across the entire nation, this is what each state spends in relation to the national average, just to the right of the middle of the screen. california, to the left, in comparison to other states in the country, california is actually very efficient. i have done one thing with these numbers that some of the others have not. i have cost adjusted for inflation and i have acuity- adjusted these numbers. i am trying to create a level playing field. when you compare just the numbers, you see these vast differences, so i accounted for the numbers in looking at inflationary costs as well as the acuity of the patient. california spends 90% of the national average on health care costs. and then what i did further was breaking this down into house bill referral region. thousands of little lines and i would not expect you to follow. but the important point to know is the u.s. mean. if you look to the right, there are many hospital regions, and to the left of that, many other regions in california. i want to show you a statistic before we go into specific regions. california state expenditures on

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what is it that the nation needs? the department of defense. what does the nation need. based on that i have all of these things, how did they do this? and who has the capability? you have your list of a dozen major things, this is what the military should be for the nation -- should be doing for the nation. i look at this, this is off the coast of libya. you have the disaster that took place, and all of these things, i have this nexus of budget reality. this is where i am paying close attention. i do not think that we will be able to do everything that everyone wants in the future. what does the nation want? and who can provide this? what services can be provided and what are we going to pay for. what can we not do? because we cannot afford this? this is so important. this is the important part because if we say that this is important, and we want the department to do this, these things to this degree, and then we lay this on top of fiscal reality, and we say that we can only do this much, we will no longer be able to do this. and whenever we do the real operations arou

the national football league locked us out. our players want to play football and we have always wanted to play football. although talks between the sides continue with respect to settlement and mediation, players are working out on their own right now and they hope to be able to play football soon but that is all they want right now, to try to get back on the field. tavis: what are the issues that have caused this divide? >> the nfl owners opted out of this agreement and sometimes that gets lost in the shuffle. we had an agreement that was signed in 2006 and the owners opted out because they said the deal was not working for them. the players, they don't want anything other than a fair deal. they did not ask for $1 more. they did not ask to and the deal. we said we would play under the same terms as 2006. one thing that the players have asked for and i am proud of them that they've actually demanded, they want a fair deal and they want to know that the equity between players and owners is fair, they want to know that the terms

it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. well, the question on everyone's mind is, what did the pakistanis know and when did they know it? is it possible that bin laden could have been living near a pakistan military compound and no one knew he was there? it is a question that's on president obama's mind as well. steve kroft asked him about it in an interview that will be broadcast tonight on "60 minutes." >> do you believe people in the pakistani government, pakistani intelligence agencies, knew that bin laden was living there? >> we think that there had to be some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan. but we don't know who or what that support network was. we don't know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government. that's something that we have to investigate and more

i am the student national vice president for the guild and the national lawyers guild here in san francisco. i want to thank you for holding this hearing. i feel like this entire thing is about local control and transparency. i think there was a number of perceptive questions from commissioners regarding the bureau order and the local patrol issue. i think what needs to be really clear, as far as i understand it, and mr. crew pointed out, the bureau order does not supersede the mou. that is the core issue. i urge you to consider the issue of a resolution. i was at the police commission meeting a couple months ago where the audit was discussed. there was not a lot of information. i don't think it is clear that it can actually be fully in place when we are in the mou because the audit -- it is not clear what we can access when we are in the mou as the way it is structured. one of the provisions is that the files on jttf investigations are not kept with the san francisco police department. a lot of things are not clear. it is not clear how much information we can access. i think those are the

coming forward and speaking to the nation. our senior white house correspondent ed henry is standing by as well. i don't know if you have more information, ed. what are you learning? >> wolf, i just spoke to a senior administration official who basically said i cannot get specific about the topic, but when i asked, the person basically said just come in. as you said, on a sunday night for the president of the united states to make some sort of a statement that is unexpected, that is last minute, that is unplanned is extraordinary. it tells you that it is something of an extremely high magnitu magnitude. i don't want to speculate. this senior administration official would not speculate but did then add that it was national security related, as you just reported, wolf. so obviously, we don't want to speculate on the range of possibilities, but it's clearly something of an extremely important matter for the president to get involved in late on a sunday night, wolf. >> yeah. i've been told now by two sources at the white house, it

