. >> bar refaeli and shaun white? what? >> i'm a big sports man fan. >> leonardo dicaprio's ex was with shaun white where it was reported she were all over each other, dancing, hugging, kissing, you name it. maxim's hottest woman in the world left around 3:00 a.m. when the flying tomato let her borrow his car to get home. reps could not be reached for comment. >> love her. >> speaking of olympic athletes, teen u.s.a. brian clay is looking to go where no decathlete has gone before. >> we'll follow brian and all the games. >> yes. >> i had a chance to catch up with brian on his home track. i didn't catch up with him at all. kind of embarrassing. >> no. >> watch. we're with the olympian brian clay and for the record, we're sweating, we're men and i just wanted people to know that, ok. i'm not wearing any foundation. >> it's all natural here. >> i crashed one of the training sessions for the olympic trial which is determines if he makes the team. >> this isn't any olympics for you. >> i'm hoping to make my third olympic team an

at today's all-day conference, we'll hear from former white house budget director alice rivlin, housing and urban development secretary shaundonovan and others. this is live on c-span2, it's just getting underway. >> we are laser focused on the one big issue in this presidential election year, and that is the economy. we are looking at it from every single, possible angle. we are looking at it from the perspective of job creation, regulation, taxes, spending, the deaf -- deficit, of course, a whole host of other angles. we have pulitzer prize-winning authors, we have top economic policymakers within the obama administration, people making decisions about the economy right now, the deputy treasury secretary's with us, the chief economist for the president is here, the secretary of housing will be with us as well. we have members of congress, both sides of the aisle, interrupting their congressional recess to share their thoughts with you, a special shout out to them for taking time to be with us today. both sides of the aisle represented. we have some regulators here as well talking about the regulatory environment and, of c

shaun donovan outlined in administrations plans to help homeowners refinance their mortgages. he testified before the senate banking housing and urban affairs committee hearing on the state of the housing market. the whitehouse has proposed allowing universal refinancing of mortgages in covering closing costs for underwater homeowners who have refinanced. this is an hour and a half. >> this committee will come to order. our housing market faces problems, continued lack and recovery, which is a great impediment to fixing this problem we need for large-scale long-term housing finance reform. while the committee continues to be concerned about the long-term structure of the housing finance system, today's hearing takes a closer look at one of the strategies to improve the struggling housing market. during our hearings on the state of the housing market, several witnesses, including secretary donovan, discussed the need to expand refinancing options for borrowers who were paying their mortgage. i would like to thank the secretary for coming back to discuss this topic in greater detail. in january, the federal reserve released a white paper entitled the u.s. housing market, current conditions and policy cons