mr. mitchell? would this be good for the country? >> no. i think it would be terrible for the country because although it doesn't do as much damage as the income tax per dollar raised it clearly would drive a bigger wedge between pretax pay and post tax pay in terms of whether people are benefiting from actually producing in the economy. but the real thing that bothers me about the value-added tax, look at europe. they have giant deficits, places like greece and ireland and italy and england and yet they have these big value added taxes. if we put that in in america the politicians will spend all that money that comes in and then we'll still have big deficits because that's just the way the political class behaves. >> what should we do, mr. mitchell? what should we do to get our fiscal house in order? >> well, if i was economic czar i'd have a very easy answer. if you're asking me to look at these folks in washington, we had big spending, wasteful programs under bush, and now obama has picked up the baton and he is racing in the same direct

mr. mitchell. mr. superintendent, i used to hate it when people asked me these questions, but on the human capital question that you were raising at the end about finding administrators, finding teachers in rural areas, we faced this in my state of colorado as well, if you could wave a magic wand, what would you change that you think might have an impact on your ability to be able to fill these positions that you were talking about? >> i think sometimes inadvertently, we do a tremendous disservice to our profession. my wife is a teacher. she's a great teacher. but with her experience over the last 28 years, the things she told our three daughters was go get a degree and do something other than teaching because of the frustrations in there. so hopefully -- right now, one of the things that i just saw some latest research is that what teachers want most is supported leadership. so if we could put supported leadership in there and leaders like myself who go out and help people and champion, it is great to

mr. mitchell. actually, mirroring language that the gentleman from texas, mr. paul, has had before our body for some period of time. both gentlemen have worked on this together. across the country we know that there are serious issues plaguing americans. mainly a deteriorating economy and very high unemployment rates. in my home state the underemployment rate is at over 20%. in my district, sacramento county has an unemployment rate of 12.9%, which is actually lower than some of the cities in my district. the city of galt, for example, has an unemployment rate of 15%. so, it goes without saying things are not well in our economy. people are suffering. as americans around the country are struggling and sacrificing to make ends meet, it appears that we in congress should not be immune. other institutions are doing likewise. the chief justice of the supreme court recently announced in his year end report for the judiciary that he would not be requesting the usual salary increase for federal judges given that, quote, so many of our fellow citizens have been touched

mr. secretary, mike mitchell with lockheed armin. counter-i.e.d.s well as logistics capability, in the sense that a number of firms are developing unmanned helicopter capability that could fulfill niche resupply missions, it would take truck convoys off the road, and in hand area whereas you've cited, there's limited road infrastructure in the first place, to get to areas, so i'm interested in kind of where the department's thinking abandon if there's any way to try to accelerate that capability for all the reasons cited. >> great great question and absolutely right. to the extent you can keep people off the road, that's particularly cumbersome supply convoys, in out lying areas, you reduce the i.e.d. threat. we're doing a lot more air drop in season, a lot more air drop than we were just a few months ago, so to an outline cop, that instead of driving trucks up there with their food and their water and their supplies and so forth, you fly over. they're gps controlled parachutes right now that it fly it right in, you keep people off the roads. simil

mr. secretary, mike mitchell with lockheed martin. i would like to explore a language between the third and fourth topics. and this has a number of firms are developing unmanned helicopter capabilities that could fulfill niche resupply missions. it would take truck convoys off the road and in an area where as you said there is a limited road infrastructure in the first place, to get to areas where there are none. so i'm interested in kind of where the departmental is thinking and if there's anyway to accelerate the capability for all the reasons cited. stark great, great question and absolutely right, to the extent you can keep people off the road, that's particularly cumbersome supply convoys in outlying areas. you reduced the ied threat. we are doing a lot more airdrop this season. a lot more airdrop than we were just a few months ago. so to an outline cop that, instead of driving trucks up there with her food and water and their supplies and so forth, you fly over. they're gps-controlled parachutes now. they can fly it right in. yo

