phenomenon of corruption i'm joined by daniel kauffman in washington he's a senior fellow at the brookings institution also in washington we have dave when hold he's president of the american league of lobbyists and in east lansing we go to bruce being he's professor at michigan state university college of law and then another member of our cross talk team you know on the hunger all right if i don't you know if i go to you in washington first today this just recently we had the transparency international restates the annual report on corruption around the world and there are not too many surprises there are we because of the financial scandals in the financial crisis in the west some of the western countries have dropped down. and the ones the laggards are still there and i must admit russia is part of that lagging group but do you like these types of reports how their methodology how they judge things because is we getting at what is how we define corruption is that something that we have to revisit because it's just not bribery i think the state is left out a lot go ahead. yes i have to acknowledge

and vanda felbab-brown, a fellow at brookings institution and author of a new book, "shooting up, counterinsurgency and the war on drugs." thanks to both of you for being with us. you know, organized crime's been around for a long, long time. it's nothing new really and even global organized crime is nothing new, but somehow i have the feeling that today, what we're seeing today in organized crime, makes the good ole days look like the good ole days. ah, it's gotten much worse. hasn't it, arnaud? >> oh yes, but especially cyber-crime. that's, ah, where i've been focused for the last, ah, i guess, 15 years. it gets worse everyday and we had a meeting recently at csis on the amount of times that various institutions are being hit by intruders. and the pentagon, ah, gent who was a cybernaut said, "we'd been hit six-million times in one day." and then the goldman sachs guy piped up and said, "well, we've been hit one million times in one day." >> who's doing it? >> anything from a 14 year old to the chinese government. it's very difficult to tell who's doing it, and of course, they will not tell you ho

you're now at the brookings institution. >> correct. >> schieffer: you spent a lot of time studying the partisan divide. >> indeed i did. >> schieffer: and how it came about. where is the middle right now in american politics? >> well, there is a middle in american politics. you have 35% of the american people who call themselves moderates. that's down some from ten years ago but that's still a big slice of the electorate. you have 30% of grass roots republicans who call themselves moderates or liberals. you have 60% of grass roots conservatives who call themselves moderates or conservatives so there is a potential coalition of the center there. but our party system is not very good at expressing it right now. >> schieffer: howard dean, let me ask you, bill galston just brought up the tea party. what do you make of the tea party? i think i saw somewhere where you said the other day that republicans have created a monster. >> i didn't say that. somebody did say that. i don't think it is a monster. they are going to have trouble with it. let me just say, i would disagree with senator grah

still, according to the brookings institution, many d.c.a residents take public transit to work. expect some delays on the beltway tonight and for weeks to come. late tonight, the crews will be working on the beltway hotline's project. the construction will continue through early december. all lanes of the bill we will be closed in both directions, but those closures will not last, we are told, more than 40 minutes. shocking developments for the teenager once known as the kick up a girl. we will tell you about an alleged -- known as the hiccup girl. we will tell you about an alleged role in menands murder. and find out why cleanup -- in a man's murder. and find out what cleanup is not happening anytime soon. and adam will join as again for another look at the >> looking at headlines from around the world on this monday, massive strikes in france are costing the country more than $500 million each day. protesters are upset over president sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age from 60 up to 62. and because of the trash strike, an estimate

we have the vice-president of the brookings institution. he advises federal, state, and municipal leaders on policy reforms that vance the competitiveness of metropolitan areas. i will turn this over to dr. bardick. >> my paper focuses on creating jobs. with enough money and political will, we can do so. the real question is, can we create jobs in distressed communities in a way that is cost-effective and as clear national benefits. the most obvious way to create jobs in distressed communities is provide tax subsidies and we're doing a lot of that at the state and local level. in my view, the alternative approaches that are more cost- effective and of greater national benefit. the alternative approach is to provide the area with services that will improve productivity of local businesses. through customized training and information for small and medium-sized businesses. services that improve business productivity can be more cost- effective because if these services are run well, they lower business costs by more than $1 per dollar program

