sam will interview the chairman. i would ask the two of them to come forward now and after the interview we will have questions from the audience. sam and chairman bernanke? [applause] >> hello? chairman bernanke, i am delighted that you would do this. by the way, what do you think of the great wall of china? >> can see it from the plane when you come down from beijing. very impressive. >> that matches mr. nixon's statement. let's get to substantive matters. we seem to be in a recovery from the great recession we have gone through, fragile but it may be. hull convinced are you that that recovery will continue at a reasonable pace? do you see troubling signs we may indeed slip back into a double dip recession? >> we have gone through a number of stages. we have a tremendous contraction, a deep contraction, after the financial crisis intensified in 2008 and early 2009. the stabilized in the middle of last. last the natural business cycle process began to read -- on wide itself heading toward recovery. the recovery prob

and sam fleming to you first, how closely is the british public following this story of the spill? and what are they saying about it? >> well, i think for the past few weeks the british public have been watching this disaster with horror and have largely seen this as an environmental disaster in the united states. it has not really-- been seen as a story which has huge direct ramifications for the u.k., however, despite the involvement of b.p.. however i think that situation has changed somewhat in the past few days. now people are really honing in, zoning in on the fact that this is a u.k. company involved in a major catastrophe in the u.s. and they are becoming more acutely aware that there are ramifications both in the u.s. and also in the u.k. because it is a company which has iconic status in the u.k., and is also a company which has huge corporate clout and also economic impact for the u.k.. >> woodruff: well, expand on that. corporate clout, iconic status, help us understand how important b.p. is there. >> well, b.p. has a very long history in the u.k. going back many decade

but i thought sam donaldson did a great job, too. didn't you? sam, we appreciate that. hope you have a wonderful evening. he has been our pleasure to have you here. godspeed to all of you in a safe trip home. >> in a few moments, admiral thad allen brief reporters on the gulf of mexico oil spill. no less than an hour, president obama comments on the claims process for those affected by this bill. after that, campaign for america future looks at the roles of progressives in this year's elections. and later, a former teacher on the middle east peace process. on washington journal tomorrow morning, we will look at tuesday's primary races in 10 states with bob benenson. nicholas lardy with the peterson institute for international economics examines china's economy and its effect on the u.s.. and more about the supreme court nomination of the land taken from associated press reporter julie hirschfeld davis. "washington journal" is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow morning. the senate judiciary committee holds a

. >> i appreciate -- is sam here today? sam is a great guy. but you ng, sam could pick up the phone and call, let me check with that. sam does not have the card is on that -- sam does not have the authority that thad allen says that he does. it sds up the chain of authority and never gets an answer back. i think a lot of the bp people on the ground do not have the experience or rely on contractors that to me are more interested in putting bodies out there to make money than they are cleaning up the oil. >> from the bp and coast guard standpoint, whoever is local, state wide not only needs to be named but have authority and deciion making power so that they can make some calls so that you do not have to go to that person and they have to wait for coast guard and bp. there needs to be more of a controlled decision making process created here to get things moving faster. >> last saturday, we said this is alan is to be done, pull every shipn the war will -- in the world with a separate group, we need vacuum trucks along the edge, skimmers on the o

everyone who walks in by the time those $44,000 indebted children start fifth grade, they willow uncle sam $88,000. that's the number, mr. speaker. and we should be worried about a country that can't pass a budget that for the first time there have been budget requirements put into the rules here in the congress itself since 1974 when it began, this congress doesn't have the will or conviction to pass the budget because it is so abysmal, because the overspending is so atrocious, because the spending they are conducting colt be defended and vote against the amendments. now, there is a legitimate debate going on in this congress and there is a legitimate debate going on. we aren't going to have a budget. this congress doesn't want to take responsibility. we will see them pack acknowledge a continuing resolution and pays off the political favoriiism in order to go into november and go on the other side and kick the can on the road and we will be here afflecks day in november and this congress will, by order of the speaker bring a huge omnibus pppeng bill to the floor. 3,600 pages, several00 b

