is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the american people give us. you know, we host over 30 million people to the museum. my job is to help make the museums work, help the directors do their job. i have to take care of budgets and politics and public relations and things, but also the content of the work, what we do, what we show, the kind of ways in which we want to help americans and people around the world understand the american experience. >> how long have you been with the smithsonian? >> i first worked here in 1976 for the bicentennial of the united states, and then permanently since 1994. >> as the under secretary, are you the coo in a sense? >> well, we have three under secretary, one a earth science, one is finance administration, and i'm for everything else. i have a ph.d. in anthropology. >> all right. american history in 101 objects. where did you get the idea? >> well, there's a fellow who runs the british museum, ewen mcgregor, and he wrote a book that was successful, and he said, richard, do one on american history. well, i didn't have to think a

. 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 mean that so

republicans have refused, one of the lines from the president's speech, shepard, too many americans are working just to get by, let alone to get ahead and too many are not working at all. >> wendell goler is live with us there, good to see you. chris wallace, host of "fox news sunday" with us now. i had lunch with the president this afternoon, invited the anchors of tonight's coverage in, seemed upbeat on one hand and concerned on another about this inequality and the fact that so many people don't seem to have much of a chance anymore and he seemed determined to either with executive action or cooperation change that. >> there's a policy aspect to that and a political aspect to that as well. policy aspect certainly something the president's been concerned about, one of the plain planks of his platform when he ran for re-election in 012. interestingly enough they've done. testing and found inequality does not poll test well because it sounds like you're talking about class welfare, rich versus poor. i think you'll hear less talk about inequality and more talk about opportunity because w

in mind what is important to the american people who sense deeply, because it is part of our cultural d.n.a., part of our fundamental reason for being as a nation, that we have a right to privacy over personal decisions that should be made by a woman in consultation with her doctor, her health care provider, her family without interference by government bureaucrats or a politician. that's what's important and ending the chilling effect of those state restrictions is also one of the goals, the chilling effect that deters women from exercising those rights. making those rights real, protecting a woman's right to decide whether and when to have a child. every pregnant woman faces her own unique circumstances and challenges and she has a right to make her own decision based on her own values and guidance from the physician she trusts, the family members she loves and her personal goals what is right for her family. in the 40 years since roe v. wade, the attacks on this right have not been slowed. they've merely evolved and they've taken new forms. i stand with my colleagues today and ask

the american eople. now as president, i'm committed to making washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here. nd i believe most believe your too. thanks to the work of democrats and republicans, congress produced a budget that undoes severe cuts to education. nobody got everything they wanted. we can still do more to invest in this country's future while bringing down our deficit in a balanced way, but the budget compromise should leave us fiscal year to create more jobs, not creating new crises. and in the coming months, let's see where else we can make progress together. let's make this a year of action. that's what most americans want for all of us in this chamber to focus on their lives, their hopes, their aspirations. what i believe units the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, it's the simple profound belief in opportunity for all, the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get head in america. let's face it, that belief has suffered some serious blows. over more than t

commitment to security and opportunity for every single american. no matter the circumstances they were born into or whatever life dealt you. the senate and the house had a chance to do one simple act to live up to that promise by extending a lifeline to 1.3 million jobless americans. 1.3 million americans, who through no fault of their own, who want to work, who need to work, and are diligently looking for work. they were denied this lifeline, this basic lifeline that keep them afloat. for no reason but politics, democrats and republicans may well have honest disagreements on the best way to grow our economy and create jobs for americans that are ready to and willing to work. we should be able to agree on a core principle. we should stand by those who are struggling and never leave anyone out in the cold. all too often this is exactly what happens in washington for reasons most would find inexcusable. it is the same old political game being played with food stamps. the house of representatives would like to cut $40 billion over 10 years. they would have us all believe that they are cutting

this simplistic way in which we present these numbers to the american public. neil: what do you think of that? and the president will brag about the numbers looking better than they were. he will argue the equivalent off the mat and things are better now. my policies are working now and we need to sort of do more of this now. what do you say? >> now because of what has happened recently, more businesses have incentives to have people working 30 hours a week instead of 40 hours a week and that's not good for american working people. this is not good. we need a nation to get people working together. that is what he we should be addressing. and that is not right. neil: i do want to bring in my friend rich edson. peter, before you left the white house, there is the idea that we were hearing from folks there that this was his chance to reset the agenda and to maybe do it in chunks and cannot do it is grimly as last year. the reality setting in that either that cannot be done or the options are limited. >> setting the political reset button was the exact phrase i was going to use. the white

