hs is rated at a combined 35 miles per gallon but, more importantly, features hybrid technology that harnesses and reuses energy to further power the car. it's much more than fuel efficiency. it's total efficiency. see your lexus dealer. (voice 2) how bad is it? (voice 1) traffic's off the chart... (voice 2) they're pinging more targets... (voice 3) isolate... prevent damage... (voice 2) got 'em. (voice 3) great exercise guys. let's run it again. >>> this is a celebration of his life. of his legacy. >> he was caring and funny, honest, pure, and he was a lover of life. >> ever since i was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. and i just wanted to say i love him. >> larry: jermaine jackson. we're at forest lawn cemetery. how are michael's kids? >> michael's kids. >> larry: you all live together? >> yeah. they live with my two. they're having a good time. they're being kids. and they're playing with skateboards and the dogs run around the house and the parrot and the iguanas and things like that. >> larry: are they into music? >> very, very much so. but they more like -- th

we could start thinking about having water turbines and harnessing the power. we could use heat pump technology like other places in the world, and it might make a big difference. host: richard on the independent line. caller: i was calling in regards to agent orange. some of the listeners may like to know that before the senate recessed for memorial day break there was an emergency spending bill that was passed for $60 billion. in that bill, thanks to general erickson, there was $12.3 billion in mandatory spending to compensate 68,000 vietnam veterans who were exposed to agent orange but were denied compensation. this is the first time that a very large sum of money is being set aside for vietnam veterans in relation to agent orange. that is an article in the congressional quarterly weekly, may 24, 2010. there is an excellent article on an overview of agent

also still to come, harnessing the wind in baja, california. cracking down on drug cartels in mexico, and a tap dancing tradition alive and well. first, with the other news of the day here . >> the monthly u.s. death toll in afghanistan reached 30 when two americans died nay roadside bombing. congress scrutinized president obama's war strategy. senators like ted kaufman of delaware questioned david petraeus about the withdrawal timeline of july , 2011. >> the point at which, again, the term responsible drawdown of the surge forces begins at a rate to be determined by the conditions. >> so it's not whether we're going to draw down. it's the rate determined by the conditions on the ground. >> that's correct. >> there will be no more new introductions of troops. >> that is not the intention right now. i would never rule out coming back and asking for something more. i think that would be irresponsible. >> also today, defense secretary robert gates cautioned against getting overly negative about the afghan war. he said while the current narrative a

obama is serious about recovery, the gulf needs to harness the mississippi by building a hoover dam like structure around the mouth of the river or immediately issue a white house executive order that they open the floodgatts and build diversion canals. the net affected these engineering boondoggles -- a fact of these engineering boondoggles -- effect of these engineering boondogglls has been to destroy the amazing louisiana wetlands. the program has deprived of wetlands of their annual said amend -- sediment. as the oil comes in the wetlands have no natural means of replenishmenttand are becomingga toxic dump." his solution is to wash out the wetlands that are soaked with oil. the morning, -- good morning, georgia. caller: thank you. as an energy pollcy we should have started this years agg when oil was becoming too expensive to afford. i heard from a historian years ago that our idea was that we were going to purchase foreign oil until it would become cheaper for us to go drill our own oil on our own shores and in our own nation. that point has a few years ago. but it is never too late

he can harness what he called in the campaign the fierce urgency of now and control those perceptions. >> woodruff: jonathan capehart, do you agree the president needs to take it to a higher level tomorrow night in essence? >> he absolutely does. i think the president understands that, which is why we're seeing him give the first... his first oval office address. and it's on this particular issue. what i'll be curious to find out is whether he will take that fierce urgency of now and use it in the same way that president carter did in july '79, correct me if i'm wrong, michael, either '79 or '77 when he gave his crisis of confidence speech. >> '79, jonathan. >> '79. it was all about energy and how this nation needed to wean itself off of its dependence on foreign sources of oil. he laid out a very strong and dynamic plan , a policy when you read it it's breath taking. i just read it an hour ago. it's breath taking. and then once you finish reading it, you realize none of those things happened. none of those things occurred so i think president obama , he can give this marshal plan, he

