on in haiti. right across the board, you can find an ngo to work with that fits what you care about. we have lists of a lot of them. you can follow it through. but it's the simplest way to start. i'm going to ask this question. it's from twitter. usher, what inspires you to do service? singing the answer is encouraged. >> you guys just won't be happy until i do a concert huh? i didn't say no. truly the evidence that by applying these pillars that i created that we have spoken about on the panel the entire night to engage youth at a very young age to support those who are in need for you to be engaged and ask or accept the help, all of those things leads me to do the work that i have been able to do. it is simply the evidence that it's a reality. the very students that i was able to meet when i first started and now in college, they have now tracked a career. they have identified a talent and are continuing to give back to the community. i have been able to take youth as far as kenya. she went actu

on in haiti. right across the board, you can find an ngo to work with that fits what you care about. we have lists of a lot of them. you can follow it through. but it's the simplest way to start. i'm going to ask this question. i'm going to lose a friend over this. this question is from ann jacks on twitter. usher, what inspires you to do service? singing the answer is encouraged. [ cheers and applause ] >> you guys just won't be happy until i do a concert huh? i didn't say no. truly the evidence that by applying these pillars that i created that we have spoken about on the panel the entire night to engage youth at a very young age to support those who are in need for you to be engaged and ask or accept the help, all of those things leads me to do the work that i have been able to do. it is simply the evidence that it's a reality. the very students that i was able to meet when i first started and now in college, they have now tracked a career. they have identified a talent and are continuing to gi

s own report, the peace keepers introduced the disease to haiti. what's happening is people are extremely angry, because this is a terrifying disease. a disease that had never been seen before, and by some measures in haiti, and certainly in people's lifetimes, now it's a horrifying disease, you grow quick very quickly, die very quickly a quickly. >> it can be within the day. >> within the day. and have it brought by foreign military that you have mixed feelings about. the outbreak begins in october 2010. very soon thereafter, october 27th when me and my colleagues and others went up to the base and the sanitation was not what they described and it was possible this contamination had occurred, immediately the agencies and the united nations shut down, said we don't want to know about this, we don't want to ask about this, it's not a priority, it's not important, we don't care and people on the ground saw this, and i think they really felt slighted and insulted as if their lives just didn't matter to the people who were supposed to be protecting the

which is a thought i frequently have in haiti. i think a lot of the relationship between the crisis caravan, all the people that come down to help and the disaster affected community, is about this one fact, i'm glad i'm not them. the other thing i wanted to say, there's all the writing inside the photographs. so it's really like old playboy magazine. you have good writers in there. writing the serious things about haiti's history and the fabulous pictures of, you know, piles of dead bodies and white people trying to help. it's an amazing book. of course, i probably will never be hired to blog for time magazine again. but let's see if i can follow my train of thought. so what happeneds is we go down, we want to help. but a friend of mine said, you know, people talk about we go down. we want to help. yak, yak, yak, this is a guy who knows a lot about in hay. what we're really seeing in haiti is our future. completely deraglated. completely overplaited country with no checks and balances. no control after what happens within the own

i hope you can talk about your hopes for haiti and our future u.s. engagement. >> the second one i'll take first because i visited haiti in january. so i'm hopeful that will the situation will will continue to improve. obviously they have some structural issues in that country. they've had their prime minister now been forced to resign. the president's been ill. there's been all kinds of rumors floiting around about wa the future of his government may portend. we always hope there will be establishment that the democracy that will take even deeper roots and become functional. right now the that country has an over -- an over abundance of ngos but certainly a deep ngo presence in the country and the government sometimes feel threatened by it. so the most important issue in hate at this time apart from the immediate aftermath of the earthquake is the establishment of long-term sustainable prosperity and for haiti, they're starting from scratch on everything from their educational systems to their transportation systems. but there is some good news begi

that's personal pricing. >>> sean penn in haiti was at large -- your thoughts on haiti. you're still doing terrific work there. still a foot on the man ground when it comes to that ground. how's it looking? >> right now we're looking to the ratification of prime minister. there's been an increasing amount of visual work on the ground, project designations, people getting out of the camps and into safe housing. so as i have been, i'm optimistic. >> how weird is it to be as you have been in the last few months making a movie and simultaneously trying to revive a country like haiti? >> well -- yeah. that is -- fortunately i have a very good group of people who are working there with me. there are times i can check out. they've been brief, but i've got until about the end of summer to be completely focused in haiti at this point. and i usually prepare the ground so i can go away and leave it in the hands of my primarily haitian staff. >> let's turn to the falkland islands. you inspired a lot of anger in my home country with the strong views about the malvines as you called t

