when we talk about african- american history, we are talking about african american history not as a separate and distinct history, but as an integral part of history -- the history of san francisco, the history of the united states, and of the world. we cannot think about this broader concept of history without understanding the role and contributions people of african descent have played in this broader statement of what history is. this is true not only for people of african descent, but all people. we are all part of history. "we present from the african american perspective is simply that -- a perspective of history that helps fill up that picture. without the understanding of these covers perspectives, it is difficult to fully appreciate our true history. i am doing the best i can appear. -- up here. i guess we should have some of three stanzas a couple of times. [laughter] we also have ms. jackson with us. a pleasure to have you with us. in your programs, there is also a flier in your programs. it is on the flip side of "lift every voice and sing." it is a flier about a progra

thank you to those of you- americans. as i said earlier, the filipino community south of market has been industrious. in fact, they have been such a vibrant part of our communities that it. down there, you'll see many of our streets are named for filipino national heroes. people like the names that continued to ring as to go through and recognize some of those streets. i also want to thank the san francisco filipino culture center and all of the filipino community organizations that have worked with our city around the years protecting in supporting filipino families, the arts and education, and also our valued neighborhoods across our city. there are so many neighborhood organizations that have sprouted up, but there are many, too, that have been there for long, long time. i want to thank the philippine news, the filipino whelm -- filipino womens' network. by the way, the network has been instructing me about -- to make sure that i know what pinay power is in san francisco. thank you. i said it wrong. you see, they're st

he scholarly articles appeared in leading journals including the journal of american history, the american quarterly, the journal of the early republic, along with numerous essays and collections. weren't the resippient of hornes at the outstanding prize awarded by the southeastern 18th century studies association, fellowships from the national endowment for the humanities, the american and aquarian society and the american philosophical society. she's also had an appointment by the fulbright commission to the thomas jefferson chair in american studies at university of amsterdam in the netherlands. professor zagarri has appeared as an on-camera historian on c-span, on pbs and on the fairfax television network. in 2009, she was elected president of the society for historians of the early american republic. and in 2011 was appointed a distinguished lecturer by the organization of american historians. her latest book is titled "revolutionary backlash: women in politics in the early american republic." she has also published another book on woman in the early republic titled "a woman's dilemma

you see some americans get killed. so the reporters should say, "americans, these guys are about to get you," and you die. that's really what the question is here. yeah. and your answer is? i don't know. [laughter] i agree with mike, intellectually, i really do. i wish at the time i'd made another decision, but it wasn't the one i made at the moment. i would like to have made his decision. general westmoreland? well, it's rather repugnant to me, and i think it would be repugnant to the american listening public to see on film in the united states an ambush of an american platoon by our national enemy. uh, the conclusion that would be drawn is that the network is in cahoots with the enemy. general, the question is raised, actually, in the cities of this country, in which you say, "if you knew a murder would take place ahead of time, "would you cover that story? "would you let the object of that murder know? would you let the police know?" i've answered this question before. i think i would surely not let the man or the

we have just now selected our first chinese-american, asian-american mayor in the city of san francisco. [applause] on the board of supervisors, 11 of us, eight of us, eight members of the board of supervisors are people of color. this is true representation. but what has laid the foundation of the great muscle that has made san francisco well known in its reputation as being forward thinking also obligates us to answering the other questions some of the chals that i remarked on especially as it concerns the african-american population in after. i'm not so sure that the numbers really have dropped to 3.%. that's a quick drop from 6.2 two years ago. but whatever the case is, that decline in population is a healthy reminder that even the most forward-thinking cities have incredible work to do. thank you, everybody, and happy black history month. >> thank you, supervisors cohen and mirkarimi. just want to announce also that thanks to the efforts of lamont bishop and others, we do have for the kinseys proclamations or certificates of recognition for shirley and bernard kinsey from senator l

