member, which -- back in 1972, i moved in sanford's is good to take a job as a planning engineer with beckel. did that for a few years and have since become a contract attorney in construction and so forth, but what i wanted to make sure was that this organization had a smooth line in contract initiation that they were developing at this stage because i am involved in so many cases in which i tell my clients, "had i only know six months ago that you were beginning to have contract problems, things would not have gotten this far, and things like that. my only hope is that we understand that that is millions of dollars at stake, and it is so important to be able to go from the field to the consulting attorney very smoothly, very quickly, and as soon as the supervisor, someone in the field see is that something is not going right, picks up that change in a hurry. and i think that is happening. >> yes, absolutely. director harper: great. ok, thank you. do we have a motion for approval? >> so moved. >> motion. director harper: i will second. >> no members of the public indicated they wish to spea

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>> that was invented by democratic strategist bob beckel as he admitted on tv. >> you go back to the democrats. i'm asking you about sarah palin. >> where is the camera? i'm going back to the book because i talk about -- let me answer this one. it is a beautiful example of something in the question. >> your default process throughout this so far is fascinating. every single time i ask you a question, rather than answer about sarah palin and cross hairs, you go, what about democrats? >> piers, darling, if i were selling you a book, if i were talking about a book i had just written about dogs, and you ask me what comforts old people, i would say, why, piers, dogs do. in fact, i talk about it in my book. my book is called "how the liberal mob is endangering america." if i could answer the question on the cross hairs issue, it is a perfect example of totally contradictory thinking by the left in america, an example of the mob where they go around hysterical of sarah palin putting on cross hairs. it is a classic thing in politics. >> was it a sensible thing to do? >> yes, it is fine for b

if they did not have a policy mechanism to carry out beckel, -- to carry out that goal, you need to have those mechanisms next time and maybe you need to be a bit more careful about what the policy is to justify the behavior. >> as dodd-frank was passing through the legislative machine, how you think it was influencing things? >> ultimately, not as much as that should have been. we often hear statements that dodd-frank had its part in the right place, and i think it did. -- it's hard to in the right place, and i think it did. -- its heart in the right place, and i think it did. the president said, never again will we have to be allowed a financial institution. and because of tarp and the deep unpopularity of tarp, in some ways, i think, is justified -- it justified tarp. in many ways, it has not have the courage to justify that goal. the regulators, even if they have their hearts in the right place, will they have the regulatory and political will to do what is necessary to truly in a guarantee from the largest financial institutions? it is extremely unlikely. >> that is depressing. [lau