i hope you can maybe talk about your hopes for haiti and future u.s. engagement. >> go ahead. >> the second one i'll take first. i visited haiti in january so i'm hopeful that the situation there will continue to improve. they have structural issues in that country particularly in governance. their prime minister has been forced to resign, the president has been ill, there have been rumors about what the future of his government may portend. we hope there will be the democracy that will take deeper roots and become functional. right now that country has -- i shouldn't say over abundance of ngos but a deep ngo presence and the government sometimes feel threatened by it. the most important issue in haiti apart from the immediate aftermath of the earthquake is the establishment of long term sustainable prosperity and how do you begin that. and for haiti they are starting from scratch on everything from their educational systems to transportation systems. but there is some good news beginning. there is an industrial park that the clinton initiative has bee

then it goes to haiti. because immediately after the belgians leave congo, there is amazing political destruction. society is on the verge of collapse. united nation bring sinn expatriate's from other countries to be technocrats, doctors, nurses , teachers. one of them contracts hip and flies back to haiti. every single strain they no contract in europe or the night is states is traced back to that single infection. >> host: is it an oversimplification that you suggest the educated class is sent to the congo to keep them out of politics, then a group contract hiv and come back to haiti. in the book you say at the time haiti was a popular tourist destination for gay americans. that is probably how hiv moved from haiti into the game american population. is that accurate? oversimplification? it makes sense but not a theory that i have heard before. >> host. >> guest: it is hard to know the nature of the transmission. you are right. it is predominantly gay men. it could have been a gay man in port-au-prince a h

thoughts on haiti. you're still doing terrific work there. still a foot on the man ground when it comes to that ground. how's it looking? >> right now we're looking to the ratification of prime minister. there's been an increasing amount of visual work on the ground, project designations, people getting out of the camps and into safe housing. so as i have been, i'm optimistic. >> how weird is it to be as you have been in the last few months making a movie and simultaneously trying to revive a country like haiti? >> well -- yeah. that is -- fortunately i have a very good group of people who are working there with me. there are times i can check out. they've been brief, but i've got until about the end of summer to be completely focused in haiti at this point. and i usually prepare the ground so i can go away and leave it in the hands of my primarily haitian staff. >> let's turn to the falkland islands. you inspired a lot of anger in my home country with the strong views about the malvines as you called t

was at large -- your thoughts on haiti. you're still doing terrific work there. still a foot on the man ground when it comes to that ground. how's it looking? >> right now we're looking to the ratification of prime minister. there's been an increasing amount of visual work on the ground, project designations, people getting out of the camps and into safe housing. so as i have been, i'm optimistic. >> how weird is it to be as you have been in the last few months making a movie and simultaneously trying to revive a country like haiti? >> well -- yeah. that is -- fortunately i have a very good group of people who are working there with me. there are times i can check out. they've been brief, but i've got until about the end of summer to be completely focused in haiti at this point. and i usually prepare the ground so i can go away and leave it in the hands of my primarily haitian staff. >> let's turn to the falkland islands. you inspired a lot of anger in my home country with the strong views about the malvines as you called t

when the earthquake hit haiti, the americans gave a billion dollars. and the media contribution was even smaller because you could not only give over the internet, you could text the number of your favorite charity t red cross or the clinton haiti fund or whatever it was, and immediately transfer $10. so, when we recognize the commitments that are made here today, they are worthy in their own right but some of them are capable of dramatic expansion or adoption or modification. creativity is really important. i'll just give a couple of examples of the commitments that have been made this year by you. christine schindler of duke will connect female engineering students with girls age 14-17 for mentorship and partnering to assembly low cost medical devices for distribution to clinics in the developing world. she plans to implement this program in all 40 engineering chapters worldwide. why is this important? because only 14% of american engineers are women and only 15% of engineering students in our universities are women. it is well known that united stat

