and the administration will be in a vice. we should be pursuing stimulus and we should keep that going, say, for two more years. and we should wait-- as the president said in your clip-- to confront the deficit until the economy is stronger. that's right. n theory. the question is whether it will be possible in practice and i think that's a tough one. >> rose: altman for the hour next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we talk about the economy this evening, the growing u.s. budget deficit has alarm misdemeanor in washington, many on wall street, and many across america. economists warn that rising debt levels could be destabilize the dollar and bankrupt safety net programs like social security and medicare. the obama administration has vowed to address the problem once the economy stabilizes. in a recent interview with al hunt of bloomberg news, the president said the government's debt burden was a top concern. >> i am concerned about the long-term i

when you bring somebody else into the administration, it's not unusual for the administration to pute of their guys in under her to make her toe the line. >> bonnie: you probably agree with this but -- >> i thought you agreed a few moments ago. >> bonnie: go ahead and i want to go to a hillary supporter here. go ahead. >> i think you're all underestimate hillary. i can't imagine anyone silencing hillary clinton. she just broke her elbow, undergoing physical therapy five times a day. that's taking some time, give her a little slack. >> bonnie: but in the tina brown article she was described as a policy wonk who doesn't really want to be doing the front line stuff. she's more comfortable with no makeup on and jeans on her airplane reading policy papers than she is being out front. shouldn't she have expected this knowing the administration she was going into? it's no secret, as i like to put it, he's a rock star and a solo artist. he's not a team player. >> first off we need hillary clinton's leadership now on an international basis in terms of where our country stands. we need her to

administration. while the russians have been cooperative in opening the door to the transit corridor where the northern distribution network, as the military refers to it and there's likely to be an agreement announced in moscow on the transfer of lethal material through russian territory, the russian position on our use of the military base raises serious questions about how moscow sees its interest. officially the crem lane proved last week the decision to allow us access, but their behavior going back to the beginning of the year suggests that really they don't want to see us there. and i think that moscow may very well prefer to maintain their position in central asia rather than see our success in afghanistan. afghanistan is a vital national security interest where lives of u.s. soldiers are at stake. and obama's got to make clear that any ambiguity of moscow's report is not going to be taken likely. there are a lot of questions about moscow as a partner with the united states. but anybody -- i

this administration now is going through the same thing. namely the only thing any other new administration ought to be thinking about very hard when you come into office on the foreign policy side to better be careful not to get yourself into difficulties early on in. that is so easy to do with the slight misinterpretation of what is going on which is what happened to president clinton in this particular case. but when you do these transitions on domestic policy, that is pretty much a given committee incoming president will now was much about almost as much at least and maybe more about the issues they of the outgoing one but when it comes to foreign policy unless the candidate who becomes president is very knowledgeable on foreign policy issues, it is the time to most easily get himself into difficult times. and one of the examples that i often use in terms of trying to talk about barack osama, i do not mean osama. jesus. the president needs to watch out for something that jfk. when he went to paris, and he came away with having less sovi

how do you measure it compared to the previous administration.ing to say come to the table, but it's another thing to say, well, then you have to take my idea. it sounds like a lot of times that's what the republican party wants, for obama to not only listen but take every idea. a lot of dnemocrats say you had your turn. >> i would say it's not fair to just simply compare one administration versus the next. >> why isn't it fair? >> if you want to compare processes he would look back to '9 4 and '95. they put together each side of the table and passed a great piece of legislation. >> take the stimulus as an example. i would argue and i think a lot of people have argued that to our detriment, the democratic party and the obama administration took into consideration republican ideas that made a good bill a bad bill or worse. unfortunately, i think that's sometimes -- >> really, who would say that? >> a lot of people would argue. you included tax cuts that completely were unnecessary. here is the problem when you talk about even let's say you talk ab

i find is questionable if the obama is administration is doing anything. i am not sure that the russians are at all in compliance with those only politically and not legally binding agreements. so the final one is william negotiate treaties on the basis that to anything that violates -- that violates your obligation to your allies. it seems to me that the obama administration is coming close to the line of throwing two important nato allies over board in order to achieve this so- called reset with the u.s.- russian relations. what is it that i think the of ministration should be focused on? fundamentally, we need to move in a direction of what we call a protect and defend it strategy. we talk about that in a background about establishing an arms control policy that is a tool in achieving this new approach that will be defensive. but what we need to do is the following. we need to not worry about the start deadline. i think the u.s. and russia can continue to make progress as we have been doing in recent years on reducing the number of nuclear warheads unde

