reverend fong might also have the most reverent -- or rather devaney reverend a rabbi no. he is here to bless our new facility, but later today, he and his band, just jammin, will be performing here life for all of you. reverend fong. [cheers and applause] >> ok, everybody, everybody -- everybody, pay attention. i am not blessing this place to you, all of us are blessing this place. mayor lee. all of us. ong family. when i say everybody, then you say three words -- bless this center. let's try that. bless this center. here we go. maybe the spirit of peace and harmony -- everybody -- [all] bless this center. made the spirit of the joy and happiness, everybody -- [all] + this center. made the struggle of learning and teamwork, everybody -- blessed this center. maybe courage and inspiration of betty ann ong -- everybody -- bless this center. maybe love and dedication of all the rec park staff, volunteers, directors, past and present, everybody -- bless this center. made the sound of laughter as well as the sweat of hard work, everybody -- bless this center. >in the spirit of

they put the toughest investigator in washington, earl devaney in charge of this, he's the guy that busted jack abramoff, and so far, they've found about $10 million in fraud, .11 percent. he says he's tphra*or gasted. whether you're a democrat, republican, communist, he likes to say, you've got to be excited about this has not been the big criminal boondoggle, full of cronyism that people expected. >> host: and back to your book before we go to calls, critics often argue that while the new deal left behind iconic monuments, the hoover dam, skyline drive, fort knox, the stimulus bill will leave a mond ain -- mundane legacy, sewage plants, state employees who have been laid off without it. even the recovery act's architects fears that like winston churchill's pudding it lacked a theme. in reality, it's creating its own icon, zero energy border stations, state of the art battery factories, eco friendly coast guard headquarters on a washington hillside, one of a kind advance sycroton life force in a new york lab. it's restoring old icons, the brooklyn bridge, bay bridge and the imperilled eve

devaney is appointed to the recovery act board and it was the natural -- >> natural progression. you know that as well. it becomes a conflict of interest. let me ask you a question. if someone incited the irreparable harm to an industry, is there a criminal statute that you can use to go and intentionally cause harm in an industry? to you by the criminal statute that we could use to go after them? >> i hope there's a criminal statute for that. >> you think we should have one? >> unintentional harm by itself may be a criminal violation. >> is an e-mail here from a case manager that says, and i read, the statement that includes them as they mistake as a clear attempt to spin a reporter. i truly believe the editing was intentional. now, the american academy of science said look, a 30 day pause certainly would've been suspicion. a six-month one did not stand by. so, what you say that anyone who in turn should only alter the document, caused irreparable harm to an industry? >> let me be clear that was the case agent's opinion. the evidence did not support that opinion. >> that is why

build a new facility here in michigan or somewhere else in this country or maybe even a big foreign devaneyme here to build a big research center unless they know we're not going to become greece or italy or spain. they want to know that america is willing to deal with our financial issues, so i will do something politicians have talked about for a long time and and paul ryan has shown the courage to do -- as are going to work hard to find america to a balanced budget by cutting the deficit and getting it to zero. [applause] number 5, i am going to champion small business. i want to help entrepreneurs and innovators to build their businesses and add more jobs. 65% of the jobs created in the last 15 years in america were created by small business. i want to help these small businesses. right now, the president wants to raise the tax on small business from 35% to 40%. that would kill jobs. did not raise taxes on any american. keep our taxes competitive, get them down. make small business the driving engine of economic growth. that is number one on small business, taxes but also for small busi