states it's just we have the united states we have another country living side by side with it it's called the pentagon and there's just no controlling it it's gone out of hand that's forty percent of our budget is goes to intelligence security and military. and there's also wall street which is another beast which has its own ethic so i think we'll see was that three countries living side by side tentacles reaching far cross the all over let's talk about nixon your portrayal of nixon was that he was a criminal i mean the cia is portrayed as this evil entity almost the supernatural entity or you know one point the movie the director of the cia is even threatening to kill nixon what do you say to people who say that you were too forgiving of bush and your movie w but i don't see that in nixon that the cia director tried to kill dick said we would that we hinted at there was a controversy between helms richard helms and nixon and part of the problems was to cuba papers and what you are it's a dirty story the cia was we nicknamed sometimes capitalisms invisible army goes back to one ni

it happened in the united states of america. you have disparate economies in the united states of america that are bound together monetarily. missouri and washington state are as different as germany and greece. what is it that keeps the united states together? you had a great depression here in the 1930's. things were awful. and yet, i do not believe there were any political movements to get rid of the deficit states from the united states, like there are in europe and portugal and spain and everywhere else that happens to be in deficit. the reason is, the federal- state, especially after 1929 plays the role of the regulator of surplus and deficit recycling around the land. let me give you a simple example. we are in seattle. boeing is sponsoring the lectures. when boeing goes to washington to give a contract for the next generation jet or whatever, they may get it. they do get it. but there are some things attached. like for instance, we want a factory that builds the wings are the engines in tennessee or missouri or arizona.

states nine eleven except here in the united states continues this relationship and it is same time talks about democracy but just not there that's kind of strange isn't it. well we have some very common interests with the saudi government a right it's a big oil producer we're both committed to maintaining security in the persian gulf well our all of our values and interests converge of course time and we don't have that kind of relationship with any country in terms of the democracy movements and arab spring sense a started the u.s. has promised promoted democratization and the arab world especially in countries like egypt now it's kind of accomplice that complicated situation in the persian gulf with saudi arabia for example how far do we push political reforms and are part of the world are the countries in that part of the world ready for these reforms you can argue yes but how will that affect our relationship the u.s. relationship with those countries and pact some of our key objectives like containing and you clearly run josh i've just never understood it i mean so he may be h

states to monitor the internal policies of the united states. monitor and tell us how it you ought to operate. this is a particularly curious thing, and that the united states has the world's best record on disability issues. we lead the world. so we are told it's that ratify the treaty because we are do you need it. all the requirements of this treaty, and all of these commissions are going to be established, and that will be fine. and we will set example worldwide on advancing legitimate cause for the disabled. well, in truth, i think we have very set an example to we have already set the most advanced laws in the world. we lead the world. this treaty has misdirected in the world community a way to focus on the united states. instead of really the lack of action by so many other nations around the world. we have a most magnificent system of law. it is a foundation of our liberty and our happiness. thus, if we were to ratify this treaty, we can be sure a lot of international hypocrites will soon but did demand the united states do this or that.

bill don't you find it very problematic that the united states likes to support the i.c.c. against its enemies but it's not a member of it and will not join it. that's hypocrisy absolutely. yeah. that is a very appropriate allegation of hypocrisy and i have spoken out publicly in favor of the u.s. joining the i.c.c. i think it's outrageous that we claim to be a country devoted to the principles of. vod justice and equity and yet do not join an international organization. that upholds those principles the i.c.c. was created largely as a result of pressure being brought by n.g.o.s such as human rights watch and amnesty international and so forth. the governments were not pressing the governments were brought into it but the problem is is that many of the important countries of the world the great powers of the world if you will including the united states china japan india and so forth have refused to join it and as long as those countries are repudiating the i.c.c. it loses its credibility ok lawrence i mean what do you think about this i mean you've got a who looks out to t

