they believed it was good for african-americans and americans in general. that was the divide between the naacp and tuskegee institute and that goes back to the founding of the naacp. were w. e. b. du bois argues against the pragmatic vision of tuskegee's founder booker t. washington, much more idealistic where washington is more pragmatic. it is a debate they had been having for 30 some years by this point but the program was created, african-americans did begin flying in tuskegee under the army's in 1940. they created the site the national park service now has as a primary flight training facility that would be managed by tuskegee institute. civilian instructors teaching african-americans to fly on a large scale for the first time using federal dollars. the fact that they forced the federal government into this to they side is giving african-american greater opportunities lead to greater changes down the road so in that sense the pragmatic side was right. once cadets graduated, they advanced to tuskegee airfield where they were taught to fly the army way.

been a part of move on dot org and helped out of katrina build an african-american version of move on but org using some of those high tech tools and techniques to amplify the voices of people who are concerned about what was happening to the victims of katrina but also after americans in general are very proud of that also proud of the l a baker center for human rights which is also still going forward you know we discovered in california. bed the state was spending one hundred fifty thousand dollars per year per kid to lock a kid up and we didn't have the decided you could send four kids to yale for the cost in one kid the jail we said is ridiculous these kids in the classroom don't have books they don't have chalk summer programs are being cut but we're spending one hundred fifty k. per year per kid locking them up and then these kids come out eighty five ninety percent of them wind up in adult prison so when we run a hundred fifty thousand dollars a year fred schools for adult present we said look give the community that money you give any community leader one kid and hundred to t

not just for african americans, but for sure for african- americans, but for all americans. if we do not, we will get behind. we are in the global economy. we will have got to of a well- trained work force in the united states that -- we have got to have a well-trained work force in the united states that can compete with people in china, taiwan. if not, those people are going to leave our shores and go abroad. we can also take advantage of what i believe to be the growing industry in this country, which is green technology. in the future, we're going to need people who can audit homes, energy audits, where they can come in and find the leaks, not unlike what plumbers to today. they find the leaks, and then the weather is asian person comes in and whether rises the eatherization person eatherization person comes in and whethe eatherizes te home. those are two jobs we do not have today. we need people who can install solar panels. this is the wave of the future. if we fail to train the american workforce, we're going to end up having all of the jobs that people could use to f

who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene happening in that area. there's this wonderful book called fillmore harlem west and also there's several other books that are about that particular era. but that's all happening too, people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jack's tavern. that'

the american experience, the american democratic ideal called for communal, fraternal action to provide for the general welfare. american historical experience always combined individual efforts with neighborly cooperation for the common good. we often think of american development in terms of rugged individualism and indeed individualism was important especially in the earliest days of colonial america. if you word a rugged, tough be personal strong individual you probably died. but think of those days of nineteenth century america. bond -- bar and raising was the neighborly operation. removing huge sums from farmland. there was a rugged individualism that was consistent fraternal cooperation. otherwise there would not be survival. working people could live in decent housing, for higher education for their children, and leisure to labor and rest secure in old age were the conscience goals of the roosevelt revolution and all were achieved. roosevelt understood that a healthy democracy demanded social and economic justice if it were to survive. this was especially so in the 20th century

will be better when the american people are specially those with more humane and bell. views are more active you wrote an amazing book just before that time the green collar economy that probably part led to your brain around the white house about how to desmond here would take us out of the pollution based grade i mean into a health and you green economy and speak to the. shore i mean i think the argument still holds right now we are. still clinging figures into those to bill last centuries pollution based economy using fossil fuels that are based on good things in the past meanwhile now our friends in china and china are racing past us and they are using. the sort of the use of fossil fuels but they are now head of us in wind and solar and using those things that are renewable and based on. a living source of energy like like a living sun and my view is that everything that is good for the environment is a job. so if they also put themselves up wind turbines don't manufacture themselves a bio crops a bio fuel crops they'll grow themselves everything that's good for th

