the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. the syria. syria so i was in syria i did research syria to i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq iran. is iran iran your support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic god is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you guardian culture from the beginning if you are not supporting best they were just they were stripped away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president is not the powerful perso

does that mean forth united states? looking back on if now, 24, 25, 26 months, there is a real security issues that have arisen here that are evolving that we have to address. >> rose: define them. >> we have porous borders. we have a proliferation of weapons that have arisen out of the breakdown of these governments, especially from libya. we have. >> rose: in fact some of the libyan islamists have gone to mali. >> they have, right. >> and we have-- they were from there originally and have gone back to mali but with weapons. >> you have less counterterrorism pressure on them, because these governments have changed over, and the counterterrorism forces aren't as experienced. they don't have the same kinds of laws that were in place before. we're having to reestablish relationships with them. and you have these groups being networked in some of them now claiming al qaeda, al qaeda connections. and all of this combines, and last, to, you have an expanding amount of ungoverned space. and we talked about ungoverned space a

the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. to syria. syria so i was in syria i did research and see how nice that is syria to i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq iran. is iran your support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic go is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you guardian council from the beginning if you are not supporting this law macleod they will just they will strip you away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the preside

the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is and political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. to syria i am half serious i was in syria i did research syria two i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq iran. is. a support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic god is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you guardian culture from the beginning if you are not supporting their slum it like they were just they were stripped away from the election second of all i think. the constitution he did the president is not the powerful pers

the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. to syria i am half serious i was in syria i did research in syria have a study syria two i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian rise exasperates iran iraq iran. is. a support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think when we're talking about democratic they said democratic go is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you guardian council from the beginning if you are not supporting this long it like they were just they were stripped away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president i

the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. the syria. syria so i was in syria i did research syria to i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq iran. is iran iran your support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic god is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you're a guardian council from the beginning if you're not supporting this law macleod they were just they were stripping away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president is not the

states has proceeded then we can expect the law of the jungle to iraq for example in the united states there are a number of iranian dissidents the united states will not extradite to iran should we expect a run ins to engage in drone strikes in the united states against their political opponents by the united states has done in yemen and in pakistan and elsewhere let us hope not but the signs are pointing in that direction. to go before we had the contents of that address thank you very much indeed gerald hall for joining us live to talk about what could well be spoken by obama a little later today thank you very much indeed thank you some of the news in brief for you this from around the world in india at least eleven people have been killed and the police shot at tribal and great ongoing local elections in the tribes men and women from surrounding villages descended on polling stations with swords and locals reject government rule and say it undermines the laws of their villages. the media rights group reporters without borders has condemned the detention of french journalists by fr

the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. the syria. syria so i was in syria i did research and see how nice that is syria to i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq. is. a support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they say democratic got iran is a democratic government i think if you if you guardian council from the beginning if you are not supporting their slum it like they were just they were stripped away from the election second of all i think. the constitution he did the president is not the pow

explain this has nothing to this has nothing to do with the united states the united states has made loud and clear that it really wants to take a neutral position regarding think islands the u.s. pivot the rebalancing towards the asia pacific as one issue and say could die you dispute as another what the united states has declared is that whilst they are a neutral party in these in these tense disputes if japan feels obliged to take some kind of military action or react in some way the u.s. japan alliance kicks in and then the united states which would. align itself with japan ok manas let me go get a that ok but the u.s. is involved then ok very much involving let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing is primacy in asia and is also playing off the feel about in the asian nations towards a resurgent china so just vietnam the

states is doing it to iran, why can't we do it to the united states. and i think you're seeing a little of that going on. the something thing that's going on with iran right now is finally there's going to be a round of talks that will start in late february. next week, in fact. and that's not likely i think to take everybody very far but it's the first time the two countries have talked since last summer. it looks like the iranians are deliberately slowing down the rate at which they are producing the nuclear fuel that the u.s. is most concerned about. they don't reach the level -- >> rose: does that mean they stopped the operation of the centrifuges. >> they haven't stopped the operation of the centrifuges. as the centrifuges turn out material they are turn out an amount into a reactor fuel for certain reactor they have more than they really need. it's to keep the amount of medium enriched uranium to a level below that level where they think the israelis might come in and take military action. thee -- they've sort of got their hand on the throttle. w