against the united states. and i think space now was written israel it sometimes israel hasn't even thought it actually and sometimes the marshall islands to get the united states basically stands alone on these things and we're spreading this we spend so much on our military so much our base is forty percent of the budget but what upsets us the perhaps the most is we think that we have the psychological right as americans to that see will i think the whole debate is wrong between romney and. between all this bipartisan foreign policy about how strong we should be and we get stronger and stronger wiser than anybody outside this mindset and asking what is the path away from global control why can we not join the world and be a peaceful cooperative member of a. global perspective with a global history that we belong together as one planet especially with the climate threat is upon us so this is what's lacking in our schools and i think. we have what they call american exceptionalism at the root of our heart we lo

united states. to what extent was our validation of morsi on november 21? including "new york times" article which talks about him solving problems. to what extent, if any, was this at least interpreted by morsi as a green light? of international approval whenever he decides to do domestically. and what lessons should we draw from that experience. economics, content and process -- and the united states and president morsi. let's start with you, mr. cook. >> okay. please come to the podium. >> okay. it seems to me first if you read the constitution, it is clear that the brotherhood, in keeping with its traditions, economic liberty. banning sequestration of property. naturalization, private property is sacred. one would think that given these ideas that implementing an imf program would be relatively un- pragmatic for the brotherhood. after all, this is a moment of national empowerment and dignity. there is a relatively small but vocal minority as opposed to the imf would rather do that than submit to

-- worried about united states? >> i think united states is incredibly important to china, and recognize that. not only in very practical ways, but in another way, more psychological. there is a 150 year history were china has been trying to check itself up in big shin itself upr status. there is this lingering psychological mindset of china being victimized by the great powers. it is kind of a struggle between china's new confidence and success, and these old feelings, is why these visits to ensure rattled and a bit. -- asia rattle them a bit. >> way back at the beginning of notlast century -, japan only occupy it, but every other great power had pieces of it. >> is a struggle between a feeling of being a victim, and agents superiority. >> it is an absolute contradiction. two sides of the same mind. in the end, a new sense of chinese confidence and a sense of respect from the world will help cure this historical the element. -- dilemma. this is the reason that your job is so hard, because sometimes people -- things

believed to be located outside the united states." now if the government wants to engage in electronic surveillance targeting a united states person for foreign intelligence purposes, it must go back to the fisa court and it must get a specific order from that court. in an emergency the surveillance can commence before the court order is issued, but the government still must have probable cause to believe that the united states person is an agent of a foreign power. what does this mean? it means once the foreign person is targeted and the information is collected, if it goes to a united states phone number, that phone number cannot be used for surveillance without a warrant. that phone number is inadvertently picked up, and it is minimized. it is kept there in case something develops for a period

states who have studied here in the united states. we constantly are reinforcing that message, the fact we are two totally independent branches of government and the congress does not necessarily speak for the president of the united states. >> in fact, xi jinping at one point said something very interesting. he couldn't understand that the u.s. government should have three branches come and affect three governments have been a government because it was difficult to get stuff done. he was right. that's for sure. >> you've had a pretty -- i shouldn't say you, but there's been a rather -- "the new york times" called the new leaders of china a meritocracy of mediocrity and there's been a lot of talk and a new generation of leaders who haven't necessarily earned their stripes. i'm just wondering your answer to that. >> there is talk about the last 10 years being the last decade were nothing much happened. but you know, if you turn that around a little bit and i admit there's a lot of problems and many things were insulted that they said w

he wanted to see the rest of the united states and he had expensive design on what the united states should take from mexico, much more that he told nicholas to negotiate more. so he told him to come home. what ended up happening is that trist refused came that he refused to come home. as trist said, he wanted to make a treaty that was not exactly to mexico. so he made the treaty while lupe adolfo, despite the fact that he wrote his wife that he will probably never work in washington again. and polk was so angry that he withheld the pay of trist, and his family became an incredibly poverty-stricken family. it wasn't until after the civil war that trist got another position. it was near the end of his life and he was given a not very demanding position running a post office in virginia. but up until that point, he was broke and his family over terribly because of it. now, let's just kind of wrap this up and tell you what i think the antiwar protests, the context is. the top quote that i have is a quote from polk from january of 1848. this is what he said to his cabinet. he said at thi