americanism that is an all ideology morning revolution being over the u.s. exceptionalism implies that country is qualitatively different from other nations but is this concept why both today with the u.s. dominance on the decline and other countries on the rise as well should americans were think exceptionalism the russian public opinion research center citizens attitude towards the united states the center of the respondents said they had positive feelings and another twenty seven feel negative and that's a minute the question remains whether any country should think of itself as exceptional. ok david i'd like to go to you but and i'd like everyone keep a thought in mind this david because david said he when he got a three pointer i think was mandolin albright said the united states stands taller so we can see farther that is a very arrogant statement and is not taken very well around the world so go ahead david. firstly if someone from her diminutive says. i'd like to i'd like to go to to godfrey's point about woodrow wilson the united states it was a res

white americans, $113,000. black americans, $5700. ratio, 20:1. item, net wealth lost during the ongoing recession. white americans, 16% lost. black americans, 53% of wealth lost. that news came on top of the current unemployment numbers, the national rate for white americans is 8.1%. for black americans, 16.2%. president obama, the nation's first black president, is doing nothing about this, some believe. one of these so believers is princeton professor cornell west. >> i think he does have a predilection much more towards upper middle-class white brothers and jewish brothers and has a certain distancing from free black men who will tell him the truth, both with himself and what is going on in black communities, brown communities, red communes, and poor white and working class communities. >> west calls president obama a black mascot of wall street and a black puppet. also, professor west announced he and talk-show host tavis smiley will begin a national poverty tour next month to sharpen the nation's awareness on what they call the failings of t

as republicans, as americans, we will guarantee that the 21st century is one of the american freedom and we will remain a purposeful republic that does not exist to emulate the world. it exists to inspire the world. thank you very much. [applause] >> waterboard video of the candidate, see what political -- watch more than video of the candidate, see what political reporters are saying. it helps you navigate the political landscape. >> in a few moments, a forum on jobs and social justice posted by the afl-cio and the martin luther king, jr. center. we will reair the republican presidential candidate speeches. several by the bench to tell you about tomorrow. president obama speech to the american legion national convention in minneapolis at noon. just after that, at 1:00, labor secretary will be at the national press club for an hour- long interview about jobs and the economy. at 3:00, the atlantic council post a discussion on the training of afghan security forces. ♪ >> a symposium on jobs and social justice, hosted by the afl-cio. this includes remarks from afl- cio president. >> f

american for. policies blinded by this exceptionalism and what gives rise to many people around the world to this day i mean here we are you know it's still nothing's off the table let's go to war against iran i mean this constant thunder you know go to war go to war it's all because we're such an exceptional people that we know the truth of the world it's ridiculous it's dishonest i know that's not true. and i was telling his neighbors and i. well you know i think my hope position is that i think it's important not to believe things and not have the truth it is not the case that woodrow wilson offered to bring personal freedom to the world there were two principles two principles if you like ideological principles and the fourteen points one was the one purely and ancient issue. of american self interest which was so-called freedom of the seas which was a way of undermining specifically british advantages and the other was open covenants arrived which i think most people now are entirely in favor

he is taking the down a road that americans don't want to go on. we are americans. we're not europeans. there is a profound hostility to us looking like them. >> bill: well, that's right. >> you have got to remember that. >> bill: now nothing is going to get done for 16 months. you agree with that. >> i agree. >> bill: republicans will not agree at all. >> you might get a tax rate cut tore corporations so they bring some of the trillions. >> bill: maybe. he could say i'm going supply-side a little bit. but i don't know if he will. all right, stewart, thanks very much. we appreciate it. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: next on the run down, are liberals worried about the economy? we'll find out. and, later, an culture on the president's leadership and the culture warriors on how god is doing in a public opinion poll. coming right back. at bayer, we're re-inventing aspirin for pain relief. with new extra-strength bayer advanc aspirin. it has microparticles, enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief to the site of pain. it's clinically proven to relieve pain ice as fast

