. >> brown: now, the situation as seen by kenneth merten, u.s. ambassador to haiti. this is his third tour of duty there. i talked with him a short time ago at the port-au-prince airport. ambassador merten, thanks for joining us. what's your assessment of the progress, getting food, water and other material to those most in need? >> i think the progress is reasonably good. i think people have to appreciate the logistical and other physical challenges we're dealing with here. port-au-prince particularly is destroyed. i mean there are certain blocks that are vaporized. there's nothing there but dust and debris. getting down there is very, very difficult. it's been a complicating factor. also there's been the first few days zero communications. you've had to communicate with people by going some place where you think you can actually meet face to face with them. those things are gradually getting better. the relief effort is getting better. saturday we were able to get out 130,000 meals to people to families. we were able to get out 140,000 hygiene kits which allow peop

and kenneth and i presented a short-term paper at the american economic association in january of 2008. and what that paper did -- it is a chapter in the book that talks about the antecedents of financial crisis and with the paper did it was a short paper. american economic association is the largest meeting of economists so you see a lot of people that look terribly boring congregating together and early january of each year, and with the paper did was took the worst financial crisis of the post world war ii period so we were not even going into let's gloom and doom depression, great depression 1930's lost decades, we focused on the worst financial crises of the post world war ii period and let's not make it too dramatic and naughty include the emerging markets. let's just focus on the crisis in the wealthy economies. so we focus on what we later call and you will see in the book the big five. the big five were the crises, sweden, norway, finland spain in 1977 and the biggest of all in the world's second-largest economy, japan which began in 1992. and the date basic -- this is not sin

kenneth rose is the lawyer who in 1997 took on his case shortly before he was scheduled to be executed in he has represented boe ever since and i spent four and a half years following that case. >> what got you interested in this particular case? you always been interested in the law? >> my wife is a lawyer but it's not a field i've studied. i was just drawn to the idea of writing about lawyers exquisitely who represent death row inmates because i thought i just wanted to know why someone would do that. it's not a field that has a lot of rewards financially or in the community really or in the legal profession. so it's -- i wanted to know -- and it's really hard work. your clients are often die when you do it for a long period of time. so it can be really difficult to do. so that is the story that i was drawn to that i felt like no one had written about. there's been a lot written about the death penalty over the years and there's been some cases we followed and have written about in books but no one to my knowledge has written about the lawyers from a sort of journalistic point of vie

. >> dear kenneth schools are opening two hours late. -- west virginia, berkeley and morgan counties schools are on a two-hour delay. >>> bundle up as you head out. the freezing temperatures will continue. the cold weather and wind it is causing lots of trouble. most of the eastern u.s. and midwest is in the deep freeze now. >> there are new airport screening rules for passengers flying into the u.s. all international passengers will not be randomly screen. passengers from 14 countries will have to endure extra body scans. >>> in florida, and man accused of killing his relatives at a thanksgiving dinner is now behind bars. he was captured at a florida keys motel on saturday after the boehner recognize his picture on tv. >>> 6:14. multiple sources say it could be the end of the line for coach jim zorn. zorn will be fired today as head coach, according to one official. the redskins lost to the san diego chargers yesterday. coach zorn is wrapping up his second season. his dismissal has been expected. for now, it is business as usual. >> there are a lot of things out there. i get that. i

joining us on the phone is kenneth murton, the united states ambassador to haiti. what was accomplished, mr. ambassador, by the secretary's visit? oh. >> i think the secretary sent a strong signal of support to the haitian government, particularly to the haitian president prevall to the prime minister. the president and the prime minister have a special relationship to this country. it meant a lot that she was here. >> what do you need the most, mr. ambassador, right now? oh. >> we need just about everything. one of the most critical problems we have, frankly, is communication. telephone communication is slowly being restored. we're getting satellite phones out to other people we need to talk to quickly -- as quickly as we can. but communication has been a huge huge problem here. >> how many americans do you believe are dead? >> i -- i honestly have no -- no idea -- no answer to that. and i wouldn't want to specul e speculate, quite frankly. >> keeping a running tally, though, i assume, right? >> we are keeping track. we're -- we're -- our concern is also to do the

