certainly wouldn't have come up at that meeting, no. >> did you have an opinion as to position of mf global at that time separate from mr. steamcamp? do you have an opinion of the firm's viability? this is now ten days before the complete implosion of the firm and the filing of bankruptcy. did you agree that the firm was viable and in a strong position? >> not my area of expertise and i relied on our cfo and finance people to help us understand in specificity the liquidity and financial position of our company. >> i thank the gentleman. final question from new york. two minutes. >> thank you. mr. stockman, do you think you should be held liable, civilly, criminally in any form? >> no, sir.

>> how about mr. corzine, do you think he should be held liable for anything? >> that would be beyond my chance to -- >> you don't have an opinion? >> i don't have an opinion. >> okay. just say you don't have an opinion. do you think it's possibly negligence, maybe even gross negligence for a new risk officer to come in amidst all of these things going on and only spend one hour with mr. roseman, the former, the prior risk officer and in that one hour you didn't even speak about the risky positions? you don't think that's a little bit negligent? you're taking over as risk officer and all you spend is one hour and you didn't really speak about his concerns for the risk. >> we spoke briefly about the sovereign risk and -- >> i think you testified earlier that you didn't speak about that. >> no, we spoke -- as i mentioned, we spoke briefly in that -- and continued on that

list of discussion was a touch on sovereign risk. >> a touch on sovereign ris snk. >> yeah. but more importantly, when i arrived at the firm, i did my own analysis, assessment of those risks and as you see in my written testimony, the discussion and description of those risks were fully vetted and transparent. >> but you just also testified that ten days prior to this you had no reason to believe that the company wasn't viable? so you did all of this risk analysis but on ten days prior to the collapse, you didn't have any reason to believe that it wasn't viable? >> ten days prior i wasn't coming to work that day. >> okay. enough said. you didn't come into work that day. last thing, do you think this could jeopardize the entire community's markets in the u.s., that if people think that they are in segregated accounts, it can be move over and put into

bankruptcy and everybody gets put into shaft? don't you think that could jeopardize the integrity of the markets? is that a true statement? >> it's my sincere hope that this all works out for the clients. >> mr. roseman, do you think that it could jeopardize the integrity of the markets? people could lose faith in our system? >> i would hope not. i mean, hopefully this will get reconciled and they don't lose faith. >> even if they get reconciled, the point is, people were in segregated accounts, they were told that it was safe and the money is missing. even if it gets returned later, i think it's safe to say that people lose faith. thank you very much. >> thank you, gentlemen. i thank our witnesses for your time. and with that, this panel is excused and we will call up panel number two.

and we are waiting to take you live to las vegas where donald trump plans to make a political announcement. earlier he confirmed media reports that he's endorsing mitt romney for the republican presidential nomination. this morning, several news organizations reported that mr. trump was going to endorse newt gingrich. mr. trump met with both of these republican presidential candidates last year at his trump tower offices in new york city. nevada republicans hold their caucuses this saturday. we're waiting for mr. trump to

arrive at the podium at trump international hotel and tower in las vegas, nevada. in the meantime, we'll show you a little bit of this morning's washington journal. >> we want to introduce you to a man, mr. skbroens, from the public religion research institute. >> we're based here in washington, d.c. >> how are you funded? >> we're funded mostly by foundation report. the fo the core foundation is our larnlelarn largest supporter. >> what is your goal? >> how religion is influencing american values and influencing, particularly this year, the 2012 election campaign and politics

in general. >> and if you were to write a press release about the recent study you did, what would you write? >> well, i would say that it's very interesting this year. we're looking at a lot of changes that i can talk about more over time and we're going into the election with some kind of stable coalitions that have been on the ground for the last few election cycles and look to be pretty stable going in and, of course, we've had religion playing an interesting role in the republican primary so far. >> what percentage of americans consider themselves to be christian? >> that's a good question. about three-fourths of the country is -- >> so about 75%. >> half of them are christians and a quarter of them are latino. >> what percentage consider themselveses to be atheist? >> it's a very interesting group. the atheist,ing a no, sir stick

