i understand we have a representative of the city administrator's office here. is there anything that you would like to add? >> i am glad we are moving forward on the tech stuff, but i am curious about the kind of conversation that have taken place between the two offices. but let me preface these questions by saying, as someone who has sat on the rules committee for the last six years, it is something that we desperately need. i am fully cooked supportive of this legislation. i am just curious about how it will work in these two offices come together. >> linda young, representing the city administrator. the clerk of the board and i have not talked. we were thinking more administratively within our organization and how we could support this ordinance. we have look internally as to what kinds of staffing and resources we need. i think that suggestion of having a meeting between the clerk of the board and our office and 311, in particular, is the logical next that. we believe they are the best organization within the city administration's office to administer the p

the obama administration disputes the commissions finding.arlier, our correspondent in washington told me the report has not yet been finalized. >> this is a a draft report, written by staffers working for the national commission. it is not a final, signed off report yet. but these documents have been made public on the commissions website here today, and they are pretty damning in their criticism of the obama administration. the main criticisms are that during the first crucial 10 days of this incident, government officials were overly optimistic in their impression of bp's ability to handle the oil spill. government scientists under estimated initially the amount of oil pouring into the gulf of mexico and later overestimated the amount of oil as it evaporated or otherwise been taken out of the sesa. the report -- the sea. the report singles out carol browner. she went on american television and all this and said it 75% of the oil had gone. and that was wrong, plain and simple. >> have we had any reasons from the u.s. government as to why th

the above the administration have all of us to unfreeze -- the obama administration has allowed us to unfreeze that monday. -- that money. it allows us to compete in the global marketplace. we have to realize there is not a lack of independent thought, at least two that i have been a student at. there truly is independent ticket among our professors are students. host: we are said this indicates -- this e-mail. zach howell, you first. gee, i don't think there is a sense of entitlement. -- guest: i do not think there is a sense of entitlement. i think people cannot find work. it is leading to delayed starts of careers and adverse consequences. i do not know there is a sense of entitlement. there is a sense the need much more responsible policy to get the job market that a contract so young people can find work. host: michael worley, balancing the need for the people with an aging work force. guest: we need to be promoting getting our students in institutions of higher education. the only way to create new jobs and industries is to stimulate innovation. the way we do that is by having b

it's time for sfusd to tell the administration that we need a solution to this now. [applause] >> good evening, commissioners, i'm a social studies teacher and i'm on the executive board of the united educators of san francisco. i have been teaching alongside paraprofessionals and i see the work they do day in and day out and providing one-on-one services for our most challenged students to walking the halls keeping us safe inside of our city. paras keep the schools running. they work alongside teachers administrators and are the true heart and soul of any campus in this district. one thing i learned early is that one of the biggest impacts on the morale of any faculty is the way they are treated by the administration. and how the administration treats its work has a lot to do with how we feel about the work we do. how is it possible in the year 2010, over 70 years after the social security administration was established and the basic idea of social justice, that everyone who works for a living gives to the community, feeds their family, play by the rules is that leas

the administration is also slammed for comments about where all the oil went. think about this. on august 4th, top administration official, carol browner, said three-quarters of the oil was, quote, gone. its findings did not support that claim. another official sought that claim that day. and the administration said it thought it was being clear with the public, when it issued a worst-case scenario for how much oil was in the water. the administration official said they were never trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the country. they blast the administration as being not fully competent to handle the spill or not being candid about its scope. it's certainly not news the white house wanted to be dealing with, addressing, just three weeks before the election. rob and vinita? >> emily schmidt, thank you. much more later on this story later today on "good morning america." >>> the supreme court has heard arguments in one of the most difficult cases of the term. it pits the free speech rights of a fundamentalist church against the agony of a grieving father. terry moran has more

under the johnson administration, he cut day care subsidies to the bare bones. in our administration, i have worked hard to get that back up so people -- so families can get back to work and take care of their families. the real solution is to make sure that we resolve our budget crisis in new mexico. we need to tighten our belt and said new mexico money and change our priorities. we make sure we are cutting back on those high-paid political appointees and do the things we need to do to give the families the services they need. in new mexico, families are struggling. government has a role to help them get out of that struggle. the first rule i have is to make sure that we are creating jobs and then to make sure our families can actually go to work and then when they need help, make sure they have access to day care subsidies so their kids can be taking care of in a safe, warm environment with quality care. as a lieutenant governor, i made it possible for 17,000 kids to go to 4-year-old pre-k in new mexico. their parents know they are inequality and firemen. i wan