why did bitons enlist in the american civil war? >> guest: well, it's one of those answers that run the gamut. first, and i think most interestingly, you have those genuinely led by ideology. and we have instances of young men who joined the north because they wanted to help free the slaves. very few -- none, actually, wanted to fight for the north to maintain the union. that they didn't care about. but there were those who saw slavery as the issue. but even more interestingly and perhaps almost counterintuitively today, there were young men who joined the southern cause and really had to endure a great amount of difficulty to get there. they had to get on a boat, run the federal blockade of southern ports and then enlist. so they often are the most eccentric or interesting characters, to be honest. >> host: and, you know, i was living in london for a couple of months earlier this spring, and i think you've done this too. i went on one of these walking tours of civil war london and particularly confederate london, and i was surprise

dollar the american empire the american belief system the american dream it's all crashing in real time right here on the west side of manhattan let's go down to the newsroom and check in once again with stacey herbert and stacey hey max actually we you were due to speak to i guess the saying hi i knew you were going to talk about the red back but perhaps china is not ready to take over the world because apparently their internet system actually isn't up to thinking well that's an interesting point about stacy about china's rise to power is that they have done so on the back of a loser a project known as ghost cities so the government has engaged in shovel ready projects as barack obama might call them building skyscrapers in villages and towns and cities but nobody lives in the cities but it looks like they're generating g.d.p. growth meanwhile they're beholden to america through the relationship with the u.s. dollar and now the u.s. dollar is crashing this is setting the stage for a global conflict i heard somebody make the following comment about interesting interested in your though

companies and enables the growth of the american economy. pleased 20 -- to take any questions you may have. thank you very much. mr. lang, you're next. >> chairman baa cause, senator hatch, i'm the president of ppcro and the leading semiconductor innovative network that connect, move, and store digital content. i'm a member of the semiconductor industry association, board of directors, chair of the isa's tax reform working group. i can offer a perspective on the industry as well as mid-sized technology company. i'd like to thank the committee for the opportunity to share views on how the tax code promotes job creation and sustain economic growth for the country. before summarizing tax reform, i wanted to emphasize the importance of this industry to the nation and the reasons why corporate tax reform is essential to the continued growth and leadership in this critical industry. first, semiconductors are essential for innovations in every aspect of the modern economy and national security. they are the enabling technology for advanced communic

american people lent banks trillions of dollars at essentially no interest, but can't lend the american people money for their mortgages at 3% or 4% interest certainly is a powerful political talking point, and if they could find a way to do it structurally, if they could make it -- pencil, as they say in the accounting business, you're going see that in the president's speech. >> thank you both for being on the program. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the question of torture keeps coming up every time dick cheney's name is mentioned. the former vice president again defends waterboarding. what if a foreign government decides to waterboard and american? we'll get to that. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. >>> this may come as bit of a surprise, but a new poll shows there's no rising anger among american muslims towards the united states. the vast majority of muslim americans surveyed by the pew research center, 79%, rated their communities as excellent or good places to live. and 56% of muslim-american are satisfied with the current direction of the country. that's com

caller: my first priority would be -- and this is to all my single issue american, fellow americans. i would get back to the basic tenets of what america stands for foundationly. people have to read the preamible to the constitution and understand that this is a great country. actually, this is the greatest country in the world. for the people in this country to criticize what america is, you don't see people fleeing this great country of ours. for the people who call us imperialists we are not. we have a successful way of how we run things. we, the people, are the government of the united states. we have an administration in washington who is progressive and they are progressively ruining the united states. not only globally but also domes scli. this is a great country. and if i were president i would get back to the single issue of bringing us back to our foundation of what and who we really are in the world. those are my feelings. and i hope the rest of my americans feel that in 2012. host: in this morning's "washington post" sunday opinion section the real grand bargain coming un

