i'm joined by mr salim jamali former chief of the iraqi intelligence services american office he's an extraordinary man who played a key role in providing the iraqi government with intelligence right before the invasion mr solomon you destroyed all documents after the war was over you burned them at a safe house in baghdad but i'm sure there is still a lot of information that you committed to memory let's start with the pretext that the u.s. used to justify the invasion they claim that iraq had ties with al qaeda is it true or was it just a pretext. of course america did everything to prepare public opinion inside the u.s. and internationally for the war against iraq there were two major parts to this work u.s. try to convince everyone that iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that it had close ties with al qaeda and terrorists in general in the one nine hundred eighty s. we did have certain relations with some organizations but in the ninety's we received orders to stop all contact with any organization that had terrorist connections talking about ties with al qaeda george bush s

and there are a series of components of what it takes to be an american or become an american. and it starts with a list of the pillars of american exceptionalism, which are along the line of that list, freedom of speech, religion, the press, freedom of assembly and keep and bear arms, property rights and through our judicial branch, there is no double jeopardy. you are tried by a jury of your peers and face your accuser. the powers that are not enumerated in the constitution deinvolve to the states or people respectfully. all of these are components of american exceptionalism and another component is free capitalism and the rule of law. it says in our constitution, the constitution itself is the supreme law of the land. and we must abide by the consfution, the language in it. and the language in the constitution isn't something that can be redefined away from us, but instead, mr. speaker, it is a written contract, it's a contract from the generations that ratified the constitution and the subsequent amendments to the succeeding generations. our charge is to preserve, defend an

american community. i know it is hard for us to appreciate this today but at that time, chinese-american organizations were subjected to surveillance and harassment of the federal government, by the fbi as well elements of the chinese american community. laura has been and was a heroine in furthering these causes in the fight. ever since those days she has continued to engage in progressive causes and community service. she has been involved in significant groundbreaking research into chinese-american history. as an aside, she supported her late husband mark li, after whom the chinatown branch library is named. laura's name also adorns the heart of research and learning. i wonder -- i want to thank laura for generously donating time money and materials, to the chinese historical society, seven cisco public library, and so many other organizations. i happen to hold in my hands a chapter of an anthology called chinese-american history and perspective called born lucky. we are lucky to have benefit from you

in addition, african-american median income is one tenth of that of white americans. and when you add all of the dislocations and the economy, not all of them caused in any way by the recession but a big part of them, global competition and other things in terms of u.s. manufacturing of business. african-americans are usually the last hired and the first fired. >> bill: do you really believe it's a skin color issue rather than a performance issue? >> bill, i have been convinced all my life -- i have been in business all of my life. i have been quite successful as you might know. but i will tell you this. there are thousands, millions of african-americans who have the talent, the work ethic, the integrity, the ingenuity to be successful in jobs or in business but you have to admit that any time you have a situation for 50 years, dating back to the civil rights movement, when african-americans were making huge gains and fair employment and housing and legislation was enacted we spent more money on education than any time in the african-american history, there is somethi

in other words, african-americans are no longer second-class citizens. in some of the original teachings of elijah muhammad, he flips everything on its head and says the caucasian race is actually an evil, demonic race, and that it's the african-americans, it's the blacks that are going to rise up and bring peace and justice into the world, so we see it turned on its head. now a couple of key players that we want to look at, wallace d. fard, a number of different names- this is one of the more common ones i had- the original first prophet of the black muslim movement, sometimes described as a mysterious peddler. but his key- he's an inspired gentleman- he understands this and begins this quest towards self-esteem and empowerment. now of course, a person- i'm sure you're probably familiar with elijah muhammad. he, of course, is taught by fard and becomes the great leader, and is the founder of nation of islam- a very, very charismatic leader. and we're going to have an interview with abdus salam. and in fact, as we move through these, of course, malcolm x

they are not american citizens. makingortant thing is sure that the system is still there for those who love and cherish this country enough to make a commitment. that is an important principle of we have. >> there is a theory i've heard talk about about your role in the negotiations. they believe president obama has no credibility with house republicans. they are afraid he is too happy to use it as a political issue against them. to are uniquely positioned be able to do this. you describe your role? should president obama stay quiet and in the white house? are there call sicken me that will not ruin this? -- calls he can make that will we said you need to go around this question and make sure that everybody understands what is necessary and to educate the american public about the importance and urgency. --'s some of it is decided you know some of it is decided to show to members of the press. the president had to call john mccain. he had to apologize for doing that. it seems like we gave him good advice. system wa