what are foes saying in the united states about this? >> only that the delay appears to is done nothing to dissuade north korea from moving ahead with what is believed an effort to build an intercontinental missile aimed of having a nuclear warhead. >> as far as we can tell this is a delay and the plans are unchanged. >> an analyst in south korea believes the international pressure could be a factor in the delay because china may have sent a strong message for the north to cancel the launch plan and the technical glitches in the third stage of the rocket could have only been a cover. that is speculation we cannot confirm. >>shepard: is anyone talking about openings to slow them down? >>guest: whatever lessons are applied to the missile launch could be learned from sanctioned applied to iran with a growing consensus the sanctions could be working and they could be applied to impose greater sanctions on north korea working with allies and the united states, especially true if light the fact that many components for missiles and north korea

a br lawsuits in the united states courts. such matters will continue to be governed solely by united states laws. now, it is my hope that these provisions in the resolution of advise and consent will provide assurance to members who may be concerned that joining the convention can somehow confer new rights on disabled persons in particular areas or the convention can be used to require the united states to change its laws or policies with respect to the disabled. with these provisions, the united states can join the convention as an expression -- an expression -- of our leadership on disability rights without ceding any of our ability to decide for ourselves how best to address those issues in our law. the united states can play an important leadership role in helping countries around the world identify ways to expand opportunities for the disabled. i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the united states secession to the convention as a means of advancing this goal. i would point out, mr. president, that many of us ha

you served in the most highly decorated unit in the history of the united states army. can you tell us what you learn from that experience, and how did that experience impactor public career? >> there are certain things that haunt me, even to this day. and that is that working change a person's character and personality. one might be content and say i am a good person. for example, one week before i got into the service and put on my uniform, i was a sunday school teacher. and my mother was a devout methodist. part of the women's christian union. you don't get any more devout than that. the whole bunch of them were that way. and then going overseas, i recall killing the first german. the thing that haunts me is that i was jubilant. i was proud. the fellows around me had me on the back and said, terrific, terrific. i just killed a human being. and to think that working change a person so drastically, it has been with me all the time or it when it comes to going into war, i am very cautious here. for example, i'm against giving the president the authorization to make a st

and the united states wants to be part of that. we are going to be part of that drama that plays out. now, we have stated very clearly that a critical component of that is a close working relationship with china. so when we engage, for instance, burma, we have our own history, our own motivations that are unrelated to other countries. so what we are seeking in our engagement is to underscore the positive-sum realities of what we want to accomplish working together. at every meeting we have with china's interlocutors, we lay out a critical set of areas where we can work together on assistance and joint endeavors that send a message that both countries are determined to work together in the 21st century. >> well, what do you say to the chinese when they say, we think this is some sort of containment policy? >> i say it's not. >> now, i think [inaudible] [laughter] you can go on if you'd like. no, but i think also the -- i mean, a lot of talk about the u.s. pivot and the like, but also you can just as much say that, you know, asia has

states senate and the united states of america. to senator inouye, we say aloha. with that, mr. president, i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: mr. president, i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. harkin: mr. president, the united states senate, both as a legislative body and as a fami family, is in mourning today after the passing of its most senior and revered member, senator daniel inouye of hawaii. in his final days, senator inouye was asked how he wanted to be remembered. he replied with characteristic modesty, "i represented the people of hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. i think i did okay." with similar understatement, speaking about the extraordinary act of heroism in combat for which he was awarded the congressional medal of honor, he explained that i

