i lived six years -- 12 years in europe. and global warming is real. the people that call you that do not believe it, the joke is on them. we're the only country in the world that has not signed the kyoto treaty. we're the biggest polluter in the world. i am sorry to hear that these people are not believing. we drive the biggest cars, waste so much castlgas. we are inefficient. we of coal plants that have not been updated for years. it is getting worse. i believe in clean energy. i have solar power in my home. i tried to recycle. in japan, you go out on a typical day in tokyo and you can has done to the country. you have the power sakkawasaki e industrial power of japan. host: let's get a response from our guest. guest: i agree with you. japan has been a power and we have seen other major countries -- countries stepping upon. óÑ÷we heard from russia, korea, brazil, a major stepping up in their targets. there is a sense that around the world, everybody gets it. they see the need to reduce emissions. i'm very encouraged by the president's announcement

oil goes to europe. so half and half, north america and some of it finds its way to the far east through various trading arrangements. we believe that the current market situation is one that has to be andled with delicate hands because the international economy is still in the process of recovering. and until it's fully recovered, we have to be careful on how much oil we put in the market because if we're not careful, we could drive the prices very low that went as low as $30 a barrel at the height of the economic problems and the world experienced in the past year or so. we are hopeful that the recovery of the international economy will continue, in which case, we may be able to produce and export more. we have -- i'm sure you have heard about our problems in the delta, which resulted in serious reduction of our capacity to produce and infrastructure. with the recent fortunate occurrence of the amnesty, we are hoping that we will be able to repair and put back some of the infrastructure which has been

let us talk about the long-range flying to europe and asia, crossing eight, 10, even 12 time zones. that requires a different system. we have advocated for a matrix that looks at that and provides pilots with enough rest before, during, and after the trips so they don't have to ever go to work and be in a fatigued state. host: why should that come from the federal government as opposed to regulations the industry it imposes on itself? guest: the industry is not strong enough to impose regulations on itself. now, there is a responsibility both on pilots and operators, the airlines themselves, but there must be a strong underlying set of federal regulations that govern how we operate airplanes, how we operate our -- scheduling systems. host: talk about pilot pay. sometimes it is surprising how little they make even flying busy schedules. are they paid for the time they're in the air, and what would you like to see happen? guest: most of the pace systems are governed by the air. as if you paid a relief pitcher by the piece -- pitch. roughly our pay is somewhere between 55 or 85 hours a

other developed countries have committed to much more japan, europe, australia, new zealand, australia, but nevertheless, that announcement is huge shift in trajectory through the united states, and get the the legislation through the senate, making it work i think is the first step. and then as confidence grows that you can do that without knocking this out of the united states economy. and then greater ambitions can come into focus. i wouldn't give up on a good plan a. partly because there's no plan b that's any good at all. >> i'd like to just, you know, follow up on that with a different take on what plan b might be. the clean air act amendments that established the acted cap-and-trade program. we worked for so years to get those. the reason why it took so long is because the cost of compliance would be far beyond what we had established. what we saw happened was shortly after the amendments were passed and the trading program went into effect. they noticed that it was far less. so again we believe you may seen that same -- we will see the same kind of transportation in the debate.

i lived six years -- 12 years in europe. and global warming is real. the people that call you that do not believe it, the joke is on them. we're the only country in the world that has not signed the kyoto treaty. we're the biggest polluter in the world. i am sorry to hear that these people are not believing. we drive the biggest cars, waste so much castlgas. we are inefficient. we of coal plants that have not been updated for years. it is getting worse. i believe in clean energy. i have solar power in my home. i tried to recycle. in japan, you go out on a typical day in tokyo and you can has done to the country. you have the power sakkawasaki e industrial power of japan. host: let's get a response from our guest. guest: i agree with you. japan has been a power and we have seen other major countries -- countries stepping upon. óÑ÷we heard from russia, korea, brazil, a major stepping up in their targets. there is a sense that around the world, everybody gets it. they see the need to reduce emissions. i'm very encouraged by the president's announcement