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the european union the only nation states that are represented in the united nations countries such as the concern and cyprus most are small of them scots and they all have representation of the european union. they can do to mark a fundamental to scotland even for example when they don't really have any relevance today and so we have to be a nation state could be represented so that we can argue and speak for what matters for scotland the european union and so we can also go to the united nations and stand up for what's right and also make clear which wars are not in her name do you think that you would automatically get to see the u.n. and representation and. well all international law sure was that we would. see dealt with in terms of putin union representation for germany once the form of the east germany became part of the new generally historical precedent and about i always go so we thank you for recognizing that the people of scotland wish to become an independent nation it will be recognised by governments so to the barber and the road in the world court marcos and court is

will destroy the national endowment, which, you know, even the national endowment-- what, $100 million bucks a year? the per capita support of the arts in the united states from all of the endowments and all of the funds that do it, public and private in this country, is about 1/5 of that happens in some european countries. yeah, we do very, very little for the arts. and even the $100 million-- money that goes to the national endowment for the arts in this country, only 10% of it goes to the support of individual creative artists. every time the national endowment gives out, what-- 5,000 grants-- maybe some joker in the congress can find one or two out of the 5,000 to object to. and of course, that gets held up as the destructiveness of the funding for the national endowment. there are some people in this country-- and the majority of them, it strikes me, are in congress-- who are desperately afraid of the effect of the arts on our culture. what's a bigger threat, though, government censorship or self-censorship? [sighs] i spent a lot of time going to the then-soviet union in the 1960s

. >> next on c-span2, "the communicators" talks with the director of the national institute on drug abuse. .. >> don't miss any updates from washington journal. start your twitter account today at twutter.com -- twitter.com/c-span wj. >> this week on "the communicators," several bear spectives on a study that measures how brain activity changes due to cell phone use. >> host: joining us on "the communicators" is dr. nora volkow who is the director of the national institute on drug abuse, and recently dr. volkow, you conducted a study on cell phones. what was that study? >> guest: the study was to try to find out the human brain is sensitive to the electromagnetic radiation that is emitted by cell phones which is not an obvious answer because this is a very low intensity. and prior studies that have been done to address that question have provided very inconclusive results. some show increases in activity, some show decreases, some show no changes, so very difficult to extract information that could answer that question, is the human brain sensitive to the intensities of electromagnetic ra

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national level to the european level i think the national governments definitely should have full control over the tax policy over their fiscal policy which means social systems pension systems health care systems these things should not be given out in favor of european or for abuse or european institutions why does the e.u. need urgent reform we have to try to change the paradigm of the e.u. itself because for the last fifty years the e.u. has been driven by integration and it's all for the wrist. as a close uni and by the idea that the shifting of powers warts from national level to the european level is a good thing without some deeper analysis of how the time seems to be over and what we need. to console what exactly should be executed on the european level and what should be executed on the national level and to find out the right balance between the european level and the national level. give us an example of how the e.u. is wasting money first of all we have to look at because some member of the european parliament we have to look at the expenses of the european parliament itself

as the chairman indicated, our 2,004 law created the director of national intelligence and the national counterterrorism center to foster information sharing and collaboration among our security partners not only across the federal government, but also tall levels of government. the dni has made some concrete progress integrating the 17 agencies in the intelligence community. i want to give just two examples of how that integration is taking place. they are not the kind of examples the public is generally aware not but when you talk to those working these frequently come up. in 2008 the dni ruled out the innovative state which is an intelligence analyst facebook but instead of being used for social networking, our intelligence experts are posting, sharing and asking each other about topical issues. they can collaborate with colleagues across agencies and the world helping them to share leaves and resources more easily than ever. a second example is the national counterterrorism center's creation of the pursuit teams that met terrorist networks, track threats using information from acros

represented in the european union the only nation states that are represented in the united nations countries such as we can see in cyprus and ultra in all small of them scotland they all have representation of the european union. they can do to mark the fundamental to scotland even for example a person when they don't really have any relevance to them so we have to be a nation state to be represented so that we can argue and speak for what matters for scotland the european union and so we can also go to the united nations and stand up for what's right and also make clear which wars are not only do you think that you would also massively get a seat in the un and representation in brussels well the international law assures that we would this is a matter of seat belt with the terms a few people union representation for germany once the former eastern and east generally became part of the generally historical precedent of i.q. of ways so we thank you for recognizing that the people of scotland wish to become an independent nation it will be recognised by governments so to the barber a

