. >> i'm anne stevens, chris's sister. tom, his brother. hillary, our little sister. we want to extend a warm welcome to the family, friends and many distinguished officials in attendance. thank you for being here. we are honored for your presence. thanks to mayor lee for allowing us to gather and to the protocol and special events team and many organizations and individuals who have offered extraordinary assistance to our family during this difficult time. our parents asked us to speak for the family to talk about growing up with chris. i think overall the greatest thing we can appreciate about chris is how much fun, how clever, how witty he was, how he made us all smile and laugh. i can testify chris was a mischievous little guy from the very beginning, as i was usually the target of his pranks. he set my bassinet on fire with a magnifying mirror. at 4 he backed me up into a red hot bathroom heater, resulting in a bottom burn and er visit in the middle of the night. at seven he led me off the trail, shooting into the creek in davis. my nickname was chubbs or woman.

stevens was a participant. a full, strong, effective participant in his beloved democracy. chris, thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon, my name is tom pickering. chris stevens was a friend and a colleague. more than that he was among the very best our foreign service has to offer in support of our people and our country. a man destined for even greater challenges and successes. it is a special honor for me to be asked to be here and say a few words in his memory. i must begin by offer approximating my sincere condolences and passion to his family and friends gathered here this afternoon to honor his memory. in truth, what we say here our words, can only be a pale shadow for his service and sacrifice for his nation and people. indeed that of his colleagues, glen dougherty, sean smith, tyrone woods. i know you all join me in honoring and appreciating their service and devotion as well. chris and i worked together for a time almost a dozen years ago. he was even then fully committed to his work. an authority already in the middle east. a fine student of arabic. much more. he gave me careful and cogent advice and council as we wrestled

after steven job's paving. >> tom: and is that what we heard, the late forecast, being a little shy of what we expected. >> i think the forecast was weak. especially with the supply. you would think there would be a little bit of a catchup in the march quarter. but when the iphone launched in december of 2011, you had a strong quarter in china and overseas. and the forecast says that won't repeat. even the good results from the iphone 5 in december 2012 won't really translate to a great 2013. >> tom: you mentioned the launch of apple 5, 515 was the official close. would you be a buyer? >> i can't comment on that right now, unfortunately, because we're still running through the numbers. >> tom: do you have any position in apple? >> no, we do not. >> tom: brian colello with us. an analyst with morning star. >> reporter: still ahead, today it was all about apple. but, in just one week r.i.m.m. reveals its much-hyped blackberry 10. we'll have a preview. >> susie: technology stocks led the way higher on wall street today, ahead of those apple earnings after the bell. ibm and google helped f

steven's partners. there was a challenge to talk price. tom, when shall we come sit down with your organization and talk rice? >-- price? >> we have had a few sit downs. i think we could probably sell tickets to those sit downs. [laughter] i think chris would like to be in the room as well. >> i want to take an actual audience question. the person in the fourth row who i cannot see. >> thank you. this question --you mentioned that you're working with these communities -- communities. do you plan to extend that to the level of working with political leadership in these communities to develop tailored appraisal evaluation and methodologies that make the most sense for these communities? thank you. >> no. not tailored evaluations. the law specifies exactly what you do in the domain procedure. you make comparables are other things. by the way, john is not being facetious. when you think about it, if we agreed on price, investors would think that they were being unfairly treated, which we can contend. this would make an enormous difference. we will

that went to more notice when steven spielberg did the movie and i remember when tom was in poland and he telephoned me and he said, steven is really making a good film. and i was with simon & schuster until 1981 and went to houghton mifflin, and i learned a great deal at simon & schuster bed houghton. houghton was much more the kind of old-fashioned publishing that i've really felt at home with. and with me came on their own sedition market atwood, gary young's wood, ian mcewan, and it was wonderful that my authors just followed me. i was active for about six and half years and that was at the time they there were all of these takeovers. at random house, random was the first one to go public, and he was called into his office in he said now we are going to go public and there's going to be a stock government me tell you what's going to happen. i am not advising anyone. i'm just telling you what we are doing. and then rca bought us in then i went to simon & schuster and when i was at simon & schuster golf and western bought simon & schuster. at houghton, houghton was already a publicly

