of the nation state. more and more of the problems that we ought to do with, whether in his financial movements, whether it is held, whether it is climate change, whether is affirmation technology -- all of these things require region across borders to cooperate in order to solve problems. that is changing the nation know what -- the nature of what our system is. i like to compared with industrialization, which really created the modern nation state. to harness these great corporations that were building all this economic power, the nation's state had to be more powerful. globalization is having the same effect, but in the opposite direction as industrialization empowered the nation's state, globalization is eroding the power of the nation state. two points about this -- the financial crisis of 2008, it certainly demonstrated to us that we have a single world economy. the reaction to the crisis also demonstrated we do not have a single way to solve the problem. we fell back on the nation's state system an

to think of it as part of our nation's mortgage payment, one of our nation's obligation as a government to ensure that our military is fully funded, that they've got the equipment, the logistical support that they need, that their housing is the best it can be, that they've got the facilities are the very best they can be, and this is one of those obligations we've got to take care of. we are in this bill, in all the appropriations bills, mr. chairman, brought to the house for the first time, this new republican majority, this conservative majority is for the first time, money that has been left in the treasury unspent in previous years was just spent in other areas. for the first time, under the leadership of chairman hal rogers of kentucky, our subcommittee and other subcommittees are returning that unspent money back to taxpayers to reduce the deficit. chairman rogers and the leadership of the house, speaker boehner, our republican leadership, all of us are committed to bringing the nation -- doing everything in our power to get back to a balanced budget, to reduce federal spending t

ultimately madison said no nation no nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual work for yet here we are in the midst of perpetual warfare against terrorism with our current president telling congress that he doesn't need their approval for a billion dollar war in libya that puts american soldiers in harm's way and really has nothing to do with terrorism but as psychologist abraham maslow famously noted when your only tool is a hammer every problem out there looks like nails and even though some progress is made trust obama with perpetual war powers to defeat terrorism. we're going to next president will he or she be trusted with the wheel two americans were machine. in an interview last year with journalist bob woodward where president obama perhaps without realizing its application to himself so. war is fell and once the dogs were on leashed you don't know where it's going to lead and tragically right now our congress in a republican led effort but with very little resistance from democrats is doing everything it can to prevent the dogs of war. well unfortunately that i

the gerald ford reporting on national defense in 2010 a special mention the judges for the national defence selected andrew tillman and brendan's staff writers for the military times has special mention for the 24th annual gerald r. ford plans for distinguished reporting on the national defence and i know one of them is in the room here. i don't know if brandon is. if you could stand up we will give you a round of applause. [applause] thank you very much. >> thank you, steve, and congratulations to this year's winners. the guest speaker to be served president ford as national security adviser former lieutenant general in the air force has been a trusted advisor to the president stretching from richard nixon to barack obama. he's a graduate of west point and earned his ph.d. at columbia university. brent scowcroft is willing to publicly oppose presidential policies with which he strongly disagrees. although he served as the chairman of the foreign intelligence advisory board president george w. bush, he openly opposed the president's plans to invade iraq in 2003. he predicted the u.s. would

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> this weekend on c-span2, "and reckless endangerment" talking about the role that fannie mae and freddie mac. on the "after word" henry kissinger and whether we can have your relationship with china. also, microsoft co-founder paul allen talks about his memoir, "idea man." you can get the scandals in your inbox. >> this weekend on american history tv, more than 20 years after the end the cold war, in new york historical panning -- panel focuses. the civil rights movement and the promise of suburbia. on restoring civil war photographs from charleston, south carolina. that the complete schedule from c-span.org/history. you can sign up for email alerts. >> senators expressed concern for extending the director of the fbi and's t-- fbi's term. congress passed a law limiting the fbi director to one ten-year term. this portion of the hearing is about 50 minutes. " is back tomorrow morning, at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. have a great day. >> good morning, everybody. good morning, di

