we felt we were underweighted in asia, as yo mentioned at the outset. we did not think we had the kind of presence in asia, the attention to asia given the economic dynamism and the importance of it to our country. we felt we needed a more targeted and intensified counterterrorism strategy and we went about doing that and the result has been we have really degraded al qaeda. we judged at the end of twhaen al qaeda was in the worst shaped the been in since 2001. we believe we've taken out half the 30 top leaders in al qaeda. and, of course, our action against bin lan was really a stragic blow. and there are other a number of other places we wanted to acknowledge, including nonproliferation, the president's prague speh. those were the key lines of work th we undertook to build the platform on which we believe that we can restore ameri's credibility. and i think we've done that. >> rose: that's my question, how much have you achieved and what would you point to as an indication of success on any of those points >> if you look at it in terms of the rebalanci

it's a president who made decisions at the outset in iraq. it's a president who made a decision with afghanistan that in fact we were underresourced and didn't have strategy and direction and tripled the number of troops through a surge we're now seeing, again, from a position of success being able to take down. the numbers of. it's a president who has had the united states in the lead in terms of counterterrorism. it's a president who in europe, for example, we had a summit last november where the president led the effort on missile defense, on getting a common way forward in afghanistan, on a new concept for europe and nato's work there. it's a president who took the lead on taking the g-20 and making it the premiere and principle financial management, global financial management organization in the world, time after time i've seen the president come into the situation room and i've been there hundreds of times and sit down and make these kinds of decisions where america is leading and, again, the entire effort here is to have america restor

it is a president who made decisions on the outset about iraq. t to afghanistan. in fact we were under resourced and didn't str strategy and direction and tripled the number of troops there and now we are seeing in a position to take down the numbers. it is a president who has had the united states in the lead in terms of counterterrorism. it is a president who, in europe, for example, we had a summit last november. where the president led the effort on missile defense, on getting a common way forward in afghanistan, on a new concept for europe and alternate work there. it is a president who took the lead on taking the g-20 and making it the premier and principle global financial management agency in the world. time after time i have seen the president come in the situation room and i have been in there hundreds of times and sit down and make these kinds of decisions where american is leading and again the entire effort here is to have america restore its influence and power and authority in the world. of course, i also had the privilege of workin

perhaps, as you pointed out at the outset, things will change over this weekend. i hope, no matter what happens over this weekend, we will be able to vote to raise the debt ceiling. it is that important. the other mac and nations depend on what is in the package. to be honest, it is a package du jour. whether it is the gang of six, reid, the owner of the next day, it is confusing to people on the outside. i dare say that it is equally confusing to members here. i did suggest a couple of paths for word. a couple of scenarios will be laid out as we speak. the senate, as part of an agreement, took up a bill that the house passed earlier that they called cap, cut, and balance. it fosters, in boulder's caucus at least, the idea -- in boulder's caucus at least -- least, theaucus at idea. if we can believe what we hear, it is a bill that contains $3 trillion in cuts. no revenues that we know of immediately. that may be something that speaker boehner feels that we can get 218 republican votes on. they are in the majority, with 243 members and only 218 required for passage,

i did not know is going to take 15 years at the outset. i'm glad i did not take 15 years because i would not done it. i do not regret giving it the 15 years giving it the 15 years giving it the 15 years is individuals deserved and it's really for books and one anyway. his three full biographies and also the baxter in history 100 years from reconstruction until eventually the beginning of the 21st century. so there was a lot to be done.sd converted to islam. >> welcome to the 27th annual "chicago tribune" printers row that size. a special thank you tour sponsors. before we begin today's program, please turn off your cell phone and all other electric devices. photographs are not permitted. today's program will be recorded for future broadcast on c-span's booktv. if there is tenet began for a q&a session with the author, we ask you to use the microphone located at the center of the room said the home viewing audience can hear a question. the schedule of when the program will air, go to www.booktv.org. please welcome moderator, it karen long an

