the evidence is all around, even in the united states congress. and it is his hand that is spending your tax dollars not on the planes and weapons that make this great country of ours safe and free, but on the kind of crap that this person here wants you to look at. look, that isn't what i said at all. i mean, i'm just trying to point out what should be obvious to anybody with the intelligence of a fruit bat, and that's the difference between what is really are-- what did you call me? i didn't call you anything. i'm just trying to finish my statement. well, ladies, i'm afraid we're out of time. you heard her. she called me a fruit bat. hey, if the shoe fits, you might as well wear it. you take that back, horse face. i don't apologize to morons. ladies. it takes one to know one. may god strike you dead. idiot. sinner. sycophant. you watch your mouth, you filth-mongering slut. there's children watching. watch this bitch. oh. [screaming] i'm afraid that's all we have time for today. [doorbell] why don't you join us tomorrow in two more fascinating in

that's not a problem for gerrymandered districts for people running in the united states congress. but that is a problem in states like virginia where there is a very competitive election. >> let'let's go from the squeakn virginia to new jersey where there was a landslide. there was a statement, break that out for us and what you think that means for chris christie and the election in general. >> the first you didn't have a real quality democratic candidate in there. christie didn't get necessarily a free ride. >> you don't see this as an overwhelming endorsement for chris christie? >> hmm, he brought together a nice coalition but his message was very different from some of the other republicans there. he's focused on governing. he's invested in education. we saw late in the campaign he switched his campaign on instate tuition for answer authorized immigrants and he did quite well among latino voters there. he is a governor who basically based his reputation on i want to governor. i don't want to be an ideologue. this is a good mention in the state, and it gives him an opportunity

the idea i'm here today in the united states congress, a lot of it started in that day. >> reporter: unlike the liberal jfk, he's a conservative, a house freshman elected with help from the tea party. still, he argues his ideals are a lot like kennedys, especially his belief in america as the greatest country on earth. >> he touched my heart and soul and i believe on that moment, on that moment the world changed. >> reporter: dana bash, cnn capital hill. >> fascinating, imagine being a young boy shaking the hand of the president who goes on to be assassinated an hour later. where does jfk knit fit on the political spectrum? >> "jfk conservative." john, what do you think it is about jfk that fascinates people 50 years on? >> what if? if he finished his team. where would the saifl rights debate go? a lot of pop say what would have happen to vietnam. would jack kennedy be more hesitant and much more reduck tablet to escalate into vietnam? i think the mythology and what ifs, what would have happen are part of it but on the liberal conservative debate, you don't hear it as much now buzz w

that's not a problem for gerrymandered districts for people running in the united states congress. but that is a problem in states like virginia where there is a very competitive election. >> let' let's go from the squeaker in virginia to new jersey where there was a landslide. there was a statement, break that out for us and what you think that means for chris christie and the election in general. >> the first you didn't have a real quality democratic candidate in there. christie didn't get necessarily a free ride. >> you don't see this as an overwhelming endorsement for chris christie? >> hmm, he brought together a nice coalition but his message was very different from some of the other republicans there. he's focused on governing. he's invested in education. we saw late in the campaign he switched his campaign on instate tuition for answer authorized immigrants and he did quite well among latino voters there. he is a governor who basically based his reputation on i want to governor. i don't want to be an ideologue. this is a good mention in the state , and it gives him an opport

in the united states congress there is no such thing as a leave of absence. he is making stuff up again. well, he's a republican. a leave of absence from the votes, meaning the people down there get no representation whatsoever? a leave of absence. here is a good tea party idea for you. what do you say the people of southwest florida take a leave of absence of paying tackes because that guy is still going to get paid? but he claims he is going to give it to charity. really? who is checking up on that? radel made no mention of stepping down. he plans to donate his salary to charity during his leave but in his district folks aren't feeling as charitable. an editorial of the news press which previously endorsed the congressman summed it up in a scathing op-ed. because of his addiction and arrest he will never again have the trust of the community or the nation. he is a leader who has fallen in a significant public way. seldom does one recover from that. it's time for radel to move on with rebuilding his life, with his family at his side. it is time for us to mov