those who wanted open housing, african-americans, mexican-americans, unions, those who advocated for open housing inals, they didn't have the political power. they didn't have the clout. the real estate corporations, the lenders, the banks, the homeowners associations, they did. and they had amassed it over decades. so there's historical structures of inequality that make it very difficult to fight against these things. there's institutions, right? banking institutions, real estate institutions, political institutions, homeowners institutions that make it very difficult to fight against these problems. and there's rhetoric. there's the rhetoric of equality that robert self wrote about. what racism? we're not racists. so what there's no black people who live here, and there never have been, and we don't want them, but we're not racists. we're homeowners. we just want freedom. we're just individuals -- we're just individual freedom-loving people. we're not racists. we're not pot-bellied red-faced southern sheriffs. we're don draper. we're not racists. there's that rhetoric. now, how do

and this is the no nothing or american party. okay. so what's happening? in the 1850s we witness political realignment, the wig party is dying. the democratic party is changing. it survives but it doesn't survive unchange. new minor parties vie for the support of americans who are disenchanted with the present political situation. for many americans something had gone terribly wrong so the minor parties that emerge in the 1850s are addressing the question, you know, what's gone wrong. what's the most serious threat to the republic and to self-government? what's the most serious threat? what is it? is it slavery's expansion? is that it? a lot of northerners would have said, yes. some southerners would have said yes in terms of defending their right to expand and take their personal property anywhere. some would say immigration. i want to turn, as i said, and look at that group of the question -- of the -- for voters, the people who are most concerned about immigration as the primary issue. all right. well, as we said, the influx of roman catholic immigrants

thus we have a strong osak we work to assure that americans are safe and for a good long time american private sectors have been safe there. in terms of working with the iraqi government there are two problems. first of all at the whole sale or macro level you have difficulties with the iraqi system funding large scale infrastructure projects. the iraqis don't want to take out loans and there are some limitations on what they can do. this makes the process basically you have to get legislative decision or law for each project, very cumbersome and it's slowing down the development. we're working with them on that but that's the first constraint. countries need to find models to fund infrastructure development. they are putting a third of their $100 billion budget into infrastructure. a large part flows to the international community but nonetheless build, operate, turn over models and creative models that other countries have used, there is a real need for that in iraq. at the retail or micro level, operating in iraq is a daily challenge from visas to finding communications, to communic

party mark in washington what's wrong with the american government here into the american constitution what's wrong with that i think no i think the american government should adhere to the american constitution i really do i think though that ron paul takes the constitutional fetish a bit too far and finds further restrictions in the constitution that are there i mean he ignores clauses like providing for the general welfare and other clauses that congress has used for generations and of course congress has had military actions as opposed to war for for two hundred years so i just think it's clear that his views on this are out of step with most american people ok michael what do you think about that maybe he's out of step with maybe he's leading. well the it's both actually he is out of step and he is leading. washington it's not just a matter of one constitutional interpretation here or there i mean the american political class has a culture it shape our alina versity it's shaped by american history and our american elite i mean both parties believe that they can manage every human

." >>> history book shelf features popular american history writers of the past decade and american history tv, airs saturday at noon eastern. this weekend on history book shelf, iris chang discusses her book the chinese in america. a native histo narrative histor. from the building of the transcons nen railroad to modern contributions in missile defense and silicon valley high-tech inventions. iris chang committed suicide in november 2004. next is a brief interview about her life with author paula kamen. a former colleague and friend of chang's. >>> paula kamen? >> iris chang known for the best sir "the rape of nanking" and it did huge things to raise awareness about japanese atrocities during world war ii. that was, not only in nanking, but she wrote specifically in great detail about the mass dhaer raised awareness about atrocities throughout asia. so it became a whole movement rather than just a book in the late '90s. >> was she a historian? >> and a journalist. she didn't see them as mutually exclusive. where she was good, the historians, a big tool of hers was archives. she spent days

every weekend 4 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our web sites. you can join in on social media sites. >> in january, the president of the national congress of american indians delivered the annual state of indian nations address. topics included the economic status of american indians and tribal relations with the federal government. congressman tom cole of oklahoma, a member of the nation respond to the speech the we also hear remarks from the senate indian affairs committee chairman and vice chairman. this is 1:20. >> good morning, my name is jacqueline peta, and i would look to welcome you here to our state of indian nation ease vent. ncai is the largest, the oldest, and organization in washington, d.c. representing the tribal governments across the country. i would look to welcome our distinguished guests to washington, d.c. we have many folks listening to us across the country. to watch the state of 2012 state -- state of indian nations address. across the country we have students, tr

