states will the united states and china have a kind of transition such as we saw in the past when great britain ceased to be the dominant power and there was an allegiance of power from great britain to the united states will we see something like what happened when holland was the great power but how holland shared power within lenin later england will the united states will the coincidence of economic interests lead to a kind of us chinese alliance that would then dominate the world and if so would the world's people be able to challenge such great powers and how would they do that ok and challenge the likely do you think that is the. stream li unlikely that would be a scenario. i think first of all i think america still the dominant military power you know world even china i think become superpower i agree that the clash between the resin new power and the existing power will be intensified history have told us that. there's always happen more likely it's going to happen again and the most recent example is the u.s. and civic duty in war and the world and up in the more dangerous pos

states if you're living below the poverty line in the united states you have two cars you have a cell phone you have a microwave and you've got a flat screen television so if you want to talk about people who are living below consumption in a way to live here in the united states take a look at take a look at look at countries all across the world people who are living below the minimum wage live the those lives there they don't have the same things that bit they have in america it's because of the free market system and capitalism that people who are poor in the united states are able to afford the necessities that they need to live a better life we're better off than they were we were one hundred years ago who in the world want to go back a hundred years ago when people were when they had didn't have cars were so they were not going to go out how this is nobody has ever said are you going to want to bet are all going to be set if you can afford all these that ok eric go ahead. and they're getting somebody to say that but we're not better off than another nine hundred seventy real wa

of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops well down the street here there's a sale it may small that there's a lot of economic activity do we need to send troops it is it is just an absurdity it's a nonsense as far as keeping the seas open there are no want to certain to close the seas china needs open seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in place just for a few of the difference populate i think so i think this is a bit of good or bad her first it won't go ahead ok fine. wel

i think it would be best to say that the behavior of the united states and the allies is the greatest threat to the treaty because the united states and western powers have been treating iran only not only unfairly but also. in a very disturbing manner the sanctions that have been imposed upon ordinary iranians and their attempts to make ordinary iranians suffer in order for iran to put aside its nuclear program are really pathological if you look at it objectively the iranian nuclear program from the very beginning was supported by western powers billions of dollars were invested after the revolution the iranians felt that they cannot throw that investment out the window and to this state there's been no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful so iran is working within the framework of international law the n.p.t. and the united states and its allies are violating fundamental human rights of the iranian people by trying to wreck the iranian economy and by trying to make ordinary iranians suffer ok tom would you like to reply to that in washingto

between the united states and the european union is that the united states isn't trying to pass our domestic laws for us it isn't subverting democracy it isn't intervening in essentially home affairs for us the european union sees virtually all aspects of policy as within its sphere of of jurisdiction why you know what's the problem with that well there's there's two arguments one is economic europe is the only continent in the world now that is in economic decline the other one is a political one we want to be able to hire and fire the people. and here in the european parliament we've lost that right ok i let us focus on their economic side for a few moments it is true that the significance for britain as a trading partner has been on the decline but obviously it's not maggie legible and the european union still remains the favorite destination for many of the u.k. aspirants and in particular for those products that are produced by small and medium sized businesses who cannot afford to despise their representatives still china india and other countries now since you are a very strong suppor

who was exported or deported from the united states. more interested me i think it's the question of how snowden's security can be guaranteed while he's in russia could prove costly to the russian state who could prove too costly to the russian state and it may not be a given that his conditions the conditions under which is on them will remain unchanged i think it is that for the year that's. probably a point to stating russia for passing. well it's absolutely i mean it's the best it's the best game and it's the only option he's got on the one hand and on the other yeah i think you know the protection of the kremlin is considerable safety net show us on the ground and yeah i will try to prove that it is safe for edward snowden to stay here in russia because the whole world is watching absolutely absolutely and it's probably a potential two to inadvertently. put a bill on the faces of the white house administration the state department in the pentagon who have been. falling over themselves falling backwards over themselves since snowden

states into doing battle the united states is not the world police and we are not the world bullies we are trying to take i commend president barack obama for trying to at least wait until we have some direct evidence that who is involved we see the saudi arabians who are very undemocratic very much involved qataris who are very much involved in this war we need to get the facts right this time we can no longer just go out there and kill because we're talking hundreds of thousands of people die if the united states gets involved we're talking about lebanon iraq turkey we're talking about all the tire region getting involved in this war we see that different interests are being held by turkey by saudi arabia by qatar by even iraq in lebanon but these are factions we need to get to a dialogue of a national dialogue of peace and reconciliation inside syria and it can happen there are groups that have gone to syria that have done this on small scale and we can do it on a large scale in the country but we have to listen to the syrian government and to those in the opposition outside the

