she was getting out of her car in dupont circle when she the struck by a lexus suv. davidson was charged with drunk driving. >>> more scientific evidence presented and challenged in the murder trial of casey at the knee. yes the day prosecutors presented air samples that were taken from the trunk of her car. in the air samples were sealed and canisters but were opened in a laboratory. forensic experts testified the air had an older -- odor of human decomposition and chloroform. >> we have never seen chloroform in that level in environmental samples before. >> prosecutors believe anthony drug her daughter and then stopped the body in the trunk of her car. defense attorneys tried to poke holes in the testimony, pointing out the witness is not a chemist. >>> we are following some developing news as health of this -- officials investigate what is shaping up to be the deadliest e. coli outbreak in modern history. at least 24 people have died and more than 2000 others, including four americans have been sickened. first they suspected spanish cucumbers and then german been

a couple blocks away from the watergate i stayed there myself is the due poppet circle -- the dupont circle hotel. this scandal would be called the wiener circle. that sounds less like a scandal and more like a fraternity hazing ritual. >> it does. i can speak from experience. you are right. >> it is difficult to get through the story when the whole name, wiener. i what -- i was talking to anne c ow lter about anything is going on and we said, the wiener story is huge. this little piece of information came to me from dorie who is a radio personality i think in washington. do you have this piece of -- this picture? this is from a yearbook. jennette cordova was the seattle college student that wiener was texting to. it started the whole thing. she is like 21 now, i guess. this is from the yearbook. she is in that picture and most likely to be involved in a tabloid scandal. and then alex murphy who is probably the guy over there giving you the eye. and jennette cordova taking the picture. this could be the first time in history that a high school prediction came true. >> the class clown

rita davidson struck and killed kyla ryan in dupont circle last october. the defense says davidson doesn't remember the collision because she suffers from post traumatic stress disorder. >> reporter: davidson, seen on the morning she turned herself in last fall is accused of recklessly driving her suv on connecticut avenue on her way home to friendship heights. police say she was drunk and that's why she didn't stop after hitting kyla ryan just south of dupont circle. in his opening statement to the jury, davidson's attorney says his client has no memory of the collision, a symptom brought on by provost traumatic stress disorder, a condition he says she's being treated for for several years. an albanyan national, he claims she saw several people murdered in her native country. but people aren't buying it. >> i want justice. this lady hit my daughter. my daughter was killed. she was clinking. there's enough evidence and she needs to do her penalty. >> reporter: montgomery county police took davidson into custody after founding her passed out in the suv park

she's accused of hitting and killing a woman with her car last year in the dupont circle area. pat collins joins us live outside the courthouse with today's dramatic developments. pat? >> reporter: jim, they saw the pictures. they heard the graphic details of death. imagine what it was like in th keila ryan. >> it was her birthday. she was 24. she just started her life. >> reporter: her mother, her father, her sister, brother and best friend all here at superior court seeking justice for kila ryan. she was killed on her 24th birthday by a hit and run driver. >> she was my best friend. she started out my little sister and she was my best friend. there's no words to describe that she's not with us. and this whole scenario is like brought everything right back to exactly how it felt. >> reporter: it happened last october on a service road just south of dupont circle. she was getting out of the back passenger seat of a car when she was hit by a lexus suv and knocked 20 feet into the air. >> people come and go in your life all the time, but she was something that was always constant

rayn was getting out of her car near dupont circle and she was hit by alexis suv. >>> president and mrs. obama will host a black-tie dinner at the white house this evening for german chancellor angela multiplerkel. they had dinner last night at the 1789 esteban in georgetown. the president called her a trusted global partner. tonight's reception will be at the rose garden, a first for the obamas. >>> on interstate 95, a commercial airliner headed south through maryland. a plane is familiar. that's the u.s. airways jet that landed in the hudson river in 2009 after it struck a flock of birds. all 155 passengers and crew did survive. the decline is on its way to its new home at the museum in charlotte. >>> that's cool> 4:49, 67 degrees. >> apple moves forward with a new invention. the company hopes they icloud could change your life. >> how was the tuesday morning ride shaping? we will freight rail delivered caterpillar to peoeoria more than 100 years ago. and they're still delivering cat machines today. you can find us on every continent. and the journey starts here on freight rail americ

