the united states has actually come out very forcefully and said we are not behind this secretary clinton yesterday categorically denied that the us had any involvement in this and i think that that's very telling this assassination comes just weeks before planned to go she asians between iran and the u.s. the p five plus one and so. while there's a lot of informed speculation nobody knows quite who was behind this but i think that what the consensus is that whoever was behind this is less interested in setting back you grans nuclear program and more interested in setting back possible ratcheting down of tensions between iran and the united states and you know this is something that the g.o.p. candidates would celebrate presumably especially at let's take a listen to some of the rhetoric coming from them it's a very telling let's take a listen. well there have been scientists. in russia and in iran there have been computer viruses there have been problems at their facility i hope that the united states has been involved with maximum covert operations. to block the iranian program. taking

the united states military, let me be very clear about this, the united states military will remain capable across the spectrum. we will continue to conduct a complex set of missions ranging from counter-terrorism, ranging from countering weapons of mass destruction, to maintaining a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent. we will be fully prepared to protect our interests, defend our homeland, and support civil authorities. our goal to achieve the u.s. force for the future involves the following significant changes. first, the u.s. joint force will be smaller and it will be leaner, but its great strength will be that it will be more agile, more flexible, ready to deploy quickly, innovative, and technologically advanced. that is the force of the future. second, as we move towards this new joint force, we are also rebalancing our global posture and presence emphasizing the pacific and the middle east. these are the areas where we see the greatest challenges for the future. the u.s. military will increase its institutional weight and focus on enhanced presence, power projection and den

in some sense be wishful thinking because of course the united states has a certain limited range in terms of foreign policy opportunities it basically is still in afghanistan still has to deal with iran and pakistan still do dealing with the aftermath. still dealing with the arab spring in the aftermath there it's very difficult for the united states to make a pivot like this so it's more of an aspirational pivot it's what the obama administration would like to do and so it's made a couple of gestures by putting some more marines in australia by say we're going to kind of focus more on china but whether will actually see some concrete changes it's going to be very difficult. you know what the obama administration has already done a modest opening to burma a very very modest opening doors. korea president doesn't have a lot of political capital that he doesn't want to waste it initiatives that might appear from republican critics to be appeasement so appeasing china appeasing north korea peace in burma he doesn't want to get into a situation in which if there's a best seller now espe

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states this year on the back of what mark said in irvine is the united states just being complacent we got to get a good a good election outcome or it or asked differently is obama going to serve another four years. i actually will and willing to go on a limb and predict president obama's re-election i think it'll be a very close election i think if the economy continues on its slow but upward trend i think president will be reelected ali if we have a relapse if europe falls apart and that leads to an american recession that could really hurt president obama but i got to tell you i do think americans are taking back their country i think with the occupy movement with the protests in wisconsin even the tea party protests show citizen involvement and the rating for the united states congress is an all time low it's about nine percent right now which tells you that in our democracy in two thousand and twelve we're going to throw a lot of the bums out and that's the way it should be all over the world and that's when the strength i think about the united states is when things are going

the united states is the... one of the largest destinaons for chinese outside of europe as a whole and outside of asia. but we also have about 160,000 chinese students studying in america every year. and i believe that exposure to ou democracies, our freedom, our openness as a society whets their appetite, quite frankly, for similar freedoms and progress and openness within china. >> rose: what the people in the arab spring call universal values. >> yes. and i think that appetite for universal human rights is growing stronger in china everyday. >> rose: so what do you worry about? >> well, i... the united states and china are becoming interdependent economically. so much of... china has a great interest in a rising prosperity in america. a strong, economic economic recovery of our economy because the reality is that so much of what americans buy is made in other countries and a good percentage of that comes from china so that china knows that their economic health depends on a strong world economy and with europ

