right into the mic. yeah, a lot of times commercial spaces what we find out people get a lease and apply for permits and there might be an issue with accessibility issues. i seen some people lose their lease because they can't meet their requirements. >> that's a good point that the disabled access issues where the interface of the sidewalk hits the front of the building, you have to have a front door with a level landing outside. however, the building code allows you an alternative with you have the power door buttons. if you have one you don't need to have a level landing you can have a slopped sidewalk up to the door. and if you have that you don't neat the strike side clearance. if you have a button you don't have to worry about the door opening pressure which is strictly regulated. the power door operators. everybody likes them much the disabled community likes them and they resolve problems at the interface between sidewalk and building. yes, ma'am. >> i have a cookie question, do you know where we

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where's the mic? i guess over there, over there. >> thank you. >> yeah. wait for the mic. wait for the mic. >> ralph nader said that he thinks now the way things have gone with the rich owning the media message that our only salvation is a good kauai that's -- guy that's rich. so my question is do you know any really good rich guys like teddy roosevelt or fdr? [laughter] >> oh, teddy roosevelt's awful. >> well, he -- >> well, i love ralph, and i actually slogged my way through the book. and i, but i did ask him when in human history the oligarchic class had ever stopped in to -- stepped in to save anyone, and he sort of mumbled something about fighting robber-barons, and then he said something that sort of broke my heart. he said, look, it's all we have left. and, and ralph who has a kind of eternal optimism maybe that i don't share, i think, was really seriously trying to appeal to enlightened figures of the oligarchic class which is why he names them, although i can't figure out why yoko ono was in there. [laughter] but i, it's not worked. the rich take care of the rich.

come to the mic. >> richard, you mentioned the 30th anniversary of reykjavÍk.o you think that the world situation is related to nuclear weapons would be different if the results of the reykjavÍk meeting had been different? >> the question is what the world be a different place right now with nuclear weapons if reykjavÍk had been a success? i was fascinated with the reykjavÍk summit. i got my hands on not only the american transcripts but also the russian and i had the russian transcript translated because i don't read that language and i put them side-by-side. one of the things i discovered is what are supposed to be raw primary documents had already been fixed up a little bit. there was great concern on the part of president reagan's advisers that he not be depicted as offering to eliminate nuclear weapons and that which is kind of cut out of the transcript. and within the russian transcript and not surprisingly the russian transcript was a verbatim stenographic report. whoever was make in that record did not want to be shown when he got home to moscow as havi

[inaudible] president olague: if you can speak into the mic. >> my name is shanna kon, the owner of 910 silver avenue and i heard another concern from our neighbor that -- about the falling of the, you know, house, that we would actually cramp, if something would happen, our house is going to fall down on their house. i think this is something that is happening that we cannot predict and not do anything about it. but we will do our best and hire all the professionals to finish this project and we have actually consulted a couple of licensed contractors and we were told it would have no impact on the neighbor's house and we add this addition for our own use only. there's no rental, no nothing. it's absolutely for our family use. thank you very much for your time. president olague: thank you. are there any additional speakers for project spons? sponsor. seeing none, d.r. requester, you have two minutes of rebuttal time. [speaking through interpreter] >> there was earlier saying they do not have enough money to purchase a larger home. the fact that they are building the existing home is go

i need to you speak into the mic. thank you. >> my name is kathy. given the city wide recycling program and blue bin pickups, i think the recycling center -- >> hold that mic up. >> should i start over? >> yes, start over. we'll give you a minute. >> given the city wide recycling program and weekly blue bin pickups, i think the recycling center should be moved to a more suitable and industrial location. the site on the east end of the golden gate park would be for vibrant community garden and contribute to the nearby neighborhoods. thank you. >> please come forward. i have called all of the names on all of the cards i have received. so if you would like to speak and your name has not been called, please come on up. thank you. >> david. have i not spoken on this item yet. i think it's appropriate that we're discussing c.r.v. and red herrings since it's hanukkah and time of redemption. but in addition to the previous comments that i made about environmental review, there again is nothing on your calendar item that speaks to the environmental review on

