the prosecutors in detroit certainly thought you were lying. what do you say to that?ty: i have the truth on my side. i've already been exonerated by the cia. i've already been exonerated by a federal judge. and i say to the people, look at the evidence and make up your mind. >> pelley: nada prouty was to be deported to lebanon, but because she would likely be killed by the very terrorists she investigated, the judge blocked her deportation. today, she lives in virginia with an american husband she married in 2001 and their two children. i wonder whether losing your citizenship was the worst part of all of this? >> prouty: that was the most painful part. >> pelley: how do you feel about that? >> prouty: i've carried a weapon in defense of my country. and i've put my life on the line for the country, i've put the life of my unborn child for the country. and i've been in horrible situations, i've been shot at. and what the country gives me back is de-nationalization. they take away from me the most precious thing, the thing that i believe in the most. i feel like i've be

now, what happened in detroit on christmas day? can you recall? what was so unnerving about that day? >> well, that there was a fail but only just failed terrorist incident. >> we were lucky as a nation that a bunch of people didn't get killed on christmas day or in the middle of hanukkah, whatever holiday it may be, aren't we? we're lucky that bomb didn't go off. >> it was a -- it seemed a close thing. i don't know more than i read in the newspapers about that incident. i was not, you know, involved in any of the discussions about what to do on that day. >> the times square incident, do you recall that? >> yes, sir. >> we were lucky that van didn't explode. >> every time one of these things happens, it is extremely unnerving. and, you know, makes us aware of the need to take efforts to make sure that such a thing never -- >> tell me about miranda warnings. do we need to read soldiers -- do soldiers need to read people their rights captured in battlefield in afghanistan? >> senator, theay a miranda warning would come up is with respect to theed a

mendota, california, 45%, detroit anywhere from sa 15% to 20%. guest: washington, d.c. is a great place to be unemployed because it is easier to find a job with government hiring. if you go to a place in california, michigan, any of those really hard hit states it is a much worse situation. we have seen that based on the regional unemployment numbers. >> lakeland, florida, democrat. caller: good morning. i think the reason why the unemployment rate is still so high is they keep he extending this unemployment. i know of several people that are almost two years into collecting unemployment. come this november and october they will be on it two years and have no intention of going back to work. their husbands make very good money so they don't have to go back to work. they don't have to look for jobs. they just get checks. and i know in the winter months depending on what part of the united states you live in there are fewer jobs when it is not the season like florida here and north carolina the summer is their season. so there are jobs out there. but if they are paid not

he went on to detroit. he also holds a bachelors of science of criminal justice from the university of detroit. ladies and gentlemen, i would like to welcome director james dinkins. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i want to -- i'm not going to take up a lot of your time. i was looking at the agenda and it looks like you have a full day ahead of you already. i do want to welcome everybody here to the ipr center. thank you for coming to the symposium. this is the largest conference we've had at the ipr center since we opened two years ago. i think it is very fitting that the topic is one of the most important topics, dealing with i.p. theft. that's the connection between terrorism, organized crime, and i.p. theft. the connections are real. i think you'll hear some great case presentations later this afternoon that really drive that connection and those links home. there are two presentations coming in from special agents in charge. i think you'll find those very enlightening. as many of you know, and a

both join us from detroit. the public continues to be so interested in kevorkian? >> well, i think it's because he's such an honest man and so frank about everything that he says and they find that fascinating. >> neil, why do you think we still -- we hear the name, something bumps. >> he became very well-known when he was helping patients. and it was in the papers every day. and governor was trying to get rid of him and they were passing laws against him, so he was -- he was better known than a lot of our politicians. >> larry: mayor, why do you think it sticks, though? >> there's a subject of death that will stick and it's jack kevorkian. he's trying to get people in pain and suffering the rights. >> larry: earlier this year hbo aged "you don't know jack," a movie based on jack's life. here's a short clip. >> it's good. i can carry that for you. >> that would have been nice, dr. ke voerk i can't be but it's a little late now, don't you think? and it's missus. >> missus? >> yep. >> oh, good. so you know who i

let us go to detroit, michigan, independent line.aller: i do not see much evidence of stimulus in this area. i seek evidence of abuse in this area. i can give you an example. there are a lot of orange cones on the freeway. you do not see any work going on during the week. on the weekend, saturday night, sunday night, you will see them working for double time or time and a half. it is the late hours on the weekend, but during the week, they are not doing anything. i see the money is being corrupted. these jobs are a dead end in this area. host: if they were working during the regular hours, would that cause problems with rush- hour traffic? caller: not really, because the detroit area has more freeways than any other city in the country. we have the least amount of jobs. that is not even an issue. what really strikes me is people in this country know this area has been the hardest hit. obama is playing the political card. we went from bush, it will face fire to obama, a talking fraud. -- bold faced liar to obama, in talking fraud. hos