those deaths were curtailed by the free food united states sent over after the war. the economy recovered and we cut the federal deficit during 1946 through 47. slightly because the revenue so much exceeded expectations. what i say is we have a lot during gold were to four lessons for today what works and what doesn't or the taxes we have come to expect, the economic bill of rights, the right to education was a student loan program, it changes with the housing to a decent home going with urban renewal than the community reinvestment act of the '70s to promise very low interest rates to poor people so they could have homes to a accelerate the mortgage crisis that becomes an hinge to and the right to medical care so i simply say the politics of today have happily shaped from world or to but if you study more carefully, said we got out of the great depression by freeing up the economy to cut tax rates not by following the prescription to increase and perpetuate the high economic growth that we experienced during world war ii. thank you. [applause] >> host: thank you. no

united states senator. [applause] start with the man who most recently left this job and went on to become the lieutenant governor of california, gavin newsom. [applause] frank jordan, former mayor frank jordan, former police chief of the city of san francisco. [applause] and my colleague from the legislative years and mayor of sanford says go, are new and tho san francisco. [applause] now that the stage is set, it is time clearly for prayer. reverend james, please come and give us the invocation. >> the per i offer todrayer i os on behalf of the more than 800 organizations in the city of county of san francisco. many of the agencies have served the people of san francisco for over 100 years. let us pray. got we come to you and prayer for our mayor, and when we. edwin lee. -- god, we come to you in prayer. as he renews his commitment to serve as our mayor, we ask you renewal his zeal for public service. grant him good health. give him the gift of patients, care for all people, but above all, the gift of wis

so however unprepared the united states was, that's in fact what they did. of course, the first thing they do in the summer of 1812 is say, ok, even if we're sort of reluctant getting into this war, and even if we're not too militarily prepared, maybe by just going ahead and declaring war great britain will back off on some of these issues on the high seas and maybe we can go ahead and seize part of canada. well, of course what happens is that three invasion attempts in the summer of 1812 to invade canada from detroit, from niagara falls and north into lake sham plain all fail. now, that brings us back to zebulon pike in the summer of 1813. all of us here 234 colorado and many across the country associate pike with the high mountain in colorado that bears his name. well, as paul harvey would say, here's the rest of the story. pike, after his travels out in the west, remained in the army and remained a regular in the army and by 1812 and 1813, he's a brigadier general leading an invasion of canada from sacramentos harbor on lake ontario toward york. york in t

states and the united states wod do that for iran. there is no doubt about that. >> rose: exactly. but where is it you would say to us, this is where we are your -- we have a shared interest and we are not trying to undermine you at every step? first of all, we have to define interests. >> and that is important and your interests are not necessarily our interests. you have a sphere of influenc >> we may argue about interests, but, but, but regardless of those definitions, thereare many areas ofntert, and common interests, regardless of the legitimacy of those interests or not, but there are many iues as i mentioned. for example, the cooperation between iran and the united states brought the karzai government to power. do not forget that. we also said several times and it was going -- >> rose: the karzai government, you said? >> yes. >> in afghanistan you remember that. so it was anexample of cooperatio between iran and the united states as well as a couple of heotr players. >> we have said -- the stability is something that both count

needs russia they don't know what's going to happen in afghanistan when the united states withdraws they're going to need russia so the logic is economic it's military it's cultural and ultimately unless the united states does what it tried to do for example in ukraine in georgia it's political my own feeling is since we should stand aside and let the natural process of these evolve because then you'll get something consensual that won't be forced if it's forced and isn't going to work in the end it will be sensual and i think it's very interesting i think i might go back to you if you think there is if it's forced and steven brings up a really good point here then people walk away from it ok and i for i find it very very interesting because if you look at western media it's russia trying to recreate the soviet union right you're trying to push around its neighbors its aggressive foreign policy which is all absolutely nonsense of russia's foreign policy is intensely descents of i would say and but because it is defensive it actually becomes more attractive in a very ironic way becau