items at the dupont today will appear on the june 40 the agenda. >> there are five items on the agenda today. i know that the treasure island a development agreement is one where there are a number of speakers. that is no. 3. that should be coming out much later in the agenda. for the meeting today i would like item number one. >> item #one. draft ordinance amending the san francisco planning code by adding section 259.53 to establish the presidio-sutter special use district for property located at 800 presidio avenue -- assessor's block no. 1073, lot no. 13 -- amending sheet ht03 of the zoning map to change the height and bulk district from 40-x to 55-x -- and amending sheet su-03 of the zoning map to reflect the boundaries of the presidio-sutter special use district; adopting findings, including environmental findings, section 302 findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan and the priority policies of planning code section 101.1. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i am pleased to submit this proposal for the longest serving african american center community. the center

trial in a deadly hit and run claims kept her from stopping after she hit and killed a woman near dupont circle last october. the lawyer said the client doesn't remember anything about the crash. paul wagner has all the details. paul. >> reporter: ryan was out celebrating the 24th birthday when she was struck from behind by an suv and had just stepped out of the vehicle on the northbound side of connecticut avenue south of dupont circle when she was hit and thrown through the air and the defense and the prosecution agree on one thing, that davidson was behind the wheel "reason why she didn't stop is why she's gone to trial. seen here the morning she returned -- turned herself in last fall, is accused of wrecklessly driving her suv northbound on connecticut avenue on the way home to friendship heights and police say she was drunk and that is why she didn't stop after hitting keila ryan. in the opening statement of the jury, the attorney said his client had no memory of the collision and that is a some tom brought on by post traumatic stress disorder, a condition that davidson has been suf

prosecutors say jorida davidson was driving drunk when she hit and killed a woman in the dupont circle area last october. pat collins spoke to the victim's family today. they say they want justice. pat is at the d.c. superior court with more on this. >> reporter: a family out in force, watching a trial every step of the way, searching for justice for kiela ryan. >> reporter: the trial began in his daughter's hit and run death. he heard the details. he was there when they showed the pictures. >> i don't want to see those pictures. i'm just glad that i think she didn't know what hit her. so that's the only good news. the bad news is that she's gone from our life, and it's something that you just don't know until you're there and it's horrible because she was just our baby. >> reporter: the whole ryan family here. here in memory of kiela ryan. killed on her birthday. >> she was 24. she just started her life. >> reporter: it happened last october on a connecticut avenue service road just south of dupont circle. kiela was getting out of the back passenger seat of a car when she was hit by a

dow component dupont check in with a 1.5% gain. yesterday, shares hit their lowest price since late january. helping out the materials sector was a big rally in corn. the price per bushel shot up almost 3% to a record high of $7.86 per bushel. the government cut its corn harvest forecast due to a wet spring. supplies are expected to be the tightest they've been in 15 years. agri-business stocks did well. fertilizer maker c.f. industries jumped more than 4%, farm chemical maker monsanto rallied almost 3%, john deere and company was up 2.5%. higher corn prices is not good news for meat producers like smithfield foods and tyson. each of those stocks lost a fraction. meantime, food company j.m. smucker has been able to capitalize on higher prices. trading volume tripled after the firm reported better than expected earnings and outlook. shares were up more than 2%, about one dollar away from its high last month. as evident by our conversation with robert shiller earlier, the direction of home prices remains very uncertain, but the owner

foreclosure attorney shay dupont tells her clients surprisingly their credit can recover in a few yearsot totalled at all. as long as you're paying all of your other credit on time you should only expect about 150-point hit on your credit score. >> reporter: another client, victoria wilkinson hasn't paid her mortgage for nearly two years since her husband walked out. because of the paperwork backlog it could take the bank three years to foreclose. what do you have to say to people who say this is a moral failing? this is immoral what you're doing? >> it's not. i want to do the right thing. but i also need to take care of myself and my son. >> reporter: as for the sistiks, they'll be moving in with family in north carolina, heartbroken to leave their three grandchildren. >> we tried to do it. >> it's a little hard to know what's right, right now. >> reporter: with nearly one in four mortgageholders nationwide now underwater it may be the best hope for some to stay afloat. jim axelrod, cbs news, miami. >>> coming up later on "the early show," anthony weiner has resigned from congress in d