in the nation's history. he felt that this type of order allows judges to indulge policy preferences and that they exceeded their authority under the constitution and under federal law. justice alito also wrote a dissent that was joined by chief justice john roberts. he agreed that the lower court here exceeded its authority. u=w÷ itsd that the lower court ordered on outdated evidence of what the conditions were presently in the prisons and also that it didn't give adequate weight to public safety. he ended his defense by saying he feared that this order would lead to a grim roster of victims. >> suarez: in other words, that once they let these people out of california prisons that they'll go on to commit new crimes in the streets of the state. >> that's correct. justice kennedy refuted that. he said that the lower court here had taken testimony and had statistical evidence from expert witnesses that showed that prison... the reduction of prison populations in at least a half dozen other states had not put t

the state precedes the nation. and this creates some problems with the current period in part because we have a russian state now and territorial experience that bears very little evidence towards the russian state at least for the past 2 or 300 years. and one of the core questions that they're discussing today and they have for the past 20 years is what is the central identity of this russian state? what is going to be the fundamental principle behind russian national identity? there's been a lot of talk about russian ethnicity as the foundation for that national identity. and, of course, this creates problems in russia today, something that this paper does discuss peripherally. if it's russian national, ethnicity that is a foundation for the nation, what do you do with those 17 million russians who lie beyond the borders of russia in the former soviet space? if you try to do this a specific identity, the question still is, why these borders? and how do you justify a identity with russia within these borders when

birthplace of the national guard. salem was the site where the countries' first military regiment mustered in 1637. the militia was the foundation of what was to become the national guard. it's in commemoration and celebration of the men and women who serve our country and those salem residents who came together almost 375 years ago to protect our nation. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment. next year will be the 375th anniversary of the first muster. so it's particularly pleasing to see this matter passed in time to celebrate that. in my limited time i also want to touch on the other three amendments that are included in the en bloc. those are good government amendments which are the result of oversight work done by the subcommittee on national security which i chaired in the last two congresses but which reflect a good bipartisan oversight effort. these amendments will be seeking to strengthen our manufacturing and defense industrial base. will increasing foreign police training programs which currently i

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she is president of the national association of hispanic journalist and member of the national press club as well. congratulations to rafael williams, the son of our guest speaker. we can allow one round of applause. [applause] and independent freelance journalist and she has formerly worked for npr. the devoted wife of our guest speaker today. bob keep is the senior press secretary for the national resources defense council. bloomberg news, he is chair of our diversity committee. he and i worked together in buffalo, new york, many years ago. my colleague from ap broadcast, the new member of the national press club. she works for ap television news. steve taylor is a fox news correspondent. eric is media critic, moving over to the "washington post." a new member of the national press club. please give them a round of applause. [applause] we began with a quotation. "yesterday, and npr fire to me for telling the truth here " that is how our guest speaker started a column in the wake of a disaster from npr. his departure from npr set off a firestorm. just a few months later, the preside

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they went through the grounds that the national recreation area and the only thing they found was her bicycle >> was to proceed failed this is a challenge for the family and volunteers and searchers that are involved and we are hoping for a good outcome >> there will be a candlelight vigil tonight. >> now the latest on the bryan stowe beating case this is a sketch of the suspect there of the man that is believed to be the prime suspect. they do believe he is the main person in his day in the attorney for ramirez is saying he has an alibi he was babysitting that night and was not involved. his mother is speaking up and that they do have the wrong man not her son. the mother for bryan stowe has filed a lawsuit against the dodgers for medical expenses 45 to $50,000. on our fan page people are adding their comments as to what they feel. if you would like to participate go to our fan page and post your comments. we will be right back to look at weather and traffic >> 9 09 right now and we're watching as president obama is finishing up addressing both houses of british parliament. he brough

the national liberal party or the leader of the ultra right program anian party retaliate government chunka is rarely invited to speak over the radio the national liberal party's manifesto echoes the motto of the people who rampaged from parliament moldova and remain here are a single country she could visit said we want to join nato and the european union still that's the position of the national liberal party but that's can only be achieved through a union with remain handy and this should be done without doing a village we do not hesitate to voice what's on the minds of a very many people in our society with the only. the town of several k. two hundred kilometers from chris you know it is the informal capital of the romany people in moldova stones on the high bank of the nice to river its romany population is nearly twenty thousand. ah to maturity is a room in the barrel a needs to be in the know about the problems facing all run many families help them deal with them and add their grievances to the authorities . although most people in some rocky change their old casa plush germa

