the point, of course, though, is that this is all about perception. and counterinsurgency is about an argument between the forces of the insurgencies and the policy of the government. what the population in central helmond is doing at the moment is forming a view as whether it's better off without the government and whether it believes thatity neighbors, which is what the taliban is, in political terms are also going come across to the side of the government. and that i think is the key point to this. is that it's a political movement, the taliban, and the something that you don't necessarily know. and of course like all political movements, it takes time for people to be convinced. now, what is going on in central helmond at the moment is people are being convinced. now, of course, when general mcchrystal referred to marja as a bleeding ulcer, he was talking about the perception of the outside world -- world and of course in the same way it's important that afghan perceptions go in the right direction, it's important that the outside world also has t

public perceptions of mexico are at an all-time low since nafta began.image -- the image that the public sees of mexico, the assessments of mexico as a security and trade partner are actually despondently low. we have also got very difficult and contract a bowl issues on the bilateral agenda, like immigration and things we have not mentioned such as trucking. mexico would like to see nafta move to a different level where we can have free flows of not only commerce but also trucks and labor going across the border. in terms of mexico specifically, there are a number of very difficult, unresolved issues that my colleagues have pointed to. i think while security has loomed largest in the u.s. mind about mexico's current situation, for ordinary mexicans, cents felipe calderon was elected in 2006, the issue has been consistently the problem of the economy. and specifically, the fact that still today, 40% of mack it -- mexicans live in poverty. by party, i mean earnings typically less than $5 a day. -- by poverty, i mean our earnings typically less than $5 a d

the perception of too big to fail and quasi-government guarantees should be fuelled by the absence ofany procedure for resolving other large financial institution that is not a bank. literally an un contemplated possibility. this bill addresses that situation. the ability to seduce people into misguided financial products that promote risk for them and thereby promotes risk for the system is surely attenuated by having a regulator whose criteria for success is how consumers do rather than the profitability of capital of financial institutions. that is the consumer financial regulator. no one can look at what happened in the credit defaults swaps market during the last decade. the volumes of risk that were being taken incompletely non- transparent ways and believe that that was prudent. the use of exchanges and clearing houses like we do for stocks for a very long time, like we do for a large fraction of commodity trading is a proven technique for reducing financial risk by pooling liability and risk and making lost much less likely. this bill provides that possibility as well. it can'

-- just like it is the perception that the solicitor general's office defense statutes -- we will do that to the best of our ability. >> let me switch topics and ask you if you're familiar with the bill that we spent a gre deal of time on in the last session -- the foreign intelligence surveillance act? >> i am generally familiar with it. >> you mentioned the jackson foula from youngstown. as you know, with this program, the president saw to go outside the law and did in fact do so. that program is now totally under the foreign intelligence surveillance court. however, during this time, we were reviewing the feign intelligence surveillance act and we strengthened, dramatically, the expressivity sections -- expressivity sections of that act -- exclusivity sections of that act. president carter called it bed governancexclusive to of ance.ol of vernme we strengthened it additionally in this latest amended act, which is now law. have you reviewed that? do you believe that the exclusivity provisions are such that they are compelling and thereforehe president cannot go around this law and

i want to know your perception of how involved they are? thank you. guest: that is a fundamental question in trying to figure out counter-terrorism cooperation -- how it has gone and how it will conttnue to go. let's keep in mind that the chief of army staff, who is seen as independent, honest, natural warrior. the pentagon sees him as trustworthy. yet, in his past job, he was ahead of the pakistani intelligence agency. officers are temporarily stationed there. then, they go back to the regular army. it has definitely supported elements of the taliban fighting in afghanistan and based in pakistan since september 11. the recent death of the individual that i mentioned was killed last friday, here is a former officer who was seen as a nexus between the intelligence agencies and the military. yet, this guy was just wacked by the pakistani taliban. even the hard-core militants see a isi as doing the bidding of the united states. the dynamic that existed there is beginning to fray. host: florida. kelly on our independent line -- caller: yu said the new gen