, we are the greatest nation on earth. we have the greatest democracy in the world. how could you look at the women in iraq or afghanistan or iran who are raped as a tool of war, who are not allowed to be he cade. who are forced to dress in clothing that you can't see anything of them because they are second rate citizens? nowhere do we have a democracy that is safe when you can demoralize half your population. >> you still center to make the intellectual leap for relieving the situation of misery or as the case in the sudan, split government and so forth. relieving it through war. and -- that's a terrific ladder to get up, to see war as relieving that rather than compounding it, because you're going to make -- you're going to probably make more enemies on all sides. >> it is -- >> and look militaristic. [everyone talking at once] there are other ways to attack the problem that are far more efficient than fleeing into the war bag! >> there are some terrible countries that you can change those countries, more trade, opening

the first constituted part of are national components and were raised under the national umbrella. they have no for an agenda or foreign connections. they were against any foreign intervention under any pretext. they do not want to be marginalized. they want justice. many issues were raised. for instance, there are cumulative issues dating back three decades since the confrontations of the muslim brotherhood. that was a dark phase, and we are still paying the price for that time like being refused government employment, for example, or not being given security clearances. in other words, we held certain individuals responsible for their mistakes, which is not right. we have started to solve this problem. i have heard things for other delegations, but i mentioned two in particular. as i said, we have started to solve the pending issues, and we will solve them completely. we cannot continue living in the shadow of the dark phase of our history that happened three decades ago. these issues relate to the justice and injustice of course that citizens can assist you with and there are ot

we are a generous nation. and what has become of our ability to help is that we have a federal government that continues to saddle us with more and more debt. more and more taxes and regulation, making it much more difficult to make the profit that we could then turn around and help our communities with food, with the basic services that our churches, our charities, and many other organizations in our local communities provide. instead of us always looking to the government for that assistance, let's back off of the american people and let them help themselves when they are capable and when they are willing to do it rather than continuing to put them further and further into debt which -- the democrat party talks about where are the jobs? well, government doesn't provide jobs. the private sector, people in our communities, entrepreneurs, people that want to expand their businesses, to provide a job for that family that needs to provide for their children. they need the jobs. and there's not going to be enough

national defense. it talks specifically about this nation and what the responsibilities of this congress in regards to national defense. i said earlier what does trouble me is that in this our chairman did a great job of not putting funding in to fund any more incursions into libya, but it doesn't restrict it right now. there's going to be discussion on libya coming up later today. with you i got to give credit to the chairman of the committee of the subcommittee in regards to appropriations that they really have crafted a piece of legislation that has bipartisan support in that committee. has bipartisan support across the board in regards to where we need to go. in regards to keeping this nation safe. against threats known and unknown in the future. so with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida, mr. nugent, reserves. the gentleman from florida, mr. hastings, is recognized. mr. hastings: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i'm very, very pleased to

-- [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> leon panetta testifying on capitol hill to be the next defense secretary replacing robert gates. if this committee approves him, his nomination will go to the full senate for a vote. watch this hearing on line at c- span.org/video library. a couple of and we are covering to tell you about. at two o'clock eastern, a discussion on the financial state of medicare and social security. the two public trustees for the social security and medicare programs are scheduled to speak. george mason university hosts discussion with live coverage on cspan 3. also this afternoon on c-span 2, the american arab anti- discrimination committee is holding its national convention. panels include political unrest in the arab world, relations between islam and other religions, and a forum on civil rights for its live coverage is at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >> this cspan networks, we provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history available to you on television, r

look at these wealthy populous nations of western europe. i believe it's a good thing to get rid of gaddafi. does america have to do everything? people say we are e indispensable nation. that's a terrible burden to impose on ourself. we cannot afford it and it cannot be done effectively. let's get people who can dispense with it. my friend, the ranking member of the appropriations committee said, we have to do this because nato can bomb but they can't suppress. what a great bunch of allies, they can bomb on armed people but if they shoot back they got to come running to as you. yes, i want to send a messageto nato. gaddafi's a bad guy. if england and france and italy and germany and spain and the netherlands and scandinavia can't together muster the military force for this weakened poor nation, then let's re-examine the value of this ally. there was in the "king and i" when he says, if the allies are weak might not -- it's time for them to step up. this is not to protect gaddafi. it's to say that america can no longer be asked to be the one

i think when the founders of this nation crafted what our nation would be. they considered not only our political rights and freedom as important as those things are. they considered also our economic freedom. they said we wouldn't be lead by a king or central government that told us what to do and how to get paid for it. but instead each choose our life course, not just federal representatives. and by virtue of this, they made it the place on the planet that every entrepreneur and freedom lover wanted to come here. it made us who we are, and our economy outperform from europeans and other. and we are a great nation because of the early pioneers, because of the founders in america. i believe in america, i believe in free enterprise, i believe in capitalism. i believe in the constitution. [applause] i believe in the constitution. by the way when the founders said we would have certain powers at the federal level but preserve at the state level all the powers not giving to the federal. that 10th amendment is one that i think that barack obama hasn't read. i kn

