. >> my name is jeff smith, the executive director of d.c. boys. how to tell those of you who are not either volunteers are affiliated with our work a little bit about what we do and why that really relates to the book that were here to hear about this evening. but there is this one brief story i'd like to always share, related a little bit to our work and related to a were about to hear. you know, we do community action resource. so d.c. voice organize community members and volunteers across the city to interview principles, interview teachers, collect data and bring that data back to shot to policy makers about what they are teachers and principals are saying it's improved. one time when we were at a school over in northeast, i was walking to the back actually of a classroom and this young lady was drawing a beautiful little picture on her desk. and i said hey, what's that picture gore drawing? you could tell it was a picture or a person. this is a picture of god and drying. i said, you can try picture of god because no one knows what he is looki

. >> my name is jeff smith, executive director of d.c. voice. i want to tell those of you who are not volunteers or affiliated with our work a little bit about what we do and why it relates to the book we are here to hear about this evening. there is a brief story i would like to share, related to our work and what we are about to hear. we do community action research. we organize community members, volunteers from across the city and in the region to go in schools and in their view principals and teachers and collect data and bring that data back to talk to policymakers about what principals and teachers are saying need improved. one time when we were out of school at north beach i was walking through the back of a classroom and this young lady was drawing a beautiful little picture on her desk and i said what is that you are trying? could tell it was a person or a figure. she said this is a picture of god. you can't draw a picture of god. no one knows what god looks like. she said good because they will in a minute. how many of you know a lot

i'm actually privileged here at arnold and porter to have two alumni legal advisers office, jeff smith in the back, who heads our national security law practicing and paulo derosa who heads our international arbitration practice. there are many others in the room. terrific lawyers. we work on fascinating issues. what i'm actually seeing more over time now is that historically, every issue that you see in the newspaper had a legal issue behind it. now, the international law issues are the issues in the newspaper. you just turned from page 1 to page 2 and those are the issues that the legal adviser is working on. you've heard harold mention just in the eight months that he has been in office, he's already appeared before the international court of justice in the kosovo case, filed briefs with his name on it before the supreme court, negotiated treaties, traveled around the world meeting with our partners. we have terrific diplomats who we work with, both he and i were privileged to work for outstanding secretaries of state and we were particularly privileged, both of us, to be really par

smith college protest better than you do. all right? bring it. yeah, yao is my energy. jeffwhat, you just made an enemy out of me, buddy. yeah, you, yeah, you, you made an enemy out of me. thanks a lot. >> smith college, guy wouldn't last three minutes at smith cloth. wouldn't even find his shirt. joining us now. david weigel, reporter for "the washington independent." >> wish you were here. >> crazy seems to be in the divisions of the extremes. we'll start with the law and order party, honoring the guy who needs to get his parole officer's permission to attend. >> some people have started that they didn't like nixon until watergate. there's an element of if you survive a battering from the -- establishment that makes you a better conservative. in james o'keeffe's defense, he's in the same position legally that a lot of people are when they have done something and the lawyers are waiting for a trial. so he's -- he was, actually, joined by another guy who participated in the louisiana sting, joe bazell. they were both there. they both are sworn by fans. j.d. heyworth, former

jeff eickler, for the retail wholesale and department store union, to ms. smith'sdeputy regarding an enforcers' program with four stages of attached research explaining potential models for their concept of wage and hour enforcers. and an august 18, 2000, email which ms. smith's deputy responds to mr. eickler's idea that the state consider allowing participants to infiltrate businesses that are part of the program. most disturbing to me, however, about this inconsistency is the fact that ms. smith admitted in her response to a question that she apparently saw the emails contradicting her testimony in july but did not correct the problem until directly asked in september about this issue by majority staff. that's two months later. a third inconsistency is that ms. smith also characterized wage and hour watch as an educational program in testimony. however, the record shows it was designed and intended to be an enforcement from the very beginning, with the union organizers and community organizer participants serving as amateur investigators and informants. the very