congress strikers are eminent and that only a token policy change will be t

department closed the office that was in charge of closing the prison i went to a state department briefing earlier this week again never got a chance to ask a question it's either they watch our t.v. or the media person they're just didn't take questions from anyone who is not attending to the briefings on a daily basis which i don't one way or another question is remained an answer there the only person who's been responding to our inquiries about the situation with the detainees was robert during the spokesman for guantanamo but the only comments he can offer are about the health of the detainees which is apparently deteriorating and also the latest numbers as far as how many detainees are on strike at the moment the latest we have from him is thirty one person but that's it there's complete silence on the most important questions about the future of the prison what's going to happen to these people president obama's spokesperson said the president's team is closely monitoring the hunger strikers guantanamo bay and i can tell you that the administration remains committed to closing the d

are president obama and the state department doing everything possible or anything to free him? his wife is pleading for their help and she's here next. and in two minutes, setting off instant controversy, why are the owners calling the games too racy? you'll have to see this to believe it. that's two minutes away. copd makes it hard to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase your risk of osteoporosis and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking advair. if you're still having difficulty breathing, ask your doctor if including advair could help improve

department for those. detainees who were judged to belong to no longer pose a threat or have been mistakenly brought to judge quantum in the first place to transport those back to home countries third countries and that has simply had tried that over time made the challenge smaller unfortunately the state department has been forced because of funding issues to close that office down so it really is the u.s. is congress that has basically frozen you know the situation in place the president is right now unable to move forward to reduce the population close to population and obviously that's having an effect. timeline r.t. dot com for more response to the situation in guantanamo plus we're of course interested in your take on the issue in our online poll today we're asking what the result of the protest is likely to be out of the opinion is stacked stacked up so far more than half of those who voted believe deaths among hunger strikers are eminent and that only token policy changes will result a fifth the mo

firm patton boggs and used to be head of the rule of law for the state department inside baghdad. he returned there this week to work on investment project and really spent the day trying to stay safe. he joins us now by phone live in baghdad after leaving his hotel due to the danger of the bombing attacks. dave, thank you for joining us. what can you tell us about today? >> thanks, bret. the ten-year anniversary of the invation of iraq was marked by some tension reminiscent of the worst days of the war. bombs went off across baghdad today is. resulting in multiple deaths and injury. as we drove around baghdad today we saw the result in closing of government offices and businesses early. traffic jacks and some gridlock across the city. the same time, today was marked by new political uncertainty. lack lab announced provincial elections would be put off for six months. iraqi government sources are telling us now that the delay will be extented for all provinces across iraq. so in some, while the security has mostly improved in iraq over the last few years, the anniversary was a rem

the state department later had second thoughts about it. in northcertain issues korea. the regina approached the state department and said if you will only ways this -- raises will come back to negotiating table. we know the efforts were not offered because they were in the pilfering their technology to syria. they have a carbon copy of their nuclear weapons program. deployed probably should have been continued. it is probably the case that it would head presented them with a choice of giving up that program in compromising or staying the course and facing the implosion. the situation today is much more dire for the regime. i have been in north korea. people leaving or career is one of having no confidence any longer. an ever smaller circle of people. on top of that we had very provocative behavior now they're calling into question his judgment on the part of people in north korea. certainly antagonizing this. causing discomfort. if the board to employ these controls -- if they were going to employ these controls and step up on the anti- proliferation initiative is we s

gerri::certainly that is what the state department had this say about this. the decision would be environmentally sound, but it wouldn't even impact the rate of development. so interesting stuff there. that they will do this in and environmentally responsible way and last year there were several oil spills. i'm not putting this up on a pedestal. exxon chavez and bp oil were far beyond that. what would you tell people that might be concerned about is still? >> pipeline transport is by far the safest form of transport. it is really the oil that actually leaks. the number is actually 99.996%, which is safely transported. that doesn't mean that we shouldn't as an objective for these bills,s, technology is improving and we have increased by 50% the number of pipeline and we have doubled the odds to make sure that we are aware of the problems in advanced than in respect to maritime safety, ere has to be mandatory policy and tugboats and it has to be working in someone. gerri: you know, iave to say that we already have 2.5 million miles of pipeline in this country.