vernon, the national archives. she just made a pit stop in baltimore and is on her way right now to gettysburg. however, i have to tell you, we're not really sure she's going to come to this spot where we are standing right now. we are hopeful that she will. there are about another 100 people that are hopeful that she will swing through this spot in gettysburg. we are following sarah palin for all of those reasons. a lot of people are expecting her to indeed run for president after speculation that she wasn't going to run. we are following sarah palin this afternoon. also, on twitter today, mitt romney, the former massachusetts governor, he is expected to run for president. he has said everything but the fact that he expects to run for president. he tweeted that he's looking forward to the event in new hampshire on thursday. not to be outdone, tim pawlenty and michele bachmann are also out on the campaign trail today. michele bachmann is up in new hampshire. tim pawlenty out in iowa, both are being overshadowed a g

addressing the nation. general tom mcinirn knee joins me here. he and i let me say we are blowing off all of the commercial breaks. we will be staying live. we are also suspending all of the preproduced stories that we had coming your way this if it is important enough for the president of the united states to address the nation it is certainly important enough for us at fox news to blow out our commercial breaks and these other stories. we are going to stick on this and as the information comes out mike emanuel one of the most skilled white house correspondents in this town it at the white house monitoring all of the wires general mcinernie say your surprise. >> i think it has to do with colonel qaddafi and his demise. this is unprecedented for this president. >> you have been around for a while as have i i am in my 5th decade of this. i don't remember this ever happening before but for the death -- i mean. it would be death or war it would seem to me or awful terror plot. i don't want to scare people at h

nation of islam for the 12 years he was a member of the nation of islam. in fact, dr. marable gives us a fuller picture of the level of work that malcolm put in traveling the country, speaking and organizing building temples our behalf of the nation of islam. so these are just some of the, and this is based on the archives that individual. so i think these are some of the new and fresh insights that are in the book based on those archives. >> zaheer ali, are there some archives about malcolm x that are still not available? >> well, yes. there are thousands of pages of fbi documents, and new york police department documents. in his research, dr. marable utilize over 6000 pages of newly declassified material, freedom of information act request, just this last month the fbi put on the website a new batch of fbi files on naca max. so there is still much more to be known about what our government knew about malcolm, what they thought about malcolm, and how it involved the work. one of the interesting things we found was that malcolm, the first page of his fbi f

among the families of the active duty, the national guard and reserve. the rich tradition are lived each day and rest in their hearts, long after they are shed. today, we are fortunate to have with us a splended representation of military moms, gold star moms, gold star spouses for whom they are pioneered. this is an intergeneration al gathering of mothers who continue to inspire and nurture. they have an opportunity to introduce a truly remarkable woman. dr. biden is a talented woman of many diverse accomplishments. she understands the importants of a military mom so well because she is one. she is an an exception al educa educator. working to raise her family, she earned two masters degrees and is a full-time professor. one of her first significant leadership was creating along with the first lady the joint leadership campaign. strengthen the support by reaching out with gestures of kindness and opportunities they discern. i'm so proud. she shares the accomplishments. she has seen her own son off to war and endured the long way of the return and the kn

what is it that the nation needs? the department of defense. what does the nation need. based on that i have all of these things, how did they do this? and who has the capability? you have your list of a dozen major things, this is what the military should be for the nation -- should be doing for the nation. i look at this, this is off the coast of libya. you have the disaster that took place, and all of these things, i have this nexus of budget reality. this is where i am paying close attention. i do not think that we will be able to do everything that everyone wants in the future. what does the nation want? and who can provide this? what services can be provided and what are we going to pay for. what can we not do? because we cannot afford this? this is so important. this is the important part because if we say that this is important, and we want the department to do this, these things to this degree, and then we lay this on top of fiscal reality, and we say that we can only do this much, we will no longer be able to do this. and whenever we do the real operations arou