and there's a young kennedy in the united states congress. and caroline kennedy as ambassador. and they're with us -- it's still the american family in politics. >> i want to talk about that when we come back. we're going to be joined by douglas brinkley to talk about the kennedy legacy, including the controversial argument that jfk should not be seen as a fallen liberal icon. as i mentioned, friday will mark the day that 50 years ago, president kennedy was assassinated. changed perspective, controversies and countless theories on what happened on that day. those do not blunt the impact the nation felt when it learned its leader had been shot. the feelings were raw. and they resonate today. >> if it's a conspiracy, not only the president was hit, the governor was hit, who knows if the next shot would have been for lyndon johnson. johnson's car pulls into the emergency bay at parkland hospital. four agents reach him. and they grab johnson and pull him out and start to run him down one corridor around, looking for a safe place. >> mr. johnson, his whereabouts are being kept secre

if they don't, there will be dramatically increased sanctions passed by the united states congress that will go into effect and there might be additional options including the military option exercised to stop iran. stopping iran's nuclear weapons capabilitiability is the goal of the world community. that's what this deal says. that's what it says to me anyway. i think it says it to even the members of congress who are critical. that is the goal. i think iran does understand what comes next if there is not a final agreement that stops their nuclear weapons capability in six months. >> jane harman from the woodrow wilson center. thanks very much. have a nice thanksgiving this week, as well. >> you too, wolf. >> president obama's poll numbers take another hit. this time it's getting a little bit more personal. a new ccc/orc poll shows a dramatic turn in the way the american public views the president's personal attributes. only 46% say he's honest and a strong leader down from 58 first in may and only four in ten think the president can manage government effectively. that happens to be a

states congress various investigative fire you ran and operated or up criminal government and we have not had is. in the united states where whistle or have to dust and has exposed illegality criminality waives pride and abuse and has seen as the result so much change just are part of changes in every single instance the whistleblower has again i heard she felt trapped and so did i not channel all we channel is the ugly channel as well as what laura's are exploiting her and clarify. the national security will supply always coalition mostly on the line. i'm coming your way when cash is king off the break u.k. artistic crash that left a liberal read the blind that now because of the great recession. i'm not i don't have many skillful i can sell a lot to beats the blue blood so and i'm feeling the economic pinch straight ahead . wealthy british style it's time to rise. to. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. we speak your language. news programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you breaking news a little t

states congress looks to cut or control government spending. the food stamp program has been a target. senate democrats want to cut the program further by about four and a half billion dollars. republicans in the house are pushing for ten times that amount nearly forty billion dollars in cuts their bill would also include requirements that people who are able to work are actually trying to find a job. it will actually result in. some were between three and four million americans who would otherwise be qualified for the program now being disqualified from the program and pro enough to stay for the us congress has been debating changes to the food stamp program for years. a temporary benefit boosted that stamp dollars in two thousand nine. but back then if it expires thursday leading to the current funding cuts lawmakers are meeting to find a long term solution. they remain divided on how the program should be changed if at all and all the time decision. please folks like pastor mechanic and fending for herself learn how to survive jessica stone

states congress the lobby groups the think tanks the media then i was on board with this well you know we're just going back to what the u.n. secretary of state john kerry said today and in fact you know what stipulated in the deal reached in geneva it seems like there is ground for you know more say contradictions there and you know disagreements because on the one hand we've heard the iranian foreign minister saying that iran does have the right to enrich uranium whereas john kerry said no. point blank and zero so where do you see the relations and sad the negotiations going from this point i mean say six months down the road. you know something that i did not hear mr kerry mention i don't run in foreign minister mentioned i do know here in that part of his talk they talk about the twenty percent enriched uranium now many of your viewers may not know that the twenty percent enriched uranium is for medical isotopes it's not nuclear it's still considered low enrich uranium it's not weapons grade and the reason that in the past negotiations have not gone anywhere simply with regard to t

states congress, particularly the house of representatives. my experience -- whether it is health care or any other initiative, the effort is to undercut and sabotage. not to try to final some middle ground. that is historic, even from the beginning of this whole discussion on health care. so for me, the white house being the principal adviser for him i think is necessary. the counter balance is not there. the house won't sit with this president and try to work out a middle ground. >> you sit here pretending like you want to be obama's best friend. you're trying on gix obama care. you hate it. you're trying to repeal it. >> the things i don't like about it are what i see americans are seeing it do to their health care. in 2010 there was a federal report that came out that barack obama saw that said over 60% of people would lose their health care plans. he still went around the country saying if you like yours, you can keep it. we've offered time and time again on real solutions. going back to when the law was passed, they deliberately shut out

