this is where we get back to native american history where native americans become key. american colonists were really quite skillful at raising money, using the evangelization of native people as the goal, sending missionaries or emissaries to england and raising money under the claim but evangelizing native people, the first brick building at harvard is the indian colony. that is where the money is coming from and where donations are coming from. >> host: this allows the expansion of the colonials and the expansion -- >> guest: facilitate economic expansion, accelerates the crumbling of native society on the frontier and on the borders. so they are not, quote, slaveholders but eventually after independence -- >> guest: they turn -- they can pretty quickly. if these are religious schools to begin with and they are all religious schools, very quickly they have to figure out the sources of funding, one source is going to be europe, england in particular and raising money on the claim of the evangelizing native americans. the other source of money available to them is the

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i have talked to people for americans for prosperity. like many of the other callers, you're a corporate lobbyist. you may not want to admit it. you have grassroots people and common day people in the streets who follow your beliefs. your beliefs are snake oil. you're not telling the american people you are trying to destroy pensions. you do not believe in minimum wage. you do not believe in unions. doneave actively, actively everything you can to bust unions. you do not believe in a middle- class. you believe in a third world country. you follow your corporate sponsors and their beliefs. you are destroying and dividing america. as far as i am concerned, there should not be any lobbyists allowed in washington, d.c. we the people are the lobbyist. you take the constitution and twist it and distort it. host: we have gotten a lot of questions, obviously, about how afp is funded. guest: we have a wide donor base. two of our donors get more attention than others. we have thousands of people who provide support for our organization. some more

american group that were. in that same question in that document there was the this is this is the point and jeff thank you very much for that and that goes back to the to the earlier caller which is is this the best you've got really i mean and so you know i think it's. i'm starting to get redundant here but i think it's fascinating that. it's birth or is it's it's and what this does is it demonstrates the you know the the amount of space between the klan and donald trump . and the others who are saying oh you know he's got proof that it's spread there on done one bank's website you know we've got proof that obama was actually a citizen of indonesia you know it's all about you know this this tells me and i hope it tells. the nature of these arguments these arguments are essentially racist they're fearful these are you know fear based arguments and the way how do you evaporate that you evaporated by exposing dana in new britain connecticut hey dan what's in your mind. yeah this is. going to get broadcast you'v

- non-americans. look. my feeling is that the american people are skeptical of executive power, that when there is a lack of trained parent be, they tend to suspect that something -- they tend to be very skeptical and suspect abuse. the part of the reason to have transparency is for people to be able to make their decisions based on some real information about whether or not this power is being abused or not. i believe you gentlemen have our national security interests -- that's your interests. i also believe that coming in now, you keep saying there's oversight from all three branches of government. we are one of the branches. >> we are feeling it. >> and my feeling doing the oversight is that i would do more comfortable and the american people would be more comfortable and feel they can write for themselves if they knew how many americans are being caught up in a program like 702 that is designed by law not to target americans. >> senator, absolutely. i would just put into this if i were going to be

and the american people. if the path to getting this done depends upon convincing people in smoke-filled rooms in washington, it can't be done. the only way this happens is if we break out a traditional washington rule. >> getting this done means killing obamacare before it fully takes effect. >> between now and september 30th, we need to stand up and defund obamacare. >> september 30th is when funding for the government expires. cruz says that gives congressional republicans extraordinary leverage. >> the house of representatives should pass a continuing resolution that funds every penny of the federal government. everything in its entirety, except obamacare. >> what are the senators telling you, then? >> there was significant resistance internally. a lot of people were urging that we had just come through the sequester battle and we need to focus on that. >> there is a new paradigm. >> you have health care, so can we. you have health care, so can we. you have health care, so can we. you have health care, so

ant the american dream. if you look at the recent blog post, i think it was not an politico -- in sorry. i think it is totally right. one of the great unifying factors in this country was if setwork hard and play by a of fairnes

in late july, a majority of americans wanted it repealed. a new generation of gop lawmakers who thought they saw a way to do that were selling their strategy last august. >> i am very pleased to introduce senator ted cruz! >> 42-year-old ted cruz of texas is the son of a cuban refugee father and a working class irish-american mother. princeton, clerkship, youngest state solicitor general in the u.s. he ran for senate in 2012, upset the gop favorite and headed to washington with what he believed was one overriding mandate, repeal every word of obamacare. >> i promised texans, i'm going to do everything i can to stop this failed law. >> thank you. >> you have someone who is dogged and determined, i know horse flesh. >> democrat pat goodell began working in politic when is jimmy carter was still a candidate for president. >> we've had someone who has been in five months, be the focus of the president and vice president, because they smell something that scares them. >> the most significant divide right now, it's not between republicans and demo