by and large much of the american press did not report a great deal about the japanese americans. people outside the west coast didn't know or care about japanese-americans until the government moved them and people by and large figured where there is smoke there must be fire. the government knows what it is doing. for the balance of the war years the press was fairly negative until the exploits of japanese-american soldiers of the 440 second in combination with government efforts to present positive image of japanese immigrants and the -- began to change the minds of newspapers. there were lots of important newspapers like the denver post which remained solidly anti-japanese during the entire war period. >> we had no courageous commentators standing up for them? >> not at the outset. the only national figures who really spoke against the executive order 9066 were the writer pearl s. buck and socialist leader norman thomas. earl warren was instrumental on the supreme court giving so many comments on his actions during this period of time or apologized for what he was done or was i

the only thing you change is that you would include a latinos, asian americans, native americans. but it is 100% relevant today. >> thank you so much. really appreciate that. [applause] and now, if we have any questions from the floor. >> one of the things -- [unintelligible] to organize a jobs summit -- [unintelligible] second, time for another major march on washington. third one is our present government policies, in the sense that -- [unintelligible] c- [applause] >> we also solicited some questions online. we will not be able to get to many of them, but here is one for my fellow who said, "how can we keep exploiting our skilled and educated jobs and only keep low-paying jobs and expect to survive as a nation?" i thought that was a pretty good question. bruce, would you like to take a crack at that? most of the jobs being created now are low-wage jobs. what happens if that trend it just grabs hold and becomes what we see for the foreseeable future? >> so, behind the question i think is the right and compelling observation that we have seen the polarization of the american job

the american economy is a huge, intractable beast. there's a case to be made the economy we have today in august of 2011 is the economy we're going to have in november of 2012. the only thing the president can do is nibble around the margins. payroll tax cuts. those things that he already presented. hope there's some kind of budget deal when the supercommittee comes out of congress at christmas. >> as always, you put a great perspective on it. thank you so much. kai ryssdal, a voice of calm in the midst of this absolute chaos. coming next, dave ramsey. [ gnome ] ahh... [ male announcer ] this is what it's like getting an amazing discount on a hotel with travelocity's top secret hotels. the easy way to get unpublished discounts of up to 55% off top hotels. harpist not included. ♪ when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're alr

more americans can name the judges on "american idol" than on the supreme court of the united states. what does this mean to us? how did we get here? well, first of all, unless the next generation understands the obligations imposed by the constitution, we are going to have a serious, serious problem. my children can always tell me about their rights, but very rarely tell me about their responsibilities. those responsibilities are critical to our future as a country. the fact of the matter is, if we do not understand the constitution, if our children do not understand the constitution, and appreciate the separation of powers, and appreciate the different roles that are branches of government are meant to play, how are our elected officials opposed to understand? what has happened today in washington? what is happening to our country? what is happening to a saying that we all have heard? i will ask people to raise their hands. do you remember going to school when we all heard the statement, "i don't agree with what to say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it." to do you

a part of it -- i could be way off here, but native americans are americans-americans, too. america in general, i think, is a humorous country often. i mean, that's what people say -- that's the reputation of americans in other countries. that we're funny. so why wouldn't native americans be funny, too? but some are just hysterical. this one woman in yakima, she's so funny. i tell her a joke she's heard it. and i said have you lived on the reservation your whole life and she will say, not yet. [laughter] >> just a take off on other jokes but in generally, i found that native people laugh at each other, certainly at nonnative people and at some of these assumptions and sometimes they just get absolutely outraged at the rudeness of nonnative people towards them and they make that into a joke. for instance, i interviewed an osage woman, a lawyer, who's very sophisticated. she works in washington, d.c.. she has her own law firm there. she goes home and she calls it oklahoma to the reservation. but she says sometimes people come up to her and they say, you don't look like a real