mitchell planned to come over to run the campaign. and i've listened to the pitch for example he set it all in code names and mr. president, i have plans for example to deal with the antiwar demonstrators which was one of the problems he had been told for example my office called antiwar demonstration because it was government and classified information. we couldn't give it to the campaigns of ahead of their own was curious to what liddy set up and i listened to liddy and he said well general michel, what we can do is we will kidnap the antiwar demonstrators and drug them and takes them below the mexican border. years later i was talking to one of the lawyers who represented the antiwar leaders and he said what liddy didn't realize is a lot of these guys would have liked to be drugged and taken below the mexican border. but he had other plans for example he was going to hire a chase plane to intercept ground communications between the opponent's campaign plane. i sort of interjected myself as we told in july also have a plan how to get intelligence from the democrats in the miami convention. we are going to do i

mr. dean for car watched watergates in my early fifties one thing i have not heard about is loss of mitchelld to watch this program and they said she was drugged and kidnapped and sent to california because she was talking too much. is that true? am i she was in california when that happens. i like martha and knew her well. she was a wonderful terming personality and southern and always the life of a party but unfortunately she had a drinking problem. if she had martinis she would give of the phone and most of the things she said were terribly a century and and that was a sad part but it sheet is well remembered. >> ahead. thank you mr. dean for coming onto c-span and also when you are on the road but my question relates to your book which is fantastic and i appreciate that. i often ask my friends like you said why don't they take the republican party back? i wonder that it seems they narrow their focus on who can participate in their politics to the point* where i worry about them even though i appreciate the values i want tow

mitchell planning to come over to run the campaign. and i listened to this pitch, for example, he had it all in code names. he said, you know, mr. president, i have plans, for example, to deal with the anti-war demonstrators which was one of our real problems. he'd been told, you know, for example, my office got anti-war demonstration information because it was government classified information, we couldn't give it to the campaign, so they had to have their own capabilities. so i was curious to see what liddy had set up. and i listened to liddy, and he said, well, general mitchell, what we can do is we will kidnap the anti-war demonstrators, and we will drug them and take them below the mexican border. years later i was talking to one of the lawyers who represented the anti-war leaders, and he said to me, john, what liddy didn't realize was a lot of these guys would have liked to have been drugged and taken below the mexican border. but he had other plans. for example, he was going to hire a chase plane that would intercept ground-to-air communications between the opponents' campaign plane. he was going to -- to me, the only par

mr. dean. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: you know, when i watched watergate, i was in my early 50s, but one thing i haven't heard anything is martha mitchell i used to watch this program, and they were saying that she was drugged and kidnapped and sent to california because she was talking too much. is that true? >> guest: no, she wasn't, she actually was in california when that incident happened. i liked martha. i knew her well, i knew her from my time at the opportunity of justice -- department of justice. she was a wonderful, charming personality. very southern, always the life of a party. but, unfortunately, she had a drinking problem, and when she had just a couple extra martinis, she'd get on the phone, and she was trouble. and most of the things she said were terribly exaggerated, and that was the sad part. but she's well remembered, and that's the nice part. >> host: james is joining us from oregon. go ahead, please. >> caller: yeah, thank you, mr. dean, for coming on c-span and also the time you spend going on the randy rhodes show, i really appreciate that. but my question relates to your book, "conservatives without conscious,"

mr. dean. >> guest: thank you, when i watched watergate i was in my early '50s, but one thing that i haven't heard anything about is martha mitchelltch this program, and they were saying that she was drugged and kidnapped and sent to california because she was talking too much. is that to? >> guest: know she was in california when the incident happened. i like martha. i knew her well. i knew her from my time at the department of justice. she was a wonderful, charming personality. very southern, always the life of a party. but unfortunately she had a drinking problem, and when she had just a couple extra martinis, she would get on the phone and she was troubled. and most of the things she said were kerry exaggerated, and that was the sad part. but she is well remembered and that's the nice part. >> host: oregon, please go ahead, please. >> caller: thank you, mr. dean for coming on c-span and also the time you spend going on the randy rocha. i appreciate that. but my question relates to your book. i often ask my friends, like you say, why don't they take the republican party back. and i wonder, you know, it seems that they have narr