haitians in the united states. non-governmental groups have to play an important role because the haitian government is extremely week and doesn't have a great, a great deal of capacity. but in order to get to a point where it has greater capacity to deal and resolve its problems, i think non-governmental groups can play an important role. so you have to figure out a formula, ah, for all of these actors, ah, to work together. >> ray, should the u.s. government step aside and let others take the main responsibility in haiti? >> i think we have to play an active role. clearly, american tax-payer dollars are at work or involved in haiti. we have to have accountability. we have to have transparency. we have to combat corruption. ah, we cannot be, clearly, indifferent to what we're going to do. we've pledged to, ah, support with several, and i think the current supplemental is about two billion dollars. ah, that's almost the rest, that's almost equal to what we're spending in the rest of latin america. how we're going t

states the focus here on the united states i think is a bit misleading first of all france and the u.k. took the lead on libya not the u.s. u.s. it still does this moment why has it and in fact that involved obama wants to hand it all but as a quick just read the paper i just read the press so this is really not an american war with. the united states military you know you know like a well known internationally and we know a deferential and a british where the leader is behind this operation not obama. not go bomb administration so what i see here is madness friends with the rebels i think you have to stay out of order as if i got a right to know what you have is a i want to go to i want to go to the i want to get this is a bull in the ok all right eric finish your point there's really no it's not going what i want to see a shop the u.s. ok the u.s. is a bull in a china shop you do not ask the ball to fix things you get him out of the china shop before you try and fix things as it is and if i go to you in cairo let's try to square the circle here because i don't think we can here we've

states the focus here on the united states i think is a bit misleading first of all france and the u.k. took the lead on libya not the u.s. the u.s. is still there is this moment why has it and in fact. obama wants to hand it all but as a quick just read the paper i just read the press so this is really not an american war with. the united states carrying you know you know like a well known internationally and shot we know of the french and the british where the leader is behind this operation not obama. obama administration so what i see here is madness friends in the rebels are going to have to stay out of there as if i'm going to go right now when you ask is a i want to go to i want to go to the i want to get this is a bowl in the ok all right eric finish your point there's really no it's not going to i want to see a shop the u.s. ok the u.s. is a bull in a china shop you do not ask the ball to fix things you get him out of the china shop before you try and fix things as it is and if i go to you in cairo let's try to square the circle here because i don't think we can here we've had

of course it would be about the united states would be to. try to let me finish please this is about if we're speaking about interest then we must speak about european countries and their interests not the united states the focus here own do not in states i think is a good misleading person france and the u.k. took the lead on libya not the u.s. they used the u.s. and still this woman why has it and in fact. one so handed all that as a quick just read the paper i just read the press so this is really not an american lord of. the united states military you know you know like a we're going to try and shock we know of the french and the british where the leader is behind this operation not obama. not the one administration so what i fear is on the fringe liberals like you have to stay out of order as if i got it right now when you ask is of i want to go to i want to go to the i want us is a bull in the ok all right eric finish your point is silly or something and i want to see a sharp the us ok the us is a bull in a china shop you do not pass th

of course it would be about the united states would be to. credit let me finish please this is about if we're speaking about interest then we must speak about european countries and their interests not the united states the focus here on the united states i think is a bit misleading first of all france and the u.k. took the lead on libya not the u.s. the u.s. is still does this moment why has it and in fact that involve the obama wants to hand it all but as a quick just read the paper i just read the press so this is really not an american war with. the united states military you know you know like a well known internationally we know a deferential and british where the leader is behind this operation not obama. obama administration so what i see here is madness friends in the rebels i think you have to stay out of order as if i got a right to know what you have is a i want to go to i want to go to the i want to get this is a bull in the ok all right eric finish your point there's really no it's not going to want to be a shop the u.s. ok the

off the coasts of the united states. the resources that this committee has provided have had an impact and will continue to have an impact on all of those mission sets having to do with the border. we also look at the border not simply as a boundary between the united states and mexico and the united states and canada, but we also look at it as securing the flow of goods and people toward the united states. the trend in this issue is is as the chairman and ranking member indicated. we have a responsibility to identify dangerous people and things as far away from the border as possible and as early in time as possible. that's why we have the international footprint of c.b.p. we also have an enormous responsibility with regard to the expediting of lawful trade and traffic. and the approach c.b.p. takes to this task is by risk management by assessing risks and being able to distinguish between trusted travelers, trusted shippers and those about whom or about which we have adverse information or lack sufficient information t

