this is about american labor. american jobs across the board. >> it is about the secrecy. why can't they show this bill to the public, to congress? >> it is finally starting to get the attention in congress that it absolutely deserves. we can get president obama thinking correctly on this. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. we did a poll on this program last night and asked folks, do you think you're next door neighborhood knows about the tpp and fast track? over 90% of the respondents said no, which doesn't surprise me. we just illustrated we've been talking about this for months on end. boehner just the other day said this election in 2014, the midterm, is going to be about jobs and health care. hey, i'm all about it. i'm ready for round two of health care and i'm all about seeing this country create jobs and everybody get a better chance. if that's what it's about, don't you think we can get some job creation numbers from mr. boehner? have you seen your local news where it says such and such factory has come to our town to bring in 200 new

let's do more to help americans get ahead. let's help americans save for retirement. today, most americans don't have a pension. social security check often isn't enough on its own. and while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who have 401k's. tomorrow i will direct the treasury to create a new way to elp americans start. myira. new savings bond to encourage folks to build a new nest egg. no risk of losing what you put in. if this congress wants to help with me, work with me and fix an upside down tax code that helps the wealthy saveb. offer every american access to an i.r.a. on the job so they can have access to an i.r.a. and the most important investment is their home, protect taxpayers from a housing crisis and keeps the dream of home ownership for uture generations. one last point on financial security. for decades, few things exposed hard-working families to economic hardship more than a broken health care system. and in case you haven't heard, we are in the process of fixing that. now, a pre-existing condition used to

that's what the american people want. let's talk about security and safeguards for consumer information. again, you have the germ of a good idea. there is, of course, when the government has our personal information we need to make sure that there's adequate safeguards that goes for the i.r.s., it goes for military personnel files. it goes for the affordable care act. just as we want to make sure when the private sector and companies have our personal information that they institute the proper safeguards. and there are examples of failure. mr. burgess mentioned target, a private sector example of failure. we certainly hope and hope that we have the infrastructure and security in place to ensure that there is not a failure of security with regard to the affordable care act, but when we are talking about identity theft and how to address it, we need to look at where the real problem is. what's the leading cause of identity theft? is it the i.r.s.? is it the affordable care act? is it the military? no. one of the biggest cau

that's what most americans want. for all of us in this chamber to focus on their lives, their hopes, their aspirations. and what i believe unites the people of this nation-- regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor-- is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all. the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead in america. (applause) let's face it, that belief has suffered some serious blows. over more than three decades-- even before the great recession sheut-- massive shifts in technology had eliminated middle-class jobs and weakened the economic foundations families depend on. today after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher. and those at the top have never done better. but average wages have barely budged. inequality has deepened. up ward mobility has stalled. the cold hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery too many americans are working more than ever just to get by, let alone to get ahead. a

the desk for millions of americans -- for millions of americans. the most important thing we can do is getting quality health coverage. security and peace of mind comes with that. tokathleen sebelius talking reporters earlier. the supreme court agreed to review physicians of the affordable -- positions in the affordable care act that required able to offer birth control. -- businesses to offer birth control. journal, thisgton is one hour 15 minutes. host: we are back on the year interview with author hedrick smith. he is the author of "who stole the american dream? " we talk with our readers about their story is for 2013. what is yours? guest: i'm interested in the story which of the biggest impact over time. i think probably the snowden leak story and the nsa will do that. you are to see washington in total turmoil, what to do about the nsa program. that has had a huge impact on washington and will play out in 2014. there are lots of others. gay-rights moved way forward this year. nine more states legalized same- sex marriage. supreme court knocke

i think the american one, and it was a sort of nonofficial one. it is the legty left by generation of american missionaries in the early arab world in the early 1800s, had not succeeded in conversion of the nonchristians there, but nevertheless, they left an important legacy in the region, finding schools, hospitals, and universities, american university of beirut, the most important university in the world prior to the 1940s and 1950s, and it was a creation of the missionaries who identify with arab nationalism, there's institutions of american university of beirut and creation of nationalist ideology in the arab world. in addition to the british imperial traditions, the cia arabists also drawing on this history of the missionary, american missionary engagement with the middle east which is atruncated to the cia through a number of people in missionary stock who ran the u.s.' espionage effort in the middle east during world war ii. characters like william eddy and his biographer, thomas litner, is here tonight. i think this is really the explanat