states, undocumented immigrants into the united states. another myth says that the only motive behind immigration is poverty. why should we in the united states solve world poverty? we have enough poor of our own. let us take care of our own and let's not solve world poverty. that is not true. that's not the only motive behind migration and in fact the poorest of the poor almost never migrate from one country to another. they migrate within the borders of their own country. let's take europe. until the 1980s, early 1980s europe was a source of migration of outmigration i mean, people leaving europe and that was a wealthy and prosperous continent before they got into this mess which is a different story. germany, the richest among the rich and europe was exporting half a million people every year until the 1980s. so clearly the motivation for that was not poverty. south korea has a significant number of immigrants or immigrants to come to the united states. that is a rich country. bangladeshi women who are very poor, the poorest among the p

kidnap the united states economy? >> when they talk to their constituents, their constituents say one thing. do something about obama care. so these guys have to go do something. >> but you're saying it doesn't make sense what they're doing, but they're doing it because of heat at home. >> they're hearing from their constituents. a very unpopular law. 52% of americans want this law repealed or delayed. >> do you think the people that are at town hall meets are typical republican voters? >> i think they're typical primary voters. >> primary voters. >> they come in the primary. and members of congress are worried about that. and they want to be responsive. >> there is your argument. they're taking orders. i was only obeying orders. i'm going to bring down, create a jeopardy for the united states credibility in the world. we're not going to pay our debts anymore, because some people are raising noises in town meetings. that's a hell of an excuse. >> and a courageous member of congress would say you know what's going to h

united states becoming radicalized and keep doing it. pleading a terrorist act inside this country that means he's got access to they are in so that's that's getting back to this massive collection that mark klein only exposed one one note of that collection in san francisco but that's the upstream collection process that we also know do you feel vindicated by all this information coming out from the n.s.a. . i guess the way i view it is that. edward snowden did a great public service because he presented information that cannot be refuted by the government and how they have to face what they've been doing n.s.a. whistleblower bill bennett thank you so much for coming answer. well as a result of all the n.s.a. rosalee revelations a slew of criticism has understandably come out from both congress and the american public the fact is that we don't understand everything that is going on within the agency and the obama administration as well as the senate and house intelligence committees just keep telling the public to trust them in the mean

the world engender more hatred towards the united states government if not the united states people then anything else that takes place and i think what we need to really be talking about is that and not sort of these sort of well if they come get us how do we go get them our you know eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth the real question is how do we create sort of a system in this world that's based on humanity based on you know sort of mutual aid if you will move to a support and not one based on through these reciprocal acts of violence which is what i think these hypotheticals when they're posed in the u.s. media and polls like shows like twenty four you know would you kill a baby if you knew there was going to be a terrorist attack next week or something like you know it never happens that way but you know people pose these questions it's sort of put us in a sense of fear and make us answer in a way that i think is always the most warlike. and let's talk. talk about foreign policy in general right now we're hearing a lot of strong rhetoric coming from the political media establi

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states would would be supportive of them and the united states is actually backed off so the united states policy in the middle east toward minorities even toward democracy is our apocryphal. and and indeed if we support countries such as saudi arabia that is having some of their people go into these pallets and into these palestinian and these syrian camps right now as we speak and and paying money for these refugee girls from nine to fourteen and then taken them off to saudi arabia there's somethin sick about that the united states says even criticize them for work and i really have a very serious problem with that you know we all should you know before there was the promotion of secular regimes ok during the cold war for example the war in a lot of conflicts went with the end of secular regimes we have religious museums and religious intolerance. well yes i think. it's not fair to continue talking only about the usa one can look at europe and indeed even russia the europeans the americans and russia have a problem with the something called the islamic movement or islamist or terr

in 1940, the fate of the world hung on the united states. that summer, republicans and democrats would hold their convention in preparation for the november presidential election. so what are conventions? conventions are about bands playing, delegates parading through the aisles, politicians speaking, but in both of the conventions that took place in the summer of 1940, there was an elephant in the hall. not the republican elephants, but the nazi elephants, and there was an uninvited guest, and his name was adolf hitler. the question on everyone's mind was whether fdr wanted the party nomination again in 1940. he refused to give a clear answer. mr. president, would you tell us now if you'd accept a third term, one reporter asked him point-blank? put on a cap and stand in the corner, fdr replied with a laugh. not even the members of his own family knew what his real intentions were. of course, one question was whether fdr deserved another four years in the white house. his attorney general, robert jackson, was convinced that war and war alone