gerri::certainly that is what the state department had this say about this. the decision would be environmentally sound, but it wouldn't even impact the rate of development. so interesting stuff there. that they will do this in and environmentally responsible way and last year there were several oil spills. i'm not putting this up on a pedestal. exxon chavez and bp oil were far beyond that. what would you tell people that might be concerned about is still? >> pipeline transport is by far the safest form of transport. it is really the oil that actually leaks. the number is actually 99.996%, which is safely transported. that doesn't mean that we shouldn't as an objective for these bills, technology is improving and we have increased by 50% the number of pipeline and we have doubled the odds to make sure that we are aware of the problems in advanced than in respect to maritime safety, there has to be mandatory policy and tugboats and it has to be working in someone. gerri: you know, i have to say that we already have 2.5 million miles of pipeline in this country

department because on page two of that memo, he talked about the fact that we at the state department supported the prime minister candidate in libya that the people in benghazi didn't like. i know that's kind of convoluted and confuconfusing. but those militant groups warned us that they weren't going to protect our consulate. they weren't going to provide us protection unless we got rid of our support for mr. jabril. and then the attack happened literally about 12 hours after that warning ambassador stevens had given to the state department back in washington, d.c. so two hours into the attack they put up a social media message and said they were going to attack our embassy in tripoli. so it's pretty hard to think that they weren't involved in this. and somebody we have to deal with there in eastern libya. >> all right. so you believe that they are. obviously as susan was reporting at this point, and obviously it's preliminary, but there is no evidence that this man is actually linked to that militant group. the bottom line question is this, though. you say at least a dozen or more

>> shepard, you have got to imagine that for years, the latin american state department officers were just waiting for this day to happen. it's hard to think of a more anti-u.s. world figure who has really ruled venezuela and been on the world stage for the past 14 years. this is a man who had a visceral hatred of the united states government. he formed alliances not only with iran but dictators around the world. anyone who would put forward anti-u.s. agenda. finally he is removed from the scene. the big question is what comes after him. he tried in his last days to anoint a successor. nicholas that madiro a former bus driver. hinted today that somehow the u.s. gave or implanted cancer into hugo chavez. what comes after chavez may not be a bargain for the u.s. if its successor gets in power, shepard. >> the poor and under privileged in venezuela will be in morning tonight, no doubt. it's a fact that much of the governmental processes have been turned over to narco traffickers. what is the reaction coming out of venezuela this evening? >> we are likely to see large crowds. despite his

that was seen as a sort of revolutionary statement, the state department was nervous that she said that. they didn't really want that to happen. i think we will be looking back ten, 20 years on the notion that gay rights are human rights and think, well, duh, the same way we think about women's rights now. >> a real generational change certainly in the republican party as we were reporting on friday. now cpac, i was glued to it, watching all weekend and the drama of the action with sarah palin, clearly a great performer. they -- >> did you bring your gulp. >> they gave her votes in the straw poll to rand paul and right behind him to marco rubio. but sarah palin taking on karl rove in a thinly-veiled jibe at rove and rove come back on fox news. >> if they feel that strongly about who gets to run in that party, then they should buck up or stay in the truck, buck up and run. the architects can head on back to -- they can head on back to the great lone star state and put their name on some ballot. >> if she can plan primaries other people can plan primaries. i don't think i'm a particularly