opportunities for people to live and continue the type life they've had in the american way and i am just here to say that i will continue to fight for the less fortunate because i will not turn my back on any american that wants to play by the rules and have done what we've said in this nation you need to do, the land of the free and the home of the brave, that still should mean something. mr. speaker, i yield back. mr. jeffries: i thank the gentleman for his thoughtful observations and for focusing on the need to re-authorize unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed across america. it has been a myth that has been put forth and those who seek to undermine this program that individuals who are receiving unemployment assistance who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more, simply are sitting home looking to collect a check without going out and actively searching for employment. nothing can be further from the truth. the reality is, and this is connected to the dynamic around income inequality that we are discussing here today, is that for every 2.8 million, 2.9 million am

a president. president obama will make the case the economy is finding its sea legs. american workers continue to feel pretty unstable with nearly three quarters of americans still feeling like this country is in recession. we're expecting a speech filled with more confrontation than compromise. the president has eluded to a strategy some have dubbed pen and phone and go it alone. a recognition that many of his initiatives don't have much of a chance in the republican controlled house. instead he says he willing rely on rallying orders. john boehner today had a pointed response to that prospect saying, we have a constitution, we abide by it, if he tries to ignore it, he's going to run into a brick wall. so tonight, president obama will try to recharge and refocus his stalled agenda in congress. all while trying to avoid irrelevancy and lame duck status ahead of what could be a daunting midterm election for his party. as we look at the vice president and the house speaker, introducing the panel that will start and welcome in the president to the house chamber, let's bring in ou

collins of the -- the former nba player, the first male athlete in major american team sports who publicly announced he's gay. as you hear the cabinet being welcomed in, leading the way there, secretary of state john kerry, and behind him jack lieu. kerry, we should point out has been on a diplomatic flurry all across the world. mainly on the issue of syria and iran. he's also engaged in middle east peace talks that he hopes are going to be fruitful. george, what about foreign policy in this speech, and how much do you expect the president to get into that? >> i would expect him to avoid it like the plague. he can talk about two things, basically, he can talk about syria, where he's defined success down from removing the regime of assad to removing assad's chemical weapons. i would expect him to tread lightly on iran. they've agreed to nothing of importance but they've only agreed to pause an iranian nuclear program that they're determined to accelerate soon. >> attorney general eric holder there shaking hands. we should point out that it is tradition, a lot of lawmakers -- you se

congress. my fellow americans. teacher spentca a extra time with 80 -- a student who needed it. they did their part to lift america's graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades. an entrepreneur flipped on the andts at her tech start up did her part to add to the more than 8 million new jobs our businesses have created over the past four years. [applause] and autoworker fine-tuned some of the best, most you efficient cars in the world and did his part to help america wean itself oil.oreign a rural doctor gave a young child the first prescription to treat asthma that his mother could afford. [applause] a man took the bus home from the graveyard shift, bone tired but dreaming dreams for his son. in a tight knit community -- in tightknit immunities all across america, fathers and mothers will talk in their kids, put an arm around their spouse, remember fallen comrades, and give thanks for being foam -- that after 12r long years is finally coming to an end. [applause] tonight, this chamber speaks with one voice to the people we represent. citizens, who make the state of o

there but now you are trying to break into other markets especially in into the american market and i wonder why is it so pylint here because certainly the united states has no shortage of its own diet prophets it's a part of my personal story because i was born in algeria and. my parents and myself we were served by american people and probably. so some memories this time and i. was a chubby kid and i also do a lot of. came back from friends and protected by 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 the american culture has on the rest of the world not just in america but how powerful it is incredible they succeeded two things with. the world and with the food they did all the countries worldwide do you think that influence is mostly positive or negative mostly negative because for example a cheeseburger you need

work there is being done and can't be done on that odd sounding period un-american the holocaust. i hope you'll continue to come to our programs. good evening. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] >> thank you. if you don't mind i'm going to sit rather than go to the podium. i have had a few help problems and i would just as soon not test myself. i thank you for coming tonight. in thinking about the problem of liberalism, i have to start off with a simple problem. most people including most people who think they have studied the subject, have a very weak idea of the history of liberalism whether it be on the left or the right. there is an idea that you started with progressivism, you moved on to -- [inaudible] no, i'm teasing. he started with progressivism. he proceeded to the new deal and then he went on to the great society and it was a continuous flow. the trouble is it's simply not true. most progressives did not become new dealers. very few republican progressives progressives -- you have your member progressivism w