in the united states over these administrations in terms of how they not only market their region but how they follow through on their commitments and the more american investment in the regions the more that happens the more americans are telling their counterparts back in iowa nebraska new york hey i have an investment in this region thrillist region is a great example because the predictability quotient as increasing difficulty because of the administration now you mentioned this a couple of years ago there was this perception that everything in russia depends on the kremlin and. i think and you said at that actually a publicly several times that russia still suffers from this image problem with regards to your arbitrary administration for a long. in other words investors still fear that somebody will come and called confiscate that business and i wonder how many members of the american chamber of commerce had something like that happen to them and recent years first and the last point very very few those can happen but they're very rare instances in the usually in the very strateg

states says it will like very much mark these are governments the united states isn't like very much. you know that's right and again the i mean it is an indication what we said at the beginning that to the extent that the region has you know achieved this historical second independence it's called it has it has drawn enormous benefits ok alex you wanted the last word before going to go to the break go ahead i think back to senator kerry's. statement that no life in america. and. america's backyard i think a sign that it's both regions like new york in the caribbean are not is because of the plethora of. words. that can emerge and occur again we're talking all russia we're talking about china taiwan union has a free trade agreement with within for america ok so i'm going to germany for the short break we'll continue our line of argument after a short break we'll continue our discussion on latin america and south america stay with our. legal. the interview. there's a medium so we leave that maybe. motion security place your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with th

what has united states done? maybe in ways provide light weapons to the resistance which is not doing anything of benefit. and bashir assad is succeeding. >> i want to play what president obama has said about the state of al qaeda the last year. take a look. >> today, al qaeda is on the run and osama bin laden is dead. >> for al qaeda is a shell of its former self. groups must be dealt with. >> the united states is never going to retreat from the world. >> we don't get terrorized. >> senator, a moment ago, you said al qaeda is on the rise. you are not subjecting that al qaeda is stronger than it was pre9/11. >> i'm saying they me taft sized in a way they may pose threat threats throughout the middle east, they can destabilize missions, have acts of terror literally everywhere and there the perception throughout the mid aeflteastdle east that there is no policy and that there is accommodation it that reality. when they believe that, then you are going to see extremist element on the rise and clearly they are throu

the end of the cold war the united states was a strong ad. god well we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we've got to get rid of that euro sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have this really dynamic capitalism well we've seen this dynamic as we've seen it you know we had the collapse of the internet bubble in the early two thousand and then we have this of the almighty collapse of the housing bubble we're building up in all the bubble now so you know this this you know known wealth a kind of you know primitive pyramid scheme tabel ism is the last thing anyone in the world would want to emulate ok before we could sort of the programs are going to if i could go you're going to talk about the perceptions of the united states in the middle east but go ahead bruce and i just want to jump in there look i mean george is right if you look at the public opinion surveys we've done in thirty nine co

the president united states himself. castro could not defend against these attacks so he tried diplomacy. in august one thousand nine hundred sixty one he dispatched che guevara to meet with kennedy's advisor richard goodwin in or of why . the two men met in secret during which che made it clear cuba could loosen its ties with the soviets stop supporting revolution in latin america and compensate the american companies that had expropriated if the united states would stop its aggressive behavior and resume trade with cuba kennedy was very interested but the rooms were of the bay of pigs for the united states were much too raw to think of beginning discussions at that point in the weeks following cuba's diplomatic gesture cia backed raids against cuba increased castro then turned to a dramatic form of deterrence from moscow the soviet union began to secretly install nuclear missiles in cuba for thirteen days the world nervously waited. would the missile crisis end with nuclear war but kennedy and khrushchev resorted to di

states and united states is a very peculiar country when it comes to. labor practices and labor policies because for once this country has never had a very strong labor party history of trade unions. while you can argue that they have been historically rather weak and also as i think you alluded to in the united states there's still no consensus on the role of government in providing social security and social justice and yet some of the critics of the organization have said and the posit that the ilo may be too strongly influenced by the united states and the so-called market fundamentalism that the united states represents how would you respond to such purposes no i don't think that's a reasonable view of the way our organization works or indeed how the united states works in the united states is a major player in the international labor organization and upholds really our fundamental values very strongly no the united states has its own challenges it has its own challenges in terms of social security as we've talked about it's got its challenges in r

