it's actually not making american diplomats safer, because it's so difficult to get into an american embassy that today go out to have their meetings -- that they go out to have their meetings. so they are less well protecteddal hoe they're doing their jobs well. they're out and about in foreign societies being the america that people see. >> host: i'm going to read a quote you have here in your book, tell us who this is from. washington awoke, a capital at war. the indecisions, hesitations and doubts of the past year, the pretenses and fumblings were gone. argument other the country and its capital turns to what americans like and do best, action. in a few months, half a continue innocent and 130 million people were transformed into the greatest military our the world had seen. >> host: what is that from? >> guest: yeah. it is dean acheson writing on december 8, 1941, right after pearl harbor. he was at that time the assistant secretary of state for economic affairs, and he was exasperated to see that the state department wasn't with better at its job when he goes on to say further

american citizens. they didn't come for many tribes until 1924. the code talkers of world war ii like african-americans and japanese americans often were barred from full participation in american life. but they still served with pride, with patriotism, with honor and with sacrifice. i am proud that congress is recognizing that service. i appreciate my friend dan borne's wonderful role in that. by honoring these code talk ergs, we honor all native american warriors past, present and future. good luck and god bless. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states representative from the third district of wisconsin, ron kind. le good morning. admiral, my colleagues, guests, the recipients of the gold medal, but especially to our native americans and code talkers, those who were none able to make the -- who were unable to make the trip, thank you. we owe you a debt of gratitude that could never be paid. on behalf of a grateful nation we thank you for your service and sacrifice. a couple of weeks ago in t

americans,ssues of all americans. and their responsibility to get these done -- and we have a responsibility to get these done. i do not want to disappoint my mom. our republican colleagues are paying attention to mama crowley. maddo not want mama crowley at them. do-be labeled as the most nothing congress in the history of the united states. that is what they have become. that is not a marker i would like to have on my mantel place. we as democrats will continue to encourage, cajole, do everything we can to move the agenda forward to address these critical issues of our country. jobs, infrastructure, immigration reform, and the list goes on. we have the ability to get these done if the republicans would set the agenda. one action in the caucus, to buy mrs. crowley an amtrak ticket. thet six weeks ago, republicans realize the recklessness of the government shutdown and the harm it was doing to the country and came to an agreement with those of us who wanted it to end all along. the story became the real and difficult

in late july a majority of americans wanted it repealed. lawmakers who sougaw a way to d that were selling their strategy in august. >> i am pleased to introduce senator ted cruz. >> 42-year-old ted cruz of texas is the son of a cuban refugee father and a working class irish american mother. princeton, harvard law, supreme court clerk shift the longest solicitor general in the u.s. he ran for senate in 2012 and headed to washington with what he believed was one overriding mandate, repeal every word of obamacare. >> i am going to do everything i can to oh stop this failed law. >> you have someone who is determined. >> democrat path cadell began working politics when jimmy carter was a presidecandidate f president. >> i had someone in the past five months he's the focus the president the vice president they smell something that scares them. >> the most significant divide is not between republicans and democrats. it is between the entrenched politicians of both parties. >> and the american people. if the path to getting this done depends upon

>> guest: i try to be careful with native americans and african-americans in the way i try to be cautious because for instance with the native americans king philip's war has a hand doom the resistance campaign to the english call king philip and it is that a combination against the puritans and it comes very close to conquering but without some external help christian new england might have fallen. serving with king philip one of the native people who were educated at harvard. that is also of two centuries later as we begin to take young black men in black women to prepare the of for these various roles. so as it becomes a radical experience not necessarily civilize but the benefactors. but the capacity of people of color to use their education to pursue their own project of liberating their people. i am sure they should not be ignored or swept under the rug. i am careful much to make the argument educationally succeeded but to say that we could use it strategically is one thing. but in fact, native americans will find loads of examples of people who took the education turning it into ra

who did steal the american dream? also, you have not said the words that are clear to me where what it is saying, the government is the solution. i am a reagan republican. government is the problem, not the solution. given that, what do you see? who is close to fixing this? guest: i think that businesses could do a lot to fix this by paying their workers a lot more than they are paying them now. i just gave you an example of the billions in profits in 2012, the last year we have the figures for, with management imposing a wage freeze on workers rather than a profit- sharing program so that workers could share along with stockholders. no, i do not believe the government is the solution. a lot can be done and needs to be done in the private sector. there needs to be a lot more investment in manufacturing. are dyingwall street to invest in the american transportation system. ,oadways, highways, bridges they are not government guarantees. government seed money, they could do it with private money. if five percent of those