million americans -- 1.3 million americans were without any support as of that day. in six months that number will grow to 1.9 million. 72,000 a week, one person every eight seconds. the real problem that we face is really the lack of job opportunities. madam speaker, we must bring the president's proposal for job creation to the floor. remember, you have to be actively seeking work before you can receive unemployment insurance. see the problem? no efforts to create jobs and no bill there to protect those who are unemployed through no fault of their own. this is the highest long-term unemployment this country has seen since world war ii. people need government to recognize this problem. and we have failed. we need to go back and know why unemployment insurance is created in the first place. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. hanabusa: we need to be that compassionate country again. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for

this industry is another example of american-made energy and american-made entrepreneurial leadership. second, it is very important we help our workforce hit the ground running by improving workforce development and training. the department of labor estimates there are 3.9 million job openings in the united states right now. despite a national unemployment rate of 7% and millions of americans looking for work. estimates by the manufacturing institute indicate there is as many as 600,000 job openings in our country that remain unfilled because employers cannot find workers who have the necessary skills to do that job. you must make a better effort to close this skills gap. i often hear from hoosier business owners tpr-rbgs -- from educators and workers about the pressing need to close the skills gap and have people train in all these opportunities and skills. workers need to know the time they spend training is more likely to lead to employment and a good-paying job as employers are more likely to hire people they know have the training that's needed to be productive on day one. third,

>> americans are tired of us squabbling. they want us to get things done. >> or do republicans have the stronger case for revving up the economy. >> we are not going to raise taxes. >> how will tonight's big speech affect the 2014 mid term election? the left, on the right s.e. cupp. in the "crossfire" representative of the democratic leadership and tim scott of south carolina along with representative steve israel who's leading the effort to elect more democrats to the house and representative greg walden who's leading the effort to elect more republicans. as we watch the state of the union speech, is there any hope for action tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire" i'm dan jones on the left. >> i'm s.e. cupp on the right. in tonight's state of tfof the speech we should expect in a word, defines. he will say i have a pen and a phone, your services are no longer required. but he's been defiant for years blaming republican obstructionists and congressional destruction for getting in his way. remember, i will not neg

let me tell you what is good, we have people as good as the american people, and the american people were in charge of their country, we wouldn't be in this state. that's the most important good thing. >> that's about the best thing we have ever heard on tv, what he just said. you can't beat that. that's it. >> and anybody who has any doubt that the american public knows what they want, what they don't want, and really has their thumb on the pulse of things, take a look at this poll. it really lays out the negatives. if you would, the headwind, facing this president ahead of tuesday night. as we dissect what happened on this sunday and look forward to tuesday, let's do what pat says, listen to the american people on this. this is what they say is the disapproval. that's the number there in red that i want you to notice. the job rating that they give the president on income equality -- inequality, which is something he says he wants to talk a lot about. he's not scoring well already. the economy, 59% disapprove. that 66% was on the federal deficit, which is north of 17.3 trillion. >>

do not take the photograph and the american government decreed that there be no photographs of dead americans be published until 1943 when president roosevelt lifted that quarter because he was concerned about cynicism growing in the american public about the propaganda images they kept seeing in the newspaper about how the war was going. so the memory was strong and the imbedding system is controlling when it is exercised in its entirety, photographers would not be allowed to take pictures of wounded or dead americans. generally you weren't allowed anywhere near the bodies of american troops and in addition the important part of war coverage along with the picture is the written description, putting the picture into up context that is really meaningful and as the journalists and the and betting system, the ability to control commentary from ordinary soldiers or to control ideas within the military is almost complete. i was embedded several times and they would not let me talk to the intelligence chief of the unit. it was difficult to get the information that would make understanding clearer.

