but the french were also act as in the british were. it was a time of turmoil. we well 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, and i don't mind somebody being called bipolar or something, but i'd mind it if you don't say how many wonderful things he accomplished. you can say he was depressed, he was an alcoholic, he was bipolar, but he also managed to start a newspaper, start a masonic lodge, published the territorial laws and function very effectively. but they don't do that. they say no, he was lazy or he was out of there. and it's 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 about ever been in is what he wrote at the end of his life. so -- >> why do you suppose the par

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

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

there is a free video that these british filmmakers did. this is the entire european union. -- in one room. that is the parliament building in brussels. that is a microcosm of europe and one room. this was one of the more challenging delivered of poles we conducted, -- poolslls, because it was a sampling of countries speaking in 22 countries -- 22 languages. a mansion in the small groups, how many translators we had to have just to get this -- the discussions. they directed questions to competing experts, including prime ministers and high-level people. and then there opinions changed about questions affecting europe. this was a great challenge, because in europe, there is no european-wide public sphere at the mass level. they are elite spires. and the elites speak english, or maybe french or chairman. not 21 or 22 languages. the french talk to the french, the bulgarians to the bulgarians, the portuguese to the portuguese. you do not get a european-wide discussion. we saw what it could be like and we put in the parliament building to dramat

. >>> british troops are finding it harder to trust afghan police. this video reportedly filmed by the taliban a shows what appears to be afghan police men willingly gives their weapons to the taliban. british officers say taliban fighters have infiltrated the afghan police force.+++tp0 excuse me, since there is pressure to quickly recruit more afghans, properly vetting the new policemen is tough and the prime minister is concerned about this, certainly, of the britain. >>> remember, the bird's nest, the center of last year's olympic games in beijing. now chinese officials are trying to figure out what to do it. now, only a few thousand a day pay to tour it. that's down from 50,000. sports teams have not been able to move into the nest because it costs just too doggone much. but it looks, great, rafer w weig weigel. >> but doesn't look good empty. >> it was not empty last night. people looking forward to the victory parade, when that happens. we're talking about the new york yanks. >> the empire fights back. it is the first one for the yankees in the

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

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

recently the british library did something very radical for a rare book library. they suffered a pretty significant theft, and they went out after the guy and caught hi. he was sentenced to two years in prison. they did make a big media splash. they really wanted to go public and send out the word that they aren't going to put up with this anymore. [inaudible question] >> ahead. >> why does he still? does he read these books? >> okay. the question is about i think how you even quantify whether a book is rare or not and why gilkey was so drawn to them. did i miss anything? does he read them? that is an easy one. no. most collectors don't read the books. they collect. they're big readers, and they enjoy -- that is why they got into book collecting is because they have been big readers and have loved books since there were children. but they want to preserve the physical book, and so they usually don't treat them. first bookfairs i went to in boston have lent by a book proof where there was a dealer who specialized in the modern first editions. somebody was walking b

i think after the first book, if i wanted to study terrorism, and i knocked on the door of the british bank i said i'm an academic. i want to work with you to find terrorist. they would have laughed. after the book, people were more much willing to open up with data and stories. i think that really, it was one of the benefits of the first book. when i first started, i thought this is going to be really a substitute for doing academic research. i'm going to end up taking a lot of time to write a popular book. but i weighed the tradeoff and said maybe i'll do it anyway. i was really wrong. one of the unintended consequences of writing a book was complimented my research. it allowed me to do things that i never could have done otherwise. >> there's a lot of research since four or five years that's really good that is good or will yield really good academic research. it was totally uninteresting for a book like this. a lot of it had to do with firms, prices, -- if we wanted to write a business book. we would. we could write about mistakes that firms have made, and the good things that come