as our temperatures were concerned today, outside right now, pretty nice night out there towards dupontt's just beautiful outside. going to be a great start to tomorrow. then we're going to start to see things get on the warm side. we reached 88 today. low of 66. well above average for those afternoon high temperatures. sunset was at 8:30. it will stay after 8:30 all the way through july 21st, the days will continue to get longer over the next two weeks or so. them they start to get a little bit shorter. but our sun will set after 8:30 for the next few weeks or so. winds out of the south at about 3 miles per hour. 63 in frederick. live digital doppler, no rain to talk about. i think we're going to stay dry this week and i think we're going to be very hot this week. almost no clouds in the entire picture. you have to go back into the ohio valley to see some of those clouds trying to make their way in. high pressure is dominating the entire eastern portion of the nation. not a whole lot of rain at all. warm temperatures for us during the day tomorrow but not a whole lot of humidity. i thi

. >>> meanwhile, the trial for the woman accused in a deadly hit and run accident near dupont circle begins today. police say jo rita davidson was driving drunk when she hit kela ryan as ryan tried into a car on connecticut avenue in october. a witness gave officers a license plate number. officers were able to trace the vehicle to davidson and arrest her. >>> bridge county police say alcohol and speed were factors in a crash that killed three people on indian head highway. this happened early sunday morning. this was just south of wilson bridge drive. police say a yukon suv rear- ended a mads da accepting it crashing into the tree. the driver and a passenger died in that crash. another woman in the mazda was also killed. the driver of the yukon is charged with driving under the influence. >>> now to montgomery county where search crews will be back at it at the tridelphia reservoir today looking for the body of a man believed to have drown there had on friday. investigators say the 21-year- old and two others were swimming in the reservoir when he went under. >>> we are also followi

general electric and dupont once had manufacturing plant here.f i were says federal seed money will bring business back. >> we make the utilities up to date and we get the-- the ground ready for private development to occur. >> reporter: take steel point. bridgeport cleared 50 acres of land for a marina, retail stores and apartments with federal assistance, $11 million to improve roads, utilities and sewers. >> we're really not looking for a handout. we're looking for investment, and i have bridges that need to be rebuilt. >> reporter: so that congress street won't have a bridge to nowhere much honger. tony guida, cbs news, bridgeport, connecticut. >> mitchell: up next, youngsters with cancer, and the hospital chef who knows how to bring smiles to their faces. at bayer, we've been relieving pain for over 100 years. and today, we're re-inventing aspirin for pain relief. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles so it enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief right to the site of your tough pain. ♪ in fact, it's cl

. >> reporter: foreclosure attorney shea dupont tells her clients that, surprisingly, their credit can recover in a few years. >> it's not totaled at all. as long as you're paying all of your other credit on time, you should only expect about 150- point hit on your credit score. >> reporter: another client, victoria wilkinson, hasn't paid her mortgage for nearly two years, since her husband walked out. because of the paperwork backlog, it could take the bank three years to foreclose. and so what do you have to say to people who say "this is a moral failing. this is immoral, what you're doing." >> it's not. i want to do the right thing, but i also need to take care of myself and my son. >> reporter: as for the sistiks, they'll be moving in with family in north carolina, heartbroken to leave their three grandchildren. >> we tried to do what's right. >> it's a little hard to know what's right right now. >> reporter: with nearly one in four mortgage holders nationwide now underwater, it may be the best hope for some to stay afloat. jim axelrod, cbs news, miami. >> pelley: some americans ar