from the outset, the curator felt it was important for the exhibition to have a public art components of the work could reach the widest possible audience. more than just a promotion, the posters connect the work of these powerful artists with new audiences, including the vital chicano and latino community. images can be found in bart stations located in san for cisco and oakland. >> it is enormously exciting for me personally and for the institution. the poster with up right after new year's, and i remember very vividly -- i am a regular rider, and i went into the station and saw the first poster i had seen, it was incredibly exciting. it is satisfying to know that through the campaign, we are reaching a broader audience. >> for more information about >> good afternoon, welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, july 19th. >> mr. president, all members are present. >> could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? we have copies of the june 7th and june 14th board meeting minutes. do i have a motion to approve those minutes? those are approved. are there any comm

from the outset, the curator felt it was important for the exhibition to have a public art components of the work could reach the widest possible audience. more than just a promotion, the posters connect the work of these powerful artists with new audiences, including the vital chicano and latino community. images can be found in bart stations located in san for cisco and oakland. >> it is enormously exciting for me personally and for the institution. the poster with up right after new year's, and i remember very vividly -- i am a regular rider, and i went into the station and saw the first poster i had seen, it was incredibly exciting. it is satisfying to know that through the campaign, we are reaching a broader audience. >> for more information about i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center

>> translator: i will -- [ inaudible ] >> special envoy to north korea bosworth greeted gwan at the outset of the meeting on thursday. the meeting is not disclosed but they are demanding that north korea give up uranium and other nuclear programs. >>> it is also believed that north korea stressed its corporation to resume the six-party talks. >> the meetings were constructive and i have nothing more to add at this point. we may have more to add tomorrow. >> talks will continue on friday. >>> japan has asked south korea to ensure the safety of four japanese politicians who are planning to visit the country. state secretary for foreign affairs commented on the news conference on thursday. four members from the opposition liberal democratic party want to visit the south korean island of ulleungdo. >> as state government, it is only natural for south korea to ensure the safety of foreign visitors. >> the island is located near the sea of japan which are known as takashima. it is held by south korea now. >>> south korea president said it will not allow the four jp hemnes politicians to enter th

things looked different at the outset. norway almost struck first blood in the 15th minute. a defensive move all-out mary ann peterson a chance. she failed to connect cleanly. early in the second half, the australian defence was caught off guard. the ball went into the empty net. 1-0, norway. less than a minute later, the score was leveled. norway went on the offensive in search of a second goal and they almost got it. then, three minutes before time, simon struck again, putting australia ahead 2-1 and putting australia into the quarterfinals. >> we will be back in a moment for "in >> game over for muammar gaddafi. that is how nato is describing the situation and libya. russian officials have been sounding out -- russian officials say that gaddafi has been sounding out the possibility of exile. rebels have been pushing close to the capital. for many people in the east of the country, the gaddafi era already belongs to the past. the main rebel stronghold in the city of benghazi. our reporter was there to see how life changed under rebel control. >>>> it is unusual to hear the

at the outset, i must emphasize that nothing is more important ilyse of their employees come safety and security of their employees, of their operations and the communities that the serve. as all of you know, the issue of the security guard attention to the significant attention. and with the reporting and al qaeda in the operation and pakistan ended with the demise of osama bin laden. with the efforts to railroad the target's knott however. indeed the extensive efforts that we as the industry have devoted to enhance since the 9/11 attacks have been promised free much of this reality. following 9/11 connect and on their own initiative, the real words made top-level security task force existing of more than 150 industry experts to conduct a thorough evaluation of risk and security and then network. the focus areas include critical infrastructure, the rail operations, hazardous materials, communications and control systems and military shipments. this effort produced the rail industry's risk analysis and security management plan. it is a comprehensive priority based action the industry de