it's not something americans today think that americans in the '80s would have been aligned with. why did americans think that it was okay to support the apartheid government? >> because the cold war was underway then. and we looked upon ourselves as competitive with the soviet union everywhere in the world. and the anti-apartheid movement was supported by the communist party. in fact, anc declared itself to be communist as you know. after i left office the reagan administration and others, not criticizing him, went back to a position that anybody who was a member of the african national congress was a communist and was later classified to be a terrorist pnl so i. so it was a time when everybody who was for communism was looked upon as eants american. my -- we did support the revolutions in south africa. >> how were you able to be different? how was it that prior to the '80s when again united states sort of said these guys are commune iforts, the -- communis, backed by communists. >> they were looking for basic human rights an freedom. they were for the majorities of the populatio

the cost of what i call the american empire and what it's done for social services for the average american because they're way out of whack in hope maybe two thousand and fourteen would be greater awareness that it cost a lot of money to have eight hundred bases around the world. absolutely and i you know i and i think that we've talked about this before i think that there's been a growing awareness at least among the american people and their elected representatives that this trillion dollar war that we have waged over the last twelve years has cost us not only money but but american lives and with costs that are going to be projected way off into the future considering the veterans that are coming home with these horrendous injuries so i think we're we're finally aware that we've been pouring money into a black hole when it comes to our wars we see no return whether it be in iraq or in afghanistan in terms of making our country safer or liberating people overseas and so i think there's an awareness that we need to scale back on our wars there's also an awareness that on one hand our repu

american companies. so when the president for the last five years has talked about how he was going after big oil, if you look at his proposals, he wants to eliminate tax deductions, the elimination of which would bankrupt most independent oil and gas operators, so what would that do? the 94% to 95% of the oil and gas wells in america would either cease or they would fall into the hands of the big major oil companies that the president decrees. -- decries. well isn't that strange. big oil nd bad mouth and yet everything you propose and try to do seems like it's and getting cher rid of their competition. we hear the president call wall street executives fat cats, determined to do something about them, and yet when you look at the real book and the real story, four out of five gave 80% ofo democrats, about them, of wall street executives, donate to democrats and the president over republicans. well that's strange. why would he call them fat cats? i don't know. why have they gotten richer and richer and ric

the president: my fellow americans, my fellow americans, men and women like corey remind us that america has never come easy. our freedom, our democracy have never been easy. sometimes we stumble. we make mistakes. we get frustrated or discouraged. but for more than 200 years, we have put those things aside and placed our collective shoulder to the wheel of progress. to create and build and expand the possibilities of individual achievement, to free other nations from tyranny and fear. to promote justice and fairness and equality under the law so that the words set to paper by our founders are made real for every citizen. the america we want for our kids , a rising america where work is plentiful and prosperity is widely shared and opportunity lets us go as far as our dreams, none it of it is easy. and if we work together, if we summon what is best in us, the way corey summoned what is best in him, with our feet planted intoy but our eyes looking the future. god bless you. and god bless the united states of america. we need to come together as one because we are considered one nation und

a lot of americans would like the government to butt out. but importantly, would like the government to stop putting massive regulations, massive taxes killing small businesses and killing jobs. obamacare is the biggest job country. it was striking tonight throughout an hour plus long speech. the president didn't say a word to the over 5 million americans who had their health insurance cancelled because of obamacare he left them in the cold. if he thinks americans want action what they'd like is for the federal government to stop taking away their jobs and insurance, forcing them into part time work. and sadly providing no relief whatever on those items. >> thank you. >> always a pleasure >> fact checkers immediately flagged part of what the president did say about health care tonight. again, with numbers. the numbers at the washington post have said are wrong. we'll have that. plus... brit hume, joe trippi and the brit hume, joe trippi and the this is the quicksilver cash back card from capil one. it's not the "limit the cash i earnvery mon

it's not what the american people want. john thune's answer saying, they didn't give us enough votes so we're not going to help out this country. what kind of person thinks like that? >> every member's office is getting messages. they're getting e-mails and they're getting letters and calls about what this is doing to the people in their districts and in their states. and i wish the democrats would take to the floor night after night and start reading these stories, start telling these stories, show pictures of these families who are afraid of losing their homes and water and electricity. start showing the faces, start telling those stories, and we would change that conversation almost immediately. >> we're on the horizon on a terrible trade agreement. we could be in the long haul for the long-term unemployed in the country. great to have you with us tonight. >>> coming up, republicans admit for the first time they're making a strategy for the election year. [ male announcer ] this is the story of the little room over the p