i find it hard to believe if there were a fundamental change in policy, the united states congress would be quite so keen on providing the funding for a system which is quite rightly heavily oriented toward the defense of europe. and there's another question about the relationship, the role in missile defenses that's been -- addressed indirectly but not explicitly. you asked general riley about the relationship between missile defense and conventional deterrence. i believe that the most serious element of the threat from countries like iran is not that they will decide they are going to fire off a missile for the hell of it and wipe out. it is that they will embark on some regional aggression not in our interest, very much in our interest to prevent it. they will hope that their nuclear capability, if a relatively limited one is enough to discourage us and discourage other countries from coming to the assistance of whoever they attack. i think in that sense, missile defense because it offers the prospect of frustrating that strategy, and making it much harder to rely on, i think missile

states congress and we've been attempting to do this through the judicial branch legibly independent judicial branch but since since the election of ronald reagan seventy three percent of all of the federal judges that do an appointed have been appointed by ronald reagan or george bush or george bush jr you know in that we have these reactionaries from the federalist society now in the judicial branch which are making it virtually impossible. to seek protection from the judicial branch against the unconstitutional conduct of the executive so that a constitutional litigation attorney such as myself by myself right at the center of these types of confrontations between the raw assertion of executive power whether it's rendition or torturing people or asserting the right under the national defense authorization act to unilaterally arrest american citizens and hold them in detention with no right of habeas corpus and the right to counsel and no one would believe that this could possibly have happened in our country but here it is what i do in the book in the people's advocate as i explai

another attempt to pass a carbon surelyl fail just as into the united states congress ixt time as it did last time left the supporters of that effort turned from inside her bargaining policy -- insider bargaining politics to broader in which they are supported at policy and that the majority of the public can understand, and build a broad coalition culpable to the coalition that house reform is billed it to thousand nine that is able to reach down into the states and community -- in 2009 that is able to reach down into the states and communities. good luck trying to build that kind of public movement or coalition if you rerun cap in trade. it is almost impossible to explain to people what cap and trade is. it requires a great deal of trust that if you give pay off to certain industries, they will somehow keep prices down for consumers. you're not convinced american citizens and here we are talking about people not tea party opponents, you will not convince the rest to trust any kind of collocated scheme and government and business has to be trusted. in a policy that you can hardly fi

states congress that dedicates the pasta for british prime minister winston churchill a ceremony in washington d c to the trees attending the ceremony included adults speak of jumping in the senate majority leader harry reid's senate minority leader mitch mcconnell house minority leader nancy lazy and your state to state on kerry. it was churchill after all the other late night party long past its rightful expiration date. you encountered this goes for his own party to explain to our west. don't run. got very drunk you are very very drunk the winston without missing a beat look back and said you you are doing. you are very ugly. you are very very ugly and once more tomorrow she'll be sober or to chocolate you tortured poetry from the who concert attended the event still treat perform the classic songs done by me which they said was a tribute featuring us uk relationship as dennis mr georgiou was the best round. the eyes face ever. i was originally named him. i read citizen in the spring of eighteen sixty three. we already considering them. morrow. speaking to the congress should sti

that's the united states congress's approval rating today according to a new gallup poll. at present is the lowest rating ever recorded envelops thirty nine year history of asking americans that they approve of the way congress is handling its job. just two months ago in september. they look like congress is making a comeback. it's a priority was to ten points higher at nineteen percent. still abysmal in low but it's better than nine percent the government shutdown happen. americans washes the congress specifically a rightwing political faction in congress who wait twenty four billion dollar hole in the economy a pageant in gdp growth by more than a half percent. that was the cost of the government shutdown the deal broker to end it virtually guaranteed that warp in this disaster day at the beginning of action. but this is the way things have been going all year. you may remember back in april when congress's approval rating was a slightly higher fifty per cent. they couldn't even pass gun safety measures that have the support of more than ninety percent of americans think

any entity including the united states congress. i know there is a concern about binding future congresses andy ruds have never been invalidated. to our knowledge in the history of congress, a future congress as mr. gray said could amend the american disabilities act. has once. we constantly see there's a great desire to change the president's health care law. that is one of a hundred examples i could give. there are a lot of things congress could do to a number of hypothetically bizarre things. they could seek to ultimately sell the capital for scraps, disband expressions of approval or disapproval are not in order. i am trying to get to the point here that i have great faith despite our challenges sometimes in the institution and the american people who would say wait a minute, that is way off base. i just think in suggesting that we can look at whatever language is necessary. i don't think this congress wants to be bound itself in its actions by what the previous congress decided as evidence by those who want to undermine the hea

