the uc the recent reduction of attention permanent -- do you see the recent reduction permanent? >> we certainly hope that the reduction is permanent. profound hope. as a suspect so, too, for prc and taiwan. we have contributed some instructors for taiwan's annual exercise. as you may know, we have sent some well qualified military instructors. the fact that tension has been defused, if not eliminated, is very encouraging. the steps taken by prc and taiwan, while summer pedestrian in a way with sending exotic animals, pandas, to zoos, increased commercial traffic, making it easier to send mail back and forth across the street. each of these are not watershed decisions but all contribute to a sense of cooperation and collaboration that we find encouraging. >> i am from the world journal. not too long ago, it chinese sub hit a u.s. -- [unintelligible] can you comment the capabilities against conventional submarines, especially with those capabilities? >> is that all you want to know? let me take the mccain peace first. john mccain, operating international water, the way we operate

the uc something like that in the music feature? -- do you see something like that in music's future? >> i mentioned we were launching an on-line video site call vivo. i did not know if the plan is to launch with a fee or if it is at supported. i think they're actually talking to advertising partners. it is usually -- music video content is largely popular online. video content is very popular. universal was one of the first companies that stood up and said, we would like to be paid for that video content. we would like to get our artists and some writers paid. you know, hulu has been very successful. music videos online very popular. it will be interesting to see as we gear up to launch -- i believe youtube is our partner. we hired someone from universal who will be heading that business. it is a division of -- i think it will be potentially exciting development. >> besides apple and itunes, is digital music economically successful. --? how you prevent the leakage? >> i think they have proven that it is hugely successful. it has ce

the uc any parallel between the deterioration of a public education, the insights of the general electric and the quality of people will are legislating in both our federal and state legislatures? >> guest: let me get to education in a second. one of the antic moments in recent american politics was one the president came out and said scandalous, credit-card applications are so complicated and with the federal government are went to clarify them. this is the federal government that has given as a tax code with 3.5 million words in its and 4 million extra words and as exegesis for the 3.5 million and it is still a tax code still complicated that's significant numbers of his cabinet can't comply with it so the idea that credit cards are going to be improved by the federal government as an agency of clarity is to say no more amusing but beyond that on the subject of education -- we know what the problem is in education. it basically we have a school year of 180 days. 195 in most of the european nations, 200 days in a year in germany, 220 in korea and japan. now, just take 100 difference betw

to a lesser extent the mind is much less active or creative looking at the picture by reading the text. uc the intellect and i am not speaking of crossword puzzles, and the mind imagination has muscles to. they have to be exercised just like the physical muscle house to exercise there are many things where we have to make up our own mind. it is difficult. it is a much more difficult than having our mind made up by somebody else. i am a great believer in the importance of peace and ideas but let's be honest, we don't have ideas. we choose them. we choose our idea that is comfortable for us if we have a competitor who is better than we are and somebody tells us that he is a cheat it is comfortable to believe that. but we have to try to be honest with ourselves and in fuse this two hour children. and the absolutely inescapable element is you really ought to say what you mean and as much as possible you ought to mean what you say. >> you are talking about the importance of the word says the word became flesh among us it has a central role to play for the catholic. john paul to did a lot of wor

i am not going to ask for the uc for a second degree amendment because i think it's a terrible precedent for us to set -- we'll never get our committee work done if we start having second degree amendments on amendments. we do need to get committee work done. i am not going to make that request. i am going to make a request of the -- where did he go? it's a little hard to make a request of him if he is not here. >> senator mccain left me a note asking me to manage the amendments because he has to go back to armed services. >> my request is for him to defer this to the coverage section. it is coverage. it could be voted on there. i suspect it won't change a single vote, but that would allow us to put in an amendment without changing the precedent for the committee for second degree amendments. i suspect it will get the same result at that time that it would right now. i would just ask for that courtesy, partly because i have no way to know what the proxies would be on my committee for either the, what would be a second degree amendment or the mccain amendment. i'm not prepared for that. >