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

and the british did the same animosity others. and what was the consequence? none. there's no punishment in the protocol. there is no consequence for signing and then violating the agreement. and that is the nature of universal agreement. either asked people to do nothing so of course they comply, or they often to do something serious and then they shut their eyes is that they can't see whether or not they're actually doing it. or they are a violation. now we have to ask them why the people promote universal treaties instead of taking unilateral action. and the answer is quite straightforward. if you can say, well, we can't cut our greenhouse gas emissions because after all india and china and brazil and some other rapidly developing countries are not cutting bears. it would be unfair to put our citizens, face a burden, while these other people continue to pollute, forgetting that, you know, western europe and the united states has been polluting for 200 years and china and india are just getting started. instead of stepping back and saying i have a different plan.

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

she was from the british government. she will be going -- can i say or is it a top secret? unofficially,. [laughter] >> unofficially, the government is sending her to tehran has the deputy chief of mission. she will be replaced, she will be succeeded, but she can't be replaced. she's done an unbelievable job. i've worked with a lot of people who were in the department. i've never seen anybody who has done a good adds job as jane. we will sorely miss her. let's see. what else do i want to say. we are also a real organizizing our international outreach. and the count parts of about 25 or 26 count parts to my job now. since the job was set up. and the germans has been coordinating that effort. and with the elections now behind us. we're going to be intensifying our effort on coordination, coordinating the international effort. the germans are appointing a new counterpart. it's part of the agreement between the cdu and the fdp. we don't know what that will be yet, unless it is announced today. and they will remain the coordinator, but we've agreed to et up an international cell

the americans the health care just as germans, french, british need health care. bickering over dollar and cents -- in a good republican because i will send you $100 million, but we'll have people coming to the emergency rooms. there will cost you $200 billion. host: one more call here, robert is on the independent line. caller: i do not agree -- nothing -- concerning previous callers. the congressmen and senators have turned into thieves by taking the lobbyists' money. why is the catholic church on non-profit organization? how can they go up there to lobby at all? if the country really wants to help they ought to start taxing these non-profit organizations. i think the lobbyists, heavily more power than with the should have. down here in my local town, everyone wants -- this local politician wants everyone to vote for him, but we will not because he is standing up for local insurance companies. in a moment we will speak with walter pincus. we'll turn our attention to national security, including the competition among intelligence agencies. >> things given week on

you know, everybody from shel to bridge petroleum and -- from shel to british petroleum. it is a key issue and we need to address it. i think that issue is behind us and it is now about changing are a strategy on energy and moving forward. i think there is broad@@@@@@@@℠' they feel the leadership should engage. that's where our focus should be. caller: i think the hoax is up. the emails were leaked out by the hackers out of universities in europe about how basically about communications between scientists have shown they were trying to manipulate the data. there is a huge story and no one is talking about it. and if you don't know about the emails, you can google after the show. i wanted the viewers to know about it how this is all a hoax. not -- than any major environmental issue in the last 30 years. i simply do not accept that. i think is hackers. they need to stay focused on the issue and the fact that most of our corporate leadership and political leadership and world leadership sees this as a major issue that needs to be addressed. host: what do you see as the imp

ensure sustained growth to deliver a fair and prosperous economy for families and businesses, as the british economy recovers from the global economic downturn. through active employment and training programs, restructuring the final sectors, strengthening the national infrastructure, and providing responsible investment, my government will foster growth and employment. my government will also strengthen key public services, ensuring that individual entitlements guarantee good services, and will work to build trust in democratic institutions. my government will seek effective global and european collaboration through the g-20 and the european union to sustain economic recovery and to combat climate change, including at the copenhagen summit next month. the dewpoint -- the duke of edinburgh and i look forward to our visit to bermuda and our state visit to trinidad and tobago and to the commonwealth heads of government meeting in this, the commonwealth's 60th anniversary year. we also look for to receiving the president of south africa next year. my government will continue to reform regulatio

