why do you think the obama administration fired her before she ever appeared on fox news? >> did fox news play the clip that appeared to be inaccurate? >> after she was fired. >> the question is you played it, you didn't do your job. not you personally but the people who chose to play the clip. there has been an ongo theme about black racism in america. i think continng to cater to the theme of minority racism and stressing comments like this some of which are taken out of context does not help the country knit itself together. >> if i could just a second, i want to point out, the naacp operating off the sim clip and sacondemned and the naacp condemned the new black panthers as a racist organization. >> i agree. >> i have on occasion sided with the naacp's characterizations. if the obama administration is this afraid of glenn beck do you youngsters they deal with the iran -- how do they deal with the iranians? >> there may better similarities. >> if they are that frightened by an american tv show how do they deal with the real world. >> chris: let me ask another question b

and no. 2, how will the obama administration react? >> check out cbn.com, thanks, erick. >> thank you. >>> we often report on the violence of arabs anjews in the middle east. this is something you don't see everyday, arabs and jew worshipping together. here is mark martin. >> reporter: thworld watched as the latest arab-israeli confct unfolded. despietd their history of violence, one group believes there can be pea. >> our people have suffere enough. when i sayour people, i mean the arabs, and the jews, because they are our people. we are half blood brhers. >> the arab-christian, mes i messianic fellowship proves they can come together in pea. >> it says we need to bow and profess jesus christ is lord. [applause]. >> the focus of our meeting is on jesus. to show the world it is possible, it is possible for arab and jews to comeogether. >> howard silverman started the conference 20 years ago. brothers who couldn't get over the fact that there are jesus. >> i watch people, arabs and jews dancing and eating together, and worshipping toget

the obama administration is kind of continued a bush era policy that actually created watch lists but it didn't feel like. you have a job. actually promised that he wouldn't do that do you know that during his election campaign exactly in fact exactly he in fact did that to me personally he put in his platform a promise that he was going to break the stranglehold of a couple of drug companies over the power of treatment but now we see a situation where they're continuing these policies they're continuing to threaten countries simply for trying to make a drugs more affordable ineffective obama is ignoring this do you think the un is going to listen to your complaint let me talk about it. i think they will actually grover is the special repertoire on the right to health and he's a long time expert in these areas he will now investigate the complaint and contact the u.s. government it's our contention actually that president obama doesn't know what's going on i actually think that it's mid-level bureaucrats in office of the u.s. trade representative who are running intellectual property

there's really assault on gaza what's your assessment of how the obama administration has done so far in bringing permanent peace to the middle east at the time when they made those comments they appear to be very controversial indeed you might even say they were extreme but when the goldstone report came out and bear in mind richard goldstone is not our only a respected jurist but he's also jewish and by his only reckoning he says zionist goldstone report concluded there were no i'm quoting here that israel launched a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish them terrorize the civilian population while those are pretty strong words punish. the civilian population as to the record of the obama administration my recollection is that they didn't have great expectations from one. administrator and in fact it's quite clear that nothing much came. there are occasional spats you might call them between israel and the united states but there's been no american initiative to try to resolve the conflict in terms of international law the resolution of the conflict which the rest

a civilian population as to the record of the obama administration my recollection is that they didn't have great expectations from what would come of people. administration and in fact it's quite clear that nothing much came there are occasional spats you might call them between israel and the united states but there has been no american initiative to try to resolve the conflict in terms of international law the resolution of the conflict which the rest of the world embraces if you move for a moment away from israel palestine and you take the case of iran since that's very topical now. around kept promises. obama kept promising there's going to be a change that's going to be a change but in fact several commentators wrote the barack obama administration is carrying on like all other administrations there was an offer made in october two thousand and nine by the u.s. administration to iran and how to resolve the nuclear issue. around at that time rejected the offer for several reasons mostly because it didn't trust the main powers who were involved france the u.s. even russia but now i

>> the obama administration had argued that the law was unconstitutional. that immigration policy should be made by the federal government and not by states like arizona. about 20 states were thinking of passing a similar law. the federal judge back of the obama administration, ruling out the most controversial aspects. police in arizona were going to be required to check the status of criminals. the basic problem remains. this was a popular act, more than 60% of the americans were behind it. comprehensive immigration reform, whereas the obama administration would like to pass. but for those that are here illegally that pay their taxes, republicans want nothing of amnesty. >> thanks for that. we will have a special room for just a bit later in the program about what this means for those in mexico dependent on family in arizona. 100 days since the deep water horizon rig exploded in the gulf of mexico, triggering the worst offshore oil spill in american history. scientists are saying that the oil is clearing faster than they expected. researchers say that muc

