i'm an attorney in this area with the rutherford law firm. in fact, my boss, representative and house minority leader todd rutherford is sitting right over there -- probably wondering why i'm not at the office. [laughter] but nevertheless -- the president: are you advertising for him? was this like a whole -- [laughter] audience member: no, i'm just trying to keep my job. the president: are you going to give like the number? audience member: q no, i'm just trying to keep my job. the president: "if you need representation" -- [laughter] -- "call rutherford and associates." [laughter.] all right, go ahead. audience member: i have two questions for you. i hope that you'll indulge me by addressing both. they're quick -- or the second one is quick. the first one is, what can criminal defense attorneys, like myself and mr. rutherford, do to increase the number of federal pardons that are granted? the second question is, to whom do i need to speak to improve my chances of being selected as a white house fellow? can you help me out? the president: oh

the stadium is in east rutherford, new jersey. just across the hudson river from new york.fe opened its doors four years ago. jonathan tisch was instrumental in getting it built. it's the only stadium that houses two nfl teams -- giants and the jets. it's also the largest in terms of seating capacity. all of those seats came with a hefty price tag. >> this is an amazing building. it cost $1.6 billion to build. people say to us -- why is there no roof on it? that would have been another $400 million. it is important to note that there has been not a dime of public money in this building. it is all privately financed. it was quite a remarkable accomplishment. >> the stadium will be in the spotlight in early february when it plays host to the most-watched sporting event in the world -- the super bowl. >> super bowl is a great opportunity for this region, for new york and new jersey. this is a super bowl of a lot of firsts. this is the first time it is being hosted by two teams, the jets and the giants. the first time it is being hosted by two states and one big city. the first

if you need representation, call rutherford and associates. all right. go ahead. >> i have two questions hope you'll indulge me but addressing both of them. the first is what can criminal defense attorneys like myself and mr. rutherford do to increase the number of federal pardons that are granted? the second question is to whom do i need to speak to improve my chances of being selected as a white house fellow? can you help me out? president obama: oh, ok. so the -- let me address the nonself-interested question first. i just had a discussion about the criminal justice system. one of the extraordinary powers that a president has is the power to commute sentences or to pardon somebody who has been sentenced. when i came into office for the first couple years, i noticed i wasn't really getting a lot of recommendations for pardons that -- at least not as many as i would expect. and many of them were from older folks, a lot of them were people just looking for a pardon so they could restore their gun rights. but sort of the more typical cases i would have ex

what historian rutherford found is all of a sudden a certain point, they all go into sync.ll of a sudden, the price of corn is the same in these towns. why is that? there must be a market network established. she says that is when we want to have the less i will leave the word capitalism out that is the moment we have the emergence of a market society, when you have a market -- you have boys had a market in the sense of people trading with their neighbor. now you have prices being stabilized because goods are being transported over a longer distance. you are not just trading back and forth with your neighbor. instead, you are selling cotton and corn on the market where it will compete with corn from other towns far away. the problem is she finds this happening in the late 1700s's goodbye, transition to market capitalism and all this in the jacksonian period. according to this definition and measure, it happened in the late 1700's. this market revolution or the other phrase used, "transition to capitalism," it is like wherever you put your thumb on it, it's wishes out -- it

rutherford do to increase the number of federal pardons granted.he second question is, to whom do i need to speak to increase my chances of being a white house fellow. ? president obama: so, well, let me address the non- self-interested question first. i just had a discussion about the criminal justice system. you know, one of the extraordinary powers that a president has is the power to pardon someone who has artie been sentence. when i came into office, the first couple of years, i noticed that i was not getting a lot of recommendations for pardons. at least not as many as i would expect. many of them were from older folks. a lot of them were people just looking for pardon so they could restore their gun rights. certainly, the more typical cases that i would expect coming up. i asked attorney general holder to work with me to set up a new office for or at least a new approach. historically, a president would get a stack of recommendations and sign off of them periodically i don't have time to go through each request. what we have done now is open

number of fatal over separate task force to address the problem and put the lieutenant governor rutherford in charge of this. what do you think about the plan and about his approach? >> he did make this is a sort of major platform. he said he would call for a state of emergency on the heroin issue. they can't do that legally. they addressed that. when you look at it, it isn't that much different from governor oh mall limit he had task force he initiated in june. the money is coming from grants. i think it's more just as much personal as policy. the governor had said he had a cousin who died of a heroin overdose. that's a very personal issue. i think from a policy standpoint he says we cannot arrest our way out of this issue. it is a disease. when you say that he opens himself up to other issues in terms of other drugs, in terms of arrests and incarceration. if he's going to call this a disease and the state can't arrest himself out of it what does that mean for other drugs in terms of when you arrest folks if they say, well this is a disease, i have a cocaine habit, it's a disease, should