because of our administration, they have come back to colombia. they in joy all of the freedoms and they enjoy all of the protection. we have 10,000 colombians with individual protection provided by the government. the ministry of finance needs to spend $45 million to budget this individual protection. in the economy, what do we mean by social responsibility? social responsibility is transparency and the relationship between the government and investors. transparency in taxes, contracts, in negotiations, conciliation some of legal disputes -- transparency. my government discusses in public audiences. we have advanced a lot in this regard. social responsibility requires a great effort from the government to make investors, to respond positively to requirements from the community. for instance, in regions -- [unintelligible] we have seen confrontations, political confrontations between investors and the community. we have not disregard the community's claims and we have not created obstacles for investors. what we have done is to call both parties i

during many years, in many areas of the country, the justice administration, the justice administration is totally independent in colombia from the executive branch. the justice administration has been displaced or replaced. in many areas of the country, their general prosecutors, there are judges that had been replaced by terrorist quarrelous, terrorist ringleaders of these organizations, who tried to exercise illegal justice, who usurp the right of our democratic justice administration. colombia house recover this monopoly. prior to this policing, colombians were afraid to propose. today columbians have recovered confidence to denounce. columbians today have many more prior to this administration. it has been very important. my government is open and receptive. quite often the minister of defense, the high command and the police in the military and i as president, quite often we go to receive questions, claims in plame's from the people regarding the behavior of our soldiers and policemen in human rights. we do our best to clarify, to make clear every case. i consider this is a very u

administrator fugate, mr.mccarthy about what changes need to remain to this effort act, we are taking a comprehensive free look at the saturn aga and the recollection supported and i was secure supports madam chair mr. ranking member in these efforts. this navidad is currently setup to provide recovery dollars on a project by project basis. her for the gulf coast dates that were hit by hurricane katrina and rita, this is not optimal due to the extent of distractions. that i that we're nearly four years for these events and the states and fema are still arguing over doorknobs of whether a building that was flooded that is and falling down was more or less than 50 percent damage to demonstrates this. link in catastrophic cormack disasters the states and localities maintain the flexibility to rethink and replant the recovery and have other mitigation plan. they need to have a flexibility to decide whether rebuilding in the pre disaster for a. is the best solution for the committee's long term. what are some of th

farc has diminished a lot in this administration. this narcotics trafficking terrorist organization still has the power to create many problems. for us to advance, we need effectiveness in other countries against this organization. if this organization can't find hideouts in other countries, this organization will never have the disposition, the likelihood to negotiate in columbia. we should understand that the best way to fill riches is by pressing farc, not by giving them hideouts. the day before we left columbia, we visited one remote area. we have advanced a lot in illicit drugs eradication and providing people with social advances in health, education, electricity, utilities. this is not a paradise but it is a place making progress. before yesterday, the mayor and city councilors went to other rural communities. they were fired by farc. the farc attacked them by explosives. the president of the city council was kidnapped 76 hours ago by farc. the members that produced that attack were furious, angry because the city councilor ha

within the bush administration, this administration has agreed to $63 million now, more than a doubling of the commitments under the bush administration, to health and broadening the scope in that to malaria, t.b., and importantly, maternal child health and family planning services. again, areas which in the expansion under the bush years got kind of pushed aside and shunted aside. so i think a broader conceptualization of health issues and challenges and how do you build health capacity overall to lift all votes and not simply the h.i.v. aspect. finally i think a strong emphasis on partnership with african countries and strong stable, capable african countries on the security, on the security challenges, whether the many conflicts in after carks the counterterrorism issues in the horn. and kind of the looming and the new emerging challenges, west africa's become a major focus on the narcotics transfer route and that's front and center in assistant secretary johnny carson's mind. climate change, obviously, africa's one of the smallest contributors to global warming, but will be among th

i have a little better idea what the administration has asked for. i can identify write off what would give him a lot of trouble. first, there is the demand from the russians that there will be no arms control agreement the situation goes forward in poland and the czech republic. some in the obama administration don't do those deployments anyway. that could include the president, himself. but i think that would be politically and strategically a very costly concession. which, i would strongly urge him not to do. if he's put in a situation where no arms control agreement happens with those deployments, he will recognize that he will have serious political trouble if he makes this concession. he will work really hard to find a technical, strategic rationale for making it without making that concession to the soviet union. that is a sow's of trouble. another big source of trouble for him will be russian assistance on some recognition of the severe privileged interest, to use his language. i have read in the press that in some way the obama administratio