we will -- wait for the mic phone please. >> thank you very much. this was really spectacular. sa's top side -- it will create -- maybe not quite as hot as this room now. so the powers that be are educated to having us think that north and to not arrested but what can we do to take appropriate action to say, well, everyone and everything. >> well, i wrote a book before this called "empire of illusions" which is about the retreat into these electronic hallucinations, the kind of magical thinking that is fed to us by the corporate regime, that reality is never an impediment to what we want. and, of course, that is taught to us by over and the christian right, self-help gurus in hollywood and its magical thinking. it's what all the twilight of all dying civilization engaged in. you can read cicerone complaining about the arena and have the spectacle in the arena has poisoned political and civil discourse in the declining days of ancient rome. joseph roth wrote about it with the class of the austro-hungarian empire. and that's precisely what's happened. because all the evidence is s

where's the mic? i guess over there, over there. >> thank you. >> yeah, well, wait for the mic. >> ralph nader thinks the only salvation is a good guy that's rich. my question is do you know any really good rich guys like teddy roosevelt or fdr? >> oh, teddy roosevelt is awful. well, i love ralph, and i actually slogged my way through the book, but i did ask him when in human history the class stepped into save anyone, and he sort of mumbled something about fighting robber barren or something. then he said something that sort of broke my heart. he said, look, it's all we have left. ralph who has a kind of eternal optimism maybe that i don't share i think was really seriously trying to appeal to enlighten figures of the class which is why he names them. it has not worked. the rich take care of the rich, and boy, human history bore that out. i'm a huge admirer and friend of ralph, but i break with him on that. i don't think the superrich are going to save us. right over here with the red hat. purple. [l

we have iona with the mic. >> we got a question right here. . >> hi my name is joanne, i visited atlanta for social reform >> where are you? >> i am here. i visited atlanta for a whole week. the community bus is the best thing we can have if we can put it together. it's nothing like bringing the community together. you have to start at home. if you want to put something together, you have to go to the communities. have the youth say it. i see a lot of youth parents taking them to school because they are afraid they won't see their child again. it starts in the community. this meeting is really great. you are preaching to the choir. we need to speak to the youth. i have seen violence on the bus of a kid showing off a weapon in the bay view. people don't want to change and they don't want to be labeled. we are not protected. you have to be careful on what you see. you can't say what you see at all times. if you live in the community and you see something. you have to understand people are not telling things because they are not protected of the we have to understand, what we can do about i

i will repeat the question back so you don't have to get up and use the mic unless you want to. okay. and let's see. we can -- this hall is set up for 250 people it looks like and we have awful 15 of us. so, thank you for being here. i understand they are having a big class here later and that's why we are in here. it will probably be full by the end of the lecture. >> should i give my background. >> sure karl. >> everyone knows laurence's background. mine is construction if restaurants for 10 years. i'm a partner in 3 restaurants in the city. vitaken restaurants from beginning to end from business plan all the way to opening. >> what is the end. beginning to end? >> beginning to end where i lead the situation. [laughter]. i don't do operations. we watch out for the operations, when we are laying out a restaraunt. >> uh-huh. speaking of beginning to end this morning as i was thinking about bringing stuff in to holdup and talk about i was looking at this book cook book of famous san francisco restaurants. it was published in the 80's. and i looked at the restaurants and most of t

. >> it -- speak into the mic, ma'am. >> i hope you are. >> you can understand, you cannot. okay. i'm not asking much. i own one-third of the property. we had the most obvious one, shortest one, okay? what i understand is -- if s-if it is the garage, then you got one floor, second floor and then third okay? then couple of stair up. i have a bedroom, okay? up there. i don't consider that -- we are overwhelming by beauty -- by being up so high and so tall. we're pretty much -- much with the neighbors. okay? according to what my architect tell me. we have a lot of opposition here. it make me question why? i kind of wonder why. okay. people get up together, okay? they go around. they talk to each other, give the wrong information. we have invited them to the house to see the plan only one person show up. okay. here we are. we're about to do it. waited for two years. been here -- then everywhere -- everyone is defense us. my question to you is please consider and tell me why. tell me why so much opposition here. why. how come? we ask -- we are three-story, not more. it is not four-story

