one of the issues that would be reviewed by public affairs -- is this an appropriate publication or television opportunity for this particular officer? like i said, these are judgment calls. we make them everyday. we already make them. so, i do not see much change in that respect? -- in that respect. >> would you have tried to shut that down? >> that is easy in hindsight. there was no advance knowledge of that interview at all. >> general mcchrystal was disrespecting his civilian leadership -- should not the civilian leadership have known about that? >> i do not know the exact circumstances. i do not know what was going on in his headquarters. i do not know what is going on in paris. as far as i am concerned, at this point, let me be very clear, general mcchrystal never, ever said one thing, or in any way, shape, or form, conveyed to me any disrespect for civilian authority over the military. never. i have never had an officer do that since i have been in this building in three and a half years. so, i think that this business of questioning of civilian authority, as far as i am concerned, it h

those are areas where i certainly depend on the advice of people will have been in the public affairs business and know these different publications and i think frankly this is a world that has got more complicated with a lot more free-lance journalist, a lot moreblogs and a lot more of everything. people who have full-time day jobs doing something else are not going to be familiar with many of these entities. i think one of the issues that would be reviewed by public affairs is -- is this a public publication or television interview opportunity for this particular officer? these are judgment calls. we make them every day. we already make them. i don't see much change in that respect. >> would you have tried to have shot that one down? >> i think that is pretty easy in hindsight at this point. there was no advanced knowledge of that interview at all. publicldn't the and the civilian leadership have known about generalmcchrystal? >> i don't know the exact circumstances and what was going on in headquarters and i don't know what was going on in paris. frankly, as far as i am concerned a

affairs of the world jewish congress and a foreign policy fellow at the jerusalem center for public affairs and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger all right gentlemen both of you have been on the program before you so you know how it works you can jump right in that's crosstalk rules it robert fisk if i can go to you first ok we've seen a public mending offenses with netanyahu and obama not a long time back and the process michel's in the middle east doing as little shuttle can the united states of this be quite blunt can unite states be a fair broker in finding some kind of solution because it seems to have gone on forever. no i don't think you can the last time that america really complained about israel seriously was when eisenhower ordered the israelis along with the british and the french to get out of so is in one hundred fifty six ever

. >> commissioners, director of policy and public affairs from the department. i'm going to take you through our outreach policy by division. the idea here is to introduce what we're currently doing and get some feedback from you and from the public so that we can continue to refine this process and ultimately come back to you in september with an actual outreach policy to adopt. this is our first stop in what will be a long and son road show, including visits to parks trust, prozac, and other of our partners. as we move through this. quickly, the different types of things that we do that require public outrage generally fall into four categories. our planning a capital of which, of which were permits and special events, out reach a long rfp's, rfq's and leases. most of which is discussed through our budget process, but there are other times we do talk about budget policy with the public. our current tools, if you will, that are available for out of reach. our partner organizations, there e-mail list, our own e- mail list, supervisors, and their office of neighbo

public affairs. and so this is as much about our being better coordinated and our making sure of what the -- what the parameters of an interview are so that people that are being interviewed, if you will, stay within their lane and are not speaking out about issues that they don't know everything about or where they may not be informed at all. so this is more about our being more intelligent and thoughtful about how we respond to requests for interviews and to try and make sure that the information you're getting is accurate, as well as making sure that our people aren't speaking out about issues where they may be treading on sensitive ground and not even know it. barbara. >> i wanted to ask both of you about the nomination of general mattis. i'm sure both of you recall that back in 2005, not on background but in front of television cameras in southern california, general mattis said, quote, "actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. you know, it's a hell of a hoot. i like brawling. you go into afghanist

public affairs. so this is as much about our being better coordinated and our making sure what the parameters of an interview are so that people that are being interviewed, if you will, stay within their lane. and are not speaking out about issues that they do not know everything about or way they may not be informed at all. this is about our being more intelligent and thoughtful about how we respond to requests for interviews and to try and make sure that the information it you are getting is accurate, as well as a means of people are not speaking out about issues where they may be treading on such a bsensitive ground and not even know it. >> i want to talk about the nomination of general madis. back in 2005, in front of televisions, he said it actually a lot of fun to fight. i like brawling. given the fact that you said you are nominating him due to his judgment and influence of, and this was said in 2005, and he was reprimanded in writing. nonetheless he is going to in extraordinarily sensitive pa

