rolfe's seat on the cac, and i do so with humility. so much of this is predicated on a witch and a prayer, and i think without any funding identified, with the budget for high-speed rail but i think everyone in this room supports doubling over time, we are seeing a lot of wishful thinking here, and it requires looking at why high-spe budget double ol amount of time. have the implants gone up that much? i think there are some legitimate concerns on how this is being managed, and it seems to be consulted-full employment ad. talking about extensions downtown for the past 15 years with little progress, talking about electrification of caltrain down at the peninsula with little progress, it is important to get to the point where we can put some of the building blocks in place of public confidence to make this happen instead of just going around in circles. will this happen in our lifetimes? not at the rate we're going. i did not seem like that is the goal here. when you are looking at the culture of corruption we have seen in government of

and willie rolf. >> if you're more of a visual learner, here are the names again. six men will have their day in canton later this summer. chris doleman played with the 49ers in the late '90s. >>> who could possibly have it better than us? >> nobody. >> jim harbaugh was named the nfl coach of the year. he received 45 out of a votes. harbaugh becomes the first 49er to win the award since bill walsh. >> reporter: ron gran cowski's sprained ankle has had so much spotlight, even madonna has commented about it. but he is not getting any sympathy from his teammates. >> yo, sorry, fiesta. >> they're wrong. >> fiesta. >> that is my best rob grankowski impersonation. >> oh, man. [ laughter ] >> with less than 24 hours till kickoff of super bowl 46, everyone is making their predictions. that is everyone, except for 49ers former head coach mike singletary. >> people are saying that it is a pretty even matchup. and so it should be a very exciting game. >> maybe. but it is nothing compared to the excitement and satisfaction of the signature steak burger from steak and shake. >>

embattled euro as a guide to their vote in a possible future referendum some put it simply mike economist rolf england who campaigned against the euro back in two thousand and three i think the euro will collapse before sweden will join the whereas around eighty percent of swedes say they're glad they're not in the euro the figure is reversed for their politicians most europhiles argue this crisis isn't the euro's fault it's about debt if you compare sweden which has been outside of the euro for just over ten years and fiddler which has been a member of the for the same period we have wall most identical we can all be developments both politicians and people here seem to think that there will be another referendum on joining the euro sooner or later but what their choice will be assuming there's still a euro left choose is anyone's guess. this is a swedish kronor coin it's become a symbol of that momentous no vote of swedish prosperity versus the chaos of the euro but sweden can't ignore that its economic and political fate is tied inextricably to europe and also predicting the future of the k

. >> let me ask you a message from the book "a single rolf the dice, obama's diplomacy with iran." first of all, dwoe have diplomacy with the iranian government in their eyes? >> i don't think there is, and the type of ongoing diplomatic trust that is needed to solve this issue, and the iranians have not been helpful either, and the title of the book is from a quote of a senior barack obama official who said that diplomacy had to work right away or not at all, and rarely does diplomacy work in that type of instantaneous fashion. for diplomacy to work, we need a lot of patience and political capital invested in it. and eb though i believe that the administration has been not sufficient and serious. >> we are talking to the president of the national iranian/american council, and we heard earlier in the month from defense secretary leon panetta that he felt that there could be an attack by the israeli military aimed at iran later in the spring. he tried to walk back in some of that in the testimony of capioll hi hill, and how real do you believe that the prediction is? >> well, there

european banks and associated reductions in confidence and the avail ability of credit in the euro area rolfing these problems will require action on the part of the european authorities." my first question is, do you believe that loans to european countries today carry a greater risk than they did two or three years ago? >> when you say to countries, do you mean to the governments? >> yes. >> surely they do, and you can see it in the interest rates that they have to pay. >> and would you, please, explain what the exposure of the united states, the american taxpayer, is to that -- that credit challenge that they have? >> well, in the official sector, the united states is a 15% shareholder of the imf. the imf is involved in programs for the three small countries that, greece, portugal and ireland. the imf does have a very good record of being paid back. they have a senior position in the -- in the debt of the, of those countries, and they are very much engaged in making sure that those countries are taking appropriate policies. the -- as i've explained in previous venues, the federal reserve has