police are looking for a man who robbed several men in the dupont circle and logan's neighborhoods. he finds his victims on line, the gay thief. he has worked adamforadam another website, four years. >> you put yourself in those situations and open yourself up to that kind of illegal opportunity. >> brian betts the middle school principal killed last year apparently met his killer on the that website. >>> serious questions about the safety of discount bus lines in general after the crash. several companies have had their safety records reviewed. the federal motor carrier safety administration gave all of them a satisfactory rating. despite the passing grades many companies still have a history of violations. >>> wild weather causing problems in parts of the u.s. including eastern arizona. windy conditions, dry lightning are fuelling a wildfire that has grown to 360 square miles the third largest wildfire in arizona history. the fire is threatening sounds and prompting evacuation's. >> me, my wife, and my family it was hard to leave our home. >> in the southern plains people are deal

for this event we are going to be meeting for a pretty party at eight pm at dupont circle and it will be a chance for you to meet maybe some fellow dancers hang out it's a known in a slightly more relaxed environment than what we might see the jefferson memorial on saturday but this isn't just an outpouring of support that's coming into washington d.c. to stand up to the violations of our first amendment that are happening right here where they keep the constitution this is now not just a national but a global phenomenon fact fox news here reported that it's at least a national grassroots movement now and you know fox says that it has to be true right so anyways it's actually global there are solidarity parties and planned all over the world for this people say we are going to dance down the police state anyways speaking of international we've got our special guest tonight it's the thought of molyneux joining us from ontario canada stefan host of freedom a no radio dot com the most popular philosophy conversation on the internet so far they so much for joining us as we go on my big br

tonight eight pm dupont circle and you get to meet jake himself and get some of his nonviolent wisdom tell us what you're going to be sharing what as you know i will not be dancing but i do believe in a nonviolent tactics to bring about change so i support nonviolence but i will not be dancing one of the things out we know about nonviolence is that it does a great thing in terms. bringing people together with people whether they're in a church and or acting on violently or they're a concert it brings people together so if there's a way that the police and the civil society can come together and interact increase relations to be better i support that's what i'll be doing tonight is training people on how to effectively be nonviolent with us in our i will speak you know bring it to me. it's alright alright it's alright well he's not going to get as many girls as he the loophole are we got to we got to get through this next segment here because we said bringing people together we have a map we want to show you about how the dance party is really catching on here in new york dancers will

lyon was getting out of a car near dupont circle when she was struck by a lexus suv -- ryan. >>> lastht mr. obama and the german chancellor had dinner at the 1789 restaurant in georgetown. he called her a trusted global partner. tonight's dinner and reception will be held in the rose garden, a first for the obamas. >>> all local church, st. luke's episcopal church in bladensburg maryland, will be the first day in the u.s. to convert to roman catholicism. the congregation is already catholic-leaning. it was not so much about the issues in the anglican and church ordaining women and gay people. >> grenada stayed true to what we were taught and raised with. i thought if we -- i felt we needed to stay true to what we were taught and raised with. >>> get ready for new traffic pattern on the 14th street bridge. the northbound bridge will be closed overnight so that the lanes can be realigned. the new alignment will be in place for tomorrow morning rush hour or. two left lanes will be used to get to the southeast southwest freeway or north on 14th street. the lane on the far-right will go on

the trial begins today for the woman accused in a deadly hit and run accident that happened near dupont circle. police say jorita davidson hit kela ryan as ryan tried to get into a car on connecticut avenue back in october. a witness gave officers a license plate number. they were then able to trace the vehicle to davidson and arrest her at a friendship heights condo. >>> prince george's county police say alcohol and speed were factors in a crash that killed three people on indian head highway. this happened early sunday morning just south of wilson bridge drive. police say a gmc yukon rear- ended a mazda sending that crashing into a tree. two passengers were thrown from the mazda. >> the driver of the gmc yukon was not injured as a result of the accident but he was subsequently arrested and is being charged with driving under the influence. >> now, the driver of mazda, 53- year-old eugene johnson, and a passenger, 52-year-old gwendolyn denby did die in that crash. another woman in the mazda was also killed. police have not released her identity. >>> the bus company involve in last week