this passivity of the american position and this passive passiveness of the american president of this continuous specially at this time this would mean allowing the israelis to kill the very last opportunity of two state solution are we just talking about past seventy or we're talking about specific regions because when obama was here we did see demonstrations on the palestinian street what are the issues that the street is angry about that the street is angry about many things first of all they see that the united states is totally biased to israel and it's not hiding it's even declaring it constantly second they see that they're americans are allies in the peace process leadership yet they are not being an honest broker in this process by monopolizing they are not doing their job at the same time they're not allowing any other party to do that to do this job but third there were many negative gestures even during the visit of president obama one of just said was that he refused to meet a child who of one of the presidents and bill in israeli presence here refused to listen and to he

wall you see rip van winkle had been asleep for twenty years and slept through the entirety of the american revolution. now the story itself is a fantasy but i think there's an important message behind it this country may not have another defining moment like the american revolution but through each generation our actions can serve a defining purpose. sure it's easy to skip a newspaper headline about occupy the f.c.c. for example although it's comprised of a group of concerned citizens who are working through the legal system toward more transparency from wall street and lobbyists or what about the rolling jubilee plan to buy debt for pennies on the dollar but instead of collecting it dissolving it altogether freeing the young people of this country from student loan debt the same can be said about the recent ships and social thought with the last with last year's elections ending the drug war the legalization of same sex marriage we may not all agree with these issues but change is underway these are all signs of an evolution of ideas and a revolution of our values the important thing to r

large numbers of americans are genuinely values the rich for the contribution to american life. there was a gallup poll done last spring which asked whether or not the united states benefited from having a small class of very rich people without adding any more gloss on the question then the words i have given you. 63% of the people who responded fox we were better off for having a small class of very rich people. that alone is evidence. that bubbles around in the same caldron as the rest of these things in the book and i hop you enjoy it and i hope it persuades you and the question will remain what did persuade you of? which has a lot to do, more to do with what you think and what you bring to the books than what i bring. in any case i would be happy to answer any questions you have and look forward to doing so. i would remind you they want you to come to the microphone and ask your questions. don't let that put you off. it is easy to do and not really would welcome your questions. .. >> north of a billion dollars, what percent would fall into the category of good rich in the s

americans might think of war or terrorism. but what does an afghan think of his own country. >> i remember that when i was a school student, we didn't have chairs if our classes, and we were sitting on the grounds and taking notes, listening to our teachers. >> this is a are professor, one of three professors who arrived in the fall to study modern journalism methods in san jos estate. >> objectivity and free speech are concepts americans may take for granted, but in afghanistan, those are relatively new. the taliban enforced both people of speech and freedom of the press. >> he was teaching at haraat university when the taliban arrived. >> you have to put taliban on your head and i don't believe this. >> rather than follow the apprentice regulations in stated by the taliban, he left the university on his own terms to make for things to below over. >> imprisonment and physical punishment were not uncommon. >> some people paid the ultimate price. >> that was professor and his colleagues. once approximate a time, they actually e

had so the last thing that the british or americans want to come out of guantanamo bay shark around who can shed some light on the torture that led to that catastrophic mistake what is it that sucker element is that other detainees don't know exactly what he knows busies told me he was in background he was one of the first five prisoners held by the americans and background and he was taken there just before new year two thousand and one and libby had just been taken in the americans at the time thought he was a big time al qaeda person which he was and he was never a member of al qaida so the americans were abusing him to try to get him to make statements shakar was taken from the cage where he was being held and background into the room where libby was being abused he saw the people who were there you can identify some of those people the british were present and. at that time and he can tell you a whole lot about what was going on in terms of the abuse of elderly now libby can't speak for himself because he was sent back to libya where he according to the libyans gadhafi died or

