carolina voters that they'd become something of a laughing stock after the mark sanford debacle, et cetera, that they wanted to be proud of the person they elected and this looked like it was sort of a smear campaign. i think what-- the straw that broke the camel's back was the racial epithet made by a republican state senator about her on the radio and i think that is is the issue where the voters say we don't want to continue to be on comedy central jon stuart's punch line. i think this is a woman, who if she succeeds, is somebody that the republican party is going to use and -- as sort of their new rising star. i fully expect to see her in 2012 giving some sort of address at the convention, whether it's the keynote, et cetera, but she is somebody that they're going to be spending a lot of time grooming. >> woodruff: dan, finally, how significant that women, especially republican women, did so well across the country yesterday? >> i think it is significant. we've always talked about the year of the woman at different times during the campaigns but usually it's been about democratic women

as the discussions on iran heeded up, the sanions, whether not they were a cheating, et cetera.s stepped to get into the breach this time calling of course with the deal two weeks ago. but in reality, again, if you look at these foreign policy speeches and what he's been saying, iran is not the problem. iran nuclear problem, nuclear program is not a product as the iranians assured them, president ahmadinejad has told of he iranian nuclear program is peaceful and, therefore, it is peaceful. and so the problem is not iran, and the problem -- it is as nuclear weapons. he has really pushed on this over and over and over. but at the same time it's not just rhetoric. both in the conference and also on the nuclear summit tha president obama held in april, this issue has come up. this is another issue that he has to soe extent from the egyptians be on the forefront of this issue. so to add on, the issue is the fact that israel has nuclear weapons. and it is not in that sense obfuscating the debate that is going on both in terms of sanctions whether or not iran is a member of in pt is ch

he said this is going to be difficult and fight the taliban et cetera. at the end of the day, his success is our success. so, working and clearly following the president's guidance of a couple of months ago whatever that was, that we indeed have to support the leader of the sovereign country that we are trying to help. >> so you are still as confident in the partnership as you were when we last met? >> yes, now clearly there is an issue with the resignation of the minister of interior and the national -- their intelligence service. the nds, we know those individuals, we have all worked with him. we all regard them as competent. but i think before we start judging what that will do to the ministries and to the overall effort, we have to see who the replacements are. we must judge their competence and for what it is worth, the discussions that we are aware of, some of which americans have participated in, as various candidates have been considered, indicate that the replacements will be competent individuals and individuals that we have confidence in and c

removal process is easier, you can just pick telephone up with a physical process like shovels, et cetera but we've also got eggs out there, turtles are nesting at this time of the year so that's a challenge. it really is a mess. and while clearly the type of oil may be better than they experienced newspaper alaska 20 years ago, the type of habitats that we are dealing with are far more diverse and unfortunately, a bit more sensitive. louisiana's marsh isn't doing well now. we are losing 25 square miles every year of louisiana coastal wetlands, there part because of oil & gas activity. this is likely going to speed that up. >> ifill: professor portier when thad allen, admiral allen said today that this is like a massive collection of smaller spills instead of a single big spill, does that change what you do to help clean it up? >> it does because normally we have operated from a position of having a few night amount of oil so-- finite amount of oil so we know what we are dealing with. here we have repeated oiling events. so the ability to clean an area particularly on our coastal marshs i

, et cetera.ow tell that again, to the people that did the federalist papers were anonymous at the time. they wrote under the different name and the issue in this case was whether there could be anonymous corporations - charitable corporations that don't reveal donors. well, the right to free speech but anonymous speech is central to the history of the united states. she is actually talked about redistributing expression and about the government. these are her words. redisindustry butting expression. talked about the government doling out free speech rights. not that the rights pre exist government but government doles them out. that's dangerous stuff. >> glendale, wisconsin. bob you're on with quin hillyer of the washington times. caller: yes, good morning. first of all. god bless you both, okay. the first question that i wanted to bring up is why did obama nominate this person? and who else should be nominated? and i've been listening this entire period here. within the first 25 minutes the firs

, et cetera. basically and of course because of ethics, we -- we can't and won't go in and make anybody meet with anybody. so we just refer them into them. the best i can tell is that -- maybe three out of the 600-muss have received an e-mail back, thank you for your submission. no thank you. there seems to be a closed loop of vendors you're dealing with. is still wide open. when this accident first occurred, everyone said, we're going to take whatever ideas and suggestions or whatever. the copper dam, the -- the top hat, whatever. but, i have seen some people that have called me and we referred them in. they have never heard once from your company. is this just -- if you're not a vendor with us before, we're not dealing with you? or are you going to the vendors and allow them to select who they deal with? my reason is, if there are good ideas out there, why isn't somebody looking at them? >> we're trying to engage with everyone who has a good idea. we have been -- been frankly inundated with hund