host: joining us now is bruce katz with the brookings institution director of the metropolitan policy program. mr. katz, the front page of the financial times this morning talks about the u.s. recovery. calling it sluggish and growth of 2% didn't dent unemployment. you write about those running for governor. does one story on the front page of the time relate to those governors who are running for office currently? guest: absolutely. this has been a recession, jobless recovery. lost 8.4 million jocks, regained only 10%. this are 37 governor races and job creation is job number one. they are talking not just about how to create jobs in the near term, they are also talking about how to retool the economy for the long haul. because they understand the economy that got us into the recession is not the economy we want to return to. so, increasingly what they are talking about is let's move toward more export oriented economy, talk about taking this energy transformation and capitalizing on it. let's compete again globally. china, brazil, india. the rising nations. so, governors who are mor

according to the brookings institution, the number of poor in the suburbs grew over the past decade ata rate faster than the national rate and the rate for urban areas. about one-third of the nation's poor live in the suburbs now. >>> the weak economy has been a major factor energizing tea party activists in the week leading up to the midterm elections. those activists are getting a lot of support from religious conservatives. but how religious is the tea party, and what is its relationship with the christian right? kim lten reports. >> reporter: the tea party movement has been on the march this election season with its message of reclaiming america through limited government, fiscal responsibility and a free market. at rallies across the country, tea party activists reverently invoke the founding fathers and the constitution. the focus is firmly on economics, with no mention of hot-button social issues like abortion or gay marriage. yet the tea party has had great appeal for religious conservatives. >> it is the people in our congregations who pay the taxes. that's what makes it relig

according to a new study by the brookings institution, the number of poor people in the suburbs jumped by morehan 35% since the year 2000. that'sore than twice the city rate of 16.7%. since the recession began three years ago, 1.8 million more people in the suburbs are now living in poverty. economists say the study proves that people of all income levels are being impacted by this crisis. >>> 4:38 is o time right now. 56 degrees outside, and clear skies ahead today in "news 4 today." a small fortune found in a city field. police trying to solve an unusual mystery involving boxes of valuable baseball cards. >> plus why a homeowner who watched everything she owned go up in flames when firefighters refused to help says she's not even angry. >>> and the change in the forecast is coming. we'll check weather and traffic next. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's luxury with fire in its veins. bold. daring. capable of moving your soul. ♪ and tt's even before you drop your foot on the pedal. ♪ theew 2011 cts coupe from cadillac. the new standard of the world. >>> from gloomy to glowing. welcome back to

the brookings -- the brookings institute will hold a discussion. we will have live coverage starting at 6:30 p.m. eastern. at 7:00 p.m., secretary of state hillary clinton will address the american task force on the peace talks between israeli and palestinian leaders, and and and test now, two weeks after the talks started. it can see live coverage of that on c-span2. can rates in the illinois senate race held their debate last night. alexi giannoulias is running against mark kirk. the races been rated a toss up. polls are showing 15% of illinois voters are still undecided. >> tonight's moderator is george stephanopoulos. >> good evening, and welcome. it is great to be here tonight. the race could not be tighter between mark kirk and alexi giannoulias. their report -- the debate is being presented by the league of women voters in illinois. joining me is and the shaw, executive director of the better government association. . . over the last decade the congressman has been an architect of these decisions. why would we send the same people that creat

would call either military or militarized intellectuals who reside in think tanks you know the brookings institute. the center for new american security there are a whole bunch of them these guys some of them were in the military and have retired others are actually have been hired by mcchrystal petraeus and others as their advisors but they go out to the war zones they get face time with the generals they get flattered and then they come back and for the media they are the they then become the object of experts so that's a that's another crew you've got then you've got a crew that's returned as if from the past and that's the old neo cons i mean crystal you could say but i'm thinking more of the guys who blew the wars in the first place you've got to l. paul bremmer you've got a former deputy secretary of defense paul wolfowitz you've got richard perle you've got a bunch of these guys who were utterly wrong to begin with and and they are still the experts of our moment in crucial moments anniversary why every day is that al and you have in addition the all those retired generals who still are a c