and that's another thing about americans. they are not really big on holier-than-thou. >> now that is a g2v aircraft... >> hockenberry: personalizing the attacks was part of an approach that was immediately embraced and amplified by friendly media. >> and that is the former vice- president getting off that plane and into a town car-- by the way, not a hybrid. >> he equates the failure to recycle aluminum cans with the holocaust. >> he wants to be a super hero action figure, and... >> hockenberry: myron ebell was acting on a broad strategy he helped create more than a decade ago. in this 1998 action plan, "victory will be achieved," it said, when the public "recognizes uncertainties in climate science." today at the washington, d.c., headquarters of the competitive enterprise institute, a free market think tank, you can see myron ebell's philosophy proudly displayed on the walls. >> they're all cei authors... what we're fighting is the expansion of government. and there are many pretexts for expanding government. >> hockenberr

the same way that americans criticize british food, i can tell you that our view of american food is way too many burgers and fries. you serve cheese with everything. and any meal you order at any time of day or night, you have to have this amount of fried potatoes. and no one ever orders them. you order a simple egg or bacon, in come the potatoes. anthony, you stand accused of being obsessed with potato chips and cheese. >> there's no doubt about it. i think people -- people, especially countries where they don't eat much, when they see what we're eating and you know, a grand slam breakfast, i think they're just appalled. they can't believe it. when they see the size, the sheer size of many americans, i think they're freaked out. and yes, in a lot of the world, the first thing they think of when you mention american food would be hamburgers and fast food. it's certainly our most well known and possibly most lethal export. i was always an advocate for opening fast food outlets along the pakistan/afghanistan border as a way of undermining al qaeda. it would have done a real solid job

american vote. in kentucky, the history of the back rights are inseparable from the republican party. democrats in louisville were led by the journal editor, enry waterson. they were opposed to blacks voting. the democrats were opposed to blacks voting. waterson himself wrote to his opposition that blacks voting was founded on the con vision that their habits of life and general condition disqualified them from the exercise of sufficientage. this was the democrats. in george wrights "life behind the vail" he writes obama john paul her standing before tens of thousands of slaves when slavery still existed in kentucky and declaring my countmen you are free. while i command the military forces of the united states we'll defend your right to freedom. the crowd erupted in cheers. this is the history of republican party. while a legislature voted gainst the 13th, 14th, and the 15th amendments. william worely was a black republican. he was the founder of louisville's naacp, he's a republican. most of the f

the american victory was total the casualty figures speak for themselves one hundred american soldiers were killed and on the iraqi side it's estimated there were between four and five thousand victims most of them civilians. the battle left a city in ruins where death continue to take its toll. and their offensive it's thought the u.s. troops used white phosphorous bombs and depleted uranium weapons banned by all international conventions. to new passenger is not administrator at the general hospital. since the battle of fallujah ended has kept records of the children born with congenital malformation. for him there's no doubt the americans were responsible for this tragedy. for me the administrator's office becomes an empty chamber of horrors. up i learnt that the war is far from over in fact it's still going on for the stigmata are there and they're evolving in two thousand and five we know to a spectacular increase in genetic malformations a new born babies how large the. file. voters only show a tiny part of the reality just for the month of january if we recorded forty three case

. >> eric: the question was should americans be afraid going forward. he said no, ball games and continue to run your marathon. really quickly, ed henry asked the most important question of all. >> dana: the question. do we have it? it was a great question. i'm offended on ed henry. [ laughter ] >> dana: my assistant has it to read for you. >> eric: i have two pages of notes from the press conference. he asked -- i'm assume talking about the benghazi. i'm quoting him, not familiar with this notion that anybody has been blocked our job is to make sure that embassy are safe and secure. if you have time to be up to speed on all these other things including a phone call to n.b.a. basketball that she gay and coming out, mr. president i think you have time to be briefed on allegedly blocked by the administration to talk about what they know. >> dana: so, juan, we are very glad that you are here. >> good. >> dana: you have covered many press conferences for how long, decades. >> i think you could greet your guests more politely. i would say overall consensus,

because black americans, low skilled americans are unwilling to work. there unwilling to work at the cut rate given to illegal immigrants. they're highly unlikely to complain to osha. much of the competition is concentrated in major metropolitan areas such as new york, los angeles, chicago, but also enroll areas and the southeast states such as georgia, north carolina, -- in rural areas such as the southeast states such as georgia, north carolina. when the commission conducted its investigation originally, the unemployment rate for blacks without a high school diploma was 12%. ,oday it has more than doubled 24.6%. that clearly shows that we have an oversupply of low skilled labor relative to demand and that bodes ill for all workers in such class, particularly black americans. research shows that 40% of the 18 point percentage decline in employment rates of black males is attributable to illegal immigration. that is hundreds of thousands of blacks without jobs, which translates to hundreds of thousands who can't pay taxes and don't support their familie