and you know, if i have that at the outset that, you know, that she was institutionalized, people just say she's crazy and not have to wrestle with the kinds of questions that are book strays and her letters they. and because her letters for so long, like 10 single space type pages, you know, with no typos have anything and matter and a grammatical sentence. they just had to clean his sentences you can conceive as. you know, i wanted to capture her voice, but i didn't want the reader to have to read 10 single site pages can i say compress them a lot. and i sort of condensed time and took the essence of them, but i didn't make anything out. you know, a biographer camino, conventionally they paraphrase. they put in their own words and try to capture the voice says the writer, but you're not supposed to. you're supposed to neutralize it. but i really wanted to keep punching a suburb voice, so i decided to do that and people get to the end of the book and if you like okay, that was an okay thing to do. other people might think of as being misleading, but i did want that sort of narrative p

we know that at the outset. president vietor: how is the reserve account funded? >> the reserve account will be funded from customers, part of the rate. i will leave the rate and finance questions for mr. r ydstrom, if i may. through our conversations with shell and doing market research, what we have brought back and spoken to you about in the past, we really could be offering renewable power on day one. in terms of the rate premium, it is not so significant for customer preferences. we are heading that direction. >> how does that work? -- president vietor: how does that work? does it involve the grid? how do we know that that is 100% renewable? >> at least for me, when i was a physics major, energy was the most difficult, and water was a lot easier. just like when you have multiple rivers flowing into a central river, you do not know how much which glass of water or wherever it came from, but you know how much is coming in. but the same token, the amounts of energy coming from the system needs to be balanced, and there is a very strict accounting by an independe

from the outset, the curator felt it was important for the exhibition to have a public art components of the work could reach the widest possible audience. more than just a promotion, the posters connect the work of these powerful artists with new audiences, including the vital chicano and latino community. images can be found in bart stations located in san for cisco and oakland. >> it is enormously exciting

29 historic shed that has been spliced through when pier 27 was built to create that opening at the outset. and during the races which have a full view of the start and finish lines, there would be bleachers and spectator viewing areas and during the off-race areas, program events and viewing and exhibitions associated with the races. and it includes a number of program entertainment inten venues that they are putting together. pier 29 it, the shed, would be housing the retail and merchandising and visitor activities. the construction of the first phase of the building that ultimately if approved would house the pier 27 cruise terminal is proposed improvement by the america's cup event authority on the pier 27 side. and that facility would be used for hospitality services associated with the overall event. and co-associated with the issue of a lot of the vessels associated with either supporting the race operations themselves or the larger spectator yachts shown in the picture outboard towards the end of the pier. pier 23 and 19 would be basically support facilities in their temporary uses

in washington, d.c., focusing on new york, these were high rise stories such as i shared at the outset with how to become resilience. anything that a more modest scale, that is the emotion that is tied to them. the deep emotions we are all familiar with online/11 is the shock and trauma. it will come back, if you acknowledge it will be there. now we need to harness it by asking -- what can you do? children, perhaps, asking, where were your parents on 9/11? what are they willing to do now? access like that would be powerful for many adults. my daughter just turned 16. she was 6 on 9/11. i know that she was focusing on this and saying that this is a part of the day. something that i think we could really help with in terms of bringing great strength back to our society. >> as we think about this, regarding resiliency and better inform citizens, the most important title and citizen, part of it also involves physical construction as well. i am wondering, governors do best when we see best practices, best models. i am wondering, if you talk a bit more about carry? and regional resilience? t

at the outset, i must emphasize that nothing is more important ilyse of their employees come safety and security of their employees, of their operations and the communities that the serve. as all of you know, the issue of the security guard attention to the significant attention. and with the reporting and al qaeda in the operation and pakistan ended with the demise of osama bin laden. with the efforts to railroad the target's knott however. indeed the extensive efforts that we as the industry have devoted to enhance since the 9/11 attacks have been promised free much of this reality. following 9/11 connect and on their own initiative, the real words made top-level security task force existing of more than 150 industry experts to conduct a thorough evaluation of risk and security and then network. the focus areas include critical infrastructure, the rail operations, hazardous materials, communications and control systems and military shipments. this effort produced the rail industry's risk analysis and security management plan. it is a comprehensive priority based action the industry de

