it would help all of athens -- afghans. >> this spring will be the time when congress will debate afghanistan. in principle, president obama is expected to ask for as much as $33 billion more to pay for the surge in afghanistan. i was wondering whether you see it as possible for a lot of the democrats' -- potentially a supplemental, depending on what form the $33 billion would take. do you see any way that this may fail? >> i think a lot depends on how the situation is coming along in afghanistan. i think our military will do well. we have excellent military leadership. general stanley mcchrystal is first class. his superior davit address is as good as they come. mike mullen is really an outstanding common outstanding leader. the troops that we have, both in afghanistan and here in america , the national guard -- all of them are doing well. i think our military will do well. the question is, how will the afghan government and afghan people relate to all of that? i am hopeful that they will have a positive attitude and positive report later in the year. in answer to your question, how was it p

jefferson's concept of the capital city was a city that would remind people of ancient rome or athens. and the architect of the supreme court was very, very comfortable with that idea. although modern architecture reflected people like frank lloyd wright, who would have done something very different, i think that gilbert and have felt jefferson's idea, better than a school of architecture that might have ended up just being a fad. >> it is a little bit more than $10 million. >> it was actually a deflation. they were able to finish it and turn $100,000 over, so it came in under budget. it might have been the only government building in history that came in under budget. he was thoroughly familiar with the plants, and i think he died quite happy with the building that he knew was going to be built. he and the architect, cass gilbert, they corresponded regularly and calorically -- catholic lay. and when taft was president, he had appointed gilbert to a fine arts commission at the capitol. so gilbert knew what it was about, and he knew what visions jefferson had had. some of the justices

that's the athens untracked essence of what a free market does. it connects people. it connects people in webs of mutual benefit. there's a quote i found that i love and i want to leave you with if you don't mind. it was from one of the richest americans who ever lived. and somebody who manage to give away people estimate now two thirds of all of the literally billions from if you put it in today's dollars, based year and is one of the people who created the modern steel industry. maybe if he stayed around he could have saved the steel industry, who knows. but in 1896, carnegie looking back on his life to a little piece for a kids magazine called youth's companion. and she wrote a piece about the first dollar he never earned at age 12. and he actually saved that dollar. and carnegie wrote, i cannot tell you how proud i was when i received my first week's own earnings. $1.20 made by myself and given to me because i had been of some use in the world. no longer entirely dependent on my parents, but at last admitted to the family partnership as a country but a number and

steve: played on their national team in the 2004 olympics in athens as well as 2008 in beijing. free throws let's see if the wizards can take advantage down by three and chris quinn called for a foul trying to guard boykins. wizards to the free-throw line. for boykins this will be his first free throws of the game. on the season he's made 49 of 54. phil: washington not really capitalizing like they would have liked to 57 at half and they were 8 or 9 minute to go. and that will be their fourth free throw tonight. steve: boykins can cut it to one. wizards have led in this game just before half they came from 12 down to take a one point lead. oh, my goodness. boykins misses the second and the lead remains 2 for new jersey trying to win their fifth game of the year. a record of four wins and 40 losses. williams knocked up into the air. humphreys and he's called for traveling. an offensive foul. it is an offensive foul. phil: he had the man up in the air but decided to put that left elbow. let's see if we can pick that up. a strong rebound there. twice. steve: twice. phil: yeah you'r

next is our caller from athens, georgia.ning, i have a couple of things i want to go through, it's been a year-and-a-half. first of all, i voted for barack obama, and second i didn't appreciate the bailout. they are too big to fail, they should fail. third, the health care bill, what the house and senate have done, it's garbage, should be thrown out. third, you shouldn't have sent 30,000 troops into afghanistan. next, the airplane bomber, it's security arrest, and it's not obama's fault. we need to work on these, happy new year, steve, and mr. obama, make the health care public. host: thank you caller, and correction that the plane bomber started in amsterdam. one headline about rupert murdock that was to leave fox, instead he got a contract and fox news is to make more than cnn, msnbc and nbc, abc and cbs combined. our ñkunext caller. caller: good morning, i want to talk to the republicans out there. michael steele was on the air a couple of days ago, and talked about his new book, 12 steps to defeating the obama agenda. th

jefferson's concept of the capital city was a city that would remind people of ancient rome or athens. and the architect of the supreme court was very, very comfortable with that idea. although modern architecture reflected people like frank lloyd wright, who would have done something very different, i think that gilbert and have felt jefferson's idea, better than a school of architecture that might have ended up just being a fad. >> it is a little bit more than $10 million. >> it was actually a deflation. they were able to finish it and turn $100,000 over, so it came in under budget. it might have been the only government building in history that came in under budget. he was thoroughly familiar with the plants, and i think he died quite happy with the building that he knew was going to be built. he and the architect, cass gilbert, they corresponded regularly. and when taft was president, he had appointed gilbert to a fine arts commission at the capitol. so gilbert knew what it was about, and he knew what visions jefferson had had. some of the justices did not like it hurt much. some

in fact, she started a program in both -- well, in macon, valdosta, columbus, and athens that's calledthe weed and seed program. it's now a nationwide program that's run through u.s. attorneys' offices, and judge martin was a strong proponent and received national recognition for the work that she did with the weed and seed program in our state. she also held day camps for inner city kids during the summertime. she served on various boards including the board of macon state college and the georgia women of achievement, which board she serves on with my wife julie ann. her lengthy tenure as a prosecutor has given her unique and informed perspective when handling criminal cases. as many of my colleagues know, a prosecutor must be tough but fair in carrying out her responsibilities. this experience has served her well and she has served on the district court and it makes her exceptionally well qualified to serve on the 11th circuit court of appeals. while on the district courts, judge martin was faced with several difficult criminal matters. in 2002, she refused to intervene and halt the

if you think tonight in athens which is more detail to that standard of micro- story, then you see thatey're all of emerging economies is far bigger that what you get when you just look at the economy. and the second point is very much related to what uri said about the supply side. the sole focus on the current account and service on the current account and searching through the impact of aggregate demand in high-income countries. that would be an important story if a country like china was going to be increasing its share in the same cake by promoting aggregate finances. it increases the cake for the whole world. and everybody benefits from that. it's not just emerging middle class in the developing countries themselves. it's also what the benefit from the people in low-income countries and it goes to lower prices. the real wealth is increasing because summer in the world product david d's and not a process that's most important at the moment. >> unfortunately we've run out of time so i'll have to bring this seminar to a close. i'd like to thank the audience, also on c-span for tuning