. republican line. caller: i think the president should address the american people to start with some kind of family budgetary concerns. he should again, let's get back to the nuclear family. working, one person maintaining the household and the children. five tvs.ink we need we can do it to tvs. tvs. with two all i hear today is people calling in and saying how somebody should give them something and i don't ever hear them talking about cutting down on some of their frivolous bills. guest: this gets back to the whole idea of the basic culture we are in, the society we are in. you hear a lot of republicans and conservatives talk about the need to return to a responsibility society that people take responsibility for their own problems and so on. addressedobama has this in some cases, talking about the need for stable families, reticular early form particularlyied -- .or men to get married he has talked about that quite a bit. he might address that tonight in his speech. i don't think he will dwell on it. i think you will be more of a policy speech. there are a lot of people around the

public determine the success or failure of an american president and why are some presidents rehabilitated years or even decades after they leave office. 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 near 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'd like to get it done 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

children, a lot of infants go hungry. now 90,000 more can be given nutrition assistance. many americans are struggling to pay for college and this bill maintains funding for the pell grant program, increased fund for trio and gear-up programs to help low-income and first-generation students get a college education. many of these programs reach vermontervermonters through thet education assistance program. and i'm pleased this bill includes investments for this and similar nonprofits around the country. the omnibus includes funding for programs authorized by the violence against women act for grants to rural areas, for transitional housing, for sexual assault services, for legal assistance for victims and support for native american victims. mr. president? the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. leahy: mr. president, i remember when we passed the violence against women act and when they wanted to diminish it in the house of representatives. some very brave democrats and republicans stood up and said no, let's pass the bill the senate passed. and we added a number of things, i

. that's not to say that american entrepreneurs and workers and owners didn't take advantage of it but what we had at the end of world war ii was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and challenge. it was the fact that all of our wartime enemies were devastated. japan was flattened, germany was flattened but our wartime allies were equally devastated. the french had been beaten up for years and britain had been bombed. everywhere you look the united states stood as the world's leading consumer and producer at the same time. i can't find another time in world history where one nation has existed in that kind of situation where was the world's leading producer and consumer as a result of the circumstances. the u.s. controlled 15% of world. , 40% of rural manufacturing. those are pretty awesome numbers. nowhere was this better scene than in autos or the chapter we call freedom's chariots. odd those according to one writer made americans quote transform and invincible. a man on a throne as roger beebe white called an american driver. industrial designer norman phil geddes insisted quote a

from a study study -- have you all seen this american hustle? wow, it's a good movie. it's a good movie. i think that is what really carries the thing. i just want to really tell you how and i would don't speak for mary, -- i speak for mary to be honored to be at this press club and we are honored and we are very proud of the book and we are very glad that we could share this with you all and i want to thank the press club for doing this. >> and we are surprised at who is going to come out on a saturday afternoon in the rain so thank you, thank you, thank you. so could i have one final who dat? [applause] >> well booktv is on location at the smithsonian museum of american history in washington d.c. we are joined by the undersecretary of the smithsonian, richard kurin u.s. a new book out "the smithsonian's history of america in 101 objects." first of all, mr. kurin what is your day job? >> a great question, peter. my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the american people give us. you know we host over 30 million people, to museums. my job is to help

expect and rewards hard work. i don't think the american people expect anything less. what we do in the white house and washington to measure progress only by the number of bills we can pass through congress. we can do that, we can make progress. we saw bipartisan compromise on a budget deal, a very hopeful sign at the end of last year, and bipartisan majorities support the funding bill for the spending going forward for this fiscal year. that's positive progress and that's positive progress in congress, but the president is not going to do anything that's going to prevent him from doing his job. >> a clean shaven press secretary to the president of the united states, jay carney. thanks very much for joining us. was that a tough decision, getting rid of that beard? >> i couldn't compete with you, wolf, and i decided it was time to go clean shaven again. >> all right. you look mighty good. jay carney without the beard. thanks very much. we'll see what happens later tonight. i'll be back in a half an hour as our special coverage continues at the top of the hour. right now, "crossfire"

