states it's that politics one of the united states to. the right and danielle say that agreement is no reached so how will that damage the u.s. refutation well light i think it would be a very significant prayer. mainly because again not because there would be you know a week or two debate of interest payments to countries that want us dead now but obviously that would obviously be something these countries with the right the biggest are going to be this concert reputation in the back of the united states has never defaulted on its debt is something that it's something that is the reason people are attracted to buy u.s. debt in the first place and it's what's enabled to the united states to deficit spend good decades now because there's a insatiable appetite for its debt defecting i would say that would be like i said it would be the third strike against the u.s. in three years it would make it look we're responsible it's going to be harder for the united states to go to china and say you need to. allow your currency to appreciate china o

it means united states. but who in the united states? mexicans in the united states clacks which mexicans? manly mexican women in the united states. basically what i say is the social cultural mental transformation of mexican migrant women in the united states can be the single most important lever of transformation of mexican culture mentality and everything. why? because mexican women who come to the united states to work illegally that's not the issue of that's not what we said, i'm not interested in those matters. i'm just as mexican as a pretty else is. fight? [laughter] mexican women who come here tend more and more to come alone. they are not coming, they are not being brought to the u.s. by the family and even when they are once they are here they say goodbye and that's it. mexican women who come here, they don't half -- they make their money, they decide what to do with their money, they may send some home, maybe they don't, they may have kids, maybe they don't, they hook up with one guy, they leave that guy, they filled up with

>> rose:ight. >> and in the united states, does the united states take kindly to the prospect of deine? you bet it doesn't. does the tea party... do many ordinary americans take kindly? who would, to the prospect of decline? so that even if you haveise and enlightened and far-sighted leaders on both sides the passions and tensions coming out from those societies may push them different directions. >> rose: speaking of barack obama, did you once write that your judgment of him was that his order of priorities were security first, development second and human rights third? >> a poor third. >> rose: a poor third, you said. >> a poor third and i'm not the only pson have noticed that. and i see in his retoox the arab spring an attempt to address that because, after all, what you had on the streets of tunis and cairo was young arabs risking their lives for democracy and for human rights, often in a purely non-violent way. it was the civil rights movement that inspired barack obama as a young man but on the streets of tunis and cairo and he had to react to that. >> rose: and can he do that wi

of the media and there are fewer and fewer hands and unit to look at the united states with the federal communications commission has been giving a.t.t. and their eyes and you know tremendous powers to combine with the some of the smaller carriers the same thing for the television broadcast murdoch was very influential in the united states in having the federal communications commission put aside roe ules and regulations that who granted that kind of media consolidation where one in or primes can own the newspapers and the television stations in one city but i think the deeper question here is not just about the silliness of the british media which is the well known for many many years i think you just said good thirty years you know people have looked at the this secretary there i'd choose the british tabloids but i would make an analogy that goes much deeper than than just the competition between various media barons and if you look at illegal a small news on a big battle with that some of his competitors you know it's the theme of their control everything fading from more controlled

of russian adopted children to children in the united states. i was to do notices of america just three weeks ago and we know this was not the first time. it was a special we visit the center internet and the national center for missing and exploited children and not me is american specialist told me the level of violence and cruelty in the american. emulous too high too high so you can see is that if situations saudi tours russian children towards all children are known to toward all children even their own children yes absolutely so so you want your saying now that american families generally cruel to . say so but as americans what is really says that all cruelty is more and more and more every year among among native americans or among immigrants or first wave immigrants i can share and share and. i think in the. kinds of families where we can find it and i can compare this to asian isn't that it is of american in russia because russia is a problem of cruelty and violence in our families against native children not only against or adopted chi

states how this scandal is being covered in the united states. not particularly well is the short answer there's been been very little in television coverage c.n.n. has done has done a bit of fox and fox news channel has done almost nothing frankly and in fact c.n.n. reported that in the fox news channel's. media criticism program called fox news watch during a commercial break the people on the on the program were discussing how they weren't going to discuss just story. so kevin makes a very very strong and powerful point that concentration of media power in very few hands will lead to this sort of thing it's it's natural that a corporation is going to protect its own interests and news corp is an enormous company so no other no other news corp property is going to go to terribly far out on a limb to to investigate this story. the wall street journal the bible of a wall street. is now owned by news corp or news corp and is is not going to give shareholders in news corp a real story on on this and what it could mean to their to their bottom line