i can say american renaissance. the writing of history and politics and political history in the united states. i think sean has written the foreword. so you are the person who will go forward and start. thank you very much. >> well, thank you, and that. can you not hear me? is that all right quirks to need this for tv or something? no? great. it's great to be here. it's great to celebrate david's book. i get to do this twice. two years ago i had the honor and privilege to read a brief forward to a new addition of the american renaissance, david's book. my main point is the book would shift and come to terms with the great american writers of the pre-civil war years. first, the book expanded simply enough to include background poet emily dickinson hawthorne, melville and whitman. among other things, but talked about how the writing of the american renaissance did some very odd things because he was trying on some very odd things. was able to fuse in new ways to and rational to create for example stories a figure of

child -- i'm a proud american of african descent -- we did not dream the american dream. white boys always said they wanted to grow up to be president of the united states. idea what itve any would be like to grow up to be president of the united states of america. president has that thoseat dream young boys dreamed, but his hands are so tied from the beginning. he was supposed to be a one-term president. in my estimation, he has not let america down. he has done everything he possibly can. he is in an element that we know nothing about as african- americans. there was a lady who called in earlier who was an african american lady who is angry with the president. her anger is misguided. whos surrounded by people did not want to see him succeed. a few more e-mails to read to you on the subject. steve enables rights, with so many americans and legal residents unable to find any job and living on the streets, democrats are pushing hard to pass comprehensive amnesty to million new job seekers and allow businesses to import more than 200,000 new workers every month. an e-mail f

all of the first code talkers were americans, but many were .ot american citizens that did not come until 1924. the code talkers of world war ii were often barred from full participation in american life, that they still served with pride, patriotism, honor, and sacrifice. i am proud that congress is recognizing that unique service. i appreciate my friend dan boren's role in that, and by honoring these code talkers, we honor all native american warriors past, present, and future. good luck. god bless. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states representative from the third district of wisconsin, the honorable ron kind. [applause] >> good morning. colleagues, established guests, 33 tribes that are the recipients of the congressional gold medal today, and most important to our native american veterans and our code talkers, those that were able to make the trip, and those who are unfortunately still at home, we welcome you. we'll you a debt of gratitude that could never be repaid, and on behalf of a grateful nation we thank you for your service and sacrifice. just a couple of weeks ag

all of the first code talkers were americans, but many were not american citizens. that did not come until 1924. the code talkers of world war ii were often barred from full participation in american life, that they still served with pride, patriotism, honor, and sacrifice. i am proud that congress is recognizing that unique service. i appreciate my friend dan boren's role in that, and by honoring these code talkers, we honor all native american warriors past, present, and future. good luck. god bless. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states representative from the third district of wisconsin, the honorable ron kind. [applause] >> good morning. senator, my colleagues, established guests, 33 tribes that are the recipients of the congressional gold medal today, and most important to our native american veterans and our code talkers, those that were able to make the trip, and those who are unfortunately still at home, we welcome you. we owe you a debt of gratitude that could never be repaid, and on behalf of a grateful nation we thank you for your service and

and other intelligence agencies are not spying on americans. we have had less legal constraint in terms of what we are doing internationally, but i think part of what's been interesting about this whole exercise is recognizing that in a virtual world some of these boundaries don't matter anymore. and just because we can do something doesn't mean we necessarily should, and the values that we've got as americans are one that is we have to be willing to apply beyond our borders i think perhaps more systematically than we have done in the past. ed henry. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow-up on that because -- merry christmas, by the way. >> merry christmas. >> when edward snowden first started leaking the information, you told the american people you already reformed them. my team evaluated them. we scrubbed them. we expanded some of the oversight. you also said we may have to he rebalance some. there may be changes. you concluded, you can complain about big brother and how this potential program run amuck, when you look at the actual d

americans don't want another war. the best way to honor our men and women in uniform is to avoid unnecessary war. my son is active duty military. i'm speaking from a personal place as well. americans support and negotiate a deal a deal with iran by a it 2:1 ratio. passing any punitive measures, including the sense of congress tying the president's hands is a mistake. it will not help, and if congress wants to help, we should set up a people-to-people exchange. we should -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. ellison: a congress-to-congress exchange and move forward. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. members are reminded not to make reference to occupants of the gallery. the chair will remind all persons in the gallery that they are here as guests of the house and any manifestation of approval or disapproval of proceedings is in violation of the rules of the house. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. murphy, for five minutes. in a couple days, we

