st. petersburg, florida, presents his thoughts on the revitalization of american cities. this is just under an hour. >> so good morning and welcome to this breakfast forum by the manhattan institute's center for state and local leadership. my name is michael, and i am the newly-appointed director of the center, and it's truly an honor to be with you. one week on to the job, and what a great event to kick things off. it's an honor to be here with everyone. as you know, for over 30 years the manhattan institute has been a national leader in advancing the ideas of greater economic independence and choice and individual responsibility. we have our roots, as you all know, in cities having led the movements from welfare to work and from broken windows to safer cities. and during the coming weeks you'll be hearing a lot about our new center for state and local leadership. whether it's examining public employees and their relationships with the public, the governments for which they work, their pensio

. >> i think that some the boats that responded to the site were the st. peted a boat already in the water for the race, and i believe some coast guard as well. >> holy crap. >> the pilot and the passenger are under water. >> did he get out of plane? >> they're out. >> but both managed to swim out of the cockpit and onto a pair of wave runners that arrive on the scene. >> the faa will probably want this footage. >> once i saw that the pilots actually got out, and then it was sort of like a relief. >> in this case, because we the race going on, the emergency crus were actually already on the property so they were almost able to get there almost as soon as it happened. >> looking at the tape it seems like the plane is going to land on the runway, so why did it suddenly drop? after the crash, darby says he's able to talk to the pilot who tells him something shocking. apparently, ditching in the water is intentional. >> from what i heard, the passenger in the back actually pushed the stick forward to push the plane down into the water because he knew that they were

host: democrat line, st. pete, florida. caller: it should not affect the career, but it will.ht now, people are more concerned about their careers staying in washington rather than getting elected to do what they were in it -- rather than doing what they were elected to do. host: more of your calls coming up. we have about half an hour left in this segment and then we will jane hamsher. hamshe here is a look regarding the debt talks. >> republican leaders have made it clear that if all else fails, our efforts to adopt legislation to cut the deficit, put a straitjacket on it and balance the budget, -- if that does not pass the senate, and there is no other way to reach some kind of savings agreement, then at the end of the day, republican leaders have made it clear that we are not the ones responsible for the government's state. -- c-span.o[unintelligible] at the end of the day, i do not think there will be a default. host: we will get to track lucien a minute. -- jack in just a minute. independent scholar. -- caller. caller: the congress and president need to get this straight