haiti is only a mere 300 miles away from jamaica. in activities in haiti right now, providing solar panels for hospitals in clinics and what have you. we thought it was a good idea to take the song we recorded and turn it into something instrumental that could be used at digital downloads to create funding of the solar panels. >> that's hold on for haiti. >> that's right. ♪ >> we always associate ourselves with being the voice for the voiceless, the ones that try to let everybody be aware socially and politically of what's going on in their environment. that's what we have been focusing on since we started out. >> david hines, thank you so much. >> thank you so much, fredricka. >> and fredricka has more from the jazz fest on sunday. she's talking to the soul queen of los angeles, and chuck lavelle who toured with the reror rolling stones. >> the stand off near seattle is over. the suspect who held police at bay for two days found dead inside the bunker where he was holed up. peter keller was wanted in the murders of his wife and da

shirley cody of virginia tech is committed to replicating the hands for haiti model in order to increase employment and food security, she and her colleagues started a very successful egg laying facility in haiti and they want to take it to scale across the country. the country has a serious protein deficiency that can be remedied partly with chickens and eggs, whichever one comes first, and partly by growing their own fish in an environmentally and healthy, responsible manner. you're going to hear later about a student from vanderbilt university who is now graduated, who started a couple of years ago a program to train offenders who had been sent to prison, and who were in half way houses, having been released from prison but not into society yet, so that they were employable in hoping to find jobs. this is a huge deal. people who go to prison and get out, which is more than 90% of the people who go to prison, are much less likely to become repeat offenders if they have jobs, and yet even though we say we're a people of second chances, and once you pay your debt to society, you're suppo

>> did it have an impact on the haiti revolution. it began in 1791 and was effectively over with haiti's declaration of independence in that receded the war that was unrelated to it. it contributed to napoleon and the united states in 1803. the revolution plays an important in american history, but it's well before the war of 1812. >> we enjoyed your talk tremendously, but in rrchs to the destruction of york and the destruction of washington, are they connected? >> when the united states invaded and occupied york in toronto on april 27th, 1813. because we burned the public buildings there, the british retaliated by burning the public buildings in washington. don grace argued that it's more likely that the british were retaliating. we burned dover and the settlements around dover. don grace is probably right that they played a greater roll to burn the public buildings. the evidence really is not that conclusi conclusive. the british had every right to burn the buildings. in war, you have every right to burn any public probably belongi

bush ond several and president george bush on haiti. in small ways as a company we have been able to support president clinton by mentoring 80 teachers in mexico by the clinton global initiative and distributing science kits to middle schools there. strongly supporting the clinton climate initiative with focus on energy efficiency. and rebuilding a 40,000 square foot school in haiti. we're very proud of our association with you, mr. president. so, when you have a president who demonstrated support for american business throughout his presidency, who has stayed hugely impactful on the world stage after his presidency, and who wants to continue helping american business and the american economy, what's a good way to make that happen? the answer, of course, is to give the keynote speech at the ex-im bank annual conference. so please join me in welcoming our keynote speaker, president william j. clinton. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you very, very much. first, i want to thank dave for the introduction. we have become an unlike

haiti is only 300 miles away from jamaica. doing activities in haiti now providing solar panels for hospitals and clinics and what have you and thought it was a good idea to take that song we recorded and turn it into something instrumental that can be used as digital downloads to create funds to fund these solar panels. >> reporter: hold on for haiti? >> that's right. ♪ >> being the voice of the voiceless. that one that sort of tries to let everybody be aware socially and politically of what's going on in that environment, and that's what we've been focusing on of since we started out. >> reporter: thank you so much. >> thank you so much, fredricka. god bless. >>> and coming up next hour, fredricka tours jazz fest with producer quint davis. >>> in washington state, an arms standoff is over. the suspect's body found inside a fortified underground bunker. police think peter keller killed his wife and daughter almost a week ago and holed himself up in a bunker he spent eight years building. i talked with agent cyndi west how t