, the archivist of the united states, and united states district court, certifying that you have fulfilled your duties in electing the president and vice president at this electoral college. my staff will escort the electors to the tables. be sure to sign all six copies. electors will now sign these certificates of votes according to the secretary's instructions. >> all the certificates of vote being signed, i asked for a motion that they may be delivered into the keeping of the secretary of state, who will distribute them as required by law. is there a motion? >> i move that the signed certificates be delivered to the secretary for distribution as required by law. >> the motion has been offered. is there a second? >> second the motion. >> all in favor signify by saying aye. opposed? the motion carries, and the documents are delivered to the secretary of state, who will deliver them by law. i would like to thank everyone for participating in this august gathering and thank members of the 53rd ohio electoral college. i would ask that the closing benediction be delivered. reverend? >> please

united states? >> it would not be a success for the people of the united states. we have seen from hurricane sandy, it is affecting the united states. look at the drop in texas. it is in the interest of the people of the u.s. to act and take leadership in the world so that the world can act. everyone is looking to the u.s. because it is the richest country per-capita. it is most responsible for climate change, historically, and even today, the most important polluter. if the u.s. does not act, that will depress other countries. as i said, president obama, in his first term, he promised a lot. when the united states came back to the negotiations under obama's leadership, there was a standing ovation. the u.s. is back and they will take the lead. unfortunately, it prevented others from acting, and it is actually in danger of doing worse than what bush did. bush said, i do not believe in a climate change. if you want to do something, do it and leave me alone. but this present team says we are the leade

states the united states has become the primary market for getting guns so that is a much bigger discussion that needs to happen but happen alongside questioning of why it is that people need these guns in the first place and that's because we have impoverished mexico with our trade policies. a lot of this bloodshed happened under mexican president calderon and we are seeing this transition of leadership do you see any promise under mexico's new leadership well the new president pena nieto has promised that he will bring in peace to mexico but he hasn't really said how he will do that and he's you know the leadership he's the new leadership of the pretty government which was in power for over seventy years prior to the pan's leadership and he's really the protege of silliness they were tare who is the person who along with clinton signed nafta and bra. the impoverishment to mexico and the usurpation of collectively held lands that i mentioned earlier that has created the conditions for the drug trade to thrive as it has. macy with the return trip pretty government is the return to pretty po

we have non-nation state actors that can cause harm to the united states and significant harm. and perhaps have profound effect on the security, even though they're not nations, they don't have armies, navies and air forces. >> and after a decade of fighting terrorism, the u.s. has adapted. military planners have turned away from major ground wars in favor of more nimble special operations. >> there's an old adage that, "this war is not like the last war, this war is not like the next war, this war is like this war." the point being that they're all different. and the enemy has a brain, the enemy adapts and adjusts to whatever the united states does. >> there's been a tension in the u.s. military which is particularly important today between preparing for the big wars, like wwii or, or the gulf war and preparing for counter-insurgencies against lesser threats, guerilla groups and terrorists. as we had to face whether it was the vietcong in vietnam of al-qaeda in iraq or the taliban. >> i actually think that in the 21st century large land war is going to become more and more rar

narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, underg

europe, unlike the united states, unlike the united states never allowed the waves of anti communism to decimate the organization that had built up their left and during the great depression. we had in the united states three organizations in the great depression that changed everything. the c i o, industrial organizations, organized people into unions in a way that we never had before or since. that was the greatest wave of unionization the united states ever seen. in the depths of the depression. think about the difference between then and now. in the depths of the depression millions of americans decided they wanted to join a union and they did so on a scale we had never had before or since. the second big organization was the socialist party's and the third was the american communist party who were coordinated with the cio and the joint membership and so on. very powerful organizations parallel to what you have in europe but after the war everything changed. if i could take a moment to explain why. roosevelt comes to power, the depression is underway three years, he runs on a bal