then you have the american consumer. the american consumer looks at the gun as it's a piece of property. the american consumer wants to use his property without restraint, wants to throw his plastic water bottle wherever he pleases, wants to drive a gas-guzzler, wants to play his boom box loud. which is a crude way to put it, and yet i think there's a lot to that. nobody wants to be bothered registering their weapons. take it a level down from that or level further out from that, there's an ideological level which really kicks in around the time of the reagan presidency in which gun rights is a very powerful symbol for the deregulation of everything. if you can deregulate that, you can deregulate anything. and then the last level is what i'd call the paranoid level, the people who think that they have a second amendment right to resist obamacare -- that the constitution protects their right to resist the government, that that's what the second amendment is about. and that's dangerous stupidity and nonsense. but it uses t

you can't say you take pride in american democracy, american constitutionism, american exceptionalism. so i think there's some common sense things we can do and i won't preview the proposals because i haven't gotten them yet. keep in mind, though, for all the efforts that have been made and some of them, by the way, may be illegal. may violate the voting rights act even after the supreme court's recent ruling. and our justice department is going to be staying on them. if we have evidence that you have mechanisms that are specifically designed to discriminate against certain groups of voters, then the justice department will come down on them and file suit. the one point i want to make, though, is even with all the efforts that were made in the last election, folks still voted. and if people feel engaged enough and have a sense of a stake in our democracy, you know, you'll be able to vote. and our biggest problem right now is not the misguided efforts of some of these state legislatures. our bigger problem is the one you alluded to earlier which is people in government can make a diffe

you can't say you take pride in american democracy, american constitutionalism, american exceptionalism. and thin do everything you can to make it harder for people to vote. so i think there's some common sense things we can do and i won't preview the proposals because i haven't gotten them yet. keep in mind, though, for all the efforts that have been made and some of them, by the way, may be illegal. may violate the voting rights act even after the supreme court's recent ruling. and our justice department is going to be staying on them. if we have evidence that you have mechanisms that are specifically designed to discriminate against certain groups of voters, then the justice department will come down on them and file suit. the one point i want to make, though, is even with all the efforts that were made in the last election, folks still voted. and if people feel engaged enough and have a sense of a stake in our democracy, you know, you'll be able to vote. and our biggest problem right now is not the misguided efforts of some of these state legislatures. our bigger problem is the one

if anything, americans are too sensitive. for example, prom innocent ambassador pickerring and colleagues warned after some iranians complained that iranians, quote, ripped out the use of the phrase, carrots and sticks, depicting them as donkeys and implies a threat of beating iran into submission if they could not be bought. put aside the rig iranian chapters, death to america. they used the phrase carrots and sticks, and accepts manufactured grievance as real, they effectively infused iranian sincerity and blame america. never poalingsz to rogue states. they demand apologies, for example, for the 1953 coo. let's put aside the debates with regard to 1953 coo for a second. iran's religious clergy at the time was a coconspirator with the united states and great britain against the soviet union leaning leader, suspectedded of leaning, and iran's communism party. when officials have apologized for that episode, for example, secretary of state albright in 2000 and obama more recently, the iranians upped the antiand demand compens

are americans -- shouldn't the american people know how many americans have gotten caught up in that? >> that, again -- and i don't mean to hedge. let me just tell you the difficulties. if a terrorist that we're going after is talking to another person, in that communication, there's nothing that says, i'm an american and here's my, you know, my social security number. so the fact is, when we're tracking a terrorist, if they're talking to five people and one of those is american, chances of us knowing that are very small. if we find out that's an american, then there are procedures the attorney general and the courts have given us that we have to do to minimize that data on that american. >> okay. well, i guess my question is, my bill calls for the nsa to report how many americans' information has been searched, has been looked at by agents. and i'm not talking about necessarily a precise number, but 702 says that you can only look at non-americans. and -- look, my feeling is this. the american people are skeptical of executive power. >> right. >> that when there is a lack of transpar

american citizens. they didn't come for many tribes until 1924. the code talkers of world war ii like african-americans and japanese americans often were barred from full participation in american life. but they still served with pride, with patriotism, with honor and with sacrifice. i am proud that congress is recognizing that service. i appreciate my friend dan borne's wonderful role in that. by honoring these code talk ergs, we honor all native american warriors past, present and future. good luck and god bless. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states representative from the third district of wisconsin, ron kind. le good morning. admiral, my colleagues, guests, the recipients of the gold medal, but especially to our native americans and code talkers, those who were none able to make the -- who were unable to make the trip, thank you. we owe you a debt of gratitude that could never be paid. on behalf of a grateful nation we thank you for your service and sacrifice. a couple of weeks ago in t