political uncertainty so as an american i'd like to know what's going to go on in afghanistan from here on i am tired of this cloudy picture of where my money is going you know where our efforts have gone for the last twelve years what our veterans have fought for died for have been injured for i want to know and i think that the obama administration has sort of dropped the ball in two thousand and thirteen and it's about time for them to step up and make this another make our foreign policy in this area a priority ok but do you can i guess what yours might be your wish and if your national convention ending the use of drones is that close to your wish. that sounds great peter and i would add to that since the last year ended with a strike in yemen and a wedding party there we also have obama apologizing to the innocent people that we've killed and saying that he will not allow drone strikes to be used again ok that's a good one. ok well how about you what is your wish for two thousand and fourteen and then again i mean be imaginative ok let's you know this is you know we're just a few

many people proclaimed the death of modern american absolutism the one commentator said the titanic is sinking referring to american conservatism. another one observed that the conservative argument in this election will be -- lots of people said that conservative needed to change both its message and its method this is going to win an election in. it's still being debated today. i noticed in this month "wall street journal" scott walker of wisconsin has a piece talking about what conservatives need to do to be relevant. his thought is they don't need to give up their principles. they need to be stronger and that people are looking for that kind of leadership. so when this book we talked about that in the final chapter of this book. my co-author from the pepperdine school of public policy and i talk about the future of conservatism in the last chapter. but we really begin elsewhere, and the great writer pearl buck said if you want to understand today, even after search yesterday. in this book our thought is to go back historically to come back to today. it's not really a history boo

washington to get something done for the american people because of the the program we did earlier in two thousand and thirteen the cutting of food stamps for poor families here you know maybe you know the you know we could see some kind of enlightenment in washington that you know you have to have a healthy population to to move forward here i mean on. can congress ever be different i don't know go ahead. i don't know i mean if you love it talk crazy out talk real crazy ok i think that i would like to see an entire overhaul of the health care the new health care law and not from a republican perspective in which i would just want to get rid of. obamacare as it stands i would like to see and over all of obamacare and perhaps a direction of maybe single payer i mean i think that's what most americans are men and many americans wanted in the first place and all of the compromises and all of the politics over health care and the new health care law have created a monster and which nobody is happy the libertarians are happy the folks who are looking for a single payer and looking for affo

read that book. the show is ending. "the ed show" is up next. >>> good evening, americans and welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. stop fast track. let's get to work. >> what is fast track? >> this is the next big battle on the horizon. >> this is the way to railroad through disasterous trade agreements. >> negotiations are being held behind closed doors in secrecy. >> if we are not included, we will oppose fast track. >> this has been classified. >> i'm talking about the transpacific partnership agreement. >> they can look at it. they can't have staff and they can't take notes and talk about it. >> this major issue is sitting under the radar screen. >> i think the american people would say absolutely not. >> we have to plush the tpp. >> the middle class is being offshored and we have to prevent that from happening. >> we can mount a pushback. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. i'm always been a believer that americans, you, me, your next door neighbor, we have this inai -- innate sense of fairness about us. i think this is a story of severe unfa

doing right by the american eople. now as president, i'm committed to making washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here. nd i believe most believe your too. thanks to the work of democrats and republicans, congress produced a budget that undoes severe cuts to education. nobody got everything they wanted. we can still do more to invest in this country's future while bringing down our deficit in a balanced way, but the budget compromise should leave us fiscal year to create more jobs, not creating new crises. and in the coming months, let's see where else we can make progress together. let's make this a year of action. that's what most americans want for all of us in this chamber to focus on their lives, their hopes, their aspirations. what i believe units the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, it's the simple profound belief in opportunity for all, the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get head in america. let's face it, that belief has suffered some serious blows. o

up next. >>> good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. >> progressives, we need to pay attention to this because this is the next big battle on the horizon. you need to be on alert laborers. this cuts to the guts and the heart and soul of our economy, something that no one has explained, arguably will gut american jobs. do i have your attention yet? >> we are pursuing transatlantic and transpacific trade deals. >> it is the biggest and baddest of the trade deals yet. >> it will be nafta on steroids. >> these deals are not working for america. >> the standard of living in america will go down if this big trade deal goes through. it is not about union labor. 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 l