temporary stopgap resolution to this problem this is the united states of america and we don't manage our affairs here in three month increments. year we don't risk u.s. default. on our obligations. because we can't put politics aside this coming from officials who haven't been able to put politics aside in missing past deadlines and who are trying to agree on all of this a big plan to tackle the deficit just three weeks before default international investors that's the chinese and ratings agencies we've already seen them concerned obama and many other lawmakers say washington needs to raise the debt ceiling period but what happens if it doesn't oh peter schiff president of euro pacific capital joins us now to help us try to make sense of all this peter now you for one we've talked about this before you are one that argues for lower lower corporate taxes in this country that's something we've seen republicans want in this negotiation over the scope of it and also you have said that the government it's a rein in its deficit such as something that both democrats and republicans seem to

the united states is the largest. each of our country's are taking countries areoun taking positive steps. we are recommending comprehensive energy reform to replace excessive dependence on fossil fuels. we want to replace oil with cleaner, cheaper, and safer alternatives including natural- gas and wind energy. the need for alternative energy is acute, especially for hawaii and the u.s. territories. in puerto rico, we realize 69% on foreign oil. a why and the -- hawaii and the u.s. territories are not connected to the u.s. power grid. it debilitates our respective economies and a facts consumers and businesses alike. -- and effects consumers and businesses alike. in the case of puerto rico, we have energy policies that focus on renewable energy generation and natural gas. in 2010, we passed legislation setting up renewable standards . it requires that 15% of our energy be produced by renewables forces by 2020. we also created a green in a refund -- a green energy fund to jump-start these markets and create jobs. we ar

states how this scandal is being covered in the united states. not particularly well is the short answer there's been been very little in television coverage c.n.n. has done has done a bit fox and fox news channel has done almost nothing frankly and in fact c.n.n. reported. on the fox news channel's. media criticism program called thoughts newswatch during a commercial break the the people on the on the program were discussing how they weren't going to discuss this story. so kevin makes a very very strong and powerful point that concentration of media power in very few hands will lead to sort of thing it's it's natural that a corporation is going to protect its own interests and news corp is an enormous company so no other no other news corp property is going to go to terribly far out on a limb to to investigate this story. the wall street journal the bible of wall street. is now owned by news corp or news corp and it is is not going to give shareholders in news corp a real story on this and what it could mean to their to their bottom line and th

>> the president of the united states is elected to lead. the president of the united states, every previous president i know has been not only active in the process, but led in the process. that is the job of the president. >> greta: heading up, making phone calls is considered leadership if dispatching vice president biden up to talk to people and making phone calls and putting people in the same room. things we might not see? is that leading or not? >> what is leading is to say here is my plan. here is what i want us to do. >> greta: has he put a plan out? >> never. he's lectured. do you remember rich nard nixon had a plan? this is the best one since then. he has not come forward with any specific plan. and maybe i'm wrong, but i remember president saying this is what we've got to do. a, b, c, d, e. my dear beloved friend lindzy gram coming on in a minute or two may disagree. but one thing we're on agreement on is that president is not leading. the job of the president is to lead. so this issue may be decided by boehner, mcconnell, and...