at the same time, india and pakistan become closer in solving the problem of kashmir. >> who's got the mic? >> mr. president, my name's alex mace. i'm a sophomore from st. louis, missouri. some have suggested that in writing the decision points and establishing the bush institute that you're attempt -- trying to re-define your political legacy. i want to know how you respond to that criticism and what real impact do you expect your efforts to have on the direction of national policy? >> yes. interesting question. look, somebody the other day said, you know, "would you like to debate?" i said, "man, i'm through debating." if you're interested in what i thought, read the book. and so i don't really worry about my legacy because you know, i'm still studying theodore roosevelt or harry truman. and there's not going to be an objective history done on this administration for a long time. i mean it's impossible for somebody, for example, who covered the white house as a correspondent to write an objective analysis of my presidency. that person will be colored by the times, the moment, and so i'm

president newlin: use the other mic. >> officer takens, central police department department standing in for officer matthias, the regular permit officer. i discussed this with officer matthias prior and basically those conditions we'd like to see placed on for obvious reasons. we have residents in the close area and we don't want quite that much sound to be disruptive to the neighborhood any more than it already is. colosseo is a nice restaurant. it's not a personal issue. we don't want microphones in the hands of the opera singer. if you're an opera singer, you can be well heard without a microphone and we don't want the singing amplified. we don't have a problem with the background music amplified. that's basically our position. president newlin: o.k. >> isn't it true, though, that the doors are to remain closed at all times and are still subject to the sound ordinance, that music can't emanate from the establishment? >> that's right. but not to increase the possibility of serving the peace, we would like to see those conditions placed on the entertainment at this time. >> i suppos

[inaudible] >> the mic is not on. >> -- in the u.s. is that right? with your second point that china needs to do more investment in the u.s. of the three points he made at the end of your speech. and if so, what kind of investment? >> know, the second point was the united states should be more open to chinese investment here. >> slightly different spin on that then. what kind of investments do you have in mind? >> well, i happen to be unusually in my case on the left-wing side of this than i would say anything they want more or less. certainly, investment would be an example of something which i would've thought would've been quite permissible. >> anymore comments, questions? >> charles ettinger from brookings institution. any of the panelists i would like to address this question, when worse out talking about large utilization of coal by 2050 by believe some of the panelists were talking about. this seems to fly into the face with the intergovernmental panel on climate change is sane, which is by 2050 we have to be on the true check or a downward. i

higgins, who's on the mic tonight? mu. ♪ come on down and get ready to karaoke it up! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: man, how are you? >> i'm all right. >> jimmy: buddy -- pleasure, welcome, welcome, welcome to the show. what is your name? >> lance. >> rob. >> besan. >> lance. >> rob. >> besan. >> lance. >> rob. >> besan. [ laughter ] >> rob. >> lance. >> rob. >> besan. ♪ >> rob. >> lance. >> rob. >> lance. >> besan. >> lance. >> besan. >> rob. >> lance. >> jimmy: welcome. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] here's how we play this game. you'll each stand with your back to the sharp 108. you'll sing the words that you see in the monitor in front of you. words written by snooki, herself. they'll change from white to yellow, to help you follow along, just like real karaoke. at the end, we'll decide the winner, based on our great audience's applause. steve, tell us what tonight's winner will be taking home! >> steve: well jimmy, tonight's winner will receive a brand new gpx karaoke system. sing along to your favorite s

