>> tonight on "q & a," kathryn wylde, president and c.e.o. of new york city, and british prime minister, david cameron on libya, and road to the white house. >> this week on "q & a," catherine wild for partnership of new york city. >> kathryn wylde, what is theship for new york city? >> that's what was put together after the staeventh buyer the crisis and >> said that we almost lost new york and i want to organize business to be really committed to caring about a great new york city and keeping it that way. >> how big of an organization is it? >> in terms of size, we have 15 employees and about 300 members that represent the top c.e.o.s of the new york and metropolitan region. >> i know that is hardly 300 and what are the big names? >> we have immediate c.e.o. of macy, and murdock of news co corporation and most names of the fashion and retail of new york. >> i have a quote that you uttered in 2009, you said it's not an easy time to defend rich. i guess it never is, and we have the millionaire tax and we have to think about our society in com

and they know that kathryn wylde is going do this? >> i would say my main contribution is trying to help the fed be more accessible to the average person. to help people understand what it does and how important it is. the fact that the new york fed is the banker to the central banks of the world. the golden arm basement of the new york fed is not american gold for the most part. you can go down and see the names of every country in the world that have their gold stashed there because they trust that institution. and i think for a long time the american people and we saw this play out a lot during the discussion of dodd frank, that there was an misunderstanding of the role of the fed and its importance. my main job is to try to push as much information as what we are doing. the fed has done an excellent job of helping america recover from the financial crisis. i think they have not gotten as much credit as they deserve. i would like people to understand how important that role is and how successful it's been in stabilizing a country a

kathryn ferguson is the co-author of crossing with the virgin, stories from the migrant trail. she is also a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. she is produced and directed to feature-length award-winning documentaries the unholy connemara andrea of the sky. she is native to sony in and she has volunteered with samaritans since 2004. jed parks a co-author of crossing with the virgin spent most of his career in the restaurant business. he became involved with the samaritans movement in the fall of 2005 and norma price also a co-author of crossing with the virgin moved to tucson after a 25 year career in medicine in atlanta where she was an oncologist. she has lived here for just over 13 years. norm of volunteers at a local medical clinic and for the uninsured and also the samaritans. thank you you guys for being here and welcome to all of you. [applause] margaret let me start with you. you are mainly in arts editor and a writer. you covered art openings and you covered ballet. how did your interest in immigration issues start and get you into this whole world? >> okay yeah. i

. >> kathryn, what is the partnership for new york city? >> it is a group put together at the end of the 1970's after the end of the city's fiscal crisis. david rockefeller lead that effort and he said we almost lost new york. we were not paying attention to the needs of the city. i want to organize business not to be a chamber of commerce. i want to organize business to be committed to caring about a great city. >> how big an organization is it? >> we are about 15 employees. we have 300 members who represent the top ceo's of international companies based in new york. >> these are big names. >> the big names are ken from american express, the ceo of acy's, our past chairs were lloyd blankfein, and most of the names that lead the finance media and fashion and retail industries of new york. >> i have a quote you uttered, you said it is not an easy time to defend the rich. >> right now we have the threat of a millionaire's tax coming over us. it is one of those things where we have to think about our society in complex ways being part of the g

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the president will be addressing the nation and kathryn is monetary the podium. he will be speaking at the university. >>catherine: a critics are saying that he is not been done a cricket shop and why are we in libya. another conflict. he is not done a-- great job. and he needs to explain what is the strategy. we are watching the and it sounds like he is getting introduced. let us listen anin. >> the president i would like to update the american people on the international efforts that we have led him in libya. what we of dawn, what we have planning to do and why this what we have done--let me begin paying tribute to our men and a uniform and women in uniform that acted with courage, professionalism and patriotism. they have moved with incredible speed and strength. because of them and our dedicated diplomats a coalition has been forged countless lives have been saved. meanwhile, as we speak of our troops are supporting our allies and japan. leaving a rock to its people and stopping the momentum in afghanistan and leaving iraq--to its people and continuing to con

i think kathryn can probably talk through those in some more depth. chairperson chu: think you. if there are no questions for our controller, i would like to invite our department heads to say a few words or supplement the presentation if they like. >> thank you, madam chair and supervisors. i will be very brief. i wish to amplify two points to follow up the controller's report. i like to make publicly, because of the perceptions being formed about the pension system and its costs -- today, it seems to be front-page news. our system is very soundly funded, perhaps the best-funded system in the state and one of the best large systems in the nation. we are running over a five-year smoothing period, as the controller adequately defined. that's moving for major market losses that occurred in 20009. that is due to extend through its smoothing course by the end of fiscal year 2013. what that says is yes, the employer's contribution costs are going to continue to rise through the end of that smoothing. next year's cost is 18. 09% at the employer rate. when the chair mentioned 28%, that

