cline shared classified information. he answered again, i don't believe mr.klein violated the rules of the committee. i don't want to read too much of that he is speaking sort of to what is in his universe. we'll see as to how the democrats deal with the republicans on their committee and if the justice department decides if this is something they want to look into. the speaker of the house has been embroiled for weeks now about what you she has been told and what she did then in response to that. on may 14, she had a press conference in which she was asked a number of questions about this issue and ended the conference by saying the c.i.a. essentially lied to her and that they do it all the time. she has not said anything further to explain that despite numerous republican calls for her to either prove what she claim $or prove to the democrats or in a difficult spot. i think republicans know that or are aware of this issue >> do you think this might have been a strategy to get the speaker reengaged in this debate or to troo to de-rail or alter what she had l

cline is not either. we urge members to consider not questioning mr. conyers, not because he's beyond being questioned, but because the lay witnesses have traveled from far >> mr. conyers has proposed a solution to this problem and argues with great passion it is a solution unlike some in the senate i think belongs on the table for consideration and vigorous and fair consideration. but is the purpose of the hearing. with that i asked my ranking member of the subcommittee mr. klein for his statement. >> good morning. we are here today as the title of this hearing implies to examine a single payer health care and we will hear from chairman conyers and from the panel of experts single payer is certainly among the most controversial approach to health-care reform and frankly mr. chairman i am surprised to see it on the subcommittee agenda. , and democratic leaders have been very clear and public in rejecting the notion of single payer and frankly i am glad that they have procreating a new one size fits all systems based on medicare is a recipe for disaster

melanie cline said something like the bush administration tried to privatize schools and privatize social security and having failed to do so just up and privatized the treasury itself using the t.a.r.p. program. so it's kind of a bleak time. i don't mean to be a downer but i was wondering if you could comment at all on -- there's that famous line about propaganda, that the mark of successful prom began days when you can convince the people their own destruction is entertainment of the highest order. i'm hitting on tom franks' work when you turn a class conscious prolit tearat where people act against their own self-interest. can you elaborate on that? >> guest: i will start for one minute. he said very eloquently everything i agree with. over the last 25-30 year since reagan, we have hat the agreedest wealth tran fer of any period of any country in human history. the three-quarters of the wealth has gone to the top 10% of the u.s. population and it's a remarkable theft and we were alive during it. i think the level of poverty in the richest country in human history surprises our closest

united states without requiring new specific commitments from developing countries over the same clines period or, two, in serious economic harm to the united states. well, obviously we talked about the serious harm to the united states and the fact that there's no intention at all of having china have to be a part of this new treaty. now, what, 15 years later that they're going to be talking about. so i think that the byrd-hagel commands strong support in the united states senate. any treaty that the obama administration submits must meet the resolution criteria or it will be easily defeated. remember what that criteria is. if it submits something that says we in the united states have to do something that the rest of the world -- or the developing world doesn't have to do, then it's not going to pass. secondly, it inflicts economic harm on this country. proponents of securing an international treaty or vowelly acknowledging that the gulf is widening between the united states and what the other industrialized nations are willing to do and what countries like china want them to do. i su