i think you will have those rules with any nation, with any evolves nation state, in saying that what you just did was a foul. why? and we do not expect that kind of behavior again. what remains is ambiguity. he did not know to talk to. there is sufficient gap between the responsible officials that you can talk to and the potential actor. in this case, the attrition still remains foggy. the responsible officials could say, "i have no idea what you're talking about." this is a new era of statecraft. we have to figure out how to bridge that gap between responsibility and the action. >> but that is why i suggested briefly that you could look at the response. if you at least have it in a country, right? you can look at the responsibility as not a failed state, but the opposite of that. it is the country's responsibility to provide rules of the road. and they cannot just say, "oh, i do not know what happened." >> that will have to be the rules of the road. the implications, though, 17% of the computers that attacked were in the united states. with that scenario, if the estonians did not ha

at the request of the transitional national council the gulf -- national council, the gulf council and the arab league. where is the united nations in this equation? if an authorization resolution had been put forward in february i might have been able to support it. i understand the mission, but in the intervening period, conditions have changed significantly on the ground in libya within nato, with our nato partners and here in the u.s. decisive action with congressional authorization at the outset might have solved this problem quickly. but now we have drifted into an apparently open-ended commitment with goals that remain only vaguely defined, and that is at the heart of the problem, mr. speaker. the president asserted, quote, these strikes will be limited in their nature, duration and scope, end quote. well, it is now day 97. 97 of our involvement of u.s. armed forces in hostilities regarding libya, yet, gaddafi still clings to power and the opposition appears to be no closer to a decisive victory. command for the military operation has been transferred to nato. yet, the constrain

then the president of the national association of manufacturers and a look at nation-building efforts in afghanistan with the center for a new american security. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] host: on this thursday morning, a couple of the major national newspapers are reporting the governor of texas, rick perry, may now have his eyes on the white house. another says the governor thinks there is a void in the current field of candidates. new whispers of a perry bid is one of the headlines. we want to get your reaction to the news this morning. the news this morning. news this morning, texas gov. rick perry may be warming to the idea for running for president. here is one of the ideas anin " the wall street journal." the piece by neil king says that for months now the governor has told potential donors and potential higher ups he has no interest in running for the white house for 2012, but over the past two weeks political advisor say he has changed his tune on a possible presidential campaign. there is

of islam for the 12 years he was a member of the nation. dr. marable gives a full picture of the level of four that malcolm planned to travel the country to speak thee are the new insights that is based on the archives. >> host: zaheer ali are there still some archives not available? >> guest: yes. thousands of pages of fbi documents in new york police department documents in his research dr. marable u.s over 6,000 pages of material from the freedom of information act request and last month the fbi put on the website a new batch of files on malcolm x. there is still much more to be known about what our government knew about malcolm and how involved they were in the organization in. one interesting thing we found is malcolm, the first page of his fbi file began 1950 while he was in prison. he had just come from islam but had written a president from president truman protesting the korean war so based on that letter the fbi began the first file. another interesting insight how deeply embedded the fbi was into all organizations, 1954 malcolm t

canada's national -- natural environment shapes our national and density. our government has expanded protected lands and marine areas to an unprecedented extent so that future and current generations can continue to enjoy them. in this, the 100 anniversary year of the national park system, our government will create a significant new area. this will move sticklers toward establishing an urban national park in the rouge valley of eastern toronto. looking to the future, our government will engage a broad range of stakeholders on the development of a national conservation plan to move our conservation objective forward and to better connect all canadians with nature. >> it will support a major new clean energy projects of national or regional significance such as the planned lower churchill electricity plant in canada. it willing gauge the provinces, territories and industry on ways to improve the regulatory and environmental assessment process for resource projects while insuring meaningful confrontation with the affected communities including aboriginal com

i think when the founders of this nation crafted what our nation would be. they considered not only our political rights and freedom as important as those things are. they considered also our economic freedom. they said we wouldn't be lead by a king or central government that told us what to do and how to get paid for it. but instead each choose our life course, not just federal representatives. and by virtue of this, they made it the place on the planet that every entrepreneur and freedom lover wanted to come here. it made us who we are, and our economy outperform from europeans and other. and we are a great nation because of the early pioneers, because of the founders in america. i believe in america, i believe in free enterprise, i believe in capitalism. i believe in the constitution. [applause] i believe in the constitution. by the way when the founders said we would have certain powers at the federal level but preserve at the state level all the powers not giving to the federal. that 10th amendment is one that i think that barack obama hasn't read. i kn

