and the administration will be in a vice. we should be pursuing stimulus and we should keep that going, say, for two more years. and we should wait-- as the president said in your clip-- to confront the deficit until the economy is stronger. that's right. n theory. the question is whether it will be possible in practice and i think that's a tough one. >> rose: altman for the hour next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we talk about the economy this evening, the growing u.s. budget deficit has alarm misdemeanor in washington, many on wall street, and many across america. economists warn that rising debt levels could be destabilize the dollar and bankrupt safety net programs like social security and medicare. the obama administration has vowed to address the problem once the economy stabilizes. in a recent interview with al hunt of bloomberg news, the president said the government's debt burden was a top concern. >> i am concerned about the long-term is

then, is secretary of state clinton being side lined by the obama administration? behind the headlines: rape as a tool of war in the democratic republic of congo. [ ♪music ] >> bonnie: hello, i'm bonnie erbÉ. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and socia trends from diverse perspectives. up first. sotomayor breezes to confirmation. >>> judge sonia sotomayor's nomination to the u.s. supreme court seems to be sailing toward confirmation after a week of relatively uneventful senate judiciary committee hearings. the humdrum week led some to question whether confirmation hearings are necessary any longer. even on controversial issues such as abortion and the right to privacy, she revealed little about her judicial philosophy. her answers to questions on abortion seemed strikingly similar to those given by chief justice john roberts and justice samuel alito during their hearings. judge sotomayor remained elusive on other divisive issues like gun rights and gay marriage, citing previous supreme court rulings. she did, however, clarify her controversial comme

the administration in a way has taken a belt and suspenders approach. what we've said, and i think this was just the right way to push the debate. what the president said is we're going to insist on doing the difficult, fundamentally important things that don't score because they can't be audited. we're going to take no credit for those. we could make a bunch of arguments about dynamic scoring and so forth. we're going to do none of that. we're going to take no credit for it except that regard it's fundamentally important to do it. and then we're going to insist that our health care proposals be paid for with hard, scorable measures of the kind the c.b.o. will score. and that's the debate that's now going through. we have endorsed exactly the principle that would you want us to that we can't afford more increases in health care than we can pay for with hard, scorable savings. and that's the debate that's underway. presidents put forth a lot of proposals. as i say, many of them have been adopted. the most important one that's still under discussion is the

within the bush administration, this administration has agreed -- more than doubling under the bush administration to help. and broadening the scope in that to malaria, t.b. and importantly maternal child health and family planning services. again, areas in the expansion under the bush years got kind of push add side and shouldn'ted -- shunted aside. so i think broader health issues and challenges and how do you build health capacity over all to lift all of those and not simply the h.i.v. aspect. finally, i think a strong emphasis on partnership with african countries and strong, stable, capable african countries on the security challenges, where there are many conflict in africa, the counterterrorism issues, and then kind of the looming and new emerging challenges. west africa has become a major focus in the narcotics transfer route. that's front and center in johnny carson's mind. a climate change, obviously, one of the smallest contributors to global warming but will be among the most vulnerable there. why ghana on this trip? i think this is an opportunity to highlight a country that has a sign

the administration is finally admitting it. jackson story to the detriment of others such as wars in iraq an afghanistan? the panel will take on this, next. >> michael jackson. >> michael jackson. >> michael jackson he's body from forest lawn to the staples center, need to prepare for security. >> as the coverage of michael jackson's death continued over recent days and as the world watches jackson's memorial service today on all u.s. networks, military families are looking for perspective. since jackson's death on june 25, at least 20 service members have died in iraq and afghanistan. one killed was brian bradshaw, killed by an improviseed explosive device in afghanistan. lieutenant bradshaw was 24. his family buried him yesterday in kent, washington. his aunt wrote a letter to "the washington post" about her nephew's death and the michael jackson coverage saying what more did michael jackson do or represent that earned him memorial shrines while this soldier's death goes unheralded? it makes me want to scream." thinking about

which by the way is another thing. this administration now is going through the same thing. namely the only thing any other new administration ought to be thinking about very hard when you come into office on the foreign policy side to better be careful not to get yourself into difficulties early on in. that is so easy to do with the slight misinterpretation of what is going on which is what happened to president clinton in this particular case. but when you do these transitions on domestic policy, that is pretty much a given committee incoming president will now was much about almost as much at least and maybe more about the issues they of the outgoing one but when it comes to foreign policy unless the candidate who becomes president is very knowledgeable on foreign policy issues, it is the time to most easily get himself into difficult times. and one of the examples that i often use in terms of trying to talk about barack osama, i do not mean osama. jesus. the president needs to watch out for something that jfk. when he went to paris, a