you can't say you take pride in american democracy, american constitutionalism, american exceptionalism. so i think there's some common sense things we can do and i won't preview the proposals because i haven't gotten them yet. keep in mind, though, for all the efforts that have been made and some of them, by the way, may be illegal. may violate the voting rights act even after the supreme court's recent ruling. and our justice department is going to be staying on them. if we have evidence that you have mechanisms that are specifically designed to discriminate against certain groups of voters, then the justice department will come down on them and file suit. the one point i want to make, though, is even with all the efforts that were made in the last election, folks still voted. and if people feel engaged enough and have a sense of a stake in our democracy, you know, you'll be able to vote. and our biggest problem right now is not the misguided efforts of some of these state legislatures. our bigger problem is the one you alluded to earlier which is people in government can make a diffe

>> americans have not and will never give up on american exceptionalism. but the report does sense that something is wrong here, that we are not just doing as well as we could or short or have done historically. that is why you're seeing a surprising number of americans saying we have got to get it right at home. >> thank you very much. the dual legacies of the war in iraq and the crash of 2008 on american attitudes there on foreign policy. when you think of a typical computer programmer, i'm willing to bet what you think of as a man. let's be honest, there are not a lot of women writing computer code. our next stories about a woman who is determined to change that. she began coding in 2008 after losing her job in america during the economic crisis. now she is helping other women break into the tech industry. bbc has the story. in 2008, i was working in tech in new york and the entire economy just exploded. i was working at a company where they laid off most of the workforce, myself included. i remember looking around the room and realizing that none of th

i'm a -- american college. the american colleges and universities helped take me as a kid with a single mother raising three kids all by herself in brooklyn, new york and turn me to a college professor with tenure. >> host: you and your sister. who is an m.d. >> guest: yeah. my sister is a pediatrician in d.c. i've always thought of higher education and colleges and universities. the benevolent institutions. the institutions that do good things if we can get access to them. what the research began to expose was the other role that universities can play. universities can be, in my mind, weapons of social just u, but what shocked me they could be weapons of social destruction. >> host: in what way? >> guest: they can play a huge nart undermining the integrity of native american nations and civilizations. one of the things i write about in the first chapter is the desire to christianize native people in the americas. several attempt to build colleges -- which was all the early colonial colleges have as a primary m

but i've heard the model american stereotype may be contributing, very existent of native americans and problems of u.s. colonization. i want to get in this video comment. >> my parents are refugees from laos that emimmigrated to the ultimates in the 1980s. my brother and i grew up on a failing education system. a lot of my friends couldn't graduate high school, they joined gangs and started families early. only a handful of us went on to college. these stories are not unique to me. these experience are also experiences from southeast asian americans and are discredited by the model american stereotype. >> we are getting feedback that asian americans do not live up to this quote unquote model american stereotype. >> this study showed asian women were the most sought after. which gave up, the hashtag, the is. >> i'm a police officer. i know in fact i'll end up.marrying an asian girl. i just know that. >> my name is gordon. i'm a white caucasian male. it makes no difference where she's from within the asian subcontinent. >> that was a clip from debbie lum's documentary, seeking asian

terms of american foreign policy. at that time, america was exercising its muscle, and it was getting used to being a world power or aspiring to be a world power. it was looking for an empire, looking for colonies, looking for competing against the european powers to show we, too, americans, were a force in the world. the -- there was a revolution going on in cuba, the cubans were fighting the spanish for independence, and there were people pro and con, and americans liked the fact there was a revolution going on because they didn't -- they wanted spain out of america, and we thought we had a lot of investment in cuba, wanted to trade with cuba, and we sort of would be good if cuba was more open to u.s. influence and exchange. there was pro-spanish riots in havana, in january, and so teddy roosevelt and others sent the uss maine to havana harbor in february, and the idea was the show the spanish sthorts in cuba that america was intent on at least helping these revolutionaryies overthrow the government. maine was in ha

that is supposed to target non- americans. >> yes. >> are americans -- should he american people know how many americans are caught up in that? >> that again, and i don't mean to hedge. let me tell you the difficulties. in a terrorist that we are going after talking to another person, in that communication, there is nothing that says, i am an american, here is my social security number. the fact is that when we are tracking a terrorist, if they are talking to 5 people and one of those is american, the chances of us knowing that are very small. if we find out that they are american, there are procedures that the attorney general and the courts have given us on that data. >> ok, well, i guess my question is -- my bill asks, calls for, the nsa to report how many americans' information has been searched, how much has been looked at by agents. i am not talking about a precise number, at 7.0.2 says that you can only look at non-americans. my feeling is this. the american people are tactical of -- skeptical of the use of power. when there is a lack of transparency, they tend to suspect that