both join us from detroit.s to be so interested in kevorkian? >> well, i think it's because he's such an honest man and so frank about everything he says and they find that fascinating. >> neil, whoo do you think we -- still, we hear the name and something bumps. >> he became very well known when he was helping patients, and it was in the papers every day, the governor was trying to get rid of him and they were passing laws against him. so he was -- he was better known than a lot of our politicians. >> larry: mayor, why do you think it sticks? >> because it's jack kevorkian and they're trying to get -- they're in remedial pain and sufferi suffering. shall we say their rights. >> earlier hbo aired "you don't know jack," a moovie based on jack kevorkian's life. al pacino started in the role. here's a clip. >> that would have been nice, dr. kevorkian. it's a little late, don't you think. and it's mrs. >> mrs.? >> yep. >> oh, good. so you know who i am? >> do i look like june cleaver? what can i do for you? >> well

. >> reporter: jason carroll, cnn, detroit. >> building up america. that does it for this edition of "360." thanks for watching. >> 25 years ago by sat cross him for the first broadcast of "larry king live". and decades later i talked to the guys at cnn and i told them i would like to and "larry king live," then i'll show that this fall on cnn they have accepted. giving me more time for my wife and i to get to the kids little league games. i will still be a part of the cnn family hosting several larry king specials on major national and international subjects. and we will be here for a lot of time until replacement is found. we will be here in 2-fold. tomorrow night, elizabeth edwards will be our special guest. i am incredibly proud that recently made the guinness part of world records for having the longest-running show with the same host and the tames time slot on the same network. i am looking to the future, what my next chapter will bring. for now, for here, it is time to hang up the nightly suspenders. until then, we have more shows to do and who

detroit, republican moderate bill, your next on call. caller: good morning. , mythird-generation uaw grandfather was involved in general motors, my father was involved fighting to get medical coverage, dental, vision. i just retired -- this is my big question about the unions. all of the big ones, uaw, afl- cio, team stern -- teamsters, never been a black leader. the book that the late mayor of detroit road, coleman young. i think you all need to read it. he would tell you how racist -- he was involved. i think they still are. we cannot get a black leader in any of the big unions. you tell me how much of these unions are on onside. from what i learned with my dad being so involved, the money that goes into the individual union pockets, that is what counts. if you ever have trouble in the plants, you get into a little trouble, what the union does is let the company just dragging you throw the got here while they take somebody who has a bad they take somebody who has a bad record -- write him of -- this bad guy, and have the lead and go a

now, what happened in detroit on christmas day? can you recall? what was so unnerving about that day? >> well, that there was a fail but only just failed terrorist incident. >> we were lucky as a nation that a bunch of people didn't gett killed on christmas day or in the middle of hanukkah, whatever holiday it may be, aren't we? we're lucky that bomb didt go off. >> it was a -- it seemed a close thing. i don't know more than i rea in the newspapers about that incident. i was not, you know, involved in any of th discussions about what to do on that day. >> the times square incident, do you recall that? >> yes, sir. >> we were lucky that van didn't explode. >> every time one of the things happens, it is extremely unnerving. d, you know, makes us aware of the need to take efforts to make sure that such a thing never -- >> tell me about miranda warnings. do we need to read soldiers -- do soldiers need to read people their rights captured in battlefield in afghanistan? >> senator, the way a miranda warning would come up is with respect to theed a missa

is still extremely dangerous and intent on executing the kind of potential attacks that result in detroitn christmas and recently in times square. >> mr. psychiatry and ed morrill mullen, thank you for your testimony this morning. >> mr. chairman, at the risk of prolonging the hearing, could i take just a moment to address the question to put to me in your opening statement? >> yes, sir. >> first of all, one of the frustrations i have had ever since taking this job has been the department of defense is organized and structured to plan for the war but not wage war and the only way that i have been able that i found i have been able to get the kind of urgent action to create the mrap to get the additional intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance work to do to counter ied effort has been battling to get their the groups that you described in the task force's where i jeter them and essentially have all of the senior players both uniformed and civilian at the table. and to be able to force the kind of rapid action that has been necessary to support those in the field. in several of these a

knocking down trees, downing power lines and killing at least one person near detroit. severe weather also hit chicago and hit it hard. a line of strong storms knocked out power to more than 400,000 people, and blew out windows in the city's willis tower, the former sears tower. >>> former pro basketball star bold died saturday at a virginia hospital where he was being treated for kidney trouble and a rare skin disease. bol was drafted by the washington bullets in 1985. and played for three other teams. at 7'7", he was one of the tallest players ever in the nba. after his basketball career, he devoted his time to helping the people in his native sudan. bol was 47 years old. >>> those are your headlines this hour. i'm don lemon keeping you informed. cnn, the most trusted name in news. to work better on pain than tylenol 8 hour. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? good, how are you? [ male announcer ] aleve. proven better on pain. cone on, kiddo, let's go. hold on a second... come on up here, where your brothers sit. wow! chevy traverse. a consumers digest