on anything that the united states congress passes could be a changed. of course, it would seem to me that a united states congress would have to change it. and there would be full debate and the opportunity to do so. i don't envision that. it's been stated it never happened as it relates to rud. i wouldn't expect it be the first time ever in history it would take place. i think there has to be a balance here as to what expectations are one can guarantee about future congresses. so that's just an observation for the record. the second is, as you and the department work with any of the members as it relates to ruds. i urge do you share with us at the chair. at the end of the day i have to be willing to support a set and brick it before the committee when we get to that point. i'm sure that's the way we work together. with the thanks of the committee -- >> can i say this? >> yes. >> i want to thank you for your leadership on this. there's a lot going on here too. but as you know with is a priority. i appreciate you making one. i want to thank senator who w

congress is up to the united states. you can be sure that the administration is extremely strongly committed to this. the leadership and persistence of secretary kerry has been crucial. the clarity of president obama it is very clear. we do not need at this point to start looking at the other scenarios. we do not need to act separately from the united states. >> you can heal to hear more from the british house of commons wednesday. questions at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two. >> tonight -- next, c-span's first ladies. efforts indiplomacy muslim countries. summers.ry ♪ [applause] >> i stay in the wings and do not come out too often. this is quite unusual for me. i do want to thank all of you for your friendship and your loyal support and for the planning of this wonderful evening for me. i shall remember it always. and thanks to the young people for this great welcome.

states congress and we've been attempting to do this through the judicial branch. allegedly independent judicial branch but since since the election of ronald reagan seventy three percent of all of the federal judges that appointed have been appointed by ronald reagan or george bush or george bush jr you know in that we have these reactionaries from the federalist society now in the judicial branch which are making it virtually impossible to seek protection from the judicial branch against the unconstitutional conduct of the executive so that a constitutional litigation attorney such as myself find myself right at the center of these types of confrontations between the raw assertion of executive power whether it's rendition or torturing people or asserting the right under the national defense authorization act to unilaterally arrest american citizens and hold them in detention with no right of habeas corpus and the right to counsel and no one would believe that this could possibly have happened in our country but here it is what i do in the book in the people's adv

states congress right and so because you have a senate that's completely held up by the republicans and then john boehner set out to be a do nothing speaker he set out to have a do nothing congress and he's an overachiever i mean they're doing nothing at extraordinary pace what they are doing is that they're going to forty seven repeal . which is like shocking because i mean in most instances you want to get a day job what is going on so that's all they're doing is they're going to pass repeal vote after repeal vote so if there are unproven myths to be made and there certainly are. the fordable care act now's the time to do it not because the politics are right but because there's such a level of rank partisanship that it ruins the legislative process all together is is obamacare is the formal care act does it does it entrenched the private market or is it a step towards universal right to health care private we only have like thirty seconds left. but what is it ultimately we'll see this law is built on the existing system and if that works great and if it doesn't we're going to mov

states congress right and so because you have a senate that's completely held up by the republicans and then john boehner set out to be a do nothing speaker he set out to have a do nothing congress and he's an overachiever i mean they're doing nothing at extraordinary pace what they are doing is that they're going to forty seven repeal . which is like shocking because i mean in most instances you want to say these folks like get a day job what is going on so that's all they're doing is they're going to pass repeal vote after repeal vote so if there are unproven myths to be made and there certainly are. you for the care act now's the time to do it now because the politics are right because there's such a level of rank partisanship that it ruins the legislative process altogether is obamacare will care act does it does it entrenched the private market or is it a step towards universal right to health care private we only have like thirty seconds left. but what is it ultimately we'll see this law is built on the existing system and if that works great and if it doesn't we're going to m

i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room". >>> a sitting member of the united states congress now stands convicted of a drug crime. it's believed to be the first time that's happened in three decades. trey radel is promising to get treatment after pleating guilty. we're taking a closer look at the plea deal, his political future. joe johns has been digging into the story. joe, what's going on? >> this is an up-and-coming congressman in the house majority, his guilty plea to cocaine possession got him a year of probation, though if he completes it, he won't even have a conviction. now radel says he's headed for rehab, all as a result of an encounter with an acquaintance and undercover officer which set him up with just 3.5 grams of dough contain a few miles away from the capitol. a law enforcement source said they met at circa restaurant on dupont circle. court papers say he -- they declined, but the undercover officer did say he had cocaine for sale. they agreed on a price, went outside and federal agents approached the congressman. the leadership was careful, say radel needs