they have had warnings from the former comptroller of the united states that the u.s. is now two years away from that greece was when it had its crisis and then europe is totally broken hopelessly just spain just pose another records in instead the highest that accumulation of addition in one hundred years italy is out of control there isn't any improvement in the economic side and so nothing is under control where that's not a currency war or they did the basement in order to reduce the debt burden in real terms rethink money printing is going to continue on the massive scale and be doing thing that those currencies the dollar the euro the yen and stern actually for that matter and to some extent the global currency is across the board the safe store of value anymore because of that ok ed where do you jump in on this ok i mean people are talking about a new bubble here i mean i got to tell you there's an old. well i mean there's an old line you know when writing a dead horse dismount and in the united states we continue to print this money and let's not forget the uni

and groups on the right and the left in the united states to the growing use of drones within the united states and so that you're seeing that topic raised in congress and that helping somewhat to open up this discussion but i would hardly call it opposition or resistance at this point you know it no it looks like you know bush is this one which is administered foreign policy is been codified now we don't see a change it's getting worse. it's got much worse and he strikes under obama have been much much greater i think it was a really was a good guy and terms of this but he didn't get reelected but i believe the eleven senators signed a letter today but eleven's not very many freely there's not enough opposition so i think we could be united states could be painting itself into a lot of problems for the future and again as i say other countries have got this technology they're developing it really rapidly when countries are talking places that the united states have interests and i don't know what's going to be said with the wars will actually be triggered or want ok david i'll give you

we have had 1945 united states senators in our history. and i have the fortunate distinction of holding a very special number. my number is 1776. and so i have always thought very fondly of the extraordinary historical consequence of that number and what each senator does with that distinction and that number through his or her career for as long as they are there. from the very first moment you are aware of this powerful linkage really today history going back to our founders, to the heirs and guardians of a miracle of self governance compact and ideal whose freedoms we swear to uphold and must pass on to future generations undiminished. eight years after i was sworn in, i had another good fortune to be elected democratic leader by my colleagues. i was elected by one vote and so with that precariouprecariou s beginning i started my career not only as a united states senator but as the democratic leader in the united states senate, and i will always remember an experience that i had shortly thereafter. i was invited by a good friend whose

we had to republican united states senators. one of them -- his 19-year-old son left yale to go to the pacific in world war ii and died in combat. henry cabot lodge resigned to become a tank commander in north africa. the president's four sons served in world war ii. there was something wrong with this -- i think that wild eyed guy you heard 30 years ago was onto something. >> you served in the marine corps for how long? >> two years. to be in the marines rather than the army. >> what year? >> 1960-19 62. >> what impacted serving have on you? >> a lot more for me than the marine corps -- i think marine corps values are admirable. incredibly egalitarian, and even though i have been to college, i came from a cloistered background, but one that was not as wide ranging in its ethnic and racial exposure. the first time i slept in the same quarters with african- americans, i took orders from african-americans, was at the marine corps boot camp. the only reason i did that was because the president of the united states, harry truman, sa

the iranians read that if the united states they would be joined with the israelis . as opposed to trying to stop the room rammings. they realize that the united states does not have the stomach for this and they are continuing that nuclear development program and nothing going to stop them from acheeching the end other than theral rammings. >> thank you for your service to the count reap. no one gets to wear four stars on the shoulder without an amount of history and giving sack facial - sack - sacraficial lie to america. i thank you. hoda with a testament. power of the h h h h h with the spark miles card from capital one, thor gets great rewards for his small business! your boa! [ garth ] thor's small business earns double miles on every purchase, every day! ahh, the new fabrics. put it on my spark card. ow. [ garth ] why settle for less? the spiked heels are working. wait! [ garth ] great businesses deserve great rewards. [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with double miles or 2% cash back on every purchase, every