this is where we get back to native american history where native americans become key. american colonists were really quite skillful at raising money, using the evangelization of native people as the goal, sending missionaries or emissaries to england and raising money under the claim but evangelizing native people, the first brick building at harvard is the indian colony. that is where the money is coming from and where donations are coming from. >> host: this allows the expansion of the colonials and the expansion -- >> guest: facilitate economic expansion, accelerates the crumbling of native society on the frontier and on the borders. so they are not, quote, slaveholders but eventually after independence -- >> guest: they turn -- they can pretty quickly. if these are religious schools to begin with and they are all religious schools, very quickly they have to figure out the sources of funding, one source is going to be europe, england in particular and raising money on the claim of the evangelizing native americans. the other source of money available to them is the

we lost american lives. we had four americans killed that day, an attack that should not have happened. if it did happen, it should have been stopped. there should have been more reinforcements. >> we just had an american teacher killed not far from the consulate. what do we know about this? has al qaeda, has anyone taken credit for this? what does this say about the protection and security for americans in libya? >> there's not enough protection. put out a message in arabic, calling for the killings of americans in libya, but also the other day jay carney at the press conference said that the administration is asking the libyan government to look into this. first of all, the fbi should be involved and secondly, as there is no libyan government. why do we hope that the libyan government will find out what happened here? >> it took the fbi three weeks to get there when we supposedly had a great relationship with the libyan government. so maybe jay carney is saying that because he's saying we're not going to g

he said by contrast the americans in the american revolution is about liberty. they also talk about equality but with they are really after in america's liberty. this is one of herbert hoover's biggest complaints about the new deal is that it was turning america into a form of european totalitarianism. hoover had spent the early part of his career as a mining engineer doing huge mining projects abroad and he had continued to live in europe when he did relief efforts. food relief efforts during world war i and the post-world era. herbert hoover is a hero for essentially saving the belgian people from starvation as well as in other countries. one of the things hoover noticed during all that time in europe was that it was giving way to various forms of totalitarianism, socialism, communism eventually nazism and fascism and then he came back to this country. he was shocked because in the 1930s he thought roosevelt was voluntarily turning us over two forms of totalitarianism. in fact if you look at to cartoon icons of the 1930s if you will herbert hoover like to talk

so it's an american issue. and in a nation that's as rich as this country, when you have 46 million people in poverty and the number of people across all demographics that will enter in and out of poverty over the course of their lifetimes, it just doesn't make sense that we can't have common sense conversations about policy ohs that strengthen the social safety net, about a jobs bill that puts people back to work. about access to affordable health care. about really reforming our educational system. you can talk about ending the war on poverty all you want to, but if we're not talking about those issues, we're not going to end poverty in this nation. >> i have to talk politics with you. it does seem that where democrats want to go in january, where they're going to go first is not so much on the anti poverty issue but really to unemployment insurance benefits. give us some idea of what democrats can do realistically to try to get that issue through. because it's going to be very difficult, as you can imagine,

one in three americans has high blood pressure. right now, doctors prescribe medication if blood pressure exceeds 140/90. but the new guidelines give people over 60 a little leeway with no reason to treat until that number is 150/90. the old threshold of 140/90 stands for others. the new guidelines may reduce the burden on older americans who already take a lot of pills for a variety of ailments. >> patients may get side effects from different medicines. there may be drug/drug interactions. and the complexity of taking so many different drugs really makes it difficult for many patients to adhere to the regimen that their doctors prescribe. >> reporter: also blood pressure medicine has side effects. the most common, dizziness, dry mouth, fainting and falls. >> the american heart association has a simple message to patients. this is not the time to relax about this silent killer. get your blood pressure checked. get it treated. get it treated enough. the target that the american heart association recommends is less than 140/90. >> re

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you can't say you take pride in american democracy, american constitutionalism, american exceptionalism and then you're doing everything you can to make it harder for people to vote as opposed to easier for people to vote. i won't preview the proposals, because i haven't gotten them yet. keep in mind, though, for all of the efforts that have been maid, and some of them, by the way, may be illegal, may violate the voting rights act, even after the supreme court's recent ruling, and our justice department's going to be staying on them. if we have evidence that you have mechanisms that are specifically designed to discriminate against certain groups of voters, then the justice department will come down on them and file suit. the one point i want to make though, is that even with all the efforts that were made, let's say, in the last election, folks still voted. and if people feel engaged enough and have a sense of a stake in our democracy, you know, you'll be able to vote. and, our biggest problem right now is not the misguided efforts of some of these state legislators. our bigger problem