. >> donations to haiti out there. i want you all to, don't want you to forget them. >> reporter: always very committed to the world, steel pulse, to humanity. your commitment to haiti is extraordinary. tell me about that. >> it's very meaningful. i mean, we actually experienced the earthquake while recording in jamaica. haiti is only 300 miles away from jamaica. doing activities in haiti now providing solar panels for hospitals and clinics and what have you and thought it was a good idea to take that song we recorded and turn it into something instrumental that can be used as digital downloads to create funds to fund these solar panels. >> reporter: hold on for haiti? >> that's right. ♪

the dallas and what is spent that money on all the giddy as a pie chart and say we spent x% haiti which they say in their defense we did get several statements from them in preparation for you being here this morning is that dispense 91¢ of every dollar directly on the disaster relief operations and only 9¢ on bureaucratic initiative things. we never said that all this money went to a bureaucratic things the question is what it's on the people not get help? it was to assess the questions. so we watch the film constantly was given as saying why did the red cross is sending its the haitians say that so that's what it does off that maybe we need to look into this more and at the same figures the gods and to me that they did but that is that the money have to question the efficiency. >>> said the difficulty for the american public obviously is easy a disaster like this on a television set to donate its wooded able to do? >>> he should be so reactive this is the one thing that keeps saying have a personal relationship with the charity with any organization find money to trust that is trans

>> right, we have built over 450 schools in haiti, nicaragua, and nepal. we're taking a spring and summer track of students across the country and we have 25 students in each program going overseas to live in the community for two weeks and work alongside the villagers and help them have education become a reality for them as well. >> 16 schools? >> 16 high schools here in the bay area from the peninsula to the east bay to san francisco. >> what do you think? your message to the gamers out there and those who want to skate board all day, which is fine, what's your message? >> i would say like, to just go out because once you go out you'll have that good feeling and you'll keep going and want to do it. once you get that feeling you want to keep getting it and feel like what you've done in change and see like people be happy about it. it's very motivating. i mean, maybe games are fun for like a little while but everything you do like for community service, you grow from it. >> give me your vision for yourself, college and beyond college and maybe how to buil

>> did it have an impact on the haiti revolution. it began in 1791 and was effectively over with haiti's declaration of independence in 1804. i would say that preceded the war of 1812 and was unrelated to it. it contributed to napoleon and to sell louisiana to the united states in 1803. so the haitian revolution plays an important role, but well before the war of 1812. >> we enjoyed your talk tremendously, but in reference to the destruction of york and the destruction of washington, are they indeed connected? >> conventional wisdom is that when the united states invaded and occupied york, which is now toronto in canada, on april 27th, 1813, because we burned the public buildings there, the british retaliated by burning the public buildings in washington. but don grace has argued and i think this is probably true, that it's more likely the british were retaliating for later burnings american troops did when we burned st. david's dover, the settlements around dover. i think don graves is probably right that that played a greater role

. >> now miss wilson is from haiti. her lawyers will deflected immigration issues saying he wouldn't want her statements to be misconstrued by authorities. >> now the violent storms in texas. abc2 news jamie costello joins us with the latest. >> the national weather service said about a dozen tornadoes hit the area yesterday. today we're hearing amazing stories of survival. some homes were destroyed while others were still standing. >> oh, wow. oh mi goodness. >> according to the national weather service more than a dozen tornadoes pummeled the area. >> please take shelter immediately. >> reporter: a news helicopter captured one twister's fury. >> look, look, look, huge trailers, these huge rigs, the back ends of tractor-trailers are being thrown hundreds of yards. >> reporter: but tornadoes tore through neighborhoods, lifting roofs off buildings. more than 650 homes were damaged. yet, there are stories of survival. he hid into this storage space a grandmother is being hailed as a hero. she saved her three grandchildren

haiti has the highest electric rates in the caribbean, the poorest country. virtually every caribbean country could be completely energy dependent with solar, wind, geothermal, and west to energy facilities. they could run all their cars on biofuels made in the brazilian system, where you get with sugarcane 9.3 gallons of fuel for every gallon of oil required to produce it. it would change the future of the caribbean, our neighbors, our friends, our partners, and it could be led by american technology and american companies if we could work the financing out. one of the things i plan to spend a lot of time on in the next ten years. but it's just one example. if we want to do this, given their economic circumstances, even the american jurisdictions in puerto rico and the virgin islands, if we're going to do this, we've got to work the financing. and i could give you 50 other examples. so for those of you who are here from america, whether you're republicans, democrats, or independents, i urge you to ask the congress to reauthorize this at the higher level. for