to cross-talk the worst american presidents i'm joined by my guest samuel put to leakey zero in moscow he is the president of the preparing global leaders foundation and a visiting professor at georgetown university in washington we have doug he is a presidential historian and a former white house advisor to two american presidents and in boston we cross to robert mir he is a core lecturer in history at columbia university all right gentlemen welcome to the program crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i go to doug first in washington you know lot of people when you look at presidents the history of the presidency it's either thumbs up or thumbs down or you forget everybody else where is barack obama standing these days lot of people call me a lame duck already we know his public opinion poll numbers are low is he going to be in the bottom rank. it's too early to say he's going to be a very significant presidents because he's the first african-american president so it's going to be a real linchpin in history so i don't know that historians will take

because he was an american -- how could he do it? because he was an american citizen. how was he an american citizen? his parents came here on a visa. to go to college. he was born, returned to yemen, was raised to hate america, raised to hate our western an adult and as became a terrorist who insighted others to terrorism against the united states. erhaps some have heard of al -moudi. had paperwork, held it up for director mueller and he was not aware that the boston mosques, that the boston bombers attended were started and we have the paper,

, and latino americans. to track this fragmentation of the electorate, we computed an index and this plots the changes over time for respondents in the american national election studies. also what we did is we stratified this index by response to who lived in very racially diverse counties versus those who lived in homogeneous counties as opposed to those who fell somewhere in between. this gives a breakdown of party notification by race and ethnicity. in 1956, both parties were mostly dependent upon white americans for their support. the democratic party essentially has been the majority party in terms of the proportion of people who identify themselves as democrats. the republicans had been the line or the party. what you see is the distribution has changed for the democrats. 36.8% are black. 21.9% are latino. to explore this further, we took the ethnicity question. the good people in michigan started looking at at the city in 1972. since there aren't many changes here in terms of how different ethnic gro

americans we lie on food stamps. 10.98 million americans receive disability checks, one in three people fell into poverty between fwooin and 2011. 40% of americans say they're worse off financially than a year ago. the u.s. debt, you all $9 trillion unpate yoltic, now it's 17 plus trillion. can you admit this is failure? >> if you're going to put it that way. you know, there's so many statistics you put there. and i actually agree with doug to some extent, if the government can do something about it and it goes wrong, then you have to blame government. >> hold on a second, this is his presidency, he's had five years. if you say it's george w. bush's fault, i'm going to assault you on national tv. >> i might say it then because it would be fun to watch. i don't blame george bush, i don't blame barack obama and when it turns around, i'm not going to give barack obama the credit either. >> amy, $17 trillion in debt, 91 million americans out of the labor force, the highest number in decades, that's not obama's fault? >> i think an even bigger problem is the president hasn't kept his eye on

the american people would not be happy with a continued american presence in iraq. the american people are never happy with foreign interventions. it is the job of a president as leader to bring people along about such things. we have stationed troops in places all over the world for decades, the net effect is they have helped to keep peace. it is a role which this president has shrunk and the consequences of that are now becoming clear and what's happening in iraq and what is also unfolding in sir aia are but two manifestations of. >> anymore amy, i will bring you in in a second. >> the argument is we had significant success in iraq, that would have been preserved if we had a residual force there. the question is, how can you call a big success something that is so fragile that a few years after we leave. >> george, this happens in the after method conflicts regularly. it's why we leave forces, because success is fragile. there is nothing unusual about that. this was not the complete destruction of the nefarious forces in the middle east which are numerous and to s

the american people would not be happy with a continued american presence in iraq. american people are never happy with foreign interventions. it is the job of a president as leader to bring people along with that. we have stationed troops all over the world for decades and the net effect in most cases has been they helped to keep the peace. it is a role from which this president has shrunk. and it is -- the consequences of that are now becoming clear and what's happening in iraq and what's also unfolding in syria are but two manifestations. >> i'm going to bring it in a second with george. i want you to respond to brother zblum the argument is that we had significant success in iraq that would have been free served if we had a residual force there. the question then is what -- how can you call a big success something that is so fragile that a few years after relieved it seems to have crumble snd. >> this happens in the aftermath of conflicts regularly. that's why we leave places, because success is fragile. this is not -- there is nothing unusual about this. that's

in american law as a compromise but i think it's very important when american support ongoing operations in afghanistan is tenuous to say the least that the american public doesn't believe that it will be throwing its soldiers to the afghan to the mercy forgive me of the afghan judicial system twenty forty. admiral allen west who was britain's head of navy when the u.k. went into afghanistan has said the operation was a waste of time he called the war a strategic as well as a political failure of turning kind of william says that the biggest achievement of the conflict would be the possibility of a compromise between the afghan leadership and the taliban. i built a shit what we tried to achieve to set the conditions whereby an afghan government can deal in a nonviolent way with all of the groupings involved in bleeding but. if those conditions are set and it should be. then what we're likely to see is a compromise between what kabul wants and what the taliban wants which will see afghanistan model along over the next period of time perhaps the next ten years but that in itself won't be a

