of the united states seeking war and you know. they're not ready for negotiations that's also a cartoonish mischaracterization president obama is right today seeking engagement with his russian chinese french german and british partners with iran they're trying to get something going to try to find a negotiated way hard to market and yes they are when i was worried about their answer to that question what about you know i mean you have sanctions on the one hand and they want to have negotiations on the other hand i mean aren't they kind of antithetical. you know i think that sanctions can strengthen the negotiation hand. ok i understand there's an impact on the other side that doesn't like the sanctions but throughout diplomatic history negotiations between the cold war the united states and the soviet union there were sanctions after sanctions and yet there were negotiations successful on arms control yes the two paths can be followed at the same time ok it's interesting so i'm going back to negotiations isn't really the problem

from the united states the i.a.e.a. basically kowtows to american foreign policy is a political tool even of that it did not say that he ran his weaponized thing so i don't know marc you may have information you would like to share with the i that not not from the terrorist cult that mossad and israel are supporting them which i had enough and america is considering of the listing as a foreign terrorist organization may be not information from them but if you have genuine information that iran is weaponized thing then i think is it your duty as a citizen of whichever country you belong to to presented to the world because that is just the way as far as. i was not you were and you were libeling me here i know there are forty five paragraphs in the i.a.e.a. report that detail all of the urgency of our nuclear weapons related work or work the very much appears to be nuclear weapons related now that is what iran has to respond to you asked me what does iran have to do answer those questions and follow the i.a.e.a. rules abo

the united states has the latter. so i am very optistic about the united states' position in the world going forward. and i think you do have to think about this in a, you can't think about this in a static way or in a one dimnsional way going forward. >> charlie: iran. where are we because you get the feeling that somethingbeyond threats are going on, become sanctions or clearly van impact. oil sanctions may have a deepening impact, there's covert action that's clearly had an impact. we don't know who is responsible but we have ideas about that. is there a sense that the iranians are feeling that and they really do want to have serious negotiations. >> i can't answer the last of the questions but i can address the lead up to it, if i might. i do believe that the ranians arfeeling a tremendous amount of pressure. when we came into office, there was really, iranian was internally no threat. it was on a rise in the region and it had divided the international community. a lot of questions about should we give the iranian

states that a treaty gets 300 votes, i think it means a lot for panama, for the united states and for the whole world. for panama, it makes it clear what the importance of our country to the united states for the world. for the world, it makes it clear that everybody wants to better world trade. and the united states, they get together after other things, the two political parties could get together on something invoked, 300 congressman for the treaty. >> what is at the heart of the economy of panama? is it services, agriculture or? what is at the heart of it? >> it is service. we are not and agricultural country. we are mostly services. our canal is one of them. our country is close to $1 billion a year to the government. we have tourism, banking and of the maritime sector. >> americans always when they think of panama, they know about the canal and there is a big project going on right now. talk a bit about the panama canal -- spain had the dream, france tried it and the united states did it. is that right? >> exactly. the panama canal is now going through an expansion, what is real

state is not reacting i think the united states has really. done the appropriate steps to condemn the assad regime it was one of the first countries to condemn and said the regime use of brutal violence and i think it was one of the con is a push for a sanctions on syria so i don't know what. can we do a lot of time we go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what awaits syria state party. when comparable question leads to a grave accusation. who is more xeno following. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. we began experiencing very serious problems to the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but. that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were all from peace and up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived. i don't the o

open into war and long occupations the utility of it is has very real limits and so the united states ought to take. the advice of people like me who have been there and bring the wars to an end it's in our best interest and it's in the best interests of the people over there as well so you know but what you're saying is the u.s. trying to fight terrorism but images like these are all encouraging it. yeah it's absolutely right and the reason is because images tell a bigger story images do great things to influence the psychology of. people that see that i mean and we can't control the media that. militants use in other parts of the world and so they see this in the on all the all that the militancy is anti muslim anti arab anti pashtoon sentiment coming out of u.s. soldiers and and let's let it be known that the u.s. military is not a representation of what these people are but these people are a product of war and when you go to war barbaric human nature is brought out and i mean this isn't new the native americans how it were subject to scalping and did scalping themselves and there

and i couldn't disagree with christian more i mean look at the united states military is greater than all the other militaries combined in the rest of the world practically and a little bit of a cut here and there isn't going to hurt us ability to the center sells i read the document to me the document is as belligerent as ever and while the united states is going to fight two ground wars at the same time it is prepared to fight one ground war and clear obliteration of any other enemy that might raise its head it's very ironic that obama had made a big pitch for getting rid of nuclear weapons in a famous speech in prague and now he's saber rattling those weapons more than ever . to you frank one of the criticisms of the new strategy is that the united states because it's more reliant on nuclear weapons than ever before is that the right path the united states should be taking i mean other countries arming themselves and we still have the issue with iran on the table i mean iran will say well i mean if the americans want to rattle those kind of weapons why shouldn't we have them as wel