of americans supporting it. it is something that helps guarantee the safety. i very much liked what the president said last night because many people say when an infant is caught up, just in d.c. alone, we had three young children shot in the crossfire, and the answer is well, they're in the wrong place at the wrong time. these children were in the right place at the right time. they were where they were supposed to be and that place where they were supposed to be has always been known as a safe place, an elementary school. >> senator dianne feinstein, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, a stunning tape of a republican senator insulting the parents of the children murdered at sandy hook elementary. >>> and a tape of how republicans plan to attack ashley judd if she ran for senate. >>> and for ten years, a marine has been hiding the american flag wrapped around the statue of saddam hussein before it fell. that marine will join me tonight and tell us what that flag ha

embarrassing example of torture that americans had so the last thing that the british or americans want to come out of guantanamo bay shack around who can shed some light on the torture that that catastrophic mistake what is it is that other detainees i know exactly what he knows because he's told me he was in that ground he was one of the first five prisoners held by the americans and background and he was taken there just before noon two thousand and one and libya had just been taken and the americans at the time thought he was a big time al-qaeda person which he was and he was never a member of al qaida so the americans were abusing him to try to get him to make statements shakar was taken from the cage where he was being held and background into the room where libby was being abused he saw the people who were there you can identify some of those people the british were present and. at that time and he can tell you a whole lot about what was going on in terms of the abuse or validly now libby can't speak for himself because he was sent back to libya where he according to the libyans

but the majority of american people say it should just take five years to become an american citizen. maybe one of those silicon valley bigwigs can design something that works. i'm in a musical mood. the ballad of john boehner is a sad and loan lone some song. the ballad of jacki robinson is heroic and inspiring. "42", the movie hits theaters this weekend and we'll look at that movie and the man it portrays and the ballad of jay-z's cuba trip is a real song. eyes roll back into their back of their head every time they have a chance to link the president to wrappers. it's thursday, it's "the war room," and we'll be right back. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of

and the relationship between african-americans and mexican-americans within the movement. it's about an hour. of -- [applause] >> thank you, tom. i appreciate it. thank you, everyone, for being here tonight. i really appreciate it. i feel a little bit like an airline pilot and telling you that i know you have choices, and so thank you for flying southwest. [laughter] there are at least three other events going on tonight about economic justice, poverty and human rights. i think that says a lot about the community that we live in durham, how much we care about these issues and are engaged with them, it also says a lot about the state of the country that these are still issues that we're talking about, right? but i really appreciate you being here. i also want to, you know, thank the regulator and tom for having me here. it means a lot to launch the book here. we moved to durham in 2002, i started the graduate program in the history department at duke in the fall of 2002. and i had heard about the regulator even before moving to durham from people who do history and just lov

and that's the american dream. that's the american dream for all of us, for our children, that we can have a better life. i want to read now from president ronald reagan. again, many of us are very roud of ronald reagan. i'll give illinois their due. he's from there originally. the reality is he's a californian. and you look at the statue here in statuary hall, he's ear has -- here as a californian. so i'm very proud of him, as a democrat, very proud of him. i say that and i saw my democratic friends, they get a little nervous about that, the reality is i'm very proud of him. i didn't agree with everything, obviously, but i agreed with his humanity and i think we'll see that from some of these quotes. i think that's what made reagan a great person. and a great president. was that he didn't stick to some of the tired dogma of others. instead he led us forward as a great president. i quote him. unless the united states makes a more sensible and efficient system for admitting legal migrants who come to take advantage

my parents are americans by choice and i am an american by chance. >> to the american people, i would simply like to say the to be threads that wants weaved as part of a larger democracy and the fabric that we know as america and that we are looking forward to the future, what is going to look like a simply an expression bruited injustice, hard work -- rooted family,ce, hard work, the ideas that all of america can relate to. >> i would like to go back to fixing the economy. it is important, not just for us, but also for the nation at large. in that regard, i want to go back to the issue of housing. housing must be addressed. it represents a significant component of our economic recovery. ther way to many families, majority of, are white, we are overly represented, latinos and lacked -- african-americans. >> this conversation is historic and it is historic because it does not just encompass immigration. what i was heartened to hear today was that we discussed the issue of economic and power meant of this community. this is the economic engine of this country. the faster that the rest o