each child would be taught bad the united states is -- would be taught that the united states is the greatest nation in the world based on free enterprise capitalism. [applause] i remember i was green and i leave -- and naive. i introduced the bill and you just drop it in the clerk's box and it would work its way through the system. the next morning, ient inside the house chaers and every democrat had their lights on. they wanted to talk, everyone of them. i am sitting there this innocent baby. they would get up and said, speaking introduce this bill. the audacity to say that the united states is the u.n. challenged greatest nation in the world. he wants to get rid of multiculturalism. th took turns beating on me. i am sitting there thinking, what is this hyperventilation about? aren't these things true? i will go further. i believe god guided our founding fathers. he moved them around like men on a chess board to ship this nation. we need to defend and uphold what they did. it is not just to protect what we had. it is not just to declared that the shining cy on the hill has been ach

the united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer the search for the file put in place unprecedented saying hold the gadhafi government accountable and support the aspirations of libyan people we are also responding quickly to the urgent humanitarian needs that are developing. but there's also another side this view of real politic that principle should be thank you for power and this is not a democrat versus republican issue even within his own administration there seems to be a difference in opinion here secretary of state hillary clinton earlier this week let's put aside the moral cumana ceria and do good side of what we believe in and let's just talk it out straight reale policy we are in a trap petition with china take papa would it be any huge energy find you go to one of senator lugar's very strong points exxon mobil is producing it china is in there every day in every way and joining me now to talk more about this is ohio congressman dennis kucinich and congressman let's talk about this you have hillary clinton the secretary of state on one hand thing you

states and europe, especially in the united kingdom. for more than 30 years the saudis domestic religious establishment which controls education, social policy and missionary work has brought western muslims to the kingdom for theological training and its religious universities here these men returned to the west to preach what only can be described as a martial oriented islam is in realism, a vision of the world as holy islamic which for the west would mean that christian and jewish populations could convert, except the subordination to islam, or face elimination. these saudi trained preachers are prominent in mosques in the united states and in europe, and have secured positions as chaplains in western universities, prison systems and militaries. this is not to say, let me stress, that all american or european muslim communities share this martial an expansionist orientation, but it's a very much to say that the saudi trained clerics have attained enough positions in the west and have enough access to muslim youth through multiple med

the united states of america is different. as president, and refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves take place before action. moreover, america has a strategic interest in preventing moammar gaddafi. a massacre would have driven additional refugees over the borders putting enormous strain on the peaceful yet fragile transition in egypt and tunisia the democratic and also is better doning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship. the oppressive leaders.. the rest of the dotted nations security just empty words of the united nations security council and future in cripplin its future credibility to uphold peace. i will never minimize the peace or cost of military action i am committed that a failure to act in libya would of. a farquhar price in america. far greater price in america- >> and also arguing against intervention in libya there are others that suggest that we broaden our military mission beyond the path of protectant just love the people and do whatever it takes to bri

in the united states. at the same time, you have to figure out how to have a tax rate that works and support public goods, but one that's not so erroneous where people in the global market say, gosh, why am i in the united states paying 35%? i can't do business in this environment and pay health care costs and all this. i'll take my business elsewhere. it's a fine balance here. my personal discussion in the book is i think the united states does run the risk of ending up in a situation where there are too many people in the wagon as you say. it's not that there's too many in the wagon, but people who don't want to be in the wagon. they want to pull the wagon, but the policy environment is not incentivizing them to do what they want to do. and that's problem matic. >> host: i think of it as fly paper. people get stuck and are dependent. they want to climb the ladder, but policy isn't friendly. differences between welfare states. you mentioned scandinavia does it better, and that seems to be the case. lookin

united states planes problem but that's not a fur explanation or ignored. secondly nato expansion is clearly a big issue still think it's the biggest stumbling point between america and russia it's even bigger than people understand and i will tell you why the president made beautiful said russia isn't from a sphere of privileged and from the former soviet security if you want to call it we say we have united states and. we say no because no countries are allowed to have a sphere of influence and it's an evil what is the expansion of nato it's an expansion of the american sphere of influence rashed expansion into the character henri used to be the sphere of influence of soviet russia so moscow seems to washington why do you get the spirit and in our backyard and we get on this is the geo political conflict over a time when there will be. no war now there is a solution but nobody is prepared for war in the united states. till this problem is solved and they're going to be in a partnership an organization that you know steve speaks is a scholar of russian the