public affairs. and so this is as much about our being better coordinated and our making sure of what the parameters of an interview are so that people that are being interviewed, if you will, stay within their lane and are not speaking out about issues that they don't know everything about or where they may not be informed at all. so this is more about our being more intelligent and thoughtful about how we respond to requests for interviews and to try and make sure that the information you're getting is accurate, as well as making sure that our people aren't speaking out about issues where they may be treading on sensitive ground and not even know it. barbara. >> i wanted to ask both of you about the nomination of general mattis. i'm sure both of you recall that back in 2005, not on background but in front of television cameras in southern california, general mattis said, quote, "actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. you know, it's a hell of a hoot. i like brawling. you go into afghanistan, you got

our director of cultural affairs and there is a significant public art component of this. luis cancell is here. some of the funding was made possible through the county transportation authority and i want to thank jose luis most co-very much and their directaz. >> a few different organizations, s

mary curry, the leader of public affairs. let me take a moment to introduce the administrator of the federal highway administration. we are simply delighted that he has been able to take time from his busy schedule, which he spent reshaping the way we think about transportation, to come to san francisco to be here with us. when he leaves today, he will take with him this memento. it is a little

. >> our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and on line. you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube, and signed up for our scheduled alert e-mails at at c-span.org. >> now, different perspectives on reviving the economy in the weekly addresses. president obama discusses the financial regulations legislation he signed this week as one of his initiatives, and criticizes the economic plan of the house gop leader. then, the house republican conference chairman calls on congress to extend the bush administration tax cuts that expire at the end of the year. >> this week, i signed into law a wall street reform bill that will protect consumers and our entire economy from the recklessness and irresponsibility that led to the worst recession of our lifetime. it's reform that will help put a stop to the abusive practices of mortgage lenders and credit card companies. it will end taxpayer bailouts of wall street firms. and it will finally bring the shadowy deals that caused the financial crisis into the light of day. wall street ref

. >> cspan is now available in over 100 million homes giving you a direct led to public affairs all as the public service created by america's cable companies. >> at the white house yesterday, president, talk about exports and progress on his campaign pledge to double exports. we will hear from commerce secretary barry locke and this is about 25 minutes. --gary locke. [applause] >> we talked about how we can strengthen the impact of president obama's export initiative. after a decade in which america's economy relied too much on an increasingly hard- pressed american consumer for growth, president obama understand we need to get back to the basics. he believes we must reinvest in innovation and do a better job of connecting u.s. companies to the 95% of the world's consumers who live outside the borders of the united states. that is where the national export initiative comes in. this is an unprecedented and government-wide effort to be double american exports by 2015. it was designed with one overriding goal in mind. it is to put americans back to work in jobs that provide security, dig

our director of cultural affairs and there is a significant public art component of this. luis cancell is here. some of the funding was made possible through the county transportation authority and i want to thank jose luis most co-very much and their directaz. >> a few different organizations, spur, the bicycle coalition and people for public spaces come together and formed the great streets project. and they did what the mayor did and imported talent from chicago and led that. i want to bring up the leader of the great streets program now. >> thank you. what a beautiful day. the great streets projects facilitates this and we this is a great place. the street is a wonderful wide place to be. you want to bring your friends and family repeatedly. congratulations to the many agencies who have participated in making this possible. many community members and businesses participated along the way and it couldn't have happened without everyone rolling up their she was and coming together to make this possible. congratulations to everyone. i also want to point out this is a harbi