himself in trouble with the church when he crossed its biggest celebrity tom cruise, who worked for years to recruit director stevenchurch, blaming him for foiling his efforts. the book delves into the relationship between cruise and the church's leaders. cruise was awarded t thed the f medal of valor. >> these are the times you will remember. were you there? what did you do? >> karen pressley worked in hollywood's celebrity center in the 1980s and part of the vaqnguard. >> when david took over, the leadership of the church, he decided to focus on celebrities, because the name of scientology had lost so much power, he felt that bringing big names into scientology was the way to build credibility back. >> before cruise, john travolta was scientology's biggest star. joining the church before his breakout role as vinny barbarino in "welcome back cotter." researching and writing the book, travolta had a troubled relationship with the church, threatening to be outed as gay if he didn't fall into line and there is a gay slur privately about travolta. travolta has never publicly addressed his sexual orientation and has be

interest as homeowners potentially in trouble but also the pension holders or, pension funds, so steven and tom, if you want to -- >> stephen put a thought earlier at the securitization process. describe securitization at the simplest point is older americans, let's call them retiring police officers. they have pension money through their 401(k)s, through their pension money. that money gets invested somewhere. usually through mortgage-backed securities. when you buy a mortgage-backed security you allow a lender than to take that money and lend it to someone else. at first-time homebuyers who is a buyer. effectively are taking money from lending from elder communities, of people who are out of savings annually the ultimate to people who want to buy a house. the problem with the eminent domain proposal is you're effectively saying for those who put money out there, who have led to this money to the pension fund, through their 401(k)s and their mutual funds, you are saying i want to help that homeowner and i'm going to do it at the expense of these pension funds. and i think is fundamentally wron

i have to say a little pushback to steven and where i agree with tom, if we assume that there can't be negative implications across race ethnicity simply because a program is in place and a particular set of households are in more distress, they're going to get more help, i think that that's not a reasonable assumption. the fact that african-americans and latinos need something more does not mean that when the program is designed it will benefit them more. the example of this program is what i've seen so far, the borrowers have to be current in their mortgages. well, one might expect it would then african-american and latino communities in fact were -- a disproportionate share of households may be behind in their mortgages because their mortgage is affected by unemployment or loss of income. so they're on the surface we would potentially be given the real individuals who need it from a public policy standpoint but who are not immediately in distress and not giving support the households who actually need it because they're in financial distress. so that alone to me says the program des

from los angeles, steven spielberg's lincoln was leader of the pack, life of pi was a close second, it received 11 nominations including best picture, best director, tied for third was tomhooper les miserables and silver linings playbook. >> and now a new book, do the movies have a future, tony scott of "the new york times", dana stevens of slate and annette insdorf the director of film studies at columbia, and graduate film program there, i am pleased to have all of them here at this table right after we heard the nomination this morning, i think the biggest surprise was captain bigelow didn't get a nomination for "zero dark thirty". >> that was a big surprise. i think you know that although that is a movie that has been hamstrung a little bit by the controversy that has been gathering around it, having -- >> rose: how would you define the controversy? >> well, this is a movie a that on the one hand makes certain claims towards being, you know, not absolutely 100 percent literal but very journalistically accurate portrayal of the last ten years of the war on terror, from september 11th to the -- >> rose: what you are saying is -- >> in particular, there are sequences o

himself in trouble with the church when he crossed its biggest celebrity, tom cruise who worked for years to recruit director steven blamed him for foiling his efforts. the book delves into the tight relationship between cruise and david mischavage, the leader. he awarded the freedom medal of valor. >> these are the times now, people, okay, these are the times we will all remember. were you there? what did you do? >> reporter: karen presley worked in the celebrity center in 1980s and part of scientology's vanguard. >> when david took over the leadership of the church, he decided to focus on celebrities because the name of scientology had lost so much power. he felt that bringing big names into scientology was the way to build credibility back. >> reporter: before cruise, john travolta was scientology's biggest star. ♪ welcome back >> reporter: joining the church before his barbarino. >> you made that up. >> reporter: in the 1970s sitcom "welcome back kotter." researching and writing the book over three years, wright found travolta had a troubled relationship with the church, threatening to be outed as gay if he did