. >> i appreciate -- is sam here today? sam is a great guy. but you sing, sam could pick up the phone and call, let me check with that. sam does not have the card is on that -- sam does not have the authority that thad allen says that he does. it sends up the chain of authority and never gets an answer back. i think a lot of the bp people on the ground do not have the experience or rely on contractors that to me are more interested in putting bodies out there to make money than they are cleaning up the oil. >> from the bp and coast guard standpoint, whoever is local, state wide not only needs to be named but have authority and decision making power so that they can make some calls so that you do not have to go to that person and they have to wait for coast guard and bp. there needs to be more of a controlled decision making process created here to get things moving faster. >> last saturday, we said this is alan is to be done, pull every ship in the war will -- in the world with a separate group, we need vacuum trucks along the edge, skimmers o

. >> lehrer: and fred de sam lazaro has a pre-world cup report about post apartheid south africa. >> it's brought all race s all nations in south africa together. more than anything else. the spirit is different all together. this we never experienced before. >> woodruff: plus, ray suarez debriefs fred about what the matches mean for south africa's economy and its sense of pride. >> lehrer: jeffrey brown talks with journalist sebastian junger about his new book, the story of a platoon of u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. >> one guy said to me, you know, some guys hate each other in this platoon but we'd all die for each other. the security of that relationship with other human beings is so tremendous that the guys will willing to risk their lives in order to get it. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's tphaur. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this is the engine that connects zero emission technologies to breathing a little easier, while taking 4.6 million truckloads off the road every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett f

the single informant that meant the most was sam houston. it was pure chance that he encountered him. he was coming down the mississippi in a steamboat. the choctaw indians were being put ashore. the stallion came galloping up with a big guy on him. it was houston, not yet the hero of texas. he had been governor of tennessee. he quit in a marital scandal of some kind. he took a cherokee wife. he was on his way to washington to try to persuade jackson to modify indian removal policy. he thought this raffish character could not have been governor of a state. people of tennessee had sent to the congress an individual who could not read with ease and had no fixed address. he saw houston as a really interesting guy with a wealth of experience. houston gave him this idea -- the indian has been brought up from infancy to be totally self-reliant, to make every decision for himself, to be put in life-threatening tests which only he can surmount. he will never surrender an iota of that liberty to any authority, therefore he cannot assimilate, therefor

. >> ifill: fred de sam lazaro reports on a housing program in kenya, helping the very poor escape nairobi's slums. >> to houses like that, that are cheerful and airy with bathrooms. to me it was almost a sign of you just got to keep going. >> brown: and judy woodruff previews tomorrow's coast-to- coast primary contests with amy walter of "hotline" and dan balz of the "washington post." >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> will your savings be enough to fund your retirement? what will happen if your spouse outlives you by many years? what will happen if you outlive your savings? pacific life knows that tomorrow's questions require planning today. with financial solutions and strength, pacific life can help you and your financial professional develop a plan. pacific life-- the power to help you succeed. >> chevron. this is the power of human energy. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of t

sam donaldson's white is here. we are delighted to have you, jan.we have the president of siemen's usa. [applause] we have several ambassadors with us tonight. the ambassador from the republic of korea, would he stand please? over here. [applause] the ambassador from the embassy of sweden is with us. [applause] the ambassador from japan is here. [applause] the ambassador from mexico is here. delighted to have him. [applause] i think the brazilian ambassador arrived but i did not see him personally. [applause] and we have the charges d- affaires from south africa. [applause] i hope i have hit everybody i am supposed to. this is a wonderful evening. i want to thank joe gildenhard for my tenures at the center. i came to the wilson center planning to be here about four or five years and i have stayed 11 or 12. one of the principal reasons i have stayed is because i have had the honor to work with joe. i will tell you how loyal joe is. he is so loyal that he is here tonight when his grandson or grand daughter is graduating from high school. by golly, tha

