>> our guest on "newsmakers" this week is robert khuzami. mr. khuzami is the head of enforcement for the securities and exchange commission. thank you very much for being here this week. here. "the new york times" ackerman covers the f.c.c. for "the wall street journal" and dow jones news writers. thanks for being here. you. financial crisis have certainly, i understand the feelings given the breadth of the loss and the impact of the financial crisis on people's livelihood and on their savings and investments. but having said that, as you indicated, i think our performance has been very strong in this area over, i think, at last count, 102 entities and firms have been charged and most importantly, over 55 c.f.o.'s, c.e.o.'s and senior corporate executives for conduct across the mortgage-related areas from issuing companies like country wide and new century to those firms that issued c.d.o.'s with misleading statements such as goldman-sachs, j.p. morgan, citigroup to the mutual fund complexes that loaded their funds up with riskier mortgage asset

we heard from khuzami is asking for more dollars. what's their view? >> they need to be more important with the money they have. they are open to giving the agency more money, but they want broader structuring before they give them any more money. the sec is kind of the inusual position where they -- their funded by transaction fees that they impose on the firms that they oversee on wall street. and so giving them money doesn't necessarily translate to, you know, increase budget deficit. they are separate from the debate about increasing. >> they are self-funding. >> they are essentially self-funded. but you still have reluctance to throw more money at regulators during this point. he kind of -- he didn't want to admit thatted missing maidoff -- madoff was overshadowing. that's their biggest concern. >> it's also talked about the bettering of their database and talked about the amount of money they spend, versus the large companies they are regulating and the resources on technology are apples and oranges. not only that, we've seen so many instances po

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our "newsmakers" program with the director of enforcement, robert khuzami. he talks a little bit about the congress' ruling to fund the s.e.c. and you can see this program tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 in the evening. >> what we tried to focus on in a great emphasis on specialization so we can identify wrongdoing earlier in the cycle, before the investor funds are gone and in areas that are not quite as transparent as they otherwise are. we took a look at all the investments and who -- whose returns were statistic over a period of time when you expect to see volatility? those two factors are not necessarily indicative of wrongdoing but that would be the kind of fund that you want to take a second and hard look at to determining whether or not there might be a fault evaluation, things like that. we're using my data to identify subsets or firms of individuals that we want to take a closer look at. host: just to come back to the sort of -- the impact madoff had on the agency, do you feel when you go up to the hill and ask for more resources that that continue