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director george clooney has starred in blockbuster films like "oceans 11" among others, and he is bringing an innovative plan to stop mass murder before it even happens. he will explain. clooney joins me from juba, the capital of southern sudan, where citizens begin voting on whether to split the war-torn nation in two. george clooney, why does this matter to you? why have you taken this up as your cause? >> it started out as darfur. hi, fareed. how are you? are started out in 2005-200...

the dispute over a border region, lying along the north- south and border, also has the potential to spike into a civil war. hundreds of local residents were killed in 2008 between forces of the north and south. a separate referendum to be held separately with an independence vote will determine whether abyei joins the north or the south. most are expected to join. the arabs, who pasture there herds there for most of the year, will be included in the voting. there are few signs the ref...

competitive a coral process is and why that is. >> the reason that it exists is because people always act rationally and if you were a legislator, you would not want competition. the natural thing is to want to be able to go from alexian cycle to election cycle and move your way to president of the united states and not have to run the risk of being unemployed and going into the private sector which scares them esus out of the. >> theres no jobs. >> because of their actions, there is n...

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he still supports the treaty without this language, without this expression of concern. secretaries albright -- former secretaries of state albright, baker, christopher, eagleburger, kissinger, powell, rice, schultz support the treaty without this language. they have the same concerns. as a matter of fact, i believe that it was senator sessions -- it may have been someone else who said that former secretary kissinger has expressed this concern. in fact, quoted, i believe, from secretar...

federal response to the crisis i believe has this successfully pulled this economi back from thenk brink. we were headed, i believe, for financial collapse. economic growth has returned, not as robustly as we would have liked. but nonetheless it has returned. in the fourth quarter 2008 last week forget, in the most recent quarter, it was a positive 2.5% that is aa remarkable turnarounn in the same can be seen on the jobs front. in january 2009, this economy lost over 800,000 private se...

threat of a terrorist group using a weapon of mass destruction against us. and we must acknowledge that 9/11 fundamentally changed our culture. it changed our personality as a nation and caused us to realize our vulnerability. that threat of terrorism is driven by a fanatical belief in a religious philosophy. and we shouldnt deny that. we should acknowledge that because in order to defeat that threat, we have to understand that. the second major thrust that i see as our concern as we g...

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you -- for you. >> im wondering if you can update us on the cash for work program. do you have any updated figures? >> the to this point, people -- the cash for work is focused on one particular direction. there are several programs out there that will be running over the it couple of months and focused on providing money for people to buy food and feed themselves and clothing and so forth. also, going through the rubble of which is a gargantuan task. the first rule be getting the stre...

>> yes, i do. this invokes the jurisdiction of the committee on health administration because it concerns health members of congress and therefore the amendment is outside the scope of the referral of this bill and i believe it raises a germane issues. >> the gentlelady has heard her point of order. >> to speak on the point of order. >> the gentleman wishes to address the point of order. >> i think the identical language was accepted and put into the bill in the education and labor com...