>> that's up to the president of the united states, of course. but i would say he has a wide selection of individuals to choose from. but susan rice would be on the very top of my list, that's for sure. >> what do you make of all of this opposition? do you think that some of it is legitimate? >> i think that it has to be something has to be personal or the fact that john mccain lost the presidency or something of that nature. >> really? >> when you think of it, think of what condoleezza rice, when she was the secretary of state and some of the things that she said and weapons of mass destruction, something that was very devastating to us as a country, took us into two wars. and i didn't hear john mccain or lindsey graham or anybody saying anything then. so to be talking about this when susan rice had absolutely nothing to do with the decisions in regard to what the security should have been or shouldn't have been in benghazi, to try to put the blame on her now, it seems incredible that they continue with this line of criticism. >> here is the lat

the united states or the united nations excuse me elevated the new member status of the palestinian authority what does this move mean for negotiations in the middle east and what's the best way to achieve a two state solution laskar panel in tonight's special bigger picture discussion on the middle east also isn't it a failure of the so-called free market would be a boil companies are allowed to run around polluting our environment at the expense of our health and lives that and more into night's big picture rubble and drones are supposed to be used in combat situations with our enemies and yet we're using them against people in nations that were allies with what kind of precedent are we setting for the future of drone warfare across the globe share my thoughts into that steely take. tonight we have a special bigger picture discussion on the middle east history was made in new york city yesterday as the united nations general assembly approved a resolution that implicitly recognizes palestinian statehood in a vote of one hundred thirty eight to nine with forty one nations abstainin

states and help create jobs here in the united states. this bill actually goes a step further, and what it does is it provides them a green card, a green card, which is the first step toward a path to citizenship. if you believe that this is a self-inflicted wound on our economy, you're exactly right, our current policy. we're educating brilliant students and then compelling them to go to work in shanghai or singapore rather than san antonio or the silicon valley. meanwhile, we're handing out tens of thousands of diversity visas to immigrants chosen by a random lottery, without regard to any qualifications they might when it comes to job creation and entrepreneurship. it makes absolutely no sense. i believe we need an immigration policy that serves our national interest. and if there's one thing that we need more than anything else now is we need job creators and entrepreneurs in the united states. and we know in the -- in the global economy, it's people with the special skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are the o

it's in the national security interests of the united states. it's in the national economic interests of the united states. to achieve comprehensive immigration reform. >> craig joins us live. craig, especially where you are, not all latinos are democrats. >> that's right. er geraldo, we're here in the jiminez cigar lounge in new york, which is a third latino, and peter is a third-generation latino and believes illegal immigrants should go back to the end over the line. >> they paid their fines, and they are patiently waiting for the chance. now, what type of message are you sending to the people who did it legally? you did it the right way. get to the back of the line. >> the back of the line. so the republicans here but they disagree with peters are opinion. you're an immigration attorney. what is your opinion? >> me and peter argue this a lot. the same world at ellis island was open. and a new system has to come into effect and that's the american dream act. it's a process where these students and immigrants become legal in this country to do

and what about this nuclear waste that's heading for the united states we've. she's almost a year ago it seems you were telling us about nuclear waste was getting the west coast of the united states is this second wave is it what's what's going on it'll be continual for a long time into the future there's the surface flotsam and jetsam the floating materials which if you read the mainstream media the past couple days there's this discounting that oh it's not radioactive there's no way to know that it could well be radioactive another piece of news that just broke today is that eight crewmembers on the u.s.s. ronald reagan which was on the east coast of japan taking part in the rescue and recovery after the earthquake and tsunami eight of those crewmembers out of the five thousand five hundred on their craft carrier have sued tokyo electric and the japanese government for the false information that they were operating under in those first critic. days of the disaster because they were exposed on the back of that aircraft carrier to the radiation coming off of ja