the brookings institute. an idea of some of our prime time coverage we're expecting tonight. we're showing debate coverage throughout the election season leading up to the november 2 election. from theting to hear pakistan foreign minister qureshi. >> good evening and welcome to brookings. andup vice-president foreign policy program at brookings. on behalf of our president and the executive director with whom we are coasting this program, i want to welcome you all. it is a very special occasion when we have the chance to welcome the foreign minister of pakistan to brookings and the asia society. mahmood qureshi was born in murree, pakistan and had extensive political career before the office he holds now, foreign minister of pakistan, in march 2008. it was the president of the pakistan people's party, and he helped restore democracy in the punjab. he of key positions like assistant to the spokesperson and an assistant to benazir bhutto. he also served as the chair for development board, planning committee, and institutional reforms group on agriculture. the foreign minister i

. >> let's turn to senior fellow at the brookings institution.d to be with you, keith. >> nevada, first. do we have consensus this was not a game changer for either candidate last night? >> i was really struck with the sound bite you showed. it was a choice between the free market and americanism. was she saying the free market is un-american? which maybe the real news of the debate is she is the closet socialist. listening to some of the commentary on this, i have to say that, if the standards apply to sharron angle for winning the debate were applied to my baseball skills, i would be in the alcs tonight. i don't belong there. for me in judging this debate. i can't imagine she won over any people who are for harry reid. but for the life of me, i can't understand why anyone is undecided in that race. and to the extent that that debate is supposed to move undecided voters, i don't know what sense they made of it. the one place i thought he miss ad chance to use one of our favorite lines is when she did the innuendo about reid making money while in

the brookings institution host a forum on u.s.-pakistan relations. that is at 6:30 p.m.astern. >> we have reid wilson reid wilson from the hot line. then tennessee gov. phil then tennessee gov. phil

. >> darrell west of the brookings institutions has written a well known book about campaign ads.ous election cycles candidates are not holding back on vicious personal attacks with their opponents. we'll go over the ads with him now. >> when somebody went after my 10-year-old daughter, i got angry. >> new york gubernatorial hopeful rails on the media for tracking his young daughter, then for reports about his extramarital affair. then the kill shot on the sex life of andrew kwcuomo. >> it's hard to imagine voters will be affected positively by this. they'll view this as unfair, going beyond the grounds of fair play. >> a statement saying new yorkers know he's unfit to be governor with his smears and total lack of substance. >> some political experts argue that works. going negative is effective. >> going negative works in the sense of raising the negatives of your opponent. but if voters tune out and people stay home, you may lose support from people who otherwise might have cast votes for you. >> no one is insulated. right-wing commentator rush limbaugh levels this broadside on

>> where did you -- >> this is from the brookings institute. these are numbers from the irs and all the others. >> okay. eliot, did you bring your charts and graphs here today? i didn't think you did. can we talk about the movie and the politics? i know you -- >> i'm not an economist. there is plenty of people you can get on besides me to find out about. >> you can find a bah zillion people who agree. people who work hard don't want to hand over all their money to the government, who will then redistribute it to other people. >> but wait a minute. >> you're a capitalist, you degree with that, come on. >> i'm a capitalist. i'm not a foolish libertarian. and what i would say is that if you're distributing a movie to 500 cinemas in which you call the president a socialist. >> mm-hmm. >> you better have a foundation for that, wouldn't you think? >> okay. you said you're a capitalist? >> oh, yeah. >> so you -- but then why are you for government getting bigger and bigger? >> i'm for government that ensures the competition works. and unlike president

