pipeline that was supposed to run from canada to texas, the keystone xl pipeline. the revised route would avoid a region of the state of rich with ground water pinpoint adds about 100 miles to the original project, 1700 miles. the administration rejected a federal permit in january saying they did not have enough time review it before a congressionally imposed deadline. last year was the worst year for measles in the u.s. for 15 years. there were 3,200 cases that jumped from 60 or so seen in a typical year. most of the cases last year were imported either by foreign visitors or u.s. residents who picked up the virus overseas. u.s. children have been getting vaccinated for about 50 years. the low vaccination rates in europe and other places resulted in the large outbreaks overseas last year. iran's semi official foreign

news agency said russia and china asked iran to provide information on a u.s. drone captured by iran in december. a quote in advisor to iran's defense minister said iran received requests from many countries for information on the rq-170 centennial. moscow and beijing have been aggressive in details on this drone. the person quoted did not elaborate on that. finally from the white house, former tennessee women's basketball coach pat summit will be getting the presidential medal of freedom. president obama announcing that she's an inspiration as a coach that has won more games than anybody else in the ncaa basketball history to speak openly about her battle with alzheimer's. she announced she's stepping aside as coach after 38 seasons. >> dale carpenter is our guest.

>> until finally the officers had to literally pry them apart to stop them from violating the texas homosexual conduct law. that's the story the officers tell. they say that was a violation of the texas law and it doesn't matter whether that act occurred inside a home or in a public place. it was a violation either way if it occurred between two people of the same same sex. >> dale carpenter will discuss his book. this friday on after words, 7:00 p.m. >> welcome back. this is "washington today" on c-span radio a couple of political notes. last night the president in michigan check out a new theme to his change theme of 2008. he told supporters change is and then talked about some of the accomplishments he's had over the last 3 1/2 years in the

whois. in lorain, ohio, mitt romney on the campaign trail following the president who was in ohio yesterday talking about jobs, job retraining, and the u.s. economy. a new poll out today by quinnipiac university showing that the economy is hurting the president overall. now in a head-to-head match-up the president holds a small lead over republican candidate mitt romney. the survey showing that 46% of those questioned registered voters will vote for the president, 42% would vote for mitt romney. but the poll also points out a troublesome aspect for the president and that is that voters are unhappy with his handling of the economy, 56% saying that they disapprove compared to 38% who approve of the president's handling of the economy. jobs and the economy clearly will be a driving issue in 2012. here's more from today's announcement, peter brown is the assistant director of polling for quinnipiac. he made the announcement at the national press club here in washington, d.c. >> among the top findings, the

presidential race very close. president obama has a narrow 46% to 42% lead over mitt romney in a trial heat towards the november the election. that's virtually unchanged from where quinnipiac had at any time last time at the end of february. not surprisingly president obama does very well among democrats, he gets 88% of self-identified democrats. mr. romney gets 83% of self-identified republicans. not surprisingly. independents interesting split for the republicans. 46% of independents say they would vote for mr. romney today, 39% of independents. now the reason why mr. obama is ahead is that there are more people that identify themselves as democrats these days than as republicans. so that's why the margin for the president exists. there's a very large gender gap, 10 points on mr. obama's side among women. women support the president 49%

to 39%. whereas men support romney by a much narrower of 46% to 43%. so there is a gender gap. it's pretty large and obviously working to the president's benefit. one of the things quinnipiac did was try to assess which issues or strengths for which candidates. for instance, mr. romney has a lead of 47 to 43% when voters are asked who can best hand tell economy. now that's obviously important because the economy is the key issue in the the election. again, on the question of the economy, romney does well among independents by 55% to 22% which is a big margin. independents who are the key voting group say they think romney would do a better job than the president on the economy. and then that's what's helping mr. romney now.

