have a strategic triad? do we continue to have bombers? who else did you bring into the negotiations? it becomes multilateral negotiations. the previous in administration was always focused on the bilateral u.s.-soviet relation. the big question will be at what point can you bring in those other players? >> to follow up, i think that the administration feels that the treaty giving them is important. with the expiration of the start treaty, you lose the verification of the monitoring regime that went along with that. for the obama people to be able to replace the treaty and maintain a significant degree of that the verification is

probably the most important achievement from the standpoint of u.s. national security with the treaty. for the russians, the numbers are -- talking over the last decade or so in nuclear circles with the russians, they can talk about getting down to 1000 weapons. that used to be a relatively reasonable proposition. it is interesting how over this negotiation, that seems to be getting to where we are with this treaty was harder than some expected and i think getting to that? that is the one to be harder if we are unwilling to address the strategic relationship and talk

about the role of miss self- defense -- of missile defense. also, the role of long-range precision guided conventional munitions. that is what is in the concern about the russian military's strategic planners about where this is going. [inaudible] >> i think we are going to -- if there is no discernible progress on u.n. security council resolutions, we will of course consider other options and the question is which of the european allies will be most

helpful there? the french are espousing their help but it will probably be the germans who are more helpful in the end. we continue on the same path we have been going down which is to look at this at every single level, not just the top level. >> did you want to add to that? >> going back to the reset, can you elaborate on what the recent suicide bombing means to that effort? >> for me, the suicide bombings

, especially the ones that took place in moscow on the metro, is a reminder that russia is probably, if you look at the u.s., europe, and russia, prussia is probably the most vulnerable of those three countries to terrorist attack. and to the possibility of catastrophic terrorist attack. who ever carried out these bombings was a very powerful statement to undertake them close to the former kgb building and the institution which has primary responsibility for the protection of the russian people. it is a bit analogous to the symbolic import of taking out

the world trade center, the pentagon and the aspiration of the capital. how it is going to play out, it is hard to predict. on the domestic political front, over the past decade, there is no question that terrorist attacks have played to the favor of mr. putin and as a justification for further centralization of political power. we have seen in response to this attack a considerable difference between the russians. putin has resorted to his playbook of pull them all out of

the sioux were -- sewer and that sort of tough talk. what we have seen from the prime minister is that this is a reminder that the core problem of the terrible social economic conditions in the north caucasus which is the driver for these groups to attack which is not something we hear from putin. >> how could the u.s. administration assist russia at all in the anti-terrorism fight? obama said we stand ready to help. how could he do that? would russia even be open to that? >> can i jump in? it is a very good question because the way i see the conflict in russia is between non-state terrorism which is

some of these suicide bombers and state terrorism, and otherwise russian policy in the caucuseus. a wider swath of populations that you can with no media present do with them what you wish. some of the death. russian human rights activists have reported some of the atrocities by russian servicemen and security forces in the region. it is not surprising that this is a starring a hornet's nest. -- staring a hornet's nest. the black widows, women whose kinfolk or brothers or sons or husbands have been killed by russian forces. how we can help them is maybe to

the example of guantanamo, legal process, and so on and so forth. to show that anti-terrorism does not mean the destruction of human rights. i do not know directly that russia would necessarily want us to help. what i do fear is there is a foreign policy aspect to this. on the foreign-policy side, there are worries in some of the neighboring countries that russia could use this to point fingers at countries like georgia which they have already been hinting at that they support terrorism against some of the separatist movements. they could potentially be whipped up as it is anti- foreigner, anti-neighbor device in places where rusher -- where russia wants to exert greater influence. that is something i fear on that

front. >> with that, i would like to thank everybody for coming to see us. this will be found later on our website. thank you for coming and if you have follow-up questions, feel free to contact us. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tomorrow, a preview of next week's nuclear security summit. also, it looked it key challenges to preventing nuclear terrorism. in the terrace working group is hosting this event live at 12:00 on c-span to. -- c-span2. the obama family welcomed thousands of children to the white house for the annual

easter egg roll. and the main event, children raised pushing eggs with a wooden spoon we will show you remarks by president barack obama and first lady, michelle obama. >> ladies and gentlemen, the girls and boys, please welcome president obama, the first lady, and the first family. [applause] how to sing the national anthem, amber riley. [applause]

>> oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hail, at the twilight last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming, and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave approved through the night, that our flag was still there, 0 say does that star spangled

banner yet wave, oer the land of the free, and if the home of the brave ♪ [applause] please give amber a big hand. is everybody having a good time? [applause] happy easter everybody. we are thrilled that you could all come. i am not going to make a long

speech because we have the best speaker, the smartest, and best looking of the older obama us ad that is the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. [applause] >> hello, everybody. is this not the most perfect day for the easter egg roll? let's say thank you to mother nature. we are so excited to have you. welcome to the 2010 easter egg roll. the theme for this year's event is ready, set, go. as you know, this year, i launched a nationwide initiative to try to end the epidemic of childhood obesity. it is called let's move. today, we have transformed the south lawn into a playground.