if you ask a hundred americans what is in the affordable care act? they could say something about preexisting coverage and beyond, that people do know very few specifics. >> they are finding out because of the implementation. the reason that republicans never got a lot of traction with the warnings of obama care, it was not yet a reality in american lives and now it is here. they are worried about losing their own coverage and premiums going up and a deduct dibl so high they pay for all of the health care anyway. what is teaching americans about obama care is the reality and implementation of obama care. that's the problem that president obama has to it deal with. and they it are learning about tradeoffs in obama care. for everybody that it hurts somebody else will pay more. >> did the democrats pressure the white house. and you can't hang us out to dry with this? >> democrats met with white house officials on capitol hill. they are very nervous. every democrat is up for reelection and democrats in the senate are as well. and anybody who has been her

it is not focused on any single american. it is not reading the content of your phone calls or my phone calls or anybody else's phone calls. it is focused on metadata for one purpose only that is to make sure that foreign terrorists aren't in contact with anybody in the united states. >> schieffer: this question. this whole conversation taking place because of these disclosures by snowden, who defect to russia. some suggestion that perhaps he should be given some sort of amnesty in order to bring him back here and maybe stop the leaks, do you think the president should give him some sort of amnesty? >> no, i do not. and i feel strongly about that. he violated the trust put in him by the united states government. he has committed a crime in my view. a whistle blower doesn't run. a whistle blower does not disclose information that has nothing to do with what he says his cause is. the privacy and civil liberties of americans. if i could talk to mr. snow den myself what i would say is, edward, you say you are a patriot, you say y

i am african american,, native american and caucasian american. host: thank you for spending some time with us this morning. detroit and here is tina. you are on the "washington journal." caller: good morning. how are you? i have been listening to the republican party. they have been talking about thisbig -- they are doing to gain african-americans and latinos to the party. i would like to know what makes them think we are coming? i would like to know that. host: what is it about the republicans that does not attract you? their whole message. is not inclusive for me. and as a woman, i really feel that they are just outside the norms. they haven't caught up to the millennium or something. party that isve a so out of touch that they are --itng women to literally is in their party platform. we all know that what is written down matters. they state we should have those f incestuous behavior. some of these things they suggest are not inclusive to women, to african-americans, or latinos. what i need a republican to tell me, what message are they bringin

and i talk about american exceptional was some. we are teaching eight years about american exceptional the summit history and something we tragically find more and more that we are not learning in school and so we need help learning at. to talk about lincoln's 100th anniversary of what would have been one of the most important speeches in american history and in many ways one of the most important speeches in history because it described a standard and then we should talk about the breakout that in some ways is a culmination of my 55 years going back to 1958 of trying to understand what we need as a country and in 58 was stationed in france somebody had to take responsibility for understanding what america had to do to explain to the american people to get permission to do it and then implement if they gave you permission and it's a very important model. it is an effort to center the system and to say to the adults here is how we got to be an exceptional nation and here's how we continue to be a nation if you do read it and think i

we as american citizens, everyone at this table is also an american citizen, have agreed that we would take our personal data and put it into a pile, a lockbox that would only be looked at when we had reasonable and articulable suspicion that we had connection to a foreign al-qaeda or related terrorist group and look into that box. in 2012, we had 288 such selectors that we could go and look into that. that is it. of the billions of records, only 288. and with that, we had tremendous oversight. when you look at the amount of oversight from this committee alone and from others, from within the d.n.i., the department of defense, with our own director of compliance, with our own general counsel and with our own i.g. and with all of our compliance individuals at every level, everything that we do on this program is audited 100% on the business record fisa. 100%. the data is kept separate from all of the other data that we have. i think it is important to understand that the leaker did not have access to this data. period. the technical safeguards that we have there ensure that no one else

but it comes just days after al qaeda's american spokesman adam gadna taking vengeance on american's interest. no claim of responsibility so far. it could have been a random act of violence. however, when we look back and see what led up in the days before when chris stevens was killed in benghazi, american ambassador there at the time, we saw just days before that, al qaeda again, the leader of al qaeda, making a statement, putting it out, and calling on libyans to attack american interests. there are similarities there that it would be hard to overlook and ignore. we know al qaeda under the direction of zawahiri, head of al qaeda, has set up camps in that area of libya. >> nic, i mean, certainly it is tragic, a horrible thing to have happened i've got to admit, talking benghazi, eastern libya, american in public doing his exercises, do we know how many americans might be in that dangerous neck of the woods, civilians? >> reporter: we know it's a very low number. look, the reason that adam gadan called on lib rans to attack americans the united states, two months ago, picked up al l