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this passivity of the american position and this passive passiveness of the american president of this continuous specially at this time this would mean allowing the israelis to kill the very last opportunity of two state solution are we just talking about past seventy or we're talking about specific regions because when obama was here we did see demonstrations on the palestinian street what are the issues that the street is angry about that the street is angry about many things first of all they see that the united states is totally biased to israel and it's not hiding it's even declaring it constantly second they see that the americans are allies in the peace process leadership yet they are not being an honest broker in this process by monopolizing they are not doing their job at the same time they're not allowing any other party to do that to do this job but third there were many negative gestures even during the visit of president obama one of just said was that he refused to meet a child who of one of the presidents and bill in israeli presence here refused to listen and to hear t

the american people look and ask, why is it not working for the american people? we have an opportunity to show we can accomplish big missioiss. >> i will take any questions. we ask the member of congress that represented the area of the site of the bombings at the marathon's conclusion. also giveersberger this some additional information. much is still not known. they give us as much information as they could share with us. [unintelligible] there has been information, not specific information. as maybe you do. thing the congressman pointed out was that to not be a part of the media glut that is going on right now. let law enforcement do the work they need to do. as to who may be responsible for the attacks. i do not care what the motivation is or who they are. what they did was enact of t ofor -- was an acat or terror. [unintelligible] as one person who was responsible for the initiative that was set up to drive moneys moneys high threat area, that are sent for the purpose of a homeland security need to be done on a judgment basis as to where the threat is highes

the first americans. they were the target of genocide, ethnic cleansing, which for years was the hidden history of america, kept in the closet by the authors and enforcers of white mythology. how do you grapple with such a long denied history? if you are sherman alexie, you face it down with candor and even irreverence, writing poems, nov as,nd short stories, and even movies. here's a clip from "smoke signals" that alexie wrote and co-produced in 1998, >> "you got to look mean or people won't respect you. white people will run all over you if you don't look mean. you got to look like a warrior. you got to look like you just came back from killing a buffalo." buffalo." >> but our tribe never hunted buffalo, we were fishermen. >> what? you want to look like you just came back from catching a fish? this ain't "dances with salmon," you know. >> alexie has published 22 books of poetry and fiction, including "the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven," "war dances," and "the absolutely true diary of a part-

millions of americans were left with looking for answers how could the federal government have let the big banks bring down our entire economy and let them get away with rampant corruption and greed for so long the answer to the question is a short and sweet when it began with reagan reagan deregulated big banks and big businesses and he removed the crucial restrictions that were put in place to keep the corporations from cheating and from pillaging the american people reagan argued that in a capitalist society there is no place of regulation federal oversight as we all know now reagan was wrong without regulation corporations and big banks wreaked havoc on our economy and our society nearly every basically every day all the name of pedal and all the name of padding their bottom line so isn't it time that we bring back sensible regulation to keep corporations american corporate. it's unchecked and where would we be without regulations that are in the place to protect us today joining me to talk about that is tell lincoln director of research for public citizen. congress watch. and auth

the american victory was total the casualty figures speak for themselves one hundred american soldiers were killed and on the iraqi side it's estimated there were between four and five thousand victims most of them civilians. the battle left a city in ruins where death continue to take its toll. in their offensive it's thought the u.s. troops used white phosphorous bombs and depleted uranium weapons banned by all international conventions. our new passenger is not administrator at the general hospital. since the battle of fallujah ended has kept records of the children born with congenital malformation. for him there's no doubt the americans were responsible for this tragedy. for me the administrator's office becomes an empty chamber of horus. up i looked at the war is far from over in fact it's still going on for the stigmata rivera and their evolving in two thousand and five we noted the spectacular increase in genetic malformations a new born babies out of the. voters only show a tiny part of the reality just for the month of january we recorded forty three cases yat. potentially de

the american revolution real frost. thank you very much. [applause] >> excuse me. >> a couple of things. i want to share of you and the test before ranchers the panel. again, the east side, on that balcony, and boston, just a few weeks after was passed on july july 4th. so it took a little while to get up to boston from philadelphia, but it does here and was read. abigail adams was in the crowd just outside the balcony in the intersection and wrote to her husband john and said it was crazy. everything british was written down and burned in the middle of the intersection immediately after the reading, including the unicorn that no reflag the east facade that was put up in 1881 when the bostonian society came back, but one of the first things that was ripped up as a symbol of british authority and burned in the middle of the intersection, in boston, but for that in 1770, march 5th, just outside that intersection as well, something you're all very all familiar with, something that bob allison contributed to the book, anoth