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the united states and the allied powers anton 1934. this was a totally said -- totally different situation. britain and france were not available to help. he was widely criticized, much more so. my book does not do justice to that particular subject, i regret to say. >> would you address the eisenhower and vietnam? >> i sound like a broken record. i tell you i know a lot. i do know about that. he clearly made the decision not to intervene in indochina in 1954, particularly to save the french at the siege. he had a number of advisers who wanted into. he thought and thought about it and was surrounded by a number of people who thought he should. he went over and came back the next day and said i'm not going to send one soldier to die on those rice paddies. he didn't. having said that, eisenhower left a bit of a mass. the geneva conventions of 1954, i used to teach a course on it. the geneva convention of 54 called for unifying elections in vietnam. those elections never took place because the united states supported in effect the creatio

of the united states, dr. henry kissinger. let's briefly run through how the next hour and a half will unfold. each of our debaters will have six minutes for their opening statements to make their case for and against this motion. and talking of timing, there's going to be a clock on the screen as we have done in the past; when you see it count down to zero join me in a round of applause for the debater speaking and that will ensure that we continue this debate in a timely fashion. after those opening statements, we're going to have our debaters cross-examine each other's views and opinions, and then we're going to bring you, the audience, into the conversation in three ways. we have some notable people in the audience tonight, we have students from the munk school of global affairs here also and finally we have a raft of questions from our own website, facebook and twitter, which i will weave into the conversation. so how did this audience vote, coming into this evening? did you believe the 21st century will

states, the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the president of the united states senate, all members of the alabama delegation to congress with a request that this resolution be officially entered into the official record as an application of the united states congress of america for a convention to propose an amendment to provide for a federal balanced budget in the event that congress does not submit such an amendment to the states for ratification on or about december 31, 2007. be it further resolved copies of this resolution be provided to the secretaries of state and the presiding officers of the legislatures of the other states. signed by the president presiding officer of the alabama state senate signed by the house of representatives, signed by the governor of the state of alabama on june 7, 2007. congress clearly has the duty to pass a balanced budget constitutional amendment to prevent unsustainable spending sprees that threaten america's future, quite frankly and in my judgment, a balanced budget constitutional amendment is the only way to prevent a fed

documented and undocumented, presence in the united states. their earnings were enhanced by about 2.7%. why? it's complicated and i'll send a link to the commission so you can look at the exciting charts and graphs and do that to your heart's desire. it comes down to a simple idea which is intuitive and you know it. the economy is not a fixed pie. when you expand the labor curve, a simple economist will say the price of labor goes down and we're all hurt. the more people that work here, the more people that are chasing jobs and we're all doomed. wrong. the expansion of the available labor force creates opportunities that did not exist before. you have innovation and entrepreneurialism that increases the actual size of small and medium-sized businesses. they consume and that expands the demand curve. you have a dynamic economy for 90% of u.s. born workers that enhances their wages. the other 9% got whacked up side the head with globalization and immigration and everything you can list and they need help. getting rid of immigrants doesn't really

and if necessary, military intervention by the united states. the house passed the resolution on january 30th, the same day that ike paraded the king from saudi arabia before cameras on a state visit. he insisted that the president come to the airport to greet him. that's something that ike had never done with any other foreign leader. but saudi oil had its cloud in those days too and ike agreed to do. and he grumbled to ann whitman now he'd suppose he would have to greet everybody in the future. once israel agreed to withdraw from egypt, the eisenhower doctrine passed the senate on march 5th. in a breast taking 2 months, dwight eisenhower persuaded the congress of the united states to dramatically reorient american policy towards the middle east. the eisenhower doctrine permitted the united states to replace the british as the civility and security including resources in the middle east. and for good or ill, as president obama has experienced the past few weeks, for good or ill, that obligation is still the cornerstone of american policy. thank

the united states will not be safe for four more prosperity since the united states disengages with the world. that is that history teaches us. i.this bush debate was supposed to be at the bush doctrine saw give you information about what the bush doctrine is, how stipulates in how it is grimly into the best of the american tradition. the bush doctrine came out of the heinous attacks of 9/11. there were two premises to the dock turn. wonders in this day and age there are certain types of threats emanating in certain types of actors that can't be dealt with by conventional strategies that can emit or deterring. you need to respond preemptively because force and threat if you wait too long to fight cancer. that is premised on. the second premises in particular the root cause of this dangerous synergy between the spread of radicalism was the culture of tierney in the region. now let's be precise. the bush doctrine does not say that you go to war with somebody if there is tyranny. however our regime imposes a grave threat to you and you do get an award, the remedy for the audience to deal w

