every time i see the speaker of the british house of commons, i accuse him in 1814, when the british burned the capitol down, they also stole our mace. you read the stories of former speakers, when this place got rowdy or people got out of hand, there was a fight on the floor, you had% the mace. it is a symbol of what this country has invested in the congress, the power of the congress, the power of people coming together and getting things done. >> congressmembers, please take your seats. >> i always have to explain to students when they come about what is really going on on the house floor. i say this is america coming together. this is like the stock exchange, but of ideas, and the hubbub and the discussions, there is a lot of business actually occurring down on the floor. it is one of the few chances a member has to find another member. you can see all of this activity down there. it is a very exciting time, actually, and the people in the galleries say, why did they sit in their seats, behave themselves, and yet it is where ideas are exchanged and is very alive. for all that is

drew" and two of the cast members british film director duncan roy and "playboy" playmate nicole narain. i have questions from people who tweeted and twittered and all. >> that please. >> we went through the difference between male and female. one is love and one is sex sort of. >> they end up in the same place very often and the roads there tend to be different. >> this is from eve. do you think the way we americans view sex has something to do with the problem of sexual addiction? >> i don't. peel make a big deal about that we are so prudish and puritanical. i don't see that, i see nothing but sex in this country. you come from another country. do you see that -- >> you're from england. >> i don't see you as being prudish but strict ideas about the whole gay/straight thing. for me that's a complete -- that's so american because i think people have a lot more sexual fluidity in europe than they do here. >> you think so. >> o lot of my male friends have had encounters with other men but here they'd be he's in the closet or he's in denial. you know, there it's just like, okay, i trite it

the prime minister has said that we are in afghanistan to protect british people against terrorism, and yet almost in the same breath threatens to pull out of the country if president karzai can't clean up his corrupt government. these are contradictory messages that are sending out mixed signals. can the prime minister now square that circle? >> we are in the country because of the threat to britain, a threat that has been seen over eight years as a result of projected and actual terrorist offenses in our country, three quarters of which come from afghanistan and pakistan, and mainly the borders of pakistan. that is why we are there, to protect the streets of britain. i was asked to ask of president karzai to give us assurances about how in his second term he would tackle crungs. he has now announced an anti-horsepower corruption task force. i gather 12 people have been arrested. at the same time i have asked him to appoint district and regional governor ors. and he has -- governors, and he has agreed to do so. the test i have said for president karzai he has met by speeches, and now w

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government in the british to intervene. they don't want to help for various reasons. >> and walker is doing all of these things like he brings back slavery in nicaragua. >> unbelievable and he had no interest gildea these napoleonic vision said he would cop role of latin america, so needless to say, the neighbors of nicaragua got a little worried about him so vanderbilt carried out this private foreign policy and started negotiating with the neighbors-- he found this guy who had been acquitted of murdering his captain it was his first mate, was acquitted because the one saw him do it. when in the captain's cabin, came out and the captain had been bludgeoned. vanderbilt sent amock to costa rica were literally a crate of gold and a bunch of rifles and he led a commando raid, some wonderful scenes, that sees all these steamboats and cut of walker from his reinforcements and it really is, something out of a comrade novel. it is just remarkable. >> or marquez. this one american scott i think it was down there. captain scott and

he liked -- he quoted early 17th century british poets, he could quote pulpit, who rhymes easily. if they don't rhyme easily, they're pretty hard to quote. we may have liked elliott, but he wasn't as easy to quote, but he loved to quote pope, and things that rhymed and he could remember those rhymes. but he also read, you know, some of modern poets, you know. he was familiar with edward arlington jefferson, he read poetry and enjoyed it and understood and the last line of my book says we found in this a way of explaining transcenden ideas that prose doesn't do and my book ends with a quote, a contemporary eulogy by went democrat barry. the death abides by brief knows, we are what we have lost. >> well, as an army veteran, thank you for your service to our country. but you did mention that the chief justice and yourself because of your army experience had a fear of government. >> i can't hear you. >> i'm sorry. both the chief justice and yourself had a fear of government because of your early military experience. how did that affect his thinking in the court? >> well, i'm not sure

>> every unit of the government was composed in equal parts of british and americans. that was one thing. so, yeah it was british and american. >> as far as the artifacts saved can you give a couple of examples of the better known pieces? >> there were lots of paintings that the nazis had taken from florence. we are talking about 563 paintings from the gallery taken up with and traced back and returned to florence before the end of the war. so that was the most important accomplishment. >> could you put a general percentage of the amount of artifacts that were saved? >> i think most were saved. that is not a very scientific way to put it. but it is extraordinary how much was saved or how little damage. if you think the campaign in italy covered the entire territory lasting 22 months and went from south to north and was a grueling battle all over. so in the end of their where three major buildings completely destroyed. everything else thinks to their intervention was restored after the war. >> where with the artifacts held during the war? >> everything that could be mov