tom donlon. the two hardest calls that i made were obviously to the families of ambassador stevens and sean smith know, they, i have to say, were extraordinary in their responses, in their understanding of the pride we had in both men, and gratitude we had for their service. i would also just quickly add, mr. chairman, that while this was going on, we were continuing to face protests, demonstrations, violence across the region and as far as india and indonesia. there were so many protests happening and thousands of people were putting our facilities at risk, so we were certainly very determined to do whatever we could about benghazi. we were relieved when we finally got the last of americans out of benghazi, but then we were turning around, dealing with the very serious threats facing so many of our other facilities. . >> thank you very much. my time has expired. senator corker? >> thank you, mr. chairman. madame secretary, i agree with you, when people go into the field to do the things they do, they do it knowing of the risk. and i agree with you, one of the untold stories here is that the hero

tom donalin. two hardest calls i made obviously to the families of ambassador stevens and sean smith. have to say they were extraordinary in their responses an their pride we had in both men and gratitude for their service. i would also quickly, add, mr. chairman, that. we were trying to understand it, and on top of it, we were continuing to face protests, demonstrations, violence across the region and and as far as india and indonesia. there were so many protests happening an thousands of people were putting our facilities at risk. we were certainly woe were relieved when we got the last of the americans out of benghazi. we were turning around with very serious threats facing so many of our other facilities. >> thank you very much. my time has expired. senator corker. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary, i agree with you, when people go into the field to do the things they do, they do it knowing of the risk and i agree with you one of the untold stories here is the heroic nature of many in libya and what they did to save lives. i met several of the jsoc folks and others that

a little bit of perspective steven and where i agree with tom, if we pretend or assumed -- not pretend if we assume that there cannot be negative implications across race and ethnicity simply because a program is in place in a particular set of households are and more distressed, they're going to get more help. i think that is not a reasonable assumption. the fact that african-americans and latinos need something more does not mean that when the program was designed it will benefit the more. an example in this program, when i have seen so far, the borrowers must be current in their mortgages. one might expect that it was african-american and latino populations may be more behind because they're more disproportionately affected by unemployment or loss of income, so on the surface we would potentially be giving the real benefits to the individual, the thomas point, who needed from a public policy standpoint but you are not immediately in distress and not giving his support to the households to actually needed because they are in financial distress. that alone, to me, says the program des

transaction from some of the top regional bankers in the country like tom frost is a giant in his dream texas and nationally for mr. stevens on arkansas into my great surprise and i'm still scratching my head on this one, the fellow they started it all as citigroup. so i do see them out pouring of support for this effort and the real question is, how do you get the members by legislature that is so much to worry about right now to focus on this issue? i think it's important for them to understand this is part of the problem as to why we have not recovered as quickly as possible. i refer to that of passing. i've written a great deal about it. but it's pretty simple but if you're a manager of a large institution and you have a massive portion of the industry's assets in your preoccupied with the issues you mentioned and inferred, it's hard to focus on your business. you become too complex and too large to manage and there's an issue of scale. so i would submit and i have submitted in everett about this a great deal, hunting is written about it, simon johnson, a great scholar has written about it and others, that what has hap

compliant a steven house and he's got to make his own billion dollars and my people these people who are struggling and working so hard they're going to have lists benefits for more cause tom is that fair is that right no it's not and that's why i think we should have a national single payer health care system i think it's insane that we pay about twice as much as every other developments in the world we're going to have when we have a lower average length of life and lower quality of life but but that has nothing to do with the minimum wage the minimum wage going up i'm not talking about the raising of the elite as isness i'm not talking about raising wages on people who are making seventy thousand ninety thousand dollars a year i'm not talking about rate you know raising wages on billionaires god knows they've done a really really well their wages have gone up two hundred seventy five percent since reagan came into office average working people their wages have gone up the last actually if you include since the bush recession their wages have gone down since reagan became president so why does the throw a bone to the dog why not say to the working people who are trying t