as we all know in recent years to issue a fixed compensation has started sicced at the cannes public attention as revelations about executive compensation come to light claims have been made bonuses and severance packages at companies have been exorbitant. indeed expected of compensation has been a lightning rod amplified by the recent financial crisis with concerns about accountability and responsiveness of some boards of directors to the interest of the shareholders. we believe in order for the public markets to function properly it is crucial shareholders, the owners of the company be able to make informed decisions about their investments and shareholders can hold the members of the board of directors accountable for their decisions. notwithstanding the current rules we've revised is an ongoing vigorous debate between those that believe there should be more substantive restraints on pay and those who believe the federal government should never or really set papery matters. it's important to note however the state is significantly more meaningful as a result of the disclosure rule

more energy efficient facilities in our park system or more teachers or more cops on the street, construction cannes -- construction cranes, going to seem more by selling our records across the federal government. we're going to spend the next 100 days feeling confident we're going to be able to demonstrate it agreed another 600,000 jobs. it is fairly ambitious, mr. president, but i ask the cabinet if these are realistic, and what we can get done. as a consequence, mr. president, we're also starting up a new web site today. is www.whitehouse.gov/ recovery. it is going have a an attractive aspects. we won average americans as they're watching this happen over the summer, as they watch it happen in their neighborhoods, the parts they are visiting, we want them knowing that what we're doing is fully accountable and we want them to watch us closely. we want their input and we want them to tell us that everything is working or not working and how they are affected. mr. president, by the fall i think we're going to be much further down the road to a recovery. i can say, mr. president, we have made a lot o

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a research fellow at and author of the allocate army, study arabic at the american university in cairo, a ph.d. candidate at cannes' college documenting history of the united states congress he has published many scholarly articles and featured on tv in this country, europe also in the arabic me and has traveled widely to egypt, ed turkey jordan the palestinian territories. and those that make back most of us think of the struggle for palestine we think of israelis and arabs and jews and muslims but if i understand correctly you suggest there is another struggle as significant as violent and read it will take between place between palestinian. >> what i argue the arab-israeli conflict has been to a certain extent eclipse the by the buy that conflict between hamas and fatah. the reason i say this is we continue to hear from the current and last administration that it is time to go back to the negotiating table they need to start discussing peace after eight or nine years of violence and altered peace talks. but we can now say with certainty is on the one hand we have an israeli spokesperson in the person of that na

the milton friedman? >> something related to cannes and has been used by friedman to but the original quote is from john maynard keynes who said that this is necessary to have to drop money from a helicopter and then people pick it up and start buying things in deflationary will go way. basically milton friedman agree with that point of view. >> i like the idea of. and that somebody happens, a lesson we all got side, but isn't that what we're doing, the way we are printing money? >> yes, and i come back to the first point i make this morning. there is a lot of money destruction also given the situation in the financial sector and banking sector and the fed is compensating at the moment, largely compensating that money destruction. now, if the money creation and credit creation in the private sector starts reviving, i repeat myself but i think it is free essential to understand that, then the fed has to go back from has to step out of the game. and so at the moment i think honestly we in europe because we can talk about the european central bank and have been very stupid in that respect i think, you can learn a

the british were supposed to get to cannes on d-day. they didn't get there until july, but they got through the atlantic wall. the americans at omaha were supposed to get seven or eight kilometers inland. they got less than a kilometer inland, but they got through the atlantic wall. germany put such a tremendous effort into the thing, and it didn't hold up the allies for even a morning. we paid a price, 10,000 casualties, but we got through. c-span: how did you decide what went into this book? was it hard? >> guest: i sat down with the transcripts of all 1,300 interviews and read them through. c-span: how many pages? >> guest: some of them 50 pages, some of them only 10. the average would be 20 pages. c-span: you read them all. >> guest: i read them all through, and in that first serious read-through -- because i had been collecting them and reading them as i went along -- at that first serious read-through i put maybe half of them aside. what i was looking for was phraseology or anecdote. then i read again the half that had survived the

the same arguments we are hearing now. government controlled, centralized bureaucracy, ho-hum, hum-ho. we've heard that before they give you tried to cancel medicare. and also in cannes private insurance with medpac. well, we know what happened in the 90's. it didn't turn out well but now we have a chance in the 21st century. so we have tried every time to come up with new ideas. they have served the public well. they often have requirements and refinements that this is the time where we close the gap and build on what we know we can do. public and private options, a public auction that holds the private options accountable so we don't have to depend upon the background of the state legislature or be worried about the philosophy of the governor and to the point as a state insurance commissioner. that is why i am for public auction. but i believe we have no option not to do anything the time is now. the need is compelling. i don't sit here represented interest or institutions. though i represent some pretty terrific ones and ih, fda in my state, daughter of space agencies in my state where those bureaucrats we got to look out i've got a nobel prize winners who work fo