, so yeah, british and american. >> as far as the artifacts that were saved, can you give as a couple of examples of some of the better known pieces? >> well, there were lots of paintings and nazis had taken from florence. were talking about 563 paintings from the gallery, that were taken up north and traced back and returned to florence before the end, at the end of the war. so that was the most important accomplishment. >> could you put a general percentage on the amount of artifacts that were saved to? i think most would say that's not a very scientific way to put it, but add extraordinary how much was saved or how little damage. if you think that the command object campaign in italy, the entire territory, lasted 22 months, and what comes out to north, and it was a grueling battle all over, so in the end, there were three major buildings that were completely destroyed. everything else, thanks to their intervention, was restored after the war. >> what with the artifacts held during the war? >> everything that could be moved was taken out of the

on revenues from british slave traders. in the decades that followed under the three king george's virginians petitioned time after time to end slavery importation. the georges all refused to and during their brains or africans crossed the atlantic to america than europeans and voluntarily of course. ironically the increase in the number of slaves was more of a burden than benefit to most virginia planters. sleeves were usually unskilled and unable to speak english and they had fewer incentives to work in peace workers in the north and as they aged and fathered children they added enormous numbers of nonproductive infants and elderly to the population the planters had to support. in only 50 years from 17221770 just before the american revolution, in those 50 years virginia slave population grew almost eightfold from two to 5,000 when the problem was still controllable to nearly 200,000 or more than 90% of the white population. virginians owned 40% of all the slaves in america and with slave traders streaming up the james ri

but the french were also active and the british were. it was a time of turmoil. we won't know for sure about anything until we establish whether he was murdered or not. but if he was, and i think we would find that if he was exhumed, because according to the reports in 1848, there was a very big hole in the back of his head. and i think that deserves investigation. what bothers me, i don't mind suicide, you know. i don't mind somebody being called bipolar or something, but i mind if you don't say how many wonderful things he accomplished. you can say all he was depressed, he was alcoholic, he was bipolar. but he also managed to start a newspaper, start a masonic lodge, published the territorial laws, you know, and function very effectively. but they don't do that. they say no, he was lazy. or he was out of it. and it is just not true. he was thrown into a very dangerous situation, and he knew it. and he hoped -- he left the territory in the most perfect state of tranquility he had ever been in is what he wrote at the end of his life. >> why do you suppose the par

and as i recall, the decision in that case was helping, helping the british defeat the united states is not treason against new york. it might be treason against the united states, but not against new york. so there were other cases, but they were very rare. and to my, to the best of my knowledge that was -- and i think it's well documented -- the first execution for treason against a state. yes, sir. >> do you think that john brown's confession or understanding of this trial changed as it went on? >> yes, i do. i really think that, i think that there was a change in brown. i think in the beginning that he thought that he might actually be held not, be found not guilty because of the fact that he didn't really intend to do any harm here. i think it was naive, but i think that he really did believe that, and he did really want some attorneys who might help him prove that case. very quickly, however, he changed his mind, and he decided that it was far better for him to be executeed for his noble cause than for him to be found not guilt or to escape from jail if he could have done that.

charged with treason against new york and desert recalled the decision in that case was helping the british defeat the united states is not treason against new york. it might be treason against the yen in back but not against new york said there were other cases that they were very rare and to the best of my knowledge, and i think it is well documented, the first execution for treason against a state. yes, sir. >> do you think that john brown's understanding of his trial changed as that went on? >> esi do. at i think that there was a change in brown. i think in the beginning that he thought that he might actually be found not guilty, because of the fact that he didn't really intend to do any harm. i think it was naÏve, but i think he really did believe that any did want some attorneys who might help improve that case. very quickly however, he changed his mind and he decided that it was far better for him to be executed for his noble cause then for him to be found not guilty or to escape from jail if he could've done that. yes, maam. >> one of the things that he did was to-- and it doesn't