it's clear their record is far better than record understands, et cetera, et cetera i want to talk about those inappropriate incidents. admittedly there's bean few. by the way what is your number for that? >> i don't have a specific number but based on the literature available -- >> do you have a ballpark figure >> no. >> relatively small? >> first of all i didn't want to excuse inciden that have taken place. the point i was trying to make it's not clear based on the evidence we've seenhat there have been abuse and everyone should be held accountable. >> let me finish this one question. fair note i understand that. to what degree have firms been held accountable for these incidents in terms of our judicial system, in terms of the government's withholding fees, not renewing contracts, not awarding additional contract, internal industry discipline? what degree of accountability has there been for the relatively few incidents that have existed? >> i'lleave it to the state department and dod to talk to you about how theyake their procurement decisions. i think that's a very fair question and

it's clear their record is far better than record understands, et cetera, et cetera.i want to talk about those inappropriate incidents. admittedly there's bean few. by the way what is your number for that? >> i don't have a specific number but based on the literature available -- >> do you have a ballpark figure >> no. >> relatively small? >> first of all i didn't want to excuse incidents that have taken place. the point i was trying to make it's not clear based on the evidence we've seen that there have been abuse and everyone should be held accountable. >> let me finish this one question. fair note i understand that. to what degree have firms been held accountable for these incidents in terms of our judicial system, in terms of the government's withholding fees, not renewing contracts, not awarding additional contract, internal industry discipline? what degree of accountability has there been for the relatively few incidents that have existed? >> i'll leave it to the state department and dod to talk to you about how they make their procurement decisions. i think tha

and i'm telling you with the resources and the budgets, et cetera, and the community policing issues, it's just not the way to go. so we need to see the federal response. that's what we'd like to see within 24 months, but we clearly do not want to see 50 different state laws telling local law enforcement how it is that they're going to be going out there to solve this problem. it is a no win situation for local law enforcement. >> secretary napolitano, you wanted to -- >> well, i just wanted to offer a friendly amendment for the chief. >> and that is congress -- congress has seen fit to describe initial entries as misdemeanors, and so it's a, you know, it's a minor offense, and, but the calculus is the same. do you want local law enforcement spending their time, mandated to spend their time on those as opposed to the homicide, rape, assault, and at the expense of very extensive community policing efforts that are created to supply the public safety architecture for communities. i just wanted to clarify that one point. >> well, before we thank our guests, it's going to be imperative th

, et cetera. now tell that again, to the people that did the federalist papers were anonymous at the time. they wrote under the different name and the issue in this case was whether the could be anonymous corporations - charitable corporations that don't reveal donors. well, the right to free speech but anonymous speech is central to the history of the united states. she is actually talked about redistributing expression and about the government. these are her words. redisindustry butting expression. talked about the government doling out free speech rights. not that the rights pre exist government but government doles them out. that's dangerous stuff. >> glendale, wisconsin. bob you're on with quin hillyer of the washington times. caller: yes, good morning. first of all. god bless you both, okay. the first question that i wanted to bri up is why did obama nominate this person? and who else should be nominated? and i've been listening this entire period here. within the first 25 minutes the first

and you will discuss the 3 spill on your community and your local businesses, et cetera. and last and certainly not least least, we have mark cooper, who is the director of of disaster preparedness. goad. >> good morning. i am the mayor of grand isle. i am on my seventh term, three terms as mayor. + grand isle is about 60 michaels southeast of new orleans. it is the only inhabitted barrier island in louisiana. most of the residents in grand isle or coastal regions are small independent fishermen or employed by the oil and gas industry. most work seven days on and seven days off. we understand what it takes to get a job done because our liaisonly hood depends on it. if the boats break down, or the nets tear, we know how to fix them. we know how to go back and work in the town of grand isle. the ma arenaas, hotels, grocery stars, the shrimp producers. in grand isle, the largest producer in the united states, providing seven million pounds, and should have bought four million pounds in the last week is completely down. i look at that picture, and it brings tears to our eyes.

knows about this, et cetera? >> no change from what i said before. >> none? so you don't know about the circumstances of the shooting? >> as we said, we are ascertaining facts. we want to have not only our concern about our citizens, but everyone who was killed and injured on the ships and want a full understanding what happened. and we are talking to israel and others about how to best accomplish that. >> there is the i.d.f. investigation, which we all found out about last night, which, again, seems to close the door on the notion of international participation. are you concerned that that the notion of international participation is not going to happen in terms of this? >> i think we understand that the international participation investigating these matters will be important to the credibility that everybody wants to see as we understand fully what happened last week. >> are you go to go have u.s. monitors? >> we are discussing with israel and others the perspective nature of international participation in the investigation. and, you know, we are sharing d