americans -- these are not act of god. no one came down from the mountain and struck lightning and said, "you shall oppose women and you shall take back women's rights, and you shall invade women's vaginas in order to advance your political agenda." this has been a very long time coming. and we have allowed it to happen, because women still do not have first-class citizenship in our society. all of us here have been working for that. it is a very long journey. let us make no mistake about it. what we see going on in congress now is a very long legacy. it is a long legacy in the composition of the supreme court. it is a long legacy in all that has taken place in states throughout the country. chip away has occurred over the last three decades. it is very interesting however that the chipping away always seems to focus only on sexual decisions of women and our reproductive decisions. so i think we have to really ask ourselves why are there more children in poverty? why are their families in disruption? a lot of what has take

of the periodic zeal with american life to celebrate american exceptional was some sometimes the red marble often sets up a false distinction between the world views and the view in the world. the letters though small and fragmented result was consider the ways in which the moral of look at the social concerns and america has been forged through cross-cultural transatlantic system of exchange transmission modification and transformation. in doing so they help us to rethink some of the static categories that we work with like american exceptional was on or before and thought, or we can talk about or get ideas or truly american ideas or the radical imports. but before we increase the artificiality of the construct like american or german, for an and organic we should forget the power such differences had been shaping the experience of people we study in the past. many ideas about what is us and what's them is sharpened, not smith out in the fraction of this movement. the letters in their wait till a bigger story about how the transnational trafficked of the image and ideas helped punct

deal with the americans. one of the problems they have is u.s. air power. how do you deal with air defense? have everybody shoot at the planes as much as they possibly can. you start with that. they move very quickly to get help from the chinese and soviets. they get soviet migs soviet ground offensive and have a dangerous air defense network against the united states. the ground war though dealing with this is the most -- arguably the most important purposes here. they have to figure out how to fight this ground war against the united states. again, the north, the generals and the political leaders in north vietnam, they don't agree about how to do this. they follow the two camps here. you have the duan ton block. they argue you have to match american escalation and fight hard the whole time. you have to do this hoping you can push the south vietnamese regime over the edge. they also wanted to increasingly commit them to the south. they wanted to go to phase 3 very, very quickly here. general jopp, he has a

two in three americans. it's not like the supreme court doesn't look at the mood of the nation before making decisions. >> there's one threat that combines afghan numbers and health care numbers. bad news turns the public against you. with afghanistan, there's been a series of news development that is gradually, not gradually, quickly saw it. with health care, there was a study that said opponents and supporters of the law, 3-1. i'm not saying it's the only reason it's unpopular. it contributes to it. now, there's some solace in those numbers. if p you bring out the individual provisions, for instance, 85% of the people don't want you discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions. people don't like the mandate. >> let's put the numbers back up again. michael steele, you look at those numbers, again, the mandate. >> right. >> two out of three americans want the mandate overturned. you know, we republicans would love to say it's because it's the worst bill in the world. i think this has more to do

when did you get interested in the american left? >> why was teenager and i got there was in the entire war movement. in college in the late 1960's. that is a personal book and some more than the other books i've written because. i did organize an entire war demonstration. my chapter with students for democrats at harvard didn't take over the. i had to decide if i wanted to write about it but whenever you are a part of a socialist meant, you have less ideas about how we doing, what are we doing right, what are you doing wrong i was beginning to think well, are really getting to the american people or not. and so i began to think about. when i started to go to graduate school it became one of the things i was studying, and i think it's. in the serious and responsible way i think but also ones that have relevance to what people are thinking about now or even a fighting about now. i've always been a journalist as well as a historian. i have an online column for the magazine which is a left-wing magazine, and so to me this book is about

well go back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour thousands of american citizens break the law every day what are they doing and could anyone stop them also another state is intent on executing a prisoner who may have been wrongly convicted why are they refusing to reexamine the case and internets dealy take republicans and want now want to make it really hard when you go to the bout you. made a mess of the rest of the news there are between one hundred thousand and a half a million americans who believe the united states government and its court system are completely illegitimate as a result these americans typically don't obey many laws sometimes drive without driver's licenses and don't pay taxes and no i'm not talking about general electric instead i'm talking about the sovereign citizen move it's a loosely organized group of americans from around the nation who for the most part operate under the radar and with numerous lawsuits against police and public officials and behavior sometimes outside our legal system sovereign citizens are becoming a real thorn in