in 2006, she was named a game of the british empire at buckingham palace that i'm working on legislation in congress to issue commemorative coin that features are as well, which would also help raise some money for the jane goodall institute. it is a tremendous program, advocacy, educational outreach, and of course her personal presence and her personal inspiration, which has touched so many of us in such an intimate way. and i know that you will enjoy her book, what she has to say, and you also have the opportunity to ask questions. and one of the truly great women of our age, it is my great honor and distinction to introduce to you doctor jane goodall. [applause] >> ththank you. well, thank you, congressman, derek. thank you for a wonderful welcome to all of you here. and i think the best i can do is to give you my traditional greeting, the voice of the chimpanzees from gandhi, the sound that would especially reach you people, to me it's one of the most provocative sounds of the african forests. hello. [laughter] >> i'm going to try do quite a lot of things this evening in quite a shor

now this butcher was the congressman that the secretary of the british in washington wrote a memoir, journal, that was later published. this british secretary described this butcher as the man who abused his privileges that the privileges to send mails free by sending home is women for his laundry. but as the british commentator pointed out, this was much of an abuse because the only said it once a week, he didn't change his shirt but once a week. [laughter] >> wayne levi to president jefferson to dinner at the white house, the butcher noted this british witness observing a leg of mutton of a miserable thing description could not help to get the legislative moment and expressing the feelings that this profession explained that in histone no such leg of mutton should ever found a play. well, that kind of person was legislating in the congress. i do know things things have changed at all. [laughter] >> but it was new for these many of these people to have the numbers of these kinds of ordinary folk. edmund randolph, who was a prominent republican, complained that the congress was full

i find that this affords many curiosities in her way as does the british museum. she thrived in the company of the strong minded women and silver tongued lecturers she found. shea brief in their passion and oratory but was never one of them and she knew it. you are such a crotchety bunch, she once said. all other men would be cause for rejoicing, you held them together. how is it now? i desire to know, she wrote, as i am one of you, i wish to know what is most becoming one of the order. unlike other abolitionists of her generation, she did not take risks the purchase will sacrifice well for comfort, or even have urgent concern for those who were enslaved. on the contrary she remained remarkably calm in the face of the brutality of slavery and racism. in most descriptions of her life including the ones she told, three decades of anti slavery struggle served mostly as backdrop, as an important essential womens lesson in degradation and rights. seneca falls offered stanton a cause about which she felt passionate and plunged in happily. lee and impatient expecting eve

it may be understandable that they would keep looking for the any where he was last seen, but as the british discovered in 1940 from the guns of singapore, fighting the last war can only bring defeat in the new war that has just broken out. the sociological factors that are often invoked to include minorities status, education, parental influence, to a greater degree of comfort jews field. the fear of being punished socially for dissenting from the political orthodoxies of the community and even lightly genetic inheritance. not surprisingly, the most original theory is down in an article by the late irving kristol wherewith his usual boldness he proposed the jews though notorious for their intelligence, are actually stupid when it comes to politics. but the most popular explanation by far traces jewish liberalism all the way back to the jewish values that are said to derive from the commandments in judaism, or more broadly the spirit of the jewish religious tradition. there is, however, a fatal flaw at the heart of the theory that the liberalism of american jews stems from the teachers of ju

virtually forced him into the hands of the british. so she was quite a dangerous person to have as an enemy, wilkinson, but he was a very early spotting that arnold's loyalties were in the balance. yes, sir. >> thank you for an excellent presentation. you've brought the the general to light. a couple of and related questions. you reside in england, did you do most of your research in europe and spain? how did you put it all together? >> qassam and spain because the of originals are the documents of spain, but a lot here because the library of congress has a wonderful collection of spanish documents relate to the united states but there's a wonderful collection of spanish documents in any case but specifically those and they have in fact as i realized later the have duplicates of all of the archives in madrid to read but i have been writing -- this is my third book of american history and gradually you acquire a lot of information about that period and something which you had written about, i had written about andrew for instance, and s

. >> host: and yet when british india was partitioned in 1947, the two states now three, bangladesh was back in 1971, but you look at any which just finished a month of eminence elections except for a brief interlude of emergency rule under in your gandhi, the markers in india has never been interrupted and never had a military coup. it's worked and yet pakistan has at least four military coups, disrupted elections. what's the difference? >> guest: there no government in pakistan has ever fulfilled its terms. it was never successfully taken root. the politics of u.s. relations in pakistan have also always been based on personalities. if we look at post-9/11, the entire part was on president bush are. so you see no the country wants those institutions to develop an. ducey from pakistan is the only country in the world where, the only muslim country in a world where they demand the rule of law and demand judiciary. so this is a very, very unique about pakistan overlooked to other muslim countries. compared to india, it's hard to say how do you differentiate the culture. there is something