the united states. would react to what's going on at the moment perhaps it is just ratcheting rhetoric to be able to get that as valuable petro dollars into the u.s. treasuries of the goldman sachs can give it out in bonuses to the rich and this is a rich ring of rhetoric it will lead the u.s. news bulletins in the past twenty four hours. whether the united states really can contemplate a war with iran. i really don't feel right after just briefly then here we are talking the start of twenty twelve turbulence in syria and of course these tensions now with iran not a positive start to the year is it i mean how you've said that you don't see actually conflict occurring between the u.s. and iran but how do you see events playing out now this year in the region just briefly iran has offered to go for further negotiations on the nuclear issue i think the united states is really realizing that its plans for syria on turning up the way they wanted it to. these bombs in damascus and so forth carried out by who

the united states is a nation. right? the colonies kept expanding, and more territories was conquered, and the native americans pushed back and mexico americans corn kerred and new states adds, so as a consequence, of the way we developed as nation, the political leaders of the different states -- if you were settlers going to set up the territory that would become the state of kentucky, or the state of oklahoma, or the state of mississippi, you didn't want the media companies back in new york and the east coast dictating what news and information your people would receive. you wanted your own local media. so the united states initially developed a most decentralized media system and earl newspapers of any country in the history of the world, and had the most newspapers per capita. newspapers were everywhere in the united states in the 19th 19th century because the government was subsidizing their delivery and the people wanted it because of the federal nature of the american system. so haas what happened is we developed

of that 11 million how many do you think came to the united states? 380,000 came directly. you were looking at my book. [laughter] you put the book. like footnotes. [laughter] 388,000 came directly from africa to what is now the united states and another 50,000 we estimate touched them briefly in the caribbean, you're absolutely right. you get the gold star. [laughter] but think about what that means to read all those other africans went to the caribbean and to south america. i don't know about you but when i was growing up without the slave trade was primarily about us. but the 40 million african american people sent to the 450,000 africans who came here between 1619 and mostly by 182099% of our ancestors were here. it's quite remarkable. but all of those other africans, brazil got over 5 million africans in the slave trade. well here is the reason that i start in 1513 because the first africans who show up in what is now the united states showed up in 1513 and they didn't come here only as sleeves but i will get to that in a minute. i was fascinated by the contact between

the real danger here is that it could produce a shooting war if the united states does follow through on its resolve to keep the straits open which will be that easy and i think that it's virtually guarantees that iranian naval forces and u.s. naval forces would come into conflict the problem is that iran is is surrounded by a number of countries that are essentially hostile to it and some of them are nuclear armed and this is a perfect cauldron for for starting something with a very minor relatively minor incident that escalates and escalates and escalates and once a president has a major war the worst case scenario is world war three i'm afraid i think a covert war is being waged by the united states and israel i think in this case the actual pillars of the scientists were who were probably a rainy that were recruited by mossad or the cia outside of iran and then sent in to to do the work and i believe that the intelligence used to locate this man and to target him probably came from the united states and probably was intelligence that was shared with israel the u.k. has admitted fo

a situation was gas prices in the united states now the price in united states the price and up in the united states is a little bit more than one hundred dollars now the price in europe is more than four hundred dollars european you blew it as they are sewer sport mike it means cheap gas it's not it's not true sports market is unpredictable market. you cover the price one hundred to morrow you can hear five dollars that is why my ideas were simple that. the construction of the sport market is a very risky story for european union and that is why it convinced. let's have a look at the stock markets now europe closed in the black on tuesday the rally was inspired by better than expected growth data from china you can see it was boosted by a four point six percent rise for the world bank of scotland group in germany the dax index ended one point eight percent higher with comic times over three and a half percent and here in russia markets climb to five week high on tuesday as rising oil and metal prices producers. and that around one and a half percent of the black strongly supported ene

i don't think he was telling them to get out of the united states. but bob you had a negative response. >> bob: i'm going to be in deference to my friend. in 30 years, i haven't heard anything more disgraceful in my life. you think he owes an apology to a lot of people. when you start shooting your mouth off like that. i admire you were in the military and served your country. i understand that. but before you start saying, get the hell out of the united states. then you didn't say the policy. 20% or 22% who believe what pelosi and reid says. if you 100% of person and we're 20% and we're not going anywhere. you are taking that tea party job with you. >> in terms like having press secretary was called by the speaker and the leader of the senate a liar and a loser. i mean sitting canned they are chief. greg has a point. >> al sharpton, black panthers, jess describe jackson. public enemy. eric dison. we celebrate outspoken blast leftists. so you have one and i want to see morale an west. he is the beginning. it's refreshing to see. >> bob: you would lik