and to realize what he did for this nation, and he put this nation into debt. he put this nation into debt so that we could be free. and 100 years later we put ourselves into debt again so that we could remain free as one nation. and he said in world war i and world war ii we put ourselves in debt yet again so that we could preserve the cause of freedom all over the entire world. and you've asked us, mr. president, to come in today and give you more money to put us further into debt so that we can buy ourselves more things. and if that doesn't put into sharp contrast what we are doing as a nation and the moral decisions that we face as a nation, i don't know what does. um, sooner or later, folks, we just have to say no. sooner or later you just have to make the decision -- [applause] have to make the decision to simply stop spending the money. i appreciate everything that y'all did in my race. i know there's some folks from south carolina here, thank you. there we go. for everything that you've done, please, there is no more election, there is no election more

and in the very capital of the nation. oh yeah residents are still fighting the federal government per for voting rights and their representation in congress the residents of the district of columbia have never had the rights that are produced or upon everyone else in this country the limits to their rights stem in part from civil war divisions that steffen only part of and before that. a lot of people never thought of blacks at all but scholars argue though the war may have ended slavery it was far from ending racism with washington d.c.'s large population of newly freed black citizens at the end of the war to limit their influence political elites pushed to curb voting rights for everyone residents are still fighting that legacy today. this is just like the stand up for slavery. and the tea party protests that have swept across the u.s. every energized to rally behind state's rights reminiscent of confederate rhetoric one hundred fifty years ago when you look at philosophically about how they line up in being there even

for national isn't it with. later continues bombing tripoli we've been hearing heavy strikes overnight as well as during the day this week actually the libyan capital has seen the most intense a fair rate since the beginning of the operation in march with nato targeting gadhafi his compound and command and control centers in attempt to within the embattled colonel and force him out russia actually wants to see it are free to step down also who is envoy has visited libya and has met opposition leaders here and has also. duffy's closest ally and his cousin in cairo and after that mikhail margelov has said that both sides had a mutual understanding that military actions is not an option and this conflict should only be resolved through peaceful means all nato allies are in agreement with after moscow but the thing is that the real simply about how to do that the alliance is general secretary rasmussen and the u.s. defense secretary robert gates are demanding more participation more help from certain members because

indeed, we are a nation at war. our volunteer force has been stretched by combat that has lasted nearly a decade. we owe it to them. oh to their families to insure that they have the best leadership, the best training, the best equipment, the best benefits, the best health care that we can give them. i pledge to them and i pledge to you that every deployment decision that i make will be mindful of the stresses on our men and women in uniform and on their families. third, i have reached out to former secretaries of defense both democrat and republican. i ask for their advice. to a person, they impressed upon me how important it was to stay focused on the management of the pentagon. this is the biggest enterprise in our government. it requires focus and hands-on management. which is the only way i know how to do business. fourth, i sat down with many of you and have known many of you throughout my career. because i really do believe that congress has to be a partner in this role in the protection of our country, i am

brennan add mid decade designed and built the nation's first national counterterrorism center. following his c.i.a. career, and prior to joining the obama administration, mr. brennan in the private sector was the president and c.e.o. of the analysis corporation and the chairman of the intelligence and national security alliance, an association of public and private sector national security leaders. but for anyone who knows mr. brennan, there is something greater than than the sum of these parts. stated simply, the nation does not have a harder working, more tireless public servant. a person of absolute integrity dedicate to keeping this country safe. it is my pleasure now to present to you john brennan. [applause] >> thank you very much, and good afternoon, everyone. thank you for being here today. and thank you, dean, for your warm welcome and for your decades of service in government, global institutions and here. it is a special pleasure for me to be introduced by john, a friend and colleague of many years and one of our nation's greatest intelligence professionals. while as

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> good morning, everybody. -- overmittee meets to so the course of this long and distinguished career in public- service, we welcome you to the committee today and we thank you, mr. panetta for your decades of dedicated service to our nation and your willingness to enter the call once again. we know your wife is not able to be here with you today. she has made her own sacrifices over the last 50 years, supported your efforts in the public and private sectors. i know that i speak for the committee when i say that we love to think her in person for the sacrifices that she has made. please let your wife know of the committees gratitude for her support and your sacrifice. if confirmed, director panetta will replace secretary robert gates at the helm of the department of defense. he was asked to stay on. it provided a welcome continuity in our defense leadership. director panetta's nomination represent change and brings an impressive level of continuity as well. the next secre