i find is questionable if the obama is administration is doing anything. i am not sure that the russians are at all in compliance with those only politically and not legally binding agreements. so the final one is william negotiate treaties on the basis that to anything that violates -- that violates your obligation to your allies. it seems to me that the obama administration is coming close to the line of throwing two important nato allies over board in order to achieve this so- called reset with the u.s.- russian relations. what is it that i think the of ministration should be focused on? fundamentally, we need to move in a direction of what we call a protect and defend it strategy. we talk about that in a background about establishing an arms control policy that is a tool in achieving this new approach that will be defensive. but what we need to do is the following. we need to not worry about the start deadline. i think the u.s. and russia can continue to make progress as we have been doing in recent years on reducing the number of nuclear warheads under

how do you measure it compared to the previous administration. ng to say come to the table, but it's another thing to say, well, then you have to take my idea. it sounds like a lot of times that's what the republican party wants, for obama to not only listen but take every idea. a lot of dnemocrats say you had your turn. >> i would say it's not fair to just simply compare one administration versus the next. >> why isn't it fair? >> if you want to compare processes he would look back to '9 4 and '95. they put together each side of the table and passed a great piece of legislation. >> take the stimulus as an example. i would argue and i think a lot of people have argued that to our detriment, the democratic party and the obama administration took into consideration republican ideas that made a good bill a bad bill or worse. unfortunately, i think that's sometimes -- >> really, who would say that? >> a lot of people would argue. you included tax cuts that completely were unnecessary. here is the problem when you talk about even let's say you talk abo

as we commence our examination of the administration's proposal to create a new financial-- a new consumer national protection agency. my view on the matter is fairly straightforward. i believe that the ftc should remain intact as it is currently constituted and that this committee and subcommittee should continue to oversee and authorized the ftc. the commission, which was established in 1914 during our nation's progressive era, was designed to be a regulatory agency with disinterested expertise to ensure compensation and to promote free enterprise and those prescient concerns are as vital today as they were almost a century ago. the commission operates best as a lone eagle from high above the agency can survey the marketplace and swooped down on predators that to receive an unsuspecting and misinformed consumers. the hizer and the farther away that the ftc is from other agencies and the entities that it regulates, the better it is at spotting the unfair and commercial trading practices and isolating those practices that is cast their shadows. similarily by staying at a distance the age

he was overruled by the administration. the gentleman of ohio was troubled by what the administration did. i joined him in writing a letter. i actually voted against the bill before not to freddie and fannie but housing agencies i did write to this and saying let's work this out. the senate took the bill out. the chair, the republican chair apparently felt that it wasn't at this point worth trying. probably because he had some republican object within him. but then in 2007 as it was clear that there was a crisis, as i did believe about 2005, the house did take it up when the committee organized after the election of 26 and i was the chairman the first major piece of legislation we dealt with was to reform frannie and freddie and it worked completely with the administration including the powers of reason version of etc. the bill passed. it didn't pass the senate because that same partisan division. 51 for, 49 senate is hard to make lunch and weather is 51 d's or ours, it doesn't make a difference but i did want to say that wa

the administration has much greater scope to make a break with the previous administration on domestic issues than on foreign policy issues and indeed domestic issues are more important to the country at this point. >> charlie: what do we know from the white house coverage of how this president has been changed by the reality of the world and he thought he might find/expect? >> i think that's an interesting question and i don't think -- i'll go back to north korea. i think that's one of those things the obama administration has reached out and reached out to anothe north korea and iran slapped back, particularly by the north koreans and that's surprise something some in the administration but shouldn't have been because they've done that again and again and the reaching out to and they haven't gotten the response they wanted so i think that's probably surprised them but i think they've been thoughtful about looking at each of these coutries and moved slowly you can ask for reactions from a lot of things the white house and you won't get it right away. you'll get president who says i wa