. >> jimmy: you're putting the mic on the wrong one.going to talk. [ applause ] and so how long -- how long's visit planned? is there an end date in sight? >> yes. shortly. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: do you have a ticket or how will you know when it's time to go? >> well, you know, we sort of -- >> jimmy: okay, there is. who determines that date? [ laughter ] >> my parents. they want to stay here. >> jimmy: sure, they're your parents. >> you know, we have to watch her schedule. >> jimmy: that's right, you have to keep an eye on her schedule. what if she's late to work? somebody's got to take care of this stuff. are your parents -- well, they must be proud that you're a doctor. [ laughter ] >> yes, very much so. it's like i played a lot of roles. most of my stuff is in obscure indy stuff. for them to have, you know, a doctor on tv, i think that they're -- >> jimmy: my daughter the doctor. what were they like, your parent, growing up? what is your, like, kind of relationship like, besides packaging spoilled foods for you? >> let's see. i was

. >> futrell when wheat for the mic. go ahead. >> thank you so much for your talk tonight. you have written a lot recently and have spoken quite a bit about this to might come and get on the understand as has been told to me by my veterans for peace program that you're joining the action on december 16th in washington, the veteran action against the current wars that are continuing to perpetuate themselves. i was wondering a, why now, and b, would you say to people that are on the fence about whether or not they might want to join us? >> well, i've joined other actions. this is the first time i've agreed along with daniel ellsworth and several other veterans to go chain myself to the sense of the white house. [applause] because it's all we have left. it is our bodies, and i think time, we don't have much time left. we cannot keep borrowing much longer to sustain an empire in a level of consumption that we can't afford and collapse especially when it's not expected when people are not emotionally, psychologically and intellectually prepared for it. as i saw with the economic

i remember watching the video with run dmc, and then you punched the walls with the mic stand and i gon rick rubin, man. he -- >> jimmy: is that right? >> he loved aerosmith and he had those guys, you know, and the beastie boys and all that. >> jimmy: yeah, rick rubin is awesome. >> they were scratching to that obviously. >> jimmy: jam master jay? >> yeah, yeah. they asked joe and i to come in, joe brought his guitar, thank god. [ singing guitar rift ] >> jimmy: can you give us a -- can you give a taste now? [ cheers and applause ] >> i don't know, man. i've done it so many times. >> jimmy: come on. >> how about maybe if i don't sing it and i play the drums? >> jimmy: how about if you do both? please? >> all right. >> jimmy: steven tyler! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ backstroke lover always hidin' 'neath the covers till i talked to your daddy, he say ♪ ♪ he said you ain't seen nothin' till you're down on a muffin then you're sure to ♪ ♪ be a-changin' your ways i met a cheerleader was a real young bleeder oh, the times i ♪ ♪ could reminisce 'cause the best things of lovin' with her s

. >> reporter: until recently the man with his beautiful golden voice behind the mic, was without a home

but do they say things to you when the mics are off, either positive or negative. you can't tell. >> i think there is concern. the way i would describe it is a jigsaw puzzle. generals have a part of that puzzle. and everyone is doing their part. every time you look at one of those pieces, they are making some progress. they are doing what they should be doing. what concerns them is how that puzzle fits together. there is a lot of wars being fought. i know that richard holbrooke said that we have to stop these wars in afghanistan. and he's right. there are a lot of wars. they are going to bring in tanks in the south. that's not real counter insurgency in the south. yes, i do think there is concern about how all of this fits together. and in this places there were an amazing material in the atlantaic, written by a former infini infini soldier. and they were saying we have to go out, and we have to go out tomorrow to protect my brother, my brother soldier. and you come away from that article, what are they doing? what are they doing out there? they are going out and ge

political islam there is flarm has all the colors of the rainbow you can find every current within the small mic world the united states is perfectly happy working with the smarminess in turkey who are staunch supporters of nato and have been a central pillar of nato i don't think the muslim brotherhood in either egypt or tunisia will be all that different but what will be different if the demonstrators succeed in toppling mubarak is that egypt will for the first time in years be able egyptians will be able to decide on who they want to elect in that instance stream lee important and the choice there is much much more different than the choice you have in europe center left center right democrats republicans in the u.s. very little divides them in egypt the gulf between the dictatorship and the people challenging it is huge so it's a very exciting prospect and of course it might well affect u.s. relations with egypt if for instance just on one issue they decide to open the border with gaza they're not going to now because i to be trampled exact you know jeff i mean i i didn't want to go through