to the united states. so the united states doesn't pay itself, what are we going to do? send out a notice that we're -- the united states didn't pay the united states so we're deadbeats now? come on. there is so much political gamesmanship going on and we were sent here to deal with the critical issues of this country and being financially responsible is one of those things. now, i doubt that very many people actually look at the back of their dollar bills and i know they're having more and more trouble getting those dollar bills, but if you look at the back of the dollar bill, on either side, you see the two sides of the united states great seal. that was adopted initially in the first version around the time of the revolution. and the eagle has changed a little bit over the centuries, mainly, basically changed and basically this by 1790. some people think that e pluribus unum, latin meaning out of many one, it's on the light fictsture here, come from all over the world, we come from many and become one.

states of united states and always would be. and -- united states of america and always would be. arizonan justice sandra day o'connor as agreed to offer us some of her thinking today. i won't walk you through her resume today and she asked me certain i wouldn't. i want to make sure that everyone remember that she grew up on a ranch along ago. one of the first women to graduate from stanford law school and one of the first women to be elected to the united states supreme court. leaving as an active justice, apparently remains active throughout the country, still hearing cases and moving forward. let me say to you that back in arizona, how many of you are arizonans? i suspect not many. very few. yes. back in arizona she is continuing to work for solutions and problem solving through what is now called o'connor house which is a place where people gather. her original home in metro phoenix with her husband and her family has been converted and moved to a separate location where people gather to actually solve problems rather than j

united states? they have these jeffersonian republicans and will create a puppet regime that is the fear between 80 in sedition act. they are truly frightened. in destroying napoleons and team and once he has no fleet then there is no invasion. but talking about we cannot have a french president meaning jefferson. they were very much at each other's throats and we think our press is rough? [laughter] you do no better, it was just mischa's. they accused washington of being able. he was working for the british government that is the accusation made. it is incredible the distortions and lies washington would shake his head and could not believe it. say would say these awful things said he was so desperate to say he wanted to get out of the political world. >> his cabinet said he was aging before their eyes and one meeting where he cost loudly and i don't think i can say it is because the c-span's. [laughter] but he was deeply disillusioned by what was happening. his last letter is six months before he

states you know lower borrowing costs in the united states so this whole debt ceiling fiasco is actually increasing the borrowing cost of the united states and as a result it's going to increase the interest rates that we pay across the board the only positive is that you know the chinese they want to sell to us and as a result they're forced therefore to make a choice as to what specific instruments they want to buy and obviously they want to buy the ones that are the safest really quickly if the chinese don't want our debt anymore is there you know not command from americans or the united states to keep operating the way that it happened but it's not a question of whether they want anymore it's a question of what they want to sell to us what they would have to do is they have to change their their currency peg they would have to say you know we want to revalue our currency because we don't want to sell to the united states and we want to sell. more europeans and therefore we want to win ourselves away and then you hear. out of the chinese economy into all the other reasons of asian eco

the united states is the largest. each of our country's are taking countries areoun taking positive steps. we are recommending comprehensive energy reform to replace excessive dependence on fossil fuels. we want to replace oil with cleaner, cheaper, and safer alternatives including natural- gas and wind energy. the need for alternative energy is acute, especially for hawaii and the u.s. territories. in puerto rico, we realize 69% on foreign oil. a why and the -- hawaii and the u.s. territories are not connected to the u.s. power grid. it debilitates our respective economies and a facts consumers and businesses alike. -- and effects consumers and businesses alike. in the case of puerto rico, we have energy policies that focus on renewable energy generation and natural gas. in 2010, we passed legislation setting up renewable standards . it requires that 15% of our energy be produced by renewables forces by 2020. we also created a green in a refund -- a green energy fund to jump-start these markets and create jobs. we ar