>> well, katie, she struck down every section the obama administration cared about. it was a complete victory for the administration. judge bolton accepted every major argument the administration made. she ruled the power to regulate immigration lies exclusivly with the federal government and the arizona law will burden aliens and u.s. citizens. she said she recognized arizona has significant interest in confronting illegal immigrants and, obviously, problems with crime but arizona still couldn't step into the federal government's role. >> couric: and, jan, here's a question for you from facebook >> tonight: how will illegal immigration be handled if states like arizona don't address the problem? >> well, the judge ruled that immigration say federal responsibility. i mean, that's what the obama administration had argued, that immigration was a federal responsibility. so this now puts the pressure on the federal government and the white house to take responsibility and do something about it. but this is a tough political issue, katie. democrats want to make it easier

the obama administration has been intimidated by the far right wing which is addicted to a kind of paranoia of race that then leads to paralyzing racial conversation, which means there's no word from the white house that's positive about the issue of race. >> schieffer: let me turn to michael gerson. you've written a lot about this. do you think this was just sloppy work by one guy on a web site and then was picked up by some of the media? or is this something that goes deeper than that? >> i think it goes deeper. i think we're in a moment where you have people on the left and on the right that want to take political polarization and turn it into racial polarization for their own purposes, to get internet hits or to get supporters or other things. that's a very, very disturbing trend. so you have it with the new black panther case, in my view, where you take an incident and try to turn it into a narrative. when it really doesn't justify that in a lot of ways. it's damaging for the reasons the other guest talked about. i mean, these wounds are very close to the surface in america. when peopl

under pressure from the white house, but vilsack maintains the obama administration had nothing to do with his decision. >> i appreciate the concerns that folks are expressing, but this was my decision. and i made it in haste. >> reporter: sherrod says she tried to get the white house to watch the full tape. >> had that been done, we wouldn't be sitting here, having this conversation today. >> reporter: but some lawmakers are also blaming the media for jumping the gun. >> this issue is not about race. this issue is about reporting and responding. >> reporter: and, they say, avoiding a rush to judgment. and like the administration, the naacp also reversed course and called for sherrod to be rehired. betty, back to you. >> tara mergener joining us live in washington. tara, thank you so much for that. >>> the effort to permanently plug the gulf of mexico oil leak has been suspended. skimming boats have been moved to shore and evacuations have begun. all of this because of a cluster of thunderstorms that could move into the gulf this weekend. forecasters say it has a 40% chance of becomin

and fortunately the obama administration is continuing some bush policies that said in fact that they were going to threaten countries with trade sanctions for simply trying to make medicines more affordable to their people including in medicines what happens is that the obama administration and the bush administration before them continue to threaten countries and what it does is it drives up the price of the drugs because unlike generic drugs brand name drugs cost thousands and thousands of dollars per patient per year if we restrict countries ability to make those generic drugs and make them available to their people especially if the ability to actually make those drugs which is ninety two percent of the drugs come from india if we're trying to push against them making generic versions of these drugs in order for drug companies to profit that's a violation of human rights we can in fact prevent and treats. and actually end aids if we work at it but we have to reach universal access to aids treatment and that means the prices of drugs have to come down so on the one hand we've got

jeff greenfield, the obama administration has often complained about the 24-hour news cycle, and now it seems white house officials were caught in a vortex. >> reporter: yeah, katie. the old united press wire service had a slogan "get it first, but first get it right." in the wake of the shirley sherrod story it's worth asking whether the second half of that slogan has been dumped into the trash bin. it's now clear that no one, not conservative blogger andrew breitbart who posted the clip, not the n.a.a.c.p. who condemned sherrod, nor the agriculture department, none of them had and seen the whole speech. but there's another part of this story, the deep-seeded desire of people who turn to news and opinion sites to reinforce their beliefs. for instance, the idea of an obama administration official harboring anti-white sentiments fits an idea espoused by one of fox news's most popular voices. >> this president, i think, has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seeded hatred for white people or the white culture. i don't know what it is. >> reporter: this

commentators wrote the iraq obama administration is carrying on like all other administrations there was an offer made in october two thousand and nine by the u.s. administration to iran and how to resolve the nuclear issue around at that time rejected the offer for several reasons mostly because they didn't trust the main powers who were involved france the u.s. even russia but now except to go the offer and as the leading academic specialist on the topic american academic specialists trita parsi dr parsi wrote in the washington post he says that barack obama is refusing to take yes for an answer and so there is no real difference between the so-called diplomatic approach of barack obama and the. mill touristic approach as it's sometimes claimed or belligerent. of the bush administration at the end of the day they demand their what they want is for around to cry uncle for around to give in to us power maybe barack obama does it with softer words and presents it with a more. appealing image but the policy is basically the same do you think that there was a message also sent possibly

