>> creo que jorge ha tratado de ver al sur, y darle mÁs relieve a amÉrica latina la polÍtica exteriorrma de la salud y en materia externa tanto en salirse de irak como de meterse mÁs en afganistán, sumado a todo esto no queda mucho tiempo que digamos para amÉrica latina y eso se ha notado.ts >> embajador si Éste tuviera que asesorarÁ barack obama sabe que tiene dos guerras pero quÉ le dirÍa que hicieron amÉrica latina? >> francamente yo recuerdo que la voluntad existe como vicecanciller. pero en la prÁctica no le han dado se siente atenciÓn amÉrica latina, le ocurriÓ lo mismo irÓnicamenteal gobierno de obama que le pasÓ al gobierno de bush en el primeaÑo que no tenÍa subsecretario de estado para la regiÓn. ahora estÁ arturo valenzuela. creo que batearon poco mÁs de atenciÓn pero a nivel de la secretarÍa de estado y la casa blanca no hay mucho interÉs en amÉrica latina por razones. sumamente importantes para estados unidos. estamos en guerra en dos paÍses del mundo. y casi el punto de la guerra en otros. >> el tema de honduras ocurrido el 28 de junio cuando los militares destituyende l

the persons to my address the question are hans timmer, uri dadush, and jorg decressin. jorg? guest>> was 2009 better than we expected? let me begin with the observation that 2009 was not a good year. it was one of the greatest recessions we have ever experienced. it is true that we have avoided@ positive growth we see at the moment is largely driven by temporary factors. by all means this was not a good year even if growth was positive. if you look the forecast, and i cannot talk in detail, because there will be published later on january 21, then you will see that the kind of recovery we're talking about is relatively muted given the size of the decline we have seen. then probably later in the discussion we will talk about the major risks out there still. going back to the question, why was 2009 much better? and would answer with the observation that actually 2009 political reawas a year that grl huge problems and will take several years to solve them. >> thank you. uri dadush? >> first of all, i agree with hans that 2009 was an awful year. at the same time if you reel back

the extra pounds in their midsection, and that can be dangerous for your health and fitness expert jorge book. why is it so bad for you? >> all the research has shown it's connected to the biggest killers out there. coronary heart disease in particular and cancer and type ii diabetes. so it just doesn't make us not look good. which is important, because we want to have good self-esteem and confidence, it robs us of that. and it really can hurt our health. >> how does it build in the midsection. it's not so much about counting calories or eating less, but being aware of what causes insulin. when it's chronically high, what happens is we lock in belly fat. we keep the belly fat. we never get rid of belly fat. that's so important to realize that what causes insulin to go ut is what we have to avoid. and that tends to come from eating the wrong amounts of sugar and carbohydrates. so it's being aware of that, not so much the calories. >> you have a way to help us measure? >> now at home. you probably have one of these at home. i'll do a quick demo. you just do a measurement. you suck in, if y

the persons to my address the question are hans timmer, uri dadush, and jorg decressin. jorg? guest>> was 2009 better than we expected? let me begin with the observation that 2009 was not a good year. it was one of the greatest recessions we have ever experienced. it is true that we have avoided large disasters. if you look of the current situation even after many economies are coming out of the recession, production levels across the world are still between seven and 10% below before the crisis. unemployment in many is around 10%. there are huge problems emerging for governments. positive growth we see at the moment is largely driven by temporary factors. by all means this was not a good year even if growth was positive. if you look the forecast, and i cannot talk in detail, because there will be published later on january 21, then you will see that the kind of recovery we're talking about is relatively muted given the size of the decline we have seen. then probably later in the discussion we will talk about the major risks out there still. going back to the question, why was

the last person addressing the first question is jorg decressin. >> thank you. let me first explain to what we did it originally expect was going to happen and if you go back to about one year ago talking about january 2009, we forecast the advanced economies would be moving out of recession sometime in the middle of 2010. what has actually happened is quite different. if you look at the advanced economies as a group, they pose a growth rate of about 2% in the third quarter of 2009 already is of this recovery is off to a starch that is a good deal earlier than we had expected one year ago. of the same time to distillate used to be said that the u.s. catches a cold and are emerging economies catching food. this time around it has been quite different, there have been emerging economies badly affected but at others have actually been remarkably resilient and in these economies for example and the second quarter of 2009 and third quarter of 2009 the server growth rates around 8% in them as a group and, of course, there are big differences between asia and america e

. >> marques: you see the brace on the right knee of jorge gutierrez, hurt that knee against stanfordgames. the level of toughness for this cal team reduced in the process. once they get him back near 100%, it's going to really make a difference for this team down the stretch. >> derrin: hill goes to the bench. they return with horne. tied at 40 and this battle for first place in the pac 10. >> marques: i say when he gets back to full

anthony on with jorge castaneda. john: good morning, jorge. guest: good morning.lly appreciate it. i was in new mexico and a masonry contractor in southern california, new mexico and florida. and i'm telling you, we are not winning any war on drugs. the mexicans laugh. they send the white bullets over to tell us, they laugh when they take their money and wire it through western union to their families, which must take a toll on our economy because the money doesn't come back. and if you put me in charge, i would stop every drug coming across the stupid border from el paso to san diego. why can't you guys do it? guest: well, yes, i'm here. you think the united states should do that, well you have got a very good point. and then you should have voted and supported governments over the past 40 years which might have done that in the united states. it is not in mexico's interests to do that to be quite blunt about it. this is a u.s. issue. our problem in mexico is to ensure that if the cocaine comes through -- and we do our best on the southern border to stop it from

the first panelist and the last to address the question, jorg? one of the fundamental policy challenges that you face can go down to three. the first is to engineer a shift in demand from public sources to private sources. from countries that have mostly relied on exports in order to stimulate their youth. we need to shift there from say demand in the u.s. to more demand in emerging on all of the economies to given example. and the third, we need to repair the financial systems in the advance economies. at the same time, you need to effect supply. obviously real estate would be less important in the future. the resources that are being freed from the sectors will need to be employed gainfully. these are the three challenges. now given where we are right now, what would we recommend that policymakers do? well, first, fiscal policy in our view needs to stay accommodated. stock recovery and there are risk building up in debt markets. for the strategy governments that should adopt the fiscal policy. it means we need to stay supportive now, but at the