states -- aggregate demand in the united states. using conventional monetary policy tools, there is little more that the fed can do. it has reduced interest rates in the short run to as low as they can go. it cut short-term interest rates on safe assets to zero early in the slump, and that's where they have remained. l the usual policy remedy when you've exhausted monetary policy tools is to rely on fiscal policy. some of you may be saying, well, we tried that, and it didn't work. there is no evidence that the fiscal policy failed. none. six months after the onset of the biggest stimulus package that we had in the slump, the economy stopped falling like a rock and started to grow again. within a few months, private sector employment began to grow slowly, but it began to grow, and it's grown ever since. about a fifth of the growth in the private sector employment since the low point has been offset by declines in the number of people on public payrolls; state and local governments face harsh fiscal realities, and they are reducing yo

will supply as the united states is the major economic. you see washington is bored at this neoconservative idiology world who jimmy and so it wants to be able to prevent the rise of the challenge of challenging and that that's what lies behind this and also what lies behind washington's war preparations against iran. and you know as the us for the past decade we've been kind of distracted focusing our resources time effort in iraq and afghanistan and the middle east so in that time china has had time to expand their their influence and the region so i mean so is now the time that the usa is recognizing this and saying hey we need to do something about this. yes they're directing their attention mania against china's independent access to energy that was what the united states organized nato attack on libya was about it's blocked china tremendous all investments in eastern libya is what the united states africa command is about is to block china or elsewhere in africa or nigeria for example and that's what the war preparations against iran

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

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

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

the thing is the united states i don't know whatever the united states. criticize if it intervenes in syria and overthrow the regime and let's say establish a democratic government and government syria they would say that it's intervene you need a lottery if it doesn't there was a united state is not reacting i think the united states has really. done the appropriate steps to condemn the assad regime it was one of the first countries to condemn assad regime use of brutal use of wyler's and i think it was one of the kind is a push for a sanctions on syria so i don't know what is. can we run out of time to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what awaits syria today r.t. . if you. want. to it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile cards is still not over. wealthy british style. margetts weiner scandal m. find out what's really happening to

states and the united states he really believes that. eventually he started negotiating -- the accommodator in chief. that is what the book is about. why he does that. an incredible difference between him as president and as a candidate. >> your first book, bullish on the couch. >> what we learned about bush is he really was very much a person who had once been an alcoholic. a dry drunk. those are people who are impulsive and suddenly given to blaming other people and one of the things about him that was so powerful is when he made up his mind he never change this. he was an either/or president. your with us or against us. he lived in a very different world where he says i don't deal with it. obama and only does not want. we have the opposite two presidents back to back. >> when you write

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

it had lots of good stuff, i think, for the government of the united states. and our direction and our brand of conservatism. i think we blew it by not fessing fes fessing up and zrdescribing wha we have done. i made that pledge. i broke that pledge. it's time for us to move on down the road. it's the best thing to do for this country. i positioned him in such a fashion in which he was able to communicate the views. even if we had to write the words down for him. i think that was a problem on our part. do i believe that would have insured that the president would have been reelected in 1992, no. there were a number of other factors that led to it. one other thing i wanted to talk about, the supreme court. i had the pleasure and honor of having had the opportunity to handle t thr supreme court justices. my first one was an ton inscalia. it happened at a great time when working for president reagan at the time. william rehnquist was elevated to the chief's job and nobody was handling scalia. scalia set a standard for future nominations. i said you have to give h

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 role for japan and other allies. an expert on military strategy in the asia-pacific region says that role for japan may be in t

though refused to meet one on one with the united states the united states and its partners had tabled a confidence building measure that iran didn't want to talk about let's hope that they are now ready to talk the idea that maybe pressure has given them more reasons to talk maybe realistic but so far i don't think you know that all this blaming the united states is correct it takes two to tango let's let's have some real talks united states is ready you know what mark if i could just stay with you i mean in looking at the presidential when we're looking at the presidential election here with the republicans i mean any talk of reconciliation any talk of negotiations is seen as weakness and i think that's one of the biggest problems and one of things i'd like to talk about in this part of the program is domestic issues ok because you have so many every single major player in these events here have a have a domestic agenda ok obama wants to look strong on iran ok but it's the same time say well give him a chance but you know we saw that before and we can see the iranians as well i mean

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

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

we also saw this week, the united states sort of announced at it is redirecting its focus. both in terms of its military focus as well as bringing some austerity to the pentagon, does the world welcome that? do they believe at long last the united states should be preoccupied with asia and with change in asia? >> well, publicly in the middle east, of course, they will say they welcome it, privately a lot of pokes don't. in asia, the america's asian allies have en begging for it, and singapore and japan, of course, and vietnam and indonesia, they have all been saying, look, we wantsome commitnt. >> rose: we e worried about the china being our partner. >> i tell you, shin with a, the chines state media came out a few hours agand said the united states, that this new peagon speech, america was going to be a wl in,ull in a china shop, i can't imagine they meant that intentionally, asia ashe china sp but nonetheless the chinese clearly are feeling very, very insecure and defensive about the fact that the americans are now focusing laser like on asia as the key area for security.