uncle sam injecting itself into the american people. pot just into the american people but right down into a neighborhood friendly poker game and i had to analyze the lannuage. where does it stop? % what are the restraints on the legislation that would give the federal government to regulate every cried transaction in %- america. and i asked would you analyze the language, could the federal government if they chose to do so regulate the creeit transaction that is embodied in an i.o.u. thattcould be put in the pot in a poker game in a family poker game that might even be an i.o.u. for toothpicks? yes, the federal government injects thementsee into every credit transaction in america. we have the nationalization of 1/3 of the private sector sector in the form of three large investment banks, a.i.g. taken over, freddie mac and fannie mae and general motors and chrysler, that's eight. that's 1/3 of the private sector according to the arizona state university professor and add to that -- and i don't know what the overall percentage is and i don't want to speculate without some basis of kno

host: thank you, sam. guest: the caller refers to irs tax debts, which are not this chargeable in bankruptcy. that is an exception to the general rule we talked about, where you get a general discharge our obligations. individuals also have an obligation to correct information in the credit >> individuals of the right to -- individuals also have the right to correct information in the credit record that is inaccurate. the document should be communicated to the credit reporting agencies, who are obliged to correct the record based on the new information of the repaid debt. host: our guest is similar gerdano of the american bankruptcy institute. -- samuel gerdano of the american bankruptcy institute. milwaukee, republican line. caller: wonderful as c-span, wonderful guest. a lot of people are going bankrupt and is going to increase. we should put the fault of all personal debt and national debt -- default on all personal debt and national debt, and get back to technology, reverse engineering. a number of yea

but let's go to sam on our line but let's go to sam on our line for independents out of delaware. welcome. caller: thank you. i have a question. i'm thinking about the whole rolling stone, and i'm thinking about mcchrystal and how he speaks well. and i'm thinking about the upcoming troop pullout out of afghanistan. i'm thinking, is this possibly a political setup by mcchrystal for possible run for the presidency? and no matter how afghanistan turns out, it can always be spun as a negative for obama. so i would like your opinion on that. caller: well, suggesting mcchrystal for presidency, that's the first i've heard of it. usually per tace is the one usually per tace is the one peek think is going to make a run. i think right now neither is in the good position. if petraeus was, he is now going to fight a war. he is not going to be building a war chest, as they call political campaign bank accounts. he is going to do his job throughout at least a year, i would imagine. so that is not going to happen. and he said so flatly. he said so just yesterday, the latest with him, reuters had

she wrote a book called "uncle sam's plantation" which she described all that. and she's begun a great voice against this government largess, socialism, if you will, because she knows how it destroys families, it destroys communities, it destroys everything. and we are headed in a direction in this country where freedom is being taken away from the american people. the american people need to stand up and say no to the steam rolling socialism and yes to freedom. let's stop all this government spending. let's stop all this bigger government and government takeover and let's put us back on the course of the constitution with limited government. that's what the tea party movement is all about. mr. akin: i really appreciate you mentioning star parker. she is a lot of fun. she's cute and she is very articulate. and she has just an amazing story about how the government tried to trap her into all of this welfare stuff and all the behaviors that would destroy her life. she came out of it through the power of jesus christ, started her own business. now the government gi

then, sam webb, the u.s. communist party's national chairman addresses his group's annual convention. after that, a look at race relations in the united states with remarks from pbs news our correspondent race juarez -- ray suarez. sunday, agriculture secretary tom vilsack talks about real economic issues and foreign policy. he is interviewed by ellen ferguson of "congressional ferguson watch "news makers" tomorrow on c-span. >> everyone has an agenda. as long as you know what their agenda is, that is the story you can write about. >> of the pastor, brody mullins has written a series on lawmakers overseas trips funded by taxpayers. he is our guest sunday on "q&a". >> next, vatican analyst john allen discusses the future of the catholic church. he spoke about the papacy of benediction xvi, how the church is dealing with sexual abuse cases, and whether the church should involve itself in foreign affairs. from boston college this is one hour 20 minutes. >> good evening. john, thank you for that extraordinarily g

