this week on "the communicators," a discussion with fcc commissioner meredith attwell baker. she discusses several issues currently before the fcc including net neutrality, the media ownership rules and federal broadband policies. >>host:meredith attwell baker is the newest republican commissioner on the federal communications commission and she is our guest this week on "the communicators." also here is kim hart of the hill newspaper to join in the questioning. commissioner baker if we could start with the issue of network neutrality, network management her. were you surprised that chairman genachowski emphasized has this is his priority issue? >> guest: i think i was surprised because he didn't necessarily have a heads up that was coming but certainly the president outlined it in his campaign speeches so we knew this was a priority of the chairman. i think to discuss the that would like to start with something we agree on which is the fact we want to have an open internet and we want to have the free flow of lawful content on the internet and we all agree about that. i thin

baker said it would not work. gorbachev asked about pushing russia in nato.at was in the realm of fantasy and let's get in the realm of reality. it does come up. it is never taken seriously in the west. baker later says in public that if russia embraces democracy and free markets, we should include it. what comes out in the book on nato expansion is that i concede two of cases for nato expansion but they lead to two different and points. -- two different endpoints. nato helps new democracies. it provides them with security. i find that to be justified. there are calls for people for that to happen. it should have gone further. you could say that nato is a military alliance. in that case, it is expanded. you will take on eastern europe and have new liabilities. the point of an alliance is to create military security for the members. i can see the justification for expanding nato. these have the courage of your convictions and see it all the way through to the end. -- then you should have the courage of your convictions and see at all the way through to the end

we are joined by dean baker,

i always thought jim baker had the best line on the whole situation. because if you had reagan and -- reagan and ford elected as president and vice president, would you address ford as mr. president, mr. vice president or address him as

baker said that's not only going to work. and the soviet union. baker says that's in the realm of fantasy. he keeps saying, why don't we think about this? it comes up but it's never taken seriously in the west baker then says where i finally come down in the book i find that justified or you say no, nato was and is all it should be in a military alliance. the point of a military alliance is to create security for the members. i can see the just if i indication for not expanding but i can see the way for expanding. but it should be carried through to the end. >> if one looks at the definition of great nations, one of the criteria along with a great beforeder is a vibrant strong economy. if we look at times that have changed with our great nation, brought to our attention, both a long term deficit trend as well as a short term blow to our economy. i should ask, should that date be a piece along the lines of berlin wall 9/11 that have fekted our nation that way. it's important if you are an analyst to set benchmarks. if you think i want to start reth

so two quick quotes from james baker.gued that russia, as the heir to the uss >>, if it embraced prefree markets and democracy should be part of nato. if you're going to have nato, you should extend it to russia. james baker also said that every solution to a big problem contains within itself the seeds of a future problem. and i found that to be a profoundly wise statement because the solution, the pre-fab solution which worked very well does contain within itself the seeds of problems that we're now seeing today in our relations with russia. thank you. >> thanks very much. bruce cummings. >> i'd like to thank the miller center and especially mel leffler for inviting me to this conference. i commute from charlottesville because my wife works here. so it's nice to have an excuse to be here when i'm supposed to be in chicago on monday, tuesday. my paper i think has a fairly simple point that was also made in different ways by philip that the previous panel which is that the assumptions and premises that policy makers bring

baker. ball on the deck covered by sullivan.session arrow pointing in auburn's direction. >> daymeon: well, they always talk about boxing out on the defensive end. see reed going to the basket, no boxout and gabriel is saying get some of that action. with the nice finish off of the rim. >> matt: freshman out of charlotte, north carolina where they know how to play a little basketball by way of paris, texas, junior college. tied at 53. now, under nine to play. >> daymeon: field goal percentage, 44 in the first. around 56 in the second for auburn. the defense of virginia really has to pick it up. >> matt: sullivan on the wing. they want to win tonight. >> daymeon: both teams. >> matt: how about evans. twice he takes it right to the dish with the left-hander. and a foul on evans. jontel evans earning himself some playing time here with his late-game substitution in there against penn state. tony bennett wanted to see what he can do and he earned playing time tonight in auburn. >> daymeon: he was a big-time high school player and sh