are you displacing americans. are you making american business increasingly different. there are a lots of negatives. you don't have to worry about fiscal consequences. >> you saw that we do make provisions in the that they have to hire americans first. let me ask you. he says he is having trouble going through it. , mr. crane. it is a long and complicated bill. it has been online for six days and this will be on my for three -- on line 43 or four weeks before we mark up. that is unusual for a complicated bill to be out there and available for as long as it is. from what you have seen, if you had to say you support or do not support the sections of our proposal, let me ask you this -- would you support giving a green card to any foreigner who graduates, gets an ma or phd in spam and an american university? in stem in an american university? >> it is about 5000 6000 people a year. we can certainly do that. ma is a very different thing. phd is rigorous and specialize. >> so you will do it for the hd's. >> ok. there is one part of the bill we agree on. but for ma's -- you

money, american trade secrets. the loss of jobs. even to the extent that it's been stated that china has cyberattacks, fertilizer companies, because they are in competition with our fertilizer companies. i think right now we have different types of attacks, economic attacks. i think it's been mention add little bit today, we are concerned about destructive attacks. it's been reported that iran had an attack on iramco, one of the largest oil companies in the world, and took out over 30,000 of their computers in one attack. and even though they are not as sophisticated as other countries, that iran could really have a successful attack in our banking system, our bridge systems, and stock market, whatever. now, with that said, i'm asking the question first, general clapper when, it comes to sishe, do you consider our economic security a critical part of national security? >> absolutely. >> good to hear. ok. director mueller, i know the last hearings we had, opening hearing, i asked the question what do you feel are th

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most americans support it. the majority of republicans supported. >> as long as -- >> there is a path. you are in it. -- earn it. for the hispanic community, it is a nonstarter. for most democrats, it is a nonstarter. the one thing that the four of us insisted on, there has to be a path to citizenship. john and the other three said it has to be a qualified, earned approach to citizenship. they insisted that people go to the back of the line, not gain any benefit from crossing the border. we have achieved that. >> effective control of the border. >> any attempt to say in the house that you will not have a path to citizenship will be a nonstarter. it will not pass the senate. i don't think it would get a democratic vote. >> michael? >> what happens to immigrants who are on the path to citizenship if benchmarks are not met? >> they would remain in a legal until they comply with all of the requirements -- illegal until they comply with all of the requirements. in 1986, i voted for simpson mazzoli. now we have 11 na

not inherently anti-american right anti russian. american i mean and in fact here's the odd part of this if anything we've been i'm not going to say sympathetic with them but we've certainly been critical of putin and how far he's gone in dealing with. so if anything they should they shouldn't have this anger at the united states so given all this maybe maybe this political mindset has prompted authorities in the u.s. to drop the ball on valuable law enforcement intelligence on tom. and james petras professor of sociology at bin continue university believes the u.s. is working on very thin ice when it banks questionable on functions elsewhere in the world. the u.s. government is working with extremists today in libya they're working with islamic extremists in syria they have been working in other places with islamic extremists on the one hand they oppose them on the other hand they instrumental lies them and hope they can discard them launch their adversaries undermine and i think this is a very dangerous game that washington's play

am telling him of the evil legion of doom meeting so you have it you know he's a good right thinking american people well i know why you haven't seen him because because he uttered this quote the other day i think he didn't act on actually but here we go he said quote if we gave our voters an accurate portrayal of our ideas that we want to cut the rate of growth on social security give tax cuts to billionaires and then the values issues the values issues would be more popular than the economic agenda of the current public apart and i think what he's trying to do here was trying to get republicans to hold the line on same sex marriage by saying hey considering what our what we're talking about with cutting social security giving tax breaks to billionaires this is probably the more appealing message but in doing so he pretty much said what i've been saying for a while what richard's been saying for a while what a lot of people on the left are been saying for a while and that is the republican party is the party of billionaires is he wrong it's where it's considering all the billionaires that su