raising serious concerns about olympic security as great american athletes get ready to leave for sochi, russia, and compete against the world. fox reports what's being done to protect our citizens headed to the games. >>> and why did the chicken cross the road? to get away from the police, apparently. i'm harris faulkner, the white house says with or without congress, president obama will act. republicans now speaking out about a key highlight president obama is expected to make in tuesday evening's state of the union address. where he will lay out, he says, his case for using kickative orders to bypass congress on key issues. and republicans already questioning the president's position. claiming it is nothing more than a bully tactic to get congress to cave in to his positions on issues like immigration reform and the economy. >> it sounds vague lee like a threat, and i think it also has a certain amount of arrogance in the sense that one of the fundamental principles of our country are the checks and balances, that it wasn't supposed to be easy to pass legislation. he says, well, it'

the point than by having hundreds of thousands of americans sign up for a class action suit. about six months ago we began this call. we have several hundred thousand people who want to be part of the suit to say to the government and the nsa, no, you can't have our records without our permission or a warrant specific to an individual. it's an unusual suit. we think everybody in america who has a cell phone would be eligible for the class action suit. if your viewers have a cell phone they have to go to my facebook and sign up to be with part of the lawsuit. we want to overwhelm the government and show publically that hundreds of thousands of people don't -- we object to the government looking at our records without our permission. >> one of the lead lawyers is ken cuccinelli? >> the former attorney general for virginia. the first attorney general to file a lawsuit against obamacare. he's joined our legal team. he has constitutional expertise. we are hoping with his help we can get a hearing in court and ultimately get this class action lawsuit. i think the first of its kind on a const

election, many people proclaimed the death of modern american conservatism. one commentator said the titanic is sinking, referring to american conservatism. another one observed the conservative arguments we heard in this election are going to be relics in a museum very shortly. lots of people said that conservatism really needed to change but this message if there was ever going to win an election again. it is still being debated today. in "the wall street journal," governor scott walker has a piece talking about what to reduce me to do to be relative. his thought is they don't need to give up their principles. they need to be stronger in the principles and that people are looking for that kind of leadership. so, in this book, we talk about that in the final chapter of this book. gordon lloyd from the pepperdine school of public policy and talk about the conservatism in the last chapter. we really begin elsewhere. the great writer, pearl buck, said if you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. so when this book, our thought is to go back, historically, to come b

already taking more than $400 million out of the pockets of american job seekers nationwide and in local and state economies. in nevada, the total economic benefit lost during the first week of the insurance expiring was $5.4 million. for every $1 spent on unemployment insurance, it grows $1.52. omy by according to mark zandy, chief economist at moody's analytics. so there's some 17,600 unemployed workers in nevada who have lost their unemployment benefits because this congress failed to do its job in december when we had an opportunity to do it. i urge the speaker, along with 170 of my colleagues, to not adjourn, to not go on recess, until we completed the work of extending the unemployment insurance but that request was not acted upon. and so we're here. and as my colleagues have said, there are things, there are solutions that we can do to extend the unemployment insurance. if you want to offset it, if you want to have pay-fors, i'd like to offer a couple of suggestions on how to pay for it. in order to offset funding for unemployment insurance, congress could close a number of

? note it is important to that the american recovery and reinvestment act which provided the resources had a "buy america" clause in it make sure was built inssible the u.s. i will give you an example from the wind industry. years ago only one-quarter a wind omponents for turbine were made in the u.s. hanks to investments under the recovery act three-quarters of the components in turbines are made in the u.s. last month the siemens company which is a fortune company to have it was going the largest order ever to build $2 turbines, almost billion, to build at their plant mason, iowa. i believe that will create about 1,000 jobs. sorry, fort madison, iowa. hat is an example of where you sort of jump started the industry in 2009 when the credit markets were frozen after the horrible financial crash of 2008 capital ovided some through loan guarantees and tax breaks it companies. able to keep investing. get jobs.e able to another good example the first scale solar lity power plants were built with guarantees.oan the next 10 under construction now are solely private money. able to jump start

americans are among the victims in a deadly afghan terror attack. most of those killed are civilians. is this the latest suicide bombing indication that enemy is changing its tactics? we will check in with lieutenant colonel oliver north. president obama tries to reassure the american people their privacy won't be abuse and he continues to say he won't compromise on intelligence aimed to protect the u.s. terror threat. governor mike huckabee will weigh in with his reaction. you are going to hear from the former c.i.a. operative mike baker who tells us more about the country's famous secrets unveiled in a new television show. and an nfl phenom in the spotlight. we will talk to his mom who helped her boy who has been deaf since childhood beat the odds. hello; everybody. i'm uma pemmaraju. america's news headquarters live from the capital starts right now. we begin with this breaking story. it's the deadly yast attack against the foreign civilians of afghanistan since we went to war against the taliban nearly 13 years ago. a team of attackers storming afghan restaurant in kabul, as a suicid