our hope is to in addition to having fun and doing some traditional activities that you can learn about beginning to live a more healthy life. we have wonderful food stands. we have some of the best chefs in the area. you can learn to cope. there is a farmer's market. you concede the garden. we have some great activities. we have several athletic centers. we have football, basketball, tennis, yoga, and some of the most phenomenal athletes. we have the washington redskins here. we have olympians. we have billie jean king. we are going to have some dancing, hula hooping, we have a dj from the ellen

degeneres show. you can have fun with justin bieber. [applause] >> you have heard of him? he is here. [applause] >> we have one of my favorites, the cast of g glee. but we have readers. we have j.k. rowling. we have tons of people that are here to just have fun with you today. the only thing that you need to do is get ready, set and do what? >> go. >> i want to thank all of the volunteers to put this together. they worked all week in setting

up this amazing event. i want to thank our staff. [applause] they have done an amazing job. we are thrilled to have you here. we are going to have 30,000 people in our back yard and we want every single one of you to have fun and to think about leading a healthy life and to get moving. with that, we are going to do an easter egg roll and some reading. have fun and thank you for being here [applause] ♪ ♪

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his documentary was one of many e submitted on the topic of childhood obesity. joining in the conversation will be other studentscam film makers from around the country. that is wednesday at 11:00 eastern on c-span. >> up next, irs commissioner douglas shulman. also, a discussion on u.s. race relations. after that, another chance to hear about president obama is upcoming trip to prague. tomorrow on washington journal, a discussion on how massachusetts was used as a model for national health care legislation with the health and human -- health and human services secretary judyann

bibly. gbly. we will also chat about a recent survey taken by ceo's about pay and perks. >> i know what the challenge is and we are in a unique position to go to work. what we need is policy-makers in washington to develop a road map so we can get it done something about energy policy would like to talk about? at the new spent to deal library, you can search it, watch it, clip it, and share it. over 160,000 hours of video on from yesterday to 10 years ago, every video since 1987. the video library, cable's latest gift to america. >> the deadline for filing federal income tax returns is

april, 15. remarks from the commissioner on his role in overseeing the collection of over $2 trillion in tax revenue. this is >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists and we are committed to the future to programming and fostering a free press worldwide. for more information, please visit our web site at www.pre ss.org.

to donate, please visit this same site. i would like to welcome our speaker and attendees. i would also like to thank our c-span and public radio audiences. after the speech, i will ask as many audience questions as time permits. i would now like to introduce our had cablecasts. -- our guests. senior writer for cnnmon ey.com. tax reporter for reuters. the vice chair of the speaker's committee. the press secretary for legislative affairs for the

natural resources defense council. the bureau chief for the cch news bureau. [applause] our guest is in the second year of his five-year term as they irs commissioner. he is responsible for collecting $2.40 trillion revenues in tax. with more than 100,000 employees in the budget of $11 billion, he has a significant resources at his disposal as he and you prepare for that april 15 deadline, just 10 days away. beyond the regular challenges, the commissioner faces challenges such as the plane crashed into an irs building

last february and resorts of growing violent threats against employees, particularly in light of health care reform legislation that became law last month. as representatives of the government when the government is not so popular in some quarters, his agents are in the front line of occasional public outrage. he came from the financial industry regulation authority, the private-sector regulator of all firms doing business. he served in the same role at the national security with stock exchange regulation. early in his career, he was involved with several startup organization and holds a bachelor from williams, a master's of public affairs from harvard and a georgetown law degree and his children are at the easter egg roll this morning. please welcome douglas shulman.

[applause] >> thank you for that very nice and gracious introduction. it is a pleasure to be here. before i start, i want to thank one person, that is my wife, susan anderson. being the irs commissioner i consider one of the best jobs in the world. i am not sure of being the wife of the ira's commissioner -- of the irs commissioner is. i also want to welcome a number of the cedar executives from the irs who are here. -- senior executives from the irs who are here. i have done a number of states and the public and private sectors. i work with as talented a group of executives as you will find in any business, anti-

government, and the nonprofit, anywhere in the world. my hat off to the colleagues that are here. it is good to be here. in the spring, it is good to see cherry blossoms those of you who live in d.c.. it is good not to see snow this time of year. one of the things when you walk around, probably under way here, you notice a lot of tourists going to museums and to the mall. you also see amongst those tourists police officers, park rangers showing people where they should go on the mall, landscapers keeping the city beautiful, and you see a number of school teachers taking classes around educating their students and teaching them about the capital. one of the things