states congress's approval rating today according to a new gallup poll nine percent that's the lowest rating ever recorded in gallup's thirty nine year history of asking americans if they approve the way congress is handling its job just two months ago in september it looked like congress was making a comeback its approval rating was ten points higher nineteen percent still abysmally low but it's better than nine percent then the government shutdown happened and americans watched as a congress specifically a right wing political faction in congress who had twenty four billion dollars hole into the economy and cut g.d.p. growth by more than a half percent that was the cost of the government shutdown and the deal brokered to end it virtually guaranteed that will repeat this disaster again at the beginning of next year but this is the way things have been going all year you may remember back in april when congress' approval rating was slightly higher fifteen percent they couldn't even pass gun safety measures that had the support of more than ninety percent of americans again a bill that

states congress's approval rating today according to a new gallup poll nine percent is the lowest rating ever recorded in gallup's thirty nine year history of asking americans if they approve of the way congress is handling its job just two months ago in september it looked like congress was making a comeback its approval rating was ten points higher at nineteen percent still abysmally low but it's better than nine percent and then the government shutdown happened and americans watched as a congress specifically a right wing political faction in congress blew a twenty four billion dollar hole into the economy and cut g.d.p. g.d.p. growth by more than a half percent that was the cost of the government shutdown. a deal brokered to end it virtually guaranteed that will repeat this disaster again at the beginning of next year but this is the way things have been going all year you might remember back in april when congress' approval rating was a slightly higher fifteen percent they couldn't even pass gun safety measures that had the support of more than ninety percent of americans get a bill

i won six elections for the united states congress, overwhelmingly, even last year when it was supposed to be my tough reelection effort, but this race is much different. i come from the second district which is not as difficult for a democrat to win. so i feel really good about the race, we're going to run an effective campaign, talk about the issues important for the people in the state of maine. >> in terms of your decision this weekend to write that op ed, which was in the press herald and the bangor paper, you wanted to let everybody know you are gay. and you wanted to set the record straight so to speak. what can you tell us about the timing of that decision? obviously, you've been able to serve maine as a congressman for a very long time and a state legislator before that without talking about this publicly. why now? >> it never was an issue before. i've always ran for office talking about the issues. this was actually the first campaign that it had become an issue, and, you know, i decided after hearing a little bit about it, they questioned my sexuality and i thought i'd put it

i won six elections for the united states congress, overwhelmingly, even last year when it was supposed to be my tough reelection effort, but this race is much different. i come from the second district which is not as difficult for a democrat to win. so i feel really good about the race, we're going to run an effective campaign, talk about the issues important for the people in the state of maine. >> in terms of your decision this weekend to write that op ed, which was in the press herald and the bangor paper, you wanted to let everybody know you are gay. and you wanted to set the record straight so to speak. what can you tell us about the timing of that decision? obviously, you've been able to serve maine as a congressman for a very long time and a state legislator before that without talking about this publicly. why now? >> it never was an issue before. i've always ran for office talking about the issues. this was actually the first campaign that it had become an issue, and, you know, i decided after hearing a little bit about it, they questioned my sexuality and i thought i'd put it

you know, is still be, a part of the united states congress to change something that is bad. chase something that people don't want. and really, the next up in this trauma, if you will, is up to the american people. i have done what i can't the last three years to either try to deflect or improve are not damaged people so badly with this thing. honestly, do you remember back in 1988 when the catastrophic health care plan was revealed after the people rose up and said, you have got to get rid of this? that is the type of citizen involvement that is going to be required to reverse course on what you correctly point out is a massive government overreach. john: let's move on from the legislation itself and just the idea. the european idea is that health care is a right. what do you say to these american politicians making the same point? >> yes, right on not a privilege >> are right, not a privilege. >> not a privilege for a fortunate few, but a right for everyone of us to enjoy. john: a right, government should give it to people. >> i would prefer to look at it more as a respons