what is the united states economy going to grow at this year? >> there are no oracles in economics, and it's still a pretty uncertain world, but i think that conventional view of the u.s. now is that we're growing between 2% and 3%. i think that's a realistic outcome as long as we see more improvement in europe and as long as we don't see a lot of risk come from iran on the oil front. >> that scenario of 2% to 3% growth seems a little different from what ben bernanke thinks growth is going to look like. have you read the statement the fed put out, and it was a very bearish statement. to be willing to almost guarantee that rates will be kept where they are until the end of 2014 suggests they don't see any growth of any robust growth for a long time. are they wrong at the fed? >> i'm not a forecaster, so my view is not worth much, but if you look at the -- both the fed's forecast and the consensus of private forecasters in the business community among economists, people are pretty close clustered in that area, but it's still very dependent on how

headquartered in the united states manly icann. and the original policy documents that stated that this new body should open a top-level domain space to provide consumers with more choices and to ensure there's more competition and market space. how has that worked out? we estimate the average prices of domain names in the generic top-level domain have dropped 70% since speeseven founding, 70%. that is a very significant transfer to the benefit of consumers and users of the internet around the world. the multi stakeholder body has different formalist components. there's three policy organs. there's a group called the country code name supporting organization so the country codes are the operators of like .eu or .ka for kennedy's of the country code registers for the internet has over 100 members. it's called the ccjso and peter is here with us today. we also have the generic name supporting the organization, and that is a group of participants of the domain name registries and registrars in the generic space so when you think of .c

perception of israel in the united states would you agree with. well i don't think there is more to a picture of israel than other countries in the world the thing most many americans are not very. sophisticated when it comes to world affairs and i'm not sure if there's any reason for them to be more knowledgeable about world affairs i do think however that these will indeed became the issue within the united states and within the american political system and that is not because of the candidates a lot of knowledge or because the candidates have the wrong views or their neocon views or they are impacted by some kind of lobby the lobby for israel within the united states is the american people and any few go and read the polls year by year month by month the american people show support towards israel much more than any other. religion for years i'm going to go short i want to go to a short break here going to short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the g.o.p. and israel state party. wealthy british. that's not on t

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 counterterrorism, 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 for the future. second, as we move toward this new joint force we are balancing our global posture and presence, manufacture sizing 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

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

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

what is iran's beef with the united states and what is the united states'beef with iran? >> it the long list. it begins in 1979 with the hostage crisis. that is the point in which awareness of iran in america became quite stark. uc iranians challenging the united states regionally as well as outside the region that time, challenging american leadership globally. there has been support for terrorism and groups that are anti-american. on the iranian side, it began 1953, when the united states and the british secret service did a coup against a democratically elected prime minister of acheron. that's when a lot of the -- against iran. that is when a lot of the grievances began. then it has deepened. during the 1980's, at the united states sided with iraq and provided iraq with intelligence and weapons in spite of the fact that saddam hussein was using chemical weapons against iranian population and the civilian population. we have sanctions and other things. this is a situation where both sides have piled a lot of antagonism on to each other. at some point, it is futile to g

states -- georgia's president about relations with the united states. now to new york state, where high school students in the small community -- in a small community have been coming down with strange ticks. aaron brock a -- erin brockovich is getting involved. she believes a toxic chemical spill could have something to do with this. >> this high school in upstate new york -- at this high school in upstate new york, 15 teenagers have developed uncontrollable tics and faintings bells -- and thinkin spells. >> i cannot stand for more than two minutes. i am in a wheelchair. everything gets really bad at night. >> the doctor who has treated most of the teenagers believe this is a form of mass psychogenic illness, a rare disorder often called mass hysteria. >> i have never seen anything like this before. it is remarkable. >> until the famed environment activist erin brockovich -- enter the famed environmental activist, erin brockovich. >> there are other people reporting that they lived close to the spill site and that their family is experiencing health pr

soviet union would remove its missiles close to the united states and the united states would remove its missiles close to the soviet union. this was never publicly acknowledged. >> and you mentioned lincoln was kennedy's secretary. here's a note that lincoln's secretary was named kennedy. caller: a bar hero himself who received the navy cross and his brother being killed in action also his older brother joseph being killed in action in world war ii. it's my feeling that president kennedy was our greatest president and it's ashame that he never could serve a second term. it's also a shame that his son 's life was cut short. i think he would have probably picked up that mantle. and i believe that john f. kennedy was a moderate but his brother teddy was a liberal. and i think his death was to robert to become more liberal as well. but i just would like to say that. thank you for seaving my call. guest: thank you. >> kennedy had a complex relationship with the military as you mentioned he was indeed a military veteran and a war here ovement when he became president, he had a difficult r