the last of the administration code was in july 2007 -- the last review of the administration code. we made two changes to the administration code. the first, where you can see on page 12 of your packet, is related to the employee performance evaluation of the executive director conducted. we would like to recommend a change that the executive director's performance evaluation take place on december 31 instead of july 1 of each year and where the recommendation should be for the prior 12 months instead of what the pack it indicates as the current year of the evaluation. this was a request made by share --chair mirkarimi in june. the other changes relate to consistency within the codes -- updating the date the actual committee and board meetings take place, and just a few updates to promote the consistency with in the documents. with that, i would like to seek a recommendation for the amendment of the administration code. commissioner mar: thank you. any questions? and we are joined by commissioner alioto-pier. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, pu

management teams that was the official policy of the reagan administration even when you talk about the much smaller too big to fail companies from that era companies like continental annoy the shareholders were bailed out it was the creditors of the banks the other institutions that were lending to it not the shareholders who own the banks and the management team did not get to stick around and make more bonus money they were given the boot this is all something that's happened since the one nine hundred ninety nine era of deregulation with the repeal of glass steagall and the commodity futures modernization act that legalized essentially gambling in the derivatives casinos now do you think that we're going to see that changed on me right now there's a lot of this anti wall street anti-government sentiment we have new candidates from you know the loony vell i don't know even how to describe his tea partiers but i mean the system is already just seems like it's so set in stone and these you know essentially we have people from wall street then coming into also run the governme

to be fair to the obama administration far more criminal illegal aliens than the bush administration.'s true. >> bill: janet napolitano could explain this so it doesn't happen again. >> and on august 1st he killed the nun. >> bill: he gets to stay in the country. four times they move it and dead nun with three other nuns hurt. >> yes. >> bill: got to explain it and stop it. >> yes, they do. >> bill: on a related note. you may know about the shooting down in texas on the lake. the young couple, guy gets shot by suspected dope dealers. mexico at first doesn't cooperate. we do the story. i'm taking credit for it because the other networks. >> shocker. >> bill: well, we hit the story pretty hard. you didn't see it on most of the other networks. all right? then mexico says okay, well, assign an investigator to look into who killed david michael hartley. the investigator shows up with his head cut off. >> he gets beheaded and the head gets delivered to some military facility. >> bill: isn't that nice. >> obviously a message from the drug cartels to investigators on both the u.s. and mexico

well obviously the administration doesn't need another scandal to cause it problems so i think if they do have secret interrogation centers and i would be awfully surprised to be honest if they didn't i would imagine the cia runs interrogation centers i would imagine the military does the same and the administration basically just wants this to become a non-issue but the fact is i mean they're fighting a war in afghanistan which in which there are some rules but at the same time the rules are very often stretched and i think i would be very surprised if they didn't have these interrogation centers present above a pledge that needs review prisons holding detainees of war and vowed to close the controversial guantanamo bay but january of this year was a deadline that's come and gone what does it say about the administration's achievement. well i would have to suggest that the administration in when obama was running for president he talked a very good story about what he was going to do but he's actually done very little of that we see an escalation of the war in afghanistan we see the s

. >> he is a guy who work for the bush administration, particularly in 2008 in tariq alston and bernanke and tim geithner -- with henry paulson and bernanke and tim geithner a trio on economic policy. we just got the report on tarp, which is that it is going to lose by less hundreds of billions than anyone expected and it might turn a profit. he is a guy who was kind of middle of the road and i don't see why you would want to jettison him. the real issue is is obama committed to keynesian economics or not? i think he is and will not have any change in policy. >> john kennedy said that there are two things are real, got, folly, and laughter. -since we have no control over the first two, we have to of the -- after have the third. that is something that is missing in a town that wants desperately, for barack obama and his administration to succeed. >> it starts at the top it is a description of obama. >> i don't think obama is without humor -- >> have you seen him be self- deprecating? >> yes, i have. >> i think some of this is irrelevant. the problem is lack of success. if obama was succee

