question or comment for dan glickman. i will move on. caller: i am a doctor here in washington, d.c. you are not thinking about the unintended consequences. we have a supreme court right now based on current case law that wants to return to the locker era. if we were -- if we remove the child labor laws, if we remove things like inspections, foods, these are things that may not turn out to be onions and peppers, can vastly harm the general public and will increase medical cost, so you'll end up with a net loss rather than a net gain. guest: question is assuming that companies want to deliberately poisoned their customers, that businesses want to incur a cost. if you look at the evidence, the one thing you'll find if you look at safety or child labor, the recent countries give up child levy is because of economic growth. -- child labor. little kids at age 5 and 6 are working because that is the only the family avoids starving to death. more than to wonder years ago, we had a child labor -- more than 200 years ago, we had a child labor bec

talking with dan glickman about the u.s. global leadership coalition.he's the chairman of the bipartisan group advocating for foreign aid. let's talk to ray who is an independent in alaska. ray, you're on the air with dan glickman. god. good morning, ray. >> caller: yes, he low? >> caller: yes, hi, good morning. >> caller: this is ray, i'm in alaska, and i just feel the economic value in our country is not as rich as what it's put up -- made out to be, and i feel like that we should put more -- more focus to our country and not to the other countries, and i do believe that america was a power in the past, but with our recent credit rating dropping and with our economy, i think that we should spend more money taking care of our own country. >> guest: i understand that, and, you know, by and large i kind of agree with that. i mean, the heart of what our country ought to be is to take care of ourselves. i hope the president has a good jobs package next week, but, again, i point out a couple things. this is 1% of the budget, not 15% or 25%. it's just 1%. we

then dan glickman will talk about humanitarian aid to foreign countries and the federal budget. after that, james kinter will discuss climatology and hurricane irene. later in the morning, a discussion on jobs in the economy. we will go to the u.s. chamber of commerce for its annual labor day briefing. live coverage under way at 10:00 a.m. eastern. now, remarks by attorney general eric holder at a government emergency responders conference on communications technology. his remarks are 10 minutes. >> thank you. good morning. thank you for those kind words and especially for your outstanding leadership. it is a pleasure to stand with you this morning and to join you in welcoming so many of our colleagues and critical partners to this important conference. i like to recognize the great work are co-sponsors from the department of defense and homeland security have done to bring such a wide range of stakeholders together. from two federal partners to researchers and for line practitioners. each of you is an essential part of the response. each of you has a perspective that will enric

daniel mitchell of the cato institute on tomorrows "washington journal" and then former congressman dan glickmanp. he will talk about the federal budget. after that, james cantor of the center for ocean studies about weather forecasting and hurricane irene as well as climatology. "washington journal" here on c- span. live coverage gets under way at 10:00 a.m. eastern of the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> next, and conversation with brigadier-general cosentino about afghanistan. barbara slave and hosted the council. -- barbara slavin hosted the council. >> good afternoon. on behalf of our president and the director of our south asian center, i would like to welcome you to what will be very interesting discussion this afternoon. the south asia center, which was launched in 2009, has quickly become a central forum for policy makers, members of congress, and both european and south asian leaders. the center focuses on the greater south asia region, which includes the gulf, iran, afghanistan, and central asia. the center's establishment in the last two years has become a central point of this course on