. >> i appreciate -- is sam here today? sam is a great guy. but you sing, sam could pick up the phone and call, let me check with that. sam does not have the card is on that -- sam does not have the authority that thad allen says that he does. it sends up the chain of authority and never gets an answer back. i think a lot of the bp people on the ground do not have the experience or rely on contractors that to me are more interested in putting bodies out there to make money than they are cleaning up the oil. >> from the bp and coast guard standpoint, whoever is local, state wide not only needs to be named but have authority and decision making power so that they can make some calls so that you do not have to go to that person and they have to wait for coast guard and bp. there needs to be more of a controlled decision making process created here to get things moving faster. >> last saturday, we said this is alan is to be done, pull every ship in the war will -- in the world with a separate group, we need vacuum trucks along the edge, skimmers o

attthem and their relationship, you know, it's like something out of lord of the rings where fro doe and sam begin to go at each other's throats because of the corruption of the ringg so did neil and bob. what's really instructive about their relationship too is that in the case of neil, he did the classic washington journey where he comes to congress as a staffer with a congressperson, but then over time, realizes oh, my god, i really need more money, i need to do better with my life, so he crosses to k street where he can make the really big bucks. he starts to work for jack abramoff. then even though he's not supposed to, he starts immediately lobbying his former boss, bob nay. and it's the use -- it's the corrupt use of those personal relationships that lobbyists excel at. and so it was very important to have in the midst of the story. in terms of how i got him to talk, i mean, i went to neil right after he had been sentenced and just said, look, let's go ouu and have a beer and let's talk off the record, let's just talk. and i told them about what i was trying to do. i said i was intere

meanwhile, entrepreneurs, big and small, continue to introduce new location-based products like this sam-sung smart phone with lair that provides what they call augmented reality, a look at that the world that is augmented by computer-generated images. >> you can see the kind of radar icon there. you have all these different people who are tweeting. >> reporter: such devices will intensify the debate over who should get access to the increasing amount of information available in the digit al world. >> lehrer: the major developments of the day, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal, was summoned to the white house tomorrow to explain his criticisms of administration officials in a magazine story. president obama said mcchrystal showed poor judgment but he would speak to him directly before deciding if he would fire him. and a federal judge in new orleans blocked a six month moratorium on deep water drilling projects. a white house spokesman said the decision would be appealed immediately. the newshour is always online, of course. hari sreenivasan in our news room pr

. >> safer: cameron's stars are sigourney weaver, sam worthington and zoe saldana.t in a sense, the real stars are the inhabitants of pandora-- ten-foot-tall blue people with tails. you gave them long tails. >> cameron: hell, yeah. >> safer: why? >> cameron: well, tails are cool. tails are very expressive. i mean, anybody that owns a dog or a cat knows that you can tell the cat's emotional state by what its tail's doing. >> safer: and this very tall tale is very expensive-- roughly $400 million-plus for production and promotion. here at a high-tech complex on the 20th century fox lot, on the very spot where marilyn monroe proclaimed that gentlemen prefer blondes, jim cameron works down to the wire, supervising the final tweaks to "avatar". >> cameron: we're going to have to push that smoke element back. >> safer: his fantasy creatures are based on performances by the real actors. cameras record dots on their faces. computers then analyze their expressions and bring the blue people to life... >> do not attack! >> safer: ... characters both otherworldly, yet strangely

