host: david clarke, senior editor at "politico." u for -- david mark, senior editor at "politico," thank you for spending this time with us. caller: my pleasure. thank you for having me. host: we are continuing with your phone calls. democrats trying to undo the campaign finance reform from the supreme court. bob is joining us from san jose, california. good morning. caller: good morning. i cannot believe the people that have called in. they should all be outraged. how can you say that we have freedom of speech when corporations have billions against any other kind of organization? that is not know democracy. that is complete corporate takeover. when you have government and corporation working together, it is fascism. thank you. host: democratic line, good morning. scranton, pennsylvania. gerald, go ahead, please. let's try one more time, if you are with us. let's move on to rabin, st. louis, missouri. caller: how are you? if they wanted to simplify campaign finance, they could do it with common sense. the only people like to donate

host: david clarke.est: you are on the banking committee, and the big issue is the overhaul of the financial regulatory structure. you announced you're going to hammer out a deal with senator dodd, a week after reaching impasse with other republicans on the committee. why did you decide to make that move? what type of feedback are you getting? guest: it is unpleasant. i have not tried to talk to a large number of people. i have talked to a few. look, it is awkward. i have really good friends on the committee that i eat dinner with in the evening, and not just professionally, i know them. it is not pleasant. senator dodd came forth in november and negotiations broke down with senator shelby and senator dodd. dodd came to a committee markup with a partisan bill. i urged him publicly not to do that. let's create a bipartisan bill. he acquiesced. he sat up during the health care debate, he set up a team with four republicans and democrats teaming up, working on the four important sections of the bill. it has

host: david clarke, senior editor at "politico." david mark, senior editor at "politico," thank you for spending this time with us. caller: my pleasure. thank you for having me. host: we are continuing with your phone calls. democrats trying to undo the campaign finance reform from the supreme court. bob is joining us from san jose, california. good morning. caller: good morning. i cannot believe the people that have called in. they should all be outraged. how can you say that we have freedom of speech when corporations have billions against any other kind of organization? that is not know democracy. that is complete corporate takeover. when you have government and corporation working together, it is fascism. thank you. host: democratic line, good morning. scranton, pennsylvania. gerald, go ahead, please. let's try one more time, if you are with us. let's move on to rabin, st. louis, missouri. caller: how are you? if they wanted to simplify campaign finance, they could do it with common sense. the only people like to donate campaigns

. >> capital legislatures david clark from cq politics.com. thanks for joining us david. >> thanks for having me. >> host: take a look at who will be on capital hill and who will be their audience. >> there are a lot of cabinet secretaries testifying. we have treasury secretary geithner in the ways and means committee in the morning and peter orszag in the afternoon. you have admiral mullen and secretary gates meeting with the house of armed services committee. and labor secretary on the hill as well as the transportation secretary. i think, well, obviously they are going to be talking about a lot about the president's budget proposals. there's probably going to be a lot of talk about his jobs plan and what congress can do to try to get the unemployment rate down and jump start the economy. >> host: are there any hearings that look to be noteworthy? >> well, the secretary geithner and lmb director orszag will likely be an opportunity for republicans to go over the budget and particular the amount of high deficit and debt on display yesterday at

host: david clarke, thanks for being with us. getting back to our topic this morning "don't ask, don't tell," to be think it will be repealed -- should be repealed. jeremiah from the other callers line. caller: good morning, america. i just feel it is not really an issue because if you are and the military, you are there to serve the country and you have adopted it. your sexual preference or sexual life has nothing to do with it, and for that even to be a topic or an issue is very stupid. host: and marie, on the other callers line from chicago. good morning. caller: i want to say something about "don't ask, don't tell." i think they should not pass it because -- what about -- cnn did a series about the young men being raped in the military. now, if they put those sergeants or whoever over who is gay openly, let them take over, who's to say they won't touch -- or boley one of the young soldiers? host: the phone numbers -- let's take a look senator john mccain's position. michael shear writes -- brooke would cannon said her boss is

distance from david carol from nlada, national legal aid defensors association, i couldn't have done it without him. he was recommended to me by our executive director of the aclu in clark county and he gave me insight in to this whole issue of indigent defense and how to handle it through a court order, rather than through legislation. we would love to handle this through legislation, but you have to understand in nevada, we still have that small state mentality, even though we're a larger state now, where our legislature meets every other year and it's a citizen legislature, an of course, they have to balance the budget. so one of the things the legislature did over the years is kept on cutting the state public defenders budget, so that it became really a non-entity as far as indigent defense, it represents just a couple counties. most of the counties have gone to public defender or contract system. we next decided to look into case loved standards and that's caused real problems. real fighting between district attorneys, public defenders, criminal defense bar, contract attorneys, county managers, and so we had bob do a report and unfortunately, he did not make recomm

david carroll from nlada, national legal -- nlada, national legal and defender association but i couldn't have done it without him. he was recommended to me by our executive director of the aclu in clarkrather than through legislation. we would have loved to handle this through legislation but you got to understand in nevada, we still have that small statement out of even though we are eight largest event. our legislature meets every other year and it is a citizen legislature. of course, they have to balance the budget. so one of the things the legislature did over the years is kept on coming to state public defenders budget so that it became really am not anti-as far as indigent defense. represents just a couple of counties. most of the counties have gone to public defender or contract system. we next decided to look in the case is and has caused real problems are real fighting between district attorneys, public defenders, criminal defense bar, contract attorneys, county managers, and so we had bob spangenberg to report. and unfortunately, he did not make recommendations as to what the caseload standards -- a student, was what the caseload for an washoe washoe and in clark county. th