the same thing was said about our ability to harness the technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon. and yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom. instead, what has defined us as a nation since our founding is the capacity to shape our destiny, our determination to fight for the america we want for our children. even if we are unsure exactly what that looks like, even if we do not yet precisely know how we will get there, we know we will get there. it is a faith in the future that sustains us as a people. it is that same faith that sustains our neighbors in the gulf right now. each year, at the beginning of shrimping season, the region's fishermen take part in a tradition that was brought to america long ago by fishing immigrants from europe. it is called the blessing of the fleet. today it is a celebration where clergy from different religions gather to say a prayer for the safety and success of the men and women who will head out to sea, some for weeks at a time. the ceremony goes on in good times and in bad. it took p

the ssme thing was said about our ability to harness the technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon. and yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom. instead, what has defined us as a nation since our founding is the capacity to shape our destiny, our determination to fight for the america we want for our children. even if we are unsure exactly what that looks like, even if we do not yet precisely know how we will get there, we know we will get there. it is a faith in the future that sustains us as a people. it is that same faith that sustains our neighbors in the gulf right now. each year, at the beginning of shrimping season, the region's fishermen take part in a tradition that was brought to america long ago by fishing immigrants from europe. it is called the blessing of the fleet. today it is a celebration where clergy from different religions gather to say a prayer for the safety and success of the men and women who will head out to sea, some for weeks at a time. the ceremony goes on in good times and in bad. it took p

the same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the mmon. time and again we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom. what is defined us as a nation since our founding is our capacity shape our destiny. even if we are unsure exactly what that looks like, even if we do not yet know precisely how to get there, we know we will get+ there. it is a faith in the future that sustains us as a people. it is that same faith that sustains our neighbors in the gulf right now. each year at the beginning of shrimping season, the region's fishermen take part in a tradition that was brought to america long ago by fishing immigrants from europe. it is called "the blessing of the fleet," and today it is a celebration where clergy from different rrligions gather to say a prayer for the safety and success of the men and women who will soon head out two weeks, some for weeks at a time. the ceremony goes on in good times and in bad. it took place after katrina and it took place a few weeks ago at the beginnin

s of the world and harness the sun, wind, geothermal, biomass. the state of nevada can become the epicenter of renewable energy. we just need the will to do it. i yield back and ask my colleagues to please join me in a renewable energy future for this great country. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? >> permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. fudge: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, wall street reform is critical to creating jobs and growing our economy. as we rebuild america, we must ensure that wall street won't gamble again with our futures. i support the restoring american financial stability act because it includes commonsense reforms to hold wall street and the big banks accountable. this bill will end bailouts by ensuring taxpayers are never again on the hook for wall street's risky decisions and will rein in big banks and their big bonuses. it protects families' retirement funds, college

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hs is rated at a combined 35 miles per gallon but, more importantly, features hybrid technology that harnesses and reuses energy to further power the car. it's much more than fuel efficiency. it's total efficiency. see your lexus dealer. >>> michael jackson's father files a wrongful death lawsuit against dr. conrad murray on the one yar anniversary of his he alleges he withheld information from doctors and paramedics trying to save his life, specifically that he had given him propofol. he has pled not guilty to the involuntary manslaughter in the criminal case. >>> house and senate negotiators have reached this on negotiations. it is designed to address things in a crisis. sarah palin's controversy speech at california state university will bring and a record amount of cash. plans for the of them prompted california's attorney general to launch an investigation into the struggling schools' finances. university says the black-tie dinner raised more than $200,000. those are the headlines. more after this. ou to get a hom. we've got a way for you to check the status of your loan online. securely,

we harness that globally through cnn. >> you and chelsea are going to donate $5,000 each. >> we are. >> unemployed and donated $100, which isn't easy to do for somebody out of work right now. >> every little bit can help. >> our total so far, $1,329,200. and we're not finished.

