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>> blair levin, former fcc chief of staff, former broadband plan executive director, now at the aspen institute. mr. levin, thank you for coming back to "the communicators." >> guest: thank you very much. >> host: also joining us is eliza krigman of politico, a reporter there. it's been about a year since the national broadband plan which you spearheaded was introduce today the country. give us your assessment of the past year and its progress. >> guest: well, first, i think you have to understand what the plan really was, and what the plan was was an agenda-setting and target-clarifying device. that is to say, it was supposed to say here's the things we need to do over the next few years, and also here are targets that we either need to shoot for or shoot at. that is to say here's some really concrete proposals to move us toward action. and i think in that way it's been a very successful year. every debate that's going on with the exception of debates about mergers are really debates that are very, about how do we accomplish the goals of the broadband plan. and i think that in terms of agenda sett

health minister and tony blair all on the side of reform and on his own the right honorable gentleman, a weak leader of a divided party. that's what we've learned this week. >> mr. raymond -- order! >> thank you, mr. speaker. prime minister, my constituent, a british national on the recent visit to india was kidnapped and then beheaded in the horrendous murder incident can i ask the british government to urge the indian authorities to carry out a full transparent, thoroughly roinvestigation and bring to account those responsible for this horrendous murder so my constituent and his family can get some justice for their mother. >> i quite understand why my right honorable friend wants to raise this family. i fully understand and their wish for justice to be brought to bear on the perpetrators. now, the foreign office has been providing the family with counselor support as he knows and they will arrange to meet with my right honorable friend and the family to see what further assistance that we can give. however, i have to say to him, responsibility for investigating crime committed overseas has to rest with the police and the judicial authorities in that country.

blair, those people working in nhs but not by the party opposite. >> order. decibel level is far too high. the prime minister should have to shout to make himself heard. mr. ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, the whole country would have heard they are spending 852 million pounds and he can't even promise they will be rehired to do their old job. he's promised no top to reorganization. he promised the bonfire. use greg moore. he promised a better deal for patients and things are getting worse. people asking up and down this country is was he doing for our nhs. [shouting] >> with the whole country would have noticed is that at a time when people are worried about strike, he can ask about strike because he's in the pocket of the union. [shouting] what the whole country, what the whole country would have noticed is at a time when greece is making huge problems over its deficit he can't talk about greece because his plan is to make britain like greece. [shouting] what the whole country would have noticed is at a time when the economy is the key issue he can't talk about the economy because of his ludicrous plan for tax cuts. that's what we see. week after week. he

blair house this morning on the south side, the south lawn of the white house. this runs about 35 minutes. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and mrs.ichelle obama. ♪ [playing hail to the chief] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentleman, at the national anthem of the federal republic of germany, followed by the national anthem of the united states. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good morning, everybody. chancellor merkel, members of the german delegation, on behalf of michele and myself, it is our great pleasure to welcome you back to the white house. on behalf of the american people, it is our great honor to welcome you back to the united states. [applause] [speaking german] >> it today marks the first of this it and stayed there for european leader during my presidency. it is only fitting the transatlantic alliance was the cornerstone, the heart of our efforts to promote peace and prosperity are on the world. germany, at the heart of europe, is one of our strongest allies. chancellor merkel is one of my closest global partners. >> [speaking german] >> our alliance at its core and the partnership between our peoples, the generations of german-