. there are more coming. our starting point, the adopted home of american journalist glen greenwald, rio de janeiro, brazil. >> i had been contacted in december 2012, by someone who didn't identify himself but had interested material he thought h iwould want to look at. so i said send me something. he sent me encrypted documents. i immediately knew this was one of the most important security leaks in history. i had been working on surveillance issues and suddenly in my lap had dropped some of the most potent instruments for shining a light on what they were doing, beyond your wildest dreams as a journalist. unprecedented nature of the documents was going to be a earthquake in the political and media landscape around the world. and in the next i need my editor to get the guardian behind it in a very fast way. >> june 5th, 2013, the day edward snowden blue the whistle on the nsa. first the guardian reported on a secret fbi order backed up by a court requiring verizon and other american mobile providers to hand over metadata, logs of domestic phone calls in the u.s. and to numbers overseas.

my own view of myself as an american patriot and criticism of my government's policies now many of the policy is that if you are an alarmist in your book america's misadventures in the middle east tend to have some sort of recurring patterns you know some of the mistakes tend to be made over and over again and yet i think. 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 a continental sized 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 a particularly since the end of the cold war there's been a sense on the part of 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 m

friend and foe alike. that the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. but with his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan leaders who had systematically destroyed the promise of kind of these last year as they returned the country to war and repression joining me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project oliver stone excellent to have you both on thank you very much although i want to start with you it's clear that you're serious j.f.k. apart from other presidents what makes you think he would have been different if. he was different in those three years he came into office after thirty years of national security state build up a monstrous build up we had we had thirty thousand nuclear weapons by sixty mandated by eisenhower and national security complex that was basically had a first strike capability of the soviet union and could get away with it and that is the basis for which the cuban missile crisis and the berlin berlin crisis of nine hundred sixty one two brought us to the edge to the

in a fight that killed thousands of them, but left 100 americans da. was the battle in vein. since american troops left the security situation deteriorated rapidly. according to the u.n., 7,870 were killed last year, the highest number in many years. al qaeda returned to fallujah and ramadi with a vengeance. >> joining us from watertown massachusetts, is a former marine private who fought in the battle of fallujah, and is the director of justice for fallujah, an advocacy group dedicated to raising awareness about the problems with fallujah weem. >> and douglas ollivant, a retired army officer who served in fallujah, and on the security council during the bush and clinton administrations. great to have you with us. ross you fought in the battle for fallujah as a marine. what did you think when you heard it fell to militants? >> it's not clear too me that the city fell to militants. honestly, i felt like history was repeating itself. we are hearing the same rhetoric used to justify another assault on the city. in both cases claims were made that al qaeda took control of the city and

americans believing the country is headed in the wrong direction. >> it is 18 degrees outside capitol hill. maybe not that much warmer inside. it has not been a good year for the president. in the last state of the union president obama called on congress for an increase in the minimum wage. he didn't get it, and today he announced he was side-stepping congress to get the minimum wage increase for some federal workers. immigration reform went nowhere. gun control measures stalled. >> the president wauxz into the chamber for the first time since the 17-day government shutdown centered around his signature health care law. the same bitterly divided do-nothing congress were just 72 laws passed in all of 2013. >> we have an all-star panel joining us tonight for our live coverage. we're joined by shark tank agency kevin o'leary, cnbc contributeors jared bernstein, the former chief economist for veep joe biden, white house political direct for president george w. bush, nara tanden. she was president obama's domestic policy director during his re-election campaign. and cnbc's robert frank. f

everything else or the represents saying no, these are just appliance for oil and gas. as americans we've got to be looking at this and saying how do we move these resources to benefit our country? whether you are coming from alaska or whether you are from florida, how are we going to benefit? how are we going to help with jobs, allow our energy resources to be affordable to all? this has got to be our challenge. so i am pushing colleagues to not think about it from a partisan framework. that is not going to advance us. you have other countries that are looking at us as a nation and saying wow, i can't believe you are just sitting on the resources that you have. why aren't you moving them? why aren't you doing more for yourself? and that's a good question. why aren't we? we need to figure out how we are going to make those investments in our resources. as i mentioned in my comments, we have u.s. agencies and institutions that are helping to finance energy infrastructure and projects in other countries. why aren't we making that investment in ourselves here? >> i think they have time for t