gallup poll the president's job approval ratings are at an all time high but fifty five percent of americans now disapprove of the way president obama is handling his job a summer of double dip recession worries and a debt downgrade are taking a toll on the president is desperately looking for a way to shake the big spending debt piling job killing label republicans have stuck on him before the two thousand and twelve elections and he did what maybe the best way to shake these labels off is to look at the facts take a look at these charts that tell the real story of the obama presidency as for spending compared to former president bush obama as a tightwad over eight years of president bush federal spending increased by eighty eight percent so far president obama has only added seven percent in extra spending and that was mostly to deal with the great recession that bush left practically gift wrap type of a little bow for obama on the front steps of the white house. and look at this chart. plotting the annual budget deficit bush inherited one hundred twenty eight billion dollars surplus from

american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else if you're see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok and you don't i'm trying hard look at the big picture. say. let's give the we part. i think the. well. we never got the shows for people to safely get ready for freedom. for. well looks like the cia is at it again censoring the book for publishing unflattering information about the agency the former cia agent a forty year old lebanese american writing a book called the black banners the inside story of nine eleven in the war against al qaeda and india's book so fond gives details on several different events like nine eleven and they include details about the cia amongst those details so on explains how the intelligence agency missed a chance to do rail the terrorist plot by withholding information from the f.b.i. about the two hijackers when they were living in san diego before the attack

a hunt for american youth. to hunt down the next american enemy incorporated a robust business machine is operating at full capacity in the u.s. district judge. from televised ads to hollywood blockbusters. to video games to american presidents dubbing soldiers the real patriots each of them and. to what it means to be a soldier sailor airman marine and coast guardsman the image of the american warrior is portrayed as that of the invincible hero times where one of the number one entertainment spots in the big apple are trucks millions from around the world and across the u.s. apart from the flashing lights and the billboards there's a recruitment center right here one of hundreds just in new york the mesmerizing techniques luring young americans into serving our more sophisticated than ever before sponsoring a video game tournaments people tournaments and then going up to these young kids to perform well and see the u.s. military needs to see your skills at this video game of course two hundred fifty or sixty y

and he called the american system american individualism. it was special because it was centered around the individual, and it harbored and protected the ideal of a quality of opportunity. not equality of outcomes, but equality of opportunity. and he knew that his story wouldn't be able to happen anywhere else in the world. he was born in west branch, iowa, a frontier town. he was the first president, incidentally, born west of the mississippi. he was orphaned when he was 9 years old. he was sent west to live with relatives he hardly knew, started his career in manual labor and rose to the greatest heights of success as an international businessman. toward the end of his triumphant campaign in 1928 he gave a speech called "rugged individualism." now, this speech was basically a campaign distillation of the ideas of american individualism. and he talked about how america had a choice of two futures in 1928. america had a choice of sticking with the american system of individualism. i'm going to actually read the quote. he said, a choice betwe

americans share that vision. they also want us to be compassionate america, a place where people are not left behind. we are a nation that will not tolerate those who cannot take care of themselves being left to fend for themselves. we will not tolerate our children being punished for the errors of their parents and society. we aspire to two things -- prosperity and compassion. ronald reagan understood that, perhaps better than anyone i have ever heard speak on it. america's leaders during the last century set out to accomplish that. they reached the conclusion that has placed us on this path. except for the reagan administration, republicans and democrats established a role for government in america that said we will have a free economy, but we will also have a strong government that will control the free economy through regulations and taxes. through government programs, they will take care of those in society falling behind. that was the vision crafted in the 20th century by our leaders. though it was well int

many americans disgusted. also a lot of americans just saying, okay, let's get it over already and move forward. >> finally the end. that's exactly what people are hoping at this point is let's get over and let's get beyond. kyra, so very good to see you. very good to see all of you live from studio seven, i'm martin savidge in for susan malveaux. we are as you've heard about an hour away from a senate vote on raising the country's debt limit and preventing a government default. it took a long time and it wasn't easy, but president obama is also scheduled to speak about this whole project at 12:15 eastern time. we'll have live coverage of both of those events. the house approved a debt deal last night. and some on the left and the right are not exactly happy with it. but house speaker john boehner says it's a start. >> how do you feel, sir. >> i feel great. >> what do you think of the vote this evening? >> it was a strong vote, but first step in many steps yet to go. >> what do you hope the american people --