on disillusioned democrats a year and a half into the obama administration. >> if you are elected as moses who is going to take everyone to the promised land, then you're bound to disappoint people. >> lehrer: mk shields and david brooks present their weekly analysis. >> brown: paul solman wraps up his series on europe's economic woes with a look at spain's unemployment problem. >> lehrer: and ray suarez interviews robert mccrum about how english has become the first worldwide language. >> if you said in say 800 or 900 b.c. in 2010 people would be discussing a global language, they would have looked at you in disbelief. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newsur has been provided by:

administration the shades on anyway bill why would you guys want to embarrass the obama administration that would be like you would all i mean if you really wanted to embarrass the obama administration you could easily talk about attorney general eric holder's faults things like the way he handles terrorism but how could i forget you like their handling of terrorism and you'd much rather use a case that was dismissed because illegally there was no grounds for its and then try to paint that as racism all within the obama administration i'm pretty sure that neither obama nor eric holder nor any other sane person out there what agree with the race is slurs that this new black panther party a fringe group of a total following of probably poor people likes to spew but you still want to pretend like obama is one of them thanks to this case he care or anybody care about this do you love the country i do but you should care because you have a president that is using black theology of black liberation theology and really it doesn't matter what color it is. in his speeches and he's talking about

the stakes are so high that i think the obama administration is doing the right thing by trying to pov as quickly as possible to contain the spy scandal and prevent it from getting in the way of improving cooperation between the u.s. and russia. >> woodruff: but kramer had a different perspective on

has the obama administration declared war on big business desk ? >> we moved this government away from government of the people to government by regulators. >> bp kept the oil spill. >> i understand house democrats are angry because they see the white house throwing them into the bus. >> also, why are house democrats feeling unloved by the white house? >> we have no problem with the tea party. we have a problem with them tolerate racism in their ranks. >> the naacp takes on the tea party. >> we have always denounced racism and recall it out whether it is tea party crashers from the left are members who have attended our events. >> these are the toughest restrictions on banks since the great depression but some people say it does not go far enough. three republicans on board came 22 months after the lehman brothers collapse threatened to collapse the entire economy. democrats say it will bring more oversight and transparency. republicans said the federal government is extending its reach deep into the private sector and will drive financial sector j

how do you see the leaks affecting the obama administration which has condemned them? >> well, that's -- that's a bit of an orwellian moment because -- because you have the obama administration essentially defending the cover-up and the lying that took place primarily during the bush years. and so for the obama administration to take this position as just, you know, he should be saying, look, this is exactly who we want in our armed forces. we want men and women of conscience and people who will stand up and fight for the things they believe in. that's what this soldier, this young soldier, 22 years old, has done. he deserves our support, our gratitude. his legal defense fund now deserves our help. whatever we can do. i'm just disappointed the obama administration doesn't give him a profile in courage award as opposed to the way he's being treated right now. >> larry: let's get a break. michael moore, the founder of the traverse city film festival, now in its sixth year. we'll be back with michael and we're going to talk about bp and the oil spill and shirley sherrod a

the obama administration apologized today to a former department of agriculture employee who was fired this week when conservative bloggers released a tape that seemed to catch her making remarks that were racist. turned out the tape was not what it seem. the man who released the tape is now well known to democrats as a formidable antagonist. his name is andrew breitbart. my come colleaglleague interviee man behind the mayhem. >> reporter: in this year of american voter anger and discontent, andrew breitbart. >> love the ladies. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: has found his moment. >> i get to be me right now. and that's the best part of this entire thing. that's -- this to me is the beginning of the gunning. >> reporter: and what is beginning, he hopes, is the age of breitbart. >> andrew breitbart here. i come from hollywood. >> reporter: he's everywhere. on fox news a lot. >> andrew breitbart, welcome back. >> thank you, sean. >> reporter: rallying the tea party faithful in appearances across the country. >> i want to tell you that there is a beast out there in hollywood that do