i am living close to the detroit area, an area ravaged by years of liberal politicians. some of whom are currently in court. the thing i have noticed is the demonization of bp has been this big republican corp. when they have in fact been major contributors to the barack obama campaign. i just cannot understand why there is this demonization of all of the big corporations. i could understand the democrats can run big businesses as much as republicans can. >> you did not express an opinion, you just expressed facts. bp did contribute more to barack politician. of course, obama one wall street, one obama -- one americans making $100,000 per year or more. these cliches are fleet -- increasingly untenable as factual matters. it is not so obvious as the republican party always being the party of big business. it is way more complicated than that. but you would not know it by reading your average newspapers. predicate on these incredibly outdated assumptions. your point about bp specifically, they were the most liberal by far of the energy companies i am aware of. there is a r

host: michael, detroit.ler: they often accuse the other, but most people are not aware that from the detroit in jewish news, i read about [unintelligible] the week are likely to take personal bowel'sv personalows, -- vows, we render them null and void. how can we trust the jewish people in the state of israel when they believe in this kind of a prayer? guest: i am not quite sure exactly what he is getting at in referring to this. i think that in an effort to delegitimize the state of israel and engage in these questions about how we can trust jews in the state of israel is very harmful. it is harmful to the jewish community in the united states. it is harmful to israel. let me bring you back to this question regarding the flotilla and the incident that happened. israel is increasingly isolated in the international system. it as a certain paranoia within the israeli political and security establishment of a lens to the kinds of decisions that we saw -- that we saw on monday. there has been a lot of monday mor

. -- next is a call from mark, republican line. , from detroit. caller: to put things into perspective, the $20 billion fund that was established for cleanup is a pittance when you compare it to the amount of money wasted covering the toxic spill on wall street'. tarp was $700 billion. how much money went to meet aig? you are talking about $20 billion like it is a panacea. it shows where the priority is right now. host: "the financial times" leads with a color photograph of the negotiations. bp officials over here, tony hayward. carl-henric svanberg. the labor secretary. here is the attorney general along with the president. the next couple of -- telephone call is clearwater, florida. arlene on the democrats' line. caller: hi. i am shaking right now. i have not called in months. this whole bp gusher disaster just got be dead inside. i don't understand why it is so unpopular to speak of this by an environmental point of view. what british petroleum has done is beyond comprehension. and this thing is still gushing and it is going to four months. the

the commissioner of major league baseball will not reverse a call that cost detroit tigers pitcher armandoallaraga a perfect game. the announcement came today. galarraga hadn't allowed a man to reach base last night, until two outs in the ninth inning. that's when umpire jim joyce ruled cleveland indian jason donald was safe at first. he later admitted the call was wrong and he apologized to galarraga. today, the pitcher accepted the apology, and said he's moving on. >> nobody is perfect, nobody's perfect, everybody makes mistake. and i'm sure he don't want to make a call that say... i sure like if you see that guy last night he feel really bad. >> holman: tigers manager jim leyland argued the call at the time. but later, he had only praise for umpire joyce. >> this is one of the best umpires in the game without question one of the great guys. i think how jim joyce handled it was also a big key. i think if he would have been defiant, saying, "no, i didn't miss it," been arrogant about it, the guy was a shambles, in tears. my heart aches for the guy. >> holman: the tigers played the indians

. >> sreenivasan: other major cases have unfolded in detroit, atlanta, new jersey and duluth, minnesota. wall street managed slight gains despite some disappointing news. the government reported first- time claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week. even so, the dow jones industrial average gained 24 points to close at 10,434. the nasdaq rose more than a point to close at 2,307. a panel of health experts concluded today a new morning after contraceptive is safe and effective. the food and drug administration will now consider whether to allow sales of the new pill ellaone. it's already approved for use in europe. antiabortion groups have warned ellaone is more like an abortion drug than emergency contraception. those are some of the day's major stories, now back to jim. >> lehrer: this was a decision day at the u.s. supreme court. ray suarez has our coverage. >> suarez:f you own beachfront property, should you be company said if the government moves the ocean further away? if you text at work, on an office cell phone, do you have a right to privacy for those messages? and