the marlins shut down the nationals. -0. the trouble continues for the baltimore orioles as they were swept by the jays. evan longoria scores. matt joyce comes around. that will get him home and adam jones. but they do it again. ben zobrist will come around to score. joey scores and they win 5-3. >> the search for a new head coaches. mike breye told maryland that he will stay with the irish gray. he has strong ties to this area. but he reportedly told kevin anderson no thank you. this coming after sean miller turned down a position yesterday. >> the most surprising could be what has happened to the world champion lakers. today's game four just shocking. no one could guard jason terry. his shot made it 71-88. they had to do this. look at that bush league move by andrew bynum, puts back reyeah on the matt. omar was ejected for pushing dirk nowitzki. the mavericks sweep the lakers. the score 122-86. >>> at the quails championship. a 14-footer and he makes it. lucas glover going to the playoffs at 15 under but it would be lucas

giants hang on to beat the nationals 2-1. that's your "sports minute." i'm hakim dermish. have a great day. >> i'm not at all sure about that beard. >> it's a statement. >> it doesn't match the color of his hair. >> makes him look like a pirate. >> he does look like a pirate. a real pirate on the mound. >> next up is "reporter's notebook," real stories affecting our community. >> we'll be back in 15 minutes with the day's top stories. >>> good morning. welcome to "reporter's notebook." i'm pat lawson muse. we begin with vincent orange's return to the d.c. council. former ward 5 council member vincent orange beat out eight candidates to win an at large seat on the council. he now fills the old seat vacated by council chair kwame brown. how did vincent orange do this? >> well, he did very well in the east of the park district, the majority black districts for the rest of them. he did not do so well in the so-called white districts, if you want to put it that way. but people got up to vote, and merrill took away from biddle. and

and the office of the national intelligence director. this portion of the hearing is 45 minutes and we'll show you as much as we can and to our live event at 10 eastern. >> the hearing will come to order. good afternoon. this is our second hearing on the topic, 10 years after 9/11, intelligence reform working? this is part of a continuing series of hearings that our committee is convening this year on how well the secure -- security reforms enacted after 9/11 have protected our homeland, obviously with a night on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 coming up. during our hearing last week we explored a variety of issues related to intelligence reform. this hearing is surely going to focus on a single big question, but a lot of sub questions. and that is, does the director of national intelligence have the authorities needed to lead our sprawling intelligence community as we want it to be led. we are very honored to have with us as our sole witness today the immediate past director of national intelligence, admiral dennis blair. admiral blair is

and national security of the country. indeed given the scope of the problem as you have heard and as you know the president has made this a significant priority for the administration. over the past few years, all of the agencies before you have made great rockers in confronting these. the justice department and our criminal national security investigators and prosecutors and attorneys have been working hard establishing new units like the national cyberinvestigative joint task force, to pull together the resources of many different agencies to investigate and address cybersecurity threats. with that said and despite good work in this area that robin is far from us all. is cleared and legislation can help tremendously to improve cybersecurity in a number of critical respects. from the justice department perspective, i would like to take a moment to highlight two parts of the administration's cyberlegislative package aimed at confronting identity theft, and at improving the tools that we used to fight computer crimes. firs

he emphasized the significance of the national assembly. >> translator: the national assembly will realize the wishes of the people namely to exercise its right to make law and its right to make important decisions about the fate of the country. >> reporter: the assembly has been criticized as little more than a carbon copy of the ruling communist party. it was in authority in 2001 when it was given the power to dismiss the president and prime minister. in this election, 827 candidates contested 500 seats. about 100 challengers came from the world of business. more than in any previous election. vietnam's economy has been growing almost 7% a year, but problems have emerged including a budget deficit and rapid inflation. at issue is the number of seats run by entrepreneurs giving them the opportunity to shape overseas and open up the economy. 15 candidates were self-nominated, with no support from the government or communist party. in the parliament, more than 90% controlled by the party. how many seats these alternative candidates win may prove important. nhk world, hanoi. >> the results o

general raymond carpenter of the national guard. all stated thissing the was an absolute essential element to their abity to preserve combat readiness. chairman proposed fiscal year 2012 national defense authorization agent provides $225 million for that account. by comparison in fiscal year 2010 and 2011, the amount was $850 million. adding this additional funding to this account ensures that all of our reserve components can continue to rebuild their combat readiness and capability that has been worn down by ten years of war in iraq and afghanistan. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment. >> i yield back. >> gentleman yields back his time. the chair now recognizes gentleman from florida, mr. miller, for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman, i yield my time to mr. turner. >> thank you. the context of this amendment must be considered within the past administration cuts to this ogram. i absolutely agree with the ranking member that the problems with the program must be resolved. they can't be resolved unless we focus on the