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not surprising, says william galston of the brookings institution. so many characters running for office this year? >> these are very unsettled times. throughout american history, hard times have brought forth political candidates and movements that are outside what's broadly considered to be the mainstream. this time is no exception. >> schieffer: from the pre-civil war "no nothing" party to hughie long "share our wealth" movement during the great depression, an uncertain economy invariably results in an uncertain political landscape. >> barack obama is the worst president in history. >> schieffer: this year that's meant bad news for the democrats. although some in the new crop of republicans are giving democratic party chairman tim kaine a reason to smile. >> the tea party has enabled candidates to win that are way outside the mainstream. so while i'm not predicting numbers on the outcome tuesday, i will say this. we will win seats. i feel confident. we will win seats that we would not have won without the tea party. >> schieffer: you are the chair

it has been my privilege on behalf of the brookings institution to moderate this discussion. join me in thanking the speakers. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tonight, live from denver, the color of senate debate -- the colorado senate debate. coverage begins tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> during this campaign season, more than 100 debates have been aired on c-span. if you are new to it all, watched the editorial on our website. search, find, and share with the c-span video library. >> earlier today, the today wikileaks released over 400,000 military documents on the iraq war. its members held a news conference in london to talk about their findings. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> these releases are based on 400,000 classified documents that were received by wikileaks. the those speaking this morning by the editor of wikileaks, julian assange. wikileaks has won a number of awards. in june 2009, wikileaks and julian assange won amnesty international's award as w

>> it's not the brookings institute?, the bush white house always said bush didn't love to tell people he didn't read papers, he didn't watch tv. and i think george w. bush did find, and i'm not knocking him, but sort of found his happy place at night watching espn, watching sports center. that's how he zoned out of everything. you get the sense that barack obama and this administration doesn't work that way, that maybe some of that chatter does get in there a little more and irritates him a little more. in fact, he brings it up. >> irritates him. but i don't know what he does when he goes home at night. he's intensely aware of what's being said and done in there. he's not a guy who lives in a hermetically sealed room. i think this idea that you want to bring all these different viewpoints into the white house and makes it into some oxford union debating society misses the point. he knows what's going on. he's picked people who embody his fill ol os fee. i think that's his right. >> let's say a new president gets sworn i

health organization, the international criminal court, the new england journal of medicine and brookings institute in a washington. we will also hear from the leader of the team of public interest lawyers. he has been practicing as a solicitor in the u.k. since 1981 and has written extensively on international human rights law. in recent years his acted in some of the most important judicial review cases. he was made a solicitor of the year in 2008 and was in the sunday times top 10 solicitor's of britain the same year. i think we can now start. >> since we don't have much time, i won't speak for long. this disclosure is about the truth. philip nightly, the great investigative reporter who of the past 30 or 40 years has made the uk his home said that the first casualty of war is the truth. the attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after war ends. in our review of these four hundred thousand documents about the iraq war, the intimate details of that war from the u.s. perspective, we hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war,

treasury secretary tim geithner at a speech at the brookings institute didn't confirm the figures but did make clear that growth in developed countries will probably be disappointing for some time to come. here's a bit of what he had to say: >> the pace of recovery has been slower with economic growth now running at a pace that is close to potential, not rapid enough to repair quickly the substantial remaining economic damage from the crisis. >> reporter: the imf says developed countries like the united states need to increase their -- or need to reduce their trade decifit which is, of course, a part of the president's agenda. the problem is, convincing countries like china, which have a trade surplus, to reduce that. jenna. jenna: lots going on, lots of predictions. we'll see what the numbers show us on friday, wendell, with that big jobs report. wendell goler for us at the white house. >>> if you have any questions about the economy, e-mail us, happening now, fox news.com, charlie gasparino is in the hot seat, fox business' own, to answer your questions about the business world. jon