legislature to let them go, and also the united states congress. the last successful secession was 1860 when the western part of virginia moved away to create west virginia. >>> welcome back to "hardball." while chris christie's on tomorrow of the political world today, another often mentioned 2016 contender, rand paul, is looking rather peewee league today after a week of embarrassing news that he's plagiarized again and again and again. his reaction to it hasn't cast him in the most flattering light. in a cnn interview yesterday he portrayed himself as they all do these days, as a victim. >> i think really the standard i'm being held to is a little different than everybody else. >> i don't know what standard you are talking about, except the one you should have been born with. in an interview today, senator paul asked do i have to be in detention for the rest of my career, referring to high school, and i'm being criticized for not having proper attribution, where they wrote stuff that in likelihood if they were in college, it would fail them. >>

during this congress, the 113th congress, the united states wasted an unprecedented amount of time on procedural hurdles and partisan obstruction. time to change the senate before this institution becomes obsolete. >> in a receipt or cal twist worthy of cirque du soleil he managed to link to failures of obama care saying washington is broken and democrats are trying to distract from obama kamplt the showdown come as senate republicans mostly flbd three of president obama's nominees. not because of their views or qualifications but in an attempt to permanently keep democratic judges off the bench. what qualifies as nuclear in the 2013 senate means using a simple 51 vote majority

states congress, seem to be bent on blocking president barack obama at virtually every turn. here on an issue most constituent don't know about and if they knew wouldn't care. it's a simply politics, trying to block barack obama. it's not to say the republicans are laying down and being a rubber-stamp. what played out is the opposite. as an example, during the term of gw bush, he had six nominees to the same important court. four got through with considerable democratic support. barack obama had five nominees to the court, and four up to this point have been blocked. >> that happened after there was a major deal between democrats and republicans and after substantial phil busters. it wasn't as if the democrats laid down. there were a lot of negotiations that got them there. back then things were just as bad as they were now because talk of the nuclear option. in fact, the nuclear option was a popular term in 2005 when a majority leader threatened to change the rules in the senate not allowing phil busters to have president obama's nominees get through. >> it was narrowly aver

you know, is still be, a part of the united states congress to change something that is bad. chase something that people don't want. and really, the next up in this trauma, if you will, is up to the american people. i have done what i can't the last three years to either try to deflect or improve are not damaged people so badly with this thing. honestly, do you remember back in 1988 when the catastrophic health care plan was revealed after the people rose up and said, you have got to get rid of this? that is the type of citizen involvement that is going to be required to revse course on what you correctly point out is a massive government overreach. john: let's move on from the legislation itself and just the idea. the european idea is that health care is a right. whato you say to these american politicians making the same point? >> yes, right on not a privilege >> are right, not a privilege. >> not a privilege for a fortunate few, but a right for everyone of us to enjoy. john: a right, government should give it to people. >> i would prefer to look at it more as a responsibil

another attempt to pass a carbon surelyl fail just as into the united states congress ixt time as it did last time left the supporters of that effort turned from inside her bargaining policy -- insider bargaining politics to broader in which they are supported at policy and that the majority of the public can understand, and build a broad coalition culpable to the coalition that house reform is billed it to thousand nine that is able to reach down into the states and community -- in 2009 that is able to reach down into the states and communities. good luck trying to build that kind of public movement or coalition if you rerun cap in trade. it is almost impossible to explain to people what cap and trade is. it requires a great deal of trust that if you give pay off to certain industries, they will somehow keep prices down for consumers. you're not convinced american citizens and here we are talking about people not tea party opponents, you will not convince the rest to trust any kind of collocated scheme and government and business has to be trusted. in a policy that you can hardly fi

you know, is still be, a part of the united states congress to change something that is bad. chase something that people don't want. and really, the next up in this trauma, if you will, is up to the american people. i have done what i can't the last three years to either try to deflect or improve are not damaged people so badly with this thing. honestly, do you remember back in 1988 when the catastrophic health care plan was revealed after the people rose up and said, you have got to get rid of this? that is the type of citizen involvement that is going to be required to reverse course on what you correctly point out is a massive government overreach. john: let's move on from the legislation itself and just the idea. the european idea is that health care is a right. what do you say to these american politicians making the same point? >> yes, right on not a privilege >> are right, not a privilege. >> not a privilege for a fortunate few, but a right for everyone of us to enjoy. john: a right, government should give it to people. >> i would prefer to look at it more as a respons