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 something, you know, which you had written about -- i'd written a book about andrew ellicott, for instance, and so i was familiar with what wilkinson looked like from ellicott's point of view. it's very funny seeing ellicott from wilkinson's point of view because wilkinson really plays with him like a cat plays with a mouse so that was really how i did it. and i have to say the third element really is the internet. there's

europe or the european union is a trade area, hence the year ago is justified in robert monreal's version to be created. similarly in the united states the idea would be a regional currency to precede a one world currency. china's had printed with the dollar has rushed ahead the plan with the one world currency. china's idea advanced by robert mondell is that we would have the international monetary fund utilize the special drawing rights facility at the imf to be funded so they can be alternative to the dollar to settle international trade. now again, it's not an academic idea. as i point out in america for sale at the g20 meeting there was just heldman blonden and apr the final communique which president obama agreed to on behalf of the united states, was to fund $250 billion to the international monetary fund to create special drawing rights and alternative won a world currency to the dollar and international trade. why one world currency? because the international monetary fund is an international organization, and as it issues the special drawing rights as a currency facility, it byp

world war two, if you think about the events, the marshall plan and reestablishment of nato and getting europe's trade, other things happened. the iron curtain fell, and that shook the entire cold war in an adverse way. there was a major setback soviet testing of a hydrogen bomb, the korean war, and the 1950's. the united states still enjoys a substantial of vantage as a great power and super power. one is the oldest behalf, which is geographic. we're the only major power that does not live in the neighborhood, doing major power. this is what i call the wolf fourth principle, because it is by a political scientist by that name illustrating it. if you look at the major powers like china, russia, and india, in order to get to where they are perched american power, long before they get to the point, they will get to those around them that have, as geography has it, some other part to look for for assistance. so as china grows bigger and stronger, it is not surprising that we find greater eagerness or more american involvement in the region, not less. and i think although our west european friends a

in fact, they're the only -- they're the only major party in europe that wants to withdraw the fiscal stimulus now when it's absolutely necessary to keep the economy moving forward and i were him i would be asking the leader of the opposition why his policy is so designed to cut money from policing, from education, and from all the areas that the public depend upon now. >> dr. alan whitehead. >> mr. speaker, can i congratulate the prime minister on his early decision to attend copenhagen, a lead which is now being followed by 60 prime ministers and presidents from around the world. when have he's in copenhagen will he seek to harness that high level attendance to ensure the best possible package of clean development funding is on the table to ensure the sign-up of developing countries to a workable climate change agreement? >> i want to praise my honorable friend for the work he has done in promoting a climate change agreement. and for the work of members of all parties who want to see a success of copenhagen. i will go to the conference this week to try to build a consensus between

and travels to nightclubs, goes to europe, and not a very good nightclub act but because he is sure ray robinson he gets on with big names and travels and it is just amazing. he comes back and regains his middleweight belt again in the astonishing, astonishing comeback. he tries to move up to heavyweight to take on joey maxim and he loses. and his fighting career is starting to go downhill. the 60s hit and he loses the nightclub. he and his wife to force force -- divorce proposal you have riots in america he moves out to los angeles in 1963 there is a march on washington and he does not go. robinson did not like collects and he saw unwisely that maybe all of the hip people would go to the march on washington. if he had it to do over again i think he would have went but he didn't. he was not actively involved in the civil rights he thought that took place in the middle of the ring but he did campaign for robert f. kennedy of course, he was assassinated and that broke his heart. >> host: did the kennedy campaign seek him now or did he volunteer? were they proud? >> guest: yes. yes he did.

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 so i was familiar with what wilkinson looked like from his point of view, and it's very funny seeing him from wilkinson's point of view because wilkinson really pleased with him like a cat place with a mouse. so that is how i did it and i have to say the third element is the internet. there is so much information. you can see original documents on-line

if it did we would be celebrating the economic miracle of europe. i say to republicans, come up with something besides a tax cut in terms of explaining how you will do it. i would tell them as i did, i was very impressed with bob mcdonald, the republican candidate for governor. president obama was coming to campaign against him. he said the president is always welcome at the commonwealth of virginia. there has to be a personal grace note that the republican caucus has lost. he is the president. he is a figure that has -- demands our respect and he is well-liked and we need to do a better job as a party to separate -- and separate the differences of opinion about policy compared to how we speak to hiabout him as a person. there are people in our caucus who do not -- are not able to bridge that note. >> we spent time thinking about this but we will try to be concise. i would say to the republican caucus that i know lee atwater said when your opponent is busy destroying himself, do not interfere. do not think that your opponents failures and weaknesses