obama administration. a few weeks ago, this administration released a sobering report on the impact of global warming across the united states, and the devastating effects that will come if we do not take action. droughts, floods, fires colossus' species, damage to agriculture, worsening -- fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture. to act on the heels of the passage of the waxman-markey bill in the house. today i expect you'll hear fierce words of doubt and fear from the other side of the aisle regarding our legislative efforts. this is consistent with a pattern of no -- no, we can't, no, we won't. i believe that when the vote is eventually taken on our bill, the committee will reflect the president's attitude which is, yes we can, yes, we will protect colleagues, this is a challenge to our generation that offers hope, not fear, anyway out of the environmental and economic challenges we face so that our children and our grandchildren will have a bright future. thank you very much. senator in hounhoffe

inherited the problems with which the bush administration was wrestling and the bush administration was wrestling with problems such as afghanistan and north korea and iran because they're important and difficult. there are no easy solutions because if they were we would have thought of them and applied them so there is more continuity in foreign policy than the administration likes to advertise and that's the nature of foreign policy. the administration has much greater scope to make a break with the previous administration on domestic issues than on foreign policy issues and indeed domestic issues are more important to the country at this point. >> charlie: what do we know from the white house coverage of how this president has been changed by the reality of the world and he thought he might find/expect? >> i think that's an interesting question and i don't think -- i'll go back to north korea. i think that's one of those things the obama administration has reached out and reached out to anothe north korea and iran slapped back, particularly by the north koreans and that's surpris

within the bush administration, this administration has agreed to $63 million now, more than a doubling of the commitments under the bush administration, to health and broadening the scope in that to malaria, t.b., and importantly, maternal child health and family planning services. again, areas which in the expansion under the bush years got kind of pushed aside and shunted aside. so i think a broader conceptualization of health issues and challenges and how do you build health capacity overall to lift all votes and not simply the h.i.v. aspect. finally i think a strong emphasis on partnership with african countries and strong stable, capable african countries on the security, on the security challenges, whether the many conflicts in after carks the counterterrorism issues in the horn. and kind of the looming and the new emerging challenges, west africa's become a major focus on the narcotics transfer route and that's front and center in assistant secretary johnny carson's mind. climate change, obviously, africa's one of the smallest contributors to global warming, but will be among th

you decide. >> as the obama administration braces to reform a u.s. health system it says is in critical condition, here is an example of union sersal healthcare, the u.k.'s national health service or n.h.s. and funded by taxpayers. it provides free healthcare for visitly all ail manies for all brits, some 60 million people, and does it at a lower cost than the u.s. with, some claim, superior results. >> it doesn't matter whether you're rich or poor. you get run over by a bus or have a heart attack. you don't reach four visa card. you get treated. you get fixed up. >> but there are limits. >> if you have cancer in the u.k. today, you are going to die quicker than any other country. >> the same health service is ammo for obama critics. patient anecdotes point out brittish inefficiencies air in ads. survival rates for some cancers, for example, are lower in the u.k. than in the u.s. and elsewhere. the government-run n.h.s. is charged as a monopoly provider, limiting options, stiffling new treatment and dictating service by where one lives. >> can't choo

what are the fundamental risks with the administration's approach? prudent arms control ultimately rests on an agreed set of standards. when i say arms control standards, these would be applicable whether dziewit talking about conventional systems, nuclear systems -- applicable whether you were talking about conventional systems for nuclear systems. it seems like the administration is not observing these fundamental aspects of arms control. does this mean that the obama administration cannot arrive at a treaty with russia? no, that is not one i mean by failure. i mean one that does not serve the interests of the united states or internationally. let's go through some of these standards. he should not enter into a negotiation you are on willing to walk away from. -- you should not enter in a negotiation you are not willing to walk away from. that is not of pulling that standard in terms of having a firm idea of when your partner is asking too much and you will not go there. if you don't establish that foundation, then any agreement becomes acceptable

the administration in a way has taken a belt and suspenders approach. what we've said, and i think this was just the right way to push the debate. what the president said is we're going to insist on doing the difficult, fundamentally important things that don't score because they can't be audited. we're going to take no credit for those. we could make a bunch of arguments about dynamic scoring and so forth. we're going to do none of that. we're going to take no credit for it except that regard it's fundamentally important to do it. and then we're going to insist that our health care proposals be paid for with hard, scorable measures of the kind the c.b.o. will score. and that's the debate that's now going through. we have endorsed exactly the principle that would you want us to that we can't afford more increases in health care than we can pay for with hard, scorable savings. and that's the debate that's underway. presidents put forth a lot of proposals. as i say, many of them have been adopted. the most important one that's still under discussion is th