the legit saluja was the first city to fight back against american occupation. and found fame by throwing them out of town and a fleeting great loss of life. so much so that the people wondered how a small city like fallujah could resist against the world's most powerful army. in march two thousand and four four mercenaries under contract to the us army were killed in their vehicle on the outskirts of town their mutilated bodies were dragged through the streets then hung under this bridge as trophies it was one of the very first acts of violence against the united states these pictures were soon seen all over the world it was the start of an escalation that culminated in the battle of fallujah in november two thousand and four the death toll listed one hundred thirty four g i's and thirty five hundred iraqis saluja became a symbol of the revolt accordingly the army imposed very strict checks on the city the fingerprints and retina scans of every last inhabitant were recorded in the u.s. army files never has any town undergone such treatment. residents were even

finally, the coming of the american revolution brought home to many white americans the contradiction, not to say hypocrisy, of american colonists who objected to infringements on their freedom but who at the same time systematically deprived black people of their most basic rights and liberties. it did leave certain people to have their slaves. and there were a large number of slave owners who did free their slaves. northern state legislatures put slavery on the road to abolition either immediately or gradually. the federal government prohibited slavery in the northwest territory in 1787. and the u.s. constitution, though admittedly in many ways a pro-slavery document that protected slavery in many regards did not once use the word "slave" or "slavery" in the text, for many white americans, slavery had become an embarrassment, a moral blight that should be put on the road to extinction. of course, for a substantial minority, slavery remained an issue of property rights, not human rights. and for them, the next 60 years was a pitched battle in which they tried to justify slavery withi

an american soldier killed sixteen afghan civilians how will this rampage affect u.s. afghan relations and is it time we withdraw from the country altogether plus a twist of the story that should leave us all concerned about the mental health of our soldiers also what shadow forces are behind a new bill in wisconsin a remote for profit education and answer coming up and in today it's a nice daily fate of the republicans once again blocking eleven million struggling american homeowners from getting crucial assistance to keep their homes. you need to know this when george w. bush committed an international war crime by bombing and then invading afghanistan more than a decade ago opened the gates of hell for the people of that nation and for our soldiers and now the situation there is careening out of control over the weekend a u.s. soldier opened fire in a small village around two am sunday morning shooting dead sixteen civilians including nine children i see some odd resident of the district describe the scene to reporters saying i saw that a lot of my relatives were ki

for the very wealthiest americans. combined on average they will get $150,000 tax break for a millionaire. because by cutting the top rate from 35% to 25%, generates an income loss of about $5 trillion. based on joint tax committee estimates. and you have to make up that $5 trillion loss if you're going to do this in what you say is a revenue neutral way, and as we will show later, you are financing those tax cuts for the super wealthy at the expense of middle-income americans. income, i'd like to now put up another chart here, because all of this is done in service to what has been a proven failure of an ideology. the notion of trickle down economics. the notion somehow when you provide tax breaks to folks at the very top it's going to trickle down and boost everybody else in this economy. we've been there. we tried it. it was called the eight years of the bush administration. what happened at the end of those eight years was net loss in private sector jobs. but what also you see is that little up loop after those tax

and how it endangers innocent americans. angel resendez was an illegal alien serial killer from mexico who was able to come across the borders dozens of types from the time he was a teenager. and i think it's helpful to include his rap sheet. and i did. because it's miles long. he came into contact with the i.n.s. and the border patrol multiple times from the 1970's and committed an escalating number of crimes. everything from theft and trespassing to weapons violations, assault. and he would be convicted and then he would be let go. and he would go back to mexico and he would come back in. and by the time the late 1980's and 1990's had rolled around, again, as i say, he had amassed this incredible record. but the borders are meaningless and he would just ride the train up and down. at some point, he was suspected in at least half a dozen brutal, brutal murders across the south. and what happened was local and state law enforcement officers in texas had put warrants out for his arrest. and they asked i.n.s. officials, could