in the united states senate. mitch mcconnell sent ow a letter. he's the republican leader saying yesterday that he had 43 votes against it. but what they'd like to do is, if you will, take out the old language and cut and paste the new language they're trying to work on in order to be able to send it back over to the united states house of representatives fairly quickly and get this issue, you know, off the table. meanwhile, wolf, i don't know if you know, but we've been sort of talking around and trying to get a feel for how tough it is for mitch mcconnell, senate republican leader, to get his people together and also get democrats together on the other side in the event there is a final deal. talking to one gop aide, we got sort of the downside and the criticism about this agreement as it comes together and they try to figure out how to handle it. and here's what that gop aide said. "they are obviously fast tracking the gang of six tax hikes" -- this is the group that worked on this issue some time ago, and the

the united states won the other semifinal against france, 3-1. japan scored nine minutes after sweden was allowed a goal. and then the captain netted a goal putting the team in the lead. and then scored four minutes later. that put the national team into the final securing a first medal for the country. japan will have to beat the united states on sunday to win its first ever world cup victory. the united states is gunning for its third title. >> it was a very good game. we hope japan gets the world championship. >> it was fantastic. i have to root for the usa now. yes. but i hope it will disturbance bo -- both teams will have a good game. >> now we go to the latest in business news. >> thank you. let's look at the united states. in testimony before u.s. congress on wednesday the federal reserve chairman said the central bank would be open to new economic stimulus measures if necessary. the u.s. meeting on the economy is held twice a year. ben bernanke said the weaker performance than expected continues in the u.s. they include an expected recove

department of commerce the same number of jobs that have been cut from the united states in the last decade have been added to these companies overseas operations it's a phenomenon that angers many americans who are struggling to make ends meet i think it's despicable disgusting and we have people here that have worked all of their lives in a losing jobs left and right because somebody on top wants to make a buck and pay the cheapest possible there are more dollars to go in his name of the economy. companies should hire american workers. because of the shrinking middle class the fact that middle class wages are decreasing over the last thirty years so may need. to be and i do think that is the wrong thing to do is. over think and it's not just manufacturing work american i t. companies in innovation jobs they're also moving here in droves as well as huge savings on wages many companies say india's fast growing economy and young workforce make it a desirable place to find staff there are amazingly talented people here in that part of the workforce and you know it's a matter of helping

this is a new challenge for the united states. one for which it is largely unprepared, the words of fareed zakaria, ladies and gentlemen. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is precisely why china will own the 21st century. and you should vote for this motion. thank you. >> the result of the monk debate from -- of the munk debate from two weeks ago," 62% voted against that. you can watch all of that again online at c-span.org. we're breaking away here at the u.s. house is about to gavel in for pro forma session no legislative business today, that's expected to begin tomorrow when they'll pick up work on the defense spending bill for fiscal year 2012. also expected in the house, the u.s. commitment to a negotiated settlement of the israeli-palestinian conflict, the 2012 spending bill for energy and water development an an overhaul of the flood insurance prog

congress of the united states. the congress of the united states is the only body that can declare war. he can't do that. he can manage a war. he's the commander in chief once we go into war, but he can't start a war unless it's in our national interest or if there's a threat to the united states. and that was clarified by the war powers act during the nixon administration because there was some question about the latitude the president might have using the constitution. so the constitution was explained very carefully in the 1970's in the war powers act. now, that's never been tested in the courts. some say it's unconstitutional. but the fact of the matter is, it's the law of the nation. and the president cannot violate the law or the constitution, and in our opinion he's violated both. now, let me just tell you what's going on in this war that the president says is not a war. we have flown almost 30% of the sortees. that means we have flown 375,000 flights into the combat area. we have dropped bombs and miss -- m

they want the united states to remain involved. if we pull out now, the nato coalition could fall apart and tens of thousands of refugees fleeing gaddafi's wrath will jeopardize the fragile operations. this issue has regional implications. it's not limited to libya alone. as my constituents know and my legislative record reflects, i was adamantly against the iraq war and i am adamantly in favor of a faster withdrawal from afghanistan. in fact, i'm almost always against the use of the military option. seldom is the right course in my opinion. seldom doesn't mean always. darfur. rwanda. all warranted our engagement as libya does today. we made it to the balkans, but we didn't make it to darfur or rwanda. and literally millions of people died because of that. at the same time, i cannot turn a blind eye to the slaughter of innocent people. i hope that the day will never come when i willig forethe cries of innocent people being murdered by a dictator or when i will cozy up to a murderous dictator. i cannot turn my back on people demandi