. >> today was a big day for the obama administration. the president let it show. >> because of this reform, the american people will not be asked to foot the bill for wall street's mistakes. there will be no more tax under -- tax funded bailout by the people. >> they are tightening the reins on banks and lending institutions. after a year of rising in rewriting, three republicans joined the democrats in pushing it through. it was 2300 pages. >> the report is agreed to. >> we are giving taxpayers the strongest protection they have ever had. we are giving wall street the strongest oversight it has ever had. not to stifle it but safeguard us. >> it creates a new agency designed to protect consumers and their dealings with banks and credit-card companies. it gives new power to the government to wind down failing financial firms before their problems rippled into the wider economy. it regulates derivatives, the complex financial deals that contributed so much to the recession. the republican leadership fought it until the end. >> as credit ti

administration. everything this former athlete learneabout politics, he learned on the football field. the redistributionist approach of washington; like you would take steeleruper bowl trophies, and give them to the detroit lions becae they haven't won a super bowl. that's not the way it is in sports. there's a lot of armchair quarterbacks in washington w think they know better than families, mother's and fathers,ow to raise their children. geor allen's take on the november elections an wisdom from his new book... on the "700 club" >>> after weeks of intense speck had a liags and no confirmation, former president bill clion was finally spotted strolling up the ma street chat weight locals and now details on chelsea's big day. >> congratulations are everywhere. it's happening in new york. chelsea is getting married tomorrow. >> this sleepy little town has awakenednto a media mecca. they are coming to the nuptials rumored to call $2 million. oprah and tom hanks are rumored to be on the guest list. >>

the obama administration is dealing with a serious breach of national security tonight. tens of thousands of classified documents about the war in afghanistan leaked and posted on the web. at a time when more than 60% of americans believe the war is not going well, the documents provide some evidence to back that up. more than 91,000 were leaked to wikileaks.org which put 76,000 of them online. they are field reports from soldiers and officers involved in the fighting from january of '04 through last december. perhaps the most damning revelation is that pakistan's intelligence agency, i.s.i., is helping the taliban. the white house claims there's nothing really new in the documents, but spokesman robert gibbs says the leaks constitute a potential national security concern. david martin begins our coverage tonight. >> reporter: the avalanche of documents, most of them classified secret, shows how the u.s. has been losing the war in afghanistan one day at a time. >> the real story of this material is that it's war. it's one damned thing after another. >> reporter: julian a

tracie, thank you. >>> well, this morning's "washington post" reports the obama administration is trying to make it easier for the fbi to access an individual's internet activity without a court order. in order to get the data, federal agents would have to deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. government lawyers saw the proposal would apply to the addresses to which a user sends e-mail, the times and dates e-mail was sent and received and a user's browser history. they were quick to point out it does not include the content of the e-mail. still, critics say the move is a threat to privacy and civil liberties. >>> meanwhile, fbi director robert mueller is defending the bureau against allegations that hundreds of agents cheated on a test about domestic surveillance. testifying on capitol hill yesterday, mueller acknowledged that an undisclosed number cheated, but said he is waiting on the results of an inspector general's investigation to determine how widespread the problem was. the issue is whether some of the agents took the open-book test together,

administration respond almost immediately to this thing? >> because they are hypersensitive to the charge that they are soft on black people and our preference for black people. -- and have a preference for black people. andrew breitbart, who pushed -- >> biggovernment blog. >> did not apologize. he saw no reason to apologize. he knew exactly what he was going to do. it was mean-spirited and ugly and knew exactly what he was trying to achieve. >> the only reason this is a story is because of the administration, a democratic administration can her immediately, as she set herself in interview. she was told that it was going to be on glenn beck that afternoon, and in fact, he did not have that story. it was the paranoia of the administration, and the naacp -- >> that is absolutely -- >> attacked her without checking the tape. >> absolutely wrong. the culprit is andrew breitbart, who put out the doctor to take it -- the doctored tape. >> you are absolving the administration for its action? you are absolving the naacp -- >> i can be critical of

, the words of the obama administration were unequivocal. sudan must do more to fight terror and improve human rights. if it did, it would be rewarded. if not, it would be punished. nine months later, problems with sudan have grown worse, yet the administration has not -- has not -- clamped down on, if anything, it has made small conciliatory gestures, end of quote. edgars and pender grart -- and pendergraft close with a chilling warning as it relates to the months ahead in sudan, quote, this is president obama's rwanda moment, and it is unfolding now in slow motion. it is not too late to prevent the coming war in sudan and protect the peace we helped build five years ago, end quote. president obama and his advisors need not rely on the warnings of those in the advocacy community and capitol hill when it comes to the high stakes in sudan in the days ahead. rather, than can look to the an qule threat assessment of the u.s. intelligence community that recently predicted that over the next five year, quote, a new mass killing or genocide is mos