., goes to europe. he is not a very good night club act, but because he is sugar ray robinson he gets on with pretty big names. he travels with the count basie band, it is just amazing. and so, he comes back and he regains his middleweight belt again and astonishing, an astonishing comeback, just a fierce fighter and he tries to move up to heavyweight to take on joey maxim and he loses and his fight career starts to go downhill. the 60's hit, he loses his nightclub, he and his wife, it may come a divorce, and so you have riots in america, he retires, who moves out to l.a.. in 1963 there is the march on washington. he doesn't go. robinson didn't like it clicks. he thought unwisely that may be all of the so-called people were going to go to the march on washington. i think if he had it all to do over again he would have went. but he didn't. he wasn't actively involved in civil rights. he thought his civil rights took place in the middle of the ring. he did campaign for senator robert f. kennedy. of course

they are the only major party in europe that wants to withdraw the fiscal stimulus now when it is absolutely necessary to keep the economy moving forward. and if i were him, i would be asking the leader of the opposition why his policy is so designed to cut money from fleecing, from education, and all the areas that public depend upon now. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i congratulate the prime minister on his early decision to attend copenhagen, a lead which is now being followed by 60 prime ministers and presidents from around the world. when he is in copenhagen, will he seek to harness that high-level attendance to ensure that the best possible package of clean development funding is on the table to ensure the sign-up of developing countries to a workable agreement. >> i want to thank my colleague for the work he has done and for the work of all parties who want to see a success in copenhagen. i will go to the commonwealth meeting this weekend to build a consensus about how we can finance climate change for developing countries as well as developed countries. it is absolutely essential that w

that, look, there are numerous countries in europe such as italy that has multiple parties that put the reins of power. they often find themselves unable to take any action of government policy that are at all controversial because they find it impossible to put together a geordie coalition. the more parties you have sharing control of the government, the more difficult it is to have an effective governance. i also don't like proportional representation and voting and i disagree with the idea that requiring candidates in districts to win a majority of the vote is somehow a bad requirement for the democrat process. i think it's a good idea. candidates have to field ideas and solutions to problems that a majority of voters think is a good idea. the majority forces them to build coalitions and deal with multiple interest groups which i think reads better overall representation. frankly, it also resents individuals with radical ideas and only a small minority of voters agree with from getting elected to positions where they may have considerable power to implement their particular views and

china has passed europe and the united states in leading high technology manufacturing from the last couple of years. they see a transition to a green energy economy, developing solar, wind, as something where they want to be the world leader. so they're pushing because they see an credible economic opportunity. now, this is where china is going. this is where a lot of european countries have gone in the past. china is being very aggressive about it. they are now leading the world in high voltage electricity transmission over long distances. >> do you sense that china will commit to some sort of carbon reductions? >> i don't know but i would hope yes. if you look at what they're doing internally. right now their current five-year plan is to increase -- better their energy intensity so as their g.d.p. grows their use of energy will be decreasing by 20%. that's this five-year plan. another five-year plan, again a very aggressive schedule, but now they're talking for the following five-year plan as saying it will be a carbon emission to g.d.p. now, why is that significant in because the

government, but governments particularly in europe is on that privacy issue. i know eric is very sensitive to that. but the truth is that there is a belief, and i encountered this and a i report this in the book, there's a belief if you spend time on facebook you say, how can you say people are concerned about privacy? so you kind of become convinced that privacy is not a big issue. but it might be because you collect a lot of information about people. not by name unless it's, you know, some of your sites, but mostly you don't have their name, but you have a lot of information about them. and people get concerned. so you now face, i would argue, that three issues that you deal with that arouse the concern of governments around the world. one issue is concentration of power, and to go back to moth, when i was interviewing microsoft for the book i did and i covered their trial, one of the things that was quite astonishing was how out of touch they were, and bill gates almost pleadingly talked to me about how could you think that we are not doing good? how can my

but we see a spike in december and all western european countries was about eastern europe? eastern european countries for which the data was available, the czech republic, hungary, poland and even russia had nearly a century of godless communism have a big december spending bump in 2007. russia it is interesting its transition to a market economy not too long ago to keep track of the monthly data was about 94. this picture shows in red is the russians shows the size of the december spending of of -- bond and look at the u.s. around 2005 price think of dr. strange love played by a george c. scott and was worried about the gap here you have the santa clause gap. i do not know if this is good news or bad news but we're behind. let's move around the world some more. are we alone? now all the steve tisch of large spending bombs. there are some places where you don't see it dorsey less of it. some of which don't have it you can see in the end of for comparison israel does not have it. why? although americans use it in december for hanukah and israel gift-giving -- gift-giving hol

this democracy of ours if we had managed to kill 65 million people on one of our excursions across europe, russia, and china. what exactly would democracy mean under those circumstances? my point is this. allowing for the differences between the sides, allowing for the worst possible soviet intentions, the real danger was and is nuclear weapons themselves, not the moral issue of who is right and who is wrong, in my judgment. i think that is where the reagan in mensuration went wrong, and even more so the second bush administration, with the idea that somehow is ok to have nuclear weapons if you are the good guys, but is not ok if you are the bad guys. [applause] >> i just totally disagree with that. >> i do think it is bad policy to say the good guys can have nuclear weapons and the bad guys cannot, because the good guys can change into bad guys. the perfect example of that is that there are a lot of people advocating that we should engage and control the proliferation that in the late 1970's, and see to it that our friends, the good guys, got nuclear weapons and kept them from the bad gu