right now the administration is not pursuing that.administration also realizes it would be an enormously expense i mission to pursue, and with an $11.6 trillion national debt there really isn't much money or any money that isn't deficit funding for such a mission. but you're right. it does get tedious asking sfokesman robert gibbs the same questions, and it's why you probably don't see much of that on 'til vision because we are getting the same answers and it's not really news. once the health care measure goes forward and is passed, and there's newsworthy information, it will be conveyed. we're honorbound to ask the spokesman about these issues. it is certainly a priority for the president, but you're right. it does get tedious. >> the c-span of course cover it is daily briefingsing with robert zpwibs. back in the first administration marlin fits water would have the first five minutes open for cameras then turn it off. they changet? because -- guest: certainly the more openness, the better. if the american people can watch the spoke

administration and gorbachov administration wanted it to go. in the first panel, it was said one has to pay attention to appearances. 18 years later what you have now is a lot of government and business people saw what was the appearance of adherence to the rule of law around the turn of the century and the millennium with russians generating wonderful clothes and rules, taken from some of the best that were available in other nations, but now what we have seen is a turn away from the appearance to the rule of law. this task force that the heritage foundation has put together and the position paper it has sent to decision makers. it will hopefully have some influence on the president's message when he goes to the summit. this is a point that is stressed, the importance of the rule of law. the rule of law is not just for human rights. which everybody is quick to gravitate to. but the role of the rule of law in connection with the international economy and the business community, as russia seeks to grow its economy and expand it, for example with

because, unlike bush administration or clinton administration, obama doesn't want to build relationships with russia and america, relations between the white house and kremlin. the russian and american people and meeting oppositional leaders and meeting the njo, he did before and meeting with the business groups, he he indicated that it will not be business as usual, not like the relations between two leaders and the rest is relevant. and i think that his consistent message throughout his stay is that america wants to reset the button, but not just a fo formality, he means it. >> when the president talks about reset. what is it you think he's trying to accomplish and how do the kremlin leaders in particular define reset when we're talking about u.s.-russian relations? >> oh, we knew very well from this agenda, they wanted the so-called approval of russian influence and they wanted america to cancel the missile defense froms europe-- from europe. they want americans to ignore-- and the urging him not to drop the self-defense system and defend georgia and ukraine and to build relationships

i mean, to say that the obama administration is doing exactly what the bush administration is doing,as doing simply isn't accurate. >> adam, mark, we'll give you more time to make your case as this continues and we've seen the latest extension. thanks, guys. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> president obama is hitting the road thursday to make a push for his health care plan. we talked about him ramping things up here. >> he did the same thing in february when urging congress to pass his economic stimulus plan. the president put a focus on elkhart county, indiana, the rv capital of the world and' been hit hard by the economy. right now the unemployment rate there is a staggering ining 16.. ed neufeld became the face of elkhart when he was introduced at the town hall meeting in february. >> it is my privilege and honor to introduce to you the president of the united states, president barack obama. >> that same gentleman ed neufeld joins us live from elkhart, indiana, looks like in front of a fair. ed, how are things going? >> things are going well for me and i think elkhart county hit b

small business administration.prior to being confirmed as fda administrator, most recently ms. mills served in a group in brunswick, maine. the fda helps small business owners and entrepreneurs that you are financing technical assistance training. welcome. >> thank you very much. chairwoman velazquez, ranking member graves, members of the committee, it is a great honor to testify before you as my first time as fda administrator. given the obama administration's mandate to us to eliminate and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in government programs i am pleased to testify this is my first of these regularly scheduled hearings on this topic. i consider is this to be one of my most important responsibilities. some of you know, as you mentioned, small businesses account for 60% to 80% of the new jobs that are created. over half of americans who work alone or work for small business. small-businesses are going to continue to be the foundation of innovation and competitiveness and the creation of our 20 first century jobs.