it's more around here yes by the united states and libya. moammar gadhafi is. a bad man because gadhafi the very bad man and you agree with the president well i am the president we're there to. make sure they're cut off is taken out of power trying to get rid of gadhafi. trouble trying to rid of gadhafi. down the papers like move right now libya is right there here and why do you think we're in libya. well there's they're in civil war right you know so but i'm not sure exactly why we're there it's really sad the congress gave themselves a weekend off so that the president could go ahead and declare this war you know what do you know funny thing i have no idea. i really couldn't answer because i have not read the paper and vacation you know i haven't watched the news here today . we didn't know what do they. now. let me out let me live yeah you'll probably. hear us all the u.k. i particularly on the afghanistan right now because the reaction you're going to be whatever the commander in chief tells them to next go. the lords and you're from the congo right would

united states claims. but that's not a fair explanation there is no agreement on the power secondly nato expansion is clearly the biggest thing is the biggest stumbling point between america and russia it's even bigger than people understand why president medvedev has some issues with the russians in a tight rope from a sphere of privileged interests in the former soviet republic security or if you can call it a collective we say we have united states not me we say no because no country is allowed to have a sphere of influence anymore it's an evil what is the expansion of nato it's an expansion of the american sphere of influence a vast expansion into the territory that used to be most from north of soviet russia so moscow says to washington why did you get this for us and in our backyard and we get none of this is the geo political conflict of our time and there will be no reset and go now there is a solution but nobody's prepared to move forward in the united states but it's still there's progress or. th

in the united states. on radio cable t.v. and so on who. use this issue to stir up. or to exploit resentment now in one of your articles about china there is a place where you see nationalism is often fed by a sense of impotence and i want to ask you about this do you think that is a thing that could also be relevant to you modern day united states yes i think it's comes back to that same issue that people who feel they're not represented they don't have a voice the not listened to they don't have a grip on public affairs. are very vulnerable to leaders who promise the earth as it were if you feel you are a lonely individual who has no influence on anybody and nobody cares about it feels good to be in a crowd shouting usa usa or. in the case america can be in china it could be anywhere in china what i meant by. chinese nationalism being a form often an expression of form since i didn't mean that's in the sense of the chinese government but where people have no political voice china is after all not a democracy. there nationalism can play the same role that religion p

in the united states. on really cable t.v. and so on who. use this issue to stir up. or to exploit resentment now in one of your articles about china there is a place where you see nationalism is often fed by a sense of impotence and i want to ask you about this do you think that is a saying that could also be relevant to modern day united states yes but it. comes back to that same issue that people who feel they're not represented they don't have a voice that they're not listened to but they don't have a grip on public affairs. very vulnerable. leaders who promise the earth as it were if you feel you're a lonely individual who has no influence on anybody and nobody cares about it feels good to be in a crowd shouting usa usa or. in the case of america because in china it could be anywhere in china what i meant by the chinese nationalism being a form often an expression of from him since i didn't mean that sense of the chinese government but where people have no political voice china is awful not a democracy. there nationalism can play the same role that religion plays

we are working on the set in the united states. we have to address the social and economic forces. 22 reached at risk youth before they turn to drugs and crime. we are trying to expand across the region. we want to invest in drug and crime prevention programs. the united states stands ready to do our part in a new partnership to put the focus where it should be. with regional and international partners, we make sure our support is not just well- intentioned, but well- coordinated. i have said before, and i will repeat. the united states shares our responsibility for drug violence. the demand for drugs in the united states drives this crisis. we have new strategies to focus on reducing the demand for drugs. we are increasing education and treatment options. we are increasing our efforts by $10 billion this year alone. we want to extend the flow of we are screening rail cargo in seizing more guns and putting more people behind bars. every gun we take off of the streets is one less threat to the families of the americas. we are promot

go to the united states congress if we're going to use the u.n. without going to the u.s. congress the arab league coordinate with france and great britain and now check with the u.s. congress we've lost our way here but i want to thank congressman and france and great britain obviously they have been pretty outspoken that they think this is a good idea a lot of the other option here does this president obama say you know what france great britain you go ahead we'll just sit this one out where we have to ask who are you who are we helping percival where and where is this headed because. there are questions raised about who these rebels are and whether or not they have in fact been involved in operations against the united states in iraq and perhaps in afghanistan we've been in this situation in afghanistan one day we help people and the next day they shoot at us if we are cautious about military intervention so blow back their charm was johnson johnson wrote famously about is sure to happen in libya we are we are in the middle of a war here and on

states i think is that the united states should do something word to shepherd you know silver shepherd like a former guide says flock of sheep or it was cattle to the core the idea that ignited state separate things countries because of course russia remember always ends badly in this country to make it on the road i'm going to make it all of the united states doesn't understand the situation but there is a danger of a political involvement and god which would be of which i mean there are two things that have arisen in the united states in the last few days one is of course the renewal of democracy promotion this idea that america has the right or the wisdom to impose democracy in other countries and you see a lot of this in the commentary president obama should bring democracy to egypt or bring democracy to tunisia that's not our role we need to get our own act together inside our country but also of course there's a concern that there will be more terrorist threats and danger in the. reachin the feeling yes that the instability will fuel terrorist threats well you could argue the opp

