spector spotlight back shortly right after the break so stay with us we'll continue to do that they live. and. the one coming up. this history still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal the hidden in the soviet files house on the embankment and. repairing a broken ancient. highway construction and humanitarian aid. but as shady officials get the spoils of war it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. afghanistan and the dollar. welcome back to spotlight i'll do know of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is good i mean should. we spend that it's a question of the western mission co we have discussed the me grow about dioxin contaminated meat and your biggest concern that that needs it might reach shops in russia as well as your agency has more than once imposed bans on imports of the areas food products from different countries. but a few minutes ago that you sand that apart from merely medical problems in the e.u. there was politics involved. has your agency done anything politically motivated or have you b

arlen spector and others said it was illegal. we found that the bush administration admitted doing the same thing. this is what usually happens when our committee does its job is we find out that there's business as usual, whether it's in the white house or in the bureaucracy, that won't get changed unless we shed light on it and, on a bipartisan basis hopefully, and in the past it has been, look for those kinds of change. we have done a lot of work toward that kind of change. >> smith: wednesday morning, you take over this job. you've had months to think about it. what is the absolute top priority? what is the number one thing on your list? >> the number one thing for all of us as republicans is jobs and the economy. but also the confidence in government. if we can, as speaker-elect boehner has done, said, look, we're lopping off 5% off our budget. >> smith: your own personal budget. >> and my committee budget. we can lop off 5% of government through simply saying, find a way to live within that budget. we can save $125 billion

our first priority must be to kill off the spector of massive sovereign debt. those who argue dealing with our deficit and promoting growth are somehow alternatives are wrong. you cannot put off the first in order to promote the second. average government debt in the european union is almost 80% of gdp. some countries are again borrowing 5%-7% of gdp again this year. the figure for the u.k. is more than 10%. this is clearly unsustainable and action cannot be put off. let me put this in context. remember what we started with in the u.k.? an economy built on the worst deficit, the most leveraged banks, the most indebted households, the biggest housing boom, and unsustainable levels of public spending and immigration. i think of where we need to go to. an economy based not on consumption and debt, but on saving and investment. not government spending, but on entrepreneurial dinism. not in one corner of the country, but in every business in every part of the country with a new emphasis on exports, manufacturing, and trade. to get to where we were to where we need t

applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states senator from pennsylvania, the honorable articlen spectoray to korea. we were already in uniform. that was not to be. we were sent back to college because they wanted to win the war. i spent two years state side has a special agent with the office of special investigations. i have a deep reverence for veterans which arises for the first veteran i knew, my father, harry specter, a russian immigrant who served in world war oni. during the tough days of the depression, he was looking forward to the $500 bonus promise by the united states government to the veterans. in its not an unusual way, the government broke the promise, and there was a historic march on washington. i believe it is hard to figure out motivation as i became interested in coming to washington to get my father's bonus. as a figure of speech. as we focus upon the events of the day, what is happening in afghanistan, what is happening in iraq, i believe we ought to renew our efforts in a very intense way at negotiations with a little different tone as we approached our adversarie

because arlen spector -- specter switched parties and the al franken vote, being put into the seat ininnesota, you are talking about hairs of difference. very small differences. this went through without a single republican supporting it. that is an extraordinary thank in american history. they wanted it,ny got it. they own it. they should be identified with it. they have to live with it. host: john says obama didn't write it. it is not obama care. guest: but he sign it. host: we go todale in canton -- we go to dale in canton, illinois. caller: i have a solution to the immigration problem that with solve it and budget which is easy but it is common sense and that is why it won't be utilized. if the united states government would create an organization to start finding these corporations that hire illegal aliens and take the money to pay for the system of checking and balancing that would solve the immigration problem because people wouldn't come in if they knew they couldn't get a job because they would be fired because the companies would hire them. the second thing is with the biolo