china relationship is good for the united states in february america's feelings are fleeting china unleashing its full spy power let's return to the alleged link between china's military and a prolific hacking group most cyber attacks are being carried out by teams inside the chinese military china is officially out of control because don't look now but prove today our sugar daddy is a thief beijing became an overnight security threat last week after the american information security firm mandiant identified a secretive chinese military unit as the likely source of hacking against u.s. corporations a charge china vehemently denies. however as the u.s. refocuses its military might from the middle east to china's backyard critics say it's no coincidence that beijing is suddenly morphing into america's virtual al-qaeda i think this is part of what obama calls the asian habit which is really in china and this cyber thing is is fits right into that pattern i think what we're looking at is art of this obama pivot to focus on china and to paint china is the new military threat to the world it's a de

they have had warnings from the former comptroller of the united states that the u.s. is now two years away from that greece was when it had its crisis and then europe is totally broke and hopeless who just spain just pulls another records in instead the highest that accumulation of addition in one hundred years italy is out of control there isn't any improvement in the economic side and so nothing is under control whether it's another currency war or the basement in order to reduce the debt burden in real terms rethink money printing is going to continue on the massive scale and b. don't think that those currencies the dollar the euro the yen and stone actually for that matter and to some extent the global currency is across the board the safe store of value anymore because of that ok where do you jump in on this ok i mean people are talking about a new bubble here i mean i got to tell you there's an old. well i mean there's an old line you know when writing a dead horse dismount and in the united states we continue to print this money and let's not forget the united

this is not, as saddam hussein would have it, the united states against iraq. it is iraq against the world. >> and in libya many observers noted that both american and european companies would be happy to see a more pro-western government in charge. >> you can argue that in terms of the u.s. and western economic interests the fact that libya is again pumping lots of oil and helping keep the price of oil down means who cares how these places are governed? that's for the libyans to decide and maybe that's the sensible answer. if we tried to go in and create government structures as we tried to do in iraq we'd fail anyway. >> there were other cases were the interests are seriously real, but they may not be vital. that's the case in libya. in libya we found one of the situations where indeed the interests of our allies were more directly affected than our own interests, our own national interests. libyan territory is 175 kilometers from nato territory, uh, and what was happening inside libya was having a major impact on the possibility of refugees and, indeed, the

states house of representatives, members of the united states senate, the speaker of the united states house of representatives and the president of the united states. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. >> hello everybody. thank you. good morning and welcome to the united states capital. this is a red letter day for the american people and i'm glad that you are all here and are taking part in the celebration. since the error of reconstruction, this chamber which once was the hall of the house of representatives, has become home to statues sent by the states. today we gather to dedicate a national statute of the late rose -- parks to the cause of freedom. it's the first statue of an african-american woman to be placed in this capitol. [applause] [applause] [applause] we are honored today to be joined by the president of the united states and members of his administration. [applause] this is a homecoming of sorts for ms. parks who for more than 20 years was an assistant to representative john c

states house of representatives, members of the united states senate the speaker of the united states house of representatives and the president of the united states. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. >> everybody can take a seat. thank you. [applause] good morning and welcome to the united states capital. this is a red letter day for the american people and i'm glad that you are all here and are taking part in the celebration. since the era of reconstruction this chamber which once was the hall of the house of representatives, has become home to statues sent by the states. today we gather to dedicate a national statue of the late rosa louise parks in recognition of her many contributions to this nation and to the cause of freedom. it's the first statue of an african-american woman to be placed in this capital. [applause] [applause] we are honored today to be joined by the president of the united states and members of his administration. [applause] this is a homecoming of sorts for ms. spar

the iranians read that if the united states they would be joined with the israelis . as opposed to trying to stop the room rammings. they realize that the united states does not have the stomach for this and they are continuing that nuclear development program and nothing going to stop them from acheeching the end other than theral rammings. >> thank you for your service to the count reap. no one gets to wear four stars on the shoulder without an amount of history and giving sack facial - sack - sacraficial lie to america. i thank you. hoda with a testament. power of the h h h h h hoda is a journalist and a author that faced extreme challenges in their lives and overcame them. i spoke with hoda earlier. you write about people overcoming adversity. you are no stranger to it you came out of that stronger and a lot of people are demoralized and afraid. houp do you come out stronger. >> i was going through breast cancer and divorce simultanously . the tendency is to would hold up . if you can break it through divorce or breast cancer and if you are teetering. you get four