>> we have won world war ii, helped rebuild europe of its barack obama. we had won world war ii, helping rebuild europe through the marshall plan. we done the national highway system. we had split the atom with the manhattan project. america was a can-do nation, but now are we still justifiably out of our accomplishments? can we still say the same about our government today? do we still have that pride? and the question of the day is, is our government capable of executing on our most important challenges? and in recent events are not likely to lead to any ticker tape parades. >> we have iraq, katrina, boston's own big dig and it's collapsing tunnel, the brutal economic meltdown. political observers know when the crisis right now in trying to accomplish big things that the man industry knows we have a big problem. so do public officials. we surveyed members of the senior executive service, and 60% said the government was less capable today of executing large projects than it was 30 years ago. president obama even made note a couple weeks ago in his radio

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 dramatize that this is the people's house. so, one thing about random sampling is a this scalable. you do not need a larger sampling for a larger

official tally of high-technology manufacturing, including aerospace, pharmaceuticals -- china has passed europe in leading high- technology manufacturing in the next several years. they see developing solar, wind, high-voltage transmission systems, as something where they want to be the leader. so they're pushing because they see incredible opportunity. so this is where a lot of european countries have gone in the past. china is being very aggressive about it. they are now leading the world in transmissions over long distances. >> do you sense that they will commit to some sort of carbon reduction? >> i do know. i would hope yes. if you look at what they do internally when they say they have it -- right now, their current five-year plan is to increase and better energy intensity. their use of energy by 20%. that is for this five-year plan. another begins on an aggressive schedule, but now they are talking about the following five-year plan, saying it will be a carbon emissions to gdp clock. why is that significant? they're pushing heavily on hydro, wind, renewable, and on solar. if you take wha

look, there are numerous countries in europe such as italy that have multiple parties that split the reins of power. and they often find themselves unable to take any actions in terms of government policy that are at all controversial because they find it impossible to put together the majority coalition that can get anything done. the more party to share control of the government i think the more difficult it is to have affected governments. i also don't like proportional representation in voting and i disagree with the idea that requiring candidates and districts to win a majority of the vote is somehow a bad requirement for the democratic process. i think it's a good requirement. it means candidates have to deal ideas and solutions to problems that a majority of voters think is a good idea. the majority of code requirement and forces candidates to try to build coalitions and you with multiple interest groups, which i think we ate a better overall representation. frankly, it also prevents individuals from radical ideas that only a small minority of voters agree with from getting el

canada and the rest are in europe, from sweden down to italy, germany, england, and even greece. all pay over 50% of their income to the government. yes, all of them do receive it free health care, but if you listen to them describe it, that the health care would be considered abominable by u.s. standards. i heard the lady earlier talk about 47 million and keep throwing out that number. that originally began around 30 million. it gets to be over 45 when you include illegal aliens. i actually sat down to read the 1300 page health care bill. you will find interesting things people have not brought up to talk about yet. things like the government being able to get your bank account to levy fines. stuff you would never think of anything about u.s. as a free society. people better look long and hard at other countries and talk about this bill in great link before giving it one sixth of our economy over. host: when you travel, do they have any thoughts about what we are debating on as far as changes? caller: the well-off once, quite a few of them travel here to receive health care and

maybe western europe has done well with not exaggerating trips. the united states is unique in that but it does seem over blown. and the book called atomic obsession published next week argues that the united states has any threat that's been sig'ificant has been exaggerated. the threat, i agree witherfu er thpá it was to de troy capitalism and economyism but there has been a tendency to exaggerate the thrqpás and we've gotten things like war in iran and current war in iraq and worse case scenario fantasy that sadam or iranians now could dominate the middle east without examining that prop schism through the threat of al qaeda that's led to massive expenditurqj and two wars in many respects. so i'm not sure. i would have to do a comparative thing and i think generally western europe looks good overall. they've obviously not been free of this as well. >> can ideal with focus on this. your comment to my comment. well john, what could you - could the united states do different with regard to pakistan in 2002. same way as it would treat it's own cou