allowing him to remain competitive is that he has an edge on the economic issue. again, there are other issues in which the president has an edge. he's seen as better able to handle foreign affairs. he's seen as better able to relate to the problems of every day americans. he's seen as better on issues to women. that may be one of the reasons why the gender gap is what it is. mr. romney as seen better not just on the economy but creating jobs, combatting high gasoline price and handling immigration and there's a couple of issues on health care and taxes they are viewed equally the same by voters. >> the kochlts peter brown the in assistant director of polling from the quinnipiac institute. in the they'd head match-up it's twin margin of error but the president still has a slight lead but when you drill down in the polls in a couple of areas the president has strengths especially among women. the latino vote will be key in

the 2012 the election and in hand technology economy as you heard just a moment ago some troubling signs for the white house and democratic party. politics part of the discussion by the way with mike allen who sat down with eric cantor the house republican leader. and among the issues some debate within the republican caucus when congressman cantor suppo supportsuppor supported kinsinger. kinsinger won the primary and going on the general the elections. here's how the questions played out. >> got in a little hot water for supporting challenger to a house member. what did you learn from that episode? >> you know, mike, i can just say i made a commitment to a colleague of mine way back and i felt it was necessary to live up to the word that i gave that colleague.

>> and what sort of -- what have you sflaernd you got a lot of blow back from your conference. what have you learned from that? >> again, some decisions that you make sometimes are not easy but i think most importantly you live up to your commitment and you make sure that your word stays good and the word doesn't mean that some days it's good and others it's not. >> now very interesting, behind the scene, it was on politico about this. it said that the member who lost, representative don't manzulo of illinois said according to a half-dozen republican sources he once said that you would not be saved. what did you take from that? >> again, i don't want to discuss that and i'll just say, mike this, has to do with the commitment i need a colleague and my decision to live up to that commit pept. >> do you believe he said that? >> again, i'm not commenting on it. and i think he's an upstanding

individual who served his constituents well. >> have you detected any anti-semiism among members of congress? >> no. i don't want to say anything about those remarks. i don't want to talk about anything having to do with this sort of darker side of sort of any kind of comments made or whatever. >> so, you're saying there is a darker side. >> well, mike, i think all of us know that in this country we've not always gotten it right in terms of racial matters, religious matters, whatever. we continue to strive to provide, you know, equal treatment to everybody. but to sit here and say in america that we've got it all right now? i think that pretty much all of us can say we have work to do. >> we're talking about the house republican conference not america. >> that's house of representatives it ended. eric cantor taking questions from politico's mike allen who

covered the event in its entirety. took place at the w hotel across the street from the white house. the playbook breakfast is available online at c respond.org. republican candidate mitt romney set to deliver this year's commencement address at liberty university. it's the christian institution founded by jerry falwell sr.. mitt romney has never striftd college. the university announcing today that the may 12th commencement which takes place on thursday and c-span will be covering that address. the "new york daily news" website is getting a lot of attention tonight. the first fobs to of columbia escort and hooker scandal. it's available at ny"daily news".com and the photographs of the women trying to get her full payment for service. she's a 24-year-old single mom. she said tagts offered her $30 for $800 worth of service.

they have an extensive story. it's an issue that continues to come up here in official washington including in today's daily briefing. jessica yellen posed the question to jay carney. >> we learned they are forming an external board to study the culture of the service. does the white house and president plan to name some of the members of that board? >> i don't have anything specific for you on that kind of review or further steps that might be taken. right now we're focused on awaiting the results of the completed investigation of the incident in colombia. >> does the president feel that whenever director sullivan decides to retire, if it's years from now or in the near future that at some point in the future the secret service should be run by somebody outside the culture of the secret service the way the fbi is run by somebody from

outside the culture? >> i think we're about four days, five days into this incident, six days into this incident. to speculate about what might happen in the future with regard to this agency is, i don't think particularly illuminating. right now we're focused on this investigation, this incident, finding out what happened, holding people accountable and responsible for transgressions if they occurred and then making other assessments s as necessa. the secret service is filled with men and women who put their lives on the line to protect president of the united states. and the implications of that are not about the personal security of one individual or one individual's family. but the sort of the essence of our democracy the ability for our democracy to function which requires the protection of the president.