the united states and canada. the canadians have not yet permitted a major tar sands pipeline across the land and the pipeline that would go across canada to go to asia or california is not being allowed, it's facing a year of delay because of concerns in british columbia. keystone x.l. is about them not wanting such a big, destructive pipeline. host: how much of this pipeline exists already? this is just an extension, isn't it? guest: it's called an extension but it's almost entirely a new pipeline. only one relatively small part of it exists, there would be mostly new build, across montana and most of it across texas would be new. host: representative joe wilson, who was our guest prior to your coming out here, said we've been -- the technology exists to keep this safe. that we've been using pipelines for over 100 years, etc., that this is a no-brainer, he said. guest: what's interesting is nrdc, my organization, has done a lot of looking into these types of pipelines and there's something new here. before we di

in the world they don't like what the united states is saying that sort of united nations. says something. well we're always interested to hear your opinion and today we're asking you what is next in store for iran as tensions around it reach a boiling point that's the question we have for you on our web site r.t. dot com and some of them so far well right now over half of you think the u.s. will attempt to provoke iran into an all out conflict and less than the third say washington will strike first and worry about the consequences later some people of iran will claim to have nuclear weapons to get the west to back off and we can see that the moment on screen the minority believes the country will defend itself by building an anti us our minds in south america online to cast your vote and while you're on our website you can check out some of the stories there including. the torture hour afghanistan demands a u.s. army hands over control of its main prison in the country within a month after claims inmates have been severely abused that story and plenty of others are party

states or come from long lines of families that come from the united states. we know we see this difference along the spectrum. let me highlight a couple of points that i think make a big difference. realize we have a cohort population between 8 million and 11.5 million of individuals in the united states who are undocumented, who some say are illegal or not lawfully present. they are in a group that is cut off in part and formality from the main economy. this is unwise because immigrants, both skilled and unskilled, in this case, that 8 million to 11 million, provide the innovative engine in the economy in these relatively dark times. i'll address the issue of unemployment. but in these difficult economic times, they provide a certain component to the economy which allows us to innovate and grow at a rate that we otherwise would not. in short, immigrants of all types unaverage are net contributors to the economy, help the actual pie grow bigger, provide more of a pie to split among us all and in turn try to goose innovation in a couple of unanticipated ways.

we begin this ening as nsions rise betweenhe united states and iran with iran' ambassador to the united nations mohammed khazaee. >> if you want to create problems in the persian gulf of course it would be the right of tehran as well as the re of the countries inhe region to try to defend themselves, so in my view, if you ask me, the iranian strategy is not to close the strait of hormuz, but naturally, any nation if it's under serious threats by foreign powers, to, they will defend themselves. >> rose: we conclude this evening with the author of many sports books, the writer john feinstein and his new book called one oone. >> i realize with all of the books that i had done that i met so many different characters through the years beyond, whether dean smith or mike she chef ski or tigerçó woods or anybody you wanted to name and a lot of people not as famous as those guys i found fascinating, why not go back and talk to some of them and tell some stories i haven'told before about my relationships with some of these pele because i always kept myself out of the books. >> rose: khazaee and

states but we've seen in the for instance last summer in the united kingdom obviously it was quite a serious challenge to the authorities definitely it was not to be ignored but also what was some sort of all we reaction and it is not to be ignored so some of our partners tried to teach us some lessons of democracy we tell them that we are absolutely ready to listen to good advice but we are not ready for some sort of lecturing some are saying that the us government's reaction to the occupy movement is going to result in further limitation limitations of the rights of the us citizens do you believe this so the reaction of the authorities to those meetings and manifestations there was a rather rude able to see and we've seen it in the united states i mean the famous no movement occupy wall street it also spilled over to some western european countries and we've seen him c.n.n. and b.b.c. and other news channels who seem pictures of wild forceful disruption or those protests and meetings by the police have been quite a number of occasions into the. after the terrorist acts of nine elev

