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michael porter who is here with us, wave so we know who you are, not very diverse, michael is a distinguished professor from harvard business school who has his own followers, acolytes. when i worked in the senate in the 1990s, our whole staff were riveted to much of michael's work and guidance, we read just talking in the green room that had we listened and moved the needle on the shoes back then the united states might not be in the same position. to michael's left we have robert kimit, who live thought was the smart guy who would have evolved it mitt romney had come in, he would have been national security adviser, secretary of the treasury, he was deputy secretary during president bush and happened to be a senior foreign policy ambassador to germany and is one of the very few people who synthesizes the economic and national security in such a holistic way. his dad was a famous democrat who was one of the reasons i moved to washington, really great to have bob here. to michael porter's right ahead douglas holtz-eakin iran the congressional budget office and is a distinguished economist. he

more fundamental about the way the united states has positioned itself in the world, the choices michael porter who is here with us. wave so they know who you are. we are all not very diverse. michael is in a very distinguished professor from harvard business school. he has his own followers, acolytes. and i were to the senate in the 1990's, jeff bingaman and i and our whole staff for riveted to much of michael's work. we were talking in the greenroom that had listened and move the kneele on some of the issues you were talking back in the united states might not be in the same position. michaels left we have a very good friend, robert kimmitt. the smart guy who would have involved if mitt romney had come in. we might have seen him as national security adviser, secretary of the treasury. u.s. deputy secretary treasury during bush. he also happens to be a senior foreign policy ambassador to germany and is one of the very few people who synthesizes the economic and the national security in such a holistic way. his dad was a famous democrat who ran -- was one of the reasons i moved to washington, s

michael porter, who's here with us and just, michael, wave so they know who you are. we're all, you know, not very diverse. [laughter] so michael is a very distinguished professor from harvard business school; he has his own followers, acolytes. when i worked in the senate in the 1990s, jeff bingaman and i and our whole staff were rivetted to much of michael's work and guidance at the time. we were just talking in the green room that had we listened on some of the issues we were talking back then, the united states might not be in the same position. to michael's left we have very good friend robert kimmitt. bob kimmitt was, i thought, the smart guy who would have evolved if mitt romney had come in. we might have seen him as national security adviser, as secretary of the treasury. of course, he was deputy secretary of treasury during president bush. he also happened to be a senior foreign policy player, was our ambassador to germany, and is one of the very few people who synthesizes the economic and the national security in such a holistic way. his dad was a famous dem

michael porter here with us, michael, wave so they know who you are. we are not very diverse.[laughter] he's a distinguished professor from harvard business school, own followers, and when i worked in the senate in the 1990s, jeff bingaman and i were riveted by his work and guidance at the time. we talked in the green room that had we listened and moved the needle on the issues talk about back then, the united states might not be in the same position. to michael's left, robert kimmitt, the smart guy who would have evolved if mitt romney came in, he would have been national security adviser, secretary of the treasury, deputy secretary of treasury with president bush, ambassador to germany, and he's one of the very few people who sympathizes the economic and national security in a holistic way. his dad was a famous democrat, stan kimmitt, a reason i moved to washington. it's great to have bob here. next is douglas holtz-eakin. doug ran the congressional budget office, and he is a very distinguished economist. he was john mccain's economic adviser in the first campaign. he's now

michael porter is here with us. we are not very diverse.rofessortinguished and has his own followers. when i worked in the senate and the 1990's, we were riveted to much of his work and guidance at that time. had we listened and moved the needle, the united states might not be in the same position. bob was the smart guy who would have evolved as mitt romney had come in. we might have seen him as national security adviser. he was deputy secretary of treasury during president bush. he was our ambassador to germany and is one of the very few people who synthesizes the economic and national security in such a holistic way. his dad was a famous democrat. one of the reasons i moved to washington. it's great to have bob here. the grand the congressional budget office and is a very distinguished economist. he was john mccain's economic adviser and is now running the american action for of. he is one of the best hawks out there on fiscal issues but he does it kindly. steve, -- one of the founders and chairman of a well. he chairs the entrepreneurshi

steve case, michael porter, robert kimmitt, douglas holtz- eakin. host: caller: -- [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] price talking about the so- called fiscal cliff and what the unions have at stake. our guest was at the white house for meetings president obama held members of congress about the fiscal cliff. watch today at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. as the moral free discussion on for-profit and federal education policy. speakers from the bill and linda gates foundation and the department of education talking about the role of private enterprise in education. live coverage beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> at the democratic mayor spoke conventional come of this rhetorical bluster peace making him a figure. four years later, without that speech, he is not a viable candidate for president. this is a beautiful testament to the mind of lincoln and, his speech. well worthy of praise. when barack obama gave his speech in to the court, he was running for the