for the final few is a system working for the average american in the united states right now. i don't think this says to right now is really working for anyone it's still the best system in the world but it can get better and that's really what we're seeing you know from abroad it looks like we have on the rest but what i think a lot of people around the world don't recognize is is a democracy is not always clean it gets messy and you know the mere fact that we can have protests in wisconsin without people getting shot in the streets like say libya says a lot for the american democratic way with that said you know the u.s. government and governments around the world need to really wake up to this sort of fiscal realities of the twenty first century and it told that occurs this is going to continue in manifest itself and spread to other states in america and around the world look at greece it is a tragedy what happened because you know basically everybody took their eyes off the ball for the past generation and i think we may see that elsewhere as well steve what do you think a

oh nothing i have to say is to exonerate the united states or companies based here of many wrongdoing they may have done but i think the reality is that the united states is relatively unique in the world in terms of practicing a fairly free wheeling form of capitalism where wherever selling a product at the lowest price gets the business most of the world their capital in the sense that they're not socialists but things are much more under government control corporations do what the government lets them do and part of the quid pro quo for that is a third governments protect the among these. protections of course being terrorists and non-tariff barriers and the bad news is this can be a very potent competitive system when you have big business and big government pulling in harness together particularly against the little ones were right and again small business in the united states so in the minute or two we have left here in fletcher what do we do about this i said in my book the united states should go back to being a terrorist protected economy i don't flinch at the term protection

in the united states. on radio cable t.v. and so on who. use this issue to stir up. water exploit resentment now in one of your articles about china there is a place where you see nationalism is often fed by a sense of impotence and i want to ask you about this do you think there is a saying that could also be relevant to modern day united states yes but it. comes back to that same issue that people who feel they're not represented they don't have a voice that they're not listened to they don't have a grip on public affairs. very vulnerable. leaders who promise the earth as it were if you feel you're a lonely individual who has no influence on anybody and nobody cares about it feels good to be in a crowd shouting usa usa or. in the case of america could be in china or could be anywhere and in china what i meant by. chinese nationalism being a form often an expression of a form of it's i didn't mean that in the sense of the chinese government but where people have no political voice china is awful not a democracy. there nationalism can play the same role that religion

one is the united states, but what did they want from the united states. e changed landscape, what did they expect. >> if there in the emergence of governance in the arab world that actively reflects the arab street, you will see a different level of engagement. in this case they want the government to interact with israel differently. they want to see the interest of israel take priority. they won the sale of natural gas to not be sold at a subsidized price. they want to see the priority on the siege of ghaza be lifted. there is a sense of embassy -- empathy. they want the foreign policy to reflect that. they want to see the priority take precedence over the national security of israel and the united states. when israel wanted israel to engage in it mediation efforts, you would see as bike. the underground barriers, it was common knowledge it was really at the behest of international pressure to do more to stop the smuggling, despite the fact the ordinary egyptians wanted the siege lifted. those are just some of the quick examples of the top of my head. w

the koran rest the united states isn't about the merits of democracy democracy is alive alive and well it's really about sort of spending and fiscal responsibility as a relates to government this may be the issue of the decade in the united states to be perfectly honest with you democrats love to blame folks like george w. bush and reality this situation dates back to over a generation lyndon johnson and frankly both parties are culpable we're running a federal deficit of one point five trillion a national debt nearing fifteen trillion everybody knows we need to cut back but nobody wants to step forward to make a difficult cuts we've that said if america wants to remain the world's economic leader it must draw a line in the sand right now and that's what we're saying with scott walker in wisconsin and case i can ohio ok steve if i go to you a lot of people would say a skeptic would say is that the banks can be bailed out wall street can be bailed out. big pharma big big everything can be you know protected but when it comes to the middle class who protects them. and that's exactly righ

fortifying go to is a system working for the average american in the united states right now. i don't think the system right now is really working for anyone it's still the best system in the world but it can get better and that's really what we're seeing you know from abroad it looks like we have on the rest but what i think a lot of people around the world don't recognize is is that democracy is not always clean it gets messy and you know the mere fact that we can have protests in wisconsin without people getting shot in the streets like say libya says a lot for the american democratic way with that said you know the u.s. government and governments around the world need to really wake up to this sort of fiscal realities of the twenty first century and until that occurs this is going to continue in manifest itself and spread to other states in america and around the world look at greece it is a tragedy what happened in because you know basically everybody took their eyes off the ball for the past generation and i think we may see that elsewhere as well steve what do you think