states how this scandal is being covered in the united states. not particularly well is the short answer there's been been very little in television coverage c.n.n. has done has done a bit of fox and fox news channel has done almost nothing frankly and in fact c.n.n. reported that in the fox news channel's. media criticism program called fox news watch during a commercial break the people on the on the program were discussing how they weren't going to discuss this story. so kevin makes a very very strong and powerful point that concentration of media power in very few hands will lead to this sort of thing it's it's natural that a corporation is going to protect its own interests and news corp is an enormous company so no other no other news corp property is going to go to terribly far out on a limb to to investigate this story. the wall street journal the bible of a wall street. is now owned by news corp or news corp and is is not going to give shareholders in news corp a real story on on this and what it could mean to their to their bottom line

the rest of the united states is segregated. why should we try to solve a problem no one else has been able to solve. as long as the military has civilian leaders you can bring political pressure on civilian leaders and make it is sociological laboratory. general marshall was wrong in that instance. the naacp had been pushing for this. they were unwilling to accept the half loaf of segregated all black flight training program but several of the black newspapers thought it was worth it. this was a step along the way that is going to get us there. tuskegee institute which had become the hub for black aviation had been pushing for this and convinced the war department to create this program tuskegee. they wanted that to happen. it was good for their community and graduates. they believed it was good for african-americans and americans in general. that was the divide between the naacp and tuskegee institute and that goes back to the founding of the naacp. were w. e. b. du bois argues against the pragmatic vision of tuskegee's founde

>> have you ever smuggled anyone into the united states? >> are you now or have you ever been a member of a communist party? >> no, i'm not a commie. >> have you ever been a habitual drug user? >> have you ever been confined as patient in a mental institution? >> have you ever sold your body for money. >> prostitution? really? who is involved in prostitution. >> your honor, may i present to you 3,340 persons having dually filed an application for naturalization. >> -- without any mental reservation. >> without any mental reservation. >> or purpose of evasion. >> or purpose of evasion. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> i had a dream in the world to go to the united states. it was on my, what do you call, dream to go to and settle in america. >> and what do you do for work? >> i'm -- i start my business here. i have a business here. i have a couple of stores. >> what kind of store? >> i have a -- i don't want to tell. it's a tobacco store, a cigarette store like a convenience store, yep. >> and a lot of people come to america from coun

citizens in the united states. i mean george bush still holds that george w. bush still holds the record on executions when he was governor perry is close behind but the idea is perry knew that there was a five to four decision in the u.s. supreme court to refuse to stay the execution while the senate considers the legislation to bring the u.s. including all the states and territories in line with this the end of convention on consular relations and by basically snubbing this international treaty that the u.s. has signed up to texas is putting every american traveling abroad who gets arrested for justify over or i'm just to file the reasons they're put in jeopardy because what this individual said is he wasn't afforded quick. consular services from the mexican consulate without the les that's what the treaty says and that was what he used as a basis to have the execution stayed you mentioned the role that it's played internationally and i read that this but at least in the one nine hundred sixty three. that was sig

i think united states journalists journalists from the u.s. have been very careful about going after marriage i mean there's you know it's. journalists have been very effectively cowed by this trope of the liberal media oh this goes back to lee atwater you know i would say reps during the regular surveyed zachary wright were a beginner. so so the big i'm loath to go after murdoch because then they would be you know tarred as. idealogical well the one organization that has been aggressively going after murdoch and for some time as media matters maybe rise to work and if and fox news i haven't i haven't looked at the stats over the last four or five days but as of last friday in a ten day period they've had thirty specific attacks on fox news as there are media matters asking their viewers to sign some kind of a petition to pull the nonprofits down right they want they paid a fine after media matters for the petition on their website trying to get the nonprofit status of the organization by the i.r.s. now that's a not going to happen to be there