to stamp out a possible taxpayer privacy scandal with echoes from the nixon administration. sident's top economic advisor austan goolsbee told fox business stuart varney he did not view private tax file of koch industries whose owners support many conservative causes chewing one, americans for prosperity that president obama attacked. >> did you illegally look in the tax files to of the koch brothers? >> no, absolutely not. i've never had any secret information on them. everyone knows that. we issued a statement. it's completely not true. >> did you unethically disclose the tax status of the koch brothers? >> no. i have no secret information about koch industries at all. >> in august they singled out the structure of koch industries and the tax status in a conference call about tax reform. after news stories about the call, seven senators asked the inspector general for the i.r.s. to investigate. congress made it a felony for government eemployees to disclose confidential tax data after the nixon administration tried to use tax information to attack political enemies. >> the

and you know, i was involved with this for years with the previous administration and also the current administration. there is no willingness to say anything about this. but there would be and could be and is within parts of the philanthropic world. and my idea with the rather then try to think of the government department of, you know, family strengthening, it would be finding good efforts that are working, that can be funded by foundations and private jets that show that this is a way to promote thriving and reduce child poverty. and then maybe it will be scaled up by government. but i don't think -- i don't think -- it hasn't reached that level of acceptance to be made into government policy. >> right, right. >> peter would. >> i'm president of the national association of scholars and interested in your house partly as president of the college. there's a component to your book, which is a pitch for the continuing of importance of generosity and the trust that comes from pretty much with outside, the things undercutting the motives to being generous in this particular philanthropic

kind of a free shot at the administration. even the democrats -- including mary leandro, who has led the charge against the moratorium by holding up the nomination to the director of the omb -- i think they think it is progress because it is better than having it still in place but they are pessimistic about the idea that drilling is going to be back on line immediately or any time soon. host: new report it senator landrieu has a hold on the nomination for managing director of omb. lift the moratorium and expedite permits for drilling in deep and shallow waters. what is a stand? sounds like she is not budging. guest: yes, she wants to see the actual permitting being done. i think the administration is irritated, they think it is out of line from someone of her party and not related to her responsibilities. but back home this is a very popular stance for the senator. she took a kind of a drubbing on the health care votes back in louisiana because she was for the health care bill, which was very unpopular back home. she found her

and covering this in the bush administration and you covered this, the ins and outs of this every day, looking at the national security team and how this particular team operated, i think it's quite interesting. i don't think we should -- we should underscore how important it was that jim jones and his military background, what he brought to candidate obama. remember, this is a good friend of john mccain's as well. to have him in the administration, to have that relationship with the military mattered at a time when the president wanted to wind down a war in iraq and ramp up a war in afghanistan. >> marine general. >> right. so you had all of that, but almost from the get-go, this was not a very powerful national security adviser. and what is that role supposed to be about? to broker the national security team. i still have a lot of questions about how this national security team operates and where that center of gravity really is. tom donilon is a known washington insider, made the trains run on time. mentioned as a chief of staff possibility after rahm emanuel leaves, but is he now

this is a case of race neutrality and the administration of the laws in the justice department.u work for a private advocacy group, you have every right to say i didn't come here to defend white folks against intimidation. only black folks. perfectly reasonable. but if you are in the administration, you are in the federal government, you are in the justice department, you cannot say that or think it and if you do, you should be canned. >> jim: julie? >> we have three different investigations in this matter now. if the republicans make big gains in november we'll have hearings into this. white house is treating this like it's radioactive and we'll hear more about it including from them. >> i agree. this case isn't going anywhere. the white house has taken a hands-off approach to it. i think one of the things about cases like this, they are incredibly hard to prove. ten similar cases over the last 40 years have been brought similarly and hardly any of them have been proven. the idea that they give preferential treatment to some. and some people say they don't pay attention to conc

in fact, when we had a national strategy back in the clinton administration, the early-bush administration, a national strategy for cyber security, it called for everything to be defended. you have to be much more selective to get something done. you have to concentrate on a few things. i would concentrate on securing the power grid, on which so much else depends. i would look at the five or six internet service providers that are the backbone isp's. i would, through regulation, nasty word in washington, required those five or six iskbone isp's to filter what moving across cyberspace and look for packets which had known signatures of a tax -- attacks. it is a doable technology. we could be doing it today. some of them are doing it today, but they did not have the benefit of all of the attack signatures that the government has. if the fcc were allowed to regulate the internet, it would be simple to allow that agreement between the isp's and the government filtering attacks. >> my question was simply whether or not your book proposes the elements of a plan for the -- plan or the general cont