we are well aware of the work done on the dangers of global warming by the bush administration and the obama administration. a few weeks ago, this administration released a sobering report on the impact of global warming across the united states, and the devastating effects that will come if we do not take action. droughts, floods, fires colossus' species, damage to agriculture, worsening -- fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture. to act on the heels of the passage of the waxman-markey bill in the house. today i expect you'll hear fierce words of doubt and fear from the other side of the aisle regarding our legislative efforts. this is consistent with a pattern of no -- no, we can't, no, we won't. i believe that when the vote is eventually taken on our bill, the committee will reflect the president's attitude which is, yes we can, yes, we will protect colleagues, this is a challenge to our generation that offers hope, not fear, anyway out of the environmental and economic challenges we face so that our children and our grandchildren will have a bright future. thank you very much

that is one of the most extraordinary moments of the administration. who knows whether it will end of the civilian. nobody would of been quite able to see this. >> to me, beyond all the national security and terrorism response, the most important thing that happened was the appointment of hillary clinton as secretary of state. it took a lot of courage and confidence. it made it clear that he was very serious about terrorism and global issues. i see that appointment as an extraordinary vote of confidence. i thought that was a decision that will go down as we look at the conversation about iran and north korea and palestinian issues. >> i think in terms of the big change that the president committed to, the single most important thing he has done in the first six months is go after everything at once early on. i think that decision may well shape the extent to which she is able to bring about the kind of structural social changes that he really promised during his campaign and during his early days. the president is at his height of strength in his first

i have a little better idea what the administration has asked for. i can identify write off what would give him a lot of trouble. first, there is the demand from the russians that there will be no arms control agreement the situation goes forward in poland and the czech republic. some in the obama administration don't do those deployments anyway. that could include the president, himself. but i think that would be politically and strategically a very costly concession. which, i would strongly urge him not to do. if he's put in a situation where no arms control agreement happens with those deployments, he will recognize that he will have serious political trouble if he makes this concession. he will work really hard to find a technical, strategic rationale for making it without making that concession to the soviet union. that is a sow's of trouble. another big source of trouble for him will be russian assistance on some recognition of the severe privileged interest, to use his language. i have read in the press that in some way the obama administration

you decide. >> as the obama administration braces to reform a u.s. health system it says is in critical condition, here is an example of union sersal healthcare, the u.k.'s national health service or n.h.s. and funded by taxpayers. it provides free healthcare for visitly all ail manies for all brits, some 60 million people, and does it at a lower cost than the u.s. with, some claim, superior results. >> it doesn't matter whether you're rich or poor. you get run over by a bus or have a heart attack. you don't reach four visa card. you get treated. you get fixed up. >> but there are limits. >> if you have cancer in the u.k. today, you are going to die quicker than any other country. >> the same health service is ammo for obama critics. patient anecdotes point out brittish inefficiencies air in ads. survival rates for some cancers, for example, are lower in the u.k. than in the u.s. and elsewhere. the government-run n.h.s. is charged as a monopoly provider, limiting options, stiffling new treatment and dictating service by where one lives. >> can't choos

i take my cue from the observations that the obama administration is trying to improve u.s.-russia relations from their worst condition since the end of the cold war. the cold war, that is something i know something about. it prompts me to ask what lessons for the management of u.s.-russian relations can we draw from the cold war experience? although the situation is different, and russia is not the soviet union. there are some applicable lessons, and i want to speak to three of them one of them is, as was the case in the cold war, u.s. policy-making for russia should be informed by the deepest possible understanding of russia as a system, as a country, as a state, as a culture. during the cold war we devoted enormous resources to understanding the soviet union comprehensively, not just militarily. and that investment paid off. it was a substantial contributor to our successful management of cold war relations. a deep understanding of russia is a requirement for the conduct of a sensible policy today. despite the transparency, despite the much more open condition of russia a

economic plan and effective and following that apparently several letters were written from the administration to a state governor and one apparently came from you and in it as far as i know, you can correct me if i'm wrong it says to the governor if you prefer to forfeit the money we are making available to your state please let of snow. is that correct? and blight would you pick his one state to send that letter to? >> it is correct that i did send the letter to the governor. the money from our economic recovery portion is going to the states. it's not going through congress. it goes to state the ots. >> supplied to pick his states and not all the states saying one senator doesn't want this spent so we're going to ask all the senators. was this just done because you are trying to make political hay out of the situation? why would you pick just one state? >> because senator cardin who is a friend of mine was on national television on sunday talking show saying that he thought that the money didn't need to be spent. if they didn't need the money maybe we should send the money back to washingto