black americans or low skilled americans are not willing to work. it is that they are unwilling to work at sometimes the cut .eight rages -- cut rate wages much of the competition is major areas in such as new york, los angeles and chicago but also in rural areas now. the impact of illegal immigration almost gold gold workers is especially severe in today's stagnant economy. that clearly shows we have an oversupply of low skill labor relative to demand. of theh shows that 40% 18 point percent decline in the employment rates of black males [indiscernible] the evidence also indicated in addition to the pressing employment levels, illegal immigration drove down wage levels. the these show illegal immigration was attributable -- $960 per yearo a wage decrease. for doctors and lawyers, that may not be a lot that is president obama observed in the extension of the payroll tax cut, $80 per month as significant for most families. ghost was groceries, rent, gasoline. grant of lawful status further increases the influx of illegal immigrants. further forcing o

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life, he made american friends and came to celebrate american holidays and high school sports and american culture. he went back to his home country, then something horrible happened. something horrible that threw him into a state of moral and political tumult. his home country was not in the caucasus, it was yemen. this is not a story about either of the tsarnaev brothers. on their account, the president told their alleged story today with very apt phrasing. >> two twisted, perverted, cowardly, knockoff jihadis. >> seems a perfect way to describe the perfect emerging of the tsarnaev brothers. they don't appear to be part of a vast network training for months, instead, the narrative taking shape around the tsarnaev brothers is one of a couple of guys a yen -- alienated from their local mosque. young dzhokhar, if he is guilty, should be held to account and we should do what we can to grant others accessing means to cause violence, death, and destruction. and we can and should ask all sorts of questions in the aftermath of an attack like theirs about where they got their guns and how they we

there are relatively not even american history. a lot of them take advanced placement classes, with the average age is 9920 years old. and so if i can get a point across to them, if one of my arguments make sense to them okay, maybe it doesn't into it. so that's why do. teaching first and then write it. >> i would agree with everything of the rest of the palace of said. i doubt -- of that three things that. research is fine handwriting is hard. we will always research before right. the second thing is to my never know what i'm writing about until about halfway to the book. and suddenly realized a mile, this is what this book is about, which is one reason why you have to start researching more at that point because there are things you did not realize or pardon. oftentimes they're the same things that in documents that you took a lot of notes on. demoralizing. the third thing i would say is important at least for me of going into what my husband calls but muggy which is a mode where by which you are thinking about nothing but the bo

there should be no question that an american citizen accused of committing a heinous crime on american soil would be charged as a criminal in american civilian court. but there are political forces trying to make that a question. as we watch this all unfold last week, it looked to me like we were headed toward a fork in the road where particularly if the suspects turned out to be foreign nationals, we might very well skid off into a legal nether world into indefinite detention or military tribunals. even after we knew the one surviving suspect was an american citizen, a cadre of u.s. senators, people sworn to uphold the constitution were calling for him to be tried not as an american citizen suspected of a heinous crime, but as an enemy combatant. and so this complaint being filed in federal court today was a victory. it was a victory against the demagogues. it was the victory over the forces of hysteria and panic that have tried to destabilize what should be stable, routine, expected. because today in moving forward in civilian court, the obama administration treated the efforts of ce

support of continuing occupation implicit in effect the united states is supporting it and american support of continued settlement expansion that makes a two state solution impossible. people all over the region from the middle east from the united states but also in danger's the existing peace treaties between israel and these two arab countries and you know no i have to agree with you on that i think that the stability of the region the whole issue we've come to realize that it's all almost contingent upon the resolution of palestine and resolving the palestinian question but unfortunately i mean if i could i would i would i would ari i would argue that there are other big problems in the region that are not related i mean the problem of democratization in the arab world the problem of the arab gulf autocracies the issues between iran and the arab countries these are things that are related and i hate to cut you i hate to cut you off but unfortunately we're out of time but that was rashid khalidi author and professor at columbia university thank you so much for joining us really

but americans are distracted. nra wins when the americans are distracted. it's tragic that we have the boston bomb, and the poisoned letters, and people could have brought more pressure to bear if there hadn't been these other factors going on this week. i think the real political future for gun control is out in the states. california is probably next in line for a major gun-control effort like we've seen in maryland new york, and colorado. i think the nra and the gun lobbyists have proven to be near invincible in washington but they're much more vulnerable out in the states. if you can string together enough states you might get some real progress after having been frustrated in dc. >> john: tim, just to clarify if this atrocity hadn't happened in botch you boston, you don't think this would have failed? this would have failed anyway, correct? >> i think it would have been a tougher fight. it's just sick but i think people have been able to duck this fight and the political consequences of blocking this legislation because there is so much attention focus