. >> commissioners, director of policy and public affairs from the department. i'm going to take you through our outreach policy by division. the idea here is to introduce what we're currently doing and get some feedback from you and from the public so that we can continue

mary curry, the leader of public affairs. let me take a moment to introduce the administrator of the federal highway administration. we are simply delighted that he has been able to take time from his busy schedule, which he spent reshaping the way we think about transportation, to come to san francisco to be here with us. when he leaves today, he will take with him this memento. it is a little shovel. we are giving you a paper shovel made right here in san francisco that has embedded in it native plant from the presidio. take them to your house, put them in a pot and you will have a piece of the presidio park with forever. it may even bloom. plastic? no, it is recycled american paper. american trees. there you have it, the ultimate sustainable gift. victor mendez is an extremely good choice as the highway administrator. he has been on the job exactly one year and three days. victor was here in october to help us kickoff the project. he oversees almost 3000 employees at the highway administration. it is no stranger to oversee

prior to heading up this agency commissioner loyd served as executive vice president for public affairs at colombia university and was in the administration for ten years and commissioner for sanitation under mayor, jenkins and was ma developer at port an authority and commissioner for traffic and parking for the city of boston. emily, thank you so much. we are so glad to have your energy, your smarts to lead us to this tough topic this morning. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, susan. well, as the only - at least self identifying water system manager from the east coast, i had originally planned briefly present some highlights of our climate change experience in new york city but after listening yesterday i thought i could spare you anguish and tell you a brief new york story in a brief new york minute. i live in brooklyn and a little backyard in the back and stone walk in the front. years back my son was in the front and we left our backyard and there was a huge august moon rising and we up the block and out into a neighbors backyard when there was a party and when my son got to the

c-span is now available in over 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs, politics, history, and nonfiction books as a public service created bb america's cable companies. >> c-span -- our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online. you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube. sign up for schedule alert e- mails at c-span.org. >> and now a panel of former governors on how they became interested in politics and how to interest others on the political process. you'll hear from republican bob taft of ohio and madeleine kunin of vermont. >> good evening. we're honored have the four governors here. it is an honor both for the university of illinois and for all of us here in the room. we're looking for to your remarks tonight. each of the speakers will speak for five or 10 minutes. after which, we will give them a chance to ask each other questions and interact, and then we will turn this over two questions from the audience as well. our first speaker is madeleine kunin, governor of vermont from 1985 to 1991. she won the eleano

affairs for cbs outdoor, a leading global media company and is responsible for government and public affairs from california to texas for that company. he is also a member of the california international relations foundation. he provides assistance to the california state senate in furthering economic, environment, educational and cultural exchanges with foreign governments and citizens. president brooks also served as director of administrative services for the city of san francisco where he was responsible for policy and planning for 14 city departments, managing over 300 employees, and a budget of $100 million. please join me in welcoming president brooks. . >> thank you, susan leyall, and good morning, welcome here. before i start i want to thank our general manager leyall who has done an extraordinary job here at the san francisco puc and also i want to recognize two people that just walked in, our vice president commissioner ann (inaudible) and commissioner dennis nolan that just arrived. thank you very much. i want to echo what miss leyall said, welcome everyone to this historic summi

is important to note that the outreach is really conducted by division but run through the public affairs office, which at this point is elton, who is over there, and myself, who has other tasks as well, so we need to amplify our efforts, and that is why our partner organizations are so important in this. quickly going to go through, as i said, out reached by division. the planning a capital division probably has our most refined outreach process, and part of that is because some of it is actually in the code for what is required for average, like the planning department, and dpw who do similar capital projects. obviously, this does not apply to every situation. there are exceptions to every rule, but essentially what happens is the project manager will host a conceptual design meeting. anywhere from three to six, depending on the complexity, the number of users, the issues, the neighborhood, and in order to host those, we actually send out a mailing, as we are required to do by code, to not only property owners but also residents, so ranchers and property owners within 500 feet of the pr