i mean, to say that the obama administration is doing exactly what the bush administration is doing, s doing simply isn't accurate. >> adam, mark, we'll give you more time to make your case as this continues and we've seen the latest extension. thanks, guys. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> president obama is hitting the road thursday to make a push for his health care plan. we talked about him ramping things up here. >> he did the same thing in february when urging congress to pass his economic stimulus plan. the president put a focus on elkhart county, indiana, the rv capital of the world and' been hit hard by the economy. right now the unemployment rate there is a staggering ining 16.. ed neufeld became the face of elkhart when he was introduced at the town hall meeting in february. >> it is my privilege and honor to introduce to you the president of the united states, president barack obama. >> that same gentleman ed neufeld joins us live from elkhart, indiana, looks like in front of a fair. ed, how are things going? >> things are going well for me and i think elkhart county hit bo

kris you told me you wanted to talk about the administration's position. i'm going to ask you about that if i can. on some of these issues. when was the last time that you were at guantanamo bay on behalf of the administration or in your capacity? >> it was some time within the last few months, i think. >> when you were down there, you noticed the security that we had for many of the detainees because oftentimes they are throwing feces through the door, urine through the door. we have double doors on some of the detainees. we have guards that is well trained and the professionalism here. looking on each prisoner every 3 minutes. they don't move anywhere unless they are with a naval officer. they are also shackled when they're getting interrogations, questioning or when they are having medical treatments because they could very easily grab a pen and stab it through a nurse's eye. that's what all the professional people ayatollah us when we were down there. mr. courtney raised the issue of the general prison population in the united states. is the administrat

the prior administration for mr. ernanke was criticized for never having their step on the sub crime crisis with the directive, never pointing out what needed to be done. and i'm not so sure what the systemic regulator that was systemic on the ability and drive of the person in the position was exactly the answer to our problems. the only thing we seem to agree on is the regulation failed. yet the regulation they're proposing is similar to the regulation we have right now. to build on a question the chairman brought up earlier, what happens when you disagree. when we have this council of regulators and they disagree. how do you come to the conclusion. many people say lehman brought down the stability of our financial sector in many ways. where was the way to counterthe decision of whomever made that decision. how do you agree if they der -- how would you agree with these councils? and you have to have a specific way you agree. you know they're going to disagree. there was a disagreement as to how to respond to other c

president or the administration is perhaps more significantly involved and influencing legislation than the panel generally gave the impression. >> i would just say that when you are looking at the house of representatives and you are leaving the details to the house of representatives, you are leaving them ultimately to the speaker, who is if anything to the left of obama and who is going to be much more tough- minded from a liberal standpoint on these policies, so i do not think in terms of the house you are -- on issues like health care or global warming, if you are really seeing a whole lot of territory. >> let me tell my rahm stories. he is a great man. he is central to everything. we knew him, us who covered him as a political animal, he has quite substantive moves. and the joke that obama tells about him is rahm lost his middle finger in a deli accident and obama jokes when rahm lost his middle finger, he was rendered mute. the other joke is that he cares a lot about american education and he is afraid american high school students are cu

we're waiting to hear the administration's plan. nd we expect that that@@@@@@@ r that would reduce their standing to stay in this country. i think it's important to keep in mind one of the challenges are reducing the guantanamo population has been finding countries willing to take these people because of the assessment of those third countries of the dangerousness of those individuals. perhaps more importantly, finding places for some of these individuals, where they would not be mistreated. once they're in the united states, we actually have a legal obligation under the torture statute and under the convention against torture not to return an individual to a place where he or she will be mistreated. >> part of our commitment. i acknowledge that. but let me take issue with one point. i've talked to representatives from other countries concerning this issue. and one of the points they raised to me frequently is that, fine, we're willing to do our part, but is the united states willing to take on a responsibility within its justice sys

i do disagree with the administration on this. think the committee has got it right on the rely ability standard that exists in the bill. i think there is a difference between a voluntary standard that grew up and a law enforcement environment. that's different from the law of work context. i am worried that a military judge that has a vol untarriness standard is going to look at a statement taking in front of a rival when a soldier breaks down a door and takes a statement from a detainee. >> i would look at a series of factors that would give the judge guidance of how do that with more knowledge. >> good morning, gentleman. thank you. senator mccain, graham and reid have worked diligently on all these questions. can you imagine a lot of other countries having this discussion? >> here we sit deciding something as important as this. i thought struck a balance between military necessity and due process. when that bill didn't pass, i voted for the act that we find today. that is the prosecution of terrorists. i thought it might endan