. >> guest: the term social justice is perceptible to many different meanings. it is true that it is a term that comes out of the social gospel movement, there is also a catholic, social justice teaching as well. it is an exaggeration to say that any thinking along the lines of social justice is already automatically a stalking horse for left or liberal fox. on that question i would >> host: as we get deeper into the digital age, the claremont review of books will still be published? >> guest: eventually it will be on kendall and other electronic forums as well but for us at part of the attraction on paper is it is an anti blog. it stands for books, serious consideration of books and personal appreciation of the history of the book, history of geniuses utilize teach us and also we are very fond of the arts of the magazine. our magazine is illustrated by one brilliant illustrator from new york city, in a sort of 18th-century or early nineteenth century sort of style which is deliberately in neoclassical and meant to remind us of our ancestors of the newspaper and

in the right direction, it's important that the outside world also has the right perception. and i think his feeling was that would regard marja as being a bleeding ulcer. that's not the way he cease it in theater nor is that the way the afghans see it. very important, i think, that things are set properly in context. we have proper process review that has to be done regularly. over. >> follow-up. what if it doesn't work? >> i'm sorry, i didn't pick up your question. is it did you say, what happens if it doesn't work? >> right, sorry. what happens if it doesn't work? what is plan b? >> i think you have to ask general mcchrystal that question if you're talking about his strategy. i can tell you what will work and what won't work at my tactical level. clearly my plan as commander is about resolving the trials and tribulations of central helmond resources and the will miles an hour and the afghan partners to make that work. in terms of the overall strategy, at the kabul level, that's a question that i think helmond and i think importantly he didn't just 600,000 people we're talk

according to 320-question self-evaluation, hilarie, 28 years old, uses words like p perceptive, hard-nosed and skeptical. she's focused, curious and outgoing. tony, a 32-year-old, describes himself as fair, sensible, and rational. he's focused and flexible, very curious and outgoing. e harmony researcher john gonzaga studied their profiles on paper before tonight's date. what is your overall analysis? >> they seem to fit very well. there's a couple of things that are special highlights for them in terms of their personality that may indicate they may have some things in common that really help drive getting more connected in a relationship. >> reporter: and now that computer profile is being put to the test. >> she shows a lot of gestures with the hands. sort of like moving in and out of leaning towards each other as the conversation goes on all all those things are indications of the emotional connection between the two of them. >> reporter: we'll check back in with them after dinner, but first, a look inside the eharmony love factory. a website they claim is responsible for 236 marriages

did not exist, or at least diminished, given some of the interactions, statements, that karzai's perception that the obama administration worked against them. >> ifill: the vice president was tough on them. the national security council was tough on them. >> i'm proposing that's what he believes happened. and president obama did not spend a lot of time with president karzai, unlike president bush who spent spent a lot of purpose time with him i think they had a chance to spend quality time together but i think a lot of issues remain that will determine the future of this relationship and you alulded to a couple of them , but i think the whole issue of july of next year is an issue because in afghanistan, and i think president karzai's mind as well, there is a fear that come july '11, the u.s. will begin to disengage militarily. do we emphasize the political and economic-- that may not be sufficient for success. i think a good start has been made to repair the relationship that has been damaged in recent months, but i think there is a long way to go to have the kind of strong partnership tha

and, they give the image that they know how to govern and i think this perception of not -- does not address the fact that the whole country has changed a lot in the last 20 years. the country, the mexico that was governed by the priests during the 20th century, is not there any month, and maybe, it is still -- exists in some regions and states, but that is -- as a nation, our institutions are different, our society is different and it would be a huge challenge for the pre to change the circumstances, and, my source of optimism is in society and my source of pessimism is in political institutions. thank you. >> shannon, tell us about -- give us your optimism and pessimism for next week with juan's admonition that things happen, do you expect anything unexpected between the meeting between president felipe calderon and president obama. >> historically the last 20 years and mexican presidents' visits to the u.s., they are often characterized by ambitious agendas, with salinas, was nafta and fox, in 2001, was comprehensive immigration reform before september 11th and this agenda next we