we'll have live coverage of that meeting at the brookings institution at 6:30 eastern. ow we'll be live at the -- as the congressional oversight panel looks into executive compensation for companies that receive tarp funds. those are the funds financial institutions received about two years ago. kenneth fineberg, the special master overseeing compensation, testifies. our live coverage begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern. >> now for discussion on the 2010 mid-term elections with senior reporters from politico. this hour-long discussion took place this morning. >> good morning and welcome. i'm john harris. i'm the editor in chief of politico and thank you for joining us here today. we're 13 days away from what we all recognize is likely to be one of the most consequential mid-term elections in many years. the campaign trail in recent days has revealed a nation that is more polarized than ever. we've seen candidates in both parties staking out extreme positions, tearing down their opponents often in the most brutal and personal way, in many cases while doing so shredding their own

also, a visiting professor of georgetown university and a senior fellow at the brookings institution, former vice chairman of the federal reserve, former head of the office of management and budget and former head of the congressional budget office and many other things. christina romer, just recently stepped down as the head of the president's council of economic advisers. and for some reason, she's decided to head back to berkeley, california and the university of california where she is teaching once again. we're fortunate to have you both here. christina, 5 minutes to respond to the discussion you have just heard. >> all right. the first thing to say is it is lovely to be here discussing monetary policy. as a monetary economist, one of the hardest parts of being chair of the council of economic advisor is was the unspoken rule that the ministration officials do not comment on monetary policy. >> let it all is today. [laughter] >> i will let her rip. the taylor and goodhart papers at think are a good jumping off point. let me give a few observations. the first and most important i

saying, the international criminal court, and the european union's joint research center and the brookings institute washington. and at 10:25 we'll also be hearing from phil shiner, leads the team of public interest lawyers. he has been practicing in the u.k. since 1981 and has written extensively on human rights law. in recent years, he has acted in some of the most important judicial review cases to be brought in his area of expertise, and in march 2010 he led the team to success in european court of human rights in a particularly important case. he was made solicitor of year in 2008 and was in the sunday times top ten solstors the same year. so i think we can now start with julian. >> thank you. because we don't have much time, i won't speak for long. but this disclosure is about the truth. philip, the great investigative reporter, an australian, who for the past 30 or 40 years has made the u.k. his home, has said that the first casualty of war is the truth. the attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends. in our release of these 400,000 documents,

host: joining us now is bre katz with the brookings institution director of the metropolitan policy program about the u.s. recovery. calling it sluggish and growth of 2% didn't dent unemployment. you write about those running for governor. does one story on the front page of the time relate to those governors who are running for office currently? guest: absolutely. this has been a recession, jobless recovery. lost 8.4 million jocks, regained only 10%. this are 37 governor res and job creation is job number one. they are talking not just about how to create jobs in the near term, they are also talking about how to retool the economy for the long haul. because they understand the economy that got us into the recession is not the economy we want to return to. so, increasingly what they are talking about is let's move toward more export oriented economy, talk about taking this energy transformation and capitalizing on it. let's compete again globally. china, brazil, india. the rising nations. so, governors who are more pragmat pragmatic, very practical, are focusing on jobs. host: you call thes

recently, there was an op-ed written by william kristol, others have at the brookings institution, american heritage, but we love with you are doing, tea party, but exceptional some all the way. this shows me that establishment republican ideas are still overseen by republican leaders. it is more then we have in the magazine, but at the same time, if you look at the literature coming from the tea party movement as opposed to the republican party, it is all about spending. . . >> parties in power love to do favors for rich people whether in hollywood or a baseball team. if we started to address that and this sort of targeted and very inefficient maneuvering of the tax code we would be much better governed and better run economy. host: now to lynnville, tennessee. caller: good morning. mrs. schultz said president clinton left a surplus for preside president bush. but many misunderstand that and think that we paid off the national debt. and from my understanding our national debt was only paid under andrew jackson in the 1830's. so would you please clear up the surplus that president bush got