activists some board accuse the united states and israel of putting pressure on the greek government i'll bring you more in a few moments. germany is accused of double standards when it comes to the war crimes as it continues to shield the convicted. criminal. as russia's maria sharapova gears battle for the gold traded wimbledon we look at whether how famous grunting power could give her an edge. a very warm welcome to you this is also a line from moscow greece is a band carrying humanitarian aid to gaza from leaving its ports. one of its vessels carrying hundreds of activists destined for the blockaded enclave has been back after just minutes at sea more campaigners on board have suggested the greek government gave in to pressure from the u.s. and israel fear has moved from tel of the. there has been no explanation given by athens as to why this preventing these ships from sailing from its ports distant to gaza justice today friday one of the steps called the duty on a set sail it was in the waters for some fifteen to twenty minutes before the greek coast guard stopped it and diver

states i'll be scandalous being covered in the united states. not particularly well is the short answer there's been been very little in television coverage c.n.n. has done has done a bit of fox and fox news channel has done almost nothing frankly and in fact c.n.n. reported that in the fox news channel's. media criticism program called fox news watch during a commercial break the people on the on the program were discussing how they weren't going to discuss this story. so kevin makes a very spare harry strong and powerful point that concentration of media power in very few hands will lead to this sort of thing it's it's natural that a corporation is going to protect its own interests and news corp is an enormous company so no other no other news corp property is going to go to too terribly far out on a limb to to investigate this story. the wall street journal the bible of wall street. is now on by news corp or news corp and it is here is not going to give shareholders in news corp a real story on this and what it could mean to their to their b

that's what we should be doing in the united states senate. and i would urge my colleagues to vote for the cloture motion, but let us continue this discussion, because in order to get a bill to the president's desk, we know we're going to have to reach further promises. we understand that. we've had, i think, some discussions among our colleagues here. i'm very hopeful that we'll be able to reach that type of a compromise. we have a chance in a few minutes to move forward so that express ourselves that we should be doing this in the senate by majority vote. i urge my colleagues to support cloture. i urge my colleagues to support the reid proposal. and then i would ask unanimous consent that during the quorum call, time be equally divided between the democratic time and the republican time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cardin: and with that, i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr.

right now the united states is the number one user of energy in the world and china is the number two. chinese oriel eighty percent of chinese energy supplies were moved by see the e.u. move through the streets of rome once which is controlled by an american sicily well it moves look malacca straits which controlled by the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to this day they worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put it on their energy into another vein this is part of a worldwide competition for energy resources and to number one the number two powers now energy users in the world and the fact that the united states has pretty much surrounded most of china with pieces that go all the way from central asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place. but a few minutes scorches strikes back the sons of from pole to russia's heat wave to the real dangers on the ground with fears that smoldering votes could spark another choking smoke peace summer. also to put the sea between washington and moscow as the u.s. bans travel for a russia

both in britain and the united states. well we have more video reaction and analysis on the misery at r.t. dot com here's what else we've lined up for you today the names floated a lot of your posts and discover why the russian pm has been given the bomb treatment on billboards in moscow also online. the creatures in crisis as a ferret a parrot and a monkey scape from a siberian circus seemingly because of bad summer weather is getting them down more on the furry friends in a fluster at. president obama is given an unyielding congress thirty six hours to raise the country's debt ceiling the dad logs already spurred two of the three major credit rating agencies to threaten a downgrade to america's triple a status but a best man alice maxwell tells r.t. that washington's addiction to debt is clouding both sides appetite for real solutions. america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making and i would liken this situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancero

in america we've had states and cities go bankrupt we've had counties go bankrupt it didn't in the united states and it didn't in the u.s. tell you why because of the four hundred billion dollars a debt that greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries don't want to take a second hit in the financial markets it's that simple. and. the sunken volga river cruise ship is due to be refloated within the next few days with a special equipment already at the scene of last weekend's accident in tatarstan the operation is due to begin later on friday the severely overloaded vessel went down on sunday killing at least one hundred thirteen people including twenty seven children well over a dozen remain missing meanwhile two people linked to the disaster have been arrested the head of the firm which rented the vessels and the registrar who certified the ship are both suspected of violating safety regulations resulting in death spoke to the captain of the vessel who saved about seventy six passengers and crew from the sunken cruiser. as we were nearing the site we be