. >> because of the c-span recording, speak into the mic. thank you. >> it seems to me certain role figures like gandhi, martin luther king and others are uniquely suited for their particular time and place in history, and yet they also have a message that is suited for all times in all places in history, and i wondered if you could sum up what was that particular message of gandhi for all of us even here today? >> well, thank you for starting with an easy question. [laughter] if you see a wrong, do something about it. if you see a wrong, look at your own possible responsibility for it also. fight, but turn such light into words also, fight, but turn the such light into words also. [applause] >> hi, professor, thank you for coming tonight. i had a question, and i'm sure you've been asked this before, but obviously i vice haven't asked it and got an answer for it. in the current state of economic and global affairs for india especially, i've been curious what gandhi's viewpoint would have been of india in the 21st century especially from the

if you could just speak loudly. >> we need a microphone. >> okay. >> speak louder. >> no, wait for the mic. >> oh, okay. your question is worth waiting for. >> speak from the diaphragm. [laughter] >> yes. mccain and obama -- result of their actions is so cynical that the program that was cut and the money was added back. in working on your book, do you see any real desire given our needs to control the budget -- is there -- is there any sincere effort, anybody who's really trying to cut back on the military industrial complex in the government today? >> well, i think it's just the beginning of some debate and some hope. representative barney frank has joined with ron paul to come up with a proposal to cut $100 billion in the military budget, $100 billion per year over the next 10 years. i have other 50 members of congress signed up of him. paul is of interest because, you know, he's a favorite of the tea party and his son rand paul has called for cutting spending as has eric cantor and this is all tied to the notion of deficit reduction which has its own issues, you know, whether we should

. >> can i share the mic with you? people can't hear me, i'm so sorry. any reason to give credence to the reason that biden and clinton change jobs in 2012? >> i don't think so at all. and i'll tell you why. i think, pall, biden -- first of all, biden loves the job he's got. hillary clinton seems to love the job she's got, and she doesn't want to be vice president, she wants to be president. [laughter] beyond that, i think the relationship between biden and obama has become very strong to the point that obama said -- biden said recently that obama asked him to stay on the ticket with him, and he said he would. >> with rahm emanuel's departure from the white house, will the vice president's advice on matters with congress become more important to the president and his inner circle? >> yes, definitely. i think we're seeing that already in dealing with getting the tax deal through. obama is not known on the hill even e though he was in the senate for a short time. he, biden has probably better contacts in the senate particularly than rahm emanuel ever had, a

and then he looked at the ceiling at the mics this time. but one phenomena i noticed in the 70's when i was a reporter and used to go to the soviet union from time to time i was struck by the fact they had reached a point where the rolling central government and the political mechanism felt that it could no longer know enough about what was going on around the country unless it unleashed the press. but there was a really tough rules in the south, one written everywhere but everybody understood which is you can blame gettysburg from the fact the british steel, do not connected in any way to the kremlin. in other words, responsibility was cut off at the provincial level. i notice some of the same things now going on in china. if you go to some of the provinces, you will find very tough investigative reporting but it doesn't involve beijing. >> there is a worry that dictators throughout history, and especially in the 20th century have had, which can be summed up by the phrase give an inch and they will take a mile. and that tends to happen and

i'm ready for questions, but wait for the mic. there it comes. >> is it possible that nixon's words were an -- not an imitation of kennedy's, but a conservative critique of ask not in the famous critique of ask not at the beginning of his freedom where he forced both sides of the equation for being qaulty. >> i'm willing to accept that, but -- that's an interesting point. i don't know if i like -- in the challenges we face together, let us ask not how can government help, but how could i help. i suppose you could say that. this was a clever nixonnian response. if so, i have never heard that before and i read a lot of the nixon books. ok. [[inaudible]] well, i have greater respect for nixon and his speechwriters than i did half an hour ago. thank you. yes, anybody else? >> in terms of inaugural speeches, this would have been the third one that was televised live? >> yes. the fourth. >> fourth. >> harry truman was first and the audience was very small. i think it was in the thousands. and then both of eisenhowers'. so this was the fo