>> c-span -- our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online. you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube. sign up for our schedule alerts e-mails @ c-span -- at c- span.org. . >> later, members asked the prime minister questions on the strategy in afghanistan and on a lot for reform. >> order, questions for the prime minister. >> this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. in addition to my duties in the house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> is the reason that the prime minister wants to put fewer criminals in jail to do with cutting crime or cutting budgets? >> what the government want to do is clear up the complete mess of the criminal justice system left by the labor party. each prison place today costs £45,000, yet 40% of prisoners are back in prison within a year, more than half of them are on drugs, and around 10% of them are foreign national prisoners, who should not be here in the first place. >> the american waste giant, covanta, is proposing to build in my constituency an

affairs of the world jewish congress and a foreign policy fellow at the jerusalem center for public affairs and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger are a gentleman both of you have been on the program before you so you know how it works you can jump right in that's cross talk rules it robert fisk if i can go to you first ok we've seen a public mending offenses with netanyahu and obama not long time back and the process michel's in the middle east doing as little shuttle can the united states will this be quite blunt can united states be a fair broker in finding some kind of solution because it seems to have gone on forever. no i don't think you can the last time that america really complained about israel seriously was when eisenhower ordered the israelis along with the british and the french to get out of so is in one hundred fifty six ever since then the americans basically go along with israeli policy in fact if you listen to department of state spokesman and you listen to israeli spokesman and you mix it all up you can't tell who is which at the end of the day i don

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c-span is now available in over 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs and history, created by american cable companies. former wwite house homeland townsend. she talks about cyber security and efforts to engage the public to help counter terrorist threats. she spoke at a recent security conference in colorado. this is about an hour. >> [inaudible] except that she has been an inspiratton to this conference. she was president bush's white house homelanddsecurity adviser. commandants for intelligence. admiral mullen -- it struck me that twice he kept talking about synergies between terrorist groups. how does that affect your thinking on homeland security? >> let's start with remember they christmas day attempt. my successor came out and explained that the connection to al qaeda was somewhat surprising to them. this was a regional group that had targeted inside the homeland. then we had a christmas day and the attempt in times square. the administration explained the ttp had been surprised if it had expanded to directly make an attempt on the homeland. when the admiral

. >> c-span, our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online. you can also connect with us on facebook and twitter. sign up for our schedule alerts e-mails at c-span.org. >> we are covering the first of two debates over the weekend between republican incumbent john mccain and gop challenger j.d. a word. here is the latest bad. >> -- the latest advertisement. >> his response was, yes, i appeared in is this. buyer beware. buyer beware. pork barrel spender, lobbyist, up voter beware. >> i am john mccain and i approve this message. >> tired of john mccain's negative ads? so am i.. john mccain is hiding his record behind a false tax on my husband. he has sold out the people of arizona on immigration, tax increases. now a has embraced character assassination to keep his job. he should be ashamed. he is a principled conservative. >> joining us from the newsroom is political reporter. we just showed those latest ads. do you suspect that what we saw in those at the be part of the debate tonight? >> absolutely. we are going to seat to future issues come u

c-span is now available in over 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs, politics, history, and education, created by america's cable companies. up next, homeland security and how prepared we are if there is another terrorist attack. this is one hour and a half. >> welcome to the next session. as you can see, the title is "how prepared are we for the next 9/11? " we have a member of the 911 commission that p investigated the attack, and a member of the private sector. to moderate the session, we have an admiral who is the president and chief executive officer of the navy relief society, a non- profit society dedicated to helping navy service members and their families. he served as deputy homeland security adviser under thomas ridge. admiral. >> good afternoon. i am very grateful for this opportunity to be able to lead discussion with this panel on terrorism prepared as. -- preparedness. i am going to start by posing a question to our panelists after a provide you some counterpoints on what is generally known as pbrne threats: chemical biological, radiological, nuc

c-span is now available in over 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs, politicshistory, and non- fiction books. it is all the public service, created by america's cable companies. host: joining us from boston, mass., is dan mccue, the research analyst with the joint center for housing studies at harvard. he is here to talk to was about the housing market and jobs. guest: good morning. host: tell us about this report is in that job growth will be a key factor in whether the real estate market can extend a recovery afttr the end of the federal home buyer tax credit. guest: first, let me tell you about the report. it is basically with the joint center here does every year to assemble, analyzed, and explain as much data as possible about housing over the past year. this year we -- it was hard to get away from the relationship between housing and the economy. part of our analyses we did for the report look into when housing turns around and what could signal it. one of it was the relationship with jobs. there is all lot of talk about employment being a lagging indicat