. >>> the trial for the woman accused in a deadly hit-and-run accident near dupont circle begins today. ryan tried to get into a car on connecticut avenue back in october. a witness gave officers a license plate number and officers traced that vehicle to davidson and arrested her at a friendship heights condo complex. she is facing a charge of voluntarily manslaughter. >>> the d.c. police officer accused in the death of a mother and child is in court today for a bond review. officer richmond philips is charged with murder. wine eta wright was found dead in hillcrest heights park last week. her 1-year-old daughter was found in her mother's car about a mile away. philips is the baby's father. he was due in court last week for a paternity hearing. >>> our other big story today, we might finally see some truth to the series of bombshell allegations that grays the mayor first term. >> sulaiman brown is expected to testify investigating allegations that brown was promised a government job. sarah is here now. >> reporter: the man at the center of the alleged hiring improprieties in the gray a

>>> jury selection began today in the case of a woman who was charged in a deadly hit and run in dupontd last october. police say keela ryan was out celebrating her birthday and she stepped out of her car and was hit by jorita davidson. court papers say davidson never stopped and was followed by a bicyclist who got her license plate. police say they found davidson sitting had her car in chevy chase apparently under the influence of alcohol. she's charged with vehicular manslaughter. >>> more forensics experts are testifying at the casey anthony murder trial in orlando. today one expert said there was a strong odor of human decomposition in an air sample taken from anthony's car. last saturday another expert testified that a strand of hair from the trunk fell from the scalp of a corpse. the defense argues that the tests are inconclusive. prosecutors are trying to prove that anthony stowed her young daughter caylee's body in the trunk of her car before dumping the body near her home. >>> nearly two years ago a u.s. airways plane made an emergency landing on the hudson river. everyone reme

for years, dupont has been using genetically modified bacteria to make a compound used in clothing and carpets. amyris discovered a way to genetically modify yeast to produce an anti-malarial drug. another company, ls9, has altered the genes of e. coli bacteria to produce fuel. but all of them are modifying a few genes, not designing all of them. venter's rivals say his method is commercially impractical. but he's made a career out of bucking the scientific establishment, and earned lots of enemies with his brash behavior and his knack for grabbing research money and the spotlight. so, what are your faults? >> venter: probably impatience is the... you know, the biggest one. i don't suffer fools too well. that, you know, i'm not going to ever win a political contest. >> kroft: a lot of people have said you're a self-promoter, an egomaniac? >> venter: yeah. >> kroft: true? partially true? not true at all? >> venter: you know, if we hold a press conference, it's considered self promotion. but somebody at a university... the university holds the press conference and that's not self promoti

and from there she won many awards, dupont, emmys and peabodies and she wisely went on to npr and has been the cohost of all things considered. and both of them have written about race but from very different perspectives. and meschelle's beautifully gifted-written storytelling of her own memoir and from gwen's political vantage point and i think it's really fair to say that it's a really riveting conversation. and so i totally turn this over to them and really hope that you all so enjoy what is an extraordinary thing because not only are they extraordinary journalists but they are friends. and so this is a conversation that we get to witness between the two of them and also i know they would love to have you join in as well. so enjoy and i'm sorry. l[laughter] >> enjoy. >> it's wonderful to be on the stage with gwen on a saturday afternoon because if we weren't here we might be at a garden store together or shoe shopping or talking together because our career paths have followed each other in part because of our friendship. and the books that we wrote grew out of in some way our frie

we called governor pete dupont, the republican nomination, and i said let's go to des moines and conduct an oxford style debate which is along the lines of what you just said. we had ken body from nbc there as the moderator, and his sole job was to put a topic in play, and to governor babity and governor -- babitt debated back and forth in that oxford style scomprks it was a wonderful format and served the purposes of both of those candidates that were trying to get attention during the primary season. and there was a fair at of commentary sase saying that's a great format where you are saying you get people to engage. short of that exact question, what you hear us saying is that the commissioner recognizes and has tried to evolve the format in that direction. and we'll continue to do everything we can knowing that there is going to be pressure back from candidates and their staffs who want to have more structure in the debate. 4 it is a bargaining process, and every four years, and there is negotiation between the two parties, and i'm sensitive to the idea. there was a debate about the

