. >> woodruff: we get a response on all of these matters now with steve bartlett of the financial services roundtable. his group lobbies for and represents most of the banks that were at today's meeting. >> good to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> woodruff: now you have not only the president of the united states, you've got a lot of small business people in colorado as we just saw in that report saying the banks are not lending, they're hurting small business. >> well, obviously the banks are lending. our banks get up every day trying to figure out how to make a good loan, make more loans, make more of them and provide more lending. and we're doing that. the fact is that loan demand is down. every survey would tell you that. the national federation of independent business came out with a survey last week, the federal reserve. so what's happening. and i've been a small businessman all of my life voy been on both sides of the picture. i've never met a small businessman who applied for a loan that doesn't think that he or she is qualified so i understand that. the fact is you hav

mention of crse as i alwayso, bank of america is aunderwriter of the newshour but just to be clear, steve bartlett. >>hey are also a member of mine so, they e in good company, yeah. >> woodruff: but jt to be clear r standards going be loosened in anyway a result of is conversation. standards are not and shouldn't be loosened. to the psident's credit he did not ca on us to loosen andards. a good loan is -- re good loans is the answer, any more bad loans is not good swer. >> woodruff: steveartlett, thank yovery much. >> thank you, dy. >> lehre and still to come on the newshour: ray suarezrom the copenhagen climate smit; a report from china on theost of going gre; and the life and times of a nobel prize-winni economist. that folws the other news of the day, from hari sreenivan in our newsroo hari. >> sreenivasan: iran wil prosecute 3 amerans who crossed e border from northern iraq. shane baue josh fattal and rah shourd were seized last july. ter, they were accused of spying. today, iran's foren minister announced plans r a trial. he did not s when, and he did not specify the chars. interrogation of t