Yourd by contributions to pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis venezuelan president hugo chavez was called a hero and a tyrant. He used his vast oil reserves to benefit the poorest citizens but he infuriated many when he ridiculed George Jenna Bush in an infamous speech at the un and staunchly stood by raul castro and president ahmadinejad. I met him in venezuela after that speech after he denounced president bush as the devil. His words. He insisted that perhaps his choice of words he was not anti american, prompting me to ask what it was against in here is what he said. If then youre not anti american as some are want to review, what are you anti . If you are not the anti american not antiamerica, what are you against . I am against any pretension of hegemony in the world. I am against the capitalist new liberal model that said the lead that the aelite want to impose on the world with weapons and bombs. During me now is a Georgetown Professor Michael Shifter, president
our own energy and partner up with canada and draw on energy from canada. we continue to draw from them in that sense. you would think this would be a simple thing, focus on our national security. why wouldn t we continue to focus in and say if we aren t depept on energy from the middle east, why wouldn t he continue to take the steps on this? why wouldn t we continue to expand on our pipelines? you see this isn t the first time to do a pipeline for keystone. they did it a few years ago. it took 24 months to permit. from the exact same area to the same area, 24 months for the total permitting process. that pipeline is functional, and active and running right now. they want to double up their capacity. you would think this would be a slam dumping, add a second line there. they instead of 24 months, we are at 42 months of pementing and still climbing. same pipeline crossing over the border from the exact same area took 24 months now the same pipeline takes 42 months. in additio