more jobs than the entire bush administration created. the republicans offer more of the failed policies of the past, take us back to the stranglehold they had when it came to tax cut in policy and focus only on the wealthiest. exploded deficit. took a $5.6 trillion surplus to $1.3 trillion deficit. now they want the keys to the car back. american voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new direction, we have a long way to go. we need to make sure we continue with the democrats being in the majority. that's why we will hold the majority on november 2. >> bret: there is a new strategist memo public this weekend. they write this -- "voters are not moved by democratic messages that say go forward, not back, mention president bush, compare then and now or even hint that the economy is showing signs of progress. after hearing this battle of republican and democratic messages, 8% shift their vote to support the republican. while only 5% move to the democrats. we lose ground. these messages are helping the republicans."

so not a very flattering investment of the obama administration's performance as it relates to the oilill. >> that's right, kiran. this is just a blistering series of reports that this commission comes out, basically charging that this administration did not fully inform the public about how much oil is flowing into the gulf. it goes back to two weeks until after the first explosion where basically these reports are charging that government scientists wanted to put worst case scenarios out there for the public about how much oil might be pumping into the gulf and that it was blockeded eby the administration. and throughout it, the administration did not simply inform the public in this commission which you said was appointed by the president itself. is charging that led to the sense that the government at all levels just is not on top of it. take a listen to this in a report, quote, the federal government created the impression it was either not fully competent to handle the spill or not fully candid with the american people about the scope of the problem. it is possible that that the

the bracing. and obama administration. d did they have this green jobs training program when you were there or is this new under the current administration? >> this is new under the current administration. but looking at the women's bureau and the work it does i think it's been struggling for a couple of decades with its own identity. 90 years ago, the women were not in the workforce in full. and they had to bullypulpit to say how women should be and healthcare and education and a number of fields. and right now, women are integrated in to our government, our work life, our -- they have earned more degrees. they are starting to find a place for themselves where they can speak out and advocate women's policies. and it is a challenge. it is a small agency with a small staff and budget and they have a couple of pilot programs which are fantastic but the impact is not larger because they are not working across the board with other government agencies and a lot of professional associations. in advancing stem. >> are you saying t

that line by the bush administration policy let us into this ditch. is not selling in ohio. a place where they traveled 1 times. >> it didn't work at all. if you look at the political environment. unemployment is higher than the national average. the stimulus hasn't worked. fish herb has been title charge of the state economic development. terrible thing to have around your neck in the political and economic environment. >> very quickly, there are a couple of races in california. governor race and senate race, where the democrat hold to slim lead. >> a budget gap of $19 billion. this is a traditionally blue state. brown has a surprise situation going on with the leaked voice mail. we'll see how it plays out. >> bret: log on to the home page of foxnews.com and watch exclusive report from william la jeunesse on what voters across the country have to say about majorñ÷?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)) >> bret: we are back with the panel. every week on the foxnews.com/specialreport page viewers vote on what we discuss in this, the friday lightning round. healthcare poll won with 37% of the vote

it was lacking in the previous administration in all lot of ways. e middle east is an unstable place. part of what drives a ahmadinejad is the israel- palestinian situation continues. he knows he can exploit it. and i would add china, not as a military situation, but they are important economic rival. yesterday they devalued their currency and sent world markets into a frenzy. it is something we have to deal with. hasn't think either party covered itself in glory in this context. one side has all but demonized china without offering long-term solutions to deal with them effectively. >> a "new york times" article suggested most voters are not interested in the middle eastern politics. why do think the american public has become so uninvolved? this is four of ms. -- for ms. myers. >> in a time of nearly 10% unemployment, that trump's just about everything. the american elections are really about foreign-policy. we should argue american should be more involved and informed about global issues, but this one in particular, when you have an economy in cris