go away grocery and cities go bankrupt we've had counties go bankrupt it didn't in the united states and it didn't in the u.s. start i'll tell you why because of the four hundred billion dollars a greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries bill want to put in their financial markets is that. it is. still. there are clear reflections on the other side of the atlantic to president obama has given an unyielding u.s. congress thirty six hours to raise the country's debt ceiling but it looks are already spurred two or three major credit rating agencies to threaten to downgrade america's aaa status and investment analyst max wolff tells us here are so you know why. john's addiction to death is clouding both sides for a real solution america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making and i would liken the situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out quickly as you possibly can that said the u.s. government has been running on debt for many many years and we've been raising

department of commerce the same number of jobs that have been cut from the united states in the last decade have been added to these companies overseas operations it's a phenomenon that angers many americans who are struggling to make ends meet i think it's despicable disgusting and we have people here that have worked here all of their lives in a losing jobs left and right because somebody on top wants to make a buck and pay the cheapest possible deal or mine dollars to go to stimulate the economy. i think the american companies should hire american workers. because of the shrinking middle class and the fact that middle class wages are decreasing over the last thirty years so many people who don't. do to me and i do think that is the wrong thing to do is. the thing and it's not just manufacturing work american i t. companies in innovation jobs are also moving here in droves as well as huge. savings on wages many companies say india's fast growing economy and young workforce make it a desirable place to find staff there are amazingly talented people here in the part of the workforce

states the press has fallen asleep and r.t. new york. as reading a newspaper gossip columns has become a daily habit for millions more harshness to ask people in new york of the phone hacking scandal surrounding murdoch's media will make them change. how it tabloid journalism becomes so influential and so popular in today's world this week let's talk about that i mean people like to read about other people's business. you know. newspapers have to try to compete with the internet. with up to date you know. dirt i think it's absolute trash there's no space in this world for it at all i hope they'll go in there but they're not going under they're increasing in power i don't believe that this is going to be the biggest takedown ever rupert murdoch is going down i think it's more a pop culture based audience and so the journalists kind of cater to that and in turn it's kind of fun for them to be secret detectives but isn't it terrible i mean it might be fun but it's still criminal acts it's horrible i hate journalists you know whate

-day for the august second deadline and so the united states according to tim geithner at least is ready to default now. unfortunately some of the developments that we've been seeing are not optimistic here moody's just came out today saying that regardless of whether reid and boehner plans work out whether the congress is actually able to pass those plans that cut the deficit they will still lead to a negative outlook outlook on a triple a rating now as lawmakers continue to struggle to get their act together here in washington d.c. we saw president obama come out earlier saying hey guys maybe if the american people tweet at congress enough we can get our act together i'm not sure how that's going to pan out but for more on this let's turn to gerald celente he is the publisher of the trends journal and the director of the trends research institute gerald what do you make of all this insanity here on capitol hill. well and anybody that's watching this and has any self respect i don't know how they could lead would a politician sells them and now hearing obama tweeting how do you know thi

states how this candle is being covered in the united states. not particularly well is the short answer there's been been very little in television coverage c.n.n. has done has done a bit of fox and fox news channel has done almost nothing frankly and in fact c.n.n. reported. on the fox news channel's media criticism program called fox news watch during a commercial break the the people on the on the program were discussing how they weren't going to discuss this story. so kevin makes a very spare barry strong and powerful point that concentration of media power in very few hands will lead to this sort of thing it's it's natural that a corporation is going to protect its own interests and news corp is an enormous company so no other no other news corp property is going to go to terribly far out on a limb to to investigate this story. the wall street journal the bible of the wall street. is now owned by news corp or news corp and it is is not going to give shareholders in news corp a real story on on this and what it could mean to their to their b