host: dean baker, go ahead. guest: i agree the stimulus is not as effective as it has -- should have been. i would have liked to obscene different things done. to my mind, the point, if you want to criticize economists for doing a badly, why are we here? why are we sitting here with double-digit unemployment? why are we losing $1.50 trillion of output. that is where the economist messed up. we let a huge housing bubble grow unchecked. told lee unpredictable. i was out there yelling about it. peter might have been, too. to this was totally predictable and an incredible failure. i am happy to say -- the obama administration could or should have done more but a much bigger issue is letting this happen. by the way, if we want to talk about blame, the fact that ben bernanke is likely to be reappointed to the federal reserve board -- host: there is a disconnect. if the economists were warning, -- guest: we were considered heretics'. we like free-trade, but what we have with china is economic suicide. one-sided deal. i

i always thought jim baker had the best line on the whole situation.ause if you had reagan and -- reagan and ford elected as president and vice president, would you address ford as mr. president, mr. vice president or address him as mr. vice president, mr. president? [laughter] so in any event you had this whole day where there was negotiations and it was carried out on national television between walter cronkite and gerald ford and the copresidency and rumors being passed along from delegate to delegate. it all made it onto network television and it all recycled back and you had a day of madness whether or not there was going to be a dream ticket or a copresidency. would they address the convention in unison? and at the end of the day, ford and reagan, this is now 11:30 at night. this is the night ronald reagan has been nominated by the republican party. he's tried three times for the nomination. he finally gets it. and he can't savor it because he doesn't have a running mate. and at 11:30 that night, after all these negotiations -- and i need to tell

host: dean baker, go ahead.guest: i agree the stimulus is not as effective as it has -- should have been. i would have liked to obscene different things done. to my mind, the point, if you want to criticize economists for doing a badly, why are we here? why are we sitting here with double-digit unemployment? why are we losing $1.50 trillion of output. that is where the economist messed up. we let a huge housing bubble grow unchecked. told lee unpredictable. i was out there yelling about it. peter might have been, too. to this was totally predictable and an incredible failure. i am happy to say -- the obama administration could or should have done more but a much bigger issue is letting this happen. by the way, if we want to talk about blame, the fact that ben bernanke is likely to be reappointed to the federal reserve board -- host: there is a disconnect. if the economists were warning, -- guest: we were considered heretics'. we like free-trade, but what we have with china is economic suicide. one-sided deal. i

there was a meeting between james baker, the -- was the chief of staff then? and bill and the editors. and it left a very sour taste in my mouth. here was bill, the public man i had admired most in the world and was close to end here was baker who was this operator. he was not listening at all. this was just stroking. i am not so politically savvy but i could tell that's what this was. it was good to see that. to see that is how things are sometimes. >> you will hear it said that in the 1980's, once conservatives took power, the magazine lost some of its intellectual oomph. is there something to that? >> it would not be because of people taking power. as people age and retire and die, they always have to be replaced. there're always moments of transition where we are mourning the people we lost and we do not yet realize that the replacements are as good as they are or perhaps they are not as good as it will become. james mbyrnum, one of his right hands and he had a stroke before reagan took office and that was a serious loss. byrnum the very serious column abo

so there was a meeting with james baker -- was he chief of staff then? i think so. it left a very sour taste in my mouth. here was a bill, the public man i admired the most in the world and he was baker, just an operator. he was not listening at all. he was just stroking. that is all this was. i am not so politically savvy, but i could tell this is what this was. but that was good. it was good to see that that is how things are sometimes. t is how things are sometimes. >> you will hear it said that in the 1980's, once conservatives took power, the magazine lost some of its intellectual oomph. is there something to that? >> it would not be because of people taking power. as people age and retire and die, they always have to be replaced. there're always moments of transition where we are mourning the people we lost and we do not yet realize that the replacements are as good as they are or perhaps they are not as good as it will become. james mbyrnum, one of his right hands and he had a stroke before reagan took office and that was a serious loss. byrnum the very serio

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and baker later then says to the public.know, if russia embraces democracy and free-market we should include it. so that's an interesting open question. and where he finally came down in the book is i don't, i finally come down on nato expansion. you were talking a scholar's positions on it is that i can see two different cases for nato expansion said they lead you to different endpoints. either you say that nato post-1990 whatever it might be called has really become a development agency. as a political organization to help new democracies develop, become more like us to provide the most security, advice, and an acceptable game. that i find justified particularly because there are calls from the people of poland and the czech republic and so forth for it to happen. later as well. but then in that case they should be offered to the soviet union/russia. it should have gone further. or you say no, nato is and always shall be a military alliance in which case don't expand it. because then you're going to take an obvious areas o