national security. it seems almost quaint now to think that people would spend so much time making that decision. and then of course when the first, when a stay was granted to prevent continued publication, that's when elseburg took the papers to then 40-year-old-- to the "washington post". and eventually 19 newspapers over the whole period of time. >> brown: and did it have an immediate impact in the culture, in the politics of the time? >> well, i think the key thing, jeff, was that this moment came in the midst of this intense hatred between the nixon administration and the media. there were investigations of reporters sources that were being taken before grand juries. spiro agnew, remember him, was giving speeches against the press. you know, his illiterative references to the limousine liberals, the mattering nabo b's of negativism and so on. and in a sense the pentagon papers fell into the laps of the nixon white house it didn't hurt the nixon administration. >> it wasn't really about them. >> it

that's when the nation's long time tyrannical ruler lost an election and brutalized his nation as punishment. and now for the last look. it is the smash hit of the summer this norway. more than one-half of that nation's population tuned in this week to see what has been billed as the world's longest chlt v program, 134 hours in length. it isn't shall gripping drama with great cliffhangers or racy mini series and i guess you could call it a reality show. but humans were only bit platers. it was a live camera, actually 11 of them, showing the ocean, some trees, rocks,yters. it was a live camera, actually 11 of them, showing the ocean, some trees, rocks,ers. it was a live camera, actually 11 of them, showing the ocean, some trees, rocks, from accrues ship as it navigated around norway. really, this is what gets the norwegians to rally around their television sets. take a look and a listen. [ ocean waves ]

it means more stable nations and fewer threats to our national security. working to eliminate food and security across the globe for innovation, hard work, and partnerships will provide incredible economic benefits and natural resource enhancements to developing and developed countries alike. it will increase political stability in conflict and poverty-stricken areas and with countries around the world in our global community on a path to future prosperity. agriculture's role goes beyond feeding and clothing to the world. producers are increasingly being called on to provide renewable sources of energy as well. in the united states, we are looking to biofuels in particular to help confront the challenge is providing adequate sustainable energy supplies generating economic growth in rural communities and mitigating the impact of climate change. in some cases, the symbols can be met by biofuel production in the rest of the world. as the fao project has shown, by a energy production and use in the developing world is not automatically good or bad. instead, wh

we thought we knew the nation of we'd fight and die for the nation that we raise our families it is no longer the america we once knew our nation is on a march toward catastrophe and it will not move off this path on its own we must take back control and restore the america that our founding fathers and vision for a book is written fifty years from now asking why average americans like us did nothing as our nation went crazy it's time for all of us to wake up. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our websites tom hartman dot com and archie dot com also check out our youtube agency youtube dot com slash the big picture our t. and youtube dot com slash tom and this entire show is available as a free video podcast on i tunes and don't forget democracy begins with you when you show up tag you're it all sort of a. wealthy british style sign it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report.

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [no audio] [general chatter] [room noise] [no audio] [room chatter] >> this morning, highlights from saturday's republican leadership conference. we will hear from president obama impersonator, reggie brown, retired lieutenant colonel steve russell, and texas governor and potential presidential candidate rick perry. at 7:00 a.m. eastern, "washington journal," with today's calls and see spends " newsmakers" to that. -- after that. on "washington journal," presidential politics in reaction to presidential politics at the republican leadership conference. then a former cia analyst at 20 years talks about the al-qaeda operation since the death of osama bin laden and the airport economist chief economist looks at the breakdown of airline fees. the airlines made $5.7 billion in revenues from those fees. >> the c-span coverage of the national cable telecommunications cable show continues today at 5:15 p.m. eastern. julius genachowski is interviewed by the former fcc chairman mich

that's another key national security position. now, in this case, what makes it even more egregious, she is reported unanimously by both the judiciary committee but also by the senate select committee on intelligence, reported unanimously by all republicans and democrats in two key committees. her nomination has been supported by former justice department officials, including former attorney general mukasey who served during the george w. bush administration. now, i have a two-month delay. she should have been confirmed right after she came out of the intelligence and judiciary committee. the national security division has been without her leadership, and they've been without another key member, virginia seitz, another superbly qualified nominee, bipartisan support, who should have been confirmed before the memorial day recess, blocked from confirmation by senate republicans. now after seven weeks of obstruction, we'll finally get to vote on her. and the senate judiciary committee has considered two national security-related bills