they were not allowed to shoot those sam sites down. and when they got bilked they were shooting our planes down. that is one thing in vietnam. the other thing was, if people were in the village and the vc was shooting at us, we cannot she back to kill innocent people. that is going to hamper the whole thing. host: republican, kansasscity, missouri. caller: i think we should get out of afghanistan. we might have been doing the right thing at the very first trying to get obama -- but i think the heroine issue is something that we don't talk about enough. there may be money going to the taliban for the heroine, but we can take care of that problem in the united states by just making it worth nothing. that would take a lot of that money out. and i think our own government kinda fun of that money, too, because there is so much power when in this country right now, how could we actually be trying to stop it? host: this from "usa today," some numbers about the gulf oil spill. 67 days at has been spelling, up to 125 million gallons, according

the sacrifices that are made for all of us and our children and our children's children and of course sam johnson who i served with on the ways and means committee is truly a hearow -- hero and very few americans are living that have made the type of sacrifices he has made for his country. so, collectively on behalf of all of the veterans -- %% collectively and on behalf of all of the veterans who have served, particularly this war that they have called the forgotten war, we were sand witched between world war i and the vietnam war and so many people would ask when we came back home, prosecute, where were you? because they had no idea that america had been involved. but we had been involved and the 21 nations will have representatives here to thank america as we thank them for allowing this great country to be involved in what appeared to be a very unimportant crises but at the end of the day this country has risen to be one of our best trading partners, one of our best political partners and certainly has made an outstanding contribution to the entire world of free countries and free peo

are, they are the largest secondary mortgage companies in the united states which means today uncle sam, the federal government today, effectively owns well over half of all the private mortgages in the united states. consider that. over half of all the private homes in this country that have mortgages on them which are the overwhelming majority, those mortgages are owned not by a private bank anymore but by the federal government and if america goes in and purchases a mortgage today on a property and it is a great time to buy a home, nine times out of 10 you will getting-- begetting our mortgage from the federal government. this is completely what we were doing 18 months ago. act about the government had taken over control of the private student loan industry, so you don't get private loans from private banks. now you have to go to the federal government to get a student loan and the government takeover of health care. icons from-- calculated if you add all those purchases or takeovers together, you will come up with 51% of the private economy. that is stunning. that is nothing short o

i want to thank my colleague and dear friend, sam farr, who represents the neighboring kiss trict -- district to mine for introducing this important resolution of which i'm a proud co-sponsor. we are a water planet, mr. speaker. the oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface and contain 90% -- 97% of the planet's water. they regulate our climate. they regulate our weather. we depend onhem for the air we breathe, for protoon in our diet, for our -- protein in our diet and quality of life. yesterday the international community celebrated world oceans day. now more than ever it is time for us to pay tribute to our oceans and to their resources. two national commissions have found our oceans are under increasing pressure. they are showing signs of serious decline from oxygen deprived dead zones to depleted fish populations to contaminated beach waters. now we must add a massive oil spill to the list. this disastrous gulf oil spill is the worst environmental disaster in our nation's history. there is no doubt our addiction to oil jeopardizes the vibrant and economically important marine life

. >> in that sam vein, at the moment, the president has said he will veto the defense authorization bill if it includes a small amount of spending. you were talking about canceling -pthe f-35 and the -22. >> how rlistic is this? >> i voted for the alternative energy. that may be easier to do when you talk about competition. the answer is it is not easy. if it was easy you uld have slept in this morning. i am inhe middle of a conference ofinancial reform. i am trying to find extra time for it. we need to begin this discussion. i will repeat what i said before. if you leave unchallenged the asmptions that we need to do everything we have agreed t do in the military area, it is hard to win. that is why it is so iortann that we have people on this experienced tax force saying you are trying to do too much. the argument gets harder. all kinds of things are on the table. you asked if people talked about cutting social security in the3 we are out of ea things to cut. well, not entirely. the proposal that we should ve $147 million to brazilian coon farmers to offset the 27 subsidiary that we giv