states people united these. but this is not a bad day united states you got ten members of the security calling you can who are already. here we're going to continue this discussion after a short break and after that story we'll continue talking about libya in the greater middle east a thirty. eight. story . it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language is really. the best be copied could be. culture. the thing is that the had the dems are still unaware of what's going on in the land still asking why do you. think i don't know anything about alaska the great. on our cheap. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. you. still. want to. welcome mr brosnahan people about to remind you we're discussing libya's future. and. ok eric i'd like to talk about the logic of humanitarian assistance and military intervention what about the ivory coast what about the sudan over the last decade or so what about bahr

action by the united states to defend itself. the picture that was painted for the american people for this congress or for the congress at that time was that we had no choice but to get ready to attack iraq. and yet back then, prior to congress voting on a resolution to authorize the use of military force against iraq, the attack having occurred eight years ago on march 20, 2003. yet, we knew back then that there was no credible evidence that iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. there was no credible evidence that iraq had the capability to reach the united states with such weapons. in the 1991 gulf war iraq had a demonstrated capability of biological or chemical weapons but didn't use them against the u.s. armed forces. congress was not provided with credible information which that iraq had provided international terrorists with weapons of mass destruction. president bush went on to assert that the united states could unilaterally enforce u.n. resolutions. and that we could do so with military force. he went on to assert

the united states. there will be a huge market for these batteries. we have made great strides in biofuels. research done two years ago are being put into power plants today. we expected to continue. we expect to be announcing ground making plans for by a new refinery plants. we have assembled teams. at caltech there is an energy team that will correct biofuels directly from sunlight. this is an economic way of bypassing other forms of energy. these are things we have been doing. natural gas -- as you all know, natural gas is a -- we are growing our natural gas reserves. we believe it is possible to safely and responsibly extract natural gas. the u.s. government remains committed to that. electricity -- the president has spoken before about electricity. we have roughly 40% of our electricity in clean energy if you consider nuclear, when, solar. the president announced in the state of the union that by 2035 we will expect 8% of our energy to come from other sources. this unleashes a lot of the capital si

his people have risen and these people are not controlled by the united states the area nice state is moving in with their with some european powers to provide millions of people over there if things are a girl's even the rebels will be out of the mercy of the united states the endgame is to divide libya and pretty soon ok that's a very good point gentlemen let me jump in here just point if i go to brad ok bret the interesting point it's been brought up here what if this current military operation however you want to call it isn't successful meaning khadafi isn't just thrown just in thrown out have we the west western powers partitioned libya is that is in anyone's interest a partition or are they going to forever protect benghazi in other areas this is what i'm getting at is the law of unintended consequences i mean what if you can't get rid of gadhafi with planes alone. well look that's going to be right we don't know how this thing is going to play out bullshitting we know what it's going to play and before we go and no we should have no doubt there's anybody how does anybody know

host: 104 reactors in the united states. our most americans aware of where the plants are in the united states? guest: many of as a live near them. we get 20% of our electricity from them. one of the interesting points in looking at new technology, for those interested in environmental concerns, it provides 73% of our emissio- free electricity. host: obama asked regulators to do a review of nuclear plants. let's listen to that. >> we have a responsibility to learn from this event in japan. we need to look at the safety and security of our people. i have asked the commission to do a comprehensive review of the safety of our nuclear plant in light of the nuclear disaster that unfolded in japan. host: obama speaking last week. he was asking them to do a regulatory review. he can not order them to do so. guest: the nuclear regulatory commission is looking at these types of things. the president had to make a statement such as that. there is a perception that earthquakes in this tsunamis -- and tsunamis, this is not new to our nu

united states. but that's not a direct correlation there at all going to the car secondly nato expansion has clearly been a big issue i still think is the biggest stumbling point between america and russia it's even bigger than people understand and i will tell you why the president may be out of service. in russia as in title for a sphere of privileged interests in the former soviet republic security or things in political life and we say you know we deny the states not when we say no because no country is allowed to have a sphere of influence and we are it's an evil what is the expansion of nato it's an expansion of the american sphere of influence a vast expansion into the territory we used to be a sphere of forms of soviet russia so moscow says from washington why do you get it and in our backyard and we get none this is the big geo political conflict over it and there will be reset now there is a solution but nobody is prepared to put it forward in the united states. till this problem is solved