prosecutors say amanda knox and two others killed her british roommate in november 2007 at the home they shared in italy. they say meredith kercher's throat was slit during a sex game. knox is standing trial with her ex-boyfriend. a third man was convicted last year. this morning on the "today" show, knox's parents say they're worried the jury will believe what italian tabloids have written about the case, rather than basing the verdict on the evidence. >> we've worried all along just because of what has happened, you know, all the false reporting. and to be quite frank, things have not really gone correctly so far. but we have to be hopeful that now it is all public and everything that has been presented in court has been, you know, pretty much good for us. it shows that she is innocent. >> the jury is expected to get the case december 4th and a verdict could come as early as the next day in fact. >>> a security expert says the pentagon ignored a report that could have helped prevent the ft. hood shootings. shannon ross miller said she worked on the 2008 study to help the military spot

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

my government has been with priority to share stained growth and have a prosperous economy as the british economy recovers from the global economic downturn. training and employment programs restructuring the financial sector, and strengthening the national infrastructure and providing responsible investment, my government will foster growth and employment. and my government will also strengthen key public services. and insuring that individual entitlements guarantee good services and will work to build trust in democratic institutions. my government will seek effective global and european collaboration. and through the g-20 and the european union. and to sustain economic recovery. and to combat climate change including at the copenhagen summit next month. the duke of edinboro and i look forward to the visit to bermuda and the state visit to trinidad and to the common wealth heads the government meeting, in this the common wealth 60th anniversary year. we also look forward to receiving the president of south africa next year. my government will continue to reform and strengthen regulation

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

i have seen already reports a day of british announcements. as i said earlier, the australians committed a greater number of forces back in the spring when the president dedicated more american forces. so some of this has come as a part of the security buildup toward the elections. some of this may come as a new force contributions. >> the primary mission the president will talk about going forward will be training afghan forces. it will also obviously be a combat mission -- >> there is no doubt that there will be some amount of counter- terrorism, and there will be fighting back against insurgents. >> side by side -- >> sure, our efforts will continue. >> new primary mission will be of these new -- >> prior emphasis has to be on the training of afghan security forces. -- primary emphasis. again, we are not going to be there forever, and we can't and we do not have the resources, manpower, or budget to be primarily responsible for afghanistan. afghans have to be primarily responsible for that security through increased training so that once an

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

, would it be helpful for policymakers to review the history of the french colonial experience, the british and russian experience in afghanistan, the u.s. experience in vietnam, before rather than after a decision to go to war? would it be useful to study the differences between and within the world's great religions? and would anies a aspects of our history be relevant to decision making. the tactics of francis marian, who trained the best army at night, and vanished into the swamps during the day. the neh advance scholarship in these and other areas. how do you do it in public policy? this is a challenging, because it involves multiple parties, serious score -- scholars, and others. a monk in the cave maybe admirable. but wisdom that isn't shared is voiceless thought. likewise, thoughtful scholarship that is available but not pondered is prescription for social error with many costly dimensions. this is neither time for scholarly key sitting, nor vast citizenship, than ignoring or shortchanging the humanities. in the issue today is localist instincts on the other. divisions are magnified

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

the british actors don't seem to have that problem. >> there are plenty of gay actors in new york and faced the other side of the state. it's the other consequence. in california, the film industry has been a problem. the young gay performers. we're waiting for the first successful run to provide a gender who says, honestly, said they bm the most statue in the world. you'll have a casual career and it will all be over. at the moment, when they say, oh, it's difficult for actors to come out, it's difficult for politicians and priests and it's difficult for everybody because society make it is difficult. >> right. view. but an actor in the united states, the women like to have the fantasy, or so they tell us any way, that the man, kissing a woman in the scene, that he love it is. so if you know that the guy is gay, you might think he's making a subs institution. >> does that work for you when you question whether he's gay or straight? >> i don't. i don't even like movies like that. >> no, but i think that audiences are a little bit more sophisticated than that. we know that they are act

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 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

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

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.

