ted wang specifically with schwartz plowshares and other agencies, the veteran's administration and other agencies around the region doing outreach to veterans and trying to build an alliance of veteran's groups to really encourage placement of veterans into the trades. one of the big challenges they have seen is not just the collecting of information but then the working actually more closely with veterans to make sure their interests and aptitudes are addressed so the resumes and information gets channeled to the right outlets and right placement for continuing opportunities. they are continuing to work on that. web corp also hosted a booth at an event hosted by the veteran's administration and

>> the agencies that web corp has been working with include the va, the schwartz to plowshares program, then also some of the local employment outreach centers. >> helmets to hard hats. basically there are a lot of different veteran organizations in the bay area and state of california and nationwide. they don't always talk to each other. that is what bob is saying that. is one of the challenges, they are kind of working independently. what we are doing with web corp's assistant is taking the data, what are the challenges veterans are facing, the issues. we are putting that together so we can share it with the first lady's office on veteran hiring to help, provide suggestions. we are finding with the major infrastructure project as well as proposed solutions. >> are there anymore questions on this item? i just had a quick one. have we been able to place veterans on some of the work projects and tgpa? >> yes. web corp has placed two on contracts. web corp are not themselves self-performing. they have placed veterans through their subcontractors. they have also identified and placed two

frederic and former state department officer egypt officer joel reuben, director of policy for the plowshares foundation. good afternoon to both of you. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> jim, i want to pick up where mick left and richard engel left off, as well. the idea this was a spontaneous eruption of violence. >> right. >> as we learn more, that appears to be something that's not the case, perhaps this was something that's staged. why is that significant? >> well, i think we should look at what we call the outrage industry and really cast a skeptical eye on this notion of how often any of these protests are actually all that spontaneous. details are coming out as we speak. who brings an rpg to a spontaneous demonstration? yet, there's an ecosystem of imams, blogospheres, any opportunity for an outrage and then send almost foot soldiers in to the streets to protest and the idea muslims are more prone to demonstrations is -- i think we should cast a skeptical eye on that. >> joel, this morning, secretary of state clinton echoed a sentiment that lots of folk who is are awakening, who

radical people who hate us, hate everything we stand for, they would somehow turn their swords into plowshares. they have not done that, and that is clear. we ask our ambassadors -- closing down consulates in sudan tunisian. this is not a good sign. this is not a great beginning. not a signal. host: john has this point -- what positive contribution did you make as secretary of education? guest: people tell me, and i did this even from some democrats, that we raise the bar in terms of pyrex -- education, which is something i was trying to do. i was not trying to transform the system. that is not the job. the secretary of education's job is a bully pulpit to raise issues that need to be talked about. content, choice, and character. that was in the mid-1980s. i am still very proud of those. now we are having a big discussion about content, an agreement about content, the score standards that are being talked about all across the country. choice remains critical -- that is one way you can get accountability. we have arguably the world's best system of higher education, but enormously wasteful and

i am phillip yun, executive director of the plowshares fund and your moderator for today's program. this program is also being held in association with the commonwealth club's middle east forum. and now i am pleased to introduce our distinguished speaker, hoe sane mousavian, former policy adviser to the secretary of iran's supreme national security council, visiting research scholar at the woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs at princeton university and author of the iranian nuclear crisis, a memoir. ambassador mousavian's book is the first detailed account from an iranian perspective of events between iran and the west since 2002 when iran's secret nuclear activities came to light. from reading his book, it is clear that ambassador mousavian is a defender of iran's nuclear program. ambassador mousavian was a prominent iranian official and diplomat, some of his government positions included serving as board to germany -- ambassador to germany in the '90s as well as spokesperson for the iranian nuclear negotiating team from 2003 to 2005. he also was arrested by t

joe sir ins i don't know from the -- cirincione from the plowshares fund at the top of the next hour. tuesday regular tuesday visit from think progress and again, if you want to stay informed and up to date on all of the latest issues of the day no better site than -- noer is better source than thinkprogress.org. mitt romney, we don't have to worry about universal healthcare. we don't have to worry about obama care because mitt romney says we already take care of people who are uninsured right? if you don't have health insurance and you have a medical problem, easy answer. >> go to the e.r. apparently that's his latest answer. >> bill: didn't to the emergency room. who pays for it? right? >> this was what was kind of shocking about this answer, he's addressed this in the past and this was part of the whole rationale that he had for romney care which was look, people are going to the e.r. it's very expensive. you're having people who are free loading off of the system because they're not paying into it and they're getting emergency care. let's get everyone insured and have personal res