i think frontier feminism is anything that shatters perception about where women should work, what they should believe in and how they should behave. >> well, if sarah palin wants to talk how she wants to give voice to the millions of women who want it all, who want an education, career, and a family, then maybe that is something new. it's not clear to me that that's actually what she's fighting for. >> i think the underlying principle of em power of women not being dependent on others is absolutely the same. i think she has just added dependence on the government to that list. >> well, first let's talk about the tea party women. when i first heard about frontier feminism and the grass roots female activist in the tea pennsylvania i thought of feminist for life which was a group that actually started in 1972. we're talking about almost 40 years ago, except, yes, her focus is more on taxes, another important conservative issue. lesson the abortion issue. >> i agree with you on that. i don't think it is about abortion i think it's about concerns about what mothers have always been concern

they tried to encourage the right perception of themselves. bonnie was appalled that people really thought she smoked cigars. clyde actually sent a threatening editor to the fort worth star-telegram saying that if you ever put another story that says mike underworld made smoke cigars, i know where you and your reporters live. [laughter] back in the star-telegram, until after the bodies were certified as dead, in louisiana never printed another mention of bonnie with a sigar. but again, they were trying to overcome who they really were. they were both crippled. in the last year of their lives are clyde had been crippled ever since he got off to his own toes to get out of prison duty. and bonnie actually could not walk the last year of her life because her leg was so terribly damaged in a car wreck. they lived mostly in filth, camping in their cars by river so they could take baths. and to them, the was that at least they were known for something. they knew they were going to die. they expected it and just want it to be a spectacular run right u

. >> there is a perception that the religious world is for liberalized immigration because those on the more liberal side of the religious world are the most outspoken. so i don't think that most of these church officials genuinely speak for the constituencies they claim to speak for. >> i find that totally, totally wrong. i mean, these are our parishioners. i have a parishioner who's undocumented, whose son who is 7 years old said to her this week, "mommy, what am i going to do when they take you away?" those are my parishioners. i can't see how somebody can say you're out of touch with those people. those are the people that i serve, and those are the people that i care about. >> bishop carcano says many in her congregation oppose the law, but some are very upset with her position. have you had people leave or threaten to leave the church over this issue? >> we have. we have. they've left. some of them are people who leave for a season and then return. others, we will have lost them, and we pray for them. >> many in the religious opposition say they can't back away from their moral ob

. >> reporter: the guns fired blanks but the stress led to startling inaccurate perceptions. >> a number of them saw a black man stealing from a white woman when it was just the opposite. >> reporter: truth that even things that unfold right before your eyes are not always what they see. not only were we surprised by how differently students viewed the very same crime, we were stunned that no one attempted to help the victim. >> i was surprised by that as well. but i guess the question remains how do you become a better witness? >> you want to look for some permanent physical characteristics like a scar, a limp, an accent, even a missing tooth, rather than focusing only on a suspect's clothing. but if there is something unique or unusual about the suspect is wearing, maybe a unusual logo on a ball cap, that may be worth noting. >> all right. it sounds like eyewitness accounts should not be counted on too much. >> now dna has replaced them for the most part. >> there you go. great stuff. thank you so much for that. we appreciate it. >>> all right. here is your forecast first. a pretty goo

the perception of some of you on this particular committee. i want to give my view from the southwest i am. the institution has a very strong relationship with the ranching community in the southwest. since 2002 we have been in a deep drought in very good scientific evidence that is due to the northern migration of the westerlies no longer bringing as much precipitation to the southwest as before per car or ranching community is not arguing whether climate change is here are not. her coming to us saying what every going to do about it? climate is the number one issue in this community and they're asking to give them guidance about how to adapt in the short term and long term. i think the public perception that climate is an issue whether called climate change or not, is particularly keen among the people of the southwest. secondly, as a professor and a large public university we share your concern about the increase scientific literacy demanded to address the complex tradeoffs we're coming up against in rear very much engaged in that enterpris

and there was disappointment when there were perceptions that this was not happening. >> this was the entire reasoning and i did not say this. the reason for deciding this program was that so many of the banks would take this and went to capitol and they would be lending. this was the purpose. but as soon as we announced this, before the first banks cut the capital, people were wondering why they were not lending. and now, if you are a bank you want to have this deal. and how his big brother going to make you --