the americans kind of -- this is the myth-again -- the americans forced their hand. >> the a.b.c.d. -- a class explanation for many of the origins, kaiser's germany, world war i, complained about it very much and that was very much on the japanese mind as well. the fact that the wartime government made use of that narrative -- tojo in fact gave a speech on the day of the pearl harbor attack that japan -- >> the prime minister. >> prime minister. japan entered the world war reluctantly despite all the nation's past efforts at trying to achieve peace in east asia. went hand in hand with this larger regional asia peace, the concept that japanese were taken by that sort of in the end, and in effect abused, but it was quite useful at the time as well, and useful to make them believe that they were fighting for the right cause. so, i think that narrative was quite strong and who would want to die for the wrong cause? so you want to believe that and if you are ordinary citizens without much access to full information, about the china role or japanese imperialism, i adopt think it's hard to i

there is so little self reflection on the part of both the american public and the american decision makers i wonder why is that we are continentals the country of three hundred and fifteen million people very self-absorbed we are. slated from the world by two large oceans. we tend to think of foreign policy is something we do to other people other than the something we participate in with them or that they do to us so there's particularly since the end of the cold war there's been a sense on the part. many americans that we are invulnerable exempt from reprisal and unfortunately that is not the case so if you don't suffer consequences directly and personally for the mistakes you make you tend to not learn from them and to repeat them you know what debts many foreigners including russians about these american south images this sounds of exceptionalism a special mission this shining city on a hill and. you know whether people like it or not i think we have to admit that at least in one respect america is an exceptional country and that is its ability to influence the lives of people i

you see closer to 10% of americans. poverty levels are low. we talk about 23,000 a year for a family of four. there are millions of working americans scraping to get by. oftentimes they are worse off as they are not able to access some of the programs. >> marco rubio, the senators, had this to say in his message. >> instead of continuing to borrow and spend trillions on government programs that don't work. we need a real agenda helping people to acquire the skills they need to lift them out of poverty. is he right. doesn't social security, as one example, prove some social programs work. 39% of seniors lived in poverty a few years before lyndon johnson expanded benefits. today 9% do. >> if you redistribute hundreds of billions, trillions, you can lift people, the income level up. the question is what is the cost to the economy, peep's self-reliance and independence. there are three things that will keep anyone out of poverty, finish high school, get a job. if you do those three things, the poverty rate will be small. a lot of anti-poverty prog

that brought a strong response from the white house. >> if americans suggested there should be american troops fighting and dying in fallujah today, they should say so. >> reporter: the last combat troops left in iraq in 2010. 4,486 americans died in the iraq war. a recent poll asked was removing saddam hussein worth the cost of american life. only 36% said it was, and 49% said no. john kerry made it clear on sunday no american troops will be sent back in. >> this is a fight that belongs to iraqis. that's what the president and world decided some time ago when we left iraq. so we are not, obviously, contemplating returning or putting boots on the ground. >> they're speeding up arms shipments to iraqi government. the pentagon says there's an effective tool in wipes out safe havens. it could have implications for afghanistan where president hamid karzai is playing hardball in talks to allow a u.s. counterinsurgency force to stay at the end of this year. >> if the united states and internationaled community leave afghanistan, the taliban have a very good chance of ko coming back to power.

why is we americans? why is we americans? [singing] real. want is me, for what i see in what i see and feel and who is me and what it is and who it is. like i said, self-determination. but i income from a foolish tried. you can make 300 years of blue- chip stocks. we want to be paid. plus we want damages for all the killings and the fraud, lynchings, missing justice, the ups, unwarranted jailing, character assassinations, ugly caricatures. want to be paid for every hurtful thing you said or did, for all the land you took. the street you destroyed, the miseducation, jobs lost, the disease that eight and killed us , for all the music and dances you still. the language, the careers you stopped. all of these are suits. the damage is paid to the african-american nation. [singing] we want education for all of us and anyone else hurt by slavery. for all the native peoples. even those white people that you show funny all the time. them,t reparations for for the mexicans, whose land you stole from north mexico. all that. [singing] all that you have g

