and the clinton foundation rival our government as visible representatives of the united states of america. even as these foundations focus on helping individuals they are playing an increasing role in the public sector in lending policy assistance to governments. their actions have influenced public opinion and catalyzed international action. most importantly, they have been vital partners with the united states government in the fight against hiv/aids, malaria, and tuberculosis. the share in successes our country has achieved in these areas. according to the office of the global aids coordinator, the president's emergency plan for aids relief is directly supporting life-saving anti- viral treatment for more than 2.4 million men, women, and children. they represent more than half of the estimated 4 million individuals in low and middle income countries on treatment. before the program began in 2003, only 50,000 people in all of sub-saharan africa were receiving life-saving anti-retro viral drugs. today, 10 tim

the gates foundation has invested billions of dollars for aids prevention, vaccines, and a host of other health challenges. the clinton foundation has done groundbreaking work negotiating down drug prices for life-saving medications and pioneered projects that transcend the artificial boundaries between health and development. our guests today, bill clinton and bill gates, need no further introduction. i look forward to a lively discussion with two of the great innovative thinkers in america today. we are particularly grateful to both of them for taking time to come here. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i join you in welcoming i join you in welcoming in numerous locations around the world, the bill level our government as visible a representative of the united states of america. even as they focus on helping individuals, they are playing an increasing role in the public sector in rendering policy assistance to government. it has upset global president and influence public opinion in caddo polarized -- they are fighting against tuberculosis. according to the office, the president's emergency plan for aid relief is directly

good said the with the american people as well as internationally because of the clinton initiative and the clinton foundation and places like haiti and at work with bush 41 and 43. >> absolutely. and that's one of the things that the house managers never completely realized is history isn't done when a president leaves office. >> what couldn't you nut this book you wanted to? >> all the things i'm not going to tell you tonight. it was something i never got tired of. there was so much fascinating information. these are two very impressive men and very honestly the hardest thing about writing this book, charlie, was knowing that both ken starr and bill clinton would have been disappointed with parts of it that weren't favorable. but i did my best, i tried to call it down the middle. i... there are parts that vindicate each side. there are parts they won't like. but ultimately the goal is-- and i give them both a lot of credit-- because they knew going into this that i was not going to be bashing the other side, that i was not going to be painting horns on their heads yet they cooperated fully knowing there was

crisis" which our staff helped to design in collaboration with the national archives and the clinton foundation staff and is open for viewing at the clinton presidential center and will remain open through memorial day. this past weekend, president clinton led a panel in washington dc, looking at the lessons learned in oklahoma city. as you know, we will honor him on wednesday night with our sixth annual reflections of hope award for his help in rebuilding the city and the work he has led around the world to bring hope in the midst of political crisis. also today, as we gather here, sailors aboard the uss oklahoma city have raised a special american flag and have observed 168 seconds of silence in honor of this 15th anniversary. the ship's commander will send us that flag to be retained here at this museum. [applause] now comes the most important part of the ceremony, remembering the 160 people were killed. as is our custom, we ask everyone please wait until all names are read before standing. thank you. >> we remember our friends and family in the oklahoma water resources board building. [read

. >> reporter: benny tran works here for the clinton foundation on h.i.v. issues. his brother, ben, a college professor in tennessee, is a frequent visitor. >> the irony is we know vietnam better than our parents, because they'd never been outside of saigon. >> my parents didn't want anything to do with this regime, yet it's their children who play a central role in changing vietnam. >> reporter: yet there's growing concern that much of this investment is taking place in the big cities, and creating an elite increasingly removed from the rural areas, where 70% of the population lives. it's in those rural areas that social entrepreneur diep vuong found her calling. she's trying to protect young women from being sold into prostitution. although the poverty rate has dropped significantly, to 12%, vietnam remains a major source of women trafficked into the sex trade in southeast asia. vuong started a foundation to educate women like these to make them less vulnerable to traffickers. this group is among 25 who have been housed and trained in culinary school in ho chi min

however, i very much doubt that you have received enough credit for the extraordinary work of the clinton foundationve been privileged to attend the last two annual meetings and the foundation's work, for those of you who do not know, include an extraordinary array of philanthropic projects, including hiv, the climate change, childhood obesity, assistance for small business owners, and helping african farmers increased yield, at these annual meetings, president clinton attends the entire meeting and i was fortunate enough to sit near him at the last meeting. it was simply remarkable. after each of about seven or eight project descriptions and progress reports, the president for a few minutes would add a few very interesting new pieces of information on every one of these projects and then at the end, some important insight into where to take it from there. mr. president, it seems to me that while you get a lot of credit for what you have done in the way of fiscal responsibility and the growth, you do not get enough credit for your remarkable contributions as a post- president to society. just to be

this is the reason that melinda and i have decided to make this cause our primary focus for our foundation. we know these are tough times in the budget, as president clinton alluded to. if the budget was not so constrained, i would come here and success -- i would come here and suggest that this budget be increased substantially more than is the current plan, but there are tough tradeoffs and i know that you have to consider those. but if you do that, i hope you will remember the impact and the success of these investments. in terms of the global health initiative proposal, i supported very strongly. i think it is very well done. i think you have some great people involved, not only in formulating the plan but who will also be there to make sure that the money is spent well. it increases funding for global health and this is important despite the incredible constraints. it has new strategies to make the money more effective. it focuses on particular countries. it focuses on the health problems where we have known interventions. a bill on the success -- it focused on the lives of mothers and children. we know a lot more about the integrated approaches that