hs is rated at a combined 35 miles per gallon but, more importantly, features hybrid technology that harnesses and reuses energy to further power the car. it's much more than fuel efficiency. it's total efficiency. see your lexus dealer. >> larry: anderson cooper stands by in new orleans. what's our lead, anderson? >> tonight is day 70 of the disaster. sixth week of our live coverage from louisiana. tropical storm alex could soon become hurricane alex potentially driving oil deeper ashore though the cap of the spill remains in place for now. a live update on that. also more word games from bp. the company's coo telling a local new orleans newspaper that knowing how much oil is gushing out of that well is irrelevant telling the government that bp adapts their plans as learn more about how much oil is pouring out of that well. we're keeping them honest. why won't bp give the state of louisiana money to deal with mental health issues brought on by that spill? >> larry: elizabeth edwards wednesday night. the biological parents of the missing boy, kaine horman and desiree young opened up about thei

and harness our technology... for new energy solutions. around the globe, the people of boeing are working together, to build a better tomorrow. that's why we're here. ♪ ♪ ♪ a red wine ♪ gaga ♪ just dance ♪ stop calling, stop calling, i don't want to think anymore ♪ ♪ caught on the dance floor ♪ stop calling, stop calling, i don't want to talk anymore ♪ >> larry: we're back with lady gaga. it's our 25th anniversary week. we're honored to have her be one of our featured guests. bill gates will be with us tomorrow night. and lebron james friday night. we're very diversified. we have a question for you, gaga. it's on our facebook page. is it true michael jackson wanted to perform with you on his "this is it" comeback tour? >> you know, um, it's always very difficult because i don't necessarily like to talk about those very personal things that happened. i guess i can speak about it now. i was actually asked to open for michael on his tour. and we were going to open for him at the o2, and we were working on making it happen

and harness our technology... for new energy solutions. around the globe, the people of boeing are working together, to build a better tomorrow. that's why we're here. ♪ that's why we're investing one million dollars every hour... to improve our technology and your safety. it's an investment that's helped toyota earn multiple top safety pick awards for 2010 by the insurance institute for highway safety. no other brand has won more. these top safety picks, and all our new safety innovations are available at toyota.com/safety. ♪ [ upbeat instrumental ] these top safety picks, and all our new saf[ rattling ]ons [ gasps ] [ rattling ] [ laughing ] [ announcer ] close enough just isn't good enough. - if your car is in an accident, - [ laughing continues ] make sure it's repaired with the right replacement parts. travelers. take the scary out of life. >> larry: do you think your brother was killed? >> larry: joan rivers here tomorrow night. jermaine jackson on friday. go to facebook.com/cnn. "larry king live." for behind the scene photos of

we harness that globally through cnn. >> you and chelsea are going to donate $5,000 each. >> we are. >> unemployed and donated $100, which isn't easy to do for somebody out of work right now. >> every little bit can help. >> our total so far,

hs is rated at a combined 35 miles per gallon but, more importantly, features hybrid technology that harnesses and reuses energy to further power the car. it's much more than fuel efficiency. it's total efficiency. see your lexus dealer. >> larry: stand up was and still is, in some sense, a boys' club. here is one of the funniest guys ever, a previous winner of the mark twain prize, paid respect to his equal, joan rivers. watch. >> you are a force of nature, joan. and i appreciate the fact that i can talk about you to you in front of these wonderful people on the 76th year of your -- since your birth. i think you're a little older. you're probably a little older. check your birth certificate. did you ever fail -- did you ever come out of a gig and say oh, i didn't do it or ever say, i wish i could go back and say this? let me hear one thing that you could have said that you didn't say to somebody when you had the chance to. >> larry: great question. >> oh, he's just amazing. >> larry: anything you left out once? >> i can't think off the -- >> larry: i couldn't either. >> i really go -- i did 9