dupont, a former friend of le, but it will not say she is the focus of the investigation. they have spoken to 25 people in connection with her disappearance. le's father held a news conference explaining why the family rejected the assumption that she is dead. >> to us, if you call something a murder case, you have to have a body. we asked them and they said nobody was found at this time. even though her case is under a different classification by the hayward police department and even though the hayward police department has given up on finding the show alive, our family and friends continue to maintain hope and faith in her return. until the hayward police department can offer conclusive and definite proof, otherwise we will continue to believe that she is alive. michelle is alive and in need to be it is so hard, i cannot believe my daughter is dead. >> police hayward have begun searching rural areas searching for a body. they have called for five or rural areas, and through niles canyon. they say that searches may resume as new information becomes available. >> we will

trial for a woman accused in a deadly hit-and-run accident in dupont circle set to begin today. police say the girl was hit as she tried to get into a car on connecticut avenue in october. officers traced the vehicle description to davidson and arrested her at a friendship heights condo complex. >>> crews caught on tape steeling copper and so the owners put in surveillance camera and you're seeing what they caught on camera. police are hoping someone will recognize the people steeling their copper gutters and if you do, give police a call. >>> a weekend at its beach wasn't pleasant for visitors to rehoboth. thousands of headless and tailless fish washed ashore. they covered about 1.5 miles of the beach. people were forced it get out of the water. officials believe they may have been dumped or dropped from a commercial vessel. the beach patrol said other beaches will likely be effected. >> not very mrs. ant. not what you want to see on vacation. but sometimes it's jelly fish. >> headless. but that's -- >> that doesn't happen in nature. >> so that's like -- >> somebody had somethi

there would be sabotage and those plants were taken out of control of germans and put in control for dupont. taking that forward today for middle eastern investment with the petrodollars, japanese in the '70s and '80s all the claims down to the decades that somehow we wouldn't have a system that would look after the american interest turned out not to be the case. and the system that we've carefully protected and-it rated and brought forward today seems perfectly well suited to address the kinds of concerns one might find in a potential chinese investment today. final point i'll make and i'll pass it over to derrick to remember the foreign investment on the united states is not the end of u.s. government oversight of chinese investment in america. rights just the very first bite of the apple. once a chinese company is established here, if it is, then it is fully subject to american counter-espionage law, national security law domestically. it will be under the surveillance of u.s. law enforcement of all sorts and stripes. the same as any other company would. they have to abide by all compet

dupont is not a commodity chemical company. they are a science company. credit-card companies are not commodities. the use sophisticated marketing and technology to differentiate themselves from their competitors. when you think about the only way that they can succeed, it is by having the best talent for the only way they will have the best talent is if we are a place where people want to live. having nice outdoor spaces for families to enjoy on the weekend. it means having parts outlets and the like. there is quality of life issues. i hear a lot more about those and about work-force training. about linkages between institutions of higher the less we were pleased to announce that a company from silicon valley, the make fuel cells, their customers include the likes of walmart and federal express and google and ebay and bank of america. they aren't going to build their first factory outside of california. they chose delaware. that just delaware in part because we were absolutely determined to be incredibly responsive and also because they have a partnershi

instead those plans were taken away from those germans, put under control of dupont which made material for the other side. taking that forward to today through middle eastern investment in the '70s with p petro dollars, the japanese in the '70s and '80s, all the claims through the decades that somehow we wouldn't have a system to look after the american interests turned out not to be the case. and the system we carefully protected and iterated and brought forward to date seemed perfectly well suited to what one might find in investments today. one more thing, and i'll pass it over to derrick, remember, please, the system in the united states is not the end of u.s. government oversight of chinese investment in america. it's just the very first bite at the apple. once a chinese company is established here, if it is, then it is fully subject to american counter-espionage law, national security law domestically. they'll be under the surveillance of stars and stripes like any other company would, they have to abide by all anti-competition law that all other firms have to abide by. so it's n

we called up the governor pete dupont from delaware running for the republican nomination and said let's go higher -- let's rent a hall in des moines and conduct an oxford style debate which is on the lines of what he said. we had cambodia from nbc as the moderator and his job was to put a topic in play and the governor then debated back and forth to in that oxford style and there was a wonderful per to format and served the candidates trying to get attention during the primary season and there was a fair amount of commentary afterwards saying that is a great format where you get people to seriously engage. short of that exact question when you hear us saying is the commission recognizes and has tried to involve the format in the direction and continue to do everything we