states why is it illegal for the government to wiretap somebody in the united states without a court warrant but we don't know can a drone be used against them to kill them well actually we know that it could be done overseas so why couldn't it be done here at home i would say it's indeed a very slippery slope and a very dangerous and scary slope ok chris ship on your back to you and down the slippery slope. no i mean there certainly is that potential i believe the president in the last week or two and somewhat of an odd forum to be transmitting policy positions but in a an online question and answer forum. the president was asked essentially that question the use of drones on americans or persons in the united states and the president's response was that the feasibility of lesser forms of force or the feasibility of detention in pakistan or afghanistan is a very different proposition than the feasibility of someone here in the u.s. so he did not outright say we would not use such force but he drew some heat contrasted the circumstances in afghanistan and pakistan that here domestica

the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline we have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. the syria. syria so i was in syria i did research and see how nice that is syria to i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian rise exasperates iran iraq. is. a support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that i think i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think when we're talking about democratic they said democratic iran is a democratic government i think if you if you are the guardian council from the beginning if you are not supporting this law macleod they were just they were stripped away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president

the military in the united states is in play. it's not just the aircraft carrier and intelligence and the navy, it is also flight hours. they're having to cut down what the air force personnel can do. what pilots can do. and even deployments for troops overseas, unable to sort of, perhaps transfer and transfer personnel out there. people would have to have longer deployments. the whole thing doesn't make sense when viewed from outside. >>> but now, another big headline, from this week, we saw a report coming out, detailing chinese attacks, chinese military cyberattacks on u.s. targets, 140 targets. look at this is from the "new york times." its focus is on companies involved in the critical infrastructure of the united states. according to security researchers one target was a company with remote access to more than 60% of oil and gas pipelines in north america. serious threat over several years. it drew the attention of the former head of the cia. >> my father said quit whining, defend yourself after i had gotten into a fight. t

it's not the united states imposing any well. if canada wants to develop its resource, then why are the majority of british columbia is so opposed to the pipeline going out of the west coast? this isn't just american concerns about the development of a very high carbon - packed resort. canadians all across america i talk to people on a regular basis that are very concerned about the expansion plan. >> one thing that gets lost is the to give three-person a leap. but in the early days of the protest and organizing against keystone why are you so focused on this one pipeline and not on something else why is this bringing you altogether and they would say because it is up to the president. you cannot blame this on the converse or say i tried but the republicans misted up and there is a feeling that he had a 100% control over the business review process and the state department but they're making the recommendation and calling the shot seven or show biz and the president because there were few decisions where he does have the ultimate

the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. to syria i am half serious i was in syria i did research in syria had a study syria two i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq. is. a support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic god is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you guardian culture from the beginning if you are not supporting their slum it like they were just they were stripping away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president i

united states to the world trade organization. as a consequence, secretary albright had to get into this and as a consequence to that president clinton had to sign a waiver to allow a french oil company not to be part of that u.s. unilateral waiver. now, i'm not suggesting the united states action should be hostage to the european union or any other country but what i am suggesting is t are consequences to these actions. now every senator has their own position on these and will exercise their own judgment as they should and cast their own vote. so i don't think necessarily that there was a disconnect from what i said in the world herald to where i've been on international sanctions as to your specific point about supporting unilateral sanctions as well as -- sanctions as well as international sanctions in a letter to senator boxer. it is a different situation to start with. we already have very effective sanctions on iran. >> are you saying those two statements don't contradict each other? the one to the omaha paper and the one t

one of the fifty states in the united states rather than state meaning a foreign country so that was the. key to begin with they don't acknowledge that they were that sticky but that's what they were but another issue would be this they say that they withheld the information because of al qaeda and because of a threat to american security but in fact there has not been substantial evidence in an awfully long time of al qaeda presenting any kind of an imminent danger to the united states itself and you need to look at the second half of the statement that relates to saudi arabia and i believe that it is actually having much more to do with propping up the royal family regime in saudi arabia than it does actually protecting the united states itself. with the proliferation of her own do you think that we can expect to see similar kinds of bases we know that there's plans in the works to build a base and they share there's already one in jim booty do you expect more more me as. well this is an unseen battle that's raging behind the scenes at our web site who like we've just begun digging