. >> and the perception that bp has not provided on not information.have more, from venice, louisiana. >> the beaches were closed. tourists were kept out. the oil has moved in. bp engineer's estimate there are capturing 2,200 miles -- gallons of oil. the coast guard is concerned. they are sending a team of scientists to the region. >> this team will put together a very important report about what we think the actual estimate is. >> the effort to stop the flow has been delayed. bp has pushed back the process they had hoped to begin on sunday. >> forecasts for when this will take place are some time in the early week. our best estimate is tuesday. i would stress these operations are complex and we will not start the job until everything is in place. >> with a whale still creeping in, some -- with oil, still creeping in, some are getting tired of waiting. >> we cannot sit by and watch our marshes destroyed. this is incredible. we are begging for the permit a week later and begging for bp to step up to the plate. >> instead, they are begging for engineers

that's not because of any acts against our country, but that's an act of environmental perception that the beaches in panama city have oil on them and folks can't come down and enjoy themselves. when i met with them, i said, listen, i have filed legislation with senator bill nelson in the senate calling for a moratorium until we figure out how we could make these rigs safe and make sure there is a moratorium on expansion of offshore oil drilling off the coast of florida and in the gulf of mexico. that is already filed. legislation is already filed. ross holt, moving the liability cap up, to make sure these oil companies do not get off the hook for the kind of misery they have put upon these individuals that just wanted to work every day. i shared what the s.b.a. is providing for small businesses. in the final analysis, kendrick, if you go back to congress and say we are open for business and ready to receive them, that will help us more than everything that you just mentioned, everything that you just mentioned will be for the future, but not for right now. they have mortgages to meet.

public perception of mexico are at an all-time low since nafta began in the public image -- the imagesthe public sees of mexico, the assessments of mexico, the security partner, trade hardware are actually does, lilo. we've also got very difficult and track double issues on the bilateral agenda, like immigration. one of the things we happened to mention also was trucking. mexico would like to see an active move to a different level where we can have free flows of natalie connors, but also tracks and labor going across the border. and in terms of mexico, specifically there are a number of very difficult unresolved issues that my colleagues have pointed to. i think while security has loomed largest in the u.s. mind about mexico's situation, for ordinary mexicans, since calderon was elected in 2006, the issue has been consistently the problem of the economy and specifically the fact that still today, approximately 40% of mexicans live in poverty. and by poverty i need burning typically less than $5 a day. also, the issue was inequality, the fact that although so many mexicans live in dire

. >> related, there is a different perception as to the role of the solicitor general. and perhaps a perception of different philosophies as to the proper role of the office. some say you should be an advocate for the executive branch, and some say it is more of the conscience of the government. it ought not to loy's serve at the bidding of the executive branch. -- ought not to always served at the bidding. they are not highly exclusive mutual positions. are you still developing your philosophy? >> that is interesting. i'm sure i still am developing my philosophy. i may give a different answer several years from now. right now it seems as if the difficult part of the job, but also the fun part is that you're bouncing a lot of different things and interests. you named two of them. i'll add more. you're very much an advocate for the executive branch. represent the u.s. in the highest court. i am defending its policies, practices, various regulations. it is a critical part of the job. it means that i am a member of the executive branch, part of the presidential team, part

growing this morning along the gulf coast over the oil that continues to pour into the water and the perceptionhat bp hasn't provided enough information about what it is or is not doing to handle the disaster. jay gray has more from venice, louisiana. >> the beaches in grand isle are closed this morning because the oil has moved in. bp engineers estimate they are capturing 200 million barrels of oil a day with an insertion tube. they are sending a team of scientists to the site to get a handle on how much that might be. >> this team will put together a very important report about what we think the actual estimate is of the oil emitting from this well. >> the effort to stop that flow that is been delayed again, bp pushing back the top kill process they opened to stop sunday. >> forecasts for when this operation will take place will be some time in the coming week. our best estimate is probably tuesday. i would stress these operation rs complex and we won't start the job until all the equipment is staged and everything is in place. >> with oil still creeping into the marshlands, billy nungesser i