five of the biggest company's on obama's jobs council, ge, citigroup, intel, proctor & gamble and dupont rely on foreign revenue for majority of their sales. a shift that occurred just in the past several years for most of these firms. as other country's economies recovers more quickly these corporations have taken advantage, earnings at ge were up 77% in the latest quarter. intel is enjoying record profits. and then also this morning, something you will hear about today, probably is the story about congressman anthony weiner and whether or not he should resign . .abouy over congressman anthony wiener. >> here in washington for the 24th annual gerald r. ford presidential journalism award for distinguished reporting on the presidency and national defense. after the awards ceremony, former national security advisor brent scowcroft will deliver remarks on u.s. foreign policy. this is live coverage here on c-span2. >> we are the world's leading organization for journalists committed to the profession's future for programming events such as this. we're also working to foster a free press worl

as i think you know, likewise made that choice at that time so dow chemical, dupont, shell oil and many others, we all recognized to my knowledge no one is raising the that now. i certainly would not raise that as the secretary of commerce. >> do you think the corporate tax rate in america being the second highest on the globe is too high, and are you going to advocate for lowering the corporate tax rate to make us more competitive including energy industries? >> yes, i would. i would strongly believe in that. i know the president is working with some group of people, i want to say i don't know about that on a tax proposal, but i agree i think with what i take from your question that is we need to simplify our taxation in this country and we need to put our businesses in a less tax position, so just as i can give one anecdote, when we did this privatization unjust and that we did in 12 or 13 countries around the world, we ended up in this phenomenon of which then our investments and the earnings and the revenue from those investments were part overseas, and we had to pay tax to bring th

in some cases, american companies, universities, members like wal-mart, like dupont. this is what they say -- -- quote -- "current domestic ethanol production is also laying the groundwork and infrastructure for more advanced biofuels of the future including cellulosic ethanol, algae-derived fuels and drop-in fuels. we have also crossed the thresholds of these home-grown biofuels meeting a substantial portion of fuel annandale for cars and light-duty trucks but they cannot be further developed without the infrastructure investments that are fostered by current ethanol production today." they go on to say the thune-klobuchar amendment ensures ethanol production to continue while directing to support infrastructure development and the transition to advance biofuels. the ethanol tax credit has been critical to increased domestic ethanol production and corresponding economic growth, job creation, enhanced energy security and lower gas prices. we urge you to oppose the coburn amendment which would prematurely terminate support for our domestic ethanol industry while failin

actually, the aspen institute in dupont circle in washington d.c., a couple of minutes away from representatives ron kirk and farmers reserve chairman, alan greenspan talking about global markets, jobs in the american economy. we also expect to hear from dan glickman. as you can see, folks making their way in the room. when they sit down, we expect them to start shortly. president obama visited the walter reed medical center. he'll meet with the vice president. vice president patent held previews this week on debt and deficit reduction, amy to produce the deficit reduction deal to pass that would allow it to a ceiling pass to august. white house coverage continues today at 12:40 p.m. eastern. do you see former chairman alan greenspan. the republican leadership conference in new orleans today for the gop presidential candidates michelle bob mann, ron paul and rick santorum. we had that for you in a competing network, sees -- c-span. [no audio] >> as a way for the event to get underway, house and senate are done for the week. next he could have come a patent and trademark overhaul bill, a measure

economists and policymakers from world class institutions such as the oak ridge national laboratory, dupont and m.i.t. it -- the list of the states from which the committee comes is very broad, california scientists came from, north carolina, maryland, georgia, virginia, michigan, wyoming, washington state, tennessee, arizona, north carolina, missouri, massachusetts, new york, new jersey, colorado, texas. the report was peer reviewed. let me ask unanimous consent that at the end of my remarks the list of committee, which is page roman numeral v, 5, of the report be added as an exhibit. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: it was peer reviewed from such universities as stanford, the university of texas, the university of south carolina, harvard, and carnegie melon. and, yet, mr. president, this significant report requested by congress, drafted by experts, peer reviewed by science, has fallen on really deaf ears here in our nation's capital. why is this is this is it because the report addresses a problem that we have already solved? no. is it because the report tells us