enact mr. bass give an example of new hampshire business he would consider responsible might to there are many socially responsible businesses. but i love that new hampshire is this public and private partnership, every single nonprofit that i served on in new hampshire, many business people serving, and i think that they find, as we did at our law firm that it is great training, it is the way to make a really high-quality light for both the business community and people. >> i think that businesses care about their communities. they have a real civic involvement it is not everything. so there are many businesses. >> of you, thank you so much. that is all the time that we have. i want to thank you, our audience, for joining us here at the institute of politics and to you at home, watching and listening. and especially, thank you to our candidates, republican challenger ann mclane kuster. thank you so much. [applause] >> the first debate between presidential candidates mitt romney and president barack

and honor panel we will begin with mike cody from the union leader. >> mr. bass, you've been in support of the bush tax cuts over the site with a major tax cut in income growth for most people stagnated during that period. what does that say about tax cuts click >> thanks for your question and thanks to the sponsors of this for a in the opportunity to get together. i'll preface by saying i've done my friend annie kuster virtually my whole life and i hope this next hour will be discussion of substantive issues and differences we have and will go to a personal level. i would want to see this happen. as far as bush tax cuts are concerned, one needs to remember in early 2003 economy was in some danger, nothing like we face today, but certainly after 9/11 some real issues were associated with the ability of the united states to recover from the situation in the same and i supported this tax relief measures can i think they were partially responsible for the economic boom we had in the mid-2000. i do support extending all of them, however, i also believe that what we r

mr. bassely who put this, he would have had to have used the internet, and that would be a violation of?probation. >> huh oh. >> it could be problematic. here's what they're going to look at. certainly they'll look at probation and what the requirements are. as you point out, you can't use the internet. the question will be whether that was really designed for the bank fraud issue. many times people use the internet to do pretty tough things about other people, and, therefore, was that the intent of the probation to make sure that he didn't do anything of a criminal variety as it related to internet use and bank fraud. not necessarily producing the movie. the other thing is that perhaps he didn't do it, someone else, a surrogate, was the person who actually put it on the internet and then actually we do know, of course, that one thing that was a probation violation if he did was use false names, which has a prior history of doing that. he did it here. >> we already know his name is nakoula bassely nakoula, but he on the movie named him as sam bassel. >> therefore, it would be a potential

>> mr. bassou have been in pushing of the busheir tax cuts however it started with a major tax cut and income growth for most people stagnated during that period. what does that say about tax cuts? bass: thanks for the question and to the sponsors of the forum and the opportunity to get together. i will preface by saying i have known my friend, ms. kuster for all of my whole life and i do hope the next hour can be a discussion about substantive issues and differences that we have and will get to a personal level. i don't want to see that happen. as far as the bush tax cuts are concerned one needs to remember that back in early 2000's, the economy was in danger, nothing like what we are facing today. but certainly after line 11 there were issues associated with the ability in the united states to recover from the situation that was in, and i supported those tax relief measures, and i think they were partially responsible at least to the economic boom that we had in the mid 2000's. i do support ext

mr. president, bass you have paid attention in your state of alaska, as it is not so much a manufacturing state but a state that contributes a lot to manufacturing. you know what's happened in this country. from 2000-2010, we lost five million manufacturing jobs. that was one-third of all the manufacturing jobs in this country. 60,000 plants closed in the united states in that decade, but since -- and more on that in a moment -- because of the auto rescue, because we now have a federal government that's willing to enforce trade laws, we have seen a growth of 500,000 manufacturing. first time we have seen month to month to month manufacturing job growth almost every month for two-plus years, first time since 1999 in this country we have actually seen any manufacturing job growth. some said let the industry go bankrupt. presidential candidates said -- i believe his words were along the lines of to detroit drop dead, that it wasn't something we wanted to do, to do anything to help that industry. they were willing to let the auto industry go bankrupt and then see what happens. they thought it

mr. president. >> president chiu: i have a number of in memoriams for leaders in san francisco who unfortunately bassed during our recess. first and foremost i expect there are a number that might want to join in this first one. i'd like to recognize the passing of one of san francisco's most significant advocate for higher education and the environment milton marks iii. the former son and the commission on the status of women, caroline marks, milton served as president of the san francisco community college board since 2000. he was a key part to help city college resolve the accreditation issues and worked tirelessly to move higher education. he was a significant advocate for the environment and helped to lead friends of the urban forest and urban creek council. his wife put it best when she said that he was passionate about taking our city as it was and making it more beautiful. milton was an invaluable part of our community. he was someone we worked with closely and will be deeply missed by those of us who had opportunity to know him. i want to recognize the passing of a friend, neighbor, and a cons

mr. vice president. secretary i netta, pam bass doer rice and secretary powell and ms. powell.members of the four patriots and heroes we bring home. members of the state department family. ladies and gentlemen, today we bring home four americans who gave their lives for our country and our values. to the families of our fallen colleagues, i offer our most heartfelt condolences and deepest gratitude. sean smith joined the state department after six years in the air force. he was respected as an expert on technology by colleagues in baghdad, montreal and the hague. he enrolled in correspondence courses at penn state and had high hopes for the future. sean leaves behind a loving wife heather, two young children, samantha and nathan, and scores of grieving family, friends, and colleagues. and that's just in this world because online, in the virtual world that sean helped create is also being mourned by countless competitors, collaborators and gamers who shared his passion. tyrone woods known to most as rone spent two decade as a navy seal serving multiple tours in iraq and afghanis

my next guest has served as calm bass tkoer five times in five difference locations, iraq, pakistan, kuwait, lebanon, ryan crocker, mrbassador welcome to our program here and welcome to you. i want to begin with you and offer my condolances to your friend chris stevens and the loss of him and the three others in benghazi. how well did you know him? >> well, thanks, bill, and thanks for your kind words. i knew chris quite well. he was one of our best and our brightest, one of our finest experts on the middle east, and one of our bravest officers. we're a pretty small namely in the near east division of the state department, and it feels like a family loss. it's also a loss to the nation, and frankly it's a loss to the libyan people, they had no greater supporters. bill: indeed it is. everybody has talked about great he will weekends about his life there. it is indeed a great loss. in the bigger picture mr. ambassador you have spent many years overseas in this part of the world your perspective is invaluable. 0 how are we to understand where this is going? >> the first thing to recall, bill, is we've seen parts of this