state department calls that a significant escalation. syrian jets and helicopters fired rockets into the north of lebanon into a town with a sunni population, a population that supports the rebels. at it also comes days after the syrian government reported that a large number of militants crossed into lebanon. this new cross-border attack is the latest sign the civil war reportedly killed more than morn 70,000 people and displaced millions of others, is spilling across the region and forcing the united states to consider playing a more direct role in the conflict. the united states recently did give their syrian rebel tens of million ops dollars in medical and humanitarian aid but the u.s. claims it has not joined the gulf arab nations and others in directly arming the opposition. >>> katherine, what are we learning about the strike across the bored center. >> a short time ago the state department confirmed syrian jets struck across the boredder into lebanon, a high-ranking official telling the french wire service. this is the first conf

effectively assumed the role of intelligence national security community the state department and so on during the period in question strategic decision were made exclusively by a single institution the department of defense the department of state of jet did to their war plan and so did the cia the cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but what's your scenarios for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the d.o.t. replied just let a save or throw him and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos now look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three with war in the americans that if the regime would fall iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold and iran would expand its area of influence across the gulf region it was us who checks terrorist activity and contained iran's quest for regional domination i'm sure that all of our messages and information did reach us decision makers up to the very top. or did the i

department of justice. this new grant is for $461,000. it will allow them to continue the coordinated and comprehensive reentry case planning for kids returning to the community from out of home placement. this program involves a dedicated team of attorneys, social workers, probation officers, and clinical case coordinators who work with the child and the family in advance of a child's reentry to the community. the department, as i mentioned, got a three-year grant in 2009 for $650,000 to begin this program and during that three-year period it has demonstrated a proven track record of reducing recidivism among the children involved. in fact, recidivism has decreased across the board not only for the youth served but for all the youth committed to out of home placement suggesting there is a systemic benefit for the program. this grant does require 100% matching funds from the city, but 412,000 of that has already been appropriated to the juvenile probation department and to the public defenders office and th

>> you know, i obviously can't speak on behalf of the state department. the u.s. commission on international religious freedom which i chair is a completely independent, bipartisan government entity but i do think it was a missed opportunity and i hope that the state department will engage more forcefully on this issue. it really does matter. it really makes a difference when our government at the highest levels puts an issue like the case of pastor abedini front and center and we have seen that being done by our counter parts in the european union. so i hope that this hearing is just the first step in raising the profile of this case. bill: but you know you don't want the europeans to be leading a cause that the americans should be doing on behalf of an american citizen there. now he is being held in one of the more notorious prisons in the entire country. he has family in iran. they have visited him from time to time. they say he is suffering from internal bleeding because he has been tortured at the prison. about a month ago we spoke to a woman in canada. she i

effectively assumed the role of intelligence national security community the state department and so on during the period in question strategic decision were made exclusively by a single institution the department of defense the department of state of jet did to their war plan and so did the cia the cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but what's your scenarios for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the d.o.t. replied just lead to save or throw him and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos now look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three with war in the americans that if the regime would fall iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold and iran would expand its area of influence across the gulf region it was us who checks terrorist activity and contained iran's quest for regional domination i'm sure that all of our messages and information did reach us decision makers up to the very top. or did the

state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week but was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgery i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in a comedy. that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child sized bunk bed in a basement with seven other people in filthy conditions and for this service he had to pay the restaurant three hundred dollars a month overall real swallowed up paying the burger joint to work for them what a way to not make a living though this story sounds funny on the surface many foreigners in work and study and work in travel programs do experience exploitation upon arrival in the usa i've even personally met some of them so i know but more than that in a time when millions of americans are struggling to put food on the kitchen table why are companies searching for thousands of exploitable foreig

state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week but was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgeon i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child sized bunk bed in a basement with seven other people in filthy conditions and for this service he had to pay the restaurant three hundred dollars a month overall real swallowed up paying the burger joints to work for them what a way to not make a living though this story sounds funny on the surface many foreigners in work and study and work in travel programs do experience exploitation upon arrival in the usa i've even personally met some of them so i know but more than that in a time when millions of americans are struggling to put food on the kitchen table why are companies searching for thousands of exploitable