as better life index to determine what the happiest nations of the planet are the u.s. didn't even crack the top ten were not even in the top ten of happiest countries in the world the study examined quality of life things like health education housing the environment jobs community work life balance between the two and income to figure out what truly makes the nation happy so let's take a look at the five top happiest nations in the world all the way happier than we are here in the united states and as you'll see for a good reason at number five the netherlands ninety one percent of the people living in the netherlands say that they're satisfied with their lives the highest ranking anywhere in the world that might be because the dutch citizen spend an average seventy percent of their days not working but instead on personal care leisure activities eating and sleeping sixteen hours a day or so i do you spend every day doing this or. that number for australia seventy one percent of the citizens in the land down under trust their political institutions here in the u.s. on

the reason i am running is because this nation has become a nation of crises. we have a moral crisis. we have an economic crisis. we have an energy crisis. we have an immigration crisis. most of all, we have an efficiency of -- a deficiency of leadership crisis in the white house, and we are quite a change it. i did not get the memo. one of the reasons that i have been inspired to answer this call has been because the american people that i have talked to and the ones that i have listened to are tired of this national nightmare that we are on right now. this economy is not growing. we have a lot of problems. i do not have time to go through all the things that i would do. let's talk about one of the biggest crises that we have, this economy. what would be one of the first things that i do as president would be to ask the united states congress to give me a bill would contain the following elements in order to boost the economy -- a max 25% tax by all corporations and all individuals, max of 25%. we are the only nation on the planet that has not lowered its top

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> house speaker john boehner spoke last night in ashlands, ohio, at a memorial dinner honoring john ash brooke. he discussed republican substantial for job creation and reducing the national debt and took questions from the audience, this is 25 minutes. >> thank you very much. it's hard to stand there and have people applaud me. just a regular guy with a big job. peter, thank you for the introduction and thanks for the great job that you're doing with the ashbrook center. i'm honored to have a chance to speak with all of you tonight at this great event held in honor of a great man and a great ohio ann, john ashbrook. as most of you know, tonight was originally supposed to happen a couple of months ago, but we had to reschedule because i had to be in washington for the final negotiations on the bill to keep the government running and finish last year's budget. so i was supposed to be with all of you that friday night, but instead i spent the day on the phone with president

i think it is a national distraction. unfortunately, you know, we were -- he just won a great victory in new york 26 with cathy hockle in a surprise upset of a republican district because of the way the republicans have dealt with the medicare issue. the budget. we were on a roll as democrats. now we're districted by this. i very much understand they would like to move off this, get the spotlight off anthony weiner, back on to national issues. where we are doing very well, as we should be. and i can agree with that. by the same token, i think it's one thing to call for somebody to resign, it's quite another to get them to do it. what i'm just suggesting is i think nancy pelosi did the right thing in calling for an ethics inquiry. i think that the congressman should cooperate with that inquiry 100%. he's indicated he's going to do that. i think most importantly, he has to talk to people in his district. he has to see whether his chances of remaining a kong congressman are viable. they're only viable if the people in his di

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] captioned by the national captioning institute -- www.ncicap.org -- >> we'll learn more about the administration's thoughts on afghanistan when hillary clinton testifies at the senate foreign relations committee. talents summit for intelligence committee questions general david petraeus. he's been nominated as director of the c.i.a. that begins at 2:30 eastern time. still ahead on c-span, "washington journal" is live with your phone calls. and that's followed by live coverage of today's house session. they are scheduled to work on changes to the patent changes to the patent application process and

troops in libya but can a possible exit also be declared for the nation. and the department of homeland security to the greatest job in the world protecting the on from lax protection from an expensive american life. we may be nearing an end game in the libyan war world leaders including secretary of state hillary clinton are meeting in the united arab emirates to discuss how libya could have a democratic future after khadafi news reports out of libya suggest it could offer himself maybe warming up to the idea of leaving power and way to the most recent intensive bombing campaign in tripoli secretary clinton acknowledged today that people close to gadhafi have expressed interest in coming up with a deal for khadafy to step down in libya and go into exile in some undisclosed african nation. today's successful contact group meeting was a powerful statement that our coalition remains united and committed we reaffirmed there is only one way forward for libya attacks against civilians must stop gadhafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their ow

