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

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

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

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

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

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

literature 101 involves a set of four books by the british author. it's in egypt between the first and second world wars and the ancient city of alex andrea ya. then it proceeds to describe the same events in the fight each narrative in perspective of other participates. one wonders why read about the same event more than once? the reason is each story is different. the moral is to get a sense of reality, it's necessary to see things from more than one set of eyes. this may apply to interactions in the community in a courtroom or international relations. or what the america does may seem responsible to ourerer spective. but very different from the perspective in the european and in asia. adding eyes illuminates rather than narrows judgment. the reality 101, in the most profound political science observation of the 20th century, albert einstein said to split the atom. 9/11 taught us that the thinking must change because of the destructive power, but because of the nature of the small act. violent and social division are rooted in the hate. such though

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

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

be a british obama. they're concerned about whether minorities have the kind of chances in their system that a minority candidate did in the american context. this was a surprising comparison because the minority population throughout europe and especially in the uk do not compare to the kind of diversity we have. nevertheless, a lot more attention in the press was focused on minority members of parliament and what their prospects might be. they took the party individually and look at how the parties were doing with the black minority candidates and women. i have evidence of the british fascination with obama. in a moment, i will show you a table about obama book sales. this is the number one significant difference. it was not just a surface familiar with our elections. the number of people who read the obama books was amending -- amazing. the british book award gave his one book the british book of the year award. i will come back to that. the fascination with sarah palin was unbelievable to me. but fam

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

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

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

british police released video today. images, a couple of them, of how mad lieleine might have changed. her father hopes the video will inspire someone who knows what happened to his daughter to come forward. >>> lawyers for the d.c. area sniper mastermind are planning to appeal to the supreme court to spare his life. john allen muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection next week. he and his teenage accomplice killed ten people in 2002. attorneys plan to file the appeal today malvo is serving life in prison. >>> if you ever lost your luggage just hope it wasn't in phoenix. more than 1,000 pieces of luggage have been found in a home outside of the city. police said the couple that lived there stole it all from sky harbor international. passengers there. the pair is now under arrest. >>> lawmakers want to ban pilots from using laptop computers in cockpits. a flight overshot minneapolis by 150 miles and pilots claimed they used their laptops in the cockpit at the time. the chairman of the aviation subcommittee says th

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

british police arrested him when he flunked the breathalyzer. this morning on cnn, a former ntsb official was asked if more regulations are needed to keep drunk pilots out of the cockpit. >> the thing to remember on this is that this pilot was -- you know, outed or turned in the by the flight crew itself. that's really the line of defense. these flight crews are extraordinarily responsible. if they see one of their own members not capable of flying, of performing their own tasks, they called him out. it was the right thing to do. >> a spokesperson says united's policy is among the strictest in the industry. >>> the master mind behind the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation in 2002 said nothing before his execution last night. john allen muhammad died by leathal injection last night. he refused to make a final statement. some victim's relatives witnessed the execution, so did the prosecutor who won the conviction. >> he died very peacefully, much more than most of his victims. i felt a sense of closure and i hope they did, too. >> he got th

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

the views suggested that the strain between the british and u.s. allies, known to some degree at the time, were more severe." you can read more in "the new york times." democratic line, good morning. soaking america's rich? caller: so your callers have made statements that these taxes need to be reduced. what they need to spend time with is the historical time of the highest income tax rate paid by the richest of the ridge. there are a couple of things that are very interesting about it. 35% is the highest marginal rate. looking at world war ii one, it goes from single digits, where they were looking for a 70%, it dropped down into the 1920's. then they find themselves in world war ii with a top marginal rate for most of the war years. basically it has settled into the 1990's and 1970's for ronald reagan, where it was 60% higher for those terms. to talk about raising taxes to under the 39% that they were during the clinton time, which was a huge boom, i do not think that that is unreasonable. people have to look at these numbers instead of fantasiz

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

storm number one is currently right near kan vufr, british columbia. look at the cold front jacking toward the pacific, heavy rain pulling in towards oregon, washington and northern california coast. storm number two, tomorrow afternoon, it goes right on the heels of the one that's there right now. look at the heavy rain just offshore from northern california, towards portland. now beginning to show signs yellow and red, the heavy rain moving in. once that hit the sierra nevada, it's going to squeeze out into snow, heavy at times today. i think that snow level about 3,000 feet, maybe 4,000 feet. you'll see maybe one to two feet of snow over the next couple of days, rob. more in a bit. winter storm warnings out there in red. fresh powder in the sierra nevada. >>> two sisters have a business that's apparently right on the money. see how they're using cash to make flower arrangements. >>> and also ahead -- you may soon have to pick up the tab for the afghanistan war? who's proposing a tax to cover the cost. >>> a window washer is okay after falling eight

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

a british woman took these pictures of her smiling boys after chunks of it were chipped away. her living room looked right over the wall. they could see the east german border guards in their tower. she says looking back she can't imagine how they managed to live with such a depressing site. . when she found out what was happening she fought back tears while racing home to catch the news. she said that evening people were celebrating trying to take it all in. there was also a sense of apprehension. was this really going to happen? would it last? check out amazing stories and contribute your own. send us your stories, your images, breaking news wherever you are. upload now link is where you look. that's the icon. >>> the man walked into his own funeral. really. shocked relatives tried to jump out of the funeral home's windows after seeing him approach alive. this happened on the holiday known as the day of the dead. family members and friends mistakenly i.d.'d a body from a car crash. it was wearing the same kind of clothes as the man. he said he spent the night drinking at a b

. >>> kraft really wants to buy cadbury, the british candy company, for $16 billion. cadbury said you're not even close, no. well now, kraft is trying to go around the board and straight to cadbury stockholders, so this is a hostile bid. a deal would make kraft the biggest candy maker in the world. you may only know cadbury's eggs, but they are iconic in england. if you like the british kind of chocolate, you like that. >>> and just in time for the holidays. a price war for dvds. first it was book, then toys. now, walmart came in, slashing prices on dvds sold online. they started, but then target and amazon jumped in and we're talking about hot, new movies, too. like the latest harry potter, for example. here's account "star trek." about 27, but online, about 10 bucks. >> not bad. wow. >>> so, a college soccer player got the boot for what she did on the field. she was caught on camera, but the question of the day you're talking about, is there a double standard in sports when it comes to punishment for men versus women? >>> a potential carjacking was stopped in west v

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

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

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

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

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

, 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

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

. >>> 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