et cetera? >> um... no change from what i have said before. >> so you don't know about the circumstances of the shooting and how? >> we, as we've said, we're ascertaining facts and want to have not only our concern about our citizens, but everyone who - we want a full understanding of what happened and we're talking to israel and others how to best accomplish that. >> speaking of which, there's the ideal investigation we all found out about last night. which again, seems to close the door on the notion of international participation. are you concerned that the notion of transparent international participation is not going to happen in terms of this? >> i think we understand that international participation in investigating the matters will be important to the credibility that everybody wants to see as we understand fully what happened last week. >> you're going to have u.s. monitor? >> we're discussing with israel and others the perspective nature of international participation in the investigation, and

those marshes and the fish nursery's and et cetera.people -- i look on this as something the local, state, and federal people need to work on together. host: we have been traveling down to the gulf coast. here are some pictures you can see from our crews. workers are trying to clean up along the alabama, mississippi, louisiana coast. there are congressional hearings. the president made his statement. all of that is available on our c-span.org/oilspill website. ronald says, "what happens to the sea turtles during the burning of the oil at sea?" guest: i cannot precisely answer that. it passed to be monitored closely. much of the burning will be on land, if there is going to be any. i would not think that would be a huge issue for the sea turtles, although i am certainly not a biologist. the epa is monitoring the air, water, and land. so far, my understanding is they are not seeing a lot of increase in pollution from burning and other things. host: the 1990 law that was passed after the exxon valdez indicated that the polluter pays. bp h

we want to hear how long you have been unemployed, et cetera. 202-628-0184 if you are unemployed hit by the recession. is there a typical unemployed person? guest: well, there are definitely people who make up a larger share especially when you talk about chronically unemployed. out of work six month or more. it is more likely to be men which is not that surprising in this recession with construction jobs and manufacturing jobs. it is also likely to be who is white without a college degree. there are a couple of reasons for that. male occupations have been hard hit. white people are a larger share of the population so it makes sense they would be a larger share of the chronically unemployed. and if you only have a high school degree you may have been laid off more quickly. if you are looking to retain talent you will try to keep people more skilled and lay off people who are less skilled that you know you can pick up later on when the economy is better. host: employment rate dipped to 9.7% from 9.9% as thousands of people left the labor force. what does that mean? guest: when we see

talking about soldiers there who are asking for certain things, certain permission to mortar fire, et cetera, to help them when they are engaging in fire. but they are being denied these different types of meckyisms because of civilian concerns hitting civilions. that's george will's piece talking about that shufplt there's another story in the "new york times." u.n. sees more violence by afghan insurgents. so while civilian casualties are going down by the u.s., the average assassination, there is an average of an assassination a day, a suicide bombing every second or third day. insurgents have depreatly increased. guest: violence has definitely increased. but that's important to look at but it's not the most important metric. even general mcchrystalal who has this very sort of population centric counter insurgency plan acknowledges that violence is going to increase at least in the short term. that's part of the u.s. operational model now is an expectation that vile sns going to go up in the short run. and i think that's true. and we're pushing troops out into more and more locations tryin

because they get to vote for their own retirements and raises , et cetera, and naturally those are goingo be three times as much as we would get in a -- in a company we went to work for. in addition, they give tax-free exemptions to big companies. i worked for t.w.a., and then i went to work for american express. both companies did not have to pay real estate tax by the state. they were given that just to get them in the state to do business. guest: well, you do raise two important points. at the beginning of this segment, we talked about what has gotten cities into trouble, and one is the large benefits packages. packages. on the one hand, you want the city to be able to hire the best people for its police department and for its fire department. and to get the best people, yes you offer benefits packages, but those benefits packages have now really become crushing burdenens for a city. now, when a city files for bankruptcy, the, you know, employees, the unions, are creditors just like everybody else, k like the bond holders. and a city does have the ability to renegotiate its union cont

there will be zero tolerance for corruption, coziness, et cetera. and we will work aggressively both through the i.g.'s office and the organization that i'm setting up to root out the ones that shouldn't have been there to begin with, but regrettably were. it will be a sustained push, it will be making clear there will be zero tolerance for what has been tolerated in the past. there will be the encouragement of people to come forward with information suggesting corruption among others. in the short term, there may be more of these allegations that come forward. it won't happen overnight. i will ask for your patience on that. but i pledge to all you, i will work in a determined and aggressive way to get that out of this agency. >> thank you very much, senator collins. senator dorgen? >> thank you very much. two things i would say with respect to senator collins points. i think bh of the i.g. reports largely refer to a time period back in 2006, 2007 and 2008. so that's important to understand. i think things have changed, i expect they have changed an