the letters, to be completely sucked into her world, and, you know, if i, you know, had said at the outset that, you know, that she was institutionalized, then you know people will just say she's crazy and not have to wrestle with the questions her books and letters raise to her parents, and because her letters were so long, you know, like ten single space typed pages with no typos or anything and never an ungraygrammatical sentence. they were the cleanest sentences. you can conceive of -- you know, i wanted to capture her voice, but i didn't want the reader to have to read ten single size spaces so i con pressed them a lot, and i, you know, i want -- i sort of condensed them and took the essence of them, but i didn't make anything up. you know, a biographer par phrases and tries to papture the -- capture the voice of the writer, but you're supposed to neutralize it. i wanted to keep the punchiness of her voice. i do that. some people at the end of the book may feel like, okay, that was an okay thing to do, other people can feel i was misleading, but i wanted that sort of narrative at the

not completely, but because they don't have the same types of applications as the others at the outset, but it would be the elimination of a lower-priced competitor who has been an innovator. t-mobile was the first to bring that android phoned to market and consistently offers lower prices. we think taking that away lessens the number of competitors and would be a very big disaster for competition in this space. >> is there really like my job, and so i am going to say that the merger is going to go through the fcc and the department of justice and i look forward to sing with the outcome is. >> why don't you just tell us what you think and not anyone else? we're discussing the recent fcc report on competition in the wireless industry. we're pleased to be joined by representatives from the wireless industry, and from the free press, a think tank policy group that looks at these telecommunications issues. matt wood is the policy director, paul kirby of telecommunications reports. next question? >> often this report does not get much attention, but because of the merger. they are consideri

i want to say at the outset that i want to thank the departments for working closely with the mayor's budget staff. it is incredible, the work that you do. being here for over 21 years, i find it still the most talented workforce, the most talented department heads and managers, but the actual work force and their sacrifices are reflected -- their sacrifices reflected in this budget continues to amaze me. while we are scaling back and asking for real sacrifices, this budget has not been reflective of any new promises. it has actually been keeping a lot of the old promises alive. but the good thing about this budget is that there are no layoffs -- at least not in a massive way -- and unlike what i hear this morning, instead of closing libraries, we are reopening them. [applause] unlike sacramento, we are on time, and we are balanced. despite the difficulties that we have, i see actually in this budget a lot of hope. time and time again, i have been reminded throw out of the meetings we have had that a budget is reflective of our values in the city. in addition to reflecting our values,

situation worse and and therefore make the deficit situation worse i think it went wrong really at the outset of the whole euro project the stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing that countries can undertake has not been here to and many countries in the living well beyond their means for for many years all these countries have simply too much debt and it is very very difficult to manage that debt moving forward if the markets keep dividing higher interest and really a default situation of at least some of the european debt has to be on the table and will probably be on the table within the next six or twelve months and in today's or addition of cross talk people of ellen is going to discuss why the ease of the ship was so adamant about saving the you're at any cost here is a little bit of what's coming up later in the day here on alt. let greece go bankrupt it would be good for greece it would be good for the european be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and run out of the house just pay their bills or stop the lie then you would have everybody would know it's a strong

>> from the outset, there has been a great chasm between what has been stated as an objective and what has been a limited military involvement. ultimately, there will be a grand presence. at some point, there will either be fighting that continues or that someone is a victor. there have to be someone in between those two forces. there is an immense amount of score settling that will occur. >> there is fierce resistance to that suggestion. could you think in terms of a peacekeeping force, if so, by what country? >> that is probably what will happen. you have peacekeeping and peacemaking. there is some degree of an agreement in terms of what those terms are. the knees to be a force on the ground that can refereed. it can't be from one of the neighboring arab nations that has a professional military force. i am not suggesting that the egyptians or saudi arabia's king involved. a special force that can command under some other flag, under some other auspices and with a charter that says that we are not here to take sides but to keep you from killing each other. >> thank you very much. >> i