states this is always plays done in alliance with the united states as well. where do you have in mind while i what i have in mind is there are several wars that have been launched one is the war in iraq the other one is the war in afghanistan and all of that was presented on to the set of having of special relationship of the united states and i'm a part of the iraq war. post it from the beginning i wasn't one of those converts in afghanistan although i saw the case for the removal of the taliban regime that mission had been accomplished within six weeks of the intervention and i have opposed the problem gratian an extension of our mission but of course both these forces were rooted in this concept of special relationship that supposedly exists between the united states and the united kingdom do believe in the notion of special relationship between these two countries well you know if you're trying to push me into defending policies that i am not trying to push here just fine i think that the relationship between the united kingdom and the english speaking co

to home canada does very well much better than the united states in this regard so you could go too far in one direction or the other but just because the united states is probably gone too far does that mean there is it a happy middle end to be the emergency capitalism in brazil and and turkey. and really it's a political question whether they have a political system that can that can have fairness for everyone that is still a good sign i still think that the people of turkey are better off than they were before they have to worry about the creeping authoritarianism further one but again it's a political question not an economic one richard you've separate the political and economic i would i would disagree go ahead i would really disagree if i could because i'm not at all a pessimist i'm an optimist and i'm i'm looking at the future of the world as a conflict finally addressing what should have been the issue all along which is why in the world are we allowing the shape of economies in the old part of capitalist success and the new part of where capitalism is going why are we allo

in the next few years, you'll see the united states start to respond. part of that will come from markets, higher prices for new supplies encourage people to curb demand and persuade innovators to invest in new technologies. another part of it comes from policy. barely a month after the crisis begins, congress moves forward on a long pipeline across alaska, and within a couple years it passes the first-ever fuel economy standards requiring more efficient cars and trucks. but if you look a few more years into the future, you'll find the country consumed by paralyzing battles. one camp is focused on growing supplies of traditional fuels -- oil, coal, natural gas and increasingly nuclear power. another is focused on alternatives and on promoting conservation and efficiency. and the one thing that the two largely agree on is that the country now has to choose. energy becomes a focal point in the years that come and peaks in the 1980s elections. it becomes so intensely enmeshed in ideological battles that it's pretty much impossible to focus on the underlyin

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states. >> that's right. >> stephen: what is it, come together united states, you just came here, you rode your bike around the united states where did you go. >> i ended up in boston for a while ferning i was a taxi driver in hyannis for a while. i didn't even know how to get to anyplace. i just asked the people, i say where do you want to go they say 26-- i will be delighted to take you there. tell me how to get there. and so then-- . >> stephen: and they stayed in the car thns they stayed in the car and then i took a bicycle journey for 12,000 miles getting lost every single day. it was a beautiful thing. i went from boston to florida, across to texas, into new orleans, down into mexico, eventually finished up coming across the golden gate bridge. and with so many stories this is the thing. everybody had a story to tell. this was the beautiful thing about america too. people were open and gracious and kind. i didn't sleep one single night in a hotel. i either camped out in a forest or by the river or people invited me into their homes. and it was just sort of fantastic. >> stephen:

this won't be done solely by the united states. but the united states has special capabilities that no other military in that region or, candidly, even our friends and allies, have. and i think it would be wrong to expose people without using our capabilities, in conjunction with an international effort, including the arab league. the arab league should be involved. they are. the consultations are happening. so should the french and the british and others, through consultation about what our options are here and what we all ought to do. but at some point, we are going to have a role. i would not outsource u.s. leadership to countries in the middle east on matters that protect what has been a red line for the united states. that's not something you want to outsource. >> the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers, speaking with me earlier. president obama might unilaterally order a strike on syria, rather than seek congressional organization. and he wouldn't be the first president to make that kind of move. the 197

getting more resources from the united states. but no doubt about it. the way the situation is perceived on the street, an egyptian internal affair. being out in the streets, speaking to ordinary egyptians, many have anger towards the united states and the european union. they look at it effectively supporting the muslim brotherhood and the popularity in egypt, make no mistake about it as a organization, has declined in recent months. there's no debating about the popularity of the muslim brotherhood. you can talk about whether or not the military used disproportionate foerz, all of those things egyptians are debating. the popularity of the muslim brotherhood and alignment and perception in the eyes of ordinary egyptians taken stand with the muslim brotherhood is actually now having a detrimental affect on the people's perception about the united states and the european union. the short answer, is, no. >> as far as egyptian impressions of the united states, is there any sense the country and administration is sort of between a rock and hard place when i