we will talk about the administration and the bankruptcy of gm and chrysler. this coming saturday, ken silverstein, henry waxman. he is author of the waxman record. the journal is 7:00 eastern time each day. we hope you enjoy the rest of the day and we will see you tomorrow. we're taking you now to the heritage foundation. they will have an event on the upcoming summit between president obama and russian pres. medvedev. we will hear from several folks from heritage who run a couple of hours. enjoy the rest of your day. . . >> simply addressing them to speaker@heritage.org. we will feature two panels hosted by ariel cohen and peter brooks. oc. hen isdr a. cohen is a senior research analyst and peter brooks serves as a senior fellow for a national security affairs as well as a fellow for policy studies in the asian studies center. their introductions will occur later in the program. opening our program as helle dale. she serves as director of eight foreign policy studies and is also deputy director of the kathryn and shelby cullom davis institute. she is in a me

the administration is proposing another authority. we know there's been bad actors in the system that ticket and each of the consumers and contributed to the economic crisis unfortunately many of the problems that brought on today's financial crisis are not even being addressed in this bill. the proposed legislation doesn't address the real bad actors in our financial systems. fannie mae and freddie mac and other institutions that engage in such a prime lending and relaxing standards to encourage more people to take out loans they could not afford. those warning signs were brought before congress for gears yet many of the same people in this administration and the leadership in this congress or the same people who oppose the reforms that would have prevented this financial crisis from happening in the first place. this proposed agency represents another step in the federal government trying to run all aspects of our lives. the government is running banks and car companies with disastrous results. the so-called stimulus bill which spend

and president bush 41 and the clinton administration. dan tarullo, i will finish this and turn to executive session is the new member of the board of governors federal reserve system and a familiar figure many of us serving in public life on numerous occasions in the past according to the concluding assistant secretary of state for economic of business affairs. before he served as chief counsel for employment policy on the stuff of our good friend senator ted kennedy as well and taught at georgetown university law center and worked in the clinton administration so thank you, dan, for your service and as well as mary and she lived. let me turn if i can to the market and i just informed my colleagues who arrived after statements were given were considering of course this extension of the transportation bill and we have completed our statements. bob menendez has not arrived but i am going to do this when he comes and we will allow him at an appropriate time to intervene and make comments to apply to the conversations we've had about transit

how does the administration answer those critics? they got to talk a fine line there, they have to walk a fine line on missile defense. former president bush wanted to build in eastern europe, the russians are upset about that. the obama has not committed to moving forward on that. they are using it as a chip in these negotiations between president obama and president medvedev whether or not there will be cuts in nuclear arms. another issue for president obama to face, i brought these nesting dolls in russia, president medvedev in charge, many people believe, but on the other hand you have former president putin right next to him who is still prime minister. president obama is trying to figure out the power structure here. is medvedev really in charge or is putin pulling the strings. there was so much -- it started out as a warm relationship between former president bush and president putin, it then southward. this is something for president obama to try to pick up the pieces. he's talking about hitting the reset button. >> ed, as yo

the administration is proposing another authority. we know there's been bad actors in the system that ticket and each of the consumers and contributed to the economic crisis unfortunately many of the problems that brought on today's financial crisis are not even being addressed in this bill. the proposed legislation doesn't address the real bad actors in our financial systems. fannie mae and freddie mac and other institutions that engage in such a prime lending and relaxing standards to encourage more people to take out loans they could not afford. those warning signs were brought before congress for gears yet many of the same people in this administration and the leadership in this congress or the same people who oppose the reforms that would have prevented this financial crisis from happening in the first place. this proposed agency represents step in the federal government trying to run all aspects of our lives. the government is running banks and car companies with disastrous results. the so-called stimulus bill which spends $787 b

also the obama administration may appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate some of the former bush administration's anti-terrorism policies and officials. republicans accusing democrats of trying to politicize intelligence and threatening our national security. important new developments tonight in the hunt for the killers of a florida couple who had 16 children. as many as eight children may have been involved in their murder. we'll have the very latest for you. first tonight supreme court judge nominee sonia sotomayor pledged fidelity to the law. on day one of her confirmation hearings, she declared the task of a judge is not to make the law. it is to apply the mrau law, a direct response to her critics who have accused judge sotomayor of being what they call an activist judge. the judge, however, did not address the controversy over her previous assertions that a, quote, wise latina woman would make better judgments than a white male." candy crowley reports now from washington. >>> so help you god. >> i do. >> reporter: her turn, sotomayor on sotomayor. >> many senators have ask