in another case, 19 individuals in detroit were charged with operating a racketeering enterprise that included counterfeit viagra, cigarettes, and others, and the court reporter that the -- and they reported that the profits went back to hezbollah. and finally, a man was sentenced to 110 months in prison for money laundering and terrorist financing, and we see the connection to product counterfeiting, where the funds were transferred to al qaeda and its affiliate organizations that operatives. let me conclude with this -- what does this tell us so far? again, a bit of a teaser. some of the information we are capturing. but even in his infancy stage, we see the data we are able to gather from the open sources are very rich in detail. the process holds a lot of promise for us in informing policy and practice, in terms of placing it in a problem- solving framework. by articulating the process of the crime, those who were involved and other features, we can identify the kinds of intervention, and then using these established tenets of crime prevention strategy, we can come up with sort of

quiet life researching and procuring rare earths for the automotive and technology industries in detroit. today he travels the globe as a consultant and key voice in a growing chorus looming about a rare earth crunch. some people have said we could be facing a rare earth crisis in the next two or three years. you're saying it could be right now. >> i'm saying it is right now. there are a lot of my colleagues saying, oh, no, it's in the future. it's in the future. no, it isn't because developing mines takes years and years. the crisis is now. >> reporter: the problem is 95% of the world's rare earth supplies are mined and refined , produced soup to nuts, in just one place. china. the giant mine in energy mongolia is easily recognizable on google earth and is is the center of the industry. china used to produce rare earths primarily for export. but as its economy booms so does its hunger for its own mineral supply. >> the chinese domestic economy is beginning to demand huge quantities of rare earth materials. it did not demand, as recently as a decade ago. every one of those cars has littl

another headline from detroit, "a public duty and a life lived in private." conyers' sentenced to more than three years in prison. larry from baltimore. good morning. caller: good morning, sir. thank you very much for taking my call. i have a few comments. jobs -- we have a job problem in this country. we are well aware of it. the government does not do anything about the illegal immigration. there are over 35 million illegal immigrants in this country, and i am sure most of them are working. why will the government not do something about illegal immigration? the government, again, subprime loans and all of that -- it was the government that forced the banks to give loans to people that could not afford to pay for them. you and i know that. the banks were smart enough to bundle some of these loans up and sell them overseas. that is why it became a world crisis. it was basically a u.s. cent housing bubble -- a u.s. housing bubble. the government forced banks to give loans to people. social security -- we have problems for social security. how many people are o

donald is standing by in detroit. thank you for waiting. what do you want to hear tonight? caller: i want to hear what he is going to do to stop the oil leak. it is an absolute catastrophe. not listening to the politicians on the other side, the right. because they are talking about keeping drilling and he wants to put a moratorium temporarily because you have an absolute catastrophe. it makes sense. they erred in not using cents, just playing politics. they want to drill right now. they are not worried about the jobs and the president is, too. he is not a stupid man. we have an absolute catastrophe. lives are at stake. not just talk about making money. talk about lives, animals, humans, tte economy, the wetlands, the marshes. everything. you take into account all of this. and the american people watching. not talk about the tea bag or conservatives but the real american people are watching and they know that he is moving like a man possessed doing the best pecan and he is thinking. not just running around doing everything just to be doing it. he is trying to get it taken c

as we saw in the failed attack in detroit that we need to do better, constantly evolve and adopt and improve. that is why i ordered a series of things to strengthen our community earlier. i will be looking to jim to insure we have the most efficient community as possible. it must be anne -- acted upon decisively. that is what i expect as president. that is what our national security demands. in short the intelligence community needs to work as one integrated team that produces timely and accurate spgs. this is a tough task. but this will be jim's core mission. he is imminently qualified and has my complete support. jim understands the importance of working with our partners in category. not to just appear when summoned but to keep congress informed. not surprisingly the senate voted to confirm jim for senior positions on four separate occasions and each time it has done so overwhelmingly. the urgent threats to our nation and jim's unique experience, i urge the senate to do it again and as swiftly as possible. i have indicated that i expect this nomination to be completed during this

if it were washington, they would redistribute to the poor detroit lions. that would be airport in the world of sports. there are a lot of things we can learn. said, as most of you all are too young to remember but he always talks about the future is now, and that is the way we ought to look at it because we can't afford to continue kicking the can down the road because that can is turning into a barrel and what you find with what is going on in washington is everything from the health care monstrosity and experimented telling us what kind of energy we use and then telling us how much income we can have and how to increase taxes on capital gains and income and dividends and debts and even talking about value-added taxes. i have all the confidence in the world and the ability of americans and america to compete and succeed and i have heard from many folks for the last year while writing this book, folks who are really dismayed and are losing confidence in the ability of america to compete and most importantly, the worry of the potential of their children to