said if she got the go back to herd native country of haiti. it's not clear whether she will to the maryland lottery officials, committing mystery and even more confusing. newsroom,live in the brianne carter, abc 7. >> it is 45 degrees outside the. >> that money could go a long way haiti, but something is still a little strange about the story. still ahead, police searched for answers into what led to a at a religious school in california. g about thelearnin accused gunman. ranking members of the obama administration out of a job this morning. do with wild spending in las vegas. ♪ ♪ hit the road, jack ♪ and don't you come back no more ♪ ♪ no more, no more, no more ♪ hit the road, jack ♪ and don't you come back no more ♪ [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds and puts down a barrier to stop new ones for up to four months. roundup extended control spray once. stop weeds for months. romance happens. confidence happens. ♪ when skin meets goddess, anyth

and this was posed earthquake in haiti. -- post-earthquake in haiti. but what they found was, the kids in harlem were suffering really badly as well. what do you do about in so- called developed countries, the intractable social problems of poverty? and how do you attack them in the same creative ways that you can in countries like haiti? >> first, in my mind, the two problems -- i do not think we have to -- we should choose one over the other. that is, the united states does not spend a high percentage of its income on foreign assistance and for and development. -- foreign development. if you ask people what we should spend, they say, between 5% to 15% of the budget. if you say, what do we stand? -- spend? they say, 25% of the budget. the truth is, we spend 1% of the budget. >> you are saying people are what -- sometimes misinformed. [laughter] >> yes, and interestingly enough, these numbers have not changed in 20 years. it does not matter how many times someone like me says it. we can say until we are blue in the face. people are somehow pre programm

. >> haiti step father said at that point they told merah she had to leave. prosecutors did not charge haney with rape. they said they considered the circumstances of the case and decide to charge him with third and fourth degree sex offenses and perverted practice. haney denies anything happen, telling investigators that only watched tv and talk. he denied having any sexual contact. >> haiti comes back to court on may 8 for a preliminary hearing. -- haney comes back to court on may 8. we have learnt the alleged victim was in the state's foster care system. we are told once they learn that a child is unaccounted for, an investigation is launched into possible child abuse and neglect by the foster parents. barry simms, wbal-tv 11 news. >> a huge ship full of sugar arrive in baltimore today. the ship is 600 feet long and 100 feet wide and is loaded with 95.5 million pounds of raw sugar. the ship came from guatemala. a long job of unloading the sugar began today. two cranes are continually pulling sugar from the ship and dropping it onto a conveyor belt that car

of a cholera outbreak in haiti? it is of a waste of money, and you have a good day. >> you have a chance to respond to about your your -- response to the. >> the un has not handled the very well, but i would say prior to that you in forces region -- that un forces did an astonishing job after the earthquake. the peacekeepers got back on their feet and did actually restore hearing honorific crisis, and that is an example of the un succeeding. good >> a question for you on its winter and -- a question for you on twitter. does the un have a standing army? >> there are a few countries who are eager to provide troops, and there are those who do not provide much in a way of un peacekeepers. the united states is on the low end, and on the high end are countries like pakistan, bangladesh. >> we have a number of those on troop contributions that will go through. bangladesh is 8000, india, 7000, egypt at 4000. brett is on the independent line from panama city, florida. caller: i love this show and both tv shows. i have got a

. >> the haiti >>eric: orphaned tens of thousands children, value feared names them haiti's lost generation, and, now, we have an update on some of those children. the innocent. >>shepard: two years after governor rendell offered to airlift victims out of haiti they all belong to a new family. parents in person have finalized the adoptions for the last three young boys. the earthquake kills hundreds of thousands and reduced buildings to rubble. a million lost their homes after the earthquake. and the recovery process is a long way from over. and now that story from new york. >>reporter: the dramatic emergency airlift of the children made headlines days after the massive earthquake. the stories of the orphanage, through a lost paperwork, the last of the kids have landed new homes. most of the kids on the plane already had people waiting to adopt them in the states. as do did not. including ten-year-old brothers 11 and seven. but the state department let them in, anyway. >> the others will not have a problem getting adopted. >> they took all the kids to holy family children's home in pittsbur