joining us on the phone is kenneth murton, the united states ambassador to haiti. what was accomplished mr. ambassador by the secretary's visit? >> well, i think the secretary sent a strong signal of support to the haitian government. particularly to president preval and to the prime minister. i think that is important. as you know, both secretary clinton and her husband have a special relationship with this country. i think it meant a lot to the president and prime minister she was here. >> what do you need the most, ambassador, right now? >> we need everything. one of the biggest problems is communication. telephone communication is being restored. we are getting satellite phones out to people we need to talk to. communication has been a huge, huge problem here. >> how many americans do you believe are dead? >> i honestly have no idea, no answer to that and i wouldn't want to speculate. >> are you keeping a rubbing talley, i assume ? >> we are keeping track. we are doing the best we can to get the american citizens here back to the states and back to their loved

at this point i would like to ask kenneth hackett, the president of catholic relief service, to make some remarks to you. one is the head of an organization which is one of the largest humanitarian relief and development organizations in the world. he oversees activities in 100 countries want with a staff of approaching 5,000 people. he became president in 1993 and has been with us since then. >> thank you very much, dennis, and thank you to the wilson center. this is an honor and pleasure. it's a great turnout here today and i want to start by recognizing one of our board members for coming over and and being with us. that is support from the top. this morning where this afternoon this conversation on the water and conflict i think is going to be most interesting. the i don't consider myself in any way expert in the topics so what you do if you're not an expert soluble it to. i google the water and conflict and i came across something from the pacific institute which may be many of you know already but it was the water conflicts chronology and it lists hundreds with other events of

on art beat, a conrsation remembering abstract artist kenneth noland who dd yesterda plus a slideshowcolorful geometric paiings and an interview with franceo clark, a young man pfiled on the pbs series this emotiol life, which exores the human search for happiness. e final episode airs tonight on many pbs statio. all that and more isn our web site, newshour.pbs.org >> ifill: and again, to our honor roll of ameran service personl killed in the iraq and afghanistan conflicts. we add them their deaths are made official and photograph become available. here, in silence, are ne more. ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm gwen ifill, >> lehrer: and i'm j lehrer. 'll see you on-line, and aga here tomorrow eving, thank you and good night. major funding for the s newshour is provided by: ♪ >> and by sf railway. and by tota. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, techlogy, and improv economic perfornce and financial literacyn the 21st century. and with the ongoing sport of these initutions and foundations. and... this progr was made possible by the corporation for

ambassador kenneth merton is back in haiti for the thd time in his plomatic career. he says s. governmt policy in haiti is now being shaped to take advantage of this mont of stability. >> we ed a partner here to work with. that ptner can't be other ngos. it needs to be t haitian state. >> reporr: the task of rebuilding haiti is undeniab huge. it is the poort country in the western hemihere. more thahalf its people live on just a llar a day. public serces like health care and a free edation are almost nonexisnt. >> we just wanto get out of misery to get to poverty. it's what you are aiming f right now. >> reporr: this man is hai's prime minister. >> weave a country where people are not worng. the capaci to increase is almo 0. if creing an environment to create js , attracting new investorcoming from haiti but mainly creating jobs, creating a good envinment. from there i belie you can tackle all the problems. reporter: and so as part of its neinitiative to partner with hti's government and spur the rurn of investors, the united states coress last yeapassed what is caed the hope 2

i had just been reading john kenneth galbraith's book on '29 and andrew's father covered the crash of 1929 so we could see these -- the rumblings and though we better jump on this now. and that with a documentary like this we could actually tie together what was happening in a place like baltimore with wall street. did you do next? >> well we started talking to people. we'd started, i mean months -- what we do as journalist is we're, you know, we're trained to master, you know, get in touch with the subject very quickly and start to look around to see who was doing interesting reporting about this and we came across mark pittman at bloomberg who had been writing about this before really anyone else and who really spotted what was happening. and we also started going to baltimore to, you know, see what was happening on the ground and serendipitously we you know started to meet people who ended up in our film. and very -- we wanted to meet people who were the not sort of the feckless borrowers of, you know, the "wall street journal" editorial page liked to describe them, you know, sub-p