really engage with in the mighty wurlitzer was the american friend office the middle east. and mainly because its purpose didn't seem to be so much to do with the cold war as with promoting the arab world to an american audience, and also it was antizionist, battling the insew lens of the emerging israel lobby in 1950s america, and this just seemed so sort of odd, and unexpected. i didn't really quite know what to do with it. i mention until the mighty wurlitzer, putting friends in the middle east to one side. after mighty, i came back to this story and gap delving into its further, and soon realized that the main office or the main cia officer involved in the creation of the american friends of middle east was none other than kermit "kim" roosevelt. now, this name might already be familiar to you. because he is known as the cia officer who led the 1953 coup operation in iran that toppled the nationalist government of the prime minister, and restored the rule of the shah. and also kim roosevelt was an american aristocrat. a grandson of theodore roosevelt, and head of the cia -- early

law from your point of view quite >> there's a lot to celebrate in american history regarding tolerance for very groups edifact refugee or because of the persecution of other places. it's also important to realize the way the narrative is kind of a master narrative in which the religious toleration is the forefront has eclipsed the more unfortunate part. this is a good one because a lot of americans think the united states was founded as far as european settlement of the puritans. but actually the europeans came here much earlier, such as a spam -- i'm english. but that narrative about freedom from persecution features so prominently because places like to celebrate themselves and americans have embraced this idea that the country should be a place of freedom. >> host: tommy how you came to write the book, why you think it was important to look at the narrative. >> guest: some of my research at 11 is focused as the nation was trying with the scripting crimes inflict it on us, that there is likely to be a backlash based on what i've known about the american has very. so a colle

the range of $12.3 billion and $13.3 billion. american express posted first- quarter profit matching analyst estimate and net income doubled to $1.3 billion. profit was one dollar 25 per share. the t-mobile ceo has announced they will be hosting their own concert with musician macklemore and ryan lewis after he was escorted out of a concert. it will be on january 23 with tickets open for purchase. plunging the most in more than nine years after the chinese government said they would investigate the maker of skin care and nutritional products following a chinese newspaper report that nuskin was a suspected illegal pyramid scheme. the ceo says that they are absolutely not a pyramid scheme and that's the quote. those are your headlines this hour. >> google, microsoft, facebook, those executives will be paying very close attention to president obama's remarks tomorrow at the justice department about the nsa. white house correspondent phil mattingly joins us. the technology community wish list. i'm trying to think of everything that the technology industry would like regarding the nsa, bu

. someone who's dedicated to helping every single american realize her or greatest potential. the people of washington's fifth district are lucky to have her, and so are we. as for the president's speech, this is a pivotal moment in the obama presidency. we're now entering our sixth year with president obama at the helm of our economy. the sixth year of his economic policies. and at this point we've seen just about everything in the president's tool box. we've had a year's long clinic on the failures of liberalism. the government stimulus, the taxes, the regulations, the centralization, the government control. it just hasn't worked. 74% of the american people say it still feels like the country is in a recession, because to them it still feels like it. as the majority leader likes to say, the rich have gotten richer, and the poor have gotten poorer. and ladders into the middle class have been kicked away, sawed off and literally regulated into oblivion. this is the legacy of the obama economy as we stand here at the start of 2014. but it doesn't have to be the legacy president oba

today should give the american people. the rights are. the us president. of the. voice. for the weekly. with the top headlines of today the week. following months of uncertainty syria's main opposition. has finally decided to meet face to face with the government and this happening at wednesday's geneva two conference this is the first time the sides will be in the same room struggling to strike a roadmap for peace now some key groups of the syrian national coalition had previously rejected talks. the conditions for the blocks participation in the meeting thereby just fueling the internal disarray in the body and right before the decision the country's foreign minister offered a prisoner swap with the rebels. it appears kind of reports from the latest on syria's diplomatic front. with time running out before the start of geneva two conference on syria it was a busy week for global diplomacy it's our hope that in the face to face meeting of the regime and the opposition will be the beginning of the beginning of the end to this unspeakable conflict never before have russia and the

know is that some n.s.a. employees want to take it a step further you know to american psycho levels according to buzz feed several pentagon and n.s.a. officials have anonymously expressed their desire to murder snowden a current n.s.a. analyst told the website that quote in a world where i would not be restricted from killing an american i personally would go and kill him myself a lot of people share the sentiment wait a minute we do live in a world where drones kill american citizens what i waited for another non of us pentagon official told buzz feed that he or she would love to put a bullet in snowden's head and an army official offered a detailed fantasy of how the murder would go down valving injecting him with poison you know it just so nice to know that jack the ripper and freddy krueger are the ones in charge a responsible in mining all of our personal data pellets go break the set. the please please sir they are very hard to take that are. particularly when you have had sex with her right there the. least. little. thing. that. i'm sure that most of us who've lost som