made their way to the rooftop of the presidential residence took down the national flag and in its place raise the european union's flag protests was announced as a revolution had taken place in moldova and the president and fled the country. president vladimir voronin was addressing the nation from his second floor office of the presidential residence. the model was a visual hallucinations and the ones behind these barbaric weak so-called demonstrations whose interests they serve. and who benefit from them are only too obvious to the we're sure it was certainly find out who is planned and masterminded these disturbances to our children openminded in cheap as a thief how much for the moldovan flak placed. under a student at the kitchen our polytechnic was among those who stormed government buildings he had joined a rally without any idea of how it might work. in the end of the time the young man was sure the police deliberately allowed protesters to seize the parliament building and set it on fire. as you can see now police are well equipped. but at the time they were ill prepared to dea

the other political players of the united nations. so, let me conclude by saying that i personally think it makes the case that eleanor's ability to turn the relative passive role of first lady into a vibrant one of activism stems, in part, from the close relationship she has with the people who are outside of the normal aristocratic circles of an upper-class woman. these people, there are others as well. the female newspaper reporters that she knew, women like ruby black. of course louis howe, who unfortunately died in 1936, they all help per transform a position she did not really want, a job of first lady, and make it into a position of importance in the american presidency. and in that spirit acting she inspires us all to see the possibilities within our own lives for doing what we can. i would just like to end this with a "for a large book that she wrote in 1960. by living. you gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop tillich fear in the face. you must do the thing you think he canno

the black and denim clad clan rode to the nation's mall in support of the nation's military men and women. today and all day we thank them for their service. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. >>> here's a quirky way to take in a little culture -- paddle through it. a lake in hungary has been transformed to an art gallery for the summer with floating sculptures that people view from their boats. the idea is to bring art closer for people to see. and artists around europe used the environment as inspiration displaying water scened work. cool there. >>> another art exhibit is taking things outside. this time in australia. that's where the annual vivid festival of lights light up the sky in the night with a kaleidoscope of colors. the opera house in sydney served as the centerpiece. it takes place in the winter season and is a great way to get people out of the house in an otherwise dreary season. >>> it would sink or swim in one competition in florida. participants at think regata built their boats using material including duct

the national teacher of the year. the teaching title is another feather in the state's education cap. >> reporter: three years in a row marylandmous school system took the top title from education week magazine. number one in the nation. now another honor. michelle shearer is the national teacher of the year. >> a tremendous honor to be the teacher of the year in the state with the number one public school system in the nation. i have worked all 14 years of my career in maryland. >> reporter: she teached chemistry at urbana high school. she won the teacher of the year in october and became a finest for the national teacher of the year in january. >> i have always believed since chemistry is everywhere, it's for everyone, i believe we need to reach out and include our stutants with special needs and include our youngest girl. >> reporter: the next step now, a visit to the white house. >> everywhere i travel and speak, i am representing tens of thousands of teacher who worked tirelessly throughout the state, every day.

the national security that the u.s. military was tied down on nation-building and in fact when he was running for office in 2000, george w. bush said he didn't believe we need to the nation building a cadre the military shouldn't be involved in, but in the terms he had embraced it to the extent which he even called for the creation of a sort of civilian nation-building response corps in the state of the union address so those are the dramatic turnaround in part of it is because the sort of armed humanitarianism was a way of getting out of the mess we have gotten into in iraq. >> how is it that nation-building became a political term where george w. bush in 2000 said we are not -- we don't nation build. >> or barack obama in december of 2009 saying that he wanted to send more troops to afghanistan on with the caveat that the nation he wanted to build was our own. nation-building is kind of a dirty word. it's not what the military is supposed to be doing. they are supposed to be training from the high end conflict, the ki