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

. >> he showed that british charm. he gave a plug to his movie. i agree with hyla, the publicist knows this is coming and he should have a prepared response in a way that keeps the audience entice and satisfy the interviewer without giving too much away. it could have been handled better. >> as big as rob pattinson is, ryan seacrest is mr. pop culture. he has been around for 10 years and will be around another 10 years and not a smart move. >> this is a big time publicist here. not somebody who is new at the job. another breaking story in today. nick kacage's spending spree. he claimed he mismanaged cage's money. he filed a spectacular counter complaint claiming he spent himself into the poor house. look at this. he claims just last year, cage owned 15 homes and fouruates and an island and a gulfstream jet. i want to you look at photos we found of the estate. if the claims are true, i am guessing nicholas cage will get zero sympathy from the public about blowing the fortune. >> i want to say i'm the wrong person for this. i have negative dollars i

are british fans different from your fans here in the united states? >> oh, we have wonderful fans in the united states. we do have great, great fans in europe when we get a chance to go there, especially london we love to play. we had actually been on a five-week tour and just -- we were winding up our tour in london at the '02 arena and thought we're going to film this because this has been a wonderful trip. we had such a great time, such a wonderful audience. all the songs, of course, that they love and all the popular songs. then we do a lot of variety of other things. we do interview, talk to the band, show the rehearsal, show the town. this dvd is a wonderful thing to watch. it's colorful and entertaining, but you can see for yourself on the dvd how involved the audience really gets. they knew all the words and they were swinging their arms back and forth on all the songs, singing along. it made for a wonderful experience for all of us and i'm very proud of the dvd and cd. it's all in one package. i have it right here. i call it my double ds. it'

if we are talking about the same incident of the three somalis who had taken hostage in the british and american captors -- the victims, they were taken for ransom. they were not taken and the medical supplies and food supplies were not taken from the ship but rather the bodies themselves and there was ultimately going to be transported to somalia itself and held for ransom. i do not think there was an altruist a purpose to the goals of those hijackers. host: next up, new york city, on our line for republicans, go ahead. caller: i am listing to the democrat callers. we have philanthropic terrorists. there was a call that said we had to worry about spreading fear pertaining to islam. i think the case at fort hood is a good example of how we went out of our way to spread fear. the people at fort hood paid for it with their lives. the second point is at the beginning of mr. emerson's segment, he mentioned something about homegrown terrorists being right-wing people. i agree with a lot of what he says but i wonder how homegrown terrorism gets attributed to the right when we have been dealin

the same would be true of any, with the british -- the prime minister or something like that. you will probably not hear about that for an hour or two before he lands. host: what sort of technology our troops given their to communicate with loved ones, especially on a day like thanksgiving? guest: i'm not sure. obviously, the terrain here varies usually in terms of what is available. there are phones on all bases and some people have access to cell phones. there are satellites on the combat outposts in the middle of the mountains or desert -- but a lot of people also use things like skype, the internet phones which are very inexpensive. there are a variety of options. it depends a lot on where they might be posted. host: you are one of many reporters working in afghanistan. what is your life like there? guest: well, it is cold here right now, but other than that it is pretty much like everything else. the war in afghanistan is an insurgency, different from iraq. if you lived in baghdad you would hear a lot of explosions and gunfire. here in kabul it is very quiet. there is the

host: that is details from the british side about what the plan will look like operationally in "the wall street journal" this morning. next call is jefferson city, missouri. john on the democrats' line. caller: hello. host: your tv volume is up. that is causing feedback. hit the mute. go ahead. caller: i am pro-defense and pro republican. i am wondering why after 9/11, when it was a war against al- qaeda, we have kind of lost our focus against al-qaeda. >> peter, republican in philadelphia, you are on the air. caller: i am going under the premise that basically mr. obama announced to the public yesterday that he is going to be a one-term president. host: why is that? caller: india's prime minister , during his speech, made the statement that afghanistan is a friend of india. what happens in afghanistan will affect the future of pakistan. i'm going under the premise that afghanistan is just like vietnam. it is a loser. it is already owned by the taliban. according to mr. singh, he said afghanistan is a friend of india. he announced to the world yesterday. he's in a no-win situation.