even symbolically how will it affect the united states? >> it's important to remember what the aid will get us. priority access to the suez canal and right to have our war planes fly over their air space. it was never intended as a tool for democratic reform. we actually lose something, lose some flungs if we suspend it. and perhaps we should but we should also consider what is going to be lost if we don't give that to them, what the consequences will be for influence. there are certain times and places where our only stick is a carrot and the only influence is the money we give to countries. >> what else might it be other than the aid the united states could go if it's not this money is what you're saying? >> you it seems like this is be our control for the time being. >> here is chuck hagel talking about egypt yesterday, anna. take a listen to this. >> our ability to influence the outcome in egypt is limited. it's up to the egyptian people. and they are a large great sovereign nation and it will be their responsibility to sort this out.

states as well and this is still an economic model that the united states can control global. yeah there that's absolutely right. and so you know what this this particular brand of capitalism than america is champion which is the world we call the end of the pyramid scheme capitalism whereby you know you just build up a mountain of debt while your. earning yourself huge fees and then when the whole economy goes belly up you go to the government and the government bails you out while all of the victims of the loans the small borrowers get thrown out of their homes and out onto the street so this kind of pyramid scheme capitalism. is has really been championed by the united states and the and this is been very much you know again since the end of the cold war the united states was of a strong advocate what we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we got to get rid of that your of sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have this real

we're the united states of america. we're the country that's always tried, not always successfully, but always tried to northern a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. this crime against conscious, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community and the norm of international community, this matters to us. it matters to who we are. it matters to leadership and to our credibility in the world. my friends, it matters here if nothing is done. it matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens. america should feel gratified. we are not alone in our condemnation an we're not alone in our will to do something about it an to act. the world is speaking out and many friends stand ready to respond. the organization for islamic cooperation condemn the regime and said we needed, quote, to hold the syrian government legally an morally accountable for this crime. our oldest ally, the french, said the reg

what authority the president of the united states, any president of the united states has to draw a red line that implies that our military is going to be placed in harm's way, i don't think there's constitutional authority to do that and feel compelled without the approval of the congress to carry forth. so rhetoric and losing lives are not nearly as important as making certain that you do the action. so looking weak is not like losing lives, and anybody who has lost people in terms of these wars or intrusions, i know that they would agree with me. >> you served in the military, and you insist that before the u.s. gets involved again in military action around the world, the united states should reinstate the draft. it doesn't look like you've got a whole lot of support for that out there, but you've been raising this issue now for several years, right, congressman? >> yes, that's right, but i don't see how any american who loves this country as much as i do can actually see that our democracy, our republic is in danger, how anyone that's able to make a contribution to protect us would

i now live in the united states. this human capital we have in the americas compliments one another. this is the future promise of this hemisphere. that is what we have to bind together whether it is through the expanded trade agreement that will bind the countries that believe in the course set of values. it is providing the issues not been on the table with nafta in 1993 which we knew with the real the negotiations, we both knew those things with torpedo everything so we left them on the table. what a surprise. 20 years after, we are back to energy and labour mobility. these two issues can have a profound impact on the hemisphere's ability to grow and create a greater sense of community, which i think is the huge asset of the americas, especially when you look at europe and asia pacific. go to the love now to audience. [laughter] [applause] who would like to have the first question? over there. yourself and where you are from. do you have a microphone? >> [indiscernible] there has been a lot of talk and activity [i

their $12 billion versus united states's $1.5 billion. that does not say much when other allies give 10 times the amount washington does. >> do you think a low-level insurgency against the interim government is now likely? >> it is unlikely in the name of the muslim brotherhood. certainly you can imagine members of the muslim brotherhood who believe they were playing by the rules, now there has been a coup. redress isare only to take up arms against the state. there is precedent for this in egypt. >> do you think there is something inevitable since the fall of resident mubarak? >> i am not sure there is anything inevitable but i think foregonever a conclusion egypt was going to make a transition to democracy. it was making a transition but to draw the conclusion from january and february of 2011 it is going to be democracy -- >> do worry about the de- humanizing with culture? >> what i have been struck by is the deterrent from these expressions of unity two and a ago to a country that is deeply divided between islamists, supporters of the