. >> sam and enthen we should go to this meeting. >> just a quick question. can you discuss the benefits in the shortcomings going forward of requiring oil companies to drill relief wells simultaneously to the production of pill. would that have helped in the current situation, had b.p. actually had that up on line before the spill took place? >> i have not had that discussion. i think that would be a legitimate point to be raised and put in front of the commission as they do their work. >> that would fall under i think sam, the reg tear framework that the commission will evaluate in order to determine the best way to operate this in a fail safe atmosphere moving forward. >> thanks. >> president obama says his administration is focusing on including the claims process for those affected by the oil spill. he spoke briefly with reporters after a cabinet meeting. >> we wanted to make sure there was clarity about the coming months. we have reports from the scientists that the top cap mechanism is beginning to capture some of the oil. we're still trying to get a b

it would fall over, i think, sam, the regulatory framework the commission will evaluate in order to determine the best way to operate this in a fail-safe atmosphere going forward. thanks, guys. . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tonight on c-span 2. >> progress in its army in today in washington to look at the political climate and midterm elections. live coverage starts shortly. we were supposed to get underway at 11:00 and we will have that live when it starts. president obama makes his first high-school graduation speech in southwest michigan designee. he will speak to kalamazoo central high school students. hundreds of people have tickets but it is not public. we will have live coverage here on cspan starting at 7:00 eastern. the campaign for america's future and discussion is set to get under way in a few minutes. we will look at this morning's headlines. hington journal" in the last 30 days, give others a chance to have their voices heard. here is the story -- "mo thomas balad." lanny davis, former specia

. >> it includes joe martin and sam rayburn. who were they?>> sam rayburn -- at the time that picture was taken, you see, when i was first in the house commend joe martin was the majority leader that first year. republicans had taken control in the 1952 elections, so joe martin was the speaker. mr. rayburn was the majority leader. >> bill mullin. who is he? >> he was the majority leader in the senate. >> if these four gentlemen were here today, with the senate be different than is? >> now, they would not operate like they did today if they were here in the senate. >> how would they change? >> well, the makeup of the senate has changed when lyndon johnson was majority leader, the great issue of that day was the civil rights issue. speaker russell and the southern bloc constituted a homogeneous block, and all the old confederate states of america were represented by democratic senators. >> did you respect this man? >> the late senator richard russell? yes. because he was a man who revered the senate, and he was keenly astute to its rules and pre

and then sam gerdano of the national banking institute joins us. "washington journal" is live every day starting in 7:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. tomorrow, a look at new orleans in the wake of the gulf oil oil spill. our coverage is under way at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. his government broken? the brookings institute is hosting a panel tomorrow asking that question. it talks about current challenges to good governance and ways to strengthen democracy. this gets underway at 1:00 p.m. on c-span. all next, our reason number of commencement speeches. leigh ann tuohy, the mother of baltimore ravens football player michael oher. she was betrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie opened "the blind side -- she was portrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie: "the blind side." >> it is my privilege to introduce for the first time dr. leigh ann tuohy. >> it's good to have some women appear instead of men helping me. i am truly honored to be up here today. when cbu called, our schedul

citizens support medical marijuana -- >> sam, greenberg pennsylvania, you are on the air. actually, we will go to steven in malibu, calif.. >> thank you for having me on the show. i think many voters, many americans have a hard time putting their finger on what is wrong with the the system, what they are unhappy about. i think what they might -- i think what it might be is that both parties are advancing the size of government. government is getting larger and our constitutional rights seem to kind of the disappearing and going away. >> how does that translate into the sentiment this november? >> you have tea party movements and they made up of different ideologies of people. generally, they want government to get smaller and they want to get their rights back. some could turn to the republicans and hope they will go to their old ways of smaller government. others will turn to third parties. people out there, you need to vote your conscience. if you need to vote for someone you may not think will win, but that is who you believe in, you have to vote for them. if you do not