. >> matt: calvin baker called for the foul on virginia away from the basketball. eight team fouls now for the cavaliers. auburn tigers in the bonus. we are at the beard-eaves coliseum on the campus of auburn university. mat kanan and daymeon fishback with you. acc versus sec basketball. virginia with an 8-point lead. >> daymeon: and seeing a guy who i think, you know, still has an incredible up side, has so much. all of the good shot bl

he and howard baker were very good friends and the senator minority leader who hadn't taken a position on the troy and he was close to gerald ford and was supporting the panama canal treaties and he was frustrated with brock and the national republican committee and never raised another money for the rnc until after he took control of the party, after he got the nomination in july of 1980. >> so he -- if i have my history correct, the panama canal treaty actually passed. >> yes. >> is it fair to say that president reagan lost the battle but won the war in the sense that it positioned him from a philosophical standpoint to help coalesce the conservative coalition. >> absolutely, john. by the time the passage of the treaties in the senate of 1978, the american people who two years ago supported all the treaties and the polling show the american people vastly opposing the treaties. you're right, he lost the battle but he won the war because it coalesced a lot of the conservative movement for his eventual third drive for his nomination in 1980. >> can you talk a little bit about jack kemp?

with stewart baker, the former assistant homeland security secretary. by the united states, 3.4 billion against indian land claims settlement. that involves indian land. we're going to talk about that in our final half hour. before that we'll wrap up with a few phone calls. columbus, ohio. . . host: dale on the republican line? caller: there is an economic recovery bill before congress right now, the emergency economic tax system, and what this is is a perpetual stimulus for the people and the government. this is bipartisan, and this is basically, this is not hurting anybody. this is supplementing any existing program, and also, this is mixed with paying taxes, and this is a lottery game where there are seven categories. one of them may be for the disaster aid or the oil. host: can i start your right there, and get your thoughts on what we are talking about, with your perceptions as the president is moving to the metal on some issues? caller: i am proud of the president. i am republican but he is working in a bipartisan way. we need something like this

let's though meredith attwell baker is the newest republican to mr. on the federal communications commission and kim hart was with the hill newspaper. thank you both. >> guest: thank you. the hennison madrid fortiss three internet companies of collective $1.4 billion by manipulating consumers into providing their credit-card numbers, leading to what it in the history charges for it that we will hear from two of those customers during this hearing. rockefeller of west virginia chairs the senate commerce committee. this is an hour and 35 minutes. >> i will make an opening statement. [inaudible conversations] every single day, millions of american consumers sit down in front of their computers to make travel plans, to send somebody some flowers or to order movie tickets for some other transactions. for many american shopping on line is know as routine as going to the grocery stores for milk. according to a recent survey 59% of all adult americans have now purchased goods or services over the internet. shopping online is in fact an exciting new way for pe

baker said it would not work. gorbachev asked about pushing russia in nato.at was in the realm of fantasy and let's get in the realm of reality. it does come up. it is never taken seriously in the west. baker later says in public that if russia embraces democracy and free markets, we should include it. what comes out in the book on nato expansion is that i concede two of cases for nato expansion but they lead to two different and points. -- two different endpoints. nato helps new democracies. it provides them with security. i find that to be justified. there are calls for people for that to happen. it should have gone further. you could say that nato is a military alliance. in that case, it is expanded. you will take on eastern europe and have new liabilities. the point of an alliance is to create military security for the members. i can see the justification for expanding nato. these have the courage of your convictions and see it all the way through to the end. -- then you should have the courage of your convictions and see at all the way through to the end

because guys like dean baker wrote about this a few years ago to say it will happen greenspan hushed and upper did not want to admit it or things like that. can you comment? i would appreciate it. >> the question between endurance and arrogance is also greed and corruption. the answer is yes. this is a different in that regard in preparing this study. i must have read at least 60 case studies of individual banking crisis and the word corruption, motivated by greed, comes up time and time again. fraudulent practices and creating a third institution so those that are not you can circumvent regulators, those are not new features. i am very glad you asked a question because i use those as an amplifier. they may not be the root cause of the crisis because that means having a lot of liquidity around to borrow from the rest of the world in the process, but but those package -- practices amplify and make the boom much more pronounced and therefore it makes the crash much more painful. again, we're not unique in that regard. i can give you references to individual case studies and you can fin