. >> cspan is now available and over 100 million homes bringing you a directly to public affairs, politics, history, and nonfiction books as a public service created by america's cable companies. >> this week on "q&a," clark hoyt, a former public editor of "the new york times. he has finished three years as representatives and has watched all of the rippers -- watched all of the practices at the time. can you remember the moment of you becoming the ombudsman of the "new york times" came to you? >> it came to me in a phone call. i was on my way to being a professor for a semester at davidson college in north carolina. i got a phone call from an editor asking me if i might be interested -- if someone were to call me and asked me if i were interested in being the public editor or ombudsman, how would i respond. i said, i would be interested in talking about that. >> why would you be interested at that time? >> well, being an ombudsman is a difficult but intriguing job. it was before i had run. "the new york times" is kind of the pinnacle of the newspaper profession, i believe. i thought it wa

handle the national media scene here to discuss it with me is peter loach principal at milan public affairs and christopher chambers professor at university of georgia university and author of the blog not turner's invention of and thanks for being here what happened to the obama administration how did they lose all of their steam well i'll go first to me. alone and you probably got a kick me with your three inch heels because you've heard this before but i take it back to the personality of this president he was born without a constituency he was born without people karl rove was george bush's people can o'donnell who worked for john of kid he was john f. kennedy's people he grew up with these people he you know because of this upbringing he became a technocrat he became somebody who is more oriented with the details and not with bold kind of leadership with consensus he was no drama obama he was born that way as a child and you're seeing that now and with the departure of somebody like david plouffe you all we have these kind of technocrats in charge that don't see the big picture but he

he hosts a nightly newscast as well as a son the public affairs program. he is also where the author of two books, including an immigrant manifesto. >> jorge ramos, in your book, to lead off with the prologue that says that you do not feel at home, never. anywhere. >> when they ask me where i live, i say that i am mostly on the earth do we a newscast or i am traveling all around the world. my family lives in mexico city. i have very good friends all over the united states. my daughter is in paris. another daughter is in los angeles. i do not have a home. maybe my home, my only home, was where i was born in mexico city, and it is the house that i lived in for almost 20 years, and i can remember the address and phone number, and that is the only time in my life when i have felt at home, and now, in the united states, this country has given me opportunities that my country could not give me, but, still, i have the sense of i am an immigrant, and i feel like an immigrant 27 years after getting to the united states. i still feel like i am an immigrant. there is

. >> our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online and you can connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube and sign up for our schedule alerts e-mails @ c- span.org. >> kenneth feinberg, the treasury department's special master for compensation talked about his report released last week and paying more than 400 companies that received bailout funds from the federal government. he also addressed his role as the responsible person for the $20 billion bp oil spill payout fund. >> kenneth feinberg will testify before congress this morning. he is one of the preeminent lawyers in the united states. in 2004, he was named as lawyer of the year and is known very well for being involved in many tricky situations dealing with complicated mass disasters including the 9/11 settlement fund. he was the pay czar. he was appointed to look at the pay practices of the bail out financial firms and was subsequently named to the head of the bp oil spill trust fund. trouble seems to have a way of finding ken feinberg or he has a way of finding trouble which is something we ad

over 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs, politics, history and nonfiction books. all as a non -- as a public service. . . >> there was a senator that died in 1976, 64 years old. he was labeled the conscience of the senate. i preface this because you did a story recently about the democratic club in michigan. what is it about? >> it is one of the most unusual of all of the political action committees. we try to take a close look at the way political action committees were spending their money and this came on the radar screen. they were one of the big gainers. they increase their revenues eight fold between 2007 and 2009 and they are now one of the most profitable or lucrative political action committees around. i am trying to take a look at how they spend their money like all the political action committees that we are looking at this year. they are spending theirs on been go games. -- bingo games. it is quite bizarre. >> why? >> i cannot say that i ever figured out exactly what is behind it because all of the key principles refused to talk to us about it a

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