i'm darren rolf. the numbers have just come in for tv viewership at super bowl xlvi.g, nbc confirming that super bowl xlvi is the most watched television show in u.s. history, with 111.3 million viewers. fen, that is roughly a third -- a little bit more than a third of the country, topping last year's super bowl, which had 111 million viewers. it was also the most watched halftime show ever with madonna, which makes sense it is 14% higher rating than the last giants/patriots super bowl in 2008. and it is actually now, just in terms of rating, remember, a lot more people in this country now, it is the sixth highest rated super bowl. only in the -- the only nonsports highest rated snows the top five is the "m.a.s.h." finally. now, sharon epperson at the my next. >>> a lot of giddy trade openers the floor after the giants win yesterday but focus on what is going on in greece and that is what has impacted gold prices today. saw gold prices tacking very well what the euro has done and in light of the fact that there's a great deal of concern still about a possible greek de

a revival crusade in which the gospel is the old time rolf the free market. it's an era of grassroots rebellion and the incredible recovery of the conservative political movement from the gloomy depths of defeat. and let's confess there is indeed something miraculous, something astonishing, about this recovery. considering the barest facts. this is the fourth successful conservative uprising to happen in my lifetime. each one of them all apuff with pop "mary pop populist bluster e one helping to compose the a historical chapter? what i used to call the great bashlash, others call the age of reagan or the age of greed or the conservative ascendancy or the washington consensus. think about it this way. it's now been 32 years since the supply side revolution conquered this city, since the free market faith became the dogma of the nation's ruling class, shared by large numbers of democrats as well as'mans, and since then we have lived through decades of deregulation and deunionizeation and privatization, and free trade agreements of every kind. the free market id

rolfe -- mr. murphy from pennsylvania for another five minutes. >> thank you. the memo states that is critical to evaluate itself. to that end, let me ask for your candid response. why was this not done until now? >> why was some of this not done until now in terms of evaluating itself? was there anything that stood in the way of delaying this kind of self evaluation? >> thank you. no, sir. as i indicated earlier we have had several reviews. this is the most extensive one we of asked for, but we have had several reviews over the course of the program since i became undersecretary. >> who set the goals for each year? >> i am sorry, sir? >> who is responsible for setting the goals? >> the program director provides the goal. they go up the chain of command to the secretary an undersecretary and then to me. >> is that public information in terms of the goals and objectives? >> i want to check. >> how you measure the goals and objectives? is there some internal measure? >> let me ask david wolf to answer that. >> there are established performance metrics that we pre

. >> if they don't have the judgment of it's not criminal intent but wrong doing, that's the rolf theere the figures can become rapidly affected against bp. so this is potentially good news if you're a bp shareholder. >> we'll see, we'll see. what the cost veal for this spill is still to be determined but this litigation is certainly key. >> meanwhile earlier on squawk box, becky joins us on her one-on-one with barren buffett. everything from success to the housing, to the market, to housing to taxes. he covered it all. >> i think it's the tax debate that caught a lot of my attention this morning and caught a lot of the viewers' attention. that's what we heard become from a lot of the e-mails. buffett has been front and center in the middle of the debate over taxes and where things should be headed now. he has come up with the opinion that people who are very, very wealthy like him should be paying more in taxes. that's been a fairly controversial call. a lot of pushback from it. last week nooj governor chris christie said he's sick of hearing about all of this. heap said if he thinks

plutocracy is where the rich rolfe. fascism is where they collaborate with the government to rule.tocracy is where the ric-- plutocracy is where the rich rule. i want to say that until we can get the paris sites of the financial institutions, and the parasites of the politics that is supposed to represent the people out of our government, i do not see the government getting better. guest: i agree with some of what you say, but i want to be very clear that i disagree when you were talking about fascism. that is almost the equivalent of some of the right-wingers. that system, socialism -- those are clearly defined things. -- fascism, socialism, those are clearly defined as things. fascism is not simply corporate influence. it was a brutal regime in the early middle part of the 20th century where democracy was shut down and people were be done. when you talk about hitler, we do not have anything like that. i do not like with the " brothers hat the coeke brothers do, but it is nowhere close to fascism. there was always the danger of people envisioning a golden age that never was. you t

i in don't know if you are believe me or rolf nader -- i hope neither. i am not up here to condemn ralph nader. i think most of the people who talk about the terrible things he did cannot carry his briefcase. hover, that election could hardly have come out worse. nothing was built. no, i am not blaming ralph nader, per se as a third-party candidate. nothing was builds had bush got elected. you might want to go out into the street and see how people interpret that. >> we do not have much time left and this is not really helping anyone. >> can i give an example? i come from the post fice. i was a letter carrier with the postal service. he know, the postal service is facing very serious problems right now. the democrats and republicans are teaming up to destroy the postal service. they are saying they want to eliminate 200,000 jobs and close nearly 4000 post offices. they want to eliminate saturday delivery and eliminate door to door delivery. president obama two days ago reiterated for the second time that he wants to eliminate saturday delivery. what happ