tonight millions of american families and businesses are struggling through an american disaster. >> always going to be bucks across the country. >> across the countrymen and women are facing hard times. here's where we can put a proven record into action. here is where true leaders lead by example and make the lives of citizens better. with a renewed vision of patriotism. this is where a real leader provides real solutions, for health care, balancing the budget, and for growing a more -- accomplishments and the ability to preserve and protect the fundamentals. here is where we prove that american independence is alive and well. >> for 235 years we've taken the road less traveled. the road of liberty. the role of self-government and free enterprise. >> our founding fathers created it. our ancestors founded it. and now it is up to us to preserve it. generations from now, it will be said the american comeback began here in iowa. [applause] >> our new beginning. our road begins today. right here. right now. [applause] ♪ >> thank you. thank you. thank you so very much. thank you. thank

value valiantly disapproved of to the soviet union of which even more americans disagreed with the american academic told him this simply thought i was talking nonsense it was a completely new idea that the britain or the union played any role in fighting nazi germany that's what i mean by except i think you should tax the united states for every stupid thing that an academic says he said well stupid thing well i mean i think it's ok. it's a very good point exactly. being a very good point how long and how policy is formed i mean godfrey brings up an excellent point here i mean the number how many people actually know the role in the united states the role of the soviet union in the second world war and if they did they would understand how russia is feels about its neighborhood in nato expansion it would explain a lot of things russia's act behavior would seem so much more irrational if americans actually knew history that's very important here i'm sorry david you were going to jump in there just on the do you think. american are as much about history as possible i don't think that's. and.

most americans don't know it. they're not just providing security, but they're also going into these towns and they're becoming the government. they are doing infrastructure projects. they're opening schools. you know? they're paving highways and they're dealing with the local city city councils. you know i watch these capitalians like wes and also the noncomes and sergeant and corporals that have do this. i say, if they can do that over there under fire, they can certainly do that back here. the greatest thing i found out over the last few months reporting the story, is that a lot of them are coming back here with the intention of making things better here because they don't like what they see when they get back. >> how much big thinking guess on out there in the war front, wes? people are talking about america when they are over there, when they have time alone. over drinks or coffee or in the night time in the dark when you have time to kill. are they talking about the country they represent, about what they ca

also african-american voters. we're going to talk to kasim reid about that. >>> it's been a story of lessons learned. with the failures of the katrina response shadowing the response to irene. their leaders are already being judged on whether the preparations were worth all of the effort. louisiana governor kathleen blanco never recovered from mistakes made during katrina. appearing in press conference after press conference, east coast governors were determined to learn from the kathleen blanco model and not to fumble the response by underreacting. >> yeah, i saw some of these i've been watching upstairs of people sitting on the beach. get off the beach and get out. you're done. it's 4:30, you've maximized your tan. get off the beach. >> president obama returned from his martha's vineyard vacation a day early and toured fema. shadowed by those images of president bush who remained at the crawford ranch after katrina hit. and the president was intent to be hands on. >> you need to know that america will be with yo

american spring. here we have manufacturing lost five percent last month service industries weak his growth in seventeen months the republicans have not passed one job or economic stimulus package it looks like we're going into a double dip recession how long or maybe even depression how long before an american spring happens so i think that video clip that you showed of al gore you look a little tense like he needs a massage or something but i won't i won't get into that as a change what i will say is that what he's saying is is pretty much despicable to suggest that that our president is white aside and so like a syrian dictator who kills his own citizens is completely inane and they're not suggesting now that i pointed out the manufacturing lost five percent last month i mean the economy is crashing and what that's like to people say no good saying that that's a lot that your employer the analogy though does suggest that obama is this dictator that we're we're bubbling up against you know and the r

