jeremy wilson of michigan state university. he will be talking about counterfeit incident database and some of the links between counterfeit pharmaceuticals and organized crime. by way of introduction, germany is the -- to wilson, or jeremy, is an assisted director for research and says the professor -- associate director for research and associate professor at michigan state university. he was behavioral scientist at the rand corp., were in additional to securing and directing many influential law enforcement project, he led an element of successful initiatives, including the center for quality policing. jeremy has cooperated with many police agencies and committees and task forces and governments around the united states and the world on many of the most salient public safety problems. he is a published author and the list of his books is pretty impressive, primarily on policing and violent crime, etc. he received his ph.d. in public administration from ohio state university. i introduce to you dr. jeremy wilson. [applause] >

jeremy on the independent line. caller: obama said he with clean up global warming. why doesn't he allow the dutch to bring down skimmers and the boomers in the maine. this guy is using this catastrophe like rahm emanuel said, never let a good crisis go to waste and the american people along the gulf coasts are suffering from its. barack obama is an idiot. he is incompetent. everyone that is out of work because they voted him into office deserves what they get. host: this is an article in "the washington post." you can see that a congressman there. according to other newspapers, they are reporting that these lawmakers are saying they did nothing wrong. host: richard on the democratic line. and caller:two things on the oil spill. one is, why don't they get of big enough pipe? the other thing is i think they could use of liquid nitrogen and go down into the hole and freeze it down there and poured concrete on top of it. host: bill from mobile, alabama. caller: mike, obama speech. like most people, i was pretty disappointed. -- my comment is on obama's speech. every dol

jeremy wilson. [applause] >> good morning. i appreciate the opportunity to share an academic perspective on counterfeiting. it is unfortunate for you that right before lunch you have to listen to a professor drawn on and on. i think you'll find this very interesting and a unique perspective. i am going to thwart bryans effort to keep powerpoint presentations out of discussion. the research i want to talk about today as part of our entire eight counterfeiting protection program. we will throw another acronym into the public policy discussion on product counterfeiting. for those of you that do not know, this program was launched at michigan state university to be a university -- international hub. we bring together the disciplines to about the michigan state university campus to address counterfeiting problems by partnering with industry, government associations, and other stakeholders. we develop these lessons and get them back out through outreach, a graduate educations, online programs, executive education and the like. i wan

our guests include the george mason university professor jeremy mayer on the gulf coast oil spill. oil spill.

and since the great champion of happiness jeremy bentham that happiness should be the sole objective of government, it seemed natural to take that forward and say now that we know something about happiness, what are the results for public policy makers? >> brown: happiness, or at least literature and research on happiness is everywhere these days with college courses and whole sections of your local bookstore devoted to everything from academic studies to how-tos of personal fuillment. and both boks have taken into account the contradictions of what does and does not make us happy-- having more money, for example. >> when you get more money, very quickly, you become adapted to it, and the things you've always looked forward to buying now become commonplace, and the other thing happens is your aspirations begin to rise, so that if you survey the american people and you say, "how much money do you need to live a really completely happy life?" and then survey them 10 years later, you'll find that 10 years later, they want a lot more money than they did 10 years before. so i think our as

jeremy wilson from michigan state do his presentation on the links between counterfeit pharmaceuticals and ioc. that is the change that is different than what is in the program. with that, i would like to welcome our opening keynote speaker. aretino speaker this morning is mr. james dinkins. he is the director of investigations for i.c.e. i.c.e. is the second-largest criminal investigative agency in the united states. it is the largest investigative arm of the department of homeland security. we employ more than 6700 agents. prior to assuming the directorship, james dinkins held a number of key leadership positions within i.c.e., including special agent in charge in washington, d.c., special agent in charge in baltimore, and he also ran our financial investigations program at headquarters. he also served overseas in frankfurt, germany. he began his law enforcement career with u.s. customs. he later transferred to san francisco. 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 di

germai jeremy mayor, with george mason university.ou can call our democrats line, 202-737-0002, republicans line, 202-737-0001, and independence line, 202-628-0205. caller: i have several comments. the first comment is that i think it is unreeled to compare hurricane katrina to this oil spill -- it is unreal. bush -- he got involved. you have a democratic governor there. he waited too late. the media was in there showing these dreadful pictures of people dying. the american people could not understand, if the media can get in there, why can the government? with this oil spill, everybody knows the federal government does not do any drilling. they are not involved in doing any kind of drilling. so, there is nothing the government can do itself. hope that the peak can get fixed and go in there and do the cleanup. -- hope that bp can get it fixed. guest: right now we are dependent on bp. the federal government does not have resources that would be applicable to this issue. that is a key distinction. but i key similarity between this situa

institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tomorrow on "washington journal," jeremy mayer, juliet moringiello, and michael daulton. he is a senior director with the ottoman society, and he will discuss the migratory bird treaty act and how it relates to endangered wildlife. "washington journal" is live sunday on c-span. >> this weekend on "booktv," and noted feminist and author from the university of chicago has written or contributed to more than 20 books on liberal education and other subjects. join our discussion with your phone calls and e-mails on sunday at noon on c-span2. >> next, president obama nominates his choice for national intelligence director -- james clapper. if confirmed, he replaces dennis blair who resigned last month. replace dennis blair who resigned last he would be the fourth director since congress created the office five years ago to oversee the nation's 16 intelligence agencies. this is 10 minutes. >> i have no higher priority than the safety and security of the american people. in the world, we must protect ourselves from threats like terr