not something that's new, but i do think that the reading of the reactions that came out of eastern europe, after the collapse of communism, continued to inform that kind of a approach on the u.s. oil, i have some increasingly good folks in my paper where he's talking about that in a very interesting manner about how the repeated the of change in eastern europe influenced his thinking, particularly about iraq. my third point is about more absolutes and national values. and this is perhaps in my view the most important lesson that was drawn from the way the cold war ended by many decision makers leading up to afghanistan and the iraq war. the absolute conviction that existed that united states was on the side of good, that it was on the side -- not just of stability and national interest, we've heard a lot about that yesterday. but it was quite literally on the side of good. that united states needs national values where international values, if they have values that others, as soon as they uncounter it, would embrace. that's, to me, more important that the basis for operations in afghanist

it carries the telegraph from the united states to europe. it is brand new, and he was very proud, interested in new technology. there is a mccormick series. it is kind of a strange combination of the modern and classical gods. >> and that is all of the symbolism and the apotheosis, the wonderful fresco on top of the dome. it is an amazing story, the apotheosis, and it is a crowning jewel in the capital. >> when you leave the second visitors gallery and again go of a stair that leads one way and switches back and comes back another way, to weave its way back through the structural members of the dome. it ends up at a platform level below the statute of freedom. >> you walk through some tiny, narrow little hallways, and you realize the growth of the country, where we had one dome, in 50 years later we had another dome on top of that. walking up to the statue of freedom on top, and then looking out at the 360 degree panorama. this is the heart of democracy around the world. as you are ascending that stairwell, which not many people see, you rea

it carries the telegraph from the united states to europe. it is brand new, and he was very proud, interested in new technology. there is a mccormick series. it is kind of a strange combination of the modern and classical gods. >> and that is all of the symbolism and the apotheosis, the wonderful fresco on top of the dome. it is an amazing story, the apotheosis, and it is a crowning jewel in the capital. >> when you leave the second visitors gallery and again go of a stair that leads one way and switches back and comes back another way, to weave its way back through the structural members of the dome. it ends up at a platform level below the statute of freedom. >> you walk through some tiny, narrow little hallways, and you realize the growth of the country, where we had one dome, in 50 years later we had another dome on top of that. walking up to the statue of freedom on top, and then looking out at the 360 degree panorama. this is the heart of democracy around the world. as you are ascending that stairwell, which not many people see, you rea

he just got back from a chart with president clinton to europe. mark mckenna, and he has worked for george w. bush, john mccain and in richards. he is the -- the only person who has done that -- and work for anne richards. steve schmidt has worked from coast to coast and for john mccain. and david winston, a longtime republican consultant who has worked in house and senate races and advised the house and senate leadership. he has been involved in a rare fact -- he worked with house republicans in 2002 to get their approval ratings over 50%, which almost never happens in congress. they could use you now, both sides could use you now. i think it is the perfect time to be holding this discussion because we still have last year's presidential campaign fresh in our minds and we can see the next one right around the corner. let's talk about those. what is the most significant change that you have seen it in the last three presidential campaigns, beginning with 2000 through 20008 in terms of media? how you deal with the media, how the media has changed,

sometime later he was writing a print in europe, and he said they would settle down and enjoy life very much. he said by the way, he said in my study i now have a library of 1000 books. 900 which i have written myself. [laughter] >> now, lest i end out with such a library, the books will be on sale out there. [laughter] stomach and i will be signing them up here. thank you very much >> pulitzer prize-winning author gordon wood presents a history of the united states from 1789 to the end of the war of 1812. he writes that founders of the national government disliked the idea political parties and wish to see the demise of slavery in the north. at the redwood library in newport rhode island, is an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] thank you very much. it is a pleasure to be back here in this magnificent building. 18th century library, which i think is one of the architectural marvels of the united states and everybody should come here to see it. i am delighted to be back here again. this book which is a big fat book, can be used as a doorstop if you decide not to read it. it will work that

the berlin wall coming down was the physical manifestation of a political revolution in eastern europe that change the form of government in every country and it was a political revolution. the third model i call the sand which model where you have an upwelling of support from change from the grassroots and a responsive leadership at the top. when you get that you can get the very rapid change. i think that is what we now have in this country. when i get a little discouraged about how much it is going to have enormous effort, i go back and read the economic history of world war ii beginning december 7th, 1941, surprise attack on pearl harbor, a good part of our pacific fleet anchored in pearl harbor and a month later, january 6th, 1942, president roosevelt gave the state of the union address in which he announced arms production goals. we are totally in world war ii at that point. we are going to miss 45,000 tanks, 60,000 planes, 40,000 artillery guns and thousands of ships. no one had ever seen arms reduction numbers like that anywhere in the world. these were off the chart. but what