islamic american relations. it was named as a co-conspirator involving the holy land foundation. it was shocking and said the mainstream and media accepted it accusations that this -- as if it were a legitimate organization. thankfully fbi director robert muller ordered them to cease dealings and contact with ciar probably because of this type of -- which is posted by san francisco. i would hope all law enforcement officials follow the lead of the fbi director. al qaeda realizes that the measures we put in place over the last 9 years make it very difficult to launch a large-scale attack against our homeland from outside the country which is why they altered their strategy and using people living legally in the united states. these include new york city subway bomber and u.s. army maj hassan , and whose father is a witness today and dozens of individuals associated with the somali terrorist organization out of bob --al shaabab. . let me thank the witnesses for giving up their valuable time to be with us today and

american founding. and he did so root and branch. it was not around the edges. >> charlie: what did he say. >> he said the american constitution was fine for a time when we had four million people, 80% o them living within 20 miles of atlantic tide water. but now we're united by copper wires and steel rails, we're a national economy and frankly it's out of date. what he focused on particularly was the separation of powers. he says it inhibtz the government from being able to tack bombedly and constantly. that was the progressive agenda was to try toover turn the madisonian restraints. the charlie. the founders went to philadelphia in the summer of 87, they didn't go to create an efficient government, it would have horrified them. they wanted a safe government. to which ends? they created a government full of blocking mechanisms, three branches of government, two branches of leglative branch veto, veto overrides, super majority. and yet i can think of nothing that the american people have wanted intensel

as a campaign pulls up all the stops to entice more young americans into the armed forces. and so on it's truth journalists elvie alarm over a new law they claim cracks down on government critics undermines press freedom in the country. and after plunging the russian markets and the most volatile trading week in green years on a positive note with my six ninety s. gaining two and a half percent more on that in twenty minutes. internationally using comment line from r.t. here in moscow where it's just turned nine pm. in charge of police not doing enough to keep london safe the british public take to the streets to protect their neighborhoods from vandals after several days of havoc looted shops and torch cars communities decided it's time to take the matter into their own hands nor emmett's has more. than a warning chilling if you come out to enfield tonight you'd better be in disguise at the first sign of trouble this is what happens. around five hundred mainly. young men chased down the road after police ready to try troublemakers out of town but. despite the more atmosphe

american government says. on its own the terms of the hong kong credit rating agencies are telling us he. would be. country they sure would try to i was right there with them is that going to buy boys are you surprised them for most of the u.s. what my. mistake because getting such a fun way to close the. budget cuts you know us i mean use. the market would mean. by what i mean coming years so. that if you will tighten the. operation of funds that were economy you know long term and short term. russians taunts also expects to feel the pinch from friday trading ending. in negative territory also. has more for us now from the major losses seem to moscow which has just. been so far. but we've already seen this morning the asian markets a painting with the russian markets have just taken a very much the same story a expected to play out here this morning as investors exult the decision by standard post credit rating agency for the weekend through me the us is such a racing now we've heard from a lot of analysts ta

we must protect the american dollar as a pillar of monetary ability around the world both forty years have gone by since nixon end of the last remnant of the gold standard but with the dollar in decline and gold basically golden and calls for sound money resoundingly is that even possible. plus grasping at straws holes all eyes are on fire with this weekend but in the land where korea is king are the people really the king makers of the country. and with obama now riding his jobs bus on the campaign trail exactly who's to blame for the state of the economy and i guess thinks he has the answer. i would welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate fidel castro and any leader who was oppressing oppressing the people wow with powerful cuban americans in congress and powerful anti-cancer lobbies behind them is there any hope for americans who want to snuff out sanctions against cuba. it's monday august fifteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching our t.v. now as we see u.s. policymakers trying to figure out just how to respond to the market turmo