. >> if you have a question just go ahead and raise your hand and i'll come by with the mic. >> i just have a story, not a question. i happened to be with president nixon. i was with president nixon as a military aide on the day president eisenhower died, and we zoomed up to walter reed hospital. he went into this week, came out of the suite in tears, sobbing and sobbing. i had never seen him cry again for many, many years until mrs. nixon died. it was a very significant friendship. >> that was a jack brennan, who was my data military marine paid in the white house, served his country with great distinction. and after the resignation, jacking up and was chief of staff for my dad, and i remember my father crying, too. >> i was going to say something to the eisenhower nixon relationship is actually of interest to historians in a big way julie and i have been talking with a man who is going to base a book on them. the scenes that you're talking about, jack, i was that i remember. if the answer to everybody. not only, here, there was a clash between the two that one might expect. one of th

. >> you want to wait for the mic? [inaudible] >> i can't even hear you. >> any idea if they use real ways, store their weapons, where they've got there, are they stored separately in peace to a? >> i don't know. no. there's a certain amount of knowledge but not very much about the israeli nuclear arsenal. icing essence that they provide about as much as 80 weapons, 300 weapons. it's pretty clear that's why they need tritium. but how they are stored i have no idea. thank you. >> there's another corollary to the when you're talking about, proliferation force, and it's also overwhelming security causes, it immense value to a country doesn't have the money to counter that, to get a nuclear weapon. so we are in kind a quandary here i in the u.s. where we are documented, and that's a roadblock. >> the comment had to do with overwhelming conviction of superiority. i'm sure you're aware that the united states would be relatively even more dominant in a nonnuclear world that we are now. one of the things that is a threat, of c

thank you. >> she's already got the mic. >> good morning and thank you for the time. i'm with the alaska public radio network. as native tribes and corporations approach congress and approach the white house, do they need to take different tactics? should there be a division between what corporations are looking for versus tribes to make sure that the tribal voice is heard? in alaska the voice is often very expressive and heard very loudly. >> thank you for the question. the tribal organizations around the country are represented by tribal leaders. what we have worked very hard in the past several years is to refine our message into one united message to congress. as we walk the halls of congress and we visit with different congressmen, we wonder make sure that our voice is not only united but consistent. we want to make sure that our voice is strong in that our communities are represented by different interests in many ways. and the bipartisan support that we get in terms of indian programs and services, they can't be fragmented so we have to be consistent and strong

the boards. oh. and just handed her a mic. let's do weather. live shot in new orleans. and new orleans, by the way. i don't know if you were keeping up with the weather today. were you keeping up with the weather? >> just new york. and it's cold. >> it is cold. in new orleans, there's a little bit of rain going on there. one of the areas below normal in rainfall. about three inches. we'll show you who gets what. and talk a little about the map. it's all over the southeast. who is getting rain today? >> definitely montgomery, it looks like and atlanta. >> getting some showers during the day today. a quick look at the big board. the only thing we're concerned about. see the area of patchy purple in tennessee? that could be a slip and slide if some of the moisture freezes. nice in the southwest. go ahead, kristen. >> this weather report has been brought to you by red lobster. george? >> well done, kristen. >>> we're going to turn to our new year, new you series. the epidemic of childhood obesity has tripled over the last two decades. it's an issue

the feedback was that mic. you may lower it one level. sorry. it's driving me crazy. >> how's that? vice chair joseph: sorry. forgive me. >> so, the burrit room itself has been open for about seven months now and as indicated in the application, it's open seven nights a week. we traditionally keep an ipod playlist of soul, blues, jazz, light or classic rock, and the idea moving forward in the future is to be able to kind of book acts similarly along those lines to keep maybe a live pianist here and there, acoustic guitar, very light jazz bands, or occasionally to bring in ae sound doesn't really seep into the street. you have about 200 feet, all of the room in the front of the hotel, above stockton street and on either side of us it's really commercial uses so they're obviously not really occupied at night so as a practical matter, the only people -- the main people we have to concern ourselves with are our guests above the room and that's something we have to manage and if there's ever an event that might be loud, we try to keep our guests higher in the building. if we happen to b