the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. to syria. syria so i was in syria i did research and see how nice that is syria to i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq. is. a support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic go is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you guardian council from the beginning if you are not supporting their they were just they were stripped away from the election second of all i think. the constitution he did the president is not the powerful perso

united states was moth balled. in 1984, her fittings were auctioned off. >> it was a great opportunity but a little bit sad at the same time. >> very sad. but i thought to myself if i and other collectors don't gather some of this material together and keep it it will be lost forever. this represents what a first class dining table would have liked like on the s.s. united states. >> reporter: by coincidence our colleague here at cbs producer charles howland happens to be a leading collector of s.s. united states memorabilia. >> this was was a chest of drawers that would have been in a state room. >> reporter: his apartment is a living shrine to her furnishings. >> these tables all had a propeller design. >> reporter: from cocktail tables to state room linens. you eat breathe and sleep this ship. >> yes. reporter: howland's ship shape rooms are a sight to behold. but he and the s.s. united states conservancy have grander designs in mind. they're searching for a final home port where she is be converted into a museum

explain this has nothing to this has nothing to do with the united states the united states has made loud and clear that it really wants to take a neutral position regarding thank our clients the u.s. pivot the rebalancing towards the asia pacific is one issue since a call could die you dispute as another what the united states has declared is that whilst they are a neutral party in these in these tense disputes if japan feels obliged to take some kind of military action or react in some way the u.s. japan alliance kicks in and then the united states which would. align itself with japan ok let me go get a that ok but the u.s. is involved then ok very much involved in let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing is primacy in asia and is also playing off the fear of all in the asian nations towards a resurgent china such as vietn

it's the same for the united states. as long as the mops can clean it up, pardon the pun, of we have until they feel the weapon and that means we have quite a bit of time. that's not to say they will have a problem with what the government is doing. while i always do not like the way the israeli government does it, i recognize israel has played a very important role in keeping international focus on iran. had they not done that over the last 10 years, the world would have forgotten about them along time ago and we would be living with a nuclear iraq. >> it suggests one trigger may be the removal of material. >> let me do the two questions in the same order. ken's right. in simple terms, a proposal on the table to iran, which essentially does what iran continues to claim that it once -- wants, is not capitulation in my view. it's something we can live with particularly if we both agreed, as we do, on the value of inspections and the strengthening of the inspection system. let me leave it there. following the various cours

the military in the united states is in play. not just the aircraft carrier and intelligence and the navy, it is also flight hours. having to cut down what the air force personnel can do. and even deployments for troops overseas. unable to sort of, perhaps, transfer and transfer personnel out there. people would have to have longer deployments. . the whole thing doesn't make sense when viewed from outside. >>> now, another big headline, from this week, we saw a report coming out, detailing chinese attacks, chinese military cyber attacks on u.s. targets. 140 targets. this is from the "new york times." its focus is on companies involved in the critical infrastructure of the united states. according to security researchers one target was a company with remote access to more than 60% of oil and gas pipelines in north america. it drew the attention of the former cia mike hagen. >> there are a lots of way we can make this relation less comfortable to them. if this is important, then you got to start taking some actions. >> congressman

a bill that violates the united states constitution. i cannot in good conscience and in fidelity to my oath of office vote for a provision that i know is unconstitutional. i will, however, vote for the alternative bill that is being offered by senator grassley that eliminates this unconstitutional provision, which reauthorizes the violence against women act, and which contains the safer act that addresses this backlog of untested rape kits. mr. president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the pending quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you. may i ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for up to 15 minutes? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you. by the way, what a pleasure it is to see the new senator presiding. mr. president, i rise e