was the american friends of the middle east and it is purposed to do so much with the cold war and as with promoting the arab world to an american audience and it was also anti-zionists, that having the influence of the emerging israel lobby in 1950s america. this seems so odd and unexpected and i didn't really know quite what to do with it. so i mention it and then put my middle american friends to the one side. so i came back to the subject and story and began to delve into it further. i soon realized that the main office in the main cia officer involved in the creation of the american friends of the middle east was none other than current cameras about. this name might already be familiar to you before this evening because he is as a cia officer who had the 1953 coup operation that toppled nationalist government and restored the rule of the shah and as we just heard he was sort of an american aristocats and the grandson of theodore roosevelt and head of the cia middle east division of his command in 1953. which is of course a classic case of blowback and it that might have avert

american public about where obamacare is. he's going to say, look, if we need to continue to fix it we're going to continue to fix it but we're not going to go back. we're going to stay with it. which by the way is where the american public is. they're still very wary of it. they don't like it. but they don't want to undo what's been done. >> just saw susan rice there the president's national security adviser. she's there as well. a lot of the senior staff of the president, dennis mcdonagh, the white house chief of staff, former deputy national security adviser to the president. so they come as well in addition to members of the cabinet as you see the vice president and the speaker of the house. it's interesting. i think, john and gloria, it's been since the government shutdown in early october this will be the first time the president and the speaker actually get together face-to-face that they have spoken on the phone but i think this will be the first time in about three months or so if not longer that they're actually going to have a little directed counter, shall we say. >> and

oklahoma which is an american inian tribe. the new initiative coming as they look back at the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty. it began with a speech by president lindon johnson. mark snyder looks back. >> and this is demonstration today. declares unconditional war on poverty in america. >> the speech came less than two months after the assassination our aim is to relieve the symptom of poverty. but decure it. above all. to prevent it. >> poverty had been a major concern of president kennedy, and with the country still grieving and almost one in five americans living in poverty, johnson declared war on poverty. university of texas and dallas professor wrote a book about how poverty can undermine the viability of the united states. he says johnson's war on poverty speech is one of his best, and the timing was perfect. he realize that he is not going to be a loved president, therefore, it's much easier to continue the line of a president that was more than admired. he was loved and whatever, and take his agenda and make it yours. all the time making sure that you give enough c

graduation rate for african americans in san francisco is 12 than sfusd's overall graduation rate. and african american males drop out at a far higher rate than any other group. although the homicide rate has declined from a high of 97 in 2008 to 48 in 2013, according to spfd data, afriv o poo llp aaaaaaaac>> the first item is the policy discussion by mayor edwin lee. sf 11234 mr. mayor welcome back. if you have any comments we are glad to hear them. >> mayor edwin m. lee: thank you. i would like to thank you for your partnership for helping us take on the challenges of our city. our unemployment rate is 5.2 percent and thousands of citizens are back to work. it's not just one any industry, we are seen broad base job growth in every sector of our city. we have worked together to spur the control of all of city san franciscans by providing hub fund and summer jobs plus programs for youth and with our historic investments with school and we work together to strengthen our neighborhood and small businesses. we have worked to fund our roads, parks, libraries and help our san francisco fami

doesn't mesh with what the americans are saying. >> particularly given the fact that i can understand there's - everybody has to play to the home base. but why are the iranians going out of their way after the accord was negotiated to lead for the - to this framework agreement that hopefully will be negotiated, why are they going out of their way to completely detract from the agreement that they reached. >> the united states says, for example, that the iranians agreed to x, y, z. hassan rouhani goes on another television show and says no, no, no, we didn't agree to that, the americans are spinning this. >> right. there's a lot of that going on. here is what president obama said about iran last night. >> for the sake of our national security we must give diplomacy a chance to succeed. if iran's leaders do not seize of opportunity, i will be the first to call for sanctions and stand ready to exercise all options to make sure that iran does not g a nuke lawyer weapon. >> is the threat implicit, convincing or does the u.s. pulling out of iraq and afghanistan, plus the fact that we pulled