this is the last big mistake of the administration. they went out and announceddedded in june they were going to undertake a pr offensive -- to convince the american people how good the economy was in is a result of bad mistakes in policy bad bill that was poorly crafted, ill-conceived and badly executed. the stimulus will spend more money between 2011 and 2019 than it spent in 2009 when we were trying to stimulate the economy. you are right cries teen romer issued a report that said if we did nothing unemployment is going to rise to near 10% and remain throughout 2009 and 2010. if we pass the stimulus bill bay the end of the summer of 2009 unemployment would top out at 8% and decline rapidly thereforeafter. she may be again but the other person who wrote that report, bernstein is still around as is romer's colleague. >> greta: 10.1%, gallup. we are going to wait tomorrow for the government numbers. gallup was much more optimistic in august than the government numbers. can we expect that tomorrow or is there no way to tell? >> no way to

that's bad for the administration. t out in stark detail, kyra. >> for the next 25 days, what's the white house going to do to try to combat this bad publicity? >> reporter: what connects the story is both the oil spill and shirley sherrod took them off message this summer and maybe they thought stoes stories were done with and they had moved on but this week with the new documents coming out, these two stories are coming back. what are they going to do? stay on message. ever since they got past the oil spill and summer controversies,ed president has stayed on the economy and with the jobs numbers out dark he's going to be speaking at a manufacturing company in maryland about employment in this country. the fact is they are going to try to stay on that and stay away from the side issues which this summer pulled them off message. >> got it. ed henry at the white house, thanks. >>> here's something else the voters will have on their minds as they head to the polls. we learned that the jobless rate stayed flat in september

the administration would like to see this applied. are seeing tight budget constraints, and we're seeing that in european capitals. they have significant budget challenges. it is widespread across europe. where do you put the dollar? d you put it to protect americans, or do you spend it to protect allies? i do not think it is a black and white question. many would say it needs to be a balanced approach, but i think there need to be some that recoil and say, why shouldn't we spend that on protecting the american homeland. they have invested quite a bit too much surer sensors and internet capabilities and what not. we have seen the announcement of a policy. until we see how the architecture comes together and what are the assets, we look right now. it is the u.s. approach. >> i want to turn to ian. >> what do we look for as decision points or indicators that is actually devolving into a missile approach? we should all think about territorial defense. isn't the development of conops? you gave a great presentation last year in which you r

sources close to the administration today said x. in one case, they said it was okay that they got it out, in the next, he was furious, and started an investigation. they get information, they published it. from the point of the efficacy of the classification structure, it is very destructive. >> but folks in our position chat with government people all the time, multiple times a week. they talk about what is important to the agenda of their organization, important to the agenda of the administration in dealing with certain things. on any given day, they would talk to people and pass it along. on another day, they would do the same. the problem came about that at some point, but they were being told, -- what they were being told, it was authorized or prove or something, and then the next day they were told something else and it was not approved. they need to know the difference between what they are supposed to hear and what they are not. in my kitchen we have the thing on the dishwasher that says clean, unclean. from that point of vi

the obama administration is considering its next move after a federal judge ordered the military to immediately stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops. the unprecedented ruling by a federal judge in california applies to the military worldwide and would end the 17-year don't ask, don't tell policy. president obama has backed efforts to repeal the law but cbs news chief legal correspondent jan crawford says it's likely the administration will appeal the ruling. >> gay rights groups obviously want the administration to let this decision stand but the administration really would prefer that congress step in and repeal this law, not a federal judge. >> it's estimated since 1993 nearly 14,000 service members have been discharged when their sexual orientation became public. >>> this morning, the attorneys general from 40 states are expected to announce a joint investigation into the mortgage industry. at issue is the legitimacy of the documents used to force millions of homeowners from their homes. some of the nation's largest mortgage lenders have admitted to slipshod paperwork in an effort to

and the proposed administrative code amendments would amend the existing better streets policy, which is chapter 98.1 of the administrative code, which called for all of the agencies to work together to improve the streets for all of the different functions that streets should play and the amendment would incorporate the better streets plan by reference into the better streets policy and would require that all projects in the public right-of-way conform with the policies and guidelines of the better streets plan. a summary of these amendments was included in your packet as attachment one. if you have more questions on that, i'd be happy to answer. the draft ordinance the third item before you is included as attachment eight in the resolution and attachment nine. staff is recommending approval of all of these items and i'm happy to answer any questions that you have. president miguel: thank you. is there any public comment on this item? if not, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: well, i'm looking forward to adding another couple hundred pages to my zoni