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and the reason that i am running is because this nation has become a nation of crises. we have a moral crisis, we have an economic crisis, we have an entitlement-spending crisis, we have an energy crisis, we have an immigration crisis, and most of all, we have a deficiency of leadership crisis in the white house and we ought to change it. [applause] i did not get the memo. one of the reasons that i have been inspired to answer this call has been because the american people that i have talked to and the ones that i have listened to are tired of this national nightmare we are on right now. this economy is not growing. we have a lot of problems. i do not have time to go through all the things that i would do, so let's talk about one of the biggest crises that we have -- the economy. one of the first things i would do as president would be to ask the united states congress to give me a bill that would contain the following elements in order to boost this economy. number one, a maximum 25% tax by all corporations and all individuals. maximum 25%. [applause] we are the only n

nation's future must come first. i for one will not look west virginians in the eye and told them in order to reduce the debt ceiling vital programs and sec funding for social security, ro, medicare, our schools, roads,an, health care, veterans, seniors, infrastructure will be slashed. but we will continue to spend billions with schools, roads and infrastructure in afghanistan. r the time has come to realize the people of afghanistan to choose their own destiny.iny. we cannot build it for them. coe the time has come for us tohat n realize in this time of fiscal peril our obligation is to build own nati up hour own nation and by doing so we will make america safer and stronger for generations tog come. the words of the great westbyrdn virginia statesman reena even more true today than in october 2009 when he gave his last floor speech and about the war and afghanistan. our friend said this. o during a time of record deficits, some actually continut to suggest that the united states should sink hundreds of billions of

security adviser >> former national security adviser >> former national security adviser dragged the black cat today about u.s. foreign policy in north africa and the middle east. his remarks came dragged the black talk today about u.s. foreign policy in north africa and the middle east. his remarks came after the presentation of pitcher out for presidential foundation journalism award. from the national press club, this is an hour. >> and with the foundation, which carries on his legacy. gerald ford spoke at the podium a record 18 times, appearing before, during and after his presidency. this is one example of how he enjoyed a cordial but appropriate relationship with the price. it is a tribute to president ford that many of you at this luncheon today have personal recollections of his brief historic presidency, public service. he has been a loyal friend and associates, which says a great deal about the person he was. he also some special greetings to former first lady betty ford who we trust his theory in grandest events via c-span in california. reporters who knew president ford a

it is a cornerstone of our nation. it is a cornerstone of our social fabric to define marriage as between a man and woman. the co-authore of the marriage? in minnesota. [applause] we cannot be a successful and continue to be a great nation unless we are secure. people will not dream or take risks or deploy capital or invent or do things unless they feel secure. as a nation, we need to remember that the first and most important responsibility of our federal government is to keep this nation safe and secure and our people secure. [applause] let's remember that the individuals and the mindset that perpetuated the horrible acts of september 11, 2001 and killed 3000 or so of our federal citizens, that mind-set still exists and they could have killed 30,000 or 300,000 or 3 million. as soon as they get the capability, they will try. we need to make sure we stand strong and diligent and diligent to make sure those threats are identified and called by name and defeated before they operate against the united states of america. [

there are european nations, developed wealthy nations just across the mediterranean. why do they have to have america come nearly 4,000 miles to do it? and it not just libya. this is defining. are we going to go forward with a situation in which america undertakes to defend everybody in the world everywhere even when they are not greatly threatened as is the case with nato or with missile defenses against nonexistent missile threats from iran, or do we say that we will bear our fair share but not more? we have got to stop subsidizing the rest of the world. particularly now. and when members from the appropriations committee come up and tell us, you got to go and do this, but let's cut police in massachusetts, let's cut housing in ohio, let's cut transportation in california, we cannoteduce our deficit in a way that allows us to maintain any concern for the quality of life here if we continue to spend money promiscuously over there. let's go beyond that. we're not just talking about libya. what about the paradox in afghanistan where we will spend $100 billion a year an

at the request of the transitional national council the gulf -- national council, the gulf council and the arab league. where is the united nations in this equation? if an authorization resolution had been put forward in february i might have been able to support it. i understand the mission, but in the intervening period, conditions have changed significantly on the ground in libya within nato, with our nato partners and here in the u.s. decisive action with congressional authorization at the outset might have solved this problem quickly. but now we have drifted into an apparently open-ended commitment with goals that remain only vaguely defined, and that is at the heart of the problem, mr. speaker. the president asserted, quote, these strikes will be limited in their nature, duration and scope, end quote. well, it is now day 97. 97 of our involvement of u.s. armed forces in hostilities regarding libya, yet, gaddafi still clings to power and the opposition appears to be no closer to a decisive victory. command for the military operation has been transferred to nato. yet, the constrain