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states secretary of state, the hon. hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> 17 years ago, as we were in beijing on behalf of the un conference concerning the rights of women, we fought about many of the women around the world who could not be with us but whose presence was a strong message of the values that we were promoting, values that were not just american values but universal values. madeleine albright left that conference in beijing, taking with harry poster signed by all the americans and a few others do we gave the opportunity to sign, to take that poster to burma to give to aung san suu kyi, to let her know once again that there were many of us are around the world supporting her in her cause. when i was a member of the senate and privileged to vote for the bill we now see come to fruition in 2008, i never imagined that a year later i would be secretary of state. but i was so pleased to have the opportunity to work with my colleagues, my former colleagues, in thinking about a new approach that the united states

the united states, it's a tool of the united states to make america safe. if there is any air strike conducted that involves an enemy combatant of the united states outside the theater of direct combat, it gets reviewed by this committee. and i am talking about every single one. that's an important thing. and there are very strict reviews put on all of this material. there are he very strict guidelines about how these air strikes may or may not occur. because we have that same feeling. if people lose faith in our ability, of our intelligence services to do their work, then they will be ineffective and therefore we will be less safe. our argument has been we want that oversight. we want aggressive oversight. we want thorough review. and i request tell you, and i think you would be proud of the very work that we do on the committee to that end. we never really did covert action reviews except for sporadically. now we do regularly, quarterly, and monthly covert action reviews on this committee. to make sure we get it right. they get it right. mr. kucinich: wou

the message has to be said that the united states is engaged, that the united states is ready to be involved in the united states is ready to do whatever is necessary to prevent, an act that could endanger or take the lives of literally thousands and thousands of innocent people. senator lieberman. >> thank you. we've obviously reached a great moment in the war is ration serious for more than 20. it's great for the obvious fact we believe the assad has engaged biological weapons and put them in a position where they can be used fairly rapidly. i see the back over the 20 minutes of this conflict, this is a series of events, which people said could not have been. this weekend with peaceful demonstrations and when assad was unable to control or suppress them he began to fire to some people may begin to defend themselves in a very unfair fight, which is when many of us thought we should immediately take sides on the side of freedom and give those freedom fighters the weapons with which they can fight. it happened much too late and not from us you people said of the seas not using his air force t

it is reaffirmation of the enduring bonds between the united states and italy and tribute to our history as partners and allies and marker of our shared value and heritage. our ties are embedded in the very root of the american story. america is discovered by the italians and named by an italian and built by thousands of italians and our community representing literally millions of bridges between the countries. through research and innovation italy will remain a bafton of creativity and beautiful. may our common history and sustained by our common values and common faith in the future continue to grow and flourish. with warmest regards, nancy pelosi". thank you very much. [applause] >> so mayor lee, senator leno, state assembly member and leaders and ladies and gentlemen. it's a real honor for me to celebrate with you today the start of the italian culture in the united states. nancy pelosi was with our foreign minister in washington dc, but san francisco is the first major city after washington dc that follows suit, that follows washington dc, so again a little like the giants that wan

in the united states, we have a federal government in the united states and it's only natural that another layer of government that deals with issues of loss. but over the course of the next hundred years from the lives of our children and grandchildren, we will see progress with it. the big question is whether the balance between the power of those public entities and big private enterprises that are the size of most of the biggest countries in the world. it also remains unbalanced. right now, our future is being determined in financial markets that are regulated by anybody. where the risk of a blow is a risk to each of us and those factors have been very successful in shrugging off and keeping away kind of regulation that could mitigate that risk. and the point is we need to pay attention there and we need to balance their, particularly in the united states, we are seriously out of markets." and that's in a few minutes. but in the meantime, we want to oduc >> we want to introduce you to lila quintero weaver. she is the author of this book, "darkroom" a memoir in black and white. ms. weav

states, and what they represent, and i think the technology, the future of the united states represents is the ability to not just export and export our products and our technology, but to export our ideals, democracy -- democratic dialogue of the free flow of information, and the ability of these technology companies which are still based in the united states to have a global impact, i think, bodes well, not just for our economic future, but also for the ability of america to continue to project its ideals across the world to hopefully democracytize the flow of information which ultimately, i argue, is fundamental to the productivity and comparative advantage. thank you. with that, happy to answer questions. [applause] >> i wanted to is you what you foresee in the future of manufacturing as manufacturing changes. there could be changes with computer manufacturing, and how will the entrepreneurial advantage continue to thrive in that environment? >> excellent question. what will the role of technology be for american manufacturing. the first thing i caution people about is i don't think