in late july a majority of americans wanted it repealed. lawmakers who sougaw a way to d that were selling their strategy in august. >> i am pleased to introduce senator ted cruz. >> 42-year-old ted cruz of texas is the son of a cuban refugee father and a working class irish american mother. princeton, harvard law, supreme court clerk shift the longest solicitor general in the u.s. he ran for senate in 2012 and headed to washington with what he believed was one overriding mandate, repeal every word of obamacare. >> i am going to do everything i can to oh stop this failed law. >> you have someone who is determined. >> democrat path cadell began working politics when jimmy carter was a presidecandidate f president. >> i had someone in the past five months he's the focus the president the vice president they smell something that scares them. >> the most significant divide is not between republicans and democrats. it is between the entrenched politicians of both parties. >> and the american people. if the path to getting this done depends upon

who did steal the american dream? also, you have not said the words that are clear to me where what it is saying, the government is the solution. i am a reagan republican. government is the problem, not the solution. given that, what do you see? who is close to fixing this? guest: i think that businesses could do a lot to fix this by paying their workers a lot more than they are paying them now. i just gave you an example of the billions in profits in 2012, the last year we have the figures for, with management imposing a wage freeze on workers rather than a profit- sharing program so that workers could share along with stockholders. no, i do not believe the government is the solution. a lot can be done and needs to be done in the private sector. there needs to be a lot more investment in manufacturing. are dyingwall street to invest in the american transportation system. ,oadways, highways, bridges they are not government guarantees. government seed money, they could do it with private money. if five percent of those

first, one of the african-american u.s. senators was a guy named, uh -- blanking on his name from massachusetts. >> brooks. >> brooks, edwin brooks. and his, his -- howard graduate, yes. >> a few months later, it came out that paul employed a man who once went by the name southern avenger and once said that "although lincoln's assassin, john wilkes booth's heart was in the right place, the southern avenger does regret that lincoln's murder automatically turned him into a martyr." adding that he raises a personal toast every may 10th to celebrate john wilkes booth's birthday. jack hunter, aka, southern avenger, resigned shortly later. but rand paul was back out trying to win the hearts and minds of african-american voters, going on the record defending voter i.d. laws just days after north carolina's republican governor signed into law arguably the most restrictive voting laws since the voting rights act was signed in 1965. >> paul says he has no problem with a new north carolina law which simply requires voters to present t

americans who received those. they are calling it a tweak to allow people to alpply for bear bones coverage. how do you see it. >> i would like to ask the president how many people have paid their first month's premium. that is the true mess tritric. we have the safety and security issues. i want to ask the president the average famry ily is going to s $2500 per family. i would like to ask the president are there any laws that you can't change? because he seems to make it up on the fly. >> that is an interesting question. look at this fox news poll and the question was asked, should obama care be delayed a year. 67% yes, it should. what do you make of that? >> republicans in the house have been harping on this for a long time. it was not ready for prime time. this isn't a political game we are talking about people's health care. the law itself is flawed. it should be repealed. can't we delay it? that is what the president keeps doing. he keeps chipping away and delaying it. it is greis creating more chaos confusio

anytime you want and i very much encourage it martin if i can go to you first we've been seeing the american pivot to asia at least it's been announced it's lost a lot of energy and over the last few weeks it's a little bit more focused with biden visiting the the region and we have the chinese with their new restrictive arizona and travel routes what step is this in the new battle for the pacific in your mind. i think that the chinese hard fact how they have recognized that proved to bomber he's a weak president and therefore they're pushing as far as they can go they've actually talked about their purview of the pacific perimeter reaching to hawaii that's in the long future but of course. not in the short term. and what they're doing is actually diplomatic that gradually. you remember that they had they still have a confrontation with the philippines over the shoal where they claim some arlen's some rocks and the filipinos say they don't that's going on. and now they've just decided unilaterally to. put in a defensive zone apparently there is oil the oil and gas gas field within it so ther