i know that is not the perception, but that is the fact. but we have not done enough. so we have the responsibility to create an orderly border and that is something that we have to do not unilaterally, but working with the mexican government. there are enormous flows of trade tourists and people the only border region. the economies are interdependent. we have to control the borders, but to do so anyway that does not -- but do so in a way that does not have an impact on the economies of those regions. the second thing we have to do is make sure that businesses are following the rules. that they're not actively recruiting undocumented workers so that they do not have to abide by overtime laws or abide by minimum wage laws or abide by worker safety laws or there was undercut basic worker protections that exist. they have to be held accountable and responsible. the third thing we have to do is make sure that those who have come to this country illegally are held accountable. that means they have to pay fines, pay back taxes, i believe they should learn english, it is imp

. >> this is not an accurate perception. >> you need students to understand the importance that the foundingurch and state. >> one of the things that we keep being hounded by the other side is that the conservatives religion. to inject no, we are not. nor do we want our religion history to be taped and drawn from a view point that is not historically accurate. >> it has nothing to do with the left or the right instead of what is best for the children. >> it failed 10-5. a straight party line vote. but what made it in? throughout the standards democratic republic was changed to constitutional republic. the word capitalism replaced with free enterprise system. in u.s. history students will be required to examine laws of nature and nature's god. there were more changes to be made to the texas style shootout continued. >> we have been white washing social studies. you have to leave responsibility. >> i'm trying to exercise personal responsibility and restraint but i'm about tootles. >> i rest my case and i would like a record vote. >> by early evening it reached a boiling point. >> i had it. thi

observed the was not overly judgmental but, obviously you rank him very highly in terms of his perception and abilities to perceive the cultural dynamics. and what about way out front in terms of other people? >> making a grand tour through america and it is flow of great writing and is projected three strong yen prisons 10 tocqueville did believe keeping prisoners in this place and being much more sympathetic to the despair of the solitary confinement. you are not even allowed to see other people they tried to do complete isolation and they went completely crazy so they would teach them to do a shoe leather and they just went crazy a little more slowly and he writes very movingly about the cabazon -- catatonic state of the prisoners but the rest of the time people said because he was the upstart middle-class guy he he os puts americans down. he came over here thinking he was the political liberal and said democracy is disgusting so it is remarkable that in tokyo said with a background and experience was brought up the other way to see the point* of it and it will not be reversed. it was

. >> this is not an accurate perception. >> you need students to understand the importance that the foundingn the separation between church and state. >> one of the things that we keep being hounded by the other side is that the conservatives religion. to inject no, we are not. nor do we want our religion history to be taped and drawn from a view point that is not historically accurate. >> it has nothing to do with the left or the right instead of what is best for the children. >> it failed 10-5. a straight party line vote. but what made it in? throughout the standards democratic republic was changed to constitutional republic. the word capitalism replaced with free enterprise system. in u.s. history students will be required to examine laws of nature and nature's god. there were more changes to be made to the texas style shootout continued. >> we have been white washing social studies. you have to leave responsibility. >> i'm trying to exercise personal responsibility and restraint but i'm about tootles. >> i rest my case and i would like a record vote. >> by early evening it reached a boil

frustration is growing along the gulf coast over the oil that continues to pour into the water, and a perception that bp has not provided enough information about what it is doing to handle the disaster. well collapse more than a month ago. >> live streaming pictures from the four of the gulf or constant reminder of the magnitude of this disaster. >> from the beginning, we have really been aggressive in trying to make sure bp meet their responsibilities in terms of its response. >> be egos into the weekend facing allegations that for a month now, executives have not provided real information about the amount of oil leaking from a fractured well. >> we are all concerned about the amount of oil that has actually been emitted. we have been fighting this bill for a month now. >> there is a push from the white house to release of the day about this bill, and a demand from the epa to find a less toxic dispersant to try to break up the slick. the most important task could come this sunday, when they begin pumping mud into the leak to jam it, then sealing it with concrete. >> this is a thick, viscous mr