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the administration is finally admitting it. jackson story to the detriment of others such as wars in iraq an afghanistan? the panel will take on this, next. >> michael jackson. >> michael jackson. >> michael jackson he's body from forest lawn to the staples center, need to prepare for security. >> as the coverage of michael jackson's death continued over recent days and as the world watches jackson's memorial service today on all u.s. networks, military families are looking for perspective. since jackson's death on june 25, at least 20 service members have died in iraq and afghanistan. one killed was brian bradshaw, killed by an improviseed explosive device in afghanistan. lieutenant bradshaw was 24. his family buried him yesterday in kent, washington. his aunt wrote a letter to "the washington post" about her nephew's death and the michael jackson coverage saying what more did michael jackson do or represent that earned him memorial shrines while this soldier's death goes unheralded? it makes me want to scream." thinking about

we also provided some administrative funds, additional of administrative funds to address the rising demand for food stamps, and can you give us a sense of some of the ways in which states are spending those funds, and secondly with regard to the emergency food assistance program, how, you talked about the states, how was that being distributed? is it competitive, is a formula? what is the story on how those and how are those funds being spent? >> i mustin met imo little confused here because i usually referred to u.s. madam chair but i guess i can't right now. representative, as it relates to your first question, the administrative expense money is going to states, and is in the states are very, significantly strep requested former governor, what you generally do when you were faced with that is you take a look first and foremost petrostate employment base. you try to determine whether not there's any way you can ride out the storm retirements, not filling vacancies. the problem with that is that the work that was otherwise to be done by those individuals is not being done and you

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did the administration give up too much? >>> and california's budget crisis. incredibly worsening by the day. state keeps trying to hand out ious. which it owes even more. stay with us. >>> in california the budget stalemate costs the state $25 million a day on top of a deficit that has already approaching $30 billion. in the past week, people that do tax refunds, vendors expecting payments and people on public assistance received ious instead of checks. among the hardest hitting with medical care providers for the poor. casey wian reports. >> reporter: the venice family clinic in los angeles is the nation's largest provider of free medical care for low-income patients. it sees 400 people a day, from the indigent to the working poor. but some of those services may soon be cut because about 20% of the clinic's funding comes from the state of california which is mired in a budget crisis. already, some health care clinics and other state contractors are are receiving ious because california is short of cash. >> essentially the state is balancing its cash flow nee

we also provided some administrative funds, additional of administrative funds to address the rising demand for food stamps, and can you give us a sense of some of the ways in which states are spending those funds, and secondly with regard to the emergency food assistance program, how, you talked about the states, how was that being distributed? is it competitive, is a formula? what is the story on how those and how are those funds being spent? >> i mustin met imo little confused here because i usually referred to u.s. madam chair but i guess i can't right now. representative, as it relates to your first question, the administrative expense money is going to states, and is in the states are very, significantly strep requested former governor, what you generally do when you were faced with that is you take a look first and foremost petrostate employment base. you try to determine whether not there's any way you can ride out the storm retirements, not filling vacancies. the problem with that is that the work that was otherwise to be done by those individuals is not being done and you

this is the first major offensive since the obama administration has come in. i think what you're seeing now, when you see this -- i was struck when president obama talked about the new strategy in afghanistan. this is now his war. certainly, the iraq war is his as well, but the strategy -- there is a new strategy. it is his idea what failures or what successes happen are on his store -- are on his shoulders now. sending in marines in this area is a big step. i was also reading today and struck by this, the pakistani army is putting soldiers along its border with afghanistan. some of those taliban do not fully from the fighting there, which has been a huge problem in the past this is the first sign i have seen. the obama administration has said they want to look at these two countries together. you cannot solve one without the other. there is clearly some coordination here that is going on. they have launched this operation. the pakistanis are preparing to keep those taliban militants there. it is good to hear that they are making the effort. host: this is a si

and the administration knows that. and the divide says we can't take more debt. we can't take more debt. >> yes. it's a serious problem. and it does mean you have to have a stimulus package and you're going to have to follow it with a period of serious fiscal discipline as the economy recovers. the biggest fiscal policy mistake of the most resent administration was to not use the time of economic, robust economic growth to build up a government surplus. clinton did it. the tail end of the clinton administration, do you remember when clinton left office, we were looking at $300 billion surplus. >> charlie: they did that by the decisions they made in the beginning of 92, 93. budget deficit hawks that bob ruben was, right or wrong. >> right, that's right. >> charlie: do it at the last minute, the republicans are arguing that, the republicans will argue now, they'll come in here and argue that yes they presented a surplus but the yes they presented an economy that was losing steam. and all of a sudden, you know -- >> in 2001. >> charlie: yes, in 2001. that's what the