>> we're not going to put the american taxpayer or american consumer in that position. if they were in the same rules as loan to the small independent payments to mesh. or would the banks holding those be put on a special category? >> oh, no comparison between those. again because of the record. the imf is not just backed by a lot of gold, it's backed by any loan the imf makes is senior to any creditor. >> still, we put loans in rears. we changed terms. we extend mature maturity dates. >> not a penny of loss to the american taxpayer in more than six years of history if we guarantee 100% that we would never have to pay a single dime. that's his guarantee in this congress in 2008. >> i doubt he said that. but the situations are not comparable anyway. >> i know it's just the american consumer is going to get stuck again. >> no. >> it won't happen in this context. there's documented over 100,000 people working for the federal government that haven't paid their taxes. it's about a billion dollars. have they done one thing to start collecting ha? >> i would be happy to provid

workers, american continuity, american science, american productivity. we can bet on america and our capacity to solve this problem. that is the choice we face. that is what is at stake right now. maryland, we know what direction we have to go. and every american out there, as frustrated as they are about gas prices right now, when you actually ask people, they will tell you, yes, we have to find new sources of energy. we have to find new ways of doing things. people understand that. we just have to get washington to understand. we have to get politicians to understand. we have to invest in a serious, sustained, all of the above energy strategy that develops every resource available for the 21st century. we have to choose between the past and the future, and that is the trees we should not be afraid to make, -- that is a choice we should not be afraid to make, because we always bet on the future and we are good at it. we are good at being head of the curve. we are good at being on the cutting edge. [applause] ending the subsidies won't bring down gas pri

is really good a good american america has good in israel really with. a chat with the leaders i think he said goes pretty much with the other side. but that's not the usual kristie it was supposed to be to what extent will go along with what israel wants if the most. wants is really lucky. it isn't the only one. they take back the most. average and it is always better jim so you can go they can say a leader but all that was by the boards is. the is except the building is real and it's going to be a hundred percent just. israel also that's. well that's a connecting those dots and we talk about israel getting what it wants. you know there's a lot of sympathies that have happened recently between china and russia regarding syria and what should be done with that country which is to be done about the violence that's going on about. the regime of bashar al assad regime cannot manassas me in terms of that difference how major of an issue is that between us on one side and you know russia and china on the other side and i think i think there is a chasm of that

so you see american concerns about the security in the western pacific. our ideas about cold war -- or the communist and ally might fall in vietnam so a whole different set of factors applies from that kind of a standpoint. >> jeff, you want to say some? >> i think oohi'd like to addre that. i think the word imperial has been politicized too much. you need to define it. it looks leak the sweep of history, 5,000 years ago in earlier civil situationizations, imperial simply means that one entity dominates another in some way. this is the case with the united states vis-a-vis, vietnam. i try not to use the term that much because it is a word that gets in the way of analysis, but if you think about why the u.s. entered the war and i think there's much documentation about this. it's not terribly contentious. it was because american leaders through always administrations were interested in preserving the credibility of america's will and credibility to control or put down revolutions against an international system that the u.s. favored sometimes called capital

americans of all backgrounds, whether they are asian or hispanic american or african-american or native american, you cannot be a governing majority in the long run unless you try to serve and work with every group in the country. >> greta: another demographic, thought to be sewn up by the democrat, the union vote. is there any message you want to imfooter union members to peel them off president obam ain terms of voting and why should they vote for you instead? >> well, let's say you air construction union and you are hoping to get 30- to 50,000 jobs off the keystone pipeline. the president vetoed yourions. the construction unions are very heavily in favor of the keystone pipeline. let's say you are a member. 47% vote for republicans, and some unions, it's higher than that. it's pocketbook issues. let's say you live in chicago, but you have a fishing boat, you have a pickup truck, you like to spend the weekends going in wisconsin to fish, you are paying a lot for gasoline to get there. you like the gingrich plan for american energy to enable you to have a better weekend and extra money