i think generally western europe looks good. they have not been free of this as well. >> could i deal with pakistan first? what could the united states have done differently with regard to pakistan in early 2002? that is the crucial moment here. it could have treated the same way it treated other countries that supported terrorism by cutting off economic aid. by condemning the behavior of the military leadership, by calling for democracy and return to the constitution that mr. usharev overthrown. we were placed in a difficult position in 2002. a lot of pakistanis were also blaming him for what had gone wrong with afghanistan. they were blaming the pakistani military. on a whole, pakistanis are a pretty secular thought. they are muslims but they are part of the society that was created sharia. the profit waphet was a shia. these things matter within pakistan in a way that could have and should have been used by u.s. policymakers at the time. i argued in my paper that we are asking questions about why that was not done. i am sugge

the jewish immigrants began coming here from east europe in 1880s were right to call america the golden and medina, the golden land. there was no gold industries as some of them may have imagined, and so they had to struggle and struggle hard. but there was another kind of gold in america, more precious kind, than the gold coins. it was freedom and there was opportunity. blessed with these conditions and hampered by much less disabling forms of anti-semitism and discrimination, then jews had grown accustomed to continue with, children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of these immigrants florist. and not just in material terms. to an extent unprecedented in the history of their people. what i'm saying is that the jewish experience in this country bears eloquent testimony to the infinitely precious purchase of the traditional american system. shirley than we jews have an obligation to join with its defenders against those who are blind or indifferent are antagonistic to this philosophical principles of moral values and the socioeconomic institutions on its health and vitality, th

you see stanton involved with middle and upper-class women in western europe. promoting -- i don't even know the word. the accomplishments of women. in terms of a radical movement i don't remember seeing much connection with the radical movements in europe. the condition of the pour born in the united states, but i don't think she had -- i don't think she was much outside the middle-class protestant -- using it as a comparison with her own status. look what we do here. this is a very conventional rhetorical use of foreigners who had different ideas on that. i don't think -- two children are living there. before she came back, i don't think she pushed her thinking very far. >> i was wondering if you could talk briefly about the response to the women's bible. something along of students are not really familiar with. it was incredibly radical. >> i talk about this in my book. it is a fabulous discussion of that question. it was in the 1890s supposed to be with a committee. it a kind of analysis of the way that biblical tests -- it wouldn't read very radical to mos

in europe, there has definitely been linkages between a neo-nazi groups and moslem extremists. i know also on montrose avenue and washington d.c., there used to be a man who came over from switzerland who was a neo-nazi- islamic extremists. he combined his love for the of that letter with his love for the ayatollah khomeini. it is a totally unlikely allies and that's why it does not work. it is not operational. host: our next call comes from columbus, ohio, on our line for democrats. caller: thank you for taking my call. is your organization going to investigate any possible ties with terrorists and the hip-hop generation. n? the potential there would be explosive in america. host: let me ask you why the hip-hop generation, as you say, would be more susceptible to the leanings of a jiahd organization? caller: i think they are extremely vulnerable. you have the hip-hop generation who has the elevated mail munchies mo. -- male machismo. that would feed into a muslim ideology that would feed into this. host: the islamic groups are not the only ones that subjugate women. caller: th

europe first. containment. if you can fit it on a bumper sticker it is probably a pretty good strategy. you will pursue the army through northern virginia and get it. it is a pretty good strategy and not irrelevant. some strategies take longer to cute than others. the poept is in our system it has gotten harder and harder over the years since the end of the second world war because the bureaucracies are bigger, there are more of them, there are more players at the table. and translating a president's intent or a commander in chief's intent into actual policy becomes harder and harder. i certainly agree that -- and i think phillip and bob said this -- anything that is run through the interagency slaw guaranteed to come out not as a strategy but a number of wish lists. but i think there is some utilitity in having reduced in some place a very short statement of what it is we are trying to accomplish as an administration and what should our objectives be, what are the priorities and how should we try to go about m