american pivot do you want to jump in go ahead john. i was just going to say that you know if you look at one of the most recent indicators which is that your water has become the second most frequently traded currency and trade. transactions and this just happened recently and that sounds very impressive of course i mean the dollar is still number one but that you want is number two and the growth was actually quite remarkable just maybe a year ago it was maybe between one and two percent and now and now it's about eight percent now that's the telling statistic it's only still about eight percent so there's a gap between you know china's status as number two and what it where we'd like to be which is parity and united states still around you know in the eighty's ninety percent of transactions you want around eight percent so there's still a major gap that china wants to bridge and it knows it's going to take some time in order to do that so it's this calculus of figuring out how to make assertions of florida a how to get the respect th

i took this job to deliver for the american people. and i knew and will continue to know that there are going to be ups and downs on it. you're right, the health care website problems were a source of great frustration, i think, in the last press conference i adequately discussed my frustrations on those. on the other hand, since a time i now have a couple million people, maybe more, who are going to have health care on january 1st. and that is a big deal. that's why i ran for this office. and as long as i've got an opportunity every single day to make sure that in ways large and small i'm creating greater opportunity for people, more kids are able to go to school, get the education they need, more families are able to stabilize their fanses, you know, the housing market is continuing to improve, people feel like their wages maybe are inching up a little bit. if those things are happening, i'll take it. and, you know, i've said before, i've run my last political race. so at this point, my goal every single day is just to make sure that

and other intelligence agencies are not spying on americans. we have had less legal constraint in terms of what we are doing internationally, but i think part of what's been interesting about this whole exercise is recognizing that in a virtual world some of these boundaries don't matter anymore. and just because we can do something doesn't mean we necessarily should, and the values that we've got as americans are one that is we have to be willing to apply beyond our borders i think perhaps more systematically than we have done in the past. ed henry. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow-up on that because -- merry christmas, by the way. >> merry christmas. >> when edward snowden first started leaking the information, you told the american people you already reformed them. my team evaluated them. we scrubbed them. we expanded some of the oversight. you also said we may have to he rebalance some. there may be changes. you concluded, you can complain about big brother and how this potential program run amuck, when you look at the actual d

americans don't want another war. the best way to honor our men and women in uniform is to avoid unnecessary war. my son is active duty military. i'm speaking from a personal place as well. americans support and negotiate a deal a deal with iran by a it 2:1 ratio. passing any punitive measures, including the sense of congress tying the president's hands is a mistake. it will not help, and if congress wants to help, we should set up a people-to-people exchange. we should -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. ellison: a congress-to-congress exchange and move forward. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. members are reminded not to make reference to occupants of the gallery. the chair will remind all persons in the gallery that they are here as guests of the house and any manifestation of approval or disapproval of proceedings is in violation of the rules of the house. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. murphy, for five minutes. in a couple days, we

>> americans have not and will never give up on american exceptionalism. but the report does sense that something is wrong here, that we are not just doing as well as we could or short or have done historically. that is why you're seeing a surprising number of americans saying we have got to get it right at home. >> thank you very much. the dual legacies of the war in iraq and the crash of 2008 on american attitudes there on foreign policy. when you think of a typical computer programmer, i'm willing to bet what you think of as a man. let's be honest, there are not a lot of women writing computer code. our next stories about a woman who is determined to change that. she began coding in 2008 after losing her job in america during the economic crisis. now she is helping other women break into the tech industry. bbc has the story. in 2008, i was working in tech in new york and the entire economy just exploded. i was working at a company where they laid off most of the workforce, myself included. i remember looking around the room and realizing that none of th

the american people do not sit around waiting to hear what folks in washington say. they actually look at the world around them and they look at the central initiatives and major projects that the federal government is involved in and see if they're going well. president obama will rebound if his actual central legislative achievement and the program he's setting up becomes a success for the american people. he will not if it doesn't. there's no amount of spin that will make a bad bill a good one and no amount of spin that will make a good bill a bad one in the eyes of voters. >> it is all linchpin on the success of the aca. we're watching this budget vote unfold on capitol hill and we have a new poll out who is seen as better able to handle the country's problems, obama and republicans are tied at 41%. obviously this is a far cry from a few months ago after republicans shut down our government. so obamacare took over the discussion. but if the law begins to work, as ezra points out, and this thing starts to change the lives of americans, doesn't that change things a