one point on that is by putting a face on it, i don't necessary marine the graphic nature of the british ad that was mentioned. i wish graphic ads work. they seem to work in australia. the literature here that i've seen, if the add is too graphic, the switch goes off. the risk denial process is pretty extraordinary. the -- obviously getting young people to understand low probability, high severity risk is one of the most difficult things we do in the society. next slide please. >> i want to offer a model that many of the people in the room. it was a good data driven model. it was probably the most public private partnership. this was a real serious effort. and it started by failure. we had 24 child fatalities with 24 million pature bags in the market in 1996. we are adding pasture bags at a million a month in a low-belt use environment. that number would have grown had action not been taken. one the most important things we did, we asked and followed the advice of the iacp. i will be there sunday. that is one the most thing importants. iacp was at the table for the air bag campaign. the

that's as large as the entire british economy. the legislation congress is considering will affect every american at every level of health and at every stage of employment. when the debate -- when the debate began last year, in fact it was just this month in november that i remember eight or 10 of us from different committees met with the solemn pledge, we were going to work together in a bipartisan way to get this job done. we met again for the next six months several times. but it just didn't work out. but when that debate began last year, interested legislators of both parties, we set benchmarks that were really no brainers. health care reform should lower the cost of premiums. it should reduce the deficit. it should bend the growth curve in health care the right way, downward. now, the reid bill doesn't do any of these things. it's not too late to start over. and i guess senator baucus has put forth that invitation. i hope it materializes. if both sides can set aside some philosophical differences, and if the democratic leader

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

you know, everybody from shel to bridge petroleum and -- from shel to british petroleum. it is a key issue and we need to address it. i think that issue is behind us and it is now about changing are a strategy on energy and moving forward. i think there is broad support across the country for doing that. >)there is a poll in this paper today and 56% of berber malakand feel the senate republican leadership should engage the democrats and work -- 56% of republicans feel the republican leadership should engage in aircraft and work with them. caller: the hoax is up. e-mails were leaked out about communications between the scientists showing that they were trying to manipulate the data. it is a huge store and nobody is talking about it. if you do not know about these e-mails, then you can go after the show and google them. it's all over the internet. i watch your viewers to know about how this is all a hoax. guest: as i said to the previous caller, i do not think it is a hoax at all. there is more[é scientific agreement on the issue of climate change than any major in our m

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

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

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

>> 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

are british fans different from your fans here in the united states? >> oh, we have wonderful fans in the united states. we do have great, great fans in europe when we get a chance to go there, especially london we love to play. we had actually been on a five-week tour and just -- we were winding up our tour in london at the 02s is arena and thought we're going to film this because this has been a wonderful trip. we had such a great time, such a wonderful audience. all the songs, of course, that they love and all the popular songs. then we do a lot of variety of other things. we do interview, talk to the band, show the rehearsal, show the town. this dvd is a wonderful thing to watch. it's colorful and entertaining, but you can see for yourself on the dvd how involved the audience really gets. they knew all the words and they were swinging their arms back and forth on all the songs, singing along. it made for a wonderful experience for all of us and i'm very proud of the dvd and cd. it's all in one package. i have it right here. i call it my double ds.

the prime minister has said we're 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 they are sending out mixed signals. can the prime minister now square that circle?vu >> 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 defenses 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 right to ask president karzai to give us assurances about how in his second term he would tackle corruption. he has now announced an anticorruption task force. i gather 12 people have been arrested yesterday from within the core administration. at the same time, i've asked him to appoint district and regional governors and he has agreed to do so that are free of corruption and will deal with the problems of hand