so, i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: an obama administration official called sherrod in her car and demanded she pull over and type a resignation letter in her blackberry. agriculture secretary tom vilsack said in a statement that there is zero tolerance for discrimination at his agency. none of them bothered to learn that the incident in question happened 24 years ago when sherrod worked for a nonprofit. the question is, why would you look at the white farmers differently than you looked at the black farmers? >> because i always, up to that point, i felt they had all of the advantages. >> reporter: then, in 1986, she changed her mind, as she said in the speech. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who have. >> reporter: in your view, your story was about how race shouldn't matter with people. >> right. and they turned it into saying that i'm a racist. >> reporter: and you're not? >> you better believe i'm not. >> reporter: and the white farmers in sherrod's story agree. and credit her with saving their farm. roger and

i think the rhetoric coming out of washington and the obama administration is really surprising people on wall street. >> charlie: what are they saying that is so -- beyond the -- you and pitchforks. >> that's it. >> that's a long time ago. >> jon alter's book, what obama said the thing that made him the angriest in 2009 was that lloyd blankfein said that "we had to have our bonuses or that we didn't need the help of the government" -- that's the thing that made him the angriest. i don't know whether andrew is talking to the same wall street guy i'm talking to but they're angrye that the rhetoric -- the actions seem better than -- they're angry that the rhetoric -- the actions seem better than the rhetoric, they thought they had allies in geithner and summers and obama is in the populist mode when it comes to wall street and sees a valuable political issue and hay to be made and he's making it. >> charlie: and business also feels like he doesn't understand business and business is not represented in the highest echelons of government. >> people in the executive branch -- corporate exec

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administration start fighting back radio host tom hartman joins me in a moment to discuss the case. a chain that started off toward next monday lost it for almost a fantasy is the jewel of two super powers and tonight brains. pottle didn't just two miles to live the spins congress on t.v. . blind. soon which brightened a few. songs from funniest impressions. as least from stunts on t.v. . wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report. well by now you've probably heard about the resignation of agriculture department official shirley sherrod her comments about apprehensive lee helping a white farmer have surfaced and ultimately led to the white house calling for her to resign over her racist comments and by now most people also know this video was captured years ago and when it was leaked to fox news they only showed a small little snippet of the entire story which debunks their claim that she was actually making any kind of racist

administration will allow the bush tax cuts to lapse meaning tax increases for the job earners is there any way to make them pay or is it time to head to something a little more simple something like a flat tax we're going to bait that issue and it is a llama phobia it's on the rise in america with some groups going so far as to advocate for the burning of the koran we'll have a pastor from the dove world outreach center go head to head with a palestinian blogger who says that they are spreading a message of hate and next it's time to look at all the latest news from the relationship world everybody knows that what happens in vegas stays in vegas but apparently women are more likely to follow this golden rule and who knew the many women also like to keep their clothes on while having sex we'll get to the bottom of the strange phenomenon but now let's move on to our top story. as washington continues to crane in the hope of the reactions to the leaks of more than ninety thousand classified documents on the war in afghanistan simply fade away the war still rages on and today the senate fo

well the obama administration's pronouncement is like an alice in wonderland turning reality upside down they are the ones who are putting american soldiers and afghans lives at risk and in fact taking those lives every day in a war that they know can't be won and yet when wiki leaks and. people who are whistleblowers tell the truth then this sort of explanation from the white house is that these people who are telling the truth exposing the lies are the ones putting the people's lives in danger i mean that is so ludicrous such nonsense but because of the tepid character of the the propaganda nature of the us corporate media that lying will be promulgated time and time again today and tomorrow and in the coming days but i don't think the american people will believe that they want to know the truth. robert fisk middle east correspondent for the british newspaper the independent says stories like this show the power of the web it's a harsh lesson for traditional journalists. we've got all these expensive newspapers with huge investigative staffs watching the new york times in london in fr

administration on that regard the latest special three one report for example which expresses the view i think our policy. continues to sink ssion developing countries for not escalating intellectual property policies beyond that that is required by the world trade organization agreements and the impact of those escalations the impact of that policies will be less affordable amount of medications in developing countries and countries middle income countries as well like russia which was included on that list for not implementing a data exclusivity rule that would extend monopolies to drugs even without protection. well we're good to have you with us still ahead this hour find out why the government is clamping down on prozac peacefully demonstrating on present parliament's. now the entrepreneurs you strapped a donkey to a parachute and a parasailing publice is the star kid's face up to two years in prison for thirty eight of a terrified animal being launched into the sky spread across the world prompting anger from animal rights activists officials have launched an animal cruelty inves