they look at it as the united states backed down on this. it was encouraged by this. and they didn't say they were going to use more chemical weapons but the implication was they would launch some sort of offensive in the interim but before congress could meet and see what they can get away with. but i just think in my opinion this is a terrible setback in the arab world. we've been waiting for this for so long. everybody was prime for something to happen. and then waiting for congress now is a huge setback for the people in the area. >> general short, the president didn't wait for congress or even go to congress on the issue of libya, when the united states joined the air strikes in libya two years ago. the white house says the reason this is different than libya is in libya there was an eminent threat, the towns and villages may have been overrun by a daffy's forces at the time and this time there's no eminent threat. you can act in a week, two weeks, or a month. that's the information that president obama has been given by his military advisers. as a former air for

is how they see the united states. we ask for that. sooner or later they are going to follow you home. that will happen eventually. thatit does, the people wanted this all for a quart of oil or a gallon of gas, it will come home big time and it will be bad business. host: this for about the embassy closing, "there are two essential pieces of context -- host: he makes those comments this morning in the pages of "usa today." james, independent line, hello. caller: people that go to the middle east, they know about the terror threat, if they are going out there, they should know that there could be a terror attack at any time. the real point i wanted to make is that you can hear it in the voices of the people, our interventionist portent -- interventionist foreign policy is not in our best interest. thinking about our country and bringing our troops home, getting ready with ,hese embassies and coming home taking care of our people in cities and towns, is just not good. call, marion, indiana. caller: 9/11, they did not war

president has to do what's the best case of the united states. i think the case has been made for us to respond. again, we're not putting boots on the ground. we're not assaulting and trying to have a regime change. it's a very tactical effort. degrade the bomb, the military bomb sites. find ways to destroy the artillery launches of the syrian military. find ways to shift the military momentum away from the syrian military that is winning the war right now. most importantly, a response to these butchering killings. assad cannot get away with what we did, and what i think the president is doing, if you get a lot of countries taking stands, is they will put together a coalition. hopefully there will be some action at the u.n. he is consulting with the the congress. the major national security leaders of the congress are being brought in. but this is a very tough decision. >> can i ask you this -- >> i support the president. >> you said assad can not be allowed to get away with this. and i think anyone who's looked at any of the footage, the chemica

payroll so that's the connection they are the pivot the way the united states maintains control in this the largest arab country well i guess the big question of why has egypt been such a quarter stone for u.s. foreign policy for decades well until nine hundred seventy nine the u.s. relied on the shah of iran and the eastern part of the middle east and israel as proxy or stabilizing forces sort of is the policeman for us imperialist interests in the middle east then the iranian people overthrew the shah in one nine hundred seventy nine that's when the united states moved in brokered an agreement between israel and egypt began funding the u. gyptian military and now uses israel and the egyptian military as the stabilisers for western interests in the middle east let's talk about obama's rhetoric he says that peace and stability in egypt is the only u.s. interest on the government has exactly played a very positive role in terms of improving democracy for the malays for the last century what interest is he really talking about let's break down exactly what those role the middle east has t

the united states actually does matter. and i don't agree with 100% of the things that the previous speakers said, and they're not going to agree with 100% of the things i said. but the great thing that unites us is that we have the first amendment that allows us to have that disagreement and to have an active discussion so that our nation can move forward. now, we don't always move forward. sometimes we move backwards as we've discussed. but each time we do that, we find a way to move forward. this can't happen in a country we're going to talk about now, china, because despite anything else they might be doing, they are not allowing freedom of speech. so i've got a display over on the side. who here knows what 61398 is? okay. you've probably seen the news story about the chinese government hacking american corporations, right? anybody? so 61398 is a signal core unit in the people's liberation army in china. this is a division of the chinese military run and financed by the chinese government. a company put out a really bri

land border crossing in united states which is also a link to the san diego area where most of the nine eleven hijackers had to enter and some of them. there so we had this specific alerts and on that day i saw that twenty three people from terrorist countries where allowed to enter the united states and none of the proper checks were done they were not enrolled in any databases no one bothered to take their fingerprints they were pretty much just

united states believes that it was the assad regime that carried out this chemical weapons attack so far they have not been able to present any convincing argument but they say they have no doubt that it was the assad regime one reason that may be aside from the videos that everybody's been able to see on you tube and pictures and witness accounts the web site foreign policy is reporting that there were calls that were intercepted between the syrian defense ministry and a commander on the ground in charge of a chemical weapons unit and the defense minister was trying to figure out what had happened and demanding answers as to what was happening this was in the immediate aftermath of this alleged attack russia in the face of the possible intervention the military intervention that could happen as early as thursday they have evacuated all of their citizens from syria as that specter of violence looms sergey lavrov had a phone call with the u.n. special envoy lakhdar brahimi in that phone call he said attempts at a forcible solution in syria will only result in further stabilization in