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 nato enlargement in cooperation with russia. but that didn't make it an easy task. the situation got worse with kosovo wherein the russians at least went through the form of claiming that they were going to back theer is s. a critical diplomatic is, which was largely atributable to strow talbot personally, was getting the russianens mostly through the influence of him. but they were not going to pull his chestnuts out of the fair to, at that point with the culmination of a sustained goming campaign and the real property of gun -

there are these great conference is selling hauer europe will be after the war, to iran yalta and potsdam were working with russia in this period, and then after the war 45 on world war ii is over, the cold war is beginning, we are beginning to realize russia is at least not the kind of ally we had imagined, so the point is this relationship, the u.s.-soviet relationship flip-flops' a lot and americans are going through this trying to figure out what they make of it all. professor fleming, you chose for figures. let's start with the lesser-known ones. who was jan valtan? >> guest: he was a sailor, second class merchant marine by born in 1905, and his life in some ways was a paradigm of the left-wing communist, powerful communist movement in germany but was crushed when adolf hitler came to power in 1933. krebbs joined the communist party quite early. there were to sort of pseudo revolutions in russia. one in 1919, and the more important one in 1923. krebbs is a very young cade, was involved in the 1923 uprising and soon thereafter became quite active in the common term, the comintern was

but american banks have less money tied up in middle eastern investments in banks in europe and asia. >>> did was not about investments at tysons corner. instead it was all about the deals. we saw the crowd at macy's at the doors opened bright and early this morning for those folks and a whole lot of other people. last night was about the meal. this morning all about the deal. the sales are all over the place but so are the chances of theft or problems in the parking lot. fox 5's jessica weinstein is live in rockville with what's in store for shoppers in montgomery county this season. >> reporter: good evening. these shots behind me just closing the last few minutes but parking lots a big problem place during the holidays. y have fights over parking spots between the drivers. the pedestrians aren't always watching where they're going. this year in montgomery county, you're going to see not only more mall security but more montgomery county police officers. >> have a good night. happy holidays. >> reporter: as shoppers grab their bags tonight in rockville, an early holiday gift from mo

if america sneezes, europe catches a cold. it is more like we have caught the flu. seriously, everyone is affected. we will go on being affected by this for a long time. in the future, we will have high taxes, not better health care or schooling or policing, not anything that will benefit us. we will pay for the mistakes of the past. we will basically be paying for the bonuses of the bankers who got us into this situation in the first place. this is why we need to vote for this debate. trust me, we need all the help we can get. this leads me to apprenticeships and training. please tell me how young people is supposed to find themselves living alone perhaps in london while taking part in one of these things. please in light me as to how they will find themselves with no income? how are they supposed to get by? it makes me -- these other questions that a lot of young people are asking themselves. we will create a. thisships, volunteer opportunities. we will create apprenticeships and volunteer opportunities but we only go if we need to go. we are asking for the govern

and europe was in play and therefore kravchenko was attacked. i say we have about 10 minutes before you need to go. and move on a bit, but say a word or two about this trial. he wasn't the defendant, was a? >> guest: no. this was one of the brilliant things that we can give to kravchenko because he thought of as himself. his book when it appeared in a french translation was immediately and violent attack in the comet press as a total fraud. that is, it was said that kravchenko had never written a book. that the book had been written by an american intelligence agent and so forth and so on. now what kravchenko did was to go to paris and through this journal for libel. and you had what was called the trial of the century. you notice appears about twice every decade. the trial of the century in which one after another, famous french intellectual got up and swore on a stack of copies of the economy's there were no prison camps in russia, no gulags, or anything else. and what kravchenko had done was he had ransacked cams in western europe and produce

the second question, britain's future lies more with europe and america. it is a very fascinating problem because of the investments they have made in the european union and the common -- common currency, that you would find the british public is now thinking that europe is less important. still a majority of the sleeping that but the numbers in parentheses show that a turn again toward america for more leadership rather than their own european supranational structures. the next one, america is a force for good in the world. again, look at the percentage increase. liberal democrats still are not convinced -- they are minority. but now 54% -- up 10% from the middle of the second bush administration. the last thing, there is not a comparable floor -- for it because tony blair was the leader last time, whether gordon brown should be as close to obama as tony blair was to george w. bush. even the conservatives who don't favor gordon brown as their potential leaders still see the majority is the case. i apologize for the distortion with this, but what is this a