>> next a discussion on the north american free trade agreement. this was hosted by the center for strategic and intern ational studies. it is an hour and a half. [applause] >> thank you for that very generous introduction. thank you for coming out when it is freezing cold and it is only this gorgeous building. this building is very special. it is wonderful to be at csis. scott has already reminded you that president h. w. bush signed the trade agreement in 1992. it was signed into effect by president clinton in 93 and became enforced in '94. with 20 years of experience, the question that scott has put to me, what has significance for the future? making this assessment, i think we need to be clear about what the agreement actually did. it was the first comprehensive trade agreement to join developing and developed countries. reaching wider and deeper market openings. industrial goods guaranteeing unrestricted agricultural trade between the united states and mexico. opening a range of services including financial services. it was the first internati

i'm a -- american college. the american colleges and universities helped take me as a kid with a single mother raising three kids all by herself in brooklyn, new york and turn me to a college professor with tenure. >> host: you and your sister. who is an m.d. >> guest: yeah. my sister is a pediatrician in d.c. i've always thought of higher education and colleges and universities. the benevolent institutions. the institutions that do good things if we can get access to them. what the research began to expose was the other role that universities can play. universities can be, in my mind, weapons of social just u, but what shocked me they could be weapons of social destruction. >> host: in what way? >> guest: they can play a huge nart undermining the integrity of native american nations and civilizations. one of the things i write about in the first chapter is the desire to christianize native people in the americas. several attempt to build colleges -- which was all the early colonial colleges have as a primary m

once the american people indicate they don't trust you, and polls indicate more americans don't trust president obama than trust him, which is a staggering number that happened about a month ago, and also the plunging of numbers of people thinking he's looking out for their economic interest, i think it went down 20 points from 26% over the republicans now to just 6% over the republicans. difficult to regain in the eyes of the volters the idea you are trustworthy and the idea that you do have their economic interests at heart. he's going to try to turn that around. it starts right now when he comes out. >> when he comes out. we'll take a quick break as we await the president of the united states. we're waiting for the two-minute warning. have not yet received it. we'll be right back. ist about trying or adding a biologic. this is humira, adalimumab. this is humira working to help relieve my pain. this is humira helping me through the twists and turns. this is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. doctors have been prescribing humira for over ten years. humira works

could this be the beginning of the end for the surveillance state and if you really want to live the american dream and be happy yet to go to you to leave america go to finland tell you why but i still take. you know this chalet and this have rejected reaganomics and it's about time we followed their lead back in the early one nine hundred seventy s. chile was one of the most progressive countries in south america it's democratically elected so. president salvador allende nationalized big businesses and gave every chilean access to free healthcare and free higher education g.d.p. went up income inequality went down and for the first time ever working class chileans had a chance to live their version of the american dream but not everyone was happy with president i ended chile a new deal behind his back the united states and that country's corporate and military elite were conspiring to sabotage his reforms and destroy the country's economy although i ended his policies were successful chile still needed foreign loans to survive and so the nixon administration got the international monetary fu

could this be the beginning of the end for the surveillance state and if you really want to live the american dream and be happy yet to go to you to leave america go to finland tell you why but i still take. you know this chalet and this have rejected reaganomics and it's about time we followed their lead back in the early one nine hundred seventy s. chile was one of the most progressive countries in south america it's democratically elected. socialist president salvador allende nationalized big businesses and gave every chilean access to free healthcare and free higher education g.d.p. went up income inequality went down and for the first time ever working class chileans had a chance to live their version of the american dream but not everyone was happy with president i ended his chilean new deal behind his back the united states and that country's corporate and military elite were conspiring to sabotage his reforms and destroy the country's economy although i end his policies were successful chile still needed foreign loans to survive and so the nixon administration got the international mo

you can't say you take pride in american democracy, american constitutionalism, american exceptionalism. so i think there's some common sense things we can do and i won't preview the proposals because i haven't gotten them yet. keep in mind, though, for all the efforts that have been made and some of them, by the way, may be illegal. may violate the voting rights act even after the supreme court's recent ruling. and our justice department is going to be staying on them. if we have evidence that you have mechanisms that are specifically designed to discriminate against certain groups of voters, then the justice department will come down on them and file suit. the one point i want to make, though, is even with all the efforts that were made in the last election, folks still voted. and if people feel engaged enough and have a sense of a stake in our democracy, you know, you'll be able to vote. and our biggest problem right now is not the misguided efforts of some of these state legislatures. our bigger problem is the one you alluded to earlier which is people in government can make a diffe

meaning to the sentiments that had been shared by most americans in 1776. he says in inaugural address, the wisdom of our -- have devoted to ataping these ends. they must be in creed of our political faith and touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust, and what were those? they were a jealous care of the right of election by the people, and absolute acquiescence in the decision of the majority, and those were quotes from jefferson's inaugural address. if jefferson won that election, that revolution of 1800, the rivalry between these two ended with both winning and both losing. hamilton won, i think, in the sense that the country is transforming economically. his economic program was successful as washington repeatedly told jefferson during the 1790s. and it led to a changing face of america. in 1776, almost all americans had lived on farms, and they still lived on farms in 1790, when hamilton proposed the first of his economic measures. but by 1840, in new england, one in three of new england's labor force was working in a factory, and that