middle eastern attitudes towards the united states. in the first year of obama, it was not particularly good. in the second year of obama, they were not particularly good, and they remained even after the arab spring, not particularly unchanged. so do you think people in the middle east look at america pretty much exactly the same? do they want it to get stronger and exercise power in that region? do egyptians want american help consolidating their revolution, or is the attitude just stay away? >> when obama came, people were relatively optimistic. when he did the speech in cairo and before that in ankara or istanbul, he was actually talking to the arab world, to the muslim world, new language. maybe they had been anticipating some action that they had not seen. so there is favorable disappointment as well in the arab world. that what we see at this point in time is not what we have been thinking of maybe three years ago. so that issue is definitely this moment in time, yes, there is disappointment, but on a wider scale, yes, people ar

money to the united states. and what my trustee is, he loaned much to fannie mae and freddie mac. they got interest. what the speaker did was to work as a spokesman to promote fannie mae and freddie mac, to protect them from those people who wanted to take him down. he got paid $1.6 million to do that. he said his first contract indicateded there would be to lobbying. the second contract didn't have that. you have to ask yourself, why is that? what he was doing was clearly promoting freddie mac to the tune of $1.6 million. that is one of the reasons we're in the trouble we're in. >> go ahead. >> well, first of all, you'll notice that the governor wasn't aware of the ad he was running. he's not aware of the investments -- >> i can't. it's a blind trust. >> and compare my investments with his is comparing a tiny mouse with a giant elephant. the fact is that there is a very substantial question. you didn't give any instructions to say, gee, let's not do this or let's not do that. you're very quick to draw the wides

the united states gave his father ten thousand dollars. the father actually returned half of it saying should go to the family of an american soldier killed in the war. >> if you build it they will come. not so fast. the latest and newest movement to stop the future home of the 49ers. >> and oakland a top place to go? the surprise ranking for the city and how it earned that. . >>> the 49ers and the city of santa clara are moving forward but others are still fighting. mike reports on a last ditch drive. >> good morning. how are you? >> reporter: you could say it's 4th and ten. >> it's a financing agreement. >> reporter: late in the game. down a score. >> they are paying nothing for their stadium. . >> reporter: and this team is looking for a come back. >> $850 million in loans. we are a small city of 114,000 people. that's to much debt. >> reporter: members hit the streets trying to get 4500 plus signatures part of a drive to stop this from being built and today some residents were signing on. >> all of our foundries bringing into will go t

>> iran doesn't want a direct conflict with the united united states. it wants a manageable state of attentions where oil prices go up, iran showed that it's strong to its domestic population, especially. look, we have a regime here that is facing upcoming parliamentary elections and presidential elections in 2013. and the regime is deeply worried that the population won't think of these elections as legitimate. if we remember in 2009, millions of iranians came out into the streets and protested against the government. this is a big challenge to the regime. the iranian government doesn't want to replay, so it's trying to look strong in front of the population. >> but the economic situation, the sanctions really have a very -- have had a very powerful effect on iran so far. >> they have. the iranian currency has devaluated, deappreciatated. iranians are losing confidence in the ability of their government to manage an economy. they didn't have much confidence to begin with, but they're losing even more confidence and the iranian government, the regime ne

states of near the 2.5 million, one in 100 american adults are in prison in the united states. nearly one out of five of those in prison suffer from a severe mental disorder. schizophrenia, bipolar, or a combination thereof. yet, medicaid funding does not provide for the long form treatment needed to address this growing reality. with the state of california grappling with a cash strapped economy, hoping to pin this cycle on our ability to deliver at the ballot box progressive taxation, which of course i support, we cannot put all of our eggs in one basket. i think it is important to us that even as citizens and residents and business owners, and legislators, district supervisors that want to answer that from a question about why someone is homeless who looks like they need more than just housing and a job and a bath, why is it that they are constantly on our street? we must answer the larger question of what it means to get the kind of meaningful help that is necessary for this particular population. [applause] to do this, to do this i will, as i have already met with members