narrative of the whole story, judy, move from the well and the gushing a mile below the surface to the har october, whether it's people's lives threatened and livelihoods threatened, beaches, birds, fish, as we saw in ray's piece. and they just-- the oil is now just a reality. and regardless of when we stop it, even though it hasn't been stopped, that's the story. >> woodruff: so david, did this make it look like the president was more in control of what's going on? >> well, the oil is still gushing. there is the still the bad ambience. the oil is still coming out and nobody knows what to do with it. i think people rationally know there is nothing the president could do about something. but the ambience is bad and they want to see some reaction. i personly don't hold him responsible for any of this. someone has a good line that says we elected a guy who is cool in a crisis and now we are up set because he is cool is a crisis. people want to have a sense that seymour emotionally engaged. i thought today was a good step in theatrical terms. not the best step. i want to see him surrounded by

while academia certainly has value, there is no substitute, i think, for being in the harness of the law, handling real cases over a period of years. >> reporter: california democrat dianne feinstein saw the issue of experience from a different perspective. >> the biggest criticism i've seen out there is that you've never been a judge. frankly, i find this refreshing. the roberts' court is the first supreme court in history to be comprised entirely of former federal courts of appeals judges. throughout the history of the court, over one third of the justices -- 38 out of 111-- have had no prior judicial experience. >> reporter: democrats also criticized the current court for overturning years of precedent. wisconsin's russ feingold pointed to this year's decision that wiped away limits on corporate and labor union spending in campaigns for president and congress. >> by acting in such an extreme and unjustified manner the court badly damaged its own integrity. by elevating the rights of corporations over the rights of the people, the court damageded our democracy. ms. kagan, if you ar

we have been trying to harness the wind for a couple of decades. the sun, about the same time. these are nascent, baby technologies that deserve our support, just as coal deserved our support 150 years ago. nuclear deserve our support -- deserved our support after world war ii. but these technologies will be driven by american entrepreneurs. they will be driven by markets demanding ever more energy. 9 billion people we expect to live on this planet and a couple -- in a couple of decades. that is a 50% increase. we do not have enough coal to provide power for these people, so we have to come up with ways to harness energy from the sun and from the wind. this is not whether or not thery are cost competitive toda. its tower going to make and cost competitive tomorrow, and how are we as americans going to create an economy based around that, so we can continue to share the weight of american life with the rest of the world? this is our challenge today. it is the fundamental challenge we face as a nation. >> thank you, john. >> certainly. >> there's a wonderful fact sheet available

we have been trying to harness the wind for a couple of decades. the sun, about the same time. these are nascent, baby technologies that deserve our support, just as cold deserve our suuport 150 years ago. nuclear deserve our support after world war ii. but these technologies will be driven by american entrepreneurs. they will be driven by markets demanding ever more energy. 9 billion people we expect to live on this planet and a couple of decades. we do not have enough coal to provide power for these people, so we have to come up with ways to harness energy from the sun and from the wind. this is not whether or not there cost competitive today. its tower going to make and cost competitive tomorrow, and how are we as americans going to create an economy based around that, so we can continue to share the weight of american life with the rest of the world? this is our challenge today. it is the fundamental challenge we face as a nation. >> there's a wonderful fact sheet available at sierra.org. coal is not cheap. that is one of those ridiculous, persistent myths that we need to d

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it is about harnessing political will, getting governments to understand that this is something not to be scoffed at, not just about pharmaceuticals and health and safety issues which are important. it's also about our economy, jobs, and our survival as a country. is about deterrent sentences. slaps on the hand did not deter individuals from continuing the activity. it is frustrating for law enforcement and for those of us in the industry that see the loss continue and don't see actions continue. he is about sharing intelligence. we have a tremendous amount of information that we welcome the opportunity to share with governments. that is why this symposium is so important. is about public education, getting people to understand that -- i draw analogies to the movie industry but the analogies for other industries is the same. most citizens would not walk into a blockbuster and put eight dvd under their arm and walked out with it because they know it is piracy. they think nothing about downloading it on the internet. people are going to sites that look and feel like legitimate sites and