>> yes, it's hard to find a place that doesn't have a mix, whether afghans or british or whatever. >> what do you observe of the nato and afghan troops work together? >> i find they work close together, there is $b+a mentori relationship, they bring the afghans and they slot into the u.s. organization in a pretty seamless way. they don't have the capabilities or training, but they are there tagging along. a lot of coalition activities are divided along international lines. the french has an operating base. >> it's exclusively theirs? >> no, but you see that french operations are mostly french. and you see afghan forces peppering these areas. >> did you get a chance to see this logistical supply out of bagum? >> i did, i flew on c-130 air lifter crew on resupply mission to the south. what happened was shipments of food and water and other supplies came in. whether on military or commercial aircraft, it was broken into batches and loaded for marine corp in the south. we flew through the mountains to south afghanistan. the c-130 did a pass over and shoved it out the back, and the marines

it was the first time we had an attack on our soil since the british attacked the white house. it happened a scale that will completely upset the whole country. i do not know if we have the capacity to deal with these kinds of issues. there is such an emotional response that makes it very difficult to govern, and the role of the media does not help. particularly when the media is more visual than it is reality. the images tell partial truth, the humans do not tell the truth. they distort the american political system and indeed, the american political issue. it is astounding to me to see how people can claim a victory on today's news stories. it is going on today, as we speak. i find it very discouraging. i remained optimistic about the qualities of american society. its willingness to recognize merit -- the one thing that is disturbing to me is the corruption. not just an economic corruption, but in terms of the money that it takes to dominate the media on one level or another and how this can be presented to the american public in ways that really did not tell an accurate sto

>> i can't speak about the british, you have to ask them. as far as the saudis go, president karzai mentioned him by name, he asked king abdullah to play a role here. i will let the saudis speak for themselves, i have talked to saudi, i have been to riyadh and talked to king abdullah about it myself, we would be supportive of anything that the kingdom chose to do in this regard. >> but i was talking about pakistan there. the talks with pakistan and -- >> oh, i don't know anything about that. i read it a news account, but i don't know about that. >> then you mentioned the trade transit agreement. what is the status between those negotiations. is seems they're stalled and you won't make the deadline at the end of the year. >> i don't think that's a fair conclusion. have any of you ever seen a negotiation which didn't go down to the wire, international gokes? i think we have a good -- negotiation. i think we have a good shot at making the deadline. if you want more detail than that, why don't you call the office and -- i don't want to involve e

two years into the war of 1812, british troops enter at 7:30. the head towards the white house. >> it is one of the biggest melodramatic moments of the white house. mrs. madison was looking through the telescope and she was absolutely terrified. nobody thought that they would really burn the building. one slave that was the last one to see the white house wrote a memoir. madison sat with monroe and had a glass of wine. they took off. they locked the doors just before the british came that night. they had 22 javelins' that had rags on the end, all of them lighted and the throne -- thrown. it burned until the early morning rain came that pretty much put the fire up. it was a big stone box with ashes at the bottom. it was a tremendous jolt for the american people. >> below the first lady saved the portrait of washington, most cannot be saved. >> that was one of the byproducts, they were considered terrible cowards for running. >> with and jackson's symbolic victory in january of 1815, the war comes to a close and helps restore part of the madisons'

british film director duncan roy and nicole morraine. you're out there somewhere. we know you're there. >> thanks. >> by the way, i saw your tape with colin farrell, yikes. >> i can't see you watching that. that's cool, i guess. >> i have my secrets. steve phillips, this guy, espn, ho has sex with a 22-year-old, he gets caught and goes to sex rehab. is he really a sex addict or a horny guy? >> i don't know him. he had to have met criteria for addiction before he got admitted to a program for sexual addicts. people get glib. they say it's just an excuse. substitute cocaine instead of sex. the courts, families, doctors bring people to treatment. it's relativery rare that people stand up and say, i have to get my cocaine addiction taken care of today. there has to be consequence to get you to go. >> the easy way out of that situation is to leave your wife, end up in a hotel room with coke and hookers. that's the easy way out. not to stand up and say, i need help. >> i don't remember saying that was the easy way out. you're getting me mixed up with whoopi goldberg. wha

and yet we still have 46 million people without any health insurance and under the british model they have universal coverage. under the so-called bismarck model, the countries of germany, france, japan, switzerland, belgium, have universal coverage and debt yet if we remember their costs we see even though they are providing universal coverage in these other countries, their costs are much lower than ours. and if we look further at the quality of health care outcomes, quite an interesting story emerges because those countries have a universal care, lower-cost and if you look at quality outcomes, they do better than we do on an preventable death, which according to the commonwealth fund which is very distinguished, non-partisan, they looked at preventable deaths around the country. they found the united states came in 19th but other countries that have much lower costs and have universal coverage, for example france and japan are ranked one in two with much lower costs and universal coverage they are getting better results. and some don't even want to debate going to healthcare? i mea

