they simply said we are observing these elections from afar. really the u.s.as little access or leverage in iran. that i have not had an embassy in tehran for 30 years now. you asked why were the results so lopsided? the reason why, a candidate has to get a majority of the votes, over 50% for him to be the outright victor. if he doesn't, the two candidates go to a second-round runoff. i think what the calculated -- what they calculated was that if this went to a second round between ahmadinejad and mus want avi he would be beat handedly. i think those were the calculations very much. one other point, in 2005, when ahmadinejad was elected, i think there were major allegations of impropriety. but essentially, the opposition conceded the fete. people were disappointed. the u.s. was disappointed. we moved on. ahmadinejad visited the united states four times and the u.n. general assembly. but i will tell you as someone who also holds an iranian passport, for me, this is irrelevant, the history here with the united states. i agree that u.s. intervention in the unite

they both have been out for a year, although they have been engaged in the issue from afar, there is no substitute for being on the ground and seeing it from that perspective. they will get on the ground, says that for themselves, report it back, and if there have to be modifications in strategy made, they will make them. in the meantime, it is all the forces being utilized at maximum defect according to the game plan we have now. -- at maximum effect according to the game plan we have now. the general is within his power to do so, but the secretary wants a review of the situation from their perspective within 60 days. >> this is the last couple. last week the secretary of the air force said the air force would be presenting to the secretary their plan going forward with regard to the tanker. >> i would walk you away from the notion that there is one briefing or one meeting that is going to determine the course of the tanker replacement bidding process. the secretary is engaging, has been, and will be engaging in a number of meetings about this, and i do not know when the next one is

marquez to be the assistant secretary for community planning and development at the housing and human afars. the ayes have it. the nominees are hereby reported. the executive session is adjourned. with that we turn to our two witnesses. ron bloom is a very experienced individual, advising labor and business leaders. he assists the secretary and the members of the auto task force. he's a founding partner of the investment firm, banking firm of keilan and bloom. mba from harvard. ed montgomery, dr. montgomery, joins us as president obama's director of recovery of auto communities and workers. formally left his post as dean of the college of social sciences at university of maryland. earned a ph.d. of economics from harvard and we're delighted to have both of you with us. we'll be begin in the order i introduced you. try to keep your remarks relatively brief. testimony, evidence, supporting documents will all be included as part of the record. >> yes, sir. good afternoon. chairman dodd, ranking member shelby, members of the senate banking committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify bef

we thought it was from afar. with so many of us unemployed workers in america now, already the obama administration has made a decision on health reform that is really helped. i just have a feeling that nationally with so much unemployment going on, what is your national field on -- you have 10 percent of america on an unemployed. how does that affect everything on a global picture? guest: fortunately -- or unfortunately for our viewers delaware -- the rate is not 10 percent but he is right, i think it will reach 10 percent before this is over. what happens is even if the economy begins to rebound, the unemployment rate continues to grow for a period of time. the bigger danger is that in our last two recessions, we had jobless recovery spirit we had a pickup in economic activity, but we never quite return to the level especially of manufacturing and plummet that we had prior to that. economists laude this, they call it improvements in productivity. in fact, it is good to learn to do more with less. but for indivi

[laughter] but it does look smaller from afar but virtually everything in this dollar bill if you look at it, the pyramid on its -- you can do this at home -- and there is an all seeing eye on the top of it, 12 players that lead up to that high, there are 30 narrows, there are 13 in all of leaves symbolizing the peace, he pluribus a modem, at of many comes a one is in 13 letters, in god we trust -- every single thing in here is encoded in 13. of the founders love 13 and they would not understand our phobia for the 13 floors with the exception of the national press club were taking the 13th floor of airplanes frequently they used to do that out. are even our obsession or phobia about fretted the 13th. they would even do what i was photographing at monticello the 76 sissons. they would gather and look at the numerology. you just take the numbers and add the amount -- seven plus six equal 13. well, where this leading is that mr. jefferson as did franklin extrapolated that for every 19 years there is a new generation of americans born. every 19 years. and if you will supply that on july 4t