what do more to help americans save for. what do more to help americans save for retirement. workers today do not have a pension. his social security check is not enough on its own. while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who do not have 401k policies. that is why tomorrow i will direct the treasury to create a new way forward to working americans to serve their own retirement savings. and my ra gives you a guaranteed return with no risk of what you're putting in. work with me to fix an upside down tax code that gives big tax breaks to help the wealthy and has little or nothing with middle-class americans. offer them an automatic ira on the job so they can save just like everyone in the chamber can. many families make an important investment of their home. seventy legislation that keeps taxpayers from a housing crisis and keeps the dream alive for future generations. [applause] and one last point on financial security. for decades the things exposed hard-working families to economic hardship more than a broken health care system. i

/o everyday -- americans? >> they have problems with the everyday americans, too. is especiallylem acute. classare a lot of working americans who feel they have been left out. >> i think part of what he was trying to do was to wind back the voters. moreemocrats had a compelling message for working- class americans dan mitt romney and the republicans did. who do you think stands for your values and who you are working for? i think obama was trying to regain that tonight. >> what will this mean for his approval rating? these are the lowest approval ratings he's had going into a state of the union address. will that change tomorrow? >> he'll get a little bit of a bump. this was a very important, auspicious start. last words to julianna goldman real quick. >> these are 12 executive actions outlining tonight that the white house says is just the beginning of what they called the year of action. >> we will watch it all. thank you all. thank you for joining us tonight. be sure to join us for "surveillance" at 6:00 a.

we have to recognize that american history is full of amazing tales. tales of heroism, of bravery, of cowardice. all kinds of devices as well. -- vices as well. it is a story we have to relate all of. zinn focuses on the warts. i don't think that is the best way to write history. >> who wrote a book in your opinion about american history that is not on the left but maybe on the right that you think is good? >> i think that larry schweikert's book on a patriots history of the united states does a good job. bill bennett has a two-volume history of the united states. it is tough to find textbooks by major publishers -- they are often written by committee -- but those two books in general, they are of the right. they do a pretty good job of relating american history. >> you said you got a phd at boston college and howard zinn was a boston university at the same time. -- in the same town. where did it start for you? where were you born? >> in fairfax, virginia and moved to minnesota when i was three years old. i grew up in the midwest in the twin cities are

that is our american dream. lastly, i just really feel like republicans -- not to bash them -- they ought to take a reality check on the basic low income worker. they ought to live the lives that their people live on a day-to-day basis of trying to strive for their families, caring, things of that nature. there are a lot of people that are sick, that are hungry, that are ill, and a lot of people need to worry about the united states of america, not overseas. their problems are not our problems. we need to focus in on our children. we need to focus on jobs, relating to one another. all the bigotry, the prejudice, the insults, the bashing at each other -- we just need to work together, move forward, and get over this, who is right, who is wrong. host: thanks very much for the call. many of you are weighing in on our facebook page. we're asking about your thoughts about the president's 2014 state of the union address. a couple of comments, this is one from sherry, who says james says page, #cswitter panchat you can

you talked about how a lot of americans at the time, not all americans, but a lot of americans are comfortable criticizing mormonism. i think he said not so much catholics and jews as protestants were. is it about marriage? property? why was it so alarming to people? >> as opposed to some of the other groups, this is not an accurate group. these are not the issues -- the same issues of an outside threat coming in in the way you have about irish catholics. the mormons were entirely homegrown. over just a couple of centuries, we find that the antagonisms towards a more driven by different ideas. someone of the ideas at the time, the beginnings of mormonism is a very strong sense of republicanism that fused the united states. say you have now a religious group that talks about establishing design on a dance to be really missing in a separatist direction. so that was various concerns about the national order. amanda turn-of-the-century were the first morning senator was elected, he wasn't allowed to take a seat for three years because the senate was investigating whether it was acceptable for had