a seven-point lead now for rhode island after falling down by a baker's dozen.hat, raji gets it started with a sunday best dish to josh southern. oh, my, the teardrop, courtesy of the norl new orleanian. >> tim: six minutes gone. you look at our game summary, just like that, boston college down by 13. able to make a few plays, i think in large measure, because of biko paris. that young man has been dogged by two or three different guards pressing the issue. i thought he responded in that last sequence. >> mike: i thought he was more aggressive, especially against the fullcourt press, taking it up, trying to get in the lane. eight point for him, a few steals, assists, cut down on his turnovers in the second half. much more poised against the press. >> tim: interestingly he has some people he can call upon in that huddle that were outstanding guards. not just al skinner, bhofs a very good player himself, but also preston murphy as a part of the boston college staff. there's biko, sitting down now with eight points, four assists. next to him is preston murphy. in f

and then a look at how president obama is handling the economy with dean baker and peter morici. as always, the day's news and your phone calls starting live at 7:00 a.m. eastern, here on c- span. >> this thursday, on c-span, a day of tributes on u.s. and world leaders including the dalai lama, ted kennedy, ronald reagan, walter cronkite, and colin powell. then, a look at what is ahead. presidential advisor is, the creator of the segue and the co- founder of the guitar hero. >> the british house of commons is in winter recess until january. this week, we work -- we are going to show you bbc's "the record review." this one our program discusses parliament scandal

the headline and reporting of peter baker is "inside the situation proom: how a war plan evolved. " he points out that the expanded coverage would cost $1 trillion over 10 years, roughly the same as his health care plan. nowl as his top military adviser runs through a slide show of his options, mr. obama expressed frustration. he held up a chart showing how reinforcementments would flow into afghanistan over 18 months and eventually begin to pull out, a bell curve that meant american forces would be there for years to come. ". rick is next from kansas city. good morning. caller: republicans frighten us tooth and nail. they have never been for nothing that was for the little people. they have never protected medicare. they are so concerned about preserving medicare now, and they never wanted medicare in the first place. they ain't never done nothing to help little people ever. host: rick, thanks for the call. this twitter comment. calling that amazing. thanks for being with us. guest: thanks for having me. host: let me begin with inside the democratic caucus in a closed door meeting was

there was a meeting between james baker, the -- was the chief of staff then?ic man i had admired most in the world and was close to end here was baker who was this operator. he was not listening at all. this was just stroking. i am not so politically savvy but i could tell that's what this was. it was good to see that. to see that is how things are sometimes. >> you will hear it said that in the 1980's, once conservatives took power, the magazine lost some of its intellectual oomph. is there something to that? >> it would not be because of people taking power. as people age and retire and die, they always have to be replaced. there're always moments of transition where we are mourning the people we lost and we do not yet realize that the replacements are as good as they are or perhaps they are not as good as it will become. james mbyrnum, one of his right hands and he had a stroke before reagan took office and that was a serious loss. byrnum the very serious column about the cold war which ran in every issue. he just had all level of analysis and also impervio

your deputy undersecretary from dhs was there, associate deputy attorney general james baker was there, and a senior official from nsa and the fbi were there and i asked them if any of them were satisfied with the existing legal structure within which the cyberdefense effort currently operates, and i got a unanimous the array of no from each of them. there is understand an interagency process that is led by or through the national security council, but given all the responsibilities of the national security council, i am not entirely comfortable that that is a good and lasting government-- government structure for cybersecurity efforts. i see that more as an interim structure, and i would love to hear your thoughts on the adequacy of the present legal structure and whether you concur with the views of the other officials who spoke at senator carney's hearing and were you think our governance of our cybersecurity efforts should go, bearing in mind that a lot of principles at the cabinet meeting have a piece of this issue. >> well, i think senator, two things. one is, you are right, the

so i'll close with two quo quotations from james baker who was kind enough to let me see his papers as this research project. james baker argued that russia as the heir to the ussr, if it embraced free markets and democracy should be part of nato. in other words, if you're going to make nato into an organization to support political development, then you should extend it to russia. james baker also said that every achievement, every solution to a big problem contain thes within itself the seeds of a future problem. and i found that to be a profoundly wise statement because the solution, the prefab solution -- which worked very well -- does contain the itself the seeds of problems that we are now seeing today in our relations with russia. thank you. >> thanks very much. bruce cummings. >> i'd like to thank the miller center and especially mel leffler for inviting me to this conference. i commute from charlottesville because my wife works here, so it's nice to have an excuse to be here when i'm supposed to be in chicago on monday, tuesday, and wednesday. monday and tuesday. my paper, i t