he is a brookings institution fellow. we've had heard about what happened in nevada.n ohio, it is a relatively new phenomenon. joining us now is a political reporter from cleveland. thank you for being here with us on c-span. are you with us, mark? we will try one more time for our reporter from cleveland. caller: i can hear you. host: what is the short history of the voting in ohio? caller: this has only been going on since 2006. there was more fraud in ohio from tie hogan county. there are lines of to six hours with lots of problems. that move to the officials here to get ford with early balloting. we had a 30% of ballots cast in the election in 2008 by early voting. most of them are by mail in balance. we only have a handful of locations in each county that are available to vote in person. the real push is for the early voting by mail. host: what are you seeing this year? caller: not as many early votes which i think is the difference between president traverses a mid term. certainly president obama at the time they're out some younger and different voters and we a

this is actually from the brookings institution. within the first 10 days, the earthquake in haiti broad 300,000 stories in the print and broadcast media. in the case of the past and flood, their only 730 print stories. and as i pointed out, that focused more on the politics and not the humanitarian crisis. let me introduce an engine -- a reality check here. a study about hearts and minds in the pakistan earthquake in 2005. i introduce it because these is for people worried about the media coverage. one thing you learn when you're my age and been around the block, you read it somewhere. it is important to compare that things have been said before. in the case of the 2005 earthquake, the same things are being said. the militants are arrived first aid. eigh the international donors were worried about their money being used for the purposes a sign. one of the particular rich political consequences of the earthquake? and it's interesting timing. the front-line charities did little to help despite the public good will generated. when the

charlie from the brookings institution.the treasury has proposed taking away some taxes, a variety of taxes as for the oil and gas industry totaling about $80 million. if those changes were to go into effect, what impact do you see would have on the gas industry? >> so in the gas industry, i'll talk about the impact. i so they can address how it would factor into other peoples operations or other company operations. i mean, i quite honestly think that we will continue to go forward. obviously, we have paid a lot of attention to any changes in tax. what we really like as producers and operators gets back to the question dusty asked me before. we take a time horizon, a very long time horizon. if you take that kind of time horizon, you might get consistency not only in regulation but also fiscal policy. so that's ultimately what we hope for. you don't like about changes in near-term. now, i can go so far as to say would have a hugely negative impact on the way that we would you are on short operations. but what i can say is wh

tomorrow is brookings instulte -- institution hosts a discussion on the u.s. and pakistan rellslingsses -- relations. >> voters head to the poll in less than two weeks. follow the debates on c-span live with debates right up to election day. follow c-span's election coverage right through election day. for rare live coverage of the pennsylvania senate candidates, friday at 7:00 eastern. a poll shows cesc tak leading pat toomey 46 to 45%. this is the only recent poll that has mr. cesc tak ahead. -- sestac ahead. both the cook political report and c.q. politics rate the race a topup in colorado. >> time to get your camera rolling for this year's student cam. make a five to eight-minute video on this year's theme, washington, d.c. through my lens. tell us about an issue or event or topic that helps up better under the role of the federal government in our community. be -- be hure to include more than one point of interview. you will have a chance to win the grand prize. the documentary competition is open to middle and high school students. grades six through 12.

on the house side -- you see house institutions that have lost. it was a jack brooks in 1994. a texas congressman that was their sense fdr and he lost. it is so slight that they get swept up. 1980, of course, like john colvert, george mcgovern. it will be interesting to see which house institution was caught napping. the one to keep an eye on is jim overstarr who is from minnesota. one of three watergate babies. there is three of them. he is one. in the summer, he said that they did not think they had a raise. he does have erased now. a race now. >> give me an example of candidates to have surprised t you. >> i think surprisingly bad -- lee fischer in ohio. classic swing state. democrat nominee for the sun appeared a race that was thought to be competitive. everybody had left him for dead. the less financial report he showed very little money on hand. he is somebody that is in no not w not going to pull this off. meg whitman has spent $150 million. she will spend more than that. every public poll has -- winning. >> maggie, an obvious question. this comes from donna ritter. --

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