faith in it that's where leon american political leadership and the american consumer because the american consumer has demanded to have cheap goods from overseas and the political leadership of lodge them both with the federal government by creating debt deficit spending that it's basically running up the national credit car and on the other hand you have the federal reserve that is obligated i would consider it irresponsible monetary policy whether the united states will fall out of democracy and become some other sort of. government i would venture to argue i'd say a lot of it would agree with me that the united states is. no longer a democracy and hasn't been a democracy for you know at least a decade or so united states to me it seems is more i would call it a kleptocratic oligarchy where you have very rich people more or less control the political process especially after citizens united versus the. the. federal trade commission general election commission and where whereby a company can spend literally unlimited amounts of money in order to get somebody elected on the one hand and o

the extension of unemployed benefits to americans who -- most americans think deserve it. they have to get 60 instead of the 50. >> are you buying it, tim? do you think it's just the weather? >> they didn't have all the democrats it's clear they didn't have all the votes. will they have the votes when they are all in there. and the republican filibuster, democrats had a chance in the budget deal to put in this unemployment insurance extension. when you hear the democrats, it's clear they were more interested in having a fight over unemployment insurance than they were in extending unemployment insurance. >> you have to go there. we moved on. let's talk about the president. the president will address unemployment benefits tomorrow. how important is this vote for the democrats to set the agenda for the year? >> it's terribly important. the question of the squeeze of the middle class. you saw harry reid talking about that. the democrats want to focus on that for the year. the collapse of the middle class is the defining of our time. president obama said that and he will say i

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the news in the transportation business this week, the american eagle, the commuter airline wing of american airlines is re-naming itself envoy. they take pains to point out it is not envoy airlines, just envoy, doesn't need new planes or food, just a logo and a brand-new name. >>> and a victory for those who love them, the westminster kennel including dog show that always showed purebreds, is opening the door for other dogs just a beat. while they can't compete for best of show they can enter a new agility trial. and for all of those with floppy ears and imperfect fur, it is a start for recognition some day. >>> when we come back here tonight, two sisters in an olympic spirit in a way we've never quite seen it before. >>> and finally tonight, as we round the corner toward the winter olympic games with just a few weeks until the competition begins in sochi, in russia, the teams are getting set, travel plans are being made for the athletes who make the cut. it turns out one of those athletes made the american team in a most unusual way. and it is a true example of what we call the olympic spi

what will he say and is it what the american people want to hear? we have a very interesting numbers for new a fair and balanced debate. >>> but first i want to bring you new details on the deadly shooting at a suburban mall until maryland. police today have identified the alleged gunman as 19-year-old darian marcus aguilar. he is accused of killing two mall employees yesterday before turning the gun on himself. we are also learning that aguilar may have wanted to cause even more harm because police have revealed that he was carrying a bagful of homemade explosives. >> when we originally found the shooter, he still had a lot of ammunition on his person. we were concerned he might have had a booby trap there. he did not have any booby traps on him but we did uncover this backpack. once we found one, we have an obligation to make sure there is not more. that's why we took our time to make sure it was searched and it was safe. >> yeah, that entire mall had to be searched because people were hiding everywhere amidst the chaos o. now they are just trying

came back from to friends and protected by the american people so i have some something to give to american people interesting and i notice that much of your advice is centered around the negative aspects of american food culture for example you recommend smaller portion sizes. mindful eating social eating avoiding of snacks how much of an influence do you think american culture has on the rest of the world not just in america but how powerful it is incredible they succeeded two things with mccain and the walt disney and the with the food they did all the countries worldwide do you think that influence is mostly positive or negative mostly negative because for example took a cheeseburger you need to have. a twenty percent of it and this is negative for you. also because the model of the american food is a very individual and there is no sharing and you eat alone and you lost the part of the pleasure now france has long been famed as the land of the slim and you use this image a lot and promoting your diet but your fans hasn't been immune to this spread of. you can call it american or conven

that's never happened in american history before. the president has a lot of problems but these problems are also -- they transcend just one administration, one party, one president. >> they do. it puts him as -- >> he owns them. >> he owns them. as he goes in tonight, you know, he's going to be speaking to a congress that's completely disconnect friday what he has to say. why should they pay any attention to him? you know, he is in the navy sea poll that came out, it was negative. more people disapproved of the handling than approved it, with one exception of terrorism. at that one he was 60% approved, 42% disapprove. that's down dramatically from where it used to be. it was the first time it was in a majority. he has a huge problem here. now you saw in your poll and same thing in the abc poll. so does the congress but on issues again, they come back around that the economy which, of course, you can see in your poll is the main reason that people are so dissatisfied. and, of course, it's the issue they care about going into this ele