. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, accompanied by secretary timothy geiger and mr. jacob lew. >> good afternoon, everybody. please have a seat. a little more than four years ago, i stood with mr. tim geithner and denounced him as my first nominee to my cabinet. we were barely two months into the financial crisis. the stock market had greater and the housing market had cratered as well. bank after bank was on the verge of collapse. worst of all, more than 800,000 americans would lose their jobs in just that month. and the bottom was not yet in sight. i could not blamed him when he tried to tell me he was not the right guy for the job. [applause] but i knew that his extensive experience with economic policy made him qualified. i knew he could hit the ground running. he had just spent several sleepless and chaotic weeks emerged in the crisis and had been working closely with his republican predecessor to save the financial sector. then with the wreckage of our economy still smoldering and unstable, i asked him to help me put it back together. thanks in large pa

geiger caller: by saying what he is thinking. they do not know how he was brought up and with what principles and so forth. i was brought up in a country with very good principles. host: one more thought. caller: i went to the federal government, and i carried those things i was taught by my mother and father into my job for 38 years. i was a woman. i grew with all of this. i gave my best. i never stopped having my conscience and do it my best for the american people in my job. host: thank you. we have to leave it there. one more story to show you from "usa today." that is in "usa today." coming up, we will talk about business related issues including future battles with john engler who is now president of the business roundtable. and a record number of women are serving in the new congress. stephanie schriock would join us to talk about that. we will have more when we return in a minute. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >>hopkins could read the presi

since people understood the risk of radioactivity there's been the trusty but often cumbersome a geiger counter to measure it the device is characteristic clicking sound has long let the user know if the plate of food in front of him or her is safe to eat each audible click is an incoming radioactive particle being ionized since its introduction models have become more portable and simply taking that tradition into the future. the next version of the meter will use a silicon sensor which we're calling conductor version. we're also working on a totally new generation of the device which will employ a grapheme based sensor. at the moment though those plans are just that plans on paper to make the technological leap the company needs new investments which could be coming in the very near future at the end of january the company expects to hear back from about a sizable grant that could give them the resources they need to move those next generation radiation detectors from paper to the production line. the companies anxious to get that going because according to certain estimations there d

. >> let us talk about the treasury secretary, tim geiger what to do you think about his replacement?acement does not make a lot of sense because it does not have a lot of business experience. he is a staunch supporter of all,. and he will say no, no, no to obama it should set up an interesting debt ceiling conversation. >> the treasury of signature appears at the bottom of cooper's spells but that is on currency? >> that is better than my signature. >> and apparently 10 kite to ou 10 geiger-the former secretaf treasury, which used to practices signature that appears on currency. >> the facebook stock right now they have a big announcement on the 15 to see something in their building. maybe it is the structure, maybe it is a phone. maybe it is a video or television platform but we're looking forward to it. >> and britney speakers is a leading the she's leaving the x factor. >> i guess that she does not want to do it. she wants to focus on her new album. she was paid $15 million and as a celebrity judge which is there for her work just work- good looks. the we can catch rob black on th

bronchitis industries cold of the recently discovered mineral waters, eight miles northwest on the geiger cream, the road between virginia city and steamboat springs, a distance of seven miles. over the first of a long line of nine beautiful columns, there was a house debating. twain likened the jets of hot white steam emitted from fishers in the earth to a steamboats estate tax. they made a boiling, surging noise exactly as a steamboat it. he enjoyed racing eggs in his handkerchief and dipping them in this brings with it with soft boil in two minutes or hard boiled and four, depending upon his mood. sawyer loves the hot mist. the fresh bottles of dark beer were cold. in his 32 years, sawyer had been a torch boy. in new york fire and engine company number 14, and in san francisco had run and battle fire for broaddrick one under chief broader, the city's first volunteer fire company and first fire chief. solar serve with other engine houses and toiled as a steamboat engineer flying the mexican sea trade. twain, who held strong opinions, worked up when sawyer mentioned he had worked as a st

. >> barbara geiger is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. >> i was in an abusive relationship had a terrible fight one night. and i defended myself. i shot him. i'm 63 now. but there's a lot out there. there's a lot that i can do, a lot i can give back. >> at first glance, this could be a beauty shop in anytown, usa, but it's actually on the grounds of the prison. >> can i have a magazine, please? >> yes, ma'am. >> the inmates call it cosmo, and it's here where they learn how to style hair and give facials and manicures. >> it makes me feel like i'm at home going to the beauty shop, and, actually, it relieves the stress. it takes me away from that environment, for a little while at least. >> my instructors, they don't treat me like an inmate. they treat me like a student. first of all, i'm a female and i'm african-american and i've been incarcerated, so that's already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that she's surprised when she see that transfor

geiger was a big part of that mindset and a bit part of that regime, were bankers are about to kind of set their own rules and capital standards. c-span: you talk about people in your book. i get you to title a bit altogether. just as sandy was crucial in the late 90s. crucial in getting the elimination of glass-steagall peer classico licit depression era of the bidet separated and commercial banking, protected us pretty well for 70 years. finally come to sandy wilde and his friend, robert rubin drove a stake through glass-steagall's heart. he was dead and gone. sandy could amass an empire known as travelers group, which merged with citigroup, citibank to become citigroup. he was a beneficiary of the elimination of glass-steagall. c-span: and use a rubber band, secretariat of the clinton administration but back to citigroup after that. today we do say $100 million? >> guest: $150 million over time as an armaments breeze that the company of the board who didn't really have to do much, that certainly made a lot of money doing it. c-span: robert rubin is a democrat and alan greenspan a re

and it was basically go in there and with the geiger counters there were obviously picking of creation, and it went in there wearing all kinds of special anti radiation suits. they went in there and bulldozed the entire town. all houses, everything in the houses and 3 feet down with tomatoes and 3 feet below the demands. all bulldozed and pulverized in terms of the house. all of the stuff were put into thousands and thousands of barrels. 5500 barrels. and they were loaded aboard ships. if you ever want to visit the original you have to go the south carolina because they went up the savannah river which separates seven south carolina from georgia up the river there was an abandoned quarry. he put all the -- rules and to the quarry and unsealed of. i don't believe it sealed of. at some point or other it's going to give way if it's not looking already. so where's the fourth pond kinnock finally they're desperate. the navy is desperate. so they go out with baca. he goes out on his boat. this and the destroyer with them . the bomb threat here. of course that is exactly where it was. twenty

. >> geiger always seems like a nice guy. soft-spoken, terrific. actually wore a sweater vest the last time he was on. i used to think he was a sartorial genius. but i think he's tough. and i think people don't understand when there's an underperforming division, the man comes in, more with a stiletto than a meat ax. this is an important number. i think espn is on a roll, but it costs a little more to get that programming. >> and that will continue to be a focus. espn, costs there for the subscribers at home especially. we'll continue to have the debate about the bundle, will it hold together. if it were to break apart, that would be a key risk for the likes of disney and espn. >> espn, 9, 10 or 11. what's amazing, espn now owns a big chunk of the dial. and espn can't be tivoed. let's put it out there, tonight on espn. >> 8:00. big day. >> notre dame. alabama. fighting irish. you've got my vote. >> really? the fighting irish? all right. >> no, roll irish. >> you're going with scarborough on this. >> this is a big game. we cannot forget it is on esp