so two quick quotes from james baker.ussia, as the heir to the uss >>, if it embraced prefree markets and democracy should be part of nato. if you're going to have nato, you should extend it to russia. james baker also said that every solution to a big problem contains within itself the seeds of a future problem. and i found that to be a profoundly wise statement because the solution, the pre-fab solution which worked very well does contain within itself the seeds of problems that we're now seeing today in our relations with russia. thank you. >> thanks very much. bruce cummings. >> i'd like to thank the miller center and especially mel leffler for inviting me to this conference. i commute from charlottesville because my wife works here. so it's nice to have an excuse to be here when i'm supposed to be in chicago on monday, tuesday. my paper i think has a fairly simple point that was also made in different ways by philip that the previous panel which is that the assumptions and premises that policy makers bring to bear, w

they drove a white staoud a baker convertible. they were a major thorn in the side of the regime. there was something almost, you know, see if we can't do this and get away with it, about them. which is still hard for me to understand why, why they at a time when most hungarians crossed to the opposite side of the street to avoid americans my parents went to the american embassy weekly and walked in the front door as if. they lived in an "as if" world as if it was perfectly aobg septemberrable for two american journal i was to cover the bad news, call it as they saw it and rook and act as if they were americans, which they were not. >> your father's reporting was honest about the oppression going on. >> yes they covered every manger show trial until their own, which they couldn't cover. they covered every piece of bad news behind the iron curtain. they were the last remaining source for americans of news of the other world now captive to moscow. >> you begin the book the night before you read the secret police files. you were scared of what you would discover. you did discovery in

a teacr, pauline baker, had just introduced a thod from italcalled reggio emilia. >> in a tshell, the metaphor for ggio is that children have a hundd languages for learning. >> reporter: reggio is guid by the ea that children learn best by doing. everytng about a reggio classroom is planned-- from e lighting, the music, to the materials fochildren. >> people think is is about art,nd that this is an art studio. but ally, the studio is a place for venting ways to do thin. >> repter: soon parents told principaaranda it was their favorite class. then tucson's new supentendent came tsee what the fuss was abou >> i was shocked. it really took me back. >> reporter: to? >> to see wh was possible. i just kd of had to pause and say,ou know, what a difference is makes in learning. >> reporter:t turned out to make all the dference to oca. with cmunity support, principal anda proposed to model the whole schooln the reggio approach. the plans to shut down were put asid is it yourope that converting the school thiway will attract parents fromther parts of tucson? >> yes. yes. it is a defini goal and

baker is evil and fallfest was good. love one another with mutual affection.lieve that they are loved can show that kind of love. do not lag in zeal. be sorted in spirit. contribute to the needs of the saints. show hospitality to strangers. these are the hallmarks of true religion and of the things that, when we see them in others, great people and people of no name, we know that we have seen the truth. but all great witnesses and all great reporters know that the truth begins with that last bursverse. do not claim to be wiser than you are. that means you have to dig for the truth and then you have to live the truth. trust is built on the kind of work. then they drew on one of the great sailing stories in the bible. the friends of jesus were out on the galilee, a little late, but subject to swallow. there was storm. he was a daredevil on the sea. they did not like that. but the lesson he ultimately taught them, he did what no sailor. can do ,he calk -- what no sailor i know can do. he calmed the storm. to be the least nervous person in the boat can be the gift

over the years that i have had some theories on it and i opened up for senate majority leader howard bakerof my theories on the senate on him and he looked me in the way that majority leaders can do which is, enough of this. he basically said, look t senate is very easy. you need to calm down. it's the greatest deliberating body in the world. members debate the issues of the day. the spouses socialize with each other, the children play together, and when one of us loses, we eat together. and so it shows the self-importance and the plan for power and it's real to the members. and also frances did a good job of laying out the consensus view in large parts of academia and the american public in term of bipartisanship and the relative holes. and i think my role here is toça little bit go with the grinch or scrooge. we would used to go with my children to see "a christmas story" every year andxd when scrooge would launch into the early colloquy, i would turn to my wife and say, you know, he's got a pint. you need to be frugal. she would give me this stare that wives reserve for husbands when th