host: we will move on to sam in san diego, independent line. caller: the last two callers are 100% accurate. here in sanndiego, we have a lot of commercial property that has nothing but chain-link fence around it, and they have a habit of turning what ever is on the property to rubble and leaving the rubble there. it is disgusting the way this country is being treated. the job market is dead. the unemployment figures of the nation are a joke because when you run out of unemployment, you are no longer counted anymore. what really gets me is, we are in such dire straits, why are we spending one dime for foreign aid? if that won't go over well with the majority of people, how about we cut of nations with u.n. resolutions against them. they did not deserve a penny if they can't follow international law. thank you. host: silver spring, texas. jimmy, republican line. caller: yes. you know, my opinion is this. we can get the government to start lowering taxes and get completely out of the job market -- like we have in the past. when they done this tha

i have to say hello to sam and an hour -- please be kind to the babysitter. >> let's tell them to some of the most critical issues in this campaign, 2010. i am turning everything over to my colleague, tim white. >> good evening. we are looking to understand your philosophies and show a lot of voters were you differ on the issues. there is no strict format to the debate tonight. however, we want to cover a lot of ground. if i feel like you are going to launch are not answering the question, i will jump in. let's begin -- the big prize for winning the election this year is to inherit a punishing deficit. mr. moffitt, mr. chafee has proposed examining a 1% sales tax on some items currently exempt to help close the budget gap. what do you think of that idea and how would you address the current budget problems? >> i am against any type of tax increases. expanding the tax base, i would be against in my proposal, i want to reduce the sales taxes by 5%. i believe if you reduce them, you will bring more revenue into the state of rhode island by increasing retail jobs, improving our retail and

. -- is sam here today? he is a great guy. he does not have the authority that they say he does. anything youake need and work up the chain of command. but he never gets an answer back. i think that a lot of the bp people on the ground and not have experience and rely on contractors that are more interested in putting bodies out there to make money and then in cleaning of the soil. >> that is the point. from the bp stamp went and the coast guard stamp would, however it is the local state wide contact for you not only needs to be named, but needs to have the authority and decision powers.car there needs to be more of a controlled decision-making process here to make things go faster. >> and they said that this is the way they think it needs to be done they need to pull every ship in the world with every skimmer. that needs to be a separate group. on the beaches, we need a crew on that beach. when the oil comes up, before the tide changes, you better get it or else it will go back to sea. there should be someone on the beach 24/7. you'd take two boats with 500 feet of boom. you cov

the chair ben bernanke was interviewed at the wilson center by sam donaldson. a portion of what he had to say. >> there seems to be a good deal of momentum in consumer spending and investments. and so, my best guess is we will have continued recovery. but it won't feel terrific. the reason it will kill to read it is because it would not be fast enough to put back 8 million people who lost their jobs within a few years. it will take a while. even though technically we will be in a recovery, the economy will be growing, the unemployment rate will still be high for a while. that means a lot of people will be under financial stress. >> this -- host: this piece from "the financial times." the financial crisis inquiry commission accuses goldman sachs of "abysmal response" in requests for information. that is an "the financial times." new york city, barbara, back to the budget cut its. caller: i have a couple of ideas. number one, i would raise taxes on all corporations, especially those who have their work force offshore. i would raise gasoline to $5 a gallon. i woul

the woodrow wilson international center for scholars where he is interviewed by former abc newsman sam donaldson. on "washington journal" tomorrow morning, we will look at tuesday's primary races in 10 states, with bob benenson, nicholas lardy examines china's economy and its effect on the u.s. and more about the supreme court nomination of elena kagan from jliulie hirschfeld davis. we have got three new c-span books for you. "abraham lincoln," the supreme inrt" and "who's buriedn i grant's tomb?" to order, go to c- span.org/books. each one a great gift idea for father's day. the campaign for america's future began its annual conference in washington focusing on the progressive movement assessment of the obama administration and its role in this year's elections. this is a little more than two hours. [applause] >> welcome to america's future now. [applause] hi. you are over here. namecards. my name is robert. i welcome you to washington. this has been a city of great heat and big storms recently and i am not talking about the weather. and we need you to turn up the heat a little bit mo