you can't say you take pride in american democracy, american constitutionalism, american exceptionalism, and then you're doing everything you can to make it harder for people to vote. so i think there's some commonsense things that we can do and i won't preview the proposals because i haven't gotten them yet. keep in mind, though, for all of the efforts that have been made, and some of them, by the way, may be illegal, may violate the voting rights act even after the supreme court's recent ruling and our justice department is going to be staying on them. if we have evidence that you have mechanisms that are specifically designed to discriminate against certain groups of voters, then the justice department will come down on them and file suit. the one point i want to make, though, is that even with all of the efforts that were made, let's say in the last election, folks still voted. and if it people feel engaged enough and have a sense of a stake in our democracy, you know, you'll be able to vote and, you know, our biggest problem right now is not the misguided efforts of some of the sta

post,e a recent blog americans for prosperity.org. you can see where we are calling for cleaning up the tax code and getting rid of these targeted handouts across the board. lenny is on our line for democrats. a couple ofve things. are you guys curious about the tea party, go online and watch a wonderful documentary called " the billionaires tea party." americans for prosperity was funded by the coke brothers -- by the koch brothers. but i find offensive by the conservative think tanks -- they are corporate-funded think tanks. they try to tell we the people but somehow the interests of corporations are the same as we the people. that is absolutely not true. the second thing is they come in the form of the heritage foundation, the cato institute. americans for prosperity is one him a competitive error -- competitive enterprises to. these are not conservative think tanks. these are rogue corporate think tanks. the founders were terrified of tyranny, andigious in corporations hijacking our democracy. please go online and watch that the m

that is not american democracy. so i talk about the library and in the internet service provider to fight back and he was not allowed and he and librarians were not allowed to testify before the congress. this is further than we have gone before allowing them to use powers in this includes the great poet and playwright. i heard him speak a few weeks ago and he said that people thought it couldn't happen and he had come here as a messenger to say be careful what powers you give the government. he was responding to this and a lot of people were to say why should i care what the government goes about me if i'm not doing anything wrong and that would be with disbelief and derision. and i think that there are a lot of reasons that our freedom of speech goes down. >> do you censor yourself these days? electronically or in any form? >> i really try not to. the pan american center says that one in six have been censoring themselves and one additional one in six said that they seriously thought about censoring themselves, pe

their agenda is anti-american from its inception. they have cited america's involvement in recent attacks and they continue to threaten the un. as the quote alluded to, they are the face of a new and more vicious style of attack. i talked to first responders there the day of the grisly westgate shooting who talked about the shape bodies were in, the type of bullets used, with an aim of creating gory visuals broadcast around the world, really tearing people apart. this is something that is as brutal as anything we've seen from an al qaeda affiliate. counter-terrorism experts i spoke to said despite the threats they are not yet capable of striking on american soil. as you heard in that segment fear lingers they might be eventually. >> not able to strike on american soil but obviously interested in recruiting inside the united states and using that fertile ground within minnesota, the somali population there being the largest in the united states, a population of 32,000. you have an organization that's still got some money to bring to b

that frustration is not rising because the american vision, the american dream and the american spirit is failing. that frustration is rising because some what of what we're doing and because of this constant challenge that's occurring nationwide is the concept of a representative republic. the constant asking of a question, has this become too gridlocked, has it become too partisan, has it become too hard to get things done, maybe we need to do it a different way. quite frankly, the american people know in their hearts that they should be represented, they should be heard justice should be done, the basic principle among so many people that we should speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, that every american should be heard it goes from the book of proverbs to the very foundation of our constitutional system now. so what do we do about that? well, around the world we see it. we see the frustration of other people in other countries. we see it in syria as they're in a civil war. we see it in the streets of cairo. we see thailand, the corruption of their government. we see vot

it is not what the american people need. we need for americans to work. support an you extension on these unemployment benefits? what is your take? yes, i would. i have had rough times. i have not seen times as rough as they are in the past five years. they are getting worse, especially for low income people. construction jobs, restaurant jobs, a lot of these jobs have new people in the workforce, people who are not as educated as others. when you let all of these foreigners in, you will have high unemployment across the board truth that is what we have and are going to continue to have -- across the board. that is what we have and will continue to have. caller: i was working for the sheraton hotel chain. i got laid off from my job after 10 years. they were trying to cut back the to part staffers to go time. i have been on unemployment for about eight months now, on tier 3. i will be one of the ones let go today. work oneen looking for stanley. i am at the age now where i am 56 -- i have been looking for work constantly. i amed the age now where 56 years