howard baker senate minority leader who still had not taken a position on the treaty's but also close friends with the gerald ford as an ex president was supporting the treaty's. reagan was furious as you can imagine and after that never raised another dime for the rnc until after he got the nomination july 1980. >> host: if i have my history correct after the treaty passed is it fair to say that president reagan lost the battle but won the war in the sense of positioned him from a philosophical standpoint two hilco less? >> guest: absolutely. by the time of the passage of the trees in the senate in the spring of 1978, the american people who two years support who has supported the treaty's know all of the national polling has the american people vastly opposed. reagan had convinced them even though you are right. he lost the battle but won the war because it coalesced the conservative movement for the drive for the nomination and. >> host: can you talk about jack kemp? i was not working on the hill at the time. but by the time i got to capitol hill, his name was already famous. he ma

and plenty of economists who saw it coming, from dean baker and jamie galbraith on the left to martin feldstein and ken rogarth on the right so why were so many others blindsided? because we were all so lied to says m.i.t.'s frank levy. >> i think part. reason that many people didn't know is that the people who were issuing all these derivatives had big incentives to deep what they were doing secret. same thing with the banks. if the banks put on their books all the risky loans they were carrying, all the risky loans they were making, the federal reserve would step in and say well you have to increase your capital requirement and that would mean the bank kos make fewer loans. they didn't want that. they wanted to make all the loans they could to generate all the fees they could. so everybody in this game had big incentives to keep hidden an awful lot of the activity they were doing. >> reporter: but the conventions most liberal economist had another explanation for the lack of warning. the ideology of the era. norbel laureate joe stiglitz. >> people wanted to believe that markets were

richard baker, the founder of timely medical alternatives has said -- this is his quote, "the canada health act is responsible for more pain, more suffering, and more death than any other piece of domestic legislation in canadian history." madam president, i'm concerned that the inclusion of a government-run health plan in the democrats' health reform bill will destroy the american health care system as we know it today. section 1323 of this bill establishes the community health insurance option. don't let them -- the name fool you. it is a government-run plan. states can opt-out of the government-run plan if they enact a law prohibiting the offering of the government-run plan in the exchange. but i honestly expect few states will take this course of action. and regardless of the language indicating that people won't be forced to par tis nature a public health insurance program, and won't be personalized for not participating, i still believe some individuals will be forced into this government-run plan and i also believe that this is just the first step toward a complete government-

as the conservative british commentator gerard baker has noted, the election of 2008 turned into a struggle between the followers of american exceptionalism and the supporters of global universalism. as the election outcome made plain, american conservatives have not yet adequately articulated their convictions in terms that can appeal to people outside their own camp. and particularly to those whom james burnham called the verbalizers of our society. on this point consider a demographic datum mr. the last -- from the last election. make a list as ronald brownstein and david wasserman have done of all the counties in the united states with at least 20,000 people. then look at the 100 best educated of these counties, those having the highest percentage of college graduates defined as people over the age of 25 with a bachelor's degree or higher. most of these countyies, america's so-called diploma built, used to be republican. that is no longer the case. in 1988 the democratic presidential candidate carried only 36 of these 100 county cans. last year the democratic candidate carried 78 of the

so there was a meeting with james baker -- was he chief of staff then? i think so. it left a very sour taste in my mouth. here was a bill, the public man i admired the most in the world and he was baker, just an operator. he was not listening at all. he was just stroking. that is all this was. i am not so politically savvy, but i could tell this is what this was. but that was good. it was good to see that that is how things are sometimes. t is how things are sometimes. >> you will hear it said that in the 1980's, once conservatives took power, the magazine lost some of its intellectual oomph. is there something to that? >> it would not be because of people taking power. as people age and retire and die, they always have to be replaced. there're always moments of transition where we are mourning the people we lost and we do not yet realize that the replacements are as good as they are or perhaps they are not as good as it will become. james mbyrnum, one of his right hands and he had a stroke before reagan took office and that was a serious loss. byrnum the very serio

and then a look at how president obama is handling the economy, would the baker and peter mor ici, and, your telephone calls starting at 7:00 a.m. here on c-span. >> this thursday on c-span, a day of tributes to u.s. and world leaders, including that dolly llama, ted kennedy, roland -- ronald reagan, and walter cronkite. a look what is ahead for the new year. russian prime minister vladimir putin discusses his future from his call-in program, the global economy, and the creator of this that way and the co-founder of guitar hero on innovation entrepreneurship, plus the art of political cartooning. >> now remarks from gary knell, president and ceo of sesame workshop, on the challenges of using new media to keep open "sesame street" relevant to young audience. this marks 40 years since "sesame street's" debut. >> welcome to the national press club for our luncheon. i am the president of the national press club and a reporter for "usa today quo." we provided them for the programming in journalism, education, and fostering a free press worldwide three for more information about the national