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the quest to be able to harness the mississippi river. the corps of engineers have start the wetlands of the sediments that are necessary to be able to feed those wetlands. yes, we are a big part of this nation when it comes to energizing this country. we have given up our air, our land, and our water to energize this country. at the same time, now we are facing an enemy that we cannot see. a lot of people in the state of louisiana are concerned and now along the gulf coast. the one thinggthat i want to get across to the nation is that yes, there is a reason to save louisiana. when you look at the largest port complex in this country, when you look at what we bring to the table in terms of feeding this country and energizing this country. to be able to make sure we offload oil both imported and domestic to deal to refine here in the state of louisiana. 690.re listening to the mighty we have a great guest list for deeper it at 12:30, -- we have a great guest list this afternoon. at 1:00, we have a coastal scientist for the environmental de

we are harnessing the power of the private sector and the innovation as we do so. just last week, we launched an initiative with the gates foundation to encourage the provision of financial services and cellular phones. mobil banking transactions are cheaper and faster than traditional banking and safer from disruption due to natural disasters. in the early weeks, getting money to people in haiti was our real channel -- was our real challenge. mobile banking has the ability to reach hundreds of thousands of people around the world. this new effort will make haiti a hub for the mobile banking revolution. we are also working to strengthen haiti's resilience against future natural disasters by helping local construction firms learn how to direct low cost, but stronger homes. a practice we learned from an earlier earthquake in peru. at president obama and secretary clinton's insistence, we are undergoing audits by the officer of the inspector general in -- on the ground in port-au-prince. the effort is just starting. development is a difficult long- term endeavor and w

while academia has value there is no substitute i think for being in the harness of the law, handling real cases over a period of years and what the record does reveal is a more extensive background mixed with law. her college thesetithesis affir activists tendencies of the court but complained that they could have done a better job of justifies their act varieivism. she took leave from teaching at law school to work for this committee. under then chairman joe biden to help secure the nomination of ruth bader-ginsberg. and now one of the most active members of the supreme court. i know you will join with me in expressing our sympathy to justice ginsberg on the loss of her husband. work i working in the clinton white house, doing as she described it, mostly policy work. policy is quite difference than intense legal work. for example, in the office of legal council or some of the divisions in the department of justice. during her white house years the nominee was the central figure in the clinton-gore effort to restrict gun rights and as a dramatic 5-4 decision today in the mcdonald cas

this is where seriously, in my opinion, we are harnessing the country to the true great as we can achieve. host: we will go to sunny politicians, florida. barry, go ahead. caller: i am a longtime democrat and iberal. i agree with everything you said, but what i do not understand is why the middle class and the lower middle class vote reeublican. i can understand that the rich and the millionaires vote republican because that is their interest and they do not care about anyone else. but why does the middle class and the lower middle class, the people that work onprofit vote republican? i do not get it. guest: well, i think you're seeing some changes take place. in 2006 there were four senate seats won by the working people of america. that was before president obama came on the national political scene. i think this progressive movement is continuing. then of course the majority won in 2008 in the house and the senate and the presidency. but now we are at a crossroads because progress is that liberals are looking themselves in the mirror and asking themselves the question, who do i trust n

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it's har. president bush gave a speech in october of 2005. we struggled with what to call this. president bush even in the speech used several terms. said some people call its lambic radicalism and some people call its lambic fascism and some call it jihadism. but it's an ideology that we're at an war with an enemy the thus the fight. now i think the obama administration as well. host: call in now. democrats. (202) 737-0002. independents, (202) 628-0205. speak a little bit about domestic terrorism before we go to all calls. guest: there's been an emergence of domestic radicalization. understanding it's been so many prop innocent cases had in the media and understood the case in the new york subway case. the david headley case the individual tie to the attack. two new jersey man caught going to somalia. the list goes on and on and you understand why people think this is a new phenomena but think over the last eight years to the numerous plots and investigations involving american citizens unfortunately. badei. the lockwana six. i think we tend to forget and the media plays them d