[inaudible] >> the mic is not on. >> -- in the u.s. is that right? with your second point that china needs to do more investment in the u.s. of the three points he made at the end of your speech. and if so, what kind of investment? >> know, the second point was the united states should be more open to chinese investment here. >> slightly different spin on that then. what kind of investments do you have in mind? >> well, i happen to be unusually in my case on the left-wing side of this than i would say anything they want more or less. certainly, investment would be an example of something which i would've thought would've been quite permissible. >> anymore comments, questions? >> charles ettinger from brookings institution. any of the panelists i would like to address this question, when worse out talking about large utilization of coal by 2050 by believe some of the panelists were talking about. this seems to fly into the face with the intergovernmental panel on climate change is sane, which is by 2050 we have to be on the true check or a downward. i

the guy with the mic. >> jam coda with "the associated press." he spoke about commitments to infrastructure and i'm wondering if you have a dollar figure you think would be necessary in order to accomplish what you think is needed. and how does that square with your call for deficit reduction, given that's likely to come to a buzz saw with the house republicans? >> well, i think you're exactly right at the end of your question that there is hesitancy to move on the infrastructure question. but we all know if we don't do it the infrastructure, or going to have a significant reduction in national productivity. so we have to deal with the highway bill and the aviation bill and the water pills that are all in suspended animation and keep getting pushed forward on three-month extensions. and therefore those situations, the state and federal governments, who jointly do this are not able to make a plan and are not going to make the kinds of investments we need and i think it's going to have a negative effect on our economy. we can then talk about how th

the guy with the mic. >> jam coda with "the associated press." he spoke about commitments to infrastructure and i'm wondering if you have a dollar figure you think would be necessary in order to accomplish what you think is needed. and how does that square with your call for deficit reduction, given that's likely to come to a buzz saw with the house republicans? >> well, i think you're exactly right at the end of your question that there is hesitancy to move on the infrastructure question. but we all know if we don't do it the infrastructure, or going to have a significant reduction in national productivity. so we have to deal with the highway bill and the aviation bill and the water pills that are all in suspended animation and keep getting pushed forward on three-month extensions. and therefore those situations, the state and federal governments, who jointly do this are not able to make a plan and are not going to make the kinds of investments we need and i think it's going to have a negative effect on our economy. we can then talk about how th

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. >> wait for the mic. yeah, yeah. >> charles, a teacher at sais.t is very important is what we do in terms of our own economy. so my question to you? -- to you is this, what can we do to accelerate foreign investment in the united states and our own investment into this economy as rapidly and as effectively as we can? >> in the short term, of course, it's worth noting that the tax package that was passed in congress has a very short-term incentive for this that because we provide for one-year period of investments and capital equipment and that has the benefit of providing a pretty powerful spark and catalyst, useful reinforcement and recovery in gathering momentum but we have some ways to go to repair the damage, climb out of the hole. long term, it's obvious. we want to make sure we have a tax system that create better incentives for investment in the united states. the president proposed last september to expand resigning a permanent tax credit for research and development in the united states. but that's just one of the things we can do and we'

question in the room, sir, you had your hand up. do you have your mic in place? >> i guess my question is involved with -- you're missing -- you have to miss some people. you can't get everyone 100%. why was it that when your denothingographd demographiers were there and it would be better if you were at the lower end? >> okay. this is a great question and let me sort of repeat it to make sure everybody got it. why are we pleased when we see these results that i just went through i guess is it in a nutshell. let me first say something i guess i didn't say in this press conference. there has never been a perfect census. i'm willing to speculate that we will never have a perfect census not in a democracy. there's someplace where is we can have a perfect census. i'm not sure we want to live there. there's no perfect, there's no gold standard that's better than that, right? it's not the kind of thing where you could see how close it is. on an examination, there's a perfect score, say, 100 and you can see how close you are to that. we don't have that outside standard.