. >> host: the initial title of your bookbinder the tracks of popular perception which is we don't talk to terrorists. u.s. policy was never we don't talk to terrorists it was we make no concessions. we can negotiate, but no concessions. the more interesting issue. if you're going to talk and not make concessions what is the point? >> guest: you are exactly right. we have always talked to terrorists or at least listened. the african national congress, the plo. you can go down the list of organization. we have actually sat down to compare notes and see how we can cooperate. has not always been easy. the book's title should be listening to terrorists. we talked at them all the time. you have to do this. you have to do that. you have to disarm. you have to agree to all prior agreements oh we're not going to talk to you. those kinds of demands, the same kind of demands made on the african national congress never work. essentially you are not the doctor doolittle of counter-terrorism. instead of this policy that is inflexible the says we're going to treat all terrorism as one variety they ar

schoolhouse but they're celebrating as a locus of order and discipline and in the 1960s, there is a perception by some americans of eroding so they seize on the 1-room schoolhouse the symbol of a lost order but this turns out to be completely distorted. the 1-room school house those were not ordered institutions. they were highly chaotic. if you look at nineteenth century fiction you can see it because the scheme is often a physical battle between the school teacher and the kids. think of tom sawyer. he wins the day because he lowers a catch on to his schoolmaster's head who pulls off the way. this is in a 1-room school house and not exactly ordered or disciplined. >> let's go through your research about schoolhouses. how often where they read? >> and very rarely. they were too expensive. communities worksheet. they painted it white but most commonly it was left untainted so it would revert to a weather beaten silver or gray. they were overwhelmingly female and overwhelmingly young. and especially after you gave birth a common pattern was 16 or 17 in the school. at lake as 1910 only 10% of ame

i think our proprietary businesses actually have much less, although the perception of it -- obviouslyception of complex, but we keep those very separate. >> this is a business where there is conflict of interest where there did not used to be. when you were 100% concerned about your client, you were not involved in proprietary trading. inherent is the conflict of interest. to return to" chairman levin does, in the first half of 2007 goldman sachs long-goldmancdo's contrary to its clients the? >> back then we reduced our risk. since they began as long it means we sold some long positions and put on the other short ones. >> you sold positions, and while the cdo's goldman itself had greeted it -- you were selling cod's of the same time you're taking short positions on the same? ? there is a thing called hudson mezzanine. you were selling cdo's into the marketplace. by your account your selling the very same ones short? >> i do not have any knowledge of them. >> if you believe that can happen the? >> i believe some people can own --look, on the first they someone can buy a cdo from us --

i want to know your perception of how involved they are? thank you. guest: that is a fundamental question in trying to figure out counter-terrorism cooperation -- how it has gone and how it will conttnue to go. let's keep in mind that the chief of army staff, who is seen as independent, honest, natural warrior. the pentagon sees him as trustworthy. yet, in his past job, he was ahead of the pakistani intelligence agency. officers are temporarily stationed there. then, they go back to the regular army. it has definitely supported elements of the taliban fighting in afghanistan and based in pakistan since september 11. the recent death of the individual that i mentioned was killed last friday, here is a former officer who was seen as a nexus between the intelligence agencies and the military. yet, this guy was just wacked by the pakistani taliban. even the hard-core militants see a isi as doing the bidding of the united states. the dynamic that existed there is beginning to fray. host: florida. kelly on our independent line -- caller: yu said the new gen

effect in the united states why using the very best technology be have to provide security both perception and real security of the border is an absolute imperative, and this is something that is very high on my priority list and very important to me and so i hope that this happens without any more undue delay. but we shouldn't stop there. i know that the sdi net has been dispatched, and workable and assessment is being made as to replace it. we are all waiting to here with the assessment is because we know the border is not secure. there's more than half a million people detained coming across the southern border last year. and who knows how many people actually come that are not detained and return to their country. and we know that with the drugs, the weapons, the people being brought almost across the border at will by the cartels and other organized criminal gangs that this is a problem that has to be dealt with with a concrete plan which gets me to the budget. the administration requested an appropriation of 11.17 billion for 2011 which is 3% decrease and in 2011 it amounts to furthe