explain this has nothing to this has nothing to do with the united states the united states has made loud and clear that it really wants to take a neutral position regarding think iowa. the rebalancing towards the asia pacific is one issue and say kochadaiiyaan the dispute is another what the united states has declared is that whilst they are a neutral party in these in these tense disputes if japan feels obliged to take some kind of military action or react in some way the u.s. japan alliance kicks in and then the united states we wouldn't. align itself with japan ok minus let me go and get that to ok but the u.s. is involved then ok very much involved let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think the u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing is primacy in asia and is also playing off the fear of other nation asian nations towards a resurgent china such as vietnam the p

states and within the united states? is there actually a line that can be drawn? what if there was a foreign person within the united states? does the authority that is invested in the obama administration is claiming, does that allow them to kill people within the united states who are foreign? does it allow them to kill people within the united states who are u.s. citizens? there's no meaningful line that has been articulated. >> anwar al-awlaki's cell phone had more protections than his life. >> what do you mean? >> if we had wanted to target his cell phone, because he's a us citizen in a foreign place, the obama administration had to go to a judge in the foreign intelligence surveillance court and get an order authorizing the eavesdropping on his cell phone. if they want to kill him, they don't have to. so his cell phone's more valuable, has more protections, because of congress's action. congress gave that review to the court,and the president has to go through it. to kill him, they don't have to. this is the kind o

states and within the united states? is there actually a line that can be drawn? what if there was a foreign person within the united states? does the authority that is invested in the obama administration is claiming, does that allow them to kill people within the united states who are foreign? does it allow them to kill people within the united states who are u.s. citizens? there's no meaningful line that has been articulated. >> anwar al-awlaki's cell phone had more protections than his life. >> what do you mean? >> if we had wanted to target his cell phone, because he's a us citizen in a foreign place, the obama administration had to go to a judge in the foreign intelligence surveillance court and get an order authorizing the eavesdropping on his cell phone. if they want to kill him, they don't have to. so his cell phone's more valuable, has more protections, because of congress's action. congressave at riew to the court,and the president has to go through it. to kill him, they don't have to. this is the kind of thin

united states are making together. i can only speak to a question about a footprint in pakistan and certainly i think a lighter footprint there in terms of drum strikes -- drum strikes would be better. drum strikes are not seen as operationally project david pakistan. we see them as a direct violation of our sovereignty and we also see them as a violation of international law. so yes, it may be a precision tool that may have these days, but believe me, we have been working together in the past as well to degrade and destroy and diminish al qaeda ranks and i am appreciative of those senator kerry and ambassador olson's remarks that pakistan's cooperation has been vital in doing so and i think while we move towards diminishing al qaeda ranks and certainly i region, the time for drone strikes is so very. oneok >> i have a question of hillary clinton. [inaudible] >> as i think a question very close to my heart and obviously secretary clinton, we do appreciate her for the work she's done. it's invaluable and i think she's t

explain this has nothing to this has nothing to do with the united states the united states has made loud and clear that it really wants to take a neutral position regarding think islands the u.s. pivot the rebalancing towards the asia pacific is one issue since a country die you dispute as another what the united states has declared is that whilst they are a neutral party in these in these tense disputes if japan feels obliged to take some kind of military action or react in some way the u.s. japan alliance kicks in and then the united states which would. align itself with japan ok minus let me going to take that to ok but the u.s. is involved in ok very much involved in let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing is primacy in asia and is also playing off the fear about in the asian nations towards a resurgent china so just v

the case i'm in the middle of the united states chose to stay clean of the bad guys at some point of the crisis the did realize it seems that things going very wrong you know that various terrorist groups were coming in the radical islamists where we were active there so they were beginning to realize maybe before some of our other western colleagues that things were making a very dangerous turn and that the and original scenario they had in mind that it would take just in a couple of months to topple the assad regime. sort of democracy will triumph was completely unrealistic and had nothing to do with the with the actual situation on the ground but i mean do notice this is an extremely powerful country definitely with a lot of interest influence on for example such a country as qatar which is reportedly the main source of weapons and support for for armed opposition so if the united states were to want to be a logical and really take a stand they certainly. could could make it clear to those who supply weapons to to to sit in the position group so the fact they simply say that they