[applause] >> matthew spalding is the director of the kenneth simonson church for american studies of the heritage foundation. he has taught at george mason university and catholic university. for more information, visit heritage.org. >>> coming up next, book tv presents "after words," an hourlong discussion between a guest host and the author of a new book. this week will street journal economics editor david wessel talks about his book "in fed we trust." in the book mr. wessel looks at the will played by federal chairman ben bernanke following the 2008 economic collapse. he discusses his book with allyson rivn current senior fellow at the brookings institution. >> host: hello. i am alice rivlin, and it is my pleasure to be talking to david wessel about his book, "in fed we trust" been bernanke's war of the great panic which actually has a second subtitled, not every book has to subtitles, david. how the federal reserve became the fourth bank of the branch of government. it's a fascinating book. >> guest: thank you. >> host: i loved it, and i think i should make that clear. at the ou

host: kenneth timmerman is here to discuss what is happening in iran.ecretary of state hillary clinton addressed the issue yesterday. here's what she said >>. >> we have avoided using the term deadline. we want to keep the door to dialogue open. we have also made it clear we cannot continue to wait. we cannot continue to stand by when the iranians talk about increasing their production of highly enriched uranium and additional facilities for nuclear power that very likely could be put to dual use. host: here is the headline in "the washington times." what is your reaction? guest: the iranians have been trying to play out the clock on this for many years. every opportunity that they did, they will continue to do that. their goal remains constant, and that is to develop nuclear weapons capability. whether or not they build nuclear weapons is another story. we know they want the capability. we know they have enough nuclear weapons material to construct approximately two bombs, if they choose to do so. we are just talking about whether or not, united states

the article was written by senator orrin hatch, the honorable jay kenneth blackwell and kenneth a. klakosky. it will be in the record and it is a matter of record in the "wall street journal" from january 2, 2010. and with that, i would like to yield back to my colleague from new jersey, mr. garrett. mr. garrett: i thank the gentlelady for joining us on the floor this evening and her remarks for the last several minutes on this very important issue and as a gentlelady who has come to the floor on numerous occasions in the past to speak to this most profound and fundamental issue, protecting our constitutional rights, i once again thank her. with that, i turn to a gentleman from georgia who is familiar, i'm sure, with the james madison -- with james madison and "the federalist papers" where mr. madison said, in the first place, it is pob remembered that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated powers. congress, in other words, was not set forth free by our funding fathers to h

>> i did debates with kenneth clarke. i can't remember what i did but i did debates with kenneth clarke and remember them very well so there's been to be debates during the election campaign. one of the great things about the next few weeks is people will see there are big issues about the future of the country to be with and then we will ask is this a referendum of the government or a choice between two competing policies and when they look at the competing policies they will find we have a policy and they will find it is difficult to know the conservative policy is. what is it on the married couples allowance? we don't know. what is it on the national insurance. we don't know. they had a law-and-order policies published last week. no mention of the numbers and of the cctv or the dna. but a family's policy, no mention of the child trust fund or child tax credits. what we are finding is that reduced policy documents which is one characteristic they contained no new policy and therefore the debate will be a real one and i

when john kenneth gal grate told us that the era of the entrepreneur was over, intel, microsoft and ciscounderway. a more recent example is mary nailor. she is here today and will be with us on the panel in a minute. mary started her company with a loan from her mother of $2,000 and now runs the nation's largest concierge service. this, ladies and gentlemen, is how recoveries are made. mary's and bills across the country taking risks, borrowing money from mom and pop or rich uncle ned creating a business that creates jobs. second, entrepreneurs are not easily discouraged. we know from our own research that past recessions have not preventsed the growth of new companies. indeed, half of the 500 firms were started in a recession or bear market. they come in boom times and they come in bad times. roughly 600,000 new entrepreneurs take their risks and create firms every year. about one per minute. that number is surprisingly constant. one might exp expect to see it fall in recessions but it doesn't, in part because of laid off unemployed workers often take the leap. they avoid it in more stab

host: kenneth timmerman is here to discuss what is happening in iran.secretary of state hillary clinton addressed the issue yesterday. here's what she said >>. >> we have avoided using the term deadline. we want to keep the door to dialogue open. we have also made it clear we cannot continue to wait. we cannot continue to stand by when the iranians talk about increasing their production of highly enriched uranium and additional facilities for nuclear power that very likely could be put to dual use. host: here is the headline in "the washington times." what is your reaction? guest: the iranians have been trying to play out the clock on this for many years. every opportunity that they did, they will continue to do that. their goal remains constant, and that is to develop nuclear weapons capability. whether or not they build nuclear weapons is another story. we know they want the capability. we know they have enough nuclear weapons material to construct approximately two bombs, if they choose to do so. we are just talking about whether or not, united state