>> an american nightmare, and not a american dream, simply put. the young people now coming out of college with the highest levels of student debt ever are not being able to get jobs and skills to advance their careers, and this gap in their development, their job development, is going to be with us in 20, 30 years. if we look at the broad economy, we're all going to suffer, not just the young folks today, we're all going to suffer in terms of a decline in terms of american prosperity. >> dorian, i think we've officially reached an age we're talking about young people. we used to be the young people, my friend. >> when we were in college, melissa, pell grants paid almost half our college in the '90s, now pell grants barely cover a quarter. we were in college a short time ago. >> it's changed dramatically. dorian warren, thank you so much for coming in and joining me tonight. >>> you can have the last word online at thelastword.com. you can follow my tweets @mharrisperry, and a quick plug, my new book is called "sister citizen," now, "the rachel ma

he had been american that this is the. price will go down. and let's take a look at the markets now gold has set a fresh record today as investors turn to assets which offer less risk gold is adding over forty dollars per ounce while silver is gaining about a dollar there. is that the look of what's happening with crude prices today are at lower following the downgrade of the world's largest oil consumer there's no confidence in the market and investors are concerned about future demand for crude both light sweet and bright are losing over two dollars. and they show markets have closed the negative territory banks were mostly lower and exporters were also on the pressure amid the worries about future demand all of this was of course the result of what's been happening in the u.s. and europe prompting market jitters. european markets are breaking the negative sentiment the footsie is slightly off while the dax is losing almost five percent there and that so after a pledge from the european central bank so by sovereign bonds which helped boost

and the americans were listening. so i would say tonight at midnight, this tax will increase or the other tax will decrease. they said, really? the americans, oh, yes, she means business, my friends. it's the way we operate. when the minister of finance presents a budget, he can change -- it has to be eventually approved, but the change is effective that night. so it's the system you have that was designed by the fathers of your confederation, you know, to balance the power. but it is not working very well in the modern society like today to be objective. can you change it? i don't think you can. if you want -- you know, the worst -- when i tried to change a country is is a hell of a problem. -- trying to change a country's constitution is is a hell of a problem. i got elected in '93 making one promise. if you want to change the constitution, don't vote for me. so because it's always the remedy, you know, if you change the constitution, you know, you would solve all the problems. you won't. because the will and the pe

americans aren't voting. let's be clear about that, so i think that the challenge, the challenge is making certain that we have candidates who are talking about issues in a way that is more than just talk but suggest that they will take a meaningful opportunity to work on things that are of concern. i would say working on things that are of concern to working people. i know what it is like to get up in the morning and to struggle to pay the rent, the mortgage, the electric bill, to juggle those bills in a way that so many american families do. i also know that when people understand that we understand as elected leaders and those who are seeking public office, that's what they are facing every day, they will come out to vote for you. at our challenge, whether you are at the top of the ticket as the president will be or whether you are running for congress and to speak to the needs of the american people and if you are representing african-american people and hispanic and latinos and asians and white people an

sarah palin resonate with the american people is that american in this country are starving for real leadership. people with guts and a spine. this president hasn't been able to exhibit any of those things at all. >> do you believe that barack obama is a loyal, patriotic american. >> of course. >> thank you. chairman of the republican party. >>> up next michele bachmann was once worried about anti-americanism in congress. now she's worried about the rise of the soviet union. yes, the soviet union. we'll talk about that in the side show. you're watching "hardball." ay t. so i took my heartburn pill and some antacids. we're having mexican tonight, so another pill then? unless we eat later, then pill later? if i get a snack now, pill now? skip the snack, pill later... late dinner, pill now? aghh i've got heartburn in my head. [ male announcer ] stop the madness of treating frequent heartburn. it's simple with prilosec otc. one pill a day. twenty-four hours. zero heartburn. no heartburn in the first place. great. maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a