they're reflecting the views of the voters in the united states and similarly elsewhere i agree with mr ives and that there is not currently the desire the will from a significant majority or even the you know that large minority to legalize harder drugs like cocaine heroin methamphetamine and so it's not going to happen for a long long time it's not going to happen until or unless there is substantial change in attitude substantial change in understanding by the voters about what the actual evils are my view is that the evils are coming from the policy many of the evils are coming from the policy not from use per se but that's not the widely held view ok until i'm able to persuade more people other people change their minds we're not going to see a change in politicians behavior they're just reflecting what voters want ok so if i go to san diego what do you think about how politicians deal with this i mean it they they beat it they want to show that you know they will be completely against this without looking into new ideas more nuanced ideas with jeffrey has been bringing up and look at s

mr. tahiti who has been mentioned, but i would like to year and call these witnesses from all the governors. mohammed fec, mohammed iv and the current governor. last qwest your honor, that these rules on my request on july 26th regarding the permission of the doubt during during -- the doctor in charge who was afraid to come i presented this motion since july and it requested the court to kindly rule on that. the details of our demands are in this memorandum. thank you coming your honor. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: possession is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> alice rivlin said today the increase in the reform is essential to the success of the newly formed joint committee on deficit reduction, which is charge of cutting the deficit budget by about $1.5 trillion. she is joined by former national security adviser, stephen hadley and others talking about the impact of deficit reduction on national security and foreign policy. from the brookings institution earlier toda

mr. chairman. sir, as you know, we've already met and discussed in private. ive a few follow-up questions. senator nato and i have actually planned a bill and are concerned about the evidence that taxpayers' money that was intended to be used for a transportation contract has ended up in the hands of the taliban. we want it to stop. not only are we trying to fund our own needs, i guess we're funding the taliban's needs, too. i was wondering if you could comment on that and how -- what your thoughts are about lowering the risk involved with our reliance on contractor support and the money trail that goes along with it. >> yeah, thanks, senator. i saw the same report in the media. i haven't yet had time to get the gi report and see the details. i share that thought. having approximately $5 billion a year to build the iraqi security forces, it was among my gravest concerns. i had a concern about building them, i had a concern about enabling them, integrating them with our forces, but there wasn't a day went by that i didn't worry about where the money was going because it's a very opaque cult