çw3the new york times." w3koa newsç update from c-spand xd>>ç speaking earlier on añre today show," kennethtimate the number of americans in the country when the earthquake struck. w3w3a steady stream has been log for help to leave the country. meanwhile, the aircraft carrier uss carl vinson has arrived on the shore, carrying 19 helicopters. w3çça laborq department repors that an inflation rate of 1/10 up 1% in december leads all of 2009 at just under 3%, mostly due to energy costs paid lower wages and little job creation have dampened consumer spending, slowing the rate of an economic recovery. çat the ap reports that presidt obama and congressional democrats are close to a fin@é agreement on a health care plan. they met at the white house into the early morning hours and plan to meet again today. those are some the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> next week, your chance to talk to the authorsç of the be- selling, "came a chang -- game çchange." to take your questions about the campaign and the impact on washington policy. >> "washington journal" continues. host: mark mazzetti is

are two principle speakers today are kenneth donahue, but the's inspector general and he will be joinedoday by fha commissioner david stevens. inspector general donohue do you want to begin? >> thank you. good afternoon and thank you for coming today. i have a brief statement and i will then ask fha commissioner david to join me on the podium to make remarks and then we will both take a few questions. this morning agents and auditors from my office served subpoenas on 15 mortgage companies with poor performance records and the federal housing administration's mortgage insurance program. these companies are located throughout the united states and their activities are provided to you in the handouts. the subpoenas demand documents and data relating to failed lawns which resultant high claims paid out by the fha mortgage insurance fund. many of these charter loans did not less but a short time before defaulting. leading to a suspicion they process of loan origination was forward by several possible factors. we will learn the reason for failure which resulted in a significant cost to the f

ambassador kenneth martin for the united states and edward mulet. >> who from the haitian government signed that? >> it was a statement of principles between the haitians and the u.s. government on how we will cooperate on the ground in haiti. >> is there a country? >> i said it. >> is there an official? >> no. >> why do you need such an agreement between the u.s. government and the united nations on how you can cooperate? >> we have been working on arrangements and coordination regarding -- the un has joined the process through which on a daily basis we coordinate flights in and out of the airport of port-au-prince going forward. questions regarding security arrangements between [unintelligible] which has prime responsibility for law and order in haiti along with the haitian national police and to to the extent that you have u.s. military forces on the ground that will participate in a convoy as they are moving in haiti, there are a lot of ways in which we want to outline how from a practical standpoint the un and the u.s. will work together for the benefit of the people and governm

>> as chancellor in 1997, i did debates with kenneth clarke.did debates and i remember them very well. there will be debates during the election campaign. one of the great things about the next few weeks is that people will see there are big issues about the future of our country we have to deal with. then they will ask if this is a referendum on the government right choice between two competing policies. when they look at the competing policies, they will find we have a policy and it's difficult to know what the conservative policy is. what is it on national insurance? at a law and order policy and there is no mention of numbers or cctv. no mention of the child trust fund or child tax credit. what we find as they produce policy documents that contains no new policy. so the debate will be a real one and if i may say so, the fact the conservative policy have not really changed at all despite the public-relations gloss they put on it and the flimflam we get from them, despite that, people will see through a party that has not reformed its policie

and i don't -- whether it is may be worth actually sending you there is this book by someone called kenneth paul, who has written specifically on the sanctions from work and saddam and what he does when he comes to the so-called smart sanctions as he said there were seven preconditions to the smart sanctions and then he goes on to explain one of them what actually happened. >> let's just summarize that then and by all means since the book, please. we have no shortage of material to read what we are always ready for more. contender for is a policy that is in question at this point. you are clearly aspirin minister in the first half of 2002 not very -- based on the advice coming to you you are not very happy about the way that it is working. so what are your other strategic options at this point and by what process did you read you what your options were? >> that is the reason we called for the options paper. i mean, the options were basically these: we had taken the decision, post-september 11, that this issue had to be confronted, and there were a number of different ways it could be confro