of the region but for the last 300 years others have chopped away at it so with the look at what the british took, what the russians took and all of these, all of these ancient areas, the caucasus, central asia, part of afghanistan were once hours. does that mean they want to reconquer it and set up a new person empire? i don't think so, but it is out there and that i think is what you are dealing with. i will say finally in persia there is a nice expression if someone has been gone for a long time, and you see him, very often you will say to him, were you in kandahar? [laughter] meaning, you were on the moon, and that is often the way it is the. i don't want to get into it now because i am really not so authoritative on this subject but the way the iranians and afghans looking at each other is probably the subject of a whole nother book. >> in early in washington the victims of the lack of historical perspective? [laughter] >> god forbid. >> what is the relevance of opp ahmadinejad's stated belief that the imam is on the threshold of-- and another question about sanctions, a long one. many

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and in some cases they might be, or british, as anchor people. >> yes. >> yes. >> have you seen this? and why are they doing this? >> well, that is -- "russia today" is a state-controlled broadcast. >> it looks a lot like our american television -- >> oh, i think they actually, probably tried to copy fox news, because it's -- it just happens to be state run. and you will find in many cases similar type stories. at least the old pravda approach under the soviet union was to highlight whatever was the worst thing that happened in the u.s. so, if we had a natural disaster, or something embarrassing politically or socially catastrophic -- someone walks into a school and shoots 10 people -- boy, that would be on the news. and they still tend to highlight that. they ran a huge feature last week on "russia today," explaining why -- and this is so irritating -- 9/11 was faked, and the u.s. knew it and, i mean, just these incendiary accusations. and they do it as investigative journalism. >> well this, "russia today," is part of a package of 10 channels that is supported by the state of virgin

every time i see the speaker of the british house of commons, i accuse him in 1814, when the british burned the capitol down, they also stole our mace. you read the stories of former speakers, when this place got rowdy or people got out of hand, there was a fight on the floor, you had% the mace. it is a symbol of what this country has invested in the congress, the power of the congress, the power of people coming together and getting things done. >> congressmembers, please take your seats. >> i always have to explain to students when they come about what is really going on on the house floor. i say this is america coming together. this is like the stock exchange, but of ideas, and the hubbub and the discussions, there is a lot of business actually occurring down on the floor. it is one of the few chances a member has to find another member. you can see all of this activity down there. it is a very exciting time, actually, and the people in the galleries say, why did they sit in their seats, behave themselves, and yet it is where ideas are exchanged and is very alive. for all that is

two years into the war of 1812, british troops enter at 7:30. the head towards the white house. >> it is one of the biggest melodramatic moments of the white house. mrs. madison was looking through the telescope and she was absolutely terrified. nobody thought that they would really burn the building. one slave that was the last one to see the white house wrote a memoir. madison sat with monroe and had a glass of wine. they took off. they locked the doors just before the british came that night. they had 22 javelins' that had rags on the end, all of them lighted and the throne -- thrown. it burned until the early morning rain came that pretty much put the fire up. it was a big stone box with ashes at the bottom. it was a tremendous jolt for the american people. >> below the first lady saved the portrait of washington, most cannot be saved. >> that was one of the byproducts, they were considered terrible cowards for running. >> with and jackson's symbolic victory in january of 1815, the war comes to a close and helps restore part of the madisons'

going back to the second world war, i think president roosevelt did the right thing by helping the british before we got into the war. the other ones, that fbi i doubt was involved in 9/11. i don't even want to talk about the u2. host: a couple of sundays she rode about the potential nuclear treaty with russia. u.s. officials optimistic about a new nuclear treaty with russia. why does this have to be done? guest: the current start treaty runs out december 5. it is important to keep, particularly the verification issue going. i think they may or may not reach some kind of agreement. what they will reach is in agreement on straddling the of period of time between finalizing a treaty which is very complicated and reaching the agreement to keep the current agreements in effect. this treaty was put together in 1991 at a time when we and the soviet union are facing -- thousands of warheads on alert. in the intervening time the russian systems have gradually been less-well taken care of, so the threat is not there. but we have to keep the treaty in place because not everyone else is looking at us