group is a small sliver. they are only 4 or 5 3%. but there's a bigger group that we ask on surveys, are you affiliated with any religion or denomination and they say no. it's now 19% of the american public. >> but only a small part of that group is atheist or agnostic. >> that's right, they actually have a belief in god, they pray fairly often but are not affiliated with a formal institution. >> what percentage are jewish, muslim, mormon? >> this bigger group is 7%. hindus, muslims, jews, they make up about 7% of the religion. >> muslims? >> about 1%. >> and mormons? >> mormons are somewhere between 1 and 2% as well. >> now, part of your study was,

discomfort with mormon serves as president and what you have here, and this was done in september 2011, all voters, 42%, had a discomfort level with a mormonist president. black protestant had the highest discomfort level. 62% unaffiliated, 47% catholic, 42% level of discomfort. white mainline, 30%. interestingly, it was the younger generation that had the highest discomfort level with the mormon being president and democrats at 50%, republicans, 36, tea party, 30, and then women more than men, 45 to 30. >> right. >> what's going on? talk to us about this? >> there's actually two things going on with those numbers. one thing is partisanship.

when we ask about a mormon president, everybody has one person in mind and that is mitt romney. what we're seeing is that number among democrats, for example, it's so high and really towards a republican president. and the other kind of dynamic going on there is among white evangelical protestants. they don't have the partisan worries there and that's about religion more than it is about politics. and he's done fairly well and better in florida than he's been doing. he ran even with newt gingrich. if you look at his numbers overall, he's been lagging about nine points behind white evangelicals where he's been running in the primary so far and this is part of the story. >> and here is the 2008 screen. you can contact us, e-mail and

by twitter. twitter.com/c-spanwj. when you look at the blue lines, those are president obama's percentages. black protestant, 96%. other nonchristian, 78%. and that would include what? >> atheast, white catholic is where senator mccain got his first majority. and he also got a majority with white mainline. as far as religion goes, 74%. when you look at this for 2008, if mit rom me is the nominee, or what have you seen so far in the primaries? >> this coalition has been

stable. if we go back to 2004, 2006, look at 2010 midterms, these coalitions have been fairly stable. what we have is one way of thinking about obama's coalition is fairly diverse. he has the unaffiliated, people not affiliated with the religion institutions formally. he has nonchristian religions and then a block of ethnic christians. and on the other side, mccain has one group anchoring the republican coalition, and then we have the two swing groups in the middle. white catholics and white mainline prot stants. what is interesting, white catholics have been a democratic voting bloc but they have now moved over time to being a swing contingency. and now they have also moved into being kind of a swing contingency and has leaned republican in the last few elections. >> one more chart before we take -- move on to calls and

tweets. >> sure. >> this is views of president obama's religious beliefs and this is a little confusing so we want to focus on this chart for a minute and we will walk everybody through it. among the general population, 12% of people feel that their religious beliefs are similar to president obama's. 35% very different and 9% don't know. you can see broken down among whites over here. very different comes in at 38%. somewhat different, 18%. so you're talking 56% right there in the different category. >> right. >> did you find out why this is? >> well, this is a little surprising. for one thing, president obama comes from one of the oldest denominations in the country, the united church of christ which many knew as the pilgrims. this is the tradition from which

he comes and one of the oldest pedigrees so it's a little surprising in some ways that there was this. however there was a controversy and conflict between president obama and his long-time pastor jeremiah wright and he's had difficulty with a number of people wrongly thinking his religion is muslim, a number which has actually gone up during his presidency. so he's had -- >> that's gone up? >> yes. it was 12% when he came to office believed that his number was muslim and it's gone to 18 last summer. >> why? >> mostly republicans have populated that increase and misperceptions about obama's religion. the key thing is here, among those who say his religion is different or very different, his favorability has dropped overall and that's the key point here. if we talked about romney having

a religion problem that maybe discomfort with the mormon faith, president obama has a religion problem with voters. >> we are talking with robert jones, ceo and founder of the public research institute. by the way, the president is currently at the national prayer breakfast. and we'll leave this now to go to donald trump's announcement of endorsement for mitt romney after news organizations reported this morning that he was supporting newt gingrich. >> as everybody in this room knows, our country is in serious, serious trouble. whether it's opec, the opec nations or china or virtually anybody that we do business with throughout the world, they take advantage of us, they laugh at us, they can't believe their good fortunes. i deal with these people. and they can't believe what they are getting away with.