he said it happens in the hearts and minds of the americans. if you want to see how they changed their affection and their ideas, just look at the literature, the pamphlets are the servants even at the last 15 years or so. he didn't go far enough because the place where it really started was with living magazine in new york called the independent reflector. she wanted to model it on addison and steele spectator. >> host: >> is this a weekly, monthly quick >> he wrote with a couple of friends. he started making a fuss about establishing and then turned into the geopolitical, global political theory in which he taught all of america the ideas of government i can then. the right of the people to resist. well, as jefferson summed it up so beautifully, >> there is going to be a tax that everybody had to pay. the mackie said, you know what, most of us in new york aren't anglicans. why should everybody be tax for the purposes of -- and furthermore, the flood into the idea of free thought and how there must be any orthodoxy. he was like john stuart mil

but we found that the cells in "n" block differ from most american high security american cells in two especially significant ways. in american prisons, cameras are generally placed only in common areas. here they are actually inside each cell. likewise, there is one area here that offers the kind of privacy that we had never seen in the states. >> let me show you the bathroom. this is the standard bathroom for "n" unit. >> in an american prison, all the toilets are out in the open. in this prison, people could actually walk into their bathroom and shut a door and have privacy. >> translator: that's the law. >> one "n" block inmate, a 24-year-old, agreed to speak with us. he is serving a life sentence for murder and says his problems began after borrowing money from a friend to buy drugs. >> translator: i did not have money to pay my debt. he said he would help me to pay my debt but i have to go somewhere with him. i was stupid enough to pay my debt this way. the two men attempted to burglarize a home. >> translator: my job was to search the house and not to hurt anyone. nobody was sup

that is supposed to target non- americans. >> yes. >> are americans -- should he american people know how many americans are caught up in that? >> that again, and i don't mean to hedge. let me tell you the difficulties. in a terrorist that we are going after talking to another person, in that communication, there is nothing that says, i am an american, here is my social security number. the fact is that when we are tracking a terrorist, if they are talking to 5 people and one of those is american, the chances of us knowing that are very small. if we find out that they are american, there are procedures that the attorney general and the courts have given us on that data. >> ok, well, i guess my question is -- my bill asks, calls for, the nsa to report how many americans' information has been searched, how much has been looked at by agents. i am not talking about a precise number, at 7.0.2 says that you can only look at non-americans. my feeling is this. the american people are tactical of -- skeptical of the use of power. when there is a lack of transparency, they tend to suspect that

he said by contrast the americans in the american revolution is about liberty. they also talk about equality but with they are really after in america's liberty. this is one of herbert hoover's biggest complaints about the new deal is that it was turning america into a form of european totalitarianism. hoover had spent the early part of his career as a mining engineer doing huge mining projects abroad and he had continued to live in europe when he did relief efforts. food relief efforts during world war i and the post-world era. herbert hoover is a hero for essentially saving the belgian people from starvation as well as in other countries. one of the things hoover noticed during all that time in europe was that it was giving way to various forms of totalitarianism, socialism, communism eventually nazism and fascism and then he came back to this country. he was shocked because in the 1930s he thought roosevelt was voluntarily turning us over two forms of totalitarianism. in fact if you look at to cartoon icons of the 1930s if you will herbert hoover like to talk

but the average american, you make a point in today's column on cnn.com today, the average american is not doing well at all. and i want to quote from your be piece. you said for black households, like the bun i grew up in, income fell by nearly 11%. red lobster remains a favorite place for black family to dine after church. i imagine it's hard to do with over a tenth of the income gone. we have barack obama in the white house. is he doing enough to help families like the one you grew up? >> it's important to note that the struggles of african-american families in this country stretches far beyond president obama. this has been an issue in the black community for decades. we've always had twice as much unemployment, in terms of the unemployment rate. we've always trailed in terms of education, in terms of health, income and wealth. so this is a long-standing issue that is an american problem, not just a black problem, but an american problem. as for president obama, when i'm looking at his policies, i know that a lot of african-american leaders have criticized him for not having any po