situation worse and and therefore make the deficit situation worse i think it went wrong really at that the outset of the whole euro project and stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing that countries can undertake has not mean it here too and many countries in the living well beyond their means for the for many years all these countries have simply too much debt and is very very difficult to manage that they're moving forward if the markets keep dividing higher interest and really a default situation of at least some of the european debt passerby on the table and will probably be on the table within the next six or twelve months. in today's edition of cross talk people a bell and it's just discussed why the leadership of so i don't know about saving the euro at any cost or some of what's coming your way in approximately two hours time right here. let greece called bankruptcy would be good for greece it would be good for the europe it'd be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and roll out of the house just pay their bills or stop a lie and then you would have everybody would know

well i think it went wrong really up at the outset of the whole euro project in that the natural rebalancing of of the various economies through the exchange rate mechanism hasn't been replaced by another system to help countries in time of difficulty. and the stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing that countries can undertake has not been it here too and many countries have been living well beyond their means for for many years and therefore when a crisis is sort of a lot of time but in effect then it's all gone wrong drop the eurozone get out of the euro and get back to original currencies is not the idea because some countries are threatening to do that. but i think that is definitely a possible solution another solution is a debt write off another solution is having a more centralized fiscal system within europe where the e.c.b. actually. collects the money in terms of issuing bonds at a much lower interest rate at the group strength and then. gives it to the various member states but that is something is going to take a long time to implement and the european leaders haven'

asked germany for munitions reports now on the in surprise turn after opposing the mission from the outset. of the more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of airstrikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies on libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of shells to drop where there is demand there is supply and this is their only has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin has abstained from voting in favor of the un security council resolution on libya a move that surprised some and angered others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans will not want to participate but they have decided that the position does not preclude them actually some supplying weapons in this case or systems some believe germany is under pressure from other. nato members particularly the united states friends in the u.k. to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first hand power you know ministries toward the foreign affairs minister don't go into libya it's a very bad conflict it was started by the cia and it's a dirty b

they didn't have access to the same applications and hand sets that veer verizon and at&t have at the outset, but the elimination of a lower price competitor who has been an invo vatter. they brought phones to market and offers lower prices than verizon and at&t. taking that away and lessingen the number of in this nationwide customers is disaster for exe thition in this space. >> host: chris guttman-mccabe? >> guest: i like my job, and i'm going to say the merger will be a rigorous process at the fcc and department of justice. i look forward to know the outcome. >> host: tell us what you think. [laughter] this is c span's communicator program discussing the fcc report on competition in the wireless industry. we are joined by chris guttman-mccabe, haven't, and from free press, a think tank policy group that looks at these telecommunications issues, matt wood is the policy director. paul kirby has the next question. >> guest: this doesn't get tension, and one reason this year it does is because of the merger they are considering. groups and companies who opposed merger tried to use the report

situation worse and therefore make the deficit situation worse i think it went wrong really at that the outset of the whole euro project the stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing that countries can undertake has not been it here too and many countries i mean living well beyond their means for for many years all these countries have simply too much debt and it is very very difficult to manage that debt moving forward if the markets keep dividing higher interest and really a default situation of at least some of the european debt has to be on the table and will probably be on the table within the next six or twelve months and the e.u. needs to speed up its crisis decision making to resolve the turmoil and countries that's the view of the greek minister of culture and terms but one thing that we see a lot of is a lot of the beat and the markets are watching that would be making decisions before the decisions are made by the european union and that's always a disaster when you're dealing with markets that are moving so fast you need to be very first in the decisions you make sure you

we got all of that done because my message at the outset was these are unprecedented times for it we cannot end up in a partisan bickering battle. money to set aside the politics, set aside all the anger and the end and roll up our sleeves and get the job done. we got it done. legislative session was probably the most productive that anyone can remember. it was done by everybody laying out the problem and asking for people to sacrifice and help. i've included my public. i had hearings across the state. i had a transportation committee, about 31 the burst people who helped work it through. we were able to do it but we did it with an inclusive, respectful way and we got the job done. >> is that a criticism of all the governors who could not resolve their state problems? >> i cannot criticize my colleagues. i don't know their dynamics. i am sure you the experience of my state. i don't think i am alone. i think there are a number of states that have been able to make the dramatic transformation that we have been able to do. i have about a $32 billion annual budget but 60% of that is off-l