. >> it is so nice to see everyone working so har but we all lot of people that still are not working. we're trying to do whatever we can to help those people. we're when it tried did you and get other people that home -- that don't have jobs. we had the proper gear and you're going to get paid and i know everyone has family and friends. they want to come want but they are not on. such as thank you and keep up the good work. >> thank you very much. i know you all are used to it. [unintelligible] you got to keep going in some ways. thank you. we will try to do everything that we can. thank you all very much. [unintelligible] >> oh, my goodness. ok, take care. >> it met a lot. -- it meant a lot for you to see what they were doing. [unintelligible] where is it? itwas going to be a long dam hall. people don't know the direction and the scope. >> they are good people. >> i am standing on topf it. this is the hard boom. no, this is 18 inches. >> the plans approved so far to not address all this paris. 30% of shellfish produced in louisiana, and this entire estuary here. the beach runs along

paul is here and helping the that effort on behalf of our agency and we are harnessing the power of the private sector and innovation as we do so. just last week we launched an initiative with the beets foundation to encourage the provision of financial services through salles phones. mobile transactions, mobile banking transactions are cheaper and faster than traditional banking and safer from disruption due to natural disasters. in fact in the early weeks getting money to people in his haiti was a challenge. people getting access to their paychecks and savings. mobile banking has the power to reach hundreds of millions of people really are now the world who currently lack access to a safe place to borrow and more importantly a safe place to save with limited assets they do it to emulate. this new effort will make haiti the hub for the mobile banking revolution and the innovation that needs to take place to develop the kind of breakthroughs that we need to solve this problem around the world. we are also working to strengthen haiti's resilience against future natural disasters by helpi

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they actually had to take it -- they got the whole har drive from bd. rerequired it. they got some specialists t take the segments they needed to look at. they're now reviewing it. we expect to have additional information very soon on that point. they're also relooking at the earlier estimates, so you will see aew goverent estimate very soon on the flow rate. in terms of the amount collected, we want that new flow rate and we'll have it very soon and then can back calculate essentially how much we believe therefore has been out from day one. i don'tt number, senator, right now. but we expect to have a much better number very, v soon and thank you for yourpatience. >> 4% to 5% incr is that some sort of estimate to date that you think is accurate? that the -- >> in terms of the -- there is -- i think there's -- in terms the group of government scientists looki at this, they are seeing some data tt suggests that the increase that occurr you -- when the riser was c off was less than we were afraid it might be. so we hope to confirm that soon. >> soon, soon, this is almost

that is an incredible resource that needs to be harnessed. every private sector company is a defacto think tank on technology innovation and how it can be applied to foreign policy. they don't need to know the immediate answer but they need to raise their hand and asked to be involved. the state department will help extract relevant value around challenges we face from a variety of different stakeholders' that did not necessarily realize they have a relevant role to play. >> i am from the sun -- center for global development. baker and out ways to make budget -- figuring out ways to make budget, the u.s. could make a better example in the state department and the usid as to showing how this can be done. maybe they could change the thirir diplomacy and allow peope to go on-line a look at a map and see where money is going to their country. i am wondering if that shift in the role of the state department is a generational divide that you run into people not just willing to putting a budget on line but making it opened. it would be putting budge