the first railroad engine to reach the united states is in 1831. lincoln has never seen a real road. he understands that the prairie is big and walking is slow. he has read about railroads. he campaigned on behalf of progress. when, somebody that believed in progress. 1850 a, he was engaged in debates with douglas, he is riding trains around illinois. in 1961, in may, he gave a speech. he said we will have a man on the moon before the end of the decade. at that time we did a movie and we have buzz aldrin, the astronauts, at that moment nobody had been in orbit. one american had gone suborbital for three hours. that was it. here is the president saying to the entire world, in this decade, we will invented the rockets, train the astronauts, build instrumentation, and we will be on the moon. how many of you remember july of 1969? how many of you remember how proud he felt to be an american that night? how good it felt to see the american flag on the mean? ronald reagan and understood the power of technology because he had lived it. his first jobs were

states was general motors and it was unionized today the largest employer in the united states is wal-mart and not only are they not unionized but they spend millions of dollars fighting unionization it's very simple and we changed our trade policy in the united states ronald reagan and bill clinton changed our trade policy so that we no longer have tariffs we no longer have any got protection for workers in the united states we give tax breaks for companies to move their unions offshore as a consequence the union positions have been busted and union busting is a two billion dollar a year industry no the united states in the meantime the guys who are the c.e.o.'s are making a fortune on the average worker is getting screwed people used to started at g.m. of forty fifty dollars an hour right now in germany the average auto workers union is wages sixty seven dollars an hour g.m. is hiring at fourteen dollars an hour tell me that there's not a problem. well the g.m. can't make cars in america profitably but toyota b.m.w. and mercedes can why because the unions are not destroying their busines

states there is no power out there today that that is organizing itself to take on and destroy the united states we know that we enjoy a considerable lead in many key categories of military power that's not likely to change in the near term. the point is this creates jobs this is a big ticket item that's important to the defense industry it's important committees of the united states the people who manufacture aircraft we don't have we're not going to occupy anymore muslim countries that's been a disaster in iraq and afghanistan our strategic disaster self-defeating enterprises that's over that was the signal so what do you do you reduce those ground forces we've started with the army the marine corps will not escape this either there will be more reductions after the next election this is just the beginning but there is no coherent strategy here that doesn't exist it's well we need to cut defense spending so where do we cut first we cut where it's easiest and you go to the large united states army which was increased in size for the occupations in iraq and afghanistan to make cuts there

of that 11 million, how many do you think came to the united states? >> 500. >> 338,000 came directly -- you were looking at my book. [laughter] you put the book down. cliff notes, do you remember cliff notes? [laughter] 388,000 came directly from africa to what's now the united states, and another 50,000, we estimate, touched down briefly in the caribbean, 450,000 -- you're absolutely right. you get the gold, you get the gold star. but think about what that means. all those other africans went to the caribbean and to south america. i don't know about you, but when i was growing up, i thought the slave trade was primarily about us. but the 40 million african-american people descend from those 450,000 africans who came here between 1619 and mostly by 1820. by 1820, 99% of our ancestors were here. it's quite remarkable. but all of those other africans, brazil got over five million africans in the slave trade. well, here is the reason that i start in 151. 1513. because the first africans who show up in what is now the united states showed up in 1513. and

president, barack obama, says the united states will boost its military strength in the asia pacific region. the increase comes even as the pentagon decreases the overall size of the u.s. armed forces. >> so our military will be leaner, but the world must know the united states is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats. >> the president is following through on defense cuts of nearly half a trillion dollars over the next decade. still, he said the u.s. will strengthen its presence in the asia-pacific region. some believe he is trying to counter the increasing strength of china. >> the united states will emphasize building the capacity of our partners and allies to more effectively defend their own territory. their own interests, through better use of diplomacy, development and security force assistance. >> panetta indicated that the u.s. will seek a larger ro for japan and other allies. an expert on military strategy in the asia-pacific region says that role for japan may be in the