enough traction in yemen and people are saying how do we take out president and how do we take out detroit. i think on your questions about the internet, a couple of thoughts. the first is i think we should play. i think people bho who go beyond the line and sho things like beheading videos on the internet, i say you're done. there are operational implications on this. how much do you lose by shutting down your internet sites and how much do you gain by destroying ideology. i think in difficult decision-making times, the easy question here is if you accept a premise that this is a revolutionary organization, let's take the operational hit to damage revolution. the spread of ideology. don't take out anything that we're legally able to take out on the internet. our messaging, i think, should be pretty straightforward. that is we don't mess around with jihad. we never use the word terrorism. we never call them terrorists. they are punk murderers. they kill people. when things happen, we ought to look at what they say. look at spring of 2007, 2008, pardon me. it is an almost rude question from

they are saying how do we go detroit?e tri i think we should play. people who go beyond the line videos, theyeadinheading are done. i think in a difficult decision- making times, if it is too difficult call probably the question you're asking is too complicated. if you accept the premise that this is a revolutionary organization, the spread of ideology of the internet. take out anything because it helps out. i think our messaging -- i guess i can say this -- i think our messaging should be straightforward. we don't mess around with religion or jihad. never call these guys terrorists. they are pumped murderers -- murders. pumped murderenk look at 2007, 2008. look at the first question out of the box alabama salahi takes. it is almost a rude question -- zawahiri takes. he says, why don't you go after people like jews? this is not a live interview. he takes it on because he knows this is not a paid spot. i think he knows they are losing ground when they kill innocents. we talk about war. we should talk about what they do not want us to talk about. some

as we saw in the failed attacks in detroit, we need to do better. we need to constantly evolve, a that is why i have ordered purports to see how we can strengthen intelligence, and i will be looking to jam to make sure that we have the most capable intelligence community possible. intelligence must be analyzed quickly, shared, and acted upon decisively. that is what i expect as president, and that is what our national security demands. analysis you had mentioned. he made recommendations to congress. i was aware of those are you? guest: i am not aware of the reforms he recommended, but not me say this about jim clapper. he is an excellent choice. he is the kind of person i am talking about. even if he is not a 10-year appointment, he has had a lifetime experience working on intelliggnce matters. host: of the only four, were you the only civilian? guest: i was, and even though i did not have military experience, had quite a bit of diplomatic intelligence and experience. running five embassies, also had applied station chiefs. host: next phone call. ca

spoiling what would have been the detroit tiger's first game in history. throughout the ensuing controversy, they have displayed extraordinary grace under pressure and tremendous sportsmanship. setting a fine example for sports fans everywhere. it's my hope that major league baseball commission will consider the decision and will correct what was clearly a faulty call. with the full support of the entire michigan delegation, i have introduced a resolution today declaring that galarraga pitched a perfect game and urging the mlb to overturn a miss taken safe call. i believe to do so will more than please the 17,000 fans who were in the stands that day and place galarraga a part of the game's history of having pitched a perfect game. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> ask permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. burgess: madam speaker, just within the pa

i just happen to be a poor polish lawyer from detroit. but it seems to me that this is a curious response to a drop in ofits. it makes me wonder what the compensation package of our witness will be this year. mr. chairman, again, i thank you for your diligence and hard work on this issue. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today and look forward to working with you on this matter. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. next ms. blackburn, if you will make your opening statement please. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i thank you and ranking member burgess for holding the hearing today. mr. hayward, i thank you for your willingness to testify before this committee. you know, when news of the bp spill began and information about the well started to circulate, it seemeda there was problems not only with , but also with mms bureaucracy and maybe the problem lay there rather than with anything that could have gone wrong with bp, that it was there with mms. what welearned and confirmed that that is not correct, that the problem does lie w

identify are ways of promoting that kind of information in the future. 19 individuals in detroit were charged with operating a racketeering enterprise that included by agra, cigarette papers, and others. court records indicate that these profits went back to hezbollah. a pakistani national residing in washington, d.c., was sentenced to 110 months in prison for terrorist financing. we see the connection to product counterfeiting where funds were transferred to al qaeda and its affiliate organizations and operatives. let me conclude with this. it is a bit of a teaser. some of the information we are capturing, -- what we are seeing in this infancy stage is that the data we are able to gather is very rich in detail. this approach holds a lot of promise as far as forming policy and practice in terms of placing it in a problem-solving framework. by articulating the process of the crime, those work -- those who were involved, and other features, we can identify points of intervention. we can come up with the substance of intervention, what does it look like, when and where it is placed, wher