this is sophia bartelli, the first lady of haiti. i was just in haiti all week. i know president bush has been down there, and it's a place that needs help certainly and will for a while, but i thought i would include her in. i was down for a -- there's a group called vital voices. it was started by hillary clinton, women from america, particularly entrepreneurs teaching women in the third world how to start businesses and all that. i was down for that. skipping back in time, jacqueline onassis, jacqueline kennedy onassis, taken in new york in 1970. i was a young boy when -- when kennedy was -- when president kennedy was assassinated, but i worked with her son on "george" magazine, john jr., who became a good friend of mine, and the first first lady i really photographed though was pat nixon. this was in 1970 in washington, d.c. going to a -- it was a school in washington, and i never really got to know her nor did i really get to know her husband that well, but this is a picture of the two of them leaving some event, and i like the light. she was always very nic

this is sofia bartelli, the first lady of haiti. i was in haiti all week. i know president bush has been down there. it's a place that needs help certainly and will for a while. but i thought i would include her in. i was down for a -- there's a group called vital voices that was started by hillary clinton, women from america particularly entrepreneurs teaching women in third world how to start businesses and all that. but i was down for that. skipping back in time. jacqueline onassis, jackie kennedy onassis, taken in new york in 1970. i was a young boy when kennedy was -- when president kennedy was assassinated, but i worked with her son on "george" magazine, john jr. who became a good friend of mine. and the first first lady i really photographed, though, was pat nixon, this was in 1970 in washington, d.c., going to a -- it was a school in washington. and i never really got to know her, nor did i really get to know her husband that well. but this is a picture of the two of them taken leaving some event. i like the light. but she was always very nice to th

your hopes for haiti and future u.s. engagement. >> the second one i will take first because i visited haiti in january so i'm hopeful that the situation there will continue to improve. office that they have structural issues in that country. it as you were called their prime minister has now been forced to resign. the president has been ill and there've been all kinds of rumors floating around about what the future of of the government may portend but we always hope there'll be an establishment, democracy that will take deeper roots and become functional. right now the country has an, an overabundance of ngos and certainly the deep ngo presence in the country and the country, the government sometimes feel threatened by it. so the most important issue in haiti apart from the immediate aftermath is the establishment of long-term sustainable prosperity and how do you begin that? for haiti they started from scratch on virtually everything from educational system to the transportation systems but there is some good news begi

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was effectively over, haiti's declaration of independence in 1804. so i would say that preceded the war of 1812 and was unrelated to it. one thing it did do, though, it contributed to napoleon's decision to sell louisiana to the united states in 1803. so the haitian revolution plays a very important role in american history, but it's well before the war of 1812. okay? >> we've enjoyed your talk tremendously. but in reference to the destruction of york, and the destruction of washington, are they indeed connected? >> conventional wisdom is that when the united states invaded and occupied york, which is now toronto in canada, on april 27th, 1813, because we burned the public buildings there, the british retaliated by burning the public buildings in washington. but don grace has argued, and i think this is probably true, that it's more likely the british were retaliating for later burnings american troops did. we burned st. david's. we burned dover, in the settlements around dover. and i think don grace is probably right that that played a greater role

where are the white non-slaveholders of haiti one south carolina politician asked? conjuring up a future of racial war, rape and what he called extermination or amalgamation under the new black republican regime. such appeals were clearly designed to make it seem as if the very future of all white men, not just those who own slaves, but all free men, as they invariably put it was at stake in secession. by february, 1861, they had triumphed in seven deep south states, some by incredibly slim margins and in one, georgia, probably by fraud. as printed ordnance of secession hit the streets, trumpeting southern independents to the world, the states also offered formal justifications of their actions as jefferson had done in the declaration of independence. in their declaration for example, mississippi said bluntly, quote, our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery, with a northern majority advocating negro equality, we have no choice but to submit to the loss of our property worth $4 billion dollars or secede from the union." president davis an