by well young guys who i guess are really good at computers and stuff now along with her brother kathryn cook launched the social networking web site my yearbook dot com in her bedroom while she was still in just high school and today the twenty one year old is at the helm of a successful company which is now worth more than some twenty million dollars she joins us now to talk about her success thank you so much for being here and not me i just want to understand how is that you launch this company in two thousand and five yes when i was fifteen how in the world is it that you know you have been here one of the top most visited one of the top twenty five most visited sites twenty five million unique users how is it that you were able to see. excede when you have such intense competition from facebook my space friends circle though i guess no one really uses. well i really think that a huge part of that is just well my yearbook was founded to meet new people and we have since then just because trying to become the best way to meet new people and we try to be very innovative ways of doing

justr ask one final question real briefly and let everybody, let'a run down the line from sam to kathryn, and just let us know what's got your attention now,iy what's in your future, what are you working on? is you can't sit still, i imagine. ..ure in l.a., marijuana stories and humbled and doing something i would like to have you all check out my web site, sam quinones.com. does storytelling called true your -- tell your true tale. go to my web site sam quinones.com. i've got numerous stories up there now and i'm looking for many more. i don't pay anything but i do edit and sometimes that is more important. that is what i'm working on now and hoping to do a be a book as well on the issues of kidnapping and home invasion and robberies in phoenix. >> one, continuing my journalism. i have a story coming out this week about kind of a historical look at the great copper mine strike in arizona in 1983, which would be very useful for us to review right now f, now that we have a new copper mine trying to come in to arizona and what happened there and what happened to those people. as far as my

. >> kathryn wylde talking about keeping the city the center of the business world and how new york gained that position. >> new york city was being pulled into the global economy and became america's gateway to that economy and has prospered ever since. >> watch the rest of the interview sunday night on "q&a." >> on american history tv, the organization of american historians meeting from houston with authors offering insight on what the -- why the south split from the union, and the rise and fall of one of the world's leaders in energy, enron, and the trying " shirt factory fire 150 years later. also, of panel replaced on the terrorist attacks of september 11, as this year marks the 10th anniversary. get the complete schedule at our website or you can have the schedule e-mailed to you. >> the bureau of ocean energy management director discusses his department's 2012 budget request on thursday. he also discussed a report on the loss of royalty fees from companies. they are requesting a $348.4 billion. this hour is one hour and 25 minutes. half hour hearing. [inaudible conversations] >> wi

the first is we are deeply honored to have kathryn ashton who is a representative for foreign affairs. that's a fancy way of saying she's a secretary of state of europe and a very impressive one at that. i thank her for coming in by thank jim steinberg the deputy secretary of state for coming and getting all the challenges they are facing the state department today and he's probably glad to have an excuse. i want to personally thank the secretary of state for allowing him to come. [laughter] i want to acknowledge the president even though she claimed to be absent and i wanted to say one thing about i admire her very much at the u.n. charter hell she gave me in the first two years i was president about the american army into sarajevo and brimley slightly over seating it. was a gift. it was a gift. there are sometimes relatively few when you can say a single journalist had a decisive impact on the lives of people and the set of political decisions that follow. but i've already explained to you -- use of a popular opinion was, you saw where the congress was. the europeans were reluctant

he'll lead kathryn and her father into the church. it takes four minutes to get from the entrance to the ougalt. he said i was talking too fast. on both sides the people will look at when she enters will be a lot of guests there. they won't be able to see the wedding. it's blocked from view from them. monitors up. as she passes underneath where the organ is where the choir will be on either side of her and by the time she gets up to the alter, royal family to the right and her family to the left. the dean has been dean here since 2006. this is his first royal wedding. the last one 25 years ago. i asked him if he was nervous, he said he's doing okay. has advice for the royal couple as well. we'll tell you what he said to them tomorrow. matt, back to you. >> good tease. way to go. we'll see you inittlwhile.ile. we're back on a thursday morning right after this. . . >> it's like that commercial. wait there's more. meredith has more from london. >> i wanted to show you your shot glass. i'm going to test it out for you tonight just to make

. -- kathryn wylde this a nonprofit partnership for new york city. what's the rest of the interview sunday night on c-span's "q&a". >> japan's prime minister is calling on the nation to unite in rebuilding the country from scratch. in a television address, he encouraged fell to 7 cents to not be discouraged and to carry on with working hard. -- he incurs fellow citizens to not be discouraged and to carry on with working hard. this is just over 10 minutes. >> the prime minister is sharing a message for the people of japan. one week has passed since the disaster. for people whose family members are still unaccounted for, he offers his condolences. the prime minister says that over the past week, the japanese people have dealt with the situation calmly. he says the japanese public has placed an emphasis on community ties and is working together to overcome this disaster. the prime minister says that he respects the way the japanese people have behaved. he says that the country faces two major challenges. one of them being the damage from the major earth