we are pleased to have you here, director mueller and thank you for your appearance.udget request for 2011 totals nearly $8.2 billion. within such a large totals there are clearly many programmatic and policy issues to cover, too many in fact for anyone here to cover exhaustively. but i do hope we can use this opportunity to focus on at least a few important areas and make sure we touch on those which we consider of high-priority. the first of these areas for me is white-collar crime. our economy has suffered billions of dollars in losses due to the illegal and immoral behavior of individuals who capitalize on weaknesses in the regulatory and enforcement system to profit at the expense of shareholders, investors, homeowners workers and taxpayers. while many firms on wall street have recovered and are in fact making substantial profits again, there are millions of regular americans who are still hurting and have yet to see any real justice for the economic violence that was perpetrated on them. i am glad to see that this administration has recognized the error of past

so mueller got a nobel prize for his development of this.ut nobody at the time knew exactly what they have on their hands, good or bad, and even though the information about the ddt repellent was available back in the early 1940's, people didn't appreciate that value right away and rachel carson interpreted that as assistance rather of an avoidance mechanisms. >> host: lucille samet calls new york. >> caller: hi. this is for either of you although i have to say i kind of agree with linda at this point. i am a casual bird watcher and i noticed last summer i have the woods behind my house, pond next to my house which i affectionately call a cesspool. and i noticed a lot of birds just disappearing and i went out and got her book and read it and made perfect sense to me. i'm especially interested in eagles. we have a wildlife refuge your our finger lakes butter now polluted and it's worse now. i read her book about our lakes are polluted. you can't eat the fish. the birds to me are diminishing. the geese and ducks, i haven't seen a starling all

and i had hoped today bring the fbi director with me, bob mueller who just came back from an important trip to afghanistan and pakistan. he had a conflict and i apologize if there's interest, maybe we can bring him over at another time. i would recommend p.j., that you consider that. i think mohler strip. p.j. and i heard a detailed discussion by him the other day. it was a furtherance of our trilateral meetings last year, which were going to resume in a few months here. and in that -- in his trip, he put together a meeting between the new ministers of interior. minister ottmar and minister malik. this is really important. the court nation between the two countries was at the core of the policies he's been developing over the last 13 months and we really think that director mueller's meetings were important in moving things forward. so with that, outline of what i did, i'll be happy to take your questions. thank you. >> sue pleming with rutgers. in your discussions -- let me rephrase that. what's your assessment of how president karzai stood at the moment? these met him several times.

we are pleased to have you here, director mueller and thank you for your appearance. the fbi's budget request for 2011 totals nearly $8.2 billion. within such a large totals there are clearly many programmatic and policy issues to cover, too many in fact for anyone here to cover exhaustively. but i do hope we can use this opportunity to focus on at least a few important areas and make sure we touch on those which we consider of high-priority. the first of these areas for me is white-collar crime. our economy has suffered billions of dollars in losses due to the illegal and immoral behavior of individuals who capitalize on weaknesses in the regulatory and enforcement system to profit at the expense of shareholders, investors, homeowners workers and taxpayers. while many firms on wall street have recovered and are in fact making substantial profits again, there are millions of regular americans who are still hurting and have yet to see any real justice for the economic violence that was perpetrated on them. i am glad to see that this administration has recognized the er

we really think director mueller's meetings were important and moved things forward. with that outline of what we did, i'll be happy to take your questions. thank you. >> in your discussion -- let me rephrase that. what's your assessment of how president karzai is doing at the moment? you have met him this time. the restrictions on the media, concerns about media freedom in afghanistan. he also last week introduced a new regulation with regard to the election. maybe you could discuss those two issues and whether you raised this with him, whether you are concerned about it. do you see the afghan government moving in the wrong direction? >> i don't see a pattern but you have raised some issues of legitimate concern. on the first one p.j. and i have had an extensive discussion on that and we are -- it's pretty obvious we support free press. we don't like restrictions on the press. my whole career has been devoted to supporting that. and p.j. and i and the secretary of state are concerned. and will make our support of free access by the press clear to the government. on t