i just happen to be a poor polish lawyer from detroit. but it seems to me that this is a curious response to a drop in profits. it makes me wonder what the compensation package of our witness will be this year. mr. chairman, again, i thank you for your diligence and hard work on this issue. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today and look forward to working with you on this matter. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. next ms. blackburn, if you will make your opening statement please. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i thank you and ranking member burgess for holding the hearing today. mr. hayward, i thank you for your willingness to testify before this committee. you know, when news of the bp spill began and information about the weel started to circulate, it seemeda there was problems not only with bp, but also with mms bureaucracy and maybe the problem lay there rather than with anything that could have gone wrong with bp, that it was there with mms. what welearned and confirmed that that is not correct, that the problem does l

james, from detroit, good morning. caller: the president is trying everything he can to clean this mess up. the banks are not lending. -- they're not lending money to banks. even when we bail out these companies they're not hiring people because in the stock market news that they say the banks are afraid, or the corporations are afraid, or the businesses are afraid to invest in new inventory, or to hire new people. that is not the president's fault. the president is doing everything he can to stimulate the economy it is the corporations. people need to understand that if you want to talk about patriotism, we need to go after the corporations and ask them -- where is your patriotism, corporate america? you have takkn all the money from the bush years, you have plenty of capital. why aren't you taking that and investing back in our country, our people, who have supported you all of these years? host: thanks for the call. here it is a story inside the paper, all but one state and local government -- most local governments

host: detroit is our first phone call. on the independent line. i think she is gone. where are you calling from? caller: ocala, california. i have an idea that i have been trying to get out. with our trade deficit, i think we should have an international lottery headquartered in washington, d.c., sponsored by the government. we could bring in billions of dollars. at the same time, is qualified, if a foreigner wins, they have the option of becoming a resident here and spending their winnings here. i think it would be a good idea because it would bring a lot of the money back that we shell out. host: anything there related to the supreme court? he seems to be off topic. we have touched on abortion and welfare. what other high-profile issues have you seen come forth with these papers? guest: there was a debate about assisted suicide and whether or not we needed a law. it was a fairly lively debate in and out of the administration whether or not it was necessary, to leave it up to states. you can see, kagan said, she thought it was a terrible idea. the administration came

imagine what we'd do i1,000 rockets were fired into seattle or into detroit or any other border area. in the case of israel, one million people live within rocket range of gaza. and those one million people have been living through hell for yires, with a 15-secon warning, a 15-second warning to seek shelter when the rocket attacks begin. and you as a result of that, 13 israelis have died, but it's inflicted huge harm on the people who live within rocket range in south israel. 1/3 of all the children in south israel suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome. again, imagine what we would do to stop such attacks if they were directed against us. that's the fundamental reason why israel feels obliged, the israeli military feels obliged to do what it needs to do to protectity citizens. these ships were not in any way interfered with because they were carrying humanitarian aid. these ships were interfered with for one reason and one reason only, that's because they could have been carrying missiles and rockets and things that can be made into missiles and rockets. it's the fundamental duty

traction in yemen where people are not saying how do you take out the president, but how you go after detroit? on your questions on the internet, i think that we should play. show beheading videos, and there are operational consideration, how much you gain in terms of destroying ideology? in difficult decision making time, the question is too complicated. the easy question is, if this is of revolutionary organization, i would say take out anything that we were legally allowed to take out on the internet to stop the spread of revolution. i think our messaging should be pretty straight forward. we do not mess around. we do not mess around with your hide. we never used the word terrorism. do not call them jihadists or terrorists. they are pock murderers. the most interesting thing i have seen in the past four years in terms of ideology, look at the spring of 2008, look at the first question out of the box in the internet interview. it is an almost rude question, who last about the killing of innocents. why don't you go after people like the jews? why did he take this question? i think he takes i

detroit, next up. caller: good morning. it is unusual to me but it is not surprising. any time anyone says anything regarding israel, no matter who or where it is, about israel, watch out. it has been that way until -- since 1948. i am not sure who is really running this country because helen thomas has been saying things for years and nobody has ever made any comment about it. host: de thing she has made similar statements for years? caller: often on, sure. she speaks her piece. i know she is what the press car -- press corps. it has nothing to do about helen thomas. you don't say anything about them. host: here is cq politics credit crawford -- craig crawford. the speaker's bureau says it is with a heavy heart and announces its resignation as its agent for helen thomas, dean of the white house press corps. cincinnati on the republican line. betty. caller: how were you? host: fine, go ahead. caller: i definitely feel that helen thomas spoke the truth. i think the attorney general said we are cowards to talk about race in this country and i think helen said is absolute