i understand we have a representative of the city administrator's office here. ing forward on the tech stuff, but i am curious about the kind of conversation that have taken place between the two offices. but let me preface these questions by saying, as someone who has sat on the rules committee for the last six years, it is something that we desperately need. i am fully cooked supportive of this legislation. i am just curious about how it will work in these two offices come together. >> linda young, representing the city administrator. the clerk of the board and i have not talked. we were thinking

commissioner yee's report, this is maybe a sore subject at this point but on the issue of the administratively approved k resolutions, so what we reported to the committee was the loopholes that i think the commissioners are all familiar with have been addressed so we should not see, and this is true as of the last regular board meetings, as well as tonight's regular board meeting, we should not see items of multiple sites or multiple departments submitting k resolutions for the same contractor in excess of those cumulative thresholds or the $25,000 thresholds. i think the committee discussed wanting to have more information about how we've done that or evidence that we've done that or seeing some of the tools we've used to handle that. we can do that for the next committee meeting but just in case people are wondering if, in the meantime, the loopholes are still unaddressed or if they had been addressed, the answer is they have been addressed. commissioner yee: thank you. president kim: commissioner fewer. commissioner fewer: the curriculum program committee met on october 4 we we had one act

here we are two years into the administration. but let me just say, what the president could have done was nnect the dots. cohave said health-care refo, financial reform, cap and trade, bailing the economy out and getting the economy going, all of these are aspects of rebuilding the american middle class, for sustained recovery. >> they lost the narrative. >> the narrative was gone. >>e had a campaign narrative but never had a narrative for governing that would have connected the dot. >> that is the problem in washington. >> rose: an thereforfailed in explaing things. >> that is a remarkable paradox it is a real irony because you have a president who came in office as one of the best explainers in hiory. notonly an inspiringigure but somebody w cou connt thdots durinthe campai. but then got almost seemed to have got caught up in washington stin for the capilly. you ow, the tactica judgements that washington gets worried about rather than the large strategic narrative. >> rose: dow accept the argue that he is not connected to the is

the obama administration has renewed its opposition to a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures. robert gibbs said foreclosure coulfreeze could cause "broaderm to the housing market into the housing recovery." tuesday, a florida attorney representing hundreds of homeowners released depositions of bank employees describing the frenzy to approve foreclosures on a mass scale. woe lawyer says he deposedrk50 workers who said they signed foreclosure affidavits without looking at them. some of the employees had no experience and received no training after previously working as hairstylists, wal mart floor workers, and assembly line employees. in a congressional study says the number of people denied medical coverage because of pre- existing conditions has grown by nearly half. according to the house energy and commerce committee, over the last three years, the four top for-profit insurers -- aetna, him and a coming unitedhealth group and wellpoint -- have denied coverage to 49% more people because of medical history. all over 257,000 people were denied last year, compared to 172,000 in 2

martha: we have big news out of the administration. this is a "fox news alert," which has now been confirmed, by mike manuel and the report is jim jones, the national security advisor to president obama, has just announced that he is stepping down from that position, and molly henneberg joins me live at the white house and this is a bit of a surprise, especially coming at this time, and we have heard a lot of people leaving, making plans to leave the administration and jim jones not among them. >> reporter: hi, martha, this is sometimes though what happens, about the two-year mark in the administration, there is a turnover and getting a little bit of information, that we have confirmed that he is resigning, no further details, it's not completely unexpected, though, james jones, retired marine corps general, very active in national security, and foreign policy, will be leaving. we don't know when, if it is before or after the midterms. this is breaking this minute as we are going on air. i'm trying to keep up with my blackberry as well

both the bush administration and the obama administration -- there are two terrible options. first option, let the u.n. handle it. the second option, let the israeli air force handle it. while they have removed the nuclear programs of iraq and syria, that has its own problems. we looked at the third option. the of so mishandled the economy in iran that they are totally dependent on foreign gasoline. we should cut off before and gasoline supplies from iran. 512 democrats and republicans backed that legislation, overwhelmingly bipartisan consensus. the president approved the legislation. after these contentious elections, i hope in december, now that you've signed, sealed it. cut off their gas. empowered diplomacy. they have to choose between a rapidly shaping the economy and a new program. >> as far as the settlements in israel, your thoughts on that? >> so many people see the expansion of settlements as a real impediment to peace in that region. >> i think the administration has been more concerned about zoning issues in jerusalem and less about whether the iranians are buildi