he worried about the rest of his domestic agenda in the united states congress, which he worried would be bottled up if he completely disrupted the sowrn sowrnl segregationists right off the bat. >> i feel he might have felt he could navigate the waters, move the south without a violent explosion. >> the first big challenge that president kennedy faced in civil rights were the so-called freedom rides. these occurred in the spring of 1961. >> they felt that was the only way to get the attention of the kennedy brothers. in many ways they were right. when those awful things of violence against the freedom riders took place that the kennedy brothers did actually try and do something to intervene. >> bobby kennedy, the toarnl general, sent john siegenthaler to try to help, once the buses got to the south. >> in that moment half dozen men turned me around, they said who were you? >> i said get back, i'm from the federal government. one of them hit me in the head with a pipe. i'd never been knocked unconscious before. the president and the attorney general, their best hope was that the freedo

he's done that with the first united states congress and the senate. the first address to the country. issue he brought up with compensation and bonuses, it was an issue. that n't say anything hasn't been said to those prior to him. >> i think you have the cause backwards.fect the angeron -- the -- money given to the banks, enormous. at the same time, a large number losing their homes. intervening was a much more controversial issue than people thought. people said don't give them money. they don't deserve it. moralying my mortgage and hazard, what if i stop paying my mortgage. months inp people six arrears. why should i pay on time. so here was obama having giving. this policy of but giving as long, money to the people who had been part of the problem. criticism was probably a political necessity on his part. t was -- an effort to kind of drain off some of the anger. and i will say again, somebody this.one through i am sure in my own mind, we here.two periods it's pre and post the aig bonuses. this from chris. chris got unfairly blamed because he trie

that the united states congress does and passes could be changed. of course, it would seem to me that a united states congress would have to change it, so there would be full debate and the opportunity to do so. i do not envision that, and as has been stated, that has never happened as relates to this, so i would think this would be the first time in history that that would take place, but i think there has to be a balance year as to what expectations are of what one can guarantee about future congresses. so that is just an observation for the record. the second, as you and the department work with the members, i would urge you to also share as the chair, because at the end of the day, i have to be willing to support the agreement before the committee when we get to that point, and i am sure that is the way we will work together. >> can i just say this, sir? i want to thank you for your leadership as well. there is a lot going on here also. the priority, and i appreciate your making and one, and i also want to thank the senator who was an early supp

he worried about the rest of his domestic agenda in the united states congress, which he worried would be bottled up if he completely disrupted the sowrnsowrnl segregationists rigf the bat. >> i feel he might have felt he could navigate the waters, move the south without a violent explosion. >> the first big challenge that president kennedy faced in civil rights were the so-called freedom rides. these occurred in the spring of 1961. >> they felt that was the only way to get the attention of the kennedy brothers. in many ways they were right. when those awful things of violence against the freedom riders took place that the kennedy brothers did actually try and do something to intervene. >> bobby kennedy, the toarnl general, sent john siegenthaler to try to help, once the buses got to the south. >> in that moment half dozen men turned me around, they said who were you? >> i said get back, i'm from the federal government. one of them hit me in the head with a pipe. i'd never been knocked unconscious before. the president and the attorney general, their best hope was that the freedom ride

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this announcement came just a couple of hours before the united states congress. the lower house foreign affairs committee is due to hold a hearing for the first time it documents accounts atrocities committed by boka haram including one christian man who was shot in the face and how he repeatedly refused to deny his faith in the face of this group which is an militant and extreme islamic group. it might be mentioned that one former american ambassador has sounded a note of caution here whether it's an advisable move at all for the united states government to make such a move at this time. john campbell said prior to this announcement that he thought that boka haram does not pose a threat to the american moment land and further american interests in northern nigerian are few, an, and americans couln fact, become targets of boka haram. >> tom, we thank you very much, indeed. in washington, d.c. united nations has approved the sending in more troops into al-shabaab in somalia. out of 4,000, 400 have been oh authorized to bring the force up to 42 house. >>> kenyen gr

states congress. ever since the founding of the republic for more than 200 years members of congress have had an official paid chaplain who would be an ordained clergyman who himself personally gives prayers n his own faith tradition. furthermore, 40% of the prayers are offered by guest chaplains as they're sponsored. and each of them praise according to their own faith tradition. in terms of the issues that the lower court in this case recognized as problematic, a majority of the prayers offered in congress actually include, according to what the other side describes as sectarian, to be faithspecific content. beyond that 97%. of the prayer givers before congress are self identified christian and 97% say that we and us as they pray, facing not ust the members but also the gallery incorporating all of this into what they are saying. in 1983 when the supreme court upheld legislative prayer, it used congress as the touchstone of what is acceptable under the first amendment because it was the same congres