>> i can speak about the british. as far as the saudis, presidents karzai mentioned to them by name. he asked king of dulles to play a role here. -- he asked king abdallah to play a role here we would be supportive of any thing that the kingdom chose to do in this regard. >> i was talking about pakistan. the talks between pakistan and the taliban. >> i don't know anything about that. i read a news account but i do not know. >> you mentioned the trade- transit agreement. what is the status of those negotiations? it seems they are stalled and that will not meet the end of the year deadline. >> i don't think that is a foregone conclusion. have you ever seen a negotiation that did not go down to the wire? i think we have a good shot of making the deadline. if you want more details on that, call our office. we are hopeful it will be done. let's be clear for those of you not involved in this negotiation -- this negotiation began before half of you in this room were born. it is 44-years old. it is older than you are. [laught

it was the first time we had an attack on our soil since the british attacked the white house. it happened a scale that will completely upset the whole country. i do not know if we have the capacity to deal with these kinds of issues. there is such an emotional response that makes it very difficult to govern, and the role of the media does not help. particularly when the media is more visual than it is reality. the images tell partial truth, the humans do not tell the truth. they distort the american political system and indeed, the american political issue. it is astounding to me to see how people can claim a victory on today's news stories. it is going on today, as we speak. i find it very discouraging. i remained optimistic about the qualities of american society. its willingness to recognize merit -- the one thing that is disturbing to me is the corruption. not just an economic corruption, but in terms of the money that it takes to dominate the media on one level or another and how this can be presented to the american public in ways that really did not tell an accurate sto

didn't make a difference because far while the british and french were also un1u79ive and when they were prepared to take stronger action, one of the the russians in fact were not terribly vigorous in their opposition and in fact persuaded said military dwruents participate in the nato-led intervention force. but the -- and there were very complicated issues about the relation of the russian forces to the nato command. and that issue brought to the floor the issue of nato enlargement, which we've talked abouter requestier. and there was no question by 1994, say -- that there was very strong pressure in central and eastern europe. very strong desire join the alliance. that this was probably going to happen. and the russians were adamantly opposed for a variety of reasons. and one of the biggest challenges was to so manage the relationship with russia that it was possible to go forward with an enlargement without an open break with moscow, and by and large that was a success. but it was an irritant in relations with russia. think there's a very strong case for the strategy pursuing both na

half will be trained by the british, half by the americans. some of these troops coming to this region will already be trained. some will come to be trained from the beginning. the commitment i have from president karzai is that he now sees that helman is a party and he would dispatch troops there where he sees that a lot of the violence is. it is in recognition of that but i have made the announcements that i have today. >> the premise your will know that yemeni nationals for one of the largest groups operating within al qaeda both in afghanistan and pakistan. would the prime minister give a commitment that he will continue to work with the government of yemen to make sure it does not become a failed state? >> he is right to point to the terrorist threats we see in different parts of the world. it is absolutely true that terrorists operating from yemen and a sometimes strained in pakistan are people we have had to follow and pursue. it is also right that somalia has become a major center for the development of terroristic activity. some of th

click on it for links to british parliament and legislatures around the world. you'll also see links to c-span programs dealing with other international issues. the address again is c-span.org. >> on this vote, theiers are 60, the nays are 59. three fifths voting it's agreed to. of >> translator: senate moves its healthcare bill to the floor live starting monday and through december, follow every minute of debate and how the bill will affect access to medical care, the public option, taxes, abortion and medicare on the only network that brings you the senate gavel-to-gavel. c-span2. >> now an interview with neil barofsky. he's the inspector general for the troubled relief program or t.a.r.p. he's interviewed by matt winkler. from washington, d.c., this is half hour. >> neil, you know, i'd like to begin really at the -- i think the heart of what concerns most americans at this point. you said almost four weeks ago in a report to congress, and i'm quoting, that u.s. taxpayers are extremely unlikely to earn any return on the $700 billion the government invested to

british film director duncan roy and nicole morraine. you're out there somewhere. we know you're there. >> thanks. >> by the way, i saw your tape with colin farrell, yikes. >> i can't see you watching that. that's cool, i guess. >> i have my secrets. steve phillips, this guy, espn, he has sex with a 22 kreerld, he gets caught and goes to sex rehab. is he really a sex addict or a horny guy? >> i don't know him. he had to have met criteria for addiction before he got admitted to a program for sexual addicts. people get glib. they say it's just an excuse. substitute cocaine instead of sex. the courts, families, doctors bring people to treatment. it's relativery rare that people stand up and say, i have to get my cocaine addiction taken care of today. there has to be kons dwoeconseq get you to go. >> the easy way out of that situation is to leave your wife, end up in a hotel room with coke and hookers. that's the easy way out. not to stand up and say, i need help. >> i don't remember saying that was the easy way out. you're getting me mixed up with whoopi goldberg. wha