>> but you already know that two gs-14 level supervisors have left as a result of this. >> jessica, i understand you and everyone else here has a reporting interest in getting facts as quickly as you can with regards to this investigation and i understand that. i've been there. i appreciate that. but we're not going to prejudge outcomes. and discuss the future of this agency in a press briefing while this investigation is going on. the fact of the matter is this is an incident that requires investigation, the secret service has acted with speed in addressing the matter, investigating the matter, holding people accountable and continuing to push forward with the investigation. when there are results of the investigation and we can assess those, we may have more to say about it. but it is not helpful to the

process for us to speculate about what we might or an administration might do in response to an investigation, his results are not yet concluded. white house press secretary jay carney. ed o'keefe from "the washington post" says they suspect more employees to depart either by resignation or being fired. and the ranking democrat from maryland saying more secret service personnel are likely to leave the agency in coming days both lawmakers being updated on the agency's probe and have asked for a full accounting no later than may 1st. so far no official hearing in the investigation but we heard yesterday, of course that three of the secret service agents

involved have been let go, one by the way is suing the federal government. here in washington, the imf meeting taking a look at europe's economy and the imf chief saying she expects to win a big boost in funding to help the learned contain some of the damage from the eurozone debt crisis now that europe has taken what bloomberg news calls significant steps on its own calling the eurozone the epicenter of potential risk for a world economic recovery that's timid and fragile. she's urging the european union policymakers to inject bailout funds into the troubled banks. the imf wants to secure $400 billion in new funding which would double its fire power to deal with europe's debt crisis and spillover from other countries. joining christine lagarde is the outgoing imf bank president as he took questions including his biggest success and failures

over the last five years as president. >> in your five years at the bank what do you consider to be your biggest success and what do you consider to be your biggest failure? >> can i hold on the second one? [ laughter ] well, i tried briefly in the opening sort of anticipating this question to say that in my own mind i've seen these three phases. so first when i came into the bank, for those of you that covered it was a tumultuous period. i had the challenge of a leader to turn around an institution and to its droid get out of the internal strife is focus on the mission. people dime the bank and we did that relatively quickly. we had some issues to deal with. second, we, you know, before too long we had the food and fuel crisis start to hit us in late

2007. i'm particularly pleased that sort of a combination of my international experience and kind of reading what was happening in the market we moved quite quickly and i think if you talk to people in the food security community they felt the bank was more agile than it might have been in the past. but in addition we start to see this as an opportunity invest in agriculture going to the future. then as i mentioned in the financial crisis, you know, doing about a quarter, trillion dollars of support is not only important financially but it was important to how we designed a lot of it. so the fact that in trade finance, the team enlargd our financing to keep banks in the market. i mentioned the vienna initiative. so, part of my point here is that it's not just financing we need to able to leverage it and

innovate it in innovative ways and i think we're able to do that including some things that i hope will become seeds of very important future growth like this asset management company which is a subsidiary of ifc where we're tapping sovereign funds and pension funds and got $4 billion of money that the bank would never have seen going into african equity markets. it's not just the response but the innovation. then as part of that it goes this modernization phase which i think which has just begun and there as i mentioned briefly in my remarks and here i credit some of my team, together we decided this focus on really opening up the bank as an institution was a key to not only development but frankry having a healthier bank. so open information policy is first among multilaterals based on indian and u.s. freedom of

information act. this open data initiative will drive a whole new way of doing policy because we're making this accessible with mobile phone technology and in any country around the world. we'll have a much more interactive process. just to connect this to a little bit of the transition, larry, it was interesting, you know, that and i'm not saying this was any of the three candidates but some others were saying oh, the bank is doing too many things. it must focus on these three things. in my view that was a mistake that elitist economists made 20 years ago where they said we know what developing countries need. maybe it's because of my background my approach has been fundamentally different. let's focus on the clients. let's hear what the client needs. let's and make the the innovation from around the world and apply it. and in the process we can wlaern the client through an open process about how to do it better. so, you know, i think, i'm sure

you've encountered this with the guardian but i've encountered it on university campuses, the bank is still a big multilateral washington based institution. the more you open anecdote to conspiracy theories and better policy. pardon? i will let you not judge of the failures. how about that? >> the out going president of the world bank, spoke to reporters here in washington, a meeting of the world's financial leaders and the im f and the world bank holding its annual spring meeting. >> ♪ ♪ >> ozzie schwartz chanting the prayer for the dead on this the day of remembrance, 6 million victims of the nazi holocaust. there is a story carrying this