they were not conducted donnelly by americans, but they were supported and advised by americans. >> the gentleman who initially stood up the first time? >> hi, bob shadler. thank you very much. you demonstrate impressively, informed, highly intelligent, but i would like to ask you to address a different framework. we the people were onboard for the first afghan war because of three very obvious, specific things -- 9/11, the termination of bin laden and his associates who were responsible for 9/11, and, as we mentioned, the taliban government refused to give them up. so the mission of the first afghan war, i would suggest, was to kill or capture bin laden and his closest associates. that war ended when he left afghanistan and/or we realized he left. the second war began immediately afterwards and was too diffuse or embarrassment of having utterly failed. >> so all of this about counterinsurgency and phone usage in afghanistan and girls learning to read were not why we the people went into afghanistan, and we would be just as happy barely being able to spell afghanistan and having only a

this is an american arrested on american soil for acts committed in america. that's about as far from the paradigm of a military combatant that as a foreigner caught on a foreign battlefield as you can get. you know, i think there are two things involved with miranda here. one is when there's law enforcement, how long is that public safety exception before law enforcement has to advise the suspect of their rights. and the second is how soon do they have to present the person before the magistrate, and here it looks like that second issue, the presentment issue was pressing. when the magistrate said we're arraigning him on monday, basically that was going to be the end of it. my sense is that law enforcement probably got about what they were going to get in terms of public safety and that exception which the length and dimension of is protecting the public, and after that, it was going to be pretty close in terms of when the arraignment and the ultimate mirandizing would take place. >> congressman schiff, thank you very much again for joining me. i appreciate i

it's not good for regular americans. how about that? beyond the politics. >> that's what makes it bad politics in the end. that's why they failed in their number one priority. because it looks like they're just playing politics as opposed to trying to get policy through. >> angela, wen yhen you look at record, i mean, republicans did used to support a lot of things prior to president obama that now they don't support. they backed health insurance mandates. they backed the dream act. infrastructure spending. they had no problem with deficit spending under president bush. and they were for cap and trade. now, all of a sudden, they're against all of that because he's for it. >> yes, rev, they are. and here we are, you know, partially into the 113th congress, fresh off of a congress that was the most inactive almost in history, and you would think at that point just off of sheer pride and competition, the spirit of competition, you'd want to move some things along. but here we are in 2013 still playing hike and seek, cat and mouse, or any o

if you come to our soil, they've killed americans. they're killing americans for a purpose. not just for the heck of it. not just because they're insane. there is a purpose to this. and if you don't recognize the purpose, it's very, very hard to detect them. it's very hard to keep a coherent program of monitoring them, watching them. this is not just terrorism for terrorism sake. this is terrorism for further the cause of islamic extremism. and that does not demean in any way legitimate members of the islamic religion. i think if you don't understand that, there is a certain degree of prejudice. >> sean: i think the people that should be most angry are those that are having their religion hijacked. i would be angry if i was a peaceful muslim and people were doing this in the name of my religion. i'd be angry. >> i remember when i first started pursuing the mafia as u.s. attorney, there was a great deal of concern that i had used a word mafia. by using that word, i was demeaning all italian americans. of course, i'm an italian american. so i said just the opposite. by using t

so let's punish the american people so the american people either get hurt or rise up and scream. >> 100% agree. now the other theory of the case was, fine, we're going to have these spending cuts but let's give the president the flexibility to decide what programs should be cut with the department heads and what shouldn't. so if you don't want to cut head start, you don't. if you don't want the faa to lay off air traffic controllers, you don't want to do that. but maybe there's consultants to cut or retreats that need to be cut. so now the consequences of what happened today is that in the future, next week, the week after, when every one of these things pop up and you and mr. trump talked about it in regard to the military or what might be coming next in head start, now we have a plan. the plan is that the flexibility is going to be given to the department and they're going to able to decide what to spend money on and not to. the democrats have truly lost on this thing. >> greta: that's a good idea, but it's going to have to be done bill by bill by bill, department by department, r