the administration announced its "race to the top" program for u.s. schools, which will have schools vying for nearly $5 billion in stimulus money. the president challenged educators to raise academic standards and improve teacher quality. schools that meet the benchmarks for success will qualify for aid. mr. obama says the program will improve the education system, something he says is essential to rebuilding the economy. >> not every state will win and not every school district will be happy with the results. but america's children, america's economy, and america itself will be better for it. >> suzanne: the education department will start accepting applications for the stimulus funding this fall. officials expect the first round of aid to go out early next year. >> suzanne: with consumers cutting back on spending, some of life's little luxuries are going by the wayside, and that's wilting the nation's flower business all along the supply chain. from street vendors to flower importers, jeff yastine has more on an industry still waiting for a recover

the administration, you hear it all the time.ealing with the press, look, we won the election why are you questioning us, we got a majority of the vote. i think that's very injurious and by the way this isn't the only way of course that this white house or even previous ones play this game. the game is played this way. if you want so-and-so on your show, if you want to do an interview then we want to see some positive coverage. i got the same thing during the bush 41 administration when i had difficulty seeing this man i've known for many years, one of his aides said maybe if you write a positive column about him and maybe you'll get to see him and i wrote a negative one just to know they can't play that game. >> susan has a lot to look forward to. in the midst of all of this, when obama hugged that woman who was a plantment her cancer was real enough, but her being there was a total artifact of planning, she said, quote, this is a quote, old display of presidential concern, end quote. just like stalin putting ukrainian family vi

did the administration give up too much? >>> and california's budget crisis. incredibly worsening by the day. state keeps trying to hand out ious. which it owes even more. stay with us. >>> in california the budget stalemate costs the state $25 million a day on top of a deficit that has already approaching $30 billion. in the past week, people that do tax refunds, vendors expecting payments and people on public assistance received ious instead of checks. among the hardest hitting with medical care providers for the poor. casey wian reports. >> reporter: the venice family clinic in los angeles is the nation's largest provider of free medical care for low-income patients. it sees 400 people a day, from the indigent to the working poor. but some of those services may soon be cut because about 20% of the clinic's funding comes from the state of california which is mired in a budget crisis. already, some health care clinics and other state contractors are are receiving ious because california is short of cash. >> essentially the state is balancing its cash flow need

and the administration ll be in a vice. wehould be pursuing stimulus and we should ke that goi, say, for two more years. and we suld wait-as the president said i your clip-- to confront the deficit uil the economy is stronger. that's right in theory. the question is wheer it will be possible in practice. and i ink that's a really toug one. >> rose: if ty do that. they say "postpone." we're gointo have a new stimulus... some arg without a new stimulus we're goi to have a dig bepresention. i was told th today. paul krugman gues that pnt about needing a new stimulus. n this program last week. wh happens if they do that? >> the question in the context our discussion here would be whether the financial markets... but even more so main street would accept en bigger deficits whi such a secon stimulus by definition would cause. because a second stimulus would mean comnation of mor spending and more tax cuts a erefore bigger deficits. >> rose: give me a short primer on deficits. >> well, firstf all, we've never seen deficits of this

i mean the administration. >> was the council administration involved in reviewing these administrations? >> i can check on that. i do not know. thank you. >> [unintelligible] >> i wanted to stay here and catch up on work. it is tomorrow. >> we will be live to the white house in a matter evidence -- matter of minutes. president obama will be live in the rosebush talking about the economy and employment. we will take you there live when it gets under way on c-span. in the meantime, conversations on budget issues affecting the states. >> we have the deputy director at the center of budget priority. think you for being here. >> great to be here. >> what is at the heart of most of the state's fiscal woes? >> unlike the federal government, states cannot print money. the programs they provide for people are provided by tax revenues. in a recession, people find less. revenues go down. right now states are seeing the largest decline in tax revenues that they can remember. if you have to go back to the great depression to see something similar. it is happening in states run by democrats and state