the united states army corps of engineers trying to harness the mississippi river in terms of navigation which stopped the nutrients that would ea spring feet those wetlands so they could be vibrant. we put our money where our mouth is. any money derived from this offsho oil from killing -- drilling in federal waters, would go into our wetlands. right now, we get a pittance. in many cases, we have to share one quarter or with louisiana, texas, mississippi. louisiana and the rest of the gulf coast cant waithat long. we need to those dollars now. it is in limbo because we did not know if we will be drilling ofthe continental shelf anymore because we did not know how safe it is. >> our number 2 of inside new orleans. you can listen live at wist.com. we would like to welcome those of you who are watching on c- span across the nation. thank you for coming in and getting a taste of what we are feeling down here. joining us now on the program is a coastal scientist from the environmental defense fund. somebody who has louisiana ties. angelina friedman is a coastal scientist for the environmeal

the united states army corps of engineers trying to harness the mississippi river in terms of navigation which stopped the nutrients that would each spring feet those wetlands so they could be vibrant. we put our money where our mouth is. any money derived from this offshore oil from killing -- drilling in federal waters, would go into our wetlands. right now, we get a pittance. in many cases, we have to share one quarter or with louisiana, texas, mississippi. louisiana and the rest of the gulf coast cannot wait that long. we need to those dollars now. it is in limbo because we did not know if we will be drilling off the continental shelf anymore because we did not know how safe it is. >> our number 2 of inside new orleans. you can listen live at wist.com. we would like to welcome those of you who are watching on c- span across the nation. thank you for coming in and getting a taste of what we are feeling down here. joining us now on the program is a coastal scientist from the environmental defense fund. somebody who has louisiana ties. angelina friedman is a coastal scientist for the en

while academia has value there is no substitute i think for being in the harness of the law, handling real cases over a period of years and what the record does reveal is a more extensive background mixed with law. her college thesetithesis affir activists tendencies of the court but complained that they could have done a better job of justifies their act varieivism. she took leave from teaching at law school to work for this committee. under then chairman joe biden to help secure the nomination of ruth bader-ginsberg. and now one of the most active members of the supreme court. i know you will join with me in expressing our sympathy to justice ginsberg on the loss of her husband. work i working in the clinton white house, doing as she described it, mostly policy work. policy is quite difference than intense legal work. for example, in the office of legal council or some of the divisions in the department of justice. during her white house years the nominee was the central figure in the clinton-gore effort to restrict gun rights and as a dramatic 5-4 decision today in the mcdonald cas

in canada har, -- kandahar, what is your reaction to that? guest: it's not all that surprising. the biggest challenge, we tend to look at the violence as a metric of how we're doing but the real questions are a lot harder to pin down. how commited are afghan troops, how well trained they are, how secure is the political leadership in afghanistan in order to use those troops and security forces. how well are they able to adjuste kate disputes between afghans. this is how the taliban came to power originally in the 1990s is they were able to exploit the fact that the afghan government at the time was unable to have judicial processes to adjudicate disputes. and the taliban would come in and sort of say, well, the land dispute, here's the border. and so i think when we read stories like that one, that's the real story that's going to tell us going forward whether we can be successful in afghanistan. it's not so much the level of violence but how commited are the afghan government at large. host: of those questions that you just posed, how would you answer them after visiting there?

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destroying our country and our economy and just killing jobs in america and creating a whole lot of har, but doesn't have -- hardship, but doesn't have to be that way. but we have to follow the principles of economics. and one of those, you got to ease off on the taxes and there is a logical reason. just so people understand the gravity. this is who owns our debt. this debt is created because we are promising benefits to american citizens, all kinds of promises that we're going to give them housing, health care, food, education and all of the stuff that the soviet union also promised their citizens and who is picking up the tab? a lot of foreigners are buying our debt. foreign holding of american debt was 5% in 1970, that is when i graduated from college. foreign holdings, 1990, goes from 5% to 19% in 20 years. 20 years later, foreign holdings in 2010, 47%. is that healthy? how much longer are the chinese and the other foreign countries going to continue to pay us money that we don't have to pay off american voters just to keep them happy? this is a glide path that will end up in a cras