in contrast to what seems to be the perception of the u.s., where there were relatively few requirementsin the united kingdom for instance, the royal bank of scotland was required to accept certain conditions as to what it's lending practices with the, limitations on dividends and compensation. why were there not similar conditions attached to the bailout of u.s. financial institutions? >> this is a totally different program. we did not want to be dealing with institutions as they serially failed, as they did in the u.k.. we diagnose the problem of being a bid capital shortfall in the banking sector, and so we designed a program that would be attractive to healthy banks so that they would want to come in and voluntarily participate, and we put in preferred, which is passive. and designed so that the government would get the money back. and so, that was the whole purpose of the program and you know interestingly enough, i was hopeful when we announced it, we had a couple thousand banks that would participate, two or 3000, but right after we announced it, and we had critics start saying yo

that we do need to be aware of those facts and understand the perception that it may cause that the workplacert is to make upper management, the supervisors, more aware of this cultural differences, the asian americans tend to be considered lack of confidence or not interested in taking on management responsibilities. so given this understanding of the root causes of the barriers, we have put together a very aggressive program to deal with both the mentoring and the development of our workforce at the same time we also view a very strong, robust partnership with all of the federal agencies to bring this culture differences to their awareness to work together with them to change the perception. >> how has diversity training affected your effort? because most companies have that now. >> yes, they do. it has helped some it, has helped some, but the diversity training has done is desensitized management to the facts that each of us have differences, and the in respecting differences, they need to take that into consideration as they do their planning for advancement, for advancements for employee

. >> as you move around in your social circles and friends, what is their perception of the senate compared to yours? >> i do not see the senate as a huge waste of time, populated by a bunch of buffoons. i think many people-i mean, that is the news coverage. there's so much difficulty getting things done in the senate that i think that is been pointed out. however, i have the sense there are a lot of people working really really hard to get things done under difficult circumstances. >> used in a lot of time quoting woodrow wilson dodged you spent a lot of time quoting woodrow wilson on the congress. why? >> i was fascinated by the president as a renter. woodrow wilson rode his college dissertation on the congress. in part because he was also one of these -- he was one of these presidents to have this kind of highly evolved a sense of what the congress ought to be because he had been kind of a student of id. it never actually work to his advantage knowing all the new, famously, the traverse side that he just could not get through. >> you quoted describing the senate as something to that clea

i was always very happy that it was not really in my perception. i wanted just to be known first as a fair minded and always ethical attorney and as a neutral judge. >> thank you. as you stand here today, justice, a potential colleague is starting the consolation process. how has it changed since you went through it? >> i liked my own. [laughter] you know, remember, the senate is a political body and they have to act in a political way. the framers knew that. phe framers said justices and other officials are appointed by from the advice and consent of the senate. it is really not for me to tell the senate how to structure that process. i do think it has the obligation to recognize the necessity of preserving it the neutrality and the independence -- preserving the neutrality and the independence and the integrity of our courts. and just to ask questions to try to figure out how the judge would rule on a specific question seemed to me rather short-term exercise. what you should asked is whether the judge has the temperament, the commitment, the char

well enough in theaters and get picked up by hbo, but alsouse the medium to ignite a change, a perception, or activate voluntarism or activate charitable giving. i have made three movies. they have all run high on a double bottom line. one won an award last year. you get people to volunteer and write checks for the charities that they focus on. >> the first movie you did, a documentary called "nanking." where did you get the idea? >> i read an obituary in the new york times. it was a wonderful story about iris chang who had written a book about a forgotten holocaust. i had never seen those two words strung together, forgotten holocaust. and her picture was so warm and inviting, and this article about her, when i came home, i googled her and ended up buying the book. if you like this book, you'll like these books, it says at amazon. there were a couple of books that had just come out. i bought all three books and i was absolutely devastated by this time in history. i was shocked by how strong a moral code westerners -- americans had and how the chinese worshipped these people as gods and g