. >> antony, you're on with jorge castaneda. >> good morning, jorge. thanks for cspan, it is our ear to the government. i appreciate it. i live near mexico, i am a masonry contractor in southern california, mexico, and florida. they said that they were sending bullets over here to kill us, meaning cocaine. they laugh when theyÑi take mony and wire it through western union to their families. it must take a toll on our economy. the money doesn't come back. if you put me in charge, i would stop every drug coming across the stupid border from el paso to san diego. why can't you guys do it? >> mr. castaneda. >> if you think the united states should do that, you have a very good point. he should have voted and supported governments over the past 40 years that might have done that in the united states. it is not in mexico's interest to do that to be quite blunt about it. this is a u.s. issue. our problem in mexico is to ensure that if the cocaine comes through, and do our best on the southern border to stop it from coming in from colombia. but we must ensure

[laughter] jorg, you are the most obvious candidates to have a first go at this one. >> it is clear that a good deal of fiscal adjustment needs to take place. i've already said that. ideally, it should be performed along two dimensions. one is on entitlement systems and one is actual adjustment. when it comes to actual adjustment, everything has to be on the table. expenditures, cuts, tax increases. the relationship is complex. it is not straightforward. there are many ways in which you can raise more revenues without altering growth. what you really want to do is remove forms of taxation that end up being distortion mary, or eliminate subsidies, or tax expenditures, as we call them. it is really the interaction between -- what i want to leave you with is the interaction between the tax system and growth is complex and is a function not only of the tax rate, but the structure of this tax system. i'm convinced that in many countries you can in chief -- you can achieve improvements that will also bring about more revenue and at the same time not hurt growth. but that will mean taking on sp

jorge castaneda will discuss mexico's war on drug traffickers. we are live beginning at 7:00 a.m., here on c-span . >> saturday, the history of executive power from toward watching to george w. bush. the author talks about his book "crisis and command." that is part of our book tv weekend on c-span 2. in the nation's capital and across the country, listen to the radio. in washington at 90.1 fm and on xm radio. it is also a free map for iphone. seas and radio covers washington like no other. -- c-span radio covers washington like no other. >> the president spoke and this is an hour and 45 minutes. we welcome the decision by the leaders to open the event television. now the president. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [applause] [applause] >> let us pray. lord god of heaven and earth, father of us all, as we ask your spirit to bless this gathering, and all the great benefits you lay upon america's table, we cannot help but for our brothers and sisterspray -- help but pray for our brothers and sisters around the

monica's husband, jorge gonzalez, wants others to know his wife's story that they can receive propere. many may believe that the risk of death from h-1-n-1 no longer exist, but flu experts warn that we should prepare for a possible third wave of h-1-n-1. americans definitely have a window of opportunity of getting this vaccine and lessening the impact or even preventing another wave of illness. and monica's husband, jorge, will tell you that he wished a vaccine was available to save his wife's life. the threat of h-1-n-1 is clearly not over. getting vaccinated is the most important step to preventing the spread of influenza. that is why i authored this resolution which recognizes national influenza week. in contrast to last year, now the h-1-n-1 vaccine is now widely available. the risk of contracting flu is still high, and we have several months of flu season before us. today with this resolution we have another opportunity to get the word out and to remind the public that it is a time to protect yourself. many public health departments, hospitals, doctors and nurses are doing a goo

he was an undergraduate at issue the jorge graduated summa cum laude. he received his legal education at columbia university school of law where he was managing editor of the columbia journal ought lot in social problems. end colby may, director and senior counsel of the washington office of the american center for law and justice. he has been with the ac l.j. since 1994, he specializes in litigation regulatory proceedings communications and technology, nonprofit tax issues and first amendment law. he's a graduate of george mason university school of law and has represented parties in various amicus briefs and in other ways in so many landmark supreme court cases that i have a five and a half pages of them here. you'll forgive me if i don't read them all but they stand as a history of first amendment litigation in our country over the last many years. he has testified before congress on a variety of matters including the religious liberty and protection act, the houses of worship political speech protection act, he is an adjunct professor of law at rege

you see vern harris and randy mccall over at the tableng look at jorge gutierrez complaining that he received an elbow. they're right there. >> marques: i don't know. solomon hill, some contact. but it didn't look -- solomon hill took him down. mike montgomery is complaining that there was an intentional or some kind of flagrant foul situation. i didn't see much from solomon hill on that play. >> derrin: mike montgomery coaching up his team. like sean miller, he says the one thing he wants to see more of from his young team is they need to be a little tougher. he had some great teams in stanford, jacobson, these guys getting on the floor in the pac 10. that's one of the things he wants to see more of from his team. >> marques: i think the stanford teams were tougher than this cal team. arthur lee, julius barnes, the point guard. the officials look at the play and decided there was nothing flagrant by gutierrez. >> derrin: derrick williams wants to work on boykin. he goes up strong. out of bounds. off of the hand of solomon hill. >> marques: two very similar basketball players. simila