foreign policy i mean when people of the united states job it should representation when it comes to their value versus the ballot of the pro israel lobby so all of this helps to explain why first stop on the international tour is it say china with its rise in the world is taking us bonds or russia which the u.s. is trying to reset relations with or saudi arabia with the planned u.s. sales of sixty billion dollars in arms to counter rerun or even the u.k. which is the other part of the so-called special relationship but instead widely tensional presidents on the surface looking to boost their foreign policy street kred bypass all of these other countries and head straight to the stump in just one lauren lyster r.t. new york such an interesting point lauren brings up there is a lot of allies certainly israel is one of the important one and let's talk about this it seems to be a hot trend of course we are getting into that almost election period we're seeing mostly republicans and of course there's some obvious reasons for that to talk a little about that and also i'm curious if you ca

generate the relative weakening in crucially of the united states visibly becoming world powers of the world powers we are by the erosion of the sovereign nation state is one of the goals so what we're seeing in north africa what we may also and we definitely are seeing in the states is the rather to controls micromanaged weakening of nation states through turmoil through economic and financial crises turn up why would they rank i mean nobody certainly no one in the us wants it all prices or food prices rise nobody in the world wants to see that what is the justification and point of abuse claims that are made absolutely nobody in the u.s. or at least not the american people want to see that but if you look at it from the point of view of the long term planning of our power elite of global power of that is wrapping up globalization after twenty years because a really it has served most of its purpose and it's ushering in it coming world government will natural you know a common world government you would need to in a controlled manner erode the relative power of nation states and that

states i think is that the united states should do something were to shepherd you know the support of shepherd like a former guide says flock of sheep or is cattle the idea of a good night and straight as to shepherd mix countries is of course russia very always ends badly these countries will make it over or they won't make it at all the united states doesn't understand the situation but there is a danger of a political involvement here and god which would be which i mean there are two things that have arisen in the united states in the last few days one is of course the renewal of democracy promotion this idea that america has the right or the wisdom to impose democracy in other countries and you see a lot of this in the commentary president obama should bring democracy to egypt to bring democracy to tunisia that's not our role we need to get our own act together inside our country but also of course there's a concern that there will be more terrorist threats and danger in the. reachin the feeling yes that the instability will fuel terrorist threats well you could argue the opposite

and i think that we, the united states, can tolerate that up to a point. but there will be instans, it seems to me, in the future that if the level of repression gets too high, there will be cries for action on our part, and we will find ourselveses in a very, very difficult situation. so to my way of thinking what we've got to do -- >> is that to say you care more about oil than lives. >> you have to use the time bought by this military intervention and the period of calm it no doubt will bring, to shape some kind of broader security, political, and economic arrangement inside of bahrain. there's got to be some kind of real negotiation between the monarch and the majority population and some kind of durable, viable outcome going forward. >> rose: is there any permanent damage to the relationship between the united states and saudi arabbia because of this? >> i don't think at the moment there's permanent damage, although i think there's great uneasiness in saudi arabbia, both because of the situations going on in bahrain and yemen, and because of, frankly,

the united states is going to be hard to get but at the same time the united states is going around the world building countries like a lot of americans would like the american government to start rebuilding its own country would go ahead i mean nation building in the greater middle east outside intervention and we learned a lesson there i must say i must because someone from inside. the united nations did not give money to a man beat to change regimes in libya there's a revolution going on in north africa and the middle east these revolutions are to overthrow the caters we've been supported by the west for the past forty years these revolutions must be me by the people of north africa if we're going to have a democratic process social justice and the billions of dollars used to provide employment for the people of north africa the united states cannot afford a military adventure in north africa as the did in iraq in fact opportunism of the pentagon is such that initially they were opposed to a no fly zone but now they're using this exercise as a public relations exercise for the united

they hate the united states. and from our self-interest we don't want these people to take power even if they're democratically elected. i don't care, you know, it's going to be bad for us. when oil o goes to $200 a barrel, when we have war breaking out in the middle east, when you have the iranians furthering their hegemony in that region and when they get nuclear weapons, we're going to be facing a lot worse problem than we have today. so it's wonderful that people want to have self-rule and democracy and stuff like that, but our sort of hands-off policy that, hey, you guys work it out and we'll intervene later is a big mistake. because the actors in the region who want to influence events like iran or like syria or other bad guy states or like libya, they're going to fill that vacuum. so we're either players in this, or we're going to be the victim of it. and i think the administration needs to get moving and do something about it. my two cents. yes, ma'am. >> we were -- doctor, we were speaking about a few th