i am aware of the perception that we have not used the full power of the agency as an d th agency.so i've met with interest thehe draft of unfair trade reduction act of 2010 and think that201 several of the tools that are in there should be considered as as important measure that we can use as we ramp up our enforcement profile. i should say though that we need o put this in the context oftht the overall review of the trade function that has been initiated at cbp under my leadership, toua look at the resources, to looks, at the processes and procedures that we used and to look at importantly the relationships we have with other federal agencies, for whom we serve ase executive agents including u.s.. por, department of commerce and on the unfair trade side of the house. ho but the kinds of tools that aree in there, need to be integrated into this review.rev the notion that we should have uniforme not procedures to lookt the allegations that are made and to do it and a consistent way around the country. bp oughtept that cbp ought to collect cash deposits fromm te importers are suspec

this perception provides the afghan government with an opportunity to show itself as the protecter of the people. one area in which the -- in which i and international aid donors can help is food security an distribution. not only is the agricultural sector critical to the well-being of all afghans, both agriculture and food distribution are caught up in the problems raised by afghan dependence on opium cultivation. an exoration and ruption in the transports -- corruption in the transports for that and national and local power brokers. the united states has begun shaping operations, mostly political, in and around kandahar to prepare for the next major military campaign. well, we can apply the lessons learned in marjah, the kandahar campaign will be a for middable test of our counterinsurgency plan. kandahar is the birth place of the taliban and the taliban still have considerable support there. in judging the success of kandahar from washington, we should be aware of the significant political and cultural complexities because of the coalition's need to shift between fighting and outr

and the general accounting office said that perception would be very hard to eliminate. even if they were privatized the government said there is no more support and no more implicit guarantee. that leaves the option of frankly eliminating these corporations ennirely writing them off, liquiding their asset. -- liquiding tteir assets. host: our guest is for the heritage foundation, james gattuso. and the first call is clinton, pennsylvania, ray on our independent line. go ahead. caller: good morning, pedro and mr. gattuso. question. who are the architects of celebrity hairstylist frederic fekkai -- freddie mac and fannie mae who put these two organizations together? what parties do they belong to? not the administrations thht were empowered -- in power at the time, but what particular politicians are the architects of this? what party do's they belong to? guest: well, i think the housing parties has been a bipartisan one. it started -- the engine started deal. it began back then as a democratic program. but the mission was expanded and actually the public private hybrid o

is there an example you can cite or is it an issue of -- perception? are you saying the revenue stream is one of the things will be studying over the next 30 days whether that should be divorced from the funding? thank you. >> to the three people who will be taking a look at those issues and where the employees are going to go, i wouud get more information to you on that. on the question for the separation here, it is important that we have a government that avoids even the perception of potential conflict. when you look at the fact that we generate $13 billion per year, the same group generating the $13 billion is also responsible for doing everything else with respect to auditing, enforcement, and it is in my view an important change to change but these functions. >> hello, secretary. thank you for holding this press conference. i have a question about your testimony yesterday regarding the possibility of raising the liability cap. that would be raised to $10 billion. it seems that someone say you have concerns about raising and that high because of

in contrast to what seems to be the perception of the u.s. where there were relatively few requirements, in the united kingdom, the royal bank of scotland was required to expel -- except conditions to what limitations would be. why were there not similar conditions attached to the bailout of u.s. financial institutions? >> this is a totally different program. we did not want to deal with institutions as they've serially failed as they did in the united kingdom. we deadness of the problem of being an big a capital shortfall in the banking sector. go we designed a program that would be attractive to healthy banks so that they would want to come in and voluntarily participate. we put in preferred which was to be like a nationalization. go we designed it so government would get the money back so it was senior to the common. that was the whole purpose of the program. interestingly enough, i was hopeful when we announce it that we would get a couple thousand banks to participate, 20043000, -- 2000 or 3000, but white after we announced it we had cri