and americans are trying to cope. as the price goes up, forgoing the car, taking public transportation instead. we learned today, taking public transportation in record numbers. and our new poll shows americans are blaming the president for this. abc's david muir is with us now with that story, david. >> reporter: diane, great to see you. as you know, we've been diving into these poll numbers all day today. tonight here, some of the faces behind the numbers. because across this country, as drivers headed to work today, we were right there in the car with them. from coast to coast tonight, "world news" in the passenger seat, with americans fed up with rising gas prices. this father of two, harry albandian, allowed us to come along for the ride, a more expensive one. the cost to fill his tank a month ago, $75. at the pump today -- >> $97. >> reporter: $97 it cost today. his baby george oblivious to the prices in the back seat. but his dad and so many other americans are not. there was jordan barhi, outside los angeles t

the seven or six americans in our embassy were safe. i think we should have thought of other ways of getting them out. and everybody realizes this is a quid pro quo. this isn't bail. they are never going to return. when the charges are brought to court, they won't be there and the bail will be forfeit. everyone understands it. this was payment for release of the six or seven americans. and when do you that, for the same reason that at least theoretically we don't negotiate with terrorists, is that when you pay for this kind of thing, you are encouraging more of t. everyone understands that, too. not just in egypt but around the region. it sets a terrible precedent and doesn't solve the problem for the egyptian nationals who work with our programs there, who are still very much in jeopardy. >> greta: senator lindsay graham assured me we will get the $5 million back because it's his committee. ambassador, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> greta: now, is this fair to you and the other taxpayers? last week we learned and reported that you, t

i believe in american exceptionalism, if american exceptionalism implies that there are certain qualities that make the united states of america a special place, a wonderful place, a place worthy of a patriot's love. but it does not follow that other countries, other cultures somehow have to exist in a subordinate position relative to the united states. and it certainly should not imply that we somehow have the answer, the recipe to explain the direction that the world is going to go in. >> as you know, there are people who believe the world will be a darker and more dangerous place if the united states takes down that umbrella of military power, money, influence, that it has held up all of these years. what happens if the united states retreats? >> well, i don't know that it's retreat. i don't know that it's -- i'm not sure that the umbrella metaphor works all that well. i mean, i'm not an advocate of disarmament. i don't wish us to have the weakest military in the world. i actually think we ought to have a very strong military. but i think, you know, the fact of the matter is, the world

shaping of the american identity. published by isi books. copies of the book will be available after the lecture for you to purchase and have dr. carlson sign, if you're interested in doing that. his lecture today is say dapt dapted -- is adapted from this book and without further ado, we welcome dr. allan carlson. >> thank you very much, peter. thank you all for coming today. america is a nation of individuals and individualism. states and articles posted by the objectivist center shortly after 9/11. it approvingly call american individualism an infuriating obstacle to religious traditionalists like pat robertson and jerry falwell who would like to see the entire nation develop their morality a more major and classic affirmation with the same 1922 book aptlybe found in titled "american individualism" where he labels himself and unashamed individualist holding to the ideals that constitute progressive individualism. in respect to the dignity and worth of each human life, and to the ideal of equal opportunity, this aff

the americans were very much on their own. as was in the mifdst of this general washington received an extraordinary love from colonel nicola, the commander of the regiment of invalids. these were men who through injury and combat or disease or some other infirmity were unable to serve in the line but were perfectly able to do god duty, garrison duty, support duty. colonel nicola, commander of the regiment, saw firsthand every single day the cost of war in the faces and disabilities of his men. his men had not been paid either. he wrote to general washington, when this war is over, we who have borne the heat and labor of the day will be forgot and neglected. the army will not submit to this grave injustice. from several conversations i have had with officers, i believe it is generally intended not to separate after the peace till all grievances are redressed, engagements and promises fulfilled. this war must have shown to all but to military men in particular, the weakness of republics. washington was stunned at the letter. or

of the asian-american communities here in san francisco in the 1950's. moving along to 1977 and the fall of the international hotel. our friends, we have come a long way. [applause] i have to tell you the most amazing moment of the year of 2011 was the first meeting of the board of supervisors this year on january 8, leading to the vote that we first cast for the first asian-american mayor in the city and county of san francisco. this was a vote that came about because you, the people of san francisco, elected four asian- american to the board of supervisors. and not just three chinese representatives, but the first korean-american representative, and i am so honored to represent the four of them, to welcome you here to this celebration. we have decided to implement a new yearly award, with each of our district supervisors recognizing a 11 awardees representing the best, brightest, most impact low in our community we will be honoring as part -- most impactful in our community we will be honoring as part of apa heritage month. in district 1 -- in district

