after the peru trade promotion agreement was signed into law in december of 2007, democrats broke the deal with us in order to extract more concessions. this time they said that in exchange for passing the colombia free trade agreement, the bush administration would need to accept an expansion of t.a.a. benefits by increasing the refundability of the health care tax credit from 65% to 80%, expanding the t.a.a. eligibility to service workers, and would double the mandatory funding for workers -- excuse me, for worker retaining -- retraining from $220 to $440 million -- $220 million to $440 million. when the bush administration tried to jump-start the process last year by introducing the colombia free trade agreement, speaker pelosi responded by unilaterally rescinding colombia's fast-track authority, essentially killing any chance of moving the agreement. we missed another opportunity to enact the colombia free trade agreement on the stimulus bill. although the majority did find room to enact a multi billion trade adjustment expansion -- trade assistance adjustment -- that's what t.a.a

that's what the enemy perus. -- pursues. they want to take away your trust so that your turnouts is no more there. so that legislatesy is no more there for the islamic establishment. this harms much more than setting fire to banks and putting buses ablaze. this is what cannot be compared to any other laws. in such a great move the people actively turn out and the people are told that you have made a mistake, you shouldn't have confided in the islamic establishment. they're not trust worthy. that's what the anmy wants. this is what they had been pursuing even before the election. a couple of months before the election was held in late march i told people that the enemy is repeatedly whispering into the ears that voter fraud is on the way. that the vote rigging is on the way. they were paving the ground for that. and then i told our great friends inside the country, i give them the warning not to echo what the people want to inculcate in people's mind. islamic establishment is trusted by the people. this is not gained easily.

they're watching peru. is that how come there are no election returns in the middle east? it starts people to thinking and contrasting the systems that exist in the arab world in other places. people are like sponges on those kinds of issues. they know they need change. the difficulty is to create the tools to get it. host: what you believe barack obama's influence on the middle east will be? guest: he hit a lot of the right notes in trying to repair the image of the united states and to talk about people in their own language, their own terms. it signals that somebody is listening. when the united states tries to intervene directly, it is often rejected and seen as a throwback to colonial times or trying to interfere in sopping that is not their business. but when the talk about issues and the need for civil society, it does shift the debate. that was one criticism. i talk to some friends in egypt. that was one thing they felt he when lightly on, the need for expanding civil society and human rights. he probably did because he did not want to insult his host. he has been

screening programs for young children in peru, what are those and do they work? >> u.s. researchers are guiding much of the work. people who are developmental psychologists and child psychiatrists, the programs that have been developed have been developed at johns hopkins, a harvard, ucla, we are in the process, the fifth year of following these kids. this is one of these ones like lipitor. we are not trying -- it is a real prevention. you don't say i have got an ellis, let me see if i can treat the episode and in 90 days i will tell you. we are halfway through. >> one of the questions you brought up earlier, if the child has a seemingly irrational fear of dogs, are these the questions that get asked? >> early on, alan can tell you, you don't see clear illnesses among kids very often. you wait a while and the illness declares itself. there is an impulsive sort of fearful, moody -- they are odd kids. you go after these spectrum's. one of the ones they use the first is fearful less. the other one is impulsive less. you don't see depression until teenage years. the impulsiv

why don't you guys talk about the problems in peru that we are behind that, too.ost: are you still with me? caller: yes. host: what would be the budget of having mahmoud ahmadinejad in office rather than having another elected in by the people? what would be the advantage of having ahmadinejad with a second term? caller: i can see that this is important as far as we have relations with every other country. i can not that. this keep guessing on. we keep interfering with these people's politics for god knows how long. i'm young, but i know about the 1950's, the shah. i mean, this keeps going on. host: you're saying it would be better for united states relations that we are -- that we are somehow involved because we feel it would be better to have ahmadinejad in as the president rather than musabi? caller: it is the other way around. they want the other guy. they keep stirring this up. there are people out there being paid to stir this up. guest: i would disagree with that, caller. i would disagree with the fact the united states has any role in this election. the un

or, did the federal reserve peru an untested experiment -- pursue an untested banking regulation in variance in commiting billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to a corporate management that the federal reserve believed had failed in major ways? mr. chairman, members of the committee, this committee has sifted through tens of thousands of pages of documents produced by bank of america, the department of treasury, and the federal reserve. our investigation will help set the record straight about bank of america and merrill lynch. furts more, the story of bank of america's merger with merrill lynch and its huge taxpayer provided subsidy helps to answer broader questions about how the corporate management of very large financial institutions operate with virtual impunity. for their mistakes. the documents we will reveal today provide the public a rare look into the disconnection between the feds' ability to analyze financial problems and its ability to remedy them when they involve very large financial institutions. finally, mr. chairman, before congress rushes to revise the banking regulatory