russia wants to ensure the un doesn't sanction a military intervention in syria the united states and its european allies want the syrian regime targeted and president assad out but the kremlin also rebuffed calls from tat are to send an arab league forces with more on these developments here as you catherine. but russia has long been trying to many of the conflict in syria by bringing both sides to dial oaken trying to find a peaceful solution to the crisis it also says that further attempts should be made to engage with official damascus that boy described the syrian opposition as rejection of dialogue with the authorities says nonproductive an absolutely incorrect i was also against an arms embargo saying that it was unfair to expect that the syrian government would not respond to on rest russia believes that for the most part the opposition groups in syria would provoking the government in that country russia condemns both the government and the opposition and don't go in violence and also believe that because should be sold by the syrians themselves without any outside military i

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states, namely, a foreign intelligence service, the cia, in helping the united states find bin laden and i assume the pakistanis are arguing -- you can't just help any foreign intelligence service, whether friend or foe? >> that's right. but if you play out the current path that the pakistanis are on and i think leon panetta makes this point well. this is not in their interest to ultimately pursue this to a trial and potential imprisonment or death penalty. after all, while they may disagree with how the u.s. government went about gathering the intelligence or executing the raid, in the end, the outcome was a shared goal between the us and pakistan and what they need to do like we have with so many other disputes with our pakistani allies is work through this and understand future rules of engagement. >> i assume the pakistanis understand. maybe they don't care but i aaassume they understand as seen here in the united states, this physician is a hero. he helped the u.s. find and kill bin laden who committed all these acts of atrocity and now they want to try him for treason? this cou

united states. only import what we cannot manufacture, our raw materials. and that's basically my comment and i'd like to get some feedback from you, sir. thank you. >> mobile, alabama, betty. how about some feedback from you, betty, on the independent line. >> yes, good morning. may i take a few minutes, please, because it's been years since i made a comment. >> go ahead. caller: i -- in the last election, i voted for obama. i will not do it again. >> how come? caller: because i don't like the class warfare that's going on. he's putting blacks against whites, whites against black. he's trying to want people to feel that white people are hate blacks and that's not true. it's not true. the problem in the black community is problems, rather, are self-imposed. black ignorance, black -- people having babies out of wedlock, 70% according to the statistics. and not going -- not trying to educate themselves to make their lives better. and so obama and the democrats are taking advantage of that. and the dem

a situation was gas prices in the united states now the price of the united states the price and up in the united states is a little bit more than one hundred dollars now the price in europe is more than four hundred dollars european you would relate as they are sure that sport might get means. it's not it's not true sports market is unpredictable market they have the price one to morrow you can hear five dollars that is why my idea is very simple that. the. market is a way to risky story for european union and they just weren't convinced. germany has called for the introduction of independent european rating agencies following the recent downgrade credit ratings of eurozone members the proposal would see them become an alternative to u.s. based agencies such as standard and poor's and fitch european officials say their moves complicate the currency union's efforts to endure the worsening debt crisis however simon further fletcher from managers is skeptical about the creation. of the establishment of a european only. a little it's a little on the silly song and it's basically a slap do

congress and the united states government basically wants to have it at the certain temperature but not to boil over they want to have the tightening of the rope around the government of iran but at the same time they don't want to have any particular military action over there and so therefore it's a very balancing act at this point and that's why the joint operation with israel was cancelled there are different reasons for that but certainly they want to bring the temperature down to the level of simmering ok no pain is good because it keeps the price so if i can go back to you i mean but isn't that kind of dangerous i mean that's setting a a tipping point i mean is it now you get to a small mistake and then the consequences are enormous go ahead. so they cannot pat themselves on the back because as you mentioned correctly it's very dangerous because one major minor mistake could turn into a huge problem and also as you know these wars can start easy but they cannot be stopped so it's a very dangerous position and people aren't usually the election purposes john when you want to jump