aimed at mobilizing international support for the development needs of haiti and to lay the foundation for haiti's recovery. president preval, secretary clintonclinton, distinguished ministers, [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> four weeks, experts have been examining the costs of the effort in haiti. the u.s. government has won out a blueprint for it planned to guide and the recovery of haiti and new construction. here to present that the decision will be a moment. as a plan for action, it is concrete, specific, and above all, ambitious. it is not just to rebuild. it is to build a back bencher. -- build back better. it does create a new haiti. the majority of people no longer will live in deep poverty. they can go into school and enjoy better health. they have options for jobs. under this plan, the haiti recovery commission will channel $3.90 billion into specific programs and project during the next 18 months, over the next 10 years, haiti's reconstruction needs and total are an estimated $11.50 billion. clearly, this assistance was the well invested and well coordinated. it must provide for continuing emergence of f

resulted in significant reduction in the deficit were at least proposed reduction deficits that results. president clinton came to office and build on that foundation a successful budget that paid off in 1997 both sides came together in a bipartisan effort to pass the agreement of 1997. we've done it before and we can do it again. i had a small hand in the 1997 effort and i brought away from it lessons lie can share with you. common sense listens. first everybody needs to be at the table and the competition strikes me as a better life. we are democrats and republicans, members of the house and the senate. we have representatives from the sectors as well as public sectors so we need this diverse mix but we need these more for everyone to lean into the problem and look at the common ground. second everything it needs to be on the table. it was 97. we can't come out of these discussions successfully if we enter with rigid preconditions by what can or cannot be done to the government finances on the line. the problems that confront us are clear. the elements of constructive solutions. i look forward to working with all the members of the commission and

aimed at mobilizing international support for the development needs of haiti and to lay the foundation for haiti's recovery. president preval, secretary clinton, former president bill clinton, distinguished ministers, [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] experts have been assessing the needs and costs of the disaster. in tandem, the president and prime minister the government have worked out the blueprint for national strategic plans, a plan to guide him the's recovery and reconstruction. we will present that vision in a moment. i am sure that you will agree that it deserves our full and generous support. as a plan for action, it is concrete, specific, and above all, ambitious. it is not just to rebuild. it is to build a back bencher. -- build back better. it does create a new haiti. the majority of people no longer will live in deep poverty. they can go into school and enjoy better health. they have options for jobs. under this plan, the haiti recovery commission will channel $3.90 billion into specific programs and project during the next 18 months, over the next 10 years, haiti's reconstruction needs and total are an est

the peterson foundation hosted a form on the federal budget deficit and the national debt. speakers included 4 -- former president clintonb rubin, and former federal reserve chairman paul volcker. we will also hear from several members of the national debt commission. [inaudible] >> i look at the great minds around this room and i'm truly humbled, although i know there are many that doubt such a thing as possible. [laughter] it is our hope that we can come together in this summit and make progress on making consensus in three main areas. first, the nature and magnitude of our fiscal challenge. second, the future -- the nature and general direction of a solution. and third, how we educate and activate american citizens to do something about it? but got all kinds of ideas and ideologies represented here today. while we may not agree on a whole lot else, most of us agree on one thing -- our present fiscal course is unsustainable. at a time of multiple bailouts, one uncomfortable all lenders in the back of our mind. who is going to bail out america if our policies continue to stumble down this unsustainable path? as some of

resulted in significant reduction in the deficit were at least proposed reduction deficits that results. president clinton came to office and build on that foundationsful budget that paid off in 1997 both sides came together in a bipartisan effort to pass the agreement of 1997. we've done it before and we can do it again. i had a small hand in the 1997 effort and i brought away from it lessons lie can share with you. common sense listens. first everybody needs to be at the table and the competition strikes me as a better life. we are democrats and republicans, members of the house and the senate. we have representatives from the sectors as well as public sectors so we need this diverse mix but we need these more for everyone to lean into the problem and look at the common ground. second everything it needs to be on the table. it was 97. we can't come out of these discussions successfully if we enter with rigid preconditions by what can or cannot be done to the government finances on the line. the problems that confront us are clear. the elements of constructive solutions. i look forward to working with all the members of the commission and i hope t

the 2010 fiscal summit hosted by peter peterson foundation. we will hear from members of the national debt commission, former federal reserve chairman paul volcker and alan greenspan, and former president bill clinton. that starts at 8:45 eastern. and later, a senate hearing on the annual budgets of the securities and exchange commission and the commodities futures trading commission. the heads of both financial regulatory agencies will testify. live coverage begins at 2:30 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> sunday on book tv's "in- depth," television analyst, author, columnist, three-time presidential candidate pat buchanan on conservative ideology and today's political climate. he will take your calls, e- mails, and tweets, three hours with pat buchanan live at noon eastern on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. 8:congresswoman jan schakowsky is a member of the debt commission. a first meeting was today. guest: clearly people talk about what their priorities were. but i did get a sense that we are ready to roll of our sleeves and get to work. host: how do you think this will be different from all the other commissions that have been created in washington and some of that already looked at this i