however, our first national priority is national security. and to protect our national security, we must protect our major transformers from cascading destruction. to that end, i've introduced the shield act, which differs primarily from your discussion dlast in three areas. unlike the grid act, which i commend this committee deeply for passing last year, the shield act thoriz ferc to promulgate standards necessary to protect our elecicity infrastructure against both natural and manmade electromagnetic pulse events if the standards developed by the ero are inadequate to protect national security. the shield act additionally requires automated hardware-based solutions rather than procedural and operational safety measures one. and the shield act does not contain sign other security provisionseaving the confliing approaches to that extremely important issue among the members of the senate in particularo be debated in a separate bill. automated hardware, mr. chairman, is picularly important when one considers the shortcomings of procedural and o

national security? >> i think, just like al qaeda was looking at what was happening with the arab spring, i think iran was in the same thing. i think they're trying to do a couple of things. number one, they're trying to exploit the instability in certain countries as a way to increase their contacts, their relationships, and that equities. we see that they are in fact trying to operate in different countries by establishing a relationship with groups that were out of favor six months ago and are now coming into favor. also, i think what they're trying to do is see what they can do to try to give us a black eye in certain areas. to it is clear that we are in this tug-of-war with iran and it continues to refuse to live up to its obligations. they have been affected significantly by sanctions and other measures that have been taken care is no secret that iran is trying to undermine the interests, which is to promote the development of the democratic movements and making sure the people in these different

serbian nationalism muslims nationalism creation nationalism now i'm sure you want to say that that the former yugoslavia it was a nationalist country. it was. it didn't happen like this i mean it should have been nationalist before before the war was there there were only two federal so-called communist countries in the europe soviet union and former federal soviet republic. for. yes it's exception because after they divorced czechs and slovaks they are living in peace in the center of your life in harmony in. the european union but in the case of former soviet union it was a small number of victims but in yugoslavia there were thousands of people killed because of nationalism nationalism is on the first place last time you met a bloody it was in montenegro really yes it was. i didn't expect. rumors about i'm a journalist i was looking for this rumors while. i was in montenegro. and i find some cafe on the mountains and uninspected i saw one guy. it was rocking luggage he was already hiding was he yes yes did you have a chance to talk to him to communicate with just. his head let's jus

deal between two nations ok so you say you see this gas deal becoming a success between both nations and as you were saying certainly there are some regional implications there puts as we were talking about a few moments. about a wednesday's meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization in kazakhstan we did see a close collaboration and big proposals put on the table between group members do you think it's possible that the s c o could become the economic mover and shaker of the world. i hope so and i believe saw now i believe the wall these are at the crossroads historic crossroads or some may say the wall of these at the brink of either being subdued or all the calming the u.s. nato military intervention in libya now moving into possibly syria or even to iran if russia or china or all of these as see all the alliance we saw there are not enough to stop the u.s. led nato military aggression in north african region so i hope saw that as see all russia china china russia leaving leading this new global moving on to balance the power in the wall and saw that they can build a new wor

america, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. in this effort, we draw inspiration from our fellow americans who have sacrificed so much on our behalf. to our troops, our veterans, and their families, i speak for all americanwhen i say that we will keep our sacred trust with you and provide you with the care and benefits and opportunity that you deserve. i met some of these patriotic americans at fort campbell a while back. i spoke to the 101st airborne that has fought to turn the tide in afghanistan and to the team that took out osama bin laden. standing in front of a model of bin laden's compound, the navy seal who led that effort paid tribute to those who had been lost, brothers and sisters in arms whose names are now written on base where's our troops stand guard overseas and on headstones in quiet cornerrers of our country where their memory will never be forgotten. this officer, like so many others i've met on bases in baghdad and bagram, and at walter reed and bethesda naval hospital, spoke with humility about how his unit

there is one nationally elected official in our nation, and we call him "mr. president." the president pays the filing fee and convinces the nation that he or she is the right person to occupy that office, and there is no substitute for their leadership. we need to have our chief executive, the man we call "mr. president," deliver a plan that he believes is the right direction for our country. and that is the key to this issue. now, i will be very clear. i like the plan of governor hineman. in tough times you pull back. when the revenues are a little bit better, you can do some things and establish some new priorities. but what happens out here is there is no prioritization. it's just spend on everything, spend on everything that walks by, and someday our kids and grandkids are going to have to pay off the credit card. and i just don't think that's right. mr. thune: i thank the senator from nebraska for his observations about that. in just a minute, i want to turn to the ranking member of the senate budget committee to talk about setting priorities. i do want to point out