british police arrested him when he flunked a breathalyzer test, though. washington is now grounded. there have been several incidents for the airlines industry recently. this morning on our sister network a former ntsb official said flyers should be concerned. >> the whole structure of flying has changed. the airline had industry has been in a profound downturn for a number of years and not getting any better. pilots, they -- flight crews are the key component. they're being worked harder. they're being paid less. they're under more stress. and i think there is an issue. and i think you're going to see the ntsb and the faa looking at the whole issue of pilot fatigue, pilot work rules. how do we optimize people's attention in these cockpits? i think that's going to come up in the next few months. >> washington is now the third u.s. pilot and the second from united to be busted at heathrow on alcohol charges in just over a year. an airline spokeswoman says -- >>> the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation in 2002 said nothing before

british police say his alcohol level was over the legal limit. the pilot has been removed from duty as the airline investigates but a spokeswoman read this statement. united's policy is among the strictest in the industry. >>> a rockslide closes down a busy highway in tennessee as workers try the clear the road from an earlier incident almost got hit by another slide and that one was caught on videotape. take a look. pretty impressive. a local news crew was cover the cleanup and managed to get the second slide. a state jol gist warned everyone there might be this second slide and moved them out of the way. u.s. 64 near copper hill and duckville, tense may be closed a week. >>> a story of survival near the arctic circle a 17-year-old hunter trapped on an ice flow in hudson bay. he wasn't alone. there were three polar bears on the patch of ice. the teen spent two nights adrift. one bear got too close and the hunter shot it. finally rescuers reached him by boat and helped get him to safety and then got trapped. they had to spend a night on the ice a

not a great day to start your maybe sailing vacation in the british virgin island today. an indoor day for sure. >> absolutely. an indoor day in the islands, i think most people would take it. it was a busy weather day. that's why we needed to talk to you, chad. thank you. >>> a legal battle is heating up between the pentagon and the aclu. and the issue is photos that appear to show americans abusing foreign detainees. should these pictures be released? your views, next. >>> defense secretary robert gates has blocked the release of any new photos that appear to show americans abusing foreign detainees. the obama administration told the supreme court that gates is using his new powers provided by a law signed last month. the aclu sued to have them released, and lower courts did support that. but gates said the release would put u.s. citizens and service members in danger. >> i absolutely agree. this is way too -- >> this has been the "your views" question of the day. you've been calling, making your cases for which side you're on on this. lori is holding, calling from cali

i thought he still showed that british charm. he gave a quick plug for his movie and was smiling. he didn't throw a tantrum. it could have been a lot worse. but the publicist knows these questions are coming and he should have a prepared response, maybe a sentence or two, a way that will keep the audience enticed and satisfy the interviewer without giving too much away. i think it could have been handled away. >> hyla? >> and as big as rob pattinson is and "twilight," ryan seacrest is mr. pop culture. he's mr. hollywood. he's been around for ten years and will be around another ten years. not a smart move on the publicist's party. >> and this is a big-time publicist, not somebody who's new at the job by any breaking nic cage's spending spree. he fired his money manager claiming he had mismanaged his money. now levin claims a countercomplaint saying cage spent himself into the poor house. he claims just last year, cage owned 15 home palatial homes, four yachts, an island in the bahamas, and a gulf stream jet. i want you to take a look at the photos we have of the palatial estates.

on arrival there, british authorities denied him entry. he was arrested once he touched down on american soil. >>> emergency officials are telling everybody in louisiana, get out while you can, water is overflowing a levee and the levee could breach. water began spilling from a nearby bayou and some homes are already flooded. >>> thanks to people like you, we're getting amazing pictures. a weekend train derailment in suburban chicago. a freight train derailed and hit a second train in north brook yesterday. nobody was hurt. great i-report from brian bell. 17 car jumped the tracks. bell said train cars fell off the bridge. railcars came within two feet of two permanently mounted liquid propane tanks behind a strip mall. the strip mall, though, was evacuated as a precaution. bell said his friend was the one who told him about the derailment, he went to the scene and snapped images. about when you have great stories, go to ireport.com, look for the up load now link. instructs are self-explanatory. >>> if you're ever -- if you've ever texted b

it's in vancouver, british columbia and you can have it. $3.3 million. >> whew! >> yeah. apparently vampires like pools. i don't know if they showed that in the movie. but manner architecture, high ceilings, lots of trees all around them and lots of books, too. >> yeah. lots of windows. i'll admit, i saw the movie. i thought it was a pretty cool house. but $3.3 million, not so much. >>> earlier, this morning, we told but a church that by law cannot feed the homeless and it's causing a lot of controversy in phoenix. it is our news and views question of the day. they can't feed the homeless? >> right now they can't, but they're not done. it's still working its way through the courts. the aclu is trying to help this church. the church has been told you have to stop feeding the homeless. because that's the judge said this church was violating a city ordinance by serving meals to the homeless. it's not saying all churches have to stop, but specifically because of the location in this church. neighbors are upset. they say these people who are bused in sometimes stay, sometimes