these policies support american workers and they ensure we're giving a leg up to all sources of american grown energy. i've been proud to lead these efforts here in the congress including when i delivered 27 speeches on the senate floor last year that culminated in the extension of the production tax credit for wind. mr. president, wind energy which is enabled by the wind p.t.c. supports thousands of manufacturing jobs across this country. and that's because building a wind durbin takes a -- turbine takes a heck of a lot of work, these are good-paying, middle-class jobs that helps grow the economy from the middle out and these are jobs that are not only not being offshored, they can't be offshored. they're staying here in colorado and across our great nation. to prove that point look at this map of wind manufacturing facilities across the united states. there are more than 550 manufacturing facilities in every region of the country spread across 44 states involved in the wind industry. i'm making sure the presiding officer's state is represented and i think it is, the great state of dela

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american pivot to you want to jump in go ahead john. i was just going to say that you know if you look at one of the most recent indicators which is that your water has become the second most frequently traded currency and trade. transactions and this just happened recently and that sounds very impressive of course i mean the dollar is still number one but that you want is number two and the growth was actually quite remarkable just maybe a year ago it was maybe between one and two percent and now and now it's about eight percent now that's the telling statistic it's only still about eight percent so there's a gap between you know china's status as number two and what it where we'd like to be which is parity and united states still around you know in the eighty's ninety percent of transactions you want around eight percent so there's still a major gap that china wants to bridge and it knows it's going to take some time in order to do that so it's this calculus of figuring out how to make assertions of florida a how to get the respect th

how harmful is it for asian americans to deal with this stereotype? >> growing up in the united states or anywhere else in the west, it's really impossible to not encounter someone who has asian fever or yellow fetish. it gets under the skin of us asian women and men. love should not be dependent on the color of your skin. yet some people are honing in on one race over any other races. and also it affects people outside who are not asian women who wonder why asian women in that new study get the most attention online? and so, you know, that's one part of it. >> jenny, you know this must be very confusing to young asian women. >> oh yeah, of course. i mean here's the problem with this whole idea that asian women being desirable should be a good thing. i love that i can get a date. that's great, right? but the problem is, in the end i want to be loved for me as a whole person, right? and most people want that. but the problem is my round chinese face we're one fifth of the world population but it might be a mask if you are loving me if you have this fan

it isn't just that a quarter of americans don't get any vacation time, it is that fully half of all-americans took less than a week off last week. last year. this is absolutely disastrous. and they do it out of fear, they do it because the sense is that -- they may be fired. they are required -- this is -- yes, at the tom levels i think people are overworking by choice, but a lot are not overworking by choice. it is a good point, and i agree with that. >> given that all the studies agree, that vacation is important, and good for our health. sure, if the employees would pay attention, they could learn they could be much more humane, they have to pay attention to these studies and the data. >> we have to leave it there, thank you. let's check back in. >> antonio, a new study revealed that this year for the second time in 19 years there were fewer than 40 executions across the u.s. the study was done by the death penaltilele information center. that is against capitol punishment. its executive director told al jazeera that he estimated it is "within the realm of possibility" that the death penal

i have talked to people for americans for prosperity. like many of the other callers, you're a corporate lobbyist. you may not want to admit it. you have grassroots people and common day people in the streets who follow your beliefs. your beliefs are snake oil. you're not telling the american people you are trying to destroy pensions. you do not believe in minimum wage. you do not believe in unions. doneave actively, actively everything you can to bust unions. you do not believe in a middle- class. you believe in a third world country. you follow your corporate sponsors and their beliefs. you are destroying and dividing america. as far as i am concerned, there should not be any lobbyists allowed in washington, d.c. we the people are the lobbyist. you take the constitution and twist it and distort it. host: we have gotten a lot of questions, obviously, about how afp is funded. guest: we have a wide donor base. two of our donors get more attention than others. we have thousands of people who provide support for our organization. some more

and you talked about how a lot of americans at the time, not all americans but a lot of americans were comfortable criticizing mormonism. and i think you said not so much catholics and jews as protestants. whitey think mormonism was seen as so dangerous? what is it about marriage or property or why was it so alarming to people? >> guest: that's the fascinating history because some of the other groups about to my talking this is not an immigrant group. so these are not the issues. of the outside threat coming in in the way that you have like irish catholics. so they were entirely homegrown and fees for periods that were just a couple centuries we find that the antagonisms were by different ideas. so one of the ideas of the time in the beginning of mormonism was a very strong sense of republicanism that is used in the united states. and so you have now a religious group that talks about establishing the sign-on and seems to be moving in the separatist direction and so that leads to the various concerns about the national order. and then in the turn of the century when the first mormon se

