[laughte >> john, i want to say allan has the logo of the flying thing when you had the acronym esd, endogenoustabilizing factors. i ink need to run with that. >> i am going to pass for now. >> during the course of this panel, it was great to be able to sit here and listen towhat all my colleagues had to say because they havebeen extremely valuable and insightful. secondly i kept thinking about our experience th this economic pressure and comparing to e u.s. airplane piloted by captain solon berger that ditched in the hudson river a couple of years ago. and, people talked about that water landing as a miracle. the plane was hit by a bird. it landed in water and eveone was ved four captain solon berger was a hero. the more i thought about it i started to distinguish between what i thought was a miracle and what i thought was just good engineering and good taining d good practice, and i think thmiracle that took place that day wa the plane had enough air speed. the second miracle was that, when the plane was put down on the river, there was no river fic they got in its way to create co

previoly, allan was on the federal housing finance board from 2000 to 2009 and shar that ward in 2000 and 2001. he was executive director of the trade deficit review commission, vice president of the economic strategy institute and executive vice preside of the export-iort bank as well as being a managing director at the gao, which was the government account team office at that point when it had an older and more honest name. our fourth speaker will be mark zandi, the chief economist of moody'analytics where he directs research and conlting. marks research interest include macroeconomics, financial markets and public policy. he has recently focused on the determinants of mortgage foreclosure and personal bankruptcy, analyzed economic impact of tax and government spendi policies and asess e appropriate policy responses to bubbles. he is ten quoted in national and global publications and is the author of financial shock, and exposÉ of the financial crisis as well as the forthcoming book, paying the price, which provides a roadmap for addressing our dating fiscal challenges. mark has adv

here is allan park, mich., a republican caller. caller: i should not be close to my tv at all. i grew up in florida but i live in michigan now. i truly believe this will change our energy policies in the future. it will not do this overnight. this will be a minimum of 20 years. that's how long it will take to get into a green energies. the gulf oil spill, our largest problem has been that our president did not make a solid sound executive order one or two weeks into this oil spill. these people are in trouble down there. our coastlines are in trouble. there are hundreds including one we have. there are hundreds of people that have volunteered their technology, their own expertise to help correct this thing. host: go back to the executive order. what would you want it to do? caller: keep bp within 5 miles of that oil rig plugging the keep them out of the containment and extraction business. host: who would take care of that, the u.s.? caller: everything on the water would be out there if it was left to the people. an executive order to rapidly approved contingency plans for the

allan meltzer responded saying, "the huge stimulus spending has done little to reduce unemployment, and of years." watched the president's remarks and read the response, as well as a statement by the house minority leader john boehner, and our stimulus website at c- span.org/stimulus. >> pulitzer prize winners today on book tv prime time. we have a discussion on the final decade of the cold war. we have a look at the first tycoon -- the life and times of cornelius vanderbilt. we also have a discussion of how world bankers attended to rebuild the world economy following the first world war, and instead led to the first economic collapse and great depression. that is today on c-span2. >> everyone has an agenda. as long as you know what their agenda is, you can write about that story. >> over the past year, he has written a series on lawmakers overseas trips, funded by taxpayers. he is our guest sunday on c- span's "q&a." >> next, all look at the justiie department's office on violence against women. the head of that department joined us on "washington journal" for about 40 minutes. host:

as to one of these 211 wrongly marked, or one of these and i'll meet -- ethanolamines -- and allan knee's -- i will defer to the inspector general. i do not know that. >> i do not have a precise date. during the course of our inspection, which started in august of 2009, we had several incidents that occurred during that period of time. it was brought to us by a family member or a burial that was improperly uncovered. the precise date, that is the currency of it. >> s to the first part of your question, -- as to the first part of your question, the intent of the steps that i have ordered today are designed to make sure that we do things absolutely correctly from this point forward. miss condon will focus on the administrative side. most of the accountability issues are administrative i have full confidence in her ability to ensure that we go in proper fashion on this day for. beyond that, we are bringing in a very substantial support for the folks from the veterans administration, who through the various the a cemeteries conduct some 6000 funerals a year. we feel very comfortable that they

i have all the confidence in general allan to lead until this transition is complete. in terms of process, is will be the normal process. someone will be nominated by the president, recommended by secretary gates, nominated by the president and then be confirmed by the senate. [unintelligible] [laughter] that is all i will say. >> i would like to go in a different direction. you are very supportive of one effort. can you tell us what you think would be the biggest challenge in the pentagon to find that much money? what would be the hardest? >> i am very supportive of this. i have seen it come in number of years. in my previous life as chief in the navy, i had expectations 2009, things't 8, in the budget would turn. historically throughout our country, it is amazing to go back from 1935 until now, it is almost a perfect sign curve, a 19-year cycle. through war and peace -- and the resources that i have, from my perspective, we have to fund the operations we are in. we have to make sure we restores our people. we have to get right the equipment and the systems we need bo

another general, general allan, a very competent guy, marine corps, was somebody that we got to know when he was at the naval academy. but the combination -- there has to be some sort of a strategy for how you win hearts and minds and develop these situations. one of the big mistakes we can to make is we come from washington, d.c., and if there is a hurricane, washington, d.c., should help. if i am hungry, the government should help. we are very top-down, and get these little free countries have to be built from the bottom up. this counterinsurgency plan is a way to try to win those villages and hearts and minds of the individuals. that is what makes it very difficult for the president, because general mcchrystal was well thought of by the leadership in afghanistan. host: the news in the past month from afghanistan has been pretty mixed, i would say, at best. casualties are up. president karzai is not optimistic about our efforts there and is beginning to forge his own relationships with the taliban. many of the analysis this morning suggests there will be lots of questions on capito