as we saw in the failed attack over detroit, we need to do better. we need to evolve, adapt, and improve. i ordered a series of reform to strengthen intelligence this year. i will be looking to to jim to make sure we have the most capable and efficient intelligence community we could. our national security demands it. our intelligence community needs to work as one integrated team to produce quality, timely, and accurate intelligence. this is a difficult task, but this will be the core mission. he is eminently qualified and he has my complete confidence and support. he also understands the importance of working with our partners in congress. as he has said, not only to appear when summoned, but to seek member's advice and consent. the senate has voted to confirm him for the senior positions on four separate occasions. it has done so overwhelmingly, each time. given his unique experience, i urge the senate to do so again as swiftly as possible. i've spoken to the appropriate senate leaders and have indicated that i expect this nomination to be complet

host: i want to show you the front-page of "the detroit free press" this morning. ford leads surge in quality. as you can see, almost full page coverage of some car news. kansas, arthur, democrat. caller: i would like to say, i would lot -- i think a lot of people, including news anchors, editorial, journalist, the are missing the point. i am living in poverty. i make about $80,000 a year. everybody is worried about -- i make about $18,000 a year. everybody is worried about losing their houses. what about people in poverty who don't have houses or 401k's roll over. you guys are making sixers seven figures a year. that is why you guys do not like taxes because it is hitting your pockets. but one aspect, the people who don't got nothing, who don't have anything, i believe the ones obama is trying to help. you are looking like you did not understand what i am saying. people don't -- who don't have anything. we don't have houses, we don't have cars, we don't have checking accounts, anything, nothing, and then people complaining about, i'm losing two of my -- my house.

i was just at a conference on this in detroit trying to make sure that the banks are able to lend to credit-worthy borrowers and that they are not being excessively conservative or denying did more worse credit. >> is that message getting to the examiners? >> i am never satisfied. i am sure that there are examples we could point to where that is not happening. we have made a very substantial effort in terms of training, in terms of conference calls, in terms of repeated exhortation to our examiner said that it is very important to work with the banks to make sure that credit- worthy borrowers are not turned away. the banks have taken a number of steps. they have taken on second-look programs where loans are given a second look to see f., perhaps, -- c f, perhaps, -- see if, perhaps they could be approved. >> mr. chairman, currently we are in a transition period. fannie mae and freddie mac are in conservatorship. they are playing an important role at the moment in providing a source of securitization for home mortgages. the private label security mortgage market is nonfunctional. we n

i am not sure who in detroit would voluntarily leave a paycheck, but i suppose that was part of the rationale. this is just another facet where i believe, unfortunately, crony capitalively could be ememployed. i reject this amount of discretion in ddaling with the creditors or the counter parties of the morgan stanleys or the goldman-sachses of the world. we know under any facet of crony capitalism, you economic future depends lesson how you perform your job at home and more on who you know in washington. what it means is that firms' profit depends lesson how they compete in the marketplace and more how they compete in the halls of congress. we are see the vanguard of that today, and the result is the highest unemployment rate in a general and an economy that is still stagnant when it comes to jobs. we do not need any invitation for crony capitalism. >> the gentleman's time is expired. all those in favor will say aye. opposed no. the no's have it. the clerk will call the role and the vote is among the members of the financial services committee and the judiciary committee. >> mr. chairman? >>

host: how does youngstown or detroit or binghamton, the towns that have been hit hard, whether it is nafta or other factors -- many of these communities have been decimated over the last 20 years. how do they come back? guest: first, we need to recognize that was not nafta. these communities have been struggling for several decades. to say that if we tinker with nafta there will be an industrial renaissance is just a cruel hoax. the president's basic demagoguery on the campaign trail against trade ran into the reality of running this nation. you cannot serve the interests of the u.s. economy. -- you cannot serve the interests of the u.s. economy by raising trade barriers. it will complicate our relations with other countries. mexico and canada are too close with neighbors, -- are two close neighbors, closed for a policy neighbors do you want to start your administration by picking a gratuitous trade fight with them? does it serve the national interest? does it serve one or two or three narrow economic sectors? unionized workers and the private sector are less than 8% of workers. 80 p

allegedly had direct contact with abdumutallab before he got on that plane to try to blow it up fo detroitso i think if what is alleged about the more recent activity is correct there may be much more direct case of attempted murder and the same kind charges that he himself was facing we conspiracy. but we haven't seen that evidence that was alged but it does raise also the comfortable question of if you are targeting him for debt potentially by missile wire from the drug as a cia lawyer pointed out to me under the law if we want to eavesdrop on the cellphone which we presumably do, we have to go to the fight for an intelligence court and lee of the evidence that he is an agent of an international terrorist group and get warrant but as far as anyone knows, thapproval process fr visiting them could potentially be murdered or killed hasn't gone to the dicial branch. it's been in th executive particularly the nsc for approval but it does seem like there is something out of whack when the congress passed something that says you need a warrant to listen to somebody but you don't need a warrant