so we really have an opportunity to do something great for the country and just a little while ago i didn't even mention this, but the cbo chief in washington announced that unemployment is going up to 9.2% by sometime in january. so it's going to go up and the growth rate is going to be at about 1%. this just came out. not good news. it's my honor, real honor and privilege to endorse mitt romney. i've gotten -- [ applause ] and by the way, this is a great

couple. you look at this couple. but -- [ applause ] mitt is tough. he's smart. he's sharp. he's not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country that we all love. so governor romney, go out and get them. you can do it. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> there are some things that you just can't imagine happening in your life. this is one of them. being in donald trump's magnifisence hotel and having his endorsement is a delate. i'm so honored and pleased to have his endorsement and the people of nevada. [ applause ] donald trump has shown an extraordinary ability to understand how our economy works, to create jobs for the

american people. he's done it here in nevada, he's done it across the country. he understands that our economy is facing threats from abroad. he's one of the few people who stood up and said, china has been cheating. they've taken jobs from americans, they haven't played fair. we have to have a president who stands up for not allowing people to cheat day in and day out. and i'm going to work very, very hard to make sure that the people in this country have a brighter future than that being projected by the cbo. their analysis of what is going to happen to the future of america is driven by the policies that they are seeing from a president who is failing. he's frequently telling us that he did not cause the recession and that's true. but he made it worse. and he made the recovery long and tepid. the people here in nevada are suffering. so many people have their homes underwater. it's extraordinary. nevada leads the nation in a negative way. nevada is number one in the

nation for foreclosures. this a very tough time for the people in nevada. i want to do everything in my power to get the economy going again, so people can afford the homes that they are in, people can come here for tourism, so we can have rising incomes again and so we can make sure that people are standing strong around the world. we have a president who may be a nice guy but is way over his head. he does not understand what it takes to get america working again. i've spent my life in the private sector, not as successful as this guy but sufficiently successful to understand what it takes to get america to be the most attractive places in the world to be entrepreneurs and job creators. i want america to be the place where people want to come and grow and i will use my energy to get america working again to have the people to have rising incomes, good jobs, and homes worth something again. so i want to say thank you to donald trump for his endorsement.

it means a great deal to me to have the endorsement of mr. trump and people across this country who care about the future of america. i think it's time for us to recognize we can't keep going down the road we're on. we have to dramatically change course. we have to restructure the way government interacts with people. our government's too big, too intrusive, placed two great burdens on our people in this country. i will dramatically change the way this government is working and stand up for my friends abroad and make sure that america remains the shining city on the hill. thank you, donald. [ applause ] >> where is she? oh. a couple of people i should mention here. i see right in the front row, lieutenant who has been chairman

in my state and dean, former mirs first >> thank you, thank you, look forward to seeing you all out on the trail and look forward to every vote i can get. thank you, guys.

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thank you. i guess we know. i have no announcements to make at the top so i will go straight to questions. first off i want to ask about afghanistan. the president has put in motion a plan to withdraw troops and get us down to about 7,000 troops in afghanistan by september. now secretary panetta says his visions ended roles in the middle or latter part of 2013. how does that affect the pace of the withdrawal for the rest of the u.s. troops? >> let me step back and clarify, you know, your question. the secretary panetta on his way to a meeting of defense

ministers in brussels, spoke with reporters about the consultations he would have being. and in line with the nato policy set forward in lisben called fr a transfer to a security league by the afternoon security forces by 2014. >> that is the policy and it has not changed. what the secretaries are involved in now is how that transition will unfold and take place and that will certainly where a subject of serious discussion among heads of state and nato who are here in chicago hosted by pren

it could happena the afghan security could be moved up to 2013. he was talking specifically about the conversationsa would be take place in brussels. we had heard from the president that combat would end by 2014. so that's clearly a change change. >> you said hopefully and it could and early. let's talk about the president's afghanistan strategy, its number one goal is to disrupt, dismantle and ultimately defeat al qaeda. u.s. forces are in afghanistan as well as the forces of our international partners are in afghanistan because al qaeda attacked the united states. and al qaeda has attacked other

countries. our number one objective therefore is to defeat al qaeda. the president's strategy in working with our nato allies has resulted in some progress in reaching that goal, i don't think anybody would dispute that. it is time for the security forces to be trained and develop the capacity to take over the security lead. that process has begun. the pace of it the point at which full lead is turned over to afghan forces is going to be a subject of discussion among defense ministers as well as heads of