finally, the childcare bureau launched a new website part of the acf website that features childcare resources for planning and responding to disasters and emergencies. if you have not looked at it, i encourage you to do it. it has resources for grantees, states, providers, parents, people who are displaced in an emergency, it's a very comprehensive, very accessible, very user-friendly website with a wealth of resources about childcare access in disaster situations. we're very, very proud to have that up and running. that's the childcare bureau and closely named is our children's bureau. similar name, but different. it is responsible for child welfare services and monitors state's disaster plans for children in foster care who may be displaced during a disaster situation, and those plans allow for continuous tracking of foster care children in emergencies. in that area, in the child welfare area, we continue to enforce requirements under the 2006 child and family services improvement act that states locate and ensure services to children under state care or supervision affected or di

she and her team are officially responsible for facilitating acf support of fema in the core function which calls for in-depth assessment on the ground states to make sure they are in a position at the capacity to provide the services children need in the week of the disaster. we continue to play a vital role in assuring children's needs are being met while they are displaced or sheltered during disaster and we work with organizations on the ground and state agencies to make sure the supplies are in place and service available to address child's specific needs making sure safety protocols are in place to make sure children are protected in the situations. as i said i would like to focus on five specific program areas and the portfolio that i think particularly relevant to the discussion and the commission has identified as important in the week of disasters. those are child care, child welfare, head start, services through what we call our children's programming and disaster management program. let me start with child care, and the child care program within acf is administered by the

recognize that we were saying earlier the bully richard nixon in the fall of go one three networks, have acfthat is not really possible for president today is that? >> guest: know, the diffusion of communications means that you don't have that sort of before you finish the sermon, know, they are twittering and the internet is commenting and-- >> guest: i think we are going to see different kinds in the future. >> host: that is obviously where we want to go. i mean first of all what are the lessons of this book for barack obama? as you know we are taping this on the eve of midterm elections. certainly part of the conventional narrative is that there is a considerable amount of disillusionment on the left with this president, who really makes only a cameo appearance in fit at this point in your narrative? >> guest: the obvious parallel is with bill clinton in 94, who was stunned when he lost both houses, not just one house but both houses, chambers of commerce-- congress. and it is remarkable, you think i quote the moment when bill clinton, after losing-- bill clinton's image, we are talking a

but i didn't hear that we are sending acf case managers in. i heard we're sending in hud case manager. so if we haven't defined what case benefit services are, it may very well be that those families at risk of child abuse, domestic violence, are having of exacerbation, mental health issues, are now appropriately removed from shelters and place in stable housing. we may have missed the opportunity to identify and address some of those mental health needs. so i'm concerned that we can, probably can't have the immediate services and immediate sharing of information. there will always be some delay. is not going to be in real-time. probably. so that i guess my strategy would be let's talk about really what other components need to be in place, get the right people there, providing the appropriate services. and then timely, we leave to them to try -- >> i am concerned that i think one of the roles of the commission is to provide expertise that says this bureaucratic complication or service of things that have to be done is interfering with appropr