. >> i'm in this race because i care about americans. i'm not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it needs repaired, i'll fix it. >> i want to get suze orman's take on this. she's the country's number one personal finance guru. welcome. >> thank you, piers. >> let's talk about mitt romney. that was an extraordinary comment for someone who wants to be president of the united states to make, i thought. "i'm not concerned about the poor." whatever came afterwards or whatever context he was trying to put it in, it sounded bad. >> it sounded bad, and i hate to say, it sounded very naive. for so long have i not been saying, the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is disappearing. so he says he's concerned about the middle class. what middle class are we talking about? as we sit here, there are about 50 million people in poverty. what does that mean? that means a family of four making $22,000 a year or less. there's almost 150 million people that are in poverty, near poverty, are t

hosted by the american interest -- an american enterprise institute, panelists include peter bergen and robert kagain. -- kagan. >> if everybody would please take their seats, we will get started. ok, welcome, everybody. i am tom donnelly, director of our center for defence studies. i am here to welcome everybody for the moment, not only on the aie, but my partners in crime at the new american foundation, and did center for a new american security. this is a joint projects, and it adds geometrical levels of complexities. but we have been working at 3 for a while. we are pleased to kick off a series of events examining the core issues of foreign and security policy in this presidential year. the three of us are institutions with different policy perspectives. what has brought us together is a shared belief that this will be a extremely consequential election. voters might make choices based on domestic concerns, but the outcome will effect the world, and the world will be watching. we believe the four statistics concerns are the future of the middle east, the effect of china's geopolitic

american isn't on time. i happened to have a camcorder with me that day and guess what the planes started operating. the answer is -- and united was based in chicago. that wasn't the situation with i in other planes, they have a couple extra planes. >> lord knows. i thirty in all honesty charlie. i had a guy working for me once bob baker who you knew and he said we don't communicate as well as we used to because in the old days, the pilot, the lead mechanic, the flight attendance would meet at the bottom of the stairs. and the mechanic would say is everything okay and the flight attendant are you ready to go and the pilot and flight attendant walk up the stairs and the mechanic would trake the tears away and communication was perfect. now it's much more complicated, much more factors brought into play. and the agent behind the counterbearcounterbears the bruy don't tell the agent the truth and the ig does as best they could. >> they treat the on front people -- they don't tell them. >> rose: i always know th

jennifer's book, "american nietzsche, a history of an american icon and ideas," was just published. she examines how nietzsche's writings about the death of god and the challenge to universal truth have inspired american thinkers, journalists, academics, philosophers, theologians, poets and others have drawn on nietzsche for inspiration. "american nietzsche" already has been reviewed widely and positively. new york times book review editor alexander starr wrote: today's inescapable and perplexing nietzsche is not the same who inspired readers in the past, and it's the achievement of "american nietzsche" to show how that is case. her ability to help her readers think more historically about nietzsche and american intellectuals than we high in the past is one of the great successes of her book. in the compelling prologue, jennifer ratner rosen haggen -- beginning in the 160s. she writes, it was emerson who first instructed nietzsche about philosophy in life. nietzsche was powerfully drawn to emerson because he understood what it meant to travel imaginatively through time and space in

plus fox news goes after an american company. >> it is for four rather small seats for americans, and you still think it's worth it? >> that sound like an foreigner against our companies. we'll discuss that later in the company, as well. you know what it is? it's go haim. >> so a lot happened last night. mitt romney won six states. santorum won three states. and we did a mash up to give a sense of the night. here are some of the speeches were last night. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ♪ keeps georgia ♪ on my mind ♪ >> the national lead especially in the republican party has decided that that that a gingrich presidency was so scary they had to kill it early. >> you have to change the constitution to have a lot less war and more effort to promote the cause of peace. >> we're giving up our jobs. we're living off of our savings. yeah, we're making a sacrifice. >> we survived the lead to kill us in the summer because of you. >> we'll get a couple of gold medals, and a whole path of silver medals. >> i met with moms, dads teachers, students factory workers and business owners