>> i can't speak about the british. you have to ask them. as far as the saudis go, president karzai mentioned them by name in his speech. it's well known that he asked king abdullah to play a role here. and i will let the saudis speak for themselves. i have talked to the saudis. i have been to riyadh. i talked to king abdullah about it myself. we would be supportive of anything that the kingdom chose to do in this regard. >> but i was talking about pakistan there. >> i thought -- >> about the talks with pakistan -- >> oh. i don't know anything about that. i read a news account, but i don't know what the facts are. >> you also mentioned the trade transit agreement. what is the status of those negotiations between afghanistan and pakistan? it seems that they are stalled and that you won't make the deadline at the end of the year. >> i don't think that's a fair conclusion. have any of you ever seen a negotiation which didn't go down to the wire? an international negotiation? i think we have a good shot at making the deadline. there are two or t

and that included the prince of wails, the hare to the british thrown in 1860 and the grand duke of russia. they were not always male visitors. in 1893 president and mrs. grover cleveland entertained the princess of spain. she had been sent over with the idea that relations with the united states and spain were not too good because we abdicated cuban independence from spain and spain didn't. so there was a state dinner held. anti-princess arrived. she was supposed to go upstairs to be received on the oval room on the second floor just as the prime minister of india will be this evening, but she got here a little late. she rushed straight to the east room. the clevelands had to rush down from upstairs. the band started the march. they all started processing and apparently the confusion made an otherwise controversial dinner into one that was enjoyable and relaxed in the end. the first actual state visit to the white house was in 1874 under president and mrs. grant. it was king david, the king of the hawaiian islands. and state dinners were much smaller than they are today. in fact, probably

friday, for the first time in british history, parliament opens its chambers to non-mp's as they debate in the house of commons. former new york times reporter at what has to his plagiarism. a look back to the cuban missile crisis, as well. also, have world threats been over-the post cold war world. sunday, two programs on democracy and the internet, including the university of virginia powell on how the political process has been affected by the internet. the facebook founder will talk about how networking is changing the political process. this holiday weekend on c-span. >> thanksgiving week and on c- span, american icons, three nights of cspan original documentaries on the iconic homes of the three branches of american government beginning tonight at 8:00, eastern part of the supreme court reveals the building through the eyes of supreme court justices. friday at 8:00 p.m., the white house, inside america's most famous home, be on the bill that ropes. will show the grand public places as well as the rarely- seen places. saturday at 8:00 p.m., the capital, the history, art, and archit

it was the first time we had an attack on our soil since the british attacked the white house. it happened a scale that will completely upset the whole country. i do not know if we have the capacity to deal with these kinds of issues. there is such an emotional response that makes it very difficult to govern, and the role of the media does not help. particularly when the media is more visual than it is reality. the images tell partial truth, the humans do not tell the truth. they distort the american political system and indeed, the american political issue. it is astounding to me to see how people can claim a victory on today's news stories. it is going on today, as we speak. i find it very discouraging. i remained optimistic about the qualities of american society. its willingness to recognize merit -- the one thing that is disturbing to me is the corruption. not just an economic corruption, but in terms of the money that it takes to dominate the media on one level or another and how this can be presented to the american public in ways that really did not tell an accurate sto

british and french were equally unsupporteive. when they were prepared to take stronger action on one of the things i am deeply pleased about is the beginning of the war crimes trial. russians in fact were not terribly vigorous in their opposition and were persuaded to send military units to participate in the nato-led intervention force, and there were very complicated issues about the relationship with the russian forces to the nato command, and that issue brought to before the issue of nato enlargement, which we have talked about earlier in this conference. there was no question but 1994 -- by 1994 that there was very strong pressure in central and eastern europe, their strong desire to join the alliance, that this was probably going to happen, and the russians were adamantly opposed for a variety of reasons, and one of the biggest challenges was to so manage the relationship with russia that it was possible to go forward with enlargement without an open break with moscow, and by and large, that was a success. but it was an ear