my doctoral dissertation and the united states, ambassador of the united states, president of argentina, but he wrote a lot of books on the united states. in fact, the one book i translated from spanish to english was one of his books on the united states. the first book was really the doctoral dissertation which i was really in princeton then, and then in morristown, and then it took it to princeton university precedes, -- press, and they really liked the book, giving me a shot in the arm making me feel more confident. it seems as if i've become more productive as i've gotten older which is keep of nice because usually you think, you know, you -- when you are younger, you're more productive, but seems me productivity increased with age which is a nice thing so the spanish book, the book on spain is my 13th book. only two of the books are novels. in fact, the second novel was also published by hanson publishing, john and jodi, called "stones." a lot of people say what's it like to go back and forth between journalism, scholarship, and fiction? i say, well, it helps if you are scrits phr

those same skilled positions have nearly vanished here in the united states. and chinese labor is the reason apple can afford to train americans and pay american wages right now. look at this apple's net income. $41.7 billion over the last 4 quarters. that ain't bad. in fact, that's almost $7 billion more than the next six companies combined. microsoft, ebay, google, yahoo! facebook, and amazon. they can't keep up. cheap chinese labor helped apple make almost $50 billion in the next fiscal quarter, alone. those profits allow apple to finally do the right thing. they're going to hire more americans. the ceo says he feels the company has a responsibility to create jobs. we wish more ceos would show that economic patriotism. it's a heck of a start. let's bring in e.j. dionne, msnbc contributor and "washington post" columnist and author of the book "our divided political heart." e.j., we need more stories like this. what kind of skilled labor does apple need? what do you think the ceo is talking about? where are we lacking? >> well, i think that, first of all, i t

the united states they want to see other suppliers. which the serious political control of united states such countries is as it were because of iraq. so they want to see these countries as the main supplies to europe this is the. and keep in mind katie also that there is another big issue and that is that at the moment there are sixteen applications pending for export of us gals to gnaw on free trade member countries and that means that senator lugar's initiative will have to wait in a very long line and i'm not sure that senator lugar unself is going to survive that wait because he himself gave his retirement speech on wednesday. interesting stuff in the in the business thank you very much in defending us on that. now off to fourteen hours of negotiations that european finance ministers finally agreed on a do to make the european central bank the supervisory body for about two hundred of the biggest banks in the region now the deal is seen as a step towards a fiscal and economic union earlier i spoke to mike ingram from b.d.c. partne

united states. this is why i do not have a fear of + about the role of the muslim brotherhood. even though sometimes the fear we have right now -- we can call them exactly like the christian democrats and in europe. they need some time to be more able -- to be able -- they are very successful on the side of the opposition. right now in sight of the government, there is a tremendous responsibility. we have seen that from the parliamentarian elections were the muslim brothers in egypt but the majority. until the results, they lost 4 million of votes. this is why we have a responsibility in the united states to support democratic institutions not allowing any ideological block to hijack the revolution or the institutions. at the same time, not taking sides. that will have a negative impact. it is an important asset to combat the jihad tests or the extremists. -- jihadists or the extremists. the muslim brothers in tunisia .ccused this is why we have to a differentiates between the muslim brothers and th

is a conflict torn country there is poverty going on there the united states is a democratic nation where you know most most places are safe so why all of these people need to have all of these guns why they have to be so available why the united states has to sort of over arm itself by you know hands and teeth and guns everywhere and they're so easily accessible you know people go to a pharmacy they need to provide prescriptions in the u.s. in many states you really need anything to get to be able to lay your hands on a gun and it's it's just it's really just shocking and you know i think it's worth bringing up you know when nine eleven happened for example of course we've seen the crazy beefed up security at airports and things like that but dozens and dozens and dozens of school shootings take place in this country and anybody can still walk into a school and commit this kind of this outrage why that is still the case is just really unclear yeah interesting too especially you know as the internet has grown there are now ways to get guns on line of course gun shows that you see ad