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garamendi: we may have an answer, but i'll let people ponder that as we turn to my colleague, congressman sam farr. mr. farr: it was such a pleasure serving with you in the california legislateture when we adopted a lot of legislation dealing with handling oil. i would like to share with you essentially a tale of two states, states that are both oil producing states, states that both have offshore oil drilling, and those two states are are california and louisiana. the comparison here is essentially ooe that i really want to ask, mr. speaker, that governor jindal, ask not what the federal government can do for louisiana but what louisiana should be doing for its own constituency, as california has done for its constituency, know weffing an oil economy, somewhat of an oil economy in the state, certainly an offshore oil economy. the comparison is this. both states have an oil response. california has a strong law on oil response. louisiana has a very weak law on oil response. why? that is something that louisiana ought to correct. the california statute, stationed throughout california, place t

another proposal, one that i have with represent arive sam johnson of texas, would reduce the size of e federal employment force tough attrition, in other words, every time someone vacates a position, through retirement or other means that position would go into a position pool and only those positions that are absolutely necessary to sustain the roles of government as contemplated by the constitution would be reclaimed and redeployed into the federal employment force. there are any number of ideas, the paul ryan proposal, the jim jordan proposal, jeb hensarling has a proposal, many that are comprehensive in nation that will provide the glide path to a better economy and do it without raising taxes, so even though you hear frequently that the republicans are being shortsighted in the fact that they do not want to consider tax increases as part of an economic recovery plan, you're correct that most of us don't and the reason we don't is because we know we can recover this economy without raising taxes and raising taxes will slow our ability to recover and i yield back to the gentleman

sam.ler: as a nationalized american, south asian descent, i have a question about the political aspect. i dialed in a light to the program. -- lead to the program. -- late to the program. honduras-portugal, i would be interested to learn if there were larger issues. go to the first point. the issue of football as opposed to the soccer, -- americans have always referred to the game as soccer which grows out of the association football. it was contracted. it was contracted down to soccer in the same way that breakfast gets contract down. he mentioned the soccer or which is the subject of a fantastic book about a war fought between in guatemala and honduras, or else salvador and honduras. it is not fresh in my mind. i do remember that there was a game that was and proximate cause for the war. there was all -- there was much deeper issues that were going on th. the game, while a great source of passion, it did not spark enough passion to spark a war. host: joe, atlanta. caller: soccer is not j

one thing you hear often in the tea party is sam adams saying one man with courage makes the majority is revealing. if everyone likes to think they are the silent majority, but in reality, this is the latest of many american movements that have taken a subset, gotten very loud,,got an awful lot of media attention, and taken the narrative away from people in power. this affected the republican party. with the election, the parties ram, and they did not do so well. that is the wrong way to look at it. go back to what republicans were talking about a year ago, and compare it to republicans who won their primary puritans -- their primaries. one was supposed to bay more out of reach for people worried conservatives are to grow. she won by running as a pro-life candidate, because the party activists were so visual, you could not be a serious contender without answering them. they have lost primaries. the candidates that have come up of the -- even if they are faking it for now, the most ideologically rigorous candidates the epublican party has put together, probably ever. 2004 you till have

the only way to catch that is to be able to build this sam's burn and catch the oil as it hits the sandyt it would be easier than when it attaches to the plants. the second thing i would implore you to do is to come to new orleans. [no audio] people thought that the louisiana seafood was tainted. the department of wildlife and fisheries has been proactive and closing off areas around the state before there is any oil inundating those areas of those fisherres. we have been very proactive to make sure that louisiana seafood is safe. many people believe you can see and smell the oil in new orleans. you cannot. [no audio] >> we lost our signal live from new orleans. we are looking at a live picture being sent by a bp, seeing the oil plan come out. it was written that the obama administration is taking steps to distance itself from the pay periods attorney general are calder has been sent to the gulf coast. he is meeting with local prosecutors. the environmental calamity might become subject of a criminal investigation we will continue to watch that scene from the gulf of mexico. [no audio] [