to be reminded what does it mean to be an american. and it's in that context that i set out to write "breakout." because it struck me that we are mired down in sacramento and, frankly, most of our city and county governments, in most of our school boards. we are -- and in washington d.c. we are mired down in such petty, destructive, negative politics, surrounded by campaigns of such unending viciousness and dishonesty that the entire fabric of our system's at stake. we need to breakout from this moment in american history. and what i found as i began to look around -- and this is truly what makes this, to me, one of the most extraordinary periods in american history. everywhere you go there are hard working, intelligent people who are pioneers of the to future. and we're inventing things in energy, they're inventing things in transportation, they're inventing things in learning, they're inventing things in going into space, they're inventing things in being dramatically more effective. and you go around s and you say show me the most i

missing the american people continue to hear from their officials that israel is our democratic ally in the region that is so false it is not an ally is costing america so much money it's bankrupted america's fiscally morally and politically and it's not an ally it is just destroying the country surrounded and is destroyed and mirka standing in the world and the people of america need to be informed he says nobody is talking about what's happening in gaza in the west fact what israel is doing we're talking about all other things here in america there's a deliberate attempt to keep the people ignorant god forbid the americans should stand up and say i don't want my money to go to people who committing heinous crimes borderline genocide and i can't eat here i'm hopeless but i'm contributing not only to the people of israel that are there at the moment but anybody who wishes to come with us from africa whether it's from asia they can everybody can go there and my tax dollars will fund them this is what americans don't know and it's it's about time that other media started concentrating

pay for with our tax dollars to train not americans to train the latin american soldiers thousands every year and paramilitary operations and hands interrogation and i think that that's probably the most important thing that people people should be considering if someone who's not hearing about this school they should at least consider that this is taxpayer money going to fund not u.s. soldiers that are being educated but soldiers from across latin america that are not being taught how to conduct first aid they're not being taught how to how to teach reading or anything like that they're being taught counterinsurgency they're being taught psychological warfare they're being they're being taught things that they learn and then go back to their home countries and then commit these horrible atrocities eleven dictators in eight different countries have come out of the school sixty thousand troops have come out of the school that have gone on to commit horrible things in their respective countries places like bolivia argentina chile. and many other places in latin america so the fact that thi

that the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. but with his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan. who would systematically destroyed the promise of kind of these last year as they returned the country to war and repression joins me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project oliver stone excellent to have you both on thank you very much all or i want to start with you it's clear that your series sets j.f.k. apart from other presidents what makes you think he would have been different if. he was different in those three years he came into office after thirty years of national security state building monstrous buildup we had we had thirty thousand nuclear weapons what sixty mandated by eisenhower. and national security complex that was basically had a first strike capability on the soviet union and could get away with it and that is the basis for which the cuban missile crisis and the berlin berlin crisis of one nine hundred sixty one two brought us to the e

do you believe that the american people are smart? do you think politicians now that we have vetted this out, they try to implement this, do you think the american people deserve to be heard on the issue of health care? >> yes. i do hope the american people will make themselves better educated. >> i'm not the biggest quoter of gallup but the over well ing majority of americans want it repealed or major changes. whien won't the president say, you know what, i made promises we can't keep. why don't we cut our losses and debate this to get a system you would buy into. >> you know what, i think the president made it clear he has always wanted further debate and input. setting the aside, i feel that way. there's never been a major law passed that didn't need to be revised and amended. >> david. >> every one. >> h says we are not going back on this no matter how many people it hurt. >> he said, not while i'm president. >> he couldn't be more clear. >> it doesn't matter what he said. look what he does. >> at least you came off of that. >> he

idea because americans like strong friends with. except that the american public was so overwhelmingly opposed to an attack. syria that both houses of congress are ready to vote to repudiate that that's amazing so i think that the american people are learning slowly and consistently some areas yes some areas no but there's not only a war weariness there's a sense of being totally fed up as robert gates of all people who is with the cia for so long that a lot of damage was part of an architect in afghanistan and iraq robert gates said recently don't you learn from iraq afghanistan and libya i said if any secretary of defense recommends the united states to any troops again and asia africa latin america he should have his head examined. and i knew that would be a quagmire you know. what peter says is partially true i mean if there were another terror attack on u.s. soil would we do people react over react as they did last time would go crazy again because we have. this military that's what scares me and we're putting in place this arc