>> well, every administration, when they come in, they have the authority to make administrative changes issue regulations that are within the four corners of existing law. unfortunately, what is happening right now is the obama administration has made three major changes that are vig nalling that the end of immigration -- that are vig nalling the end of immigration law enforcement as we know it. glenn: give me the first one. >> the first is they are scaling back workforce enforcement and the second is they have withdrawn the no-match rule and the third one is they are reducing the amount of local police to enforce the agreement. glenn: take these things one by one. they say, no, we're going after the employers. >> well, you should go after both. let's take number one, the end of work site enforcement. there has been a dramatic increase during the bush administration years. fiscal year 2002, there were 500 work site arrests for immigration violations. in 2008, it went up to over 6,000 arrests t was really having an effect. there was a net dekeys in illegal aliens in the united states bec

cover if the administration blesses the bonuses, and it gets trickiky for the administration to get -- to put some skin in this game. >> the treasury department declined to comment, but said overall when kenneth feinberg reviews bonus proposals bailout companies will need to convince mr. feinberg that they have struck the right balance to distort excessive risk taking and reward performance for its top executives. that's a quote, kitty. >> but, brian, let's talk about, kenneth feinberg on behalf of the government is only reviewing the future bonuses and isn't this set on bonuses from previous contracts? >> that's absolutely right. these upcoming bonuses for next week are based on previous contracts, as are the $200 million bonuses set to be paid out next year. now, he -- that means kenneth feinberg will not necessarily rule on them. if he does not, aig will have to face the heat alone on this. and remember the scale of these, next week's bonuses only $2.5 million and the remaining $200 million scheduled to be paid out next year that from a previous contract, that will spark even mor

against the backdrop of the previous administration, which really disengaged from syria. you now see efforts to engage with syria. syria has an important role with iran. an important regional ally in iraq preventing militants from getting across the border. syria has played a constructive role recently with the lebanese elections. is moving closer again to saudi arabiya in working with that relationship. important on the internal palestinian front. i think that all of those issues are relevant. in particular, mitchell wants to see the israeli/syrian peace talks relaunched. syria's in favor of that but doesn't want to go back to square one. we've been talking for over 15 years on these issues. on the israeli said there is more division. the defense establishment understands the need for a deal and to withdraw from goran. prime minister netanyahu, his foreign minister, is far more antsy. >> well, you did cover everything. i wanted to know about that. and finally on the ongoing settlement dispute between the u.s. and israel. any progress being made between these two countrie

bush administration bush administration for good or the bush administration for good or for ill was almost completely discredited primarily because of the war in iraq. mass destruction which they refused to deal with in an appropriate way that prompted us to go to war in iraq. i'm not sure that was the real rational but be that as it may that was the public rationale. saddam hussein was so unpopular in iraq. they would -- 2/3 would have voted to go to war because they didn't like saddam hussein. now you have a democratic ascendency in the congress and in the white house and it's real quite unique, probably hasn't happened since the 1930's. this is an enormous impact on this country and on the credibility of the government. there is such a relief that there is a new administration in and they have been given a great deal of shall we say leeway in terms of their assertions. i'm not sure this is going to be sustainable. and i believe a year from now we'll have a more normal presidency in which the administration is going to really have to fight in a very different way for its legislative and

the preliminary report of the administration detention policy tsk force announced the administration's intention to use reformed military commission proceedings to retry some fraction of the detainees currently held at guantanamo bay. while i continue to doubt that the use of a new military commission system is a necessary course of policy, i also believe that it is possible to conduct commission proceedings for certain crimes in a way that comports with u.s. and international law ensuring that any future proceedings meet thoke@@@@@á,)a'$)"b"rr comply with relevant law. i ask that testimony be incorporated into the record here if that's possible. >> without objection. >> thank you. in addition, i think it's critical that any new legislation regarding military commissions, include a sunset provision or other structural mechanism to ensure that the commissions are strictly limited in purpose and duration. such structural limitations are essential not only to bolster the commission's already tarnished legitimacy but to ensure their constitutionality. as the supreme court has consistently

it's not just about administration versus administration. there are people caught in the middle of this. >> yeah, and as far as i'm concerned it's not so much about them losing their jobs because they could have been dismissed at any time for any reason, but the issue is more that what happened was after they were dismissed the bush administration cooked up various allegations against them in terms of their competence and made it sound like they were incompetent lawyers or even worse incompetent u.s. attorneys that weren't doing the prosecutions they needed to do. >> and whether they were targeted because of politics. that's at the heart of this. what happens next with karl rove? we have the closed door testimony. what happens now? >> the house judiciary committee is preparing a report on this. there's a possibility rove or miers could be called to testify but i think that's unlikely. there's a criminal investigation that's still going on into all of this. it's not believed to be focusing so much on white house officials, but on justice depa