today et cetera hearing will focus on bp's action, but we learned from the hearing earlier this week that the other oil companies are just as unprepared to deal with a massive spill as bp. we are seeing in the oil industry the same corporate indifference to risk that caused the collapse on wall street. and that is why reform is so urgently needed. part of this reform must be legislation to put teeth into our regulatory system, but part must also be a transition to a clean energy economy. we are addicted to oil. this addiction is fouling our beaches, bluting our atmosphere and undermeanwhiling our national security. we can't snap our fingers or transform our energy economy overnight, but we need to start down the path of a clean energy future. mr. chairman, i look forward to the hearing, and mr. hayward i thank you for cooperating. >> thank you. next going to the ranking member of the full committee, mr. barton of texas. mr. burgess and i will do ours harriet. mr. barton? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, there hayward, for appearing before us. we have kind of a duel -- dual trac

dragged lebanon into a bloody conflt in which many civilians lost their live infrastructure destroyed, et ceterawards, hezbollah claimed th 2006 war w a, qu divine ctory. bui doubt that many lebanese would agree. in fact, hezbollah seetary-genel nasrallah later had to issue a begrudging sort of apology on national television. disingenuously state that had he anticipated isel's reaction, he wld n have dered t kidnapping. moreover as a dect rest o th war in2006,ezllah lost it dirt line of attack agnst israel. before the war, hezllah roinelyaunched cket, mortar aacks acr the blue line intosrael or intoheba farms as a stro of strh and control. today, by rast, south lebanon hosts more than 11,000 unifil troops an thousands of lebanese armed forces. u.n. surity councilesolution 1701 which ended that conflict in 2006 continues to enjoy popular andolitical support in lebanon. so what doe this mean? what it mea is thatezbollah cannot easil renew its patterns of attacks across the blue line into israel. if it do itould do sot considerable polic cost side lebanon. and so for nearly four yea now, not a sing

much in the way of conservation lands in the middle part of the country, the mississippi valley, et ceteraand i think we came to the same conclusion. i think i go back to the remarks that were made by the congresswoman from wyoming in that any strategii vision or plan has to be vetted in the grass roots. this is not entirely a scientific or technical task. it is identifying gaps. it is saying, for instance, nobody is protecting short grass praire or dsdgsdgs inadequate protection. it's not identifying a place on the map. out if thhre's public support d for such protection, and whether or not that support indicates it ought to be a national park versus a national wild live refuge or something like that. it is a comprehensive system based on a national conservation strategy that suggests future growth for the national park system without being prescriptive. and obviously those remarks apply on the cultural resources side. many of the parks that have been created recently under chairman are parks that we would not have imagined creating 20 years ago. and some commemorating events that the mou

et cetera start with families and children. i, along with millions of american school children, were denied full educational opportune knit our schools because i was forced to attend segregated public schools. the supreme court in brown v board of education rejected the notion of separate but equal and helped move our nation forward toward a more perfect union. it was a young attorney from baltimore, thurgood marshall, who argued that case before the supreme court. he later became the first african-american associate justice and throughout his distinguished career aided by energized law clerks, including our nonee, elena cage f you believe you have a right to fall in love and get married to whomever you wish, you are mostly correct but only because the supreme court intervened on the side of the american people when it ruled in loving v virginia that interracial couples could marry. indeed, prior to that decision, parents of the current president of the united states, some members of the united states senate and the supreme cou

they've -- they're training not only the canine handlers but also vet techs, veterinarians, et cetera and that's under way. some of these training programs are i'd term under construction. we still need to help move them along. but there still will be a need for advising and further professionalization after december 2011. >> and when state takes over that mission in early -- late 2011 -- and the u.s. military will essentially be gone for iraq. >> right. >> so will it be diplomatic security that's providing security to those state department people on the ground there? will there be -- do you think there will be a bump-up in the number of security contractors coming in? and then, also, there's this request from state department -- >> right. right. >> -- for some large military equipment, black hawks, mraps. >> right. right. >> do you know what the status of that is, if that looks like something they'll need? >> first of all, about the equipping requests: i've not seen a specific request. i've -- we've -- obviously we've coordinated this transition with them. but the -- you know, the f

and there are different rbs schedules depend on whether its prime, subprime, second lin, et cetera. but again there might've been something that we have this fid component so that senior bond determines if you are on the deal or not. that you would want to charge t cover your collateral analysis. and then iyou happen to tranches out, it isn't as expeive to figure out the ratings on the junior tranches within the deal. >> i'd like, trantwo's with her permission i'd le to have the stafdirect a written question to mr. vail, or mr. mcdaniel to ascertain iwe can find out how it developed, with the ideology of this is. >> so done. >> also, it says in here in our investigative report, that all these re due and payable at the time the rating was issued. do you -- but you were never paid until the actual issue was sold, were you >> we wee generally on the cdos side paid out of the closing, meaning at's whenthe securities were sold, we were paid along with her supporting, the auditors, the attorneys, the bankers themselves. there's also an annual monitoring fee, but that was usually a fracon