and a look at how president obama is handling policy with dean baker and peter morici and as always today'sews and your phone calls starting at 7 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> now available c-span's book, a -- abraham lincoln, a great read for any history buff, it's a unique take on lincoln, from lincoln's early years to his life in the white house and his relevance today. abraham lincoln in hard cover at your favorite book seller, and available on audio. see more at c-span.org. >> now a discussion of policy. . slavin the national securityç assista managing and writer for the washington times and jonathan broder defense fortune policyç writer. let's beginç with some of the news of the morning. associated press reporting another crackdown of iranian security forces opening fire killing at least three in tehran. barbara slavin, your reaction? >> not surprised at all. what we have seen since june 15 is that the iranian people are using every official holiday to using every official holiday to go out and protest the results of the elections which they believe were stolen from them but thei

baker is evil and fallfest was good. love one another with mutual affection.are loved can show that kind of love. do not lag in zeal. be sorted in spirit. contribute to the needs of the saints. show hospitality to strangers. these are the hallmarks of true religion and of the things that, when we see them in others, great people and people of no name, we know that we have seen the truth. but all great witnesses and all great reporters know that the truth begins with that last bursverse. do not claim to be wiser than you are. that means you have to dig for the truth and then you have to live the truth. trust is built on the kind of work. then they drew on one of the great sailing stories in the bible. the friends of jesus were out on the galilee, a little late, but subject to swallow. there was storm. he was a daredevil on the sea. they did not like that. but the lesson he ultimately taught them, he did what no sailor. can do ,he calk -- what no sailor i know can do. he calmed the storm. to be the least nervous person in the boat can be the gift. we look at the

i had a law clerk named stewart baker who was with me my second or third year here and i asked him to prepare a memorandum for me on the ages of retirement of all my predecessors and to suggest the age i should plan on retiring and i thought then and i still sometimes feel you're not the best judge of when you should retire. well with, i didn't follow his recommendation. i just enjoy the work and itch -- each year i've thought about it ifed decided that i can continue to enjoy it and continue to make a contribution. >> what do you do at age 89 to stay as healthy as you are? >> well, i play a lot of tennis. i don't play as much golf as i used to because my foursome is not as famed as it used to be. in florida i go swimming every day. >> is that painting over the mantle there of any significance? no. that's queen victoria as a young lady and apparently that's a portrait that's in a number of the schools in england. >> why don't you sit over here at your deck so we can get you a little more comfortable. right out that window is the capitol? >> that's right. put the court for a moment in

there was a meeting between james baker, the -- was the chief of staff then?and bill and the editors. and it left a very sour taste in my mouth. here was bill, the public man i had admired most in the world and was close to end here was baker who was this operator. he was not listening at all. this was just stroking. i am not so politically savvy but i could tell that's what this was. it was good to see that. to see that is how things are sometimes. >> you will hear it said that in the 1980's, once conservatives took power, the magazine lost some of its intellectual oomph. is there something to that? >> it would not be because of people taking power. as people age and retire and die, they always have to be replaced. there're always moments of transition where we are mourning the people we lost and we do not yet realize that the replacements are as good as they are or perhaps they are not as good as it will become. james mbyrnum, one of his right hands and he had a stroke before reagan took office and that was a serious loss. byrnum the very serious column abou

joining us is stewart baker, who was the assistant homeland security secretary from 2005 until 2009. the damage was? guest: this is not very good. the information that was exposed is going to tell people about how tsa runs their operations and the changes they make to security procedures. they will have to change a lot of those. it is very hard to change everything. that means that this is a road map for terrorists who want to get around the system. callehost: what made this crucil with the sensitivity? guest: this is operational and some of this was very routine. one of them said, this is the wire that we are looking for and these are the kinds of footwear that we will not put through the explosives detector, and this is what we will do when we want to start cutting back on travel with the kinds of emergency steps that they are taking. these are the people we will let through without inspection. those are all things that can help terrorists. host: as far as getting that information back, this is still there on the internet? guest: there are people who think that this is cool to put

they have 30 or 40 or 50 other collections, and some of the new ones are the baker center at the universitye, knoxville, the bob dole institute for public policy, and a number of others. >> who determines that? is it just the leadership against funding for these things? because i looked at the status of the speaker's library3^b. the funds are appropriated, usually to leaders. congress has never really figured out a good way to deal with this issue. just last year, the house passed a resolution saying about the papers, the private papers are very important historical documents, made to save and preserve or restore purposes. that was just a sense of congress that this was a good idea. it is usually some sort of a pairing. we have all kinds of on-line services for teachers, people like bob michael's papers, and part of the website was funded by the michael curran foundation money, and went to o'neal established it, we went to the library for boston. one of the newest versions will come online is the ted kennedy center for the study of the senate, built adjacent to the jfk library. we're inter