among all americans, the pope enjoys a 72% favorable rating, a number that would make any american politician jealous. >> people feel he's a breath of fresh air and there's a newness in the church. >> dear brothers and sisters -- >> reporter: from his first humble words after being elected, the pope has sought to address the issue of wealth and poverty through words and his own doings, turn down the papal apartments for more modest quarters, ditching the vatican's luxury fleet, and even carried his own luggage. americans approve of this pope of the people. 65% approve of his comments on capitalism and the effects of a free market economy on the poor. 27% disapprove. he has been unafraid to confront social issues such as homosexuality. >> translator: if a person is gay and accepts the lord and has good will, who am i to judge them? >> reporter: the pope saying the church is too consumed with gay marriage, contraception and abortion. americans polled tend to agree with his positions. only 4% feel he's too conservative. 7%, too liberal. 87% say his position on these hot button issues is about ri

pay for with our tax dollars to train not americans to train the latin american soldiers thousands every year and paramilitary operations and hands interrogation and i think that that's probably the most important thing that people but people should be considering if someone does not hearing about this school they should at least consider that this is taxpayer money going to fund not u.s. soldiers that are being educated but soldiers from across latin america that are not being taught how to conduct first aid they're not being taught how to how to teach reading or anything like that they are being taught counterinsurgency they're being taught psychological warfare they're being they're being taught things that they learn and then go back to their home countries and then commit these horrible atrocities eleven dictators in eight different countries have come out of the school sixty thousand troops have come out of the school that have gone on to commit horrible things in their respective countries places like bolivia argentina chile us and many other places in latin america so the fact th

pay for with our tax dollars to train not americans to train the latin american soldiers thousands every year and paramilitary operations and hands interrogation and i think that that's probably the most important thing that people but people should be considering if someone who's not hearing about this school they should at least consider that this is taxpayer money going to fund not u.s. soldiers that are being educated but soldiers from across latin america that are not being taught how to conduct first aid they're not being taught how to how to teach reading or anything like that they're being taught counterinsurgency they're being taught psychological warfare they're being they're being taught things that they learn and then go back to their home countries and then commit these horrible atrocities eleven dictators in eight different countries have come out of this school sixty thousand troops have come out of the school that have gone on to commit horrible things in their respective countries places like bolivia argentina chile us and many other places in latin america so the fact t

one in three americans has high blood pressure. right now, doctors prescribe medication if blood pressure exceeds 140/90. but the new guidelines give people over 60 a little leeway with no reason to treat until that number is 150/90. the old threshold of 140/90 stands for others. the new guidelines may reduce the burden on older americans who already take a lot of pills for a variety of ailments. >> patients may get side effects from different medicines. there may be drug/drug interactions. and the complexity of taking so many different drugs really makes it difficult for many patients to adhere to the regimen that their doctors prescribe. >> reporter: also blood pressure medicine has side effects. the most common, dizziness, dry mouth, fainting and falls. >> the american heart association has a simple message to patients. this is not the time to relax about this silent killer. get your blood pressure checked. get it treated. get it treated enough. the target that the american heart association recommends is less than 140/90. >> re

i copied the american genocide of the american indian and of course the obama administration uses that in the bush administration when they wipe out and they commit genocide in iraq or these other places they they they use the original state genocide of the american indians bitcoin yes of course this is a way to somehow re calibrate the playing field to give these american indians some relief from the genocidal maniacs in the white house so i'll tell you what it's called it's called the i.o.t. initiative and he wants to bring that because of course these reservations they have a semi sovereign nations there and he wants to we're planning to use the reservations as a launching point for at cryptocurrency experiment this is the nerds revenge bit coin is a way of getting involved in big finance without being a harvard grad or part of the wall street elite big quaint opens the door for the common man to get involved so you know we talked about not only your government sending all your gold overseas but also the n.s.a. just depleting your bank account so here he's saying we're going to come

i don't know that i don't know where this whole reality and you know americans are fat lazy americans are going to their homes asses off americans are working to pull in three jobs george w. bush is going to vote three jobs isn't that great that's the all-american way. i'm sorry but i got a message i got her i got a message for those people you need to support your family you need to save money work five jobs work six jobs do what i've done all my life working eighty hours a week in the case of that i never saw a hardworking person until i moved to help with the family to help with kill was family families have. i believe it to be as you're working eighty hours well i think it courting it steadily yeah but never seen you don't have children in this country and kill you can afford to pay for them you don't ask the government to come in and pay you know that and you're going to do that on the seven dollars twenty five cents an hour away at a better job at where that's their problem that's not my problem everyone has to figure that wal-mart out of this if not all of ourselves americans w