oakland is the second most literate city in the nation, the city with the best weather -- sorry, sand francisco. -- sorry, san francisco. we are constantly being named as the most diverse city. that is, like, 129 languages spoken in our public schools. our latest group, the winner of our spelling contest is a young lady from nepal. oakland is a city that is constantly reinventing itself, whether it be in the end of the transcontinental railroad with dozens of hundreds of different kinds of european immigrants across the country, or the home to the borders that gave birth to a jazz movement, or today, as the most affordable place for new immigrants coming to the bay area to live. each of them leave a mark. one thing that i would say, when you come to oakland, is that of lenders -- is that oaklanders are pretty passionate about our city. i was teasing ed that he and i have probably made more public appearances together then my husband and i have in the last couple of months. i can assure you that we work really closely together, which resolves a couple of major longstanding issues. what

on the national mall. today, even more popular places than usual for visitors on this memorial day weekend. today we are also showing some more commencement addresses. this afternoon, we will have actor denzel washington at 3:00 eastern, and after that, actor and diabetes advocate john ratzenberger, followed by justice sonia sotomayor as she attends the graduate ceremony at the university of south carolina in columbia. next, a panel discussion on the issue of american identity. we will hear from conservative syndicated columnist charles krauthammer, fox news contributor juan williams, and tennessee republican a lamar alexander, looking at an 1894 speech by theodore roosevelt on americanism and our relates to the country today. this is hosted by the hudson institute and runs about two hours. >> "national affairs" is pleased to be coasting this symposium this year along with the hudson institute. quick words of banks before we get started. first of all, bill mcchrysta -- all and crystal, who always done the

officers with long guns have been ordered to patrol the grounds of the capitol, the national mall and the downtown area. there is also increased security outside the white house, the naval observatory where the vice president lives as well as the embassy of pakistan. metro has also promised to increase patted rolls and even conduct additional random bag -- increase patrols and even conduct additional random bag searches. >> that is always a possibility once we've got approval to move those forward. those can be expected throughout the life of metro. >> law enforcement officials say there are no specific threats to worry about at the moment but officials are keeping in touch with intelligence officials. >>> a house in our area blown to bits. coming up next, this video shows the total destruction. >> we have the details of what may have caused it and more headlines coming up after this. on ar eanc site blast blew out the second floor walls of a house on wayne drive in dumfries. there were reports of a gas smell before that explosion. the house was vacant but undergoing renovations for t

the energy future of the nation? they don't understand the case being brought to them, but they can describe the nation from the bench? this is a system this is dysfunctional ladies and gentlemen, it does not work. it's not going to work. we need a solution. the solution i write about draws from american history and what history it draws from suggests that the structure the nation chose, and any western democracy can do this, is to depoliticize the issue by assigning governments responsibility and authority through law to an independent regulatory commission. they could not come to grips with this monetary policy resulting in the bankruptity in 1907 and followed by a second one in 1912. then from 1913 to 2011 with a few mistakes along the way, the federal reserve has enabled this nation to become the world's largest economy. given what we know, eight presidents, 13 congresses, 26 congressional committees currently and hundreds and hundreds of federal judges currently knowing we can't fix the energy of this nation, ho

the national security of the world. bin laden is very important for international terrorism, financially, inspirationally and strategically. his death, of course, does not end the terrorist threat, but it deals a major blow to the terrorist and it shows how serious the obama administration has been about pursuing bin laden and ending this threat to the peace of the world and obviously it has profound political effect as well. >> jack, you would agree with me, immediate withdrawal of our american troops there, really the pressure had to be stepped up on the cia to get this guy? >> no question. i agree with everything alan said. if this is the case and it's confirmed, i give all the credit in the world to the president and his team for doing this. my suspicion is part of the complication, why it has been so difficult to get him, is that neither president bush, nor president obama wanted to take him alive because if you take him alive and you take him into captivity, i mean this is the united states. we gave trials to the

a local ordinance reflecting the principles of the united nations convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. i am confident my appointment to this body will enhance and support the continued efforts of the department and commission to ensure equitable " treatment of women, as well as to enhance women pause health and safety throughout san francisco. felicialicia gamez. a new addition to the city family. commissioner brown has already has professional ethics. that is bar none, impressive. she has founded her own firm, serves on the board of the city's lawyers association, and above all else, has proven herself to be a leader, utilizing some of her best attributes, analyzing, collaborating, and offering solutions. as a latina attorney who had dedicated a significant amount of her time working on issues that impact the immigrant, latino, and lgbt community, i am confident commissioner gamez will add a unique and needed perspective to the san francisco commission on the status of women. she has set herself, change starts with stronger individuals. with that

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