merchants, retailers, doctors, realtors and others, some suggested, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, they're exempt from cfpa as was intended and as they should be. we address concerns we heard from banks and credit unions. small and mid-sized banks and credit unions under $10 billion in assets will not be subject to direct cfpa examination. instead there's a requirement now for coordination with the cfpa and the prudential regulator for those who are subject to direct cfpa examination. and after the manager's agreement reached this week, the ability of national banks and associations to operate under a uniform national standard of rules where appropriate is preserved. but functional regulators failed to prioritize consumer protection and protect our constituents. the chair: the gentlewoman's time has expired. mr. frank: i yield the gentlewoman an additional 30 seconds. ms. bean: thank you. the cfpa will create a framework reducing inefficiencies and bureaucracy across multiple agencies. they'll have the pex err -- expertise, resources and mission to update consumer financial

as you heard this morning, the trustee has been paid $1.275 million in the law firm of baker and hustett has received $30.75 million. i remind you that this is the largest ponzi scheme in history and most of the trustees and legal fees' efforts that are being expended here are for the purpose of recovering assets. in terms of the legislative initiatives that are before you, sipc has proposed a number of amendments to sipc, and these include increasing the amount that sipc can advance for claims for cash to $250,000 and to index that dollar figure to inflation by a specific formula. we would increase the line of credit with the treasury from $1 billion where it's been since 1970 to $2.5 billion. we would increase the number of cases where sipc can use a streamlined procedure. and i would suggest to you that the members of this morning's panel should agree with all those change. but there are other proposals that i must address. one is extended coverage for participants in pension funds which was extensively discussed this morning. on a going forward basis this, certainly deserves study. h

informed as to what we were doing -- wholly informed as to what we're doing, so i would report to jim bakernd all involve -- bob ball reported to speaker o'neill, and he and i worked very closely together, so what happened was as the various different proposals went forward, the senior leadership of congress and the administration were wholly informed so they could absorb it, react to it, and feed it back, so we did not end up with a report coming out of the end, which was take-it-or-leave-it report, with 20 different issues nobody could think about in a coherent manner, and what you avoided in that result was particular congressmen and senators dain positions with respect -- taking positions without having time to think it through, so the process of keeping everyone engaged, and finally, when the agreement was made and we all agreed it was not non-amendable because it was a very tightly argued commission report, bob ball and i went up to the hill, and i would answer republican questions, and he would answer democratic questions, and we kept a unified position, saying, take it or leave it.

we have bakers helpers', drivers, clerks, and no matter what job you have, if you are needed someplacese, you are expected to go there and do whatever is needed as part of this small business. i know about the number of applications that i get, asking if we have a full-time position available because they may have lost their job or their hours have been cut, or maybe benefits have been cut and they're looking for someplace to acquire those things. that hours might get cut a little bit during the summer when our volume is not as heavy, but normally our employees are here to stay. >> we have been fortunate i guess that maybe people come to us instead of paying higher prices at bigger chain grocery stores. they come here and they feel that they can get just as good quality and not pay as much price-wise. >> money is very tight now. you just tighten your belt. as an owner, you take a pay cut so all of your employees can be paid. >> i am very happy. the economy has been sluggish, but the bakery has not taken much of a hit. my girlfriend and i moved up here. working here has allowed us to sa

your deputy undersecretary from dhs was there, associate deputy attorney general james baker was there and a senior official from nsa and the fbi were there and i asked them if any of them were satisfied with the existing legal structure within which the cyberdefense effort currently operates, and i got a unanimous the array of no from each of them. there is understand an interagency process that is led by or through the national security council, but given all the responsibilities of the national security council, i am not entirely comfortable that that is a good and lasting government-- government structure for cybersecurity efforts. i see that more as an interim structure, and i would love to hear your thoughts on the adequacy of the present legal structure and whether you concur with the views of the other officials who spoke at senator carney's hearing and were you think our governance of our cybersecurity efforts should go, bearing in mind that a lot of principles at the cabinet meeting have a piece of this issue. >> well, i think senator, two things. one is, you are right, the l