united states so the israel thing is not unique. you just have to know that sometimes american paula all politics are strange every country has its place it's secrecy but i think to your question of this is some kind of a message that people have to be very very careful about speaking about israel i think not i think it's the opposite the fact that the president is going to head with this nomination that it probably will be confirmed i think demonstrates that you can. make statements that are not entirely. pure. doesn't stop your career he did say that he supports israel but people don't see that as emotionally well i mean remember that there are people who would like to stop his nomination. politics is a context sport. and there are important people in the united states who would like to stop him so they're looking for any excuse i mean if he threw chewing gum on the sidewalk they would criticize him for throwing chewing gum on the sidewalk they're just looking for an excuse this is the way they gave it his confirmed and many peopl

there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over six to two percent of those patients i diagnosed with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you know you certainly should be able to have a lot less h.r.t. a lot less human suffering. little bit. older and. i live. the good speed. limits good. thing. just sleep. and. eat. a lot of and very little. do we speak your language or not at the. news programs and documentaries and spanish matters to you breaking news a little tentative angles kidney's stories. you hear. the spanish find out more visit. good. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. the new super secret laborator

states is china basically as a strategic competitor alternately i think the united states would like to overthrow the chinese communist government they would like to be able to do to china what they have done to china in the past what they've done to other countries return them to a kind of a semi colonial status so that the great vast resources and riches of the country can belong principally to wall street or to london or to paris rather than to the chinese people absolutely when you see these joint u.s. and south korean military exercises happening along the planned peninsula i really have to ask you really have to ask you know who's really running who in the region of north korea was carrying out massive war games and staging the mock invasion of the united states a long long island people would be up in arms that's what the u.s. and south korea are doing today after north korea absolutely thank you so much i think a lot of people fear north korea because they don't understand it it's a close off to say in terms of the. people there i think opening the dialogue talking about it a

we, the united states, have traditionally been suspicious of that. the reason is we are the world hegemon that we are not going to wind up seeking that kind of authority to the united nations. but there was a very significant chunk of the incoming foreign policy establishment they really did believe this and saw this has the way forward. at the same time, they were counterbalanced by wayne of the democratic party and the obama administration and led really by secretary clinton of new realist to the that the bush idealism. what caught neoconservatives and in foreign policy, but it's the conservative form of idealism about democracy, transforming countries, making things better by doing lots and lots of things. and to more or less conclude that it's just not going to work that we needed to retrench can be more realistic foreign policy. i describe this because they saw themselves as rejecting neoconservatism, but at the same time essentially rejecting liberal internationalists that they regarded as soft and squishy in much the same way conservative real

well because kuwait is a client state of the united states it is part of the u.s. imperial system along with saudi arabia and qatar and bahrain and a number of other countries so for that obvious reason because they they can't really step out of line from what the line is from washington from london and from elsewhere so that's the primary reason and the secondary reason is quite simple as well because it is against the strategic interests of the western powers if you are to have destabilization in kuwait and you are to have the western community the international community as it's called committing condemned the ruling family you will have an overthrow of that regime you will have a destabilization of the region which benefits democratic forces but which is very much detrimental to the united states and their agenda for the region now you mentioned that the court is a client state does the u.s. play a role in allowing the crackdowns to continue by being slow to condemn the use of violence. i mean that's a very conservative way of saying it not only do they allow i

there's no voice in the world like that of the president of the united states. and i do believe if he had picked up the phone and called the libyan government these folks could have gotten out of the airport to the annex and the last two guys may very well be alive. if and he did call the libyan officials and they sort of blew him off that would affect whether or not i would give foreign aid in the future to libya. but if he failed to call on behalf of those people under siege, and i think that's a massive failure of leadership by our commander in chief. >> schieffer: have you tried to find out if he did call? >> i've tried-- we know he had a 15-minute briefing by secretary panet and the chairman of the joint chiefs right after the attack happened. it was a preplanned meeting. it just happened that benghazi came up at the meeting. i don't know what the president did that evening. i don't know if he ever called anyone. i know he never talked to the secretary of defense. i know that he never talked to the chairman of the joint chiefs. and they never talked to anyb