to be a winner, then compare yourself to the best and the knowdge that it will never happen without har work abe lincoln once said, "good things may come to those who wage, but the are those who hustle." if you want to be a leader, act like a leader. if you want to be trusted, then demonstrate it by earning every day. if you want to be known as honest, i do not even shade the truth, and make sure your friends and colleagues will always bring you back to earth, let's all do at times, when you are deceiving yourself. -- like we all do at times. it takes knowing had to deal with failure to be accountable. the world is complex and challenging, and yet, the economy is getting better, but you're still entering the job market at a tough time, but, in fact, throughout your life, you're going to have to face tough times and failure both personally and professionally, which some of you already have, but how you deal with failure may be the most important thing in whether you succeed, and some of the greatest people of all times, and i am thinking of nelson mandela and indira gandhi and abraham li

that seems har because of e ndf conversation were havi rit now. your question gives me an opportunity to say the'll e e importanas i mentioned and they do haven th five, not only on us a how we se ourselves, but ow are i'll ics and how th'll cooperate with us in our ad very yes. and i think you can be pragtic in your outlo that is coming you can b focused on winning and still think about value for something that helps you win. they're good in themselves, but they're also good in depriving your adversary of what it might consider to be eoral high ground or if recruitment tools that might allow them to get more people. and so we ned to be conscious of that as we go forwa and try to, you ko duce their supply of recruits as much as we can. >> yes. >> thank you. danmark is eaching atamerica's law school. i want to ask a queion, david, about the inersection of your lk today about the prolem opposed to guantÁnamo. if mmemoryerves me right, none of the people have been prosecuted successfully inu.s. courts apart guantÁnamo detainees. and obviously a maj

as i have argued elsewhere, it makes good sense for the government to harness the energy, efficiency and creativity of the private secretary nor as many ways as possible up to the point -- in iraq and afghanistan. as many witnesses before me have testified, iraq and afghanistan are our first two contractors h involvement in vietnam, contractors represented 14% of the american presence on the ground, today they are the majority presence on the ground in iraq and afghanistan. why is this rise in percentage of contractor involvement in war important? it's important because our current degree of dependence on security contractors makes its far too expensive a habit and far too easy to overlook abuses. i also find moving security contractors the most problematic since they are more likely to use their weapons. i want to emphasize the state department and department of defense should not be blamed in any way for they are reliance on armed security contractors with an all volunteer source and underresourced capability they are doing the best job they can. understanding how we arrived at our

while academia has value there is no substitute i think for being in the harness of the law, handling real cases over a period of years and what the record does reveal is a more extensive background mixed with law. her college thesetithesis affir activists tendencies of the court but complained that they could have done a better job of justifies their act varieivism. she took leave from teaching at law school to work for this committee. under then chairman joe biden to help secure the nomination of ruth bader-ginsberg. and now one of the most active members of the supreme court. i know you will join with me in expressing our sympathy to justice ginsberg on the loss of her husband. work i working in the clinton white house, doing as she described it, mostly policy work. policy is quite difference than intense legal work. for example, in the office of legal council or some of the divisions in the department of justice. during her white house years the nominee w the central figure in the clinton-gore effort to restrict gun rights and as a dramatic 5-4 decision today in the mcdonald case

somemes it is har to find that progress, but it happens ttle by little but it's probably much too slow for many ofus who would like to se progress much quicker,but this is a tremendous challenge. i had an opportunity to speak brfly with the prime minister ambassad martin, chris mcinn who leads our sid efortsto visit three idp campus. the old airporthat is the second largest one of the new settlement sites that we work with t government of haiti and united nations to open to moe me of the most at ris displaced persons. as i did every day from the time the earthquakestruck to the time i let i walked through the displaced perss camp because i foun was in those camps that i could get the est eel for what was the needs of the peop, what the work what i call the soldiers and skills of humanitarian assistance, the ngos or do we get the challenges they were facing day today to meet the needs of the people it to move it forward and haiti still is in a very risky position. the estimates now when we shot th video we were using 1 million displaced people. now it is somewhere between 1.5 and 2 mill