the united states. the united states of america this year will be the top nation in the world with the highest corporate tax rate of any nation. you want to know why jobs are getting out sourced from america? look no further than this figure. 35%. $3.8 million is the next number. that is the irs estimate of the number of words in the tax cut. how many of you are busy filling out your tax forms right now? this is something i know something about. when we call the irs, they could not give us an actual number of words in the tax code. you are liable under penalty of perjury and jail time to get this right. $3.80 trillion. happy reading. april 15 is coming. let's look at $1.20 trillion. that is the estimate that we spend in this country for compliance with regulations. i consider the regulatory burden in this country one more tax on the job creators of this nation. another figure -- the number one. in this administration has issued exactly one permit to drill in this country for energy since barack obama ca

the united states of america is different. and as president, i refuse to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action. moreover, america has an important strategic interest in preventing qaddafi from overrunning those who oppose him. a massacre would have driven thousands of additional refuse refugees across libya's borders putting enormous strains on the peaceful yet fragile transition in egypt and tunisia. the democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power. the risk of the united nations security council would have been shown to be little more than empty words crippling that institution's future corrode iblt to upload global peace and security. so while i will never minimize the cost involved in military action, i am convinced that a failure to act in libya would have carried a far greater price for america. now just as there are those who have argued aga

i think united states is ready to be created there. it is always our ranch's fall and we never look at our own action. we have toppled to the governments and have american troops on either side of them, we have american troops in the persian gulf. we act as though iran is not supposed to be all launder concern to do anything to hold us back. we should look at it through their eyes as well. if we want a relatively stable afghanistan and be able to get out of there, then we need to address iranian interest also. >> i am with the washington institute. i have a question about the recommendation about in gauging the iranians. with the green movement this now -- is now hoping to benefit, what you say about the timing of engaging in some type of diplomatic initiative in afghanistan? within not undermine the movement we are trying to encourage kurds to mark >> i do not think so at all. president reagan met with dissidents have to bring down the berlin wall. we negotiated the same time with the russians. absolutely not. " we have to do it the s

in the united states, you get access to consumers. they have these four of devotees if one person decides i will take a hit on the chain. they couldn't decide the portfolios and they move more towards the euro and the moving into the technologies and moving money out, they are running about a billion dollars a day just in interest. that is being deployed in different asset classes so you are right in the short term may be the do feel that america has got the upper hand but over the long term there is nothing that says china can't get high year returns on elsewhere than taking a big hit on the united states getting it right. >> host: what do you think about the assertion china is artificially keeping the value of its currency flow for the trade purposes? >> guest: i think that is a sort of a fait accompli. i think most people with knowledge that tradition of the ty exchange rate has been artificially manipulated but there are few things happening in china which suggest they get it. they are not blind to issues. the focus on the domesti

states within the united states there's all this happened because barack obama goes to the security council and gets a resolution and the united states under the u.s. constitution the war powers are very carefully divided between congress and the united states and following not only the war but our historical practice the president has sold the case for going to war and make no mistake about it that's what we're talking about here he sold the case to the american public gotten the support of the public and they've gotten congress' support what is happened to this effect forty eight hours ago we have the national security adviser saying the united states had no imperative it is not about this we're going to get in the. civilian population we're not trying for which there's not a better message on this right and i think that term is wrong and misleading to the people i think there's a lot left when i say they're here to use that term i think there's a lot to be debated here but unfortunately that's all the time we have right now the only thing that i will say is that a lot of question

states again or will it be thank god the united states saw the opportunity to be on the side of right and did the right thing at the right moment this time? >> i think it's going to be the second. i think we're seeing signs in many many ways that where we didn't act quickly in egypt to support the protestors they knew it immediately and when we did act they were glad though they thought it was late. in bahrain we get reports the protesters are worried we're not supporting them. this is a completely connected younger generation that david or leon said actually often takes president obama as a symbol of the kind of thing they think they ought to be able to have and if it's a slippery slope, it's a short slippery slope because no one is talking about or can imagine troops on the ground and you arm the rebels as best you can. it's hard to imagine going beyond that. jessica is right i think to say you have to ask what will happen next. absolutely you have to do that but you can't always get all the answers. we would not have known the end game in rwanda if we had sent troops in and yet i d

states now have more in common than we do that separates us we are both economic powers the united states is a mature economic power the russian economy is growing so we need each other as exhibited today by the vice president having his meeting. about the airplane deal that was done we need that russia to be part of the w t o we need a free trade with russia i think that that message is being sent today so there's all these things that unite us rather than separate us the other thing of course is that we're coming up to the tenth anniversary of nine eleven i don't think it's lost on the american people that the russian people have been victimized by islamic terrorists and we share that in common and i think the metaphor for that is this idea of a missile defense although it's aimed at states like iran and others i think that it's a symbol that we stand united against terrorists and that's another thing so while we might disagree on things like libya i think going forward the relationship moves forward no matter what the little setbacks might be and. that symbolic gesture of saying that i