we're talking about the g-20 summit, the next call comes from ed on our line for democrats out of detroit, michigan. caller: good morning. i just had well first a point and then a question. one is that you mentioned the one is that you mentioned the crisis with greece and it seems that germany both on the g-8 or g-20 level in the last summit that took place with these countries, germany -- china addressed the global recession was very he is tent, i don't know if they did make a move to increase their stimulus money to try to address the recession that was going on and so they seem to be a very reluctant partner. and the second question i have is what -- since this is a global worldwide crisis and these companies, even though some might be based in the united states, they're multinational companies, the concept of having aag-20 recovery fund that is administered maybe through the imf or some entity so that all the players step up and actually contribute their equal parts. because it seems as if though the united states has been carrying the burden of the global crisis by bailing out these

i just happen to be a poor polish lawyer from detroit. but it seems to me that this is a curious response to a drop in profits. it makes me wonder what the compensation package of our witness will be this year. mr. chairman, again, i thank you for your diligence and hard work on this issue. i look forward to >> thank you, mr. chairman. next, ms. back bush for your opening statement? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i thank you and ranging member burgess for holding the hearing. mr. hayward, i thank you for your willingness to testify before this committee. when news of the bp spill began and information about the well started to circulate, it seemed that there were problems not only with bp, but with m.m.s. bureaucracy, and thattmaybe the problem lay there rather than with anything that could have gone with bp, that it was there with m.m.s. what we've learned and confirmed is that that is not correct, that the problem does 0 lie with bp in what went wrong. while there are many faults with m.m.s. in doing its job with inspection and oversight,

trouble, jefferson county, alabama, harrisburg, pennsylvania as you've been talking about, and also detroitlooking at the situation in harrisburg, pennsylvania's capital $68 billion in bond payments this year, thrrs 3 million more than its entire budget. the governing body that issued the bonds to construct a state-of-the-art trash insin rator has been unable to make several payments and now the county government which foot it had bill last year for a $775,000 swap fee is suing for the funds. guest: mm-hmm. host: tell us more about this situation. how did they get in this trouble and how do they get out? guest: how they got into it has to do with an idea from years ago to use the insin rator to burn trash, to sell the steam from it for energy. and i believe the first company that agreed to do the retro fit failed in it and went under. then they had to hire somebody else to do it. so that's the example of the really bad deal. right? and apparently it's an incredibly complex financing and as you point out very expensive and the debt service exceeds the city budget. now, how do they get out of

host: wws the thinking their support for detroit? what motivated them? guest: to do the compromise? i think the auto dealers are very influential in house races. they are big political players in local elections and a think there was a lot of support in the house. i think it was more bare knuckle politics. host: thank you for your reporting. kevin hall, covering this for mcclatchy newspapers. national economics correspondent. let's go back to your telephone calls. brookville, florida. tammy, democrats line. caller: i heard earlier, one of your earlier callers called in and of talking about the oil spill down in louisiana and being that president obama is an entry-level -- or referring to him as entry-level. well, one of the things i know, some of the best ideas, being a supervisor over various organizations, some of the greatest ideas come from fresh people who are not tainted by the system and the good old boys have done things in the past. one of the things i think is, when you look at all of the major things that president obama has had to deal with, from the economy, to the oil

one of which is being that on these swampy, humid, hot days, a son of detroit can wear sere sucker to beat the heat. the other that i wish to thank him for is his constant reminder to us through his example that we work for the people who send us here. and that in very difficult times it is crucial that we look past our perceived differences and be able to come together on behalf of the people who have entrusted us with office, to help solve problems for them. we in michigan went through this, where we saw an entire cherished way of life endangered and we united to come togethee to help solve that problem. the crisis has not passed, it continues to this day. but we are on the road to recovery. former president of the united auto workers, ron gettelfinger, is a man who understands positions of trust, a man who understands the need to do everything he can to honor that trust. as a democratically elected president of the united auto workers he did everything within his power in an exceedingly difficult time to ensure the union's survival, to ensure the survival of the auto industry and t

nothing in this will keep san francisco housing from being more expensive than detroit and so on butit should i hope get d of the very destctive boom and bust cycle we are suffering through right now. so this is a feedback loop. this is well-known from engineers control. there are some examples of this that you are all familiar with. the thermostat is one where you monitor the temperature and if it is to love you turn on the furnace, and turit off if it is warm enou. the governor on a lawnmower engine. when you listen to a lawnmower going to the deepgrass, it pops back so the reason that ps back to the original speed is there is their mechanism in there that senses the drop in the speed of the lawnmower an opens the throttle and it goes back t its correct operating speed. that is an example of the so-called governor feedback loop. so one othe possible titles for this talk is simy to have a new governor for the federal reserve. [lauter] another example of this is that we are all familiar with, the cruise control in an automobile where you regulate the speed. this is an example of wher