the soviets had never pulled all their troops out of europe. the had men on the ground in europe. we had come home in great numbers, leaving everything behind as we left. as one of the general said. but we had the bomb, and therefore even edward teller, who was normally paranoid about the soviet union throughout his life, went off to the university of chicago to work physics again, and felt so secure that he was writing articles about world government. you can imagine him writing such things. then the soviets finished their work with the help of espionage, to be sure, and tested their bomb in august of 1949, and the balance was totally shaken as far as we were concerned. now they have those millions of men on the ground in europe and they have the bomb. teller's response was to champion the idea of a bigger bomb, the thermonuclear, hydrogen bomb, which would be triggered by an atomic bomb but would be capable of being built to any volume and scale that you wanted. that of course, in the course of about three months of work with president truman, became the next thing the united st

and in europe the european union is a little further advanced in its thinking about the use of animals in medical and pharmaceutical testing. so rather than get mired into the pros and the cons, i think this way, that about ten years ago there were people who worked with animal experimentation who would say, well, yeah, we're beginning to understand, yes, animals do have feelings, and so we will try and use as few as possible, treat them as well as possible. but we're always going to need animals for this, this, and this. now, some of this, this, and this there's already alternatives being found because of the animal rights movement and because more people are working on it which, who weren't before. so if we could just change the mind set, you know, if i could wave a wand, i'd stop it all. but i can't. but if we could have a mind set that instead of saying, well, we'll always need some, but we'll treat them as well as we can, i want a mind set that says let's admit that from the animal's point of view it's torture, it's probably not ethically responsible of us as human beings with a c

in europe especially now some of the anti-hate speech laws are quite prohibitive. so i guess if i remembered irving crystal's essay right i'd be of a similar note. i'd be opposed to on obscenity because i think it does degrade the soul, and it's hard for people to avoid. but i think i'm pretty libertarian on what's allowed politically. >> well, censorship is a slippery slope. we shouldn't engage in it period. [applause] >> apart from anything else, it just seems much more effective to read marx or machiavelli and point out what's wrong with what they say than to try to hush them up at this point. [applause] >> let me come out with both and make everyone mad. censorship will happen no matter what you do. the question is, will it be principled censorship or unprincipled censorship? you can't help but censor simply by having people read some things rather than others, okay? so censorship is something that is always going on whether -- you can't say you are or aren't going to have it. that having been said, you can see what unprincipled censorship or censorship from th

europe would've been ruled by hitler and his talent and japan would have run asia. now, when you look at the way the news is being covered today, and the disparaging things that are being said routinely by my colleague in the mainstream media about those who serve in our armed forces, or those who support our armed forces, and i have met several other contractors to today, that's the new dirty word in america, contractor. the media has to get out to the american people are going to do to these soldiers, sailors, sailors, guardsmen and marines in my generation came back from vietnam. the american people are not going to stand for. and in large part that's because the extraordinary experience of these young americans. that hasn't stopped politicians from denigrating them. we all know of certain politicians in washington. i'm trying not to be partisan here. mr. president. i don't want to be partisan, but we know a certain illinois senator whose nickname is a dick. [laughter] >> excusing. i am just quoting him. and the like and those two serving in our armed forces. and

cannot recall the exact -- exact -- in california but alone it is bigger than a lot of countries in europe. it is the biggest economy within our economy. so it does create a drag. economists like to say we have regional housing issues. so if you have a downturn in one. does not necessarily affect the others. but the downturn in florida, california, nevada, those states are so great that it is pulling the rest of the housing market with it. because you have a lot of banks that have a lot of exposure in those areas and they are tightening lending standards across the country, making it harder for other people to get homes. causing a drag on jobs. they are having to lay off people because they have had so many losses because of those states and it causes a drag on the overall economy as well. host: last week a report on new- home sales up a bit. guest: you have to be careful on those numbers because of a lot of that is driven by artificial demand being driven by the treasury department. the treasury department has a first-time home buyer tax credit of $8,000, and they just expanded it to more

merit europe they're going to ban them. i don't have a problem with fluorescent lights but i would be ordering cases of light bulbs. >> host: with the new regulation? about new -- >> guest: yeah. yeah. the problem is with fluorescent lighting, if it's a 60 second cycle, they can see flicker. and it drives them crazy. there's some things you do to help. colored glasses help, a lamp with a 1line what bulb. a lap-top computer is often a better screen because the lcd screens don't flicker. instead of using white paper, print on light blue or tan or gray. some people are helped by colored lenses. ... >> guest: autism books, but it took me quite a bit of time to troll through the database like looking through the amazon website to find, to write down my books. i don't know if we'll get to discuss this, but i had this because i would be sitting there on the show for 15 seconds trying to access these books. i have to have key words. i had to have keywords. the questions i've been getting so far have been standard questions. >> host