store a whole references ok iran didn't attack the united states well he. ok but you know a lot of these countries are hotbeds for terrorists you know and they're helping contribute to producing these terrorists and i think that the u.s. does have a self interest in protecting ourselves we don't want to you know foment more. grandiose to come and we're really rare for forty years the united states actually perpetuated carer's groups developing in the greater middle east because of its policies but you have it in reverse i do believe i do i blew do believe that the united states in its own self interest which is entitled to protect has tried to pick and choose the least worst of the volatile situations and sometimes in hindsight you look back and you say you know i didn't really we didn't realize that you know these peoples would it would turn out the way they did and a lot of times it's a gamble but what are you going to do when you want to you know prevent another nine eleven with three thousand americans killed from happening again ok john you want to fee

the current unrest the united states isn't about the merits of democracy democracy is alive alive and well it's really about sort of spending and fiscal responsibility as relates to government this may be the issue of the decade in the united states to be perfectly honest with you democrats love to blame folks like george w. bush but in reality this situation dates back to over a generation of lenin johnson and frankly both parties are korbel we're running a federal deficit of one point five trillion a national debt nearing fifteen trillion everybody knows we need to cut back but nobody wants to step forward to make the difficult cuts where that said if america wants to remain the world's economic leader it must draw a line in the sand right now and that's what we're saying with scott walker in wisconsin make a second ohio ok steve i'm going to you a lot of people say a skeptic would say is that the banks can be bailed out wall street can be bailed out. big pharma big big everything can be you know protected but when it comes to the middle class who protects them. and that's exactly r

states is the united states going to intervene here and take out coffee and install a new government that government would have no legitimacy and i think here the legitimacy of what the security council has done will rest in the large measure on the even handedness of the implementation and also one who does it in this case the u.s. is already engaged in two wars on the ground in the middle east it's overtax at this point this effort really should be led by the arab world by the arab league and we have two arab powers certainly have the air ability to do it egypt and saudi arabia the question is where and where they what we see right now is the arab league or the arab league is of importing this and the europeans by the u.k. for france know how into order for they also have an issue where they're much closer to libya they have to deal with various security american people we have a poll that came out that fifty five percent of the american people were not for any sort of military i will say that i don't think president obama has sold this well and explained this wasn't very long i th

the high was there why very good japanese company to the united states and i thought we were you know we can do nation we build things here right not anymore and not at all in fact one of the reasons was that the main operator houston power has been cited for criminal coverups of their problems building the first two nuclear plants in south texas they were fined a billion dollars for incompetence and building and they went bankrupt so because they're bankrupt incompetent have a criminal record they said well if you give us the four billion dollars will bring in wonderful tokyo electric to show our guys how to build the plants safely and how to operate them safely i can't make this up tom and in addition they're bringing into sheba to make the reactor vessel mostly in japan and when you're looking at those vessels blowing up now one of the three is from the shiva that's that's amazing what is s q and why should we care. we should care a lot s.q. is the technical term for seismic qualification that means that a plant is earthquake proof he's not allowed to build a nuclear plant in the u

i arrived in the united states. on my way what i want to mention briefly about immigration and things of that purpose when i began to perhaps the first time in my life i began to question whether my own humanity was worthy as other people who live in western europe i had never questioned that before in my life and this came about because of how process of immigration was difficult to the point that it dehumanized a person seeking immigration. when i went to the american embassy to get a visa i was asked to produce two things. one of them was a bank statement that showed i had income and second was documentation that showed i had ownership of property. the war had been going on for nine years in my country. i tried to explain to this fellow interviewing me from behind this mirror knowing a microphone was coming i could hear his voice, tried to explain and come from a place that had a civil war and i was coming from a remote part of the world where i don't have these things. i grew up in a small community where everyo

states and then there are these historical references ok to rand didn't attack the united states well he. ok you know a lot of these countries are hotbeds for terrorists you know and they're helping contribute to producing these terrorists and i think that the u.s. does have a self interest in protecting ourselves we don't want to you know foment more. days to come and we'll know that you ran for forty years the united states actually perpetuated charisse groups developing in the greater middle east because of its policies don't you have it in reverse i do believe i do i blew do believe that the united states in its own self interest which is entitle to protect has tried to pick and choose the least worst of the volatile situations and sometimes in hindsight you look back and you say you know i didn't really we didn't realize that you know these people's way it would turn out the way they did and a lot of times it's a gamble but what are you going to do when you want to you know prevent another nine eleven with three thousand americans killed from happening again ok john you want to f