you can't say you take pride in american democracy, american constitutionalism, american exceptionalism and then you're doing everything you can to make it harder for people to vote as opposed to easier for people to vote. i won't preview the proposals, because i haven't gotten them yet. keep in mind, though, for all of the efforts that have been maid, and some of them, by the way, may be illegal, may violate the voting rights act, even after the supreme court's recent ruling, and our justice department's going to be staying on them. if we have evidence that you have mechanisms that are specifically designed to discriminate against certain groups of voters, then the justice department will come down on them and file suit. the one point i want to make though, is that even with all the efforts that were made, let's say, in the last election, folks still voted. and if people feel engaged enough and have a sense of a stake in our democracy, you know, you'll be able to vote. and, our biggest problem right now is not the misguided efforts of some of these state legislators. our bigger problem

will try again to help americans trapped in south sudan. an earlier rescue mission had to be called off after four soldiers were shot trying to evacuate americans. three aircraft came under fire while trying to land. >>> proceed europe protesters in ukraine say they are not backing down. they are angry over the president's decision to back away from a deal with the european union. it has galvanized those who support closer ties with moscow. >>> there is renewed violence in the central african republic. 30 people were killed in the capital overnight including a peacekeeping soldier as fighting there continues between muslims and rebels. human rights groups say about a thousand people have been killed so far this month. >> 25 years after the lockerbie bombing are remembering victims. 273 people were killed when pan a.m. flight exploded over scotland. >> a kink in holiday's travel plans, the system is prompting warnings from the east coast to the plains states. that includes ice, snow and reports of tornados. >>> those are the headlines. "real

if you ask a hundred americans what is in the affordable care act? they could say something about preexisting coverage and beyond, that people do know very few specifics. >> they are finding out because of the implementation. the reason that republicans never got a lot of traction with the warnings of obama care, it was not yet a reality in american lives and now it is here. they are worried about losing their own coverage and premiums going up and a deduct dibl so high they pay for all of the health care anyway. what is teaching americans about obama care is the reality and implementation of obama care. that's the problem that president obama has to it deal with. and they it are learning about tradeoffs in obama care. for everybody that it hurts somebody else will pay more. >> did the democrats pressure the white house. and you can't hang us out to dry with this? >> democrats met with white house officials on capitol hill. they are very nervous. every democrat is up for reelection and democrats in the senate are as well. and anybody who has been her

it is not focused on any single american. it is not reading the content of your phone calls or my phone calls or anybody else's phone calls. it is focused on metadata for one purpose only that is to make sure that foreign terrorists aren't in contact with anybody in the united states. >> schieffer: this question. this whole conversation taking place because of these disclosures by snowden, who defect to russia. some suggestion that perhaps he should be given some sort of amnesty in order to bring him back here and maybe stop the leaks, do you think the president should give him some sort of amnesty? >> no, i do not. and i feel strongly about that. he violated the trust put in him by the united states government. he has committed a crime in my view. a whistle blower doesn't run. a whistle blower does not disclose information that has nothing to do with what he says his cause is. the privacy and civil liberties of americans. if i could talk to mr. snow den myself what i would say is, edward, you say you are a patriot, you say y

they want to continue moving toward the american dream. it is uncouple bent upon all of us to do everything that we can to ensure a robust economy and good paying jobs are the long-term solutions. at catholic charities we see first hand what choices unemployed americans face as they look for work. leaving them and their families vulnerable as they continue their job search. the impact of unemployment extends beyond individuals and families to communities and neighborhoods as well. high unemployment and poverty go hand in hand. the characteristics of poor neighborhoods amplify the impact of unemployment. this benefit is an investment to keep our communities healthy. when the work force and economy take a hit as we have seen these last several years, social service agencies are often the first to feel the impact. for example, within days of this fall's government shutdown, catholic charities agencies were immediately reporting the increased need in their community as a result of the changed employment situation of federal workers. while cath

i am african american,, native american and caucasian american. host: thank you for spending some time with us this morning. detroit and here is tina. you are on the "washington journal." caller: good morning. how are you? i have been listening to the republican party. they have been talking about thisbig -- they are doing to gain african-americans and latinos to the party. i would like to know what makes them think we are coming? i would like to know that. host: what is it about the republicans that does not attract you? their whole message. is not inclusive for me. and as a woman, i really feel that they are just outside the norms. they haven't caught up to the millennium or something. party that isve a so out of touch that they are --itng women to literally is in their party platform. we all know that what is written down matters. they state we should have those f incestuous behavior. some of these things they suggest are not inclusive to women, to african-americans, or latinos. what i need a republican to tell me, what message are they bringin