and mick cornett is a republican , mayor of oklahoma city. gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us. here on "newsmakers." also joining us is our press panel. lisa mascaro is a reporter with the "los angeles times." if the i could start with a general question. kind of building on what you were saying in the -- we had a taped press conference, mayor nutter, right before we came onto this live program. how dependent are u.s. cities on congress and the federal government at this point? and we'll start with you, mayor nutter, and then -- >> the federal government plays a significant role and affects cities and states all across america. the federal budget obviously is huge. many departments and agencies directly fund programs and services to states and in some instances directly to cities and so when the federal government makes cuts, or when they invest, you can see the difference right on the ground in cities and states all across america. >> well, we're at the bottom of the funding stream. cities operate within the enabling legislation

and for right now bill it's passed into law you can only use silver eagles were gold eagles so only cornett bets minted by the federal government is excepted why this law to current time so sort of important so what is going to take place is there is a depository. that is already set up that people can deposit their gold silver equals into and be issued a debit card now makes the whole transaction process pretty transparent where you're able to walk into that merchant and you know using debit cards similar to the card and buy whatever you buy and it just takes the amount to procure medicine the record out of your care. so was this is implemented it should be soon from what i've been told at this meeting. really you know picher now david morgan on the political front here it sounds as if you've got a bit of a standoff developing between the states and the federal government because the federal government you know and the federal reserve bank are really not for this type of conversion out of fee at r.c.m. to precious metal based currency is this part of the stand off or same between the state

joining us from madison, wisconsin, mayor pauling solin and from baltimore, oklahoma city, mike cornetttart with mayor soglin on this. this seems unusual that mayors, you know, of cities, local leaders, are weighing in on a big national and federal question, which is our involvement in foreign wars. why did you decide this was important? >> actually, there's a long tradition of making statements of this sort. it was done during the vietnam conflict, it was done during the '90s in regards to the so-called peace dividend, but it's very clear that as we spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year fighting these wars, our local infrastructure, our state infrastructure, our school infrastructure, continues to deteriorate and we know that infrastructure is slowing down private investment. >> mayor cornett, it's symbolic, right? there really isn't any ability of local mayors of cities to affect war policy at the federal level? >> no, that's absolutely right. we don't pretend to have the level of information about these types of situations that the executive branch is going to have or members

. >> michael nut second quarter mayor of philadelphia, mick cornett is the mayor of oklahoma city. kevin hall, lisa mascaro, thank you all for being on news maker d. >> thank you, thanks for having us. coming up, a look at the influence of new media and campaign advertising with former white house senior advisor david axelrod and former rnc chairman ed gillespie and later, the future of media and telecommunications. next, a look at the influence of new media in campaign advertising. you will hear from former without house senior advisor david axelrod who is now heading up president obama a re-election campaign and former rnc chairman ed gillespie. they spoke at the annual convention. cnn chief political correspondent leads this 20-minute discussion. we want to talk turkey and politics. >> some people think they're the same! >> how do you pick where you put your advertising dollars? >> look, it is a simple concept. we are all about targeting. we want to reach people who might vote for us or we need to mobilize at the most cost-effective way. i remember when i started off in this bus

mayor michael coleman of columbus, ohio and mayor cornett, you have unemployment rate 4.5%, less than half the national rate. >> we're continuing to improve the quality of late. they're coming to oklahoma city, that's allowing the entrepreneurs and job creators to be sutsful. it's part of the culture and the community and we have spent over $1 billion on public improvements to try and improve the infrainstruct stur which i'm really concerned about much of america and the declining infrastructure, a lot of deferred maintenance not being addressed. >> mayor coleman, unemployment is 7.3%, also below the national average. people say mayor we need new jobs, what can you say to them? >> well, we're trying. we're working our hardest and our best to create jobs in the city of columbus and frankly, we're doing it in a very productive way. we have an effort called columbus 20/20 and our goal is to engage 150,000 jobs by the time 2020 comes around, but having said that, we need to help the federal government. we have efforts like cdbg and other efforts that are on the chopping block in congress,

. >> michael nut second quarter mayor of philadelphia, mick cornett is the mayor of oklahoma city. kevin hall, lisa mascaro, thank you all for being on news maker d. >> thank you, thanks for having us. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> defense secretary robert gates at a senate hearing on the president's 2012 budget request. >> c-span's coverage of the national cable telecommunication association's 2011 cable show continues today at 5:15 p.m. eastern. f.c.c. chairman is interviewed by former f.c.c. chairman powell who heads the ncta. then at 6:30, a look ahead to next year's presidential election with former obama white house senior advisor and former republican national committee chairman. >> the times sort of ordered the world. when i was growing up. >> page one, producer and director andrew rossi looks at the changing newspaper industry and takes an inside look at "the new york times" through the eyes of the staff. >> i came into it without a grand sort of sense of what the solutions are for tradit