to summarize, what should the administration do? they should pursue a limited agreement without a timetable and by signing a memorandum that would import and adjust the start to procedures into the moscow treaty on arms control. that's still in force until 2012. we should re-enter a missile defense with moscow. as the iranian threat is likely to grow in the hard liners with the tehran and seeming to be winning. north korea seems to have the threshold states to push for a speedy nuclear policies. and we do not see a chance of north korea or iran to come under the efficient of moscow. still we should be on record, demanding that russia cooperates against iran and including of military spare parts and military and dualistic technologies, and should push for a severe gasoline imports curve to the islamic republic. the sanctions so far are inefficient and do not deliver the message to tehran. furthermore we should hold the rights to sovereignty and that includes georgia's integration and azerbaijan and including the areas meddling in geor

i want to thank the administration for bringing him back on line. the one thing i have to say is that too often we hear the media talk about the drug cartel. we need to change the terminology to the smuggling cartels, because we are talking about not only drugs going north, but we are talking about guns and money coming south, and the same cartel is involved in illegal alien smuggling. it is all a network. i grew up in an area where begun in the habit of seeing illegals being used as the meals for the cartel's, and the abuses -- being used as the mules for the cartels. i just want to make sure we understand that we talk about this issue, they are all tied together. the cartels have controlled the border an illegal crossing for much too long. i am glad to see this hearing because too many people on our side of the border think this is a problem that is across the border and not a threat to the american communities. this is a major threat for all of us along the frontier area on both sides of the border. i hope i am able to get you photos that i do not

if is under the administration as a whole. but our basic idea, i guess, that underlies the sunset, and we haven't specified any specific number of years, is as long as there is pending cases to continue past the sunset, that it's a good idea for congress to come back and take another look at this after the passage of sometime and see whether there have been any developments that counts for some changes or a fresh look and i think that's what it boils down to. >> mr. johnson? >> senator, i would agree with what mr. kris said, provided it doesn't jeopardize ongoing prosecutions. we think in the administration's sunset provision is a good idea. we don't have a magic period of years, but given the reality of changing circumstances on an international level and lessons that could be learned from military prosecutions in the years forward, we think a sunset provision is a good idea. >> thank you for those insights. if i might turn to a follow-up question on comments that the chairman made in his opening statement on regarding resourc

the obama administration argues that the challenges facing this administration are briger than anythinghat has been seen since the depression, and with issues such as healthcare and energy reform, eaths say coordination is required across agencies to help streamline the process, but one expert says having so many czars is excessive, although in foreign policy, they may be effective. >> we need one person who can go into an area and people know that individual is speaking for the president. if you don't have that, there is never going to be any agreements. >> in the end, the czars will be judged by if they produce results, although with both cabinet secretaries an czars, some experts expect turf battles may become a major issue. at the white house, fox news. bret: congress seems to be running out of ways to pay for the president's healthcare reform. we'll find out what the >> folks, reform is coming. it is on track. it is coming. we have tried for decades, for decades to fix a broken system, and we have never in my entire tenure in public life been this close. >> we need to know more a

place was no better than the regan administration. re was a lot of hype about unprecedented this and unprecedented that. and in the end what i concluded was that what was unprecedented were the amount of failures and lapses and business as usual that actually came back to office under guise of hope and change. host: this is one comment saying your president had a record-low approval and your side lost. get over it, get a alive and get a real job. >> well, change the subject. guest: change the subject. if anyone's real familiar with my work and writing about bush and the last several months of the administration, they would know how hard, probably harder on bush than obama, i was. especially when it came to being architects of these failed financial bailouts. and i think there's quite an irony that ought to be appreciated by this particular tweeter of obama who promised not to continue the old, tired failed policies of the bush administration and yet has many of the treasury officials who helped initiate those policies now in his own ad

this is the first major offensive since the obama administration has come in. i think what you're seeing now, when you see this -- i was struck when president obama talked about the new strategy in afghanistan. this is now his war. certainly, the iraq war is his as well, but the strategy -- there is a new strategy. it is his idea what failures or what successes happen are on his store -- are on his shoulders now. sending in marines in this area is a big step. i was also reading today and struck by this, the pakistani army is putting soldiers along its border with afghanistan. some of those taliban do not fully from the fighting there, which has been a huge problem in the past this is the first sign i have seen. the obama administration has said they want to look at these two countries together. you cannot solve one without the other. there is clearly some coordination here that is going on. they have launched this operation. the pakistanis are preparing to keep those taliban militants there. it is good to hear that they are making the effort. host: this is a sid