where are the white nonslave holders of haiti one south carolina politician asked? conjuring up a future of racial war, rape and what he called extermination or amalgamation under the new black republican regime. such appeals were clearly designed to make it seem as if the very future of all white men, not just those who own slaves, but all free men, as they invariably put it was at stake in secession. by february, 1861, they had triumphed in seven deep south states some by slim margins and in one, georgia, probably by fraud. as printed ordnance of secession hit the streets, trumpeting independence to the world the states also offered formal justifications of their actions as jefferson had done in declaration of independence. in their declaration for example, mississippi said blunty, quote, our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery, with a northern majority advocating negro equality, we have no choice but to submit to the loss of our property worth $4 billion dollars or secede from the union." president davis and other southern leaders wo

was effectively over, haiti's declaration of independence in 1804. so i would say that preceded the war of 1812 and was unrelated to it. one thing it did do, though, it contributed to napoleon's decision to sell louisiana to the united states in 1803. so the haitian revolution plays a very important role in american history, but it's well before the war of 1812. okay? >> we've enjoyed your talk tremendously. but in reference to the destruction of york, and the destruction of washington, are they indeed connected? >> conventional wisdom is that when the united states invaded and occupied york, which is now toronto in canada, on april 27th, 1813, because we burned the public buildings there, the british retaliated by burning the public buildings in washington. but don grace has argued, and i think this is probably true, that it's more likely the british were retaliating for later burning st. david's, we burned dover, in the settlements around dover. and i think don grace is probably right that that played a greater role in the british decision to burn

in 2010, 10 of the 12 cutters deployed to respond to the earthquake in haiti suffered significant problems and two had to be taken out of service and sent in for major repairs. is that right? >> i was intimately involved with that response. that is correct. >> the g.a.o. had a new report of finding that in part due to a lack of funding the coast guard does not have fully operated interagency centers through these -- though these were required about i the safe port act to be established by october 2009, similar to g.a.o. and the inspector general and others have noted the coast guard's inability to meet safety and security mission requirements in the arctic as the ice cover opens to allow more shipping operations in those latitudes. nonetheless, the president's budget proposes extensive cuts, both to the coast guard's and its capital account. no funding was requested for the acquisition of the cutter 7 or 8 and this budget will conclude the acquisition of the fast response cutter at a number substantially below the approved program of record. finally, this is my last question. while i know

what that looks like in various parts of the world, for example at different times over history in haiti. so it is a cost-effective way to share the burden of peace and security in a manner that serves our interests. we've talked a lot about sanctions this morning. iran and north korea are among the many sanction regimes which the u.n. supports, but they don't just vote the resolutions, they actually monitor their implementation and build the capacity of member states to enforce their sanctions and that is another thing that our money goes to. in afghanistan and iraq where the united nations, now libya, has a very important political mission as opposed to peace-keeping missions. they're building democratic capacity. they're assisting the governments. they are coordinating donor assistance, they are helping refugees. they are doing a wide range of functions that support our military missions now in afghanistan, formerly in iraq and help ease the transition as our personnel withdraw. the humanitarian work of unicef, of the world food program, the development work of undp, the health survei

and carter, i think when he finally sends carter to haiti, he sent along sam dunn and colin powell to baby-sit him bus he didn't think he could trust carter to do the right thing. in the end i think president carter showed press clinton how to be an expresident. he was the model for becoming the globe trotting, problem solving and he will affect all the president who follow, i think. >> we have so much more about the president's club. if you want to see our full interview go to greta wire.com. it will be posted there, the full interview. straight ahead, move over house wives. a fiery new group of women is taking tv by storm. and they are making the housewives look tame. you will meet a star of the new show gcb. show gcb. that's next. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now. two of the most important are energy security aneconomic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project icanada, we'll be able to

i hope you can maybe talk a little bit about your hopes for haiti and future u.s. engagement. >> thank you. go ahead. >> the second one i'll just take first, because i visited haiti in january, and so i'm hopeful that the situation there will continue to improve. obviously they have some structural issues in that country, particularly in governance issues. as you recall, their prime minister has now been forced to resign. the president's been ill. there's been all kinds of rumors floating around about what the future of his government may portend. we always hope that there will be establishment, that the democracy there will take even deeper roots and become functional. right now, that country has an -- i shouldn't say overabundance of n.g.o.'s, but certainly a deep n.g.o. presence in the country, and the government sometimes feels threatened by it. so the most important issue in haiti, apart from the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, is the establishment of long term, sustainable prosperity, and how do you begin that? and for haiti, they're starting from scra