headline historians racing the enclose being to collect holocaust survivor stories pointing out about 198,000 survivors of the holocaust in israel but nearly 90% of them are 75 years of age or older and on average they are passing away at the rate of one every hour. today here in washington treasury secretary tim geithner speaking as part of the remembrance of the holocaust survivors and the horrors of nazi germany and spoke about his predecessor during the roosevelt administration, then treasurely secretary henry morgan,000. >> he served from 1933 to 1945. he believed that individuals serving in government carry a moral responsibility. he was not constrained by the limits of his formal authority. it didn't matter to morganthou that the treasury department was

not the department of war or the department of state. he was not concerned with the risk of criticism or with the strength of opposition to what he believed was right. morganthou was press ent and a need for early american involvement. in 1938 he persuaded president roosevelt to give treasury significant authority over military purchasing policies two years ahead of the lenden program and he used this authority to help arm our allies and to help prepare the nation for war. he was instrumental in the effort to stock pile and ramp up production of war materials and crucially he enabled the united kingdom and france to purchase

american aircraft often over the objections of the war department and isolationists in congress. now, later in the war news of the mass murder of european jews came to the attention of a small group of men at treasury. j joe sigh josiabubois and the chief of foreign funds control uncovered mounting evident that state department officials were systematically undermining efforts to save jews in europe. these state officials were delays licenses necessary to provide financial support to relief organizations across europe, licenses that would have enabled the rescue of hundreds of thousands of jews. they were denying visas to refugees and they were blocking the spread of information about

the holocaust. the state department first received word of the final solution on august 11, 1942 in a message from gearhart reeder, the world congress representative in switzerland and upon leaving confirmation of the news that november, the department then acted to suppress the evidence. dubois set to work on a report which was presented to second morgan thou by randolph paul on january 13, 1944. the memo bore a chilling title, report to the secretary on the acquiesce wednesday ens in the murder of jews and the first page read and i want to quote this. unless re medial steps of a drastic nature are taken and taken immediately, i am certain

that no effective action will be taken by this government to prevent the complete extermination of the jews in german controlled europe and that this government will have to share for all time the responsibility for this extermination. morganthou moved quickly and that sunday, january 16th, randolph paul and secretary morganthou met with president roosevelt and explained to the president because other parts of the government were resisting action, the only solution was to create a body with independent authority in the matter of refugees and president roosevelt agreed and six days later he issued executive order 9417 which established the war refugee board. the board's charter declared it

would, quote, effectuate with all possible speed the rescue and relief of victims of enemy oppression who are in imminent danger of death. john pailay was named executive director and at morganthou's direction he set up office on the fourth floor of the treasury and began his work. hayley had to secure private funds for the majority of the board's activity, but he was industrious and relentless and he was effective. he secured a haven for 1,000 jews at fort aontario and he helped to purchase boats to ferry thousands out of romaine a under his leadership the refugee board stream lined the process for issuing licenses so relief organizations in europe could provide funds and aid within weeks of requesting it, and the

board sent representatives to neutral countries that assisted in evacuating jews. >> with a hushed audience the comments of treasury secretary tim geithner reflecting on his predecessor during the roosevelt administration, the longest serving treasury secretary, who served during the entire administration of franklin d. roosevelt and his efforts in trying to get more information and ultimately stop the holocaust responsible for the death of at least 6 million jews during the height of world war ii. this is the holocaust day of remembrance here in washington and around the world. well, another day in history, april 19, 1951, it was not a good year for douglas macarthur, the military general after almost losing a war in korea that seemed that he had won, he was dismissed by president harry truman making headlines around the world in an investigation on capitol hill and on this date for 37 minutes in the chamber of the u.s. house

of representatives general douglas macarthur held america in the palm of his hands. those are the words of pbs's american experience writing about macarthur, his famous old soldiers never die speech and runs 37 minutes and here is how general macarthur concluded his remarks. >> i am closing my 52 years of military service. when i joined the army even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. the world has turned over many times since i took the oath on the plain at west point and the

hopes and dreams have long since vanished. i still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day that proclaimed most proudly that oh, soldier, never die, they just fade away. like the old soldier of that ballad, i now close my military career and just fade away. an old soldier who tried to do his duty as god gave him the light to see that duty. goodbye.