type one polio in india and this when you see is the cozy river coming from the north, then along the bottom uc the ganges river running and this is where the to me to. the area around the river is a massive flood plain a basically every time you see india flubbing vc people standing on the ropes were looking at this part of india on tv and this also as you can see is where polioviruses are right along this area mapped airily and when you look at what was in place to serve these people and manage the program there was one primary health care center with in the flood zone area. for an area of about 100 kilometers long and 20 miles wide and i think 10 million people during the flooding times so you need to be able to put in place if you want to deliver an reach these children you have to help put in place the infrastructure to do it. this is what our team in india.com laying right on top of that virus then lay down very quickly a whole infrastructure to deliver not just the polio vaccine routine vaccinations, other basic interventions so you have to put that infrastructure in place. the third thi

the macro trans uc are what frame the discussion as to what to do about it. -- the macro trends you see. i'm talking about four trends. the first is a pretty substantial shift in the balance of power regionally. as iran rises, as the united states is perceived to be receding in influence, withdraw from iraq, preoccupation elsewhere. there is the sense that there is a shift. it is felt that iran is on the rise and america is on the decline. one of our policy recommendations is what we think about? what should we do to the region to signal the permanence of our presence? so that iran is not think that there is a day after america where it is unfettered in the region. the second macro trend is the idea that its nuclear addition would not happen in isolation. in the fall 2002 in the run-up to iraqi free and there was only one in the persian gulf and it was not iraq, but iran which had just disclosed it had a clandestine nuclear program. today there are at least 14. the list goes on. some undoubtedly sick this capability because they have legitimate energy needs. turkey, for example. i would

something i wanted to get very basic to both you and the audience uc climate change coming from a human behavior and industrial production do we have any data on those things? thank you. >> i am not sure i would be the person to write a book like this for i have not written a book and have no plans to do so prepare written a couple of chapters what i do is much more technical and those people are more gifted on both sides of the aisle that can translate to the general public they're much more gifted at that and i will let them do that and i will stick to the more scientific banks brother has been a lot of assessment changes of urbanization and industrialization and some are available the intergovernmental panel but the issue is how does that change the landscape how does that translate back into climate models. people are trying to work on that and forecast what human behavior will look like in the future which is nebulous at best there's a lot of data but how do forecast what that is likely to change in the future? those other kinds of things that almost nobody. >> that is precisely th

the vanguard of that. you see a big difference -- a uc a big difference? the obama administration is pushing bush and cheney, making this big effort to connect with the public can be more transparent. there is politics in that as well. how do you judge that? >> i imagine there are differences and the differences may or may not be bigger than we think once we start seeing more clashes between the branches. you're right that when it comes to the internal task forces that the administration has set up, you are more transparent than the bush administration was and the clinton administration was prior to that. to make, the real fight is about transparency. the fight was over executive privilege when it was putting congress against the presidency. you do not normally see that when both parties told the congress and the white house. if i hope at some point that the control of the congress and the presidency come to differ over the next two years, i think you are going to see this clashes and that is when you will see whether -- with the extent to which president o

it is a lot like the smart cars at uc around. they will have to make that transition. is the only way to hit that target. -- like the smart cars that you see around. the big thing, particularly in the next two years is the electric hybrid car. gm has the volt. the four manufacturers have them too. for those cars, the plug-in hybrids you will see a dramatic increase in the mileage. maybe you can offset the other size reduction on those vehicles. host: there is a provision you have supported in the house. it is called cash for clunkers. explain that piece of legislation. guest: remember that sales have plummeted. 16 different nations around the world already passed legislation, have this program in place whether germany, south korea, where there is an additional incentive. you get your best deal with your local auto dealer, and then if the car is scrapped you get money on top of its. then you either buy a new car or lease one. you get some of these old cars, the less fuel efficient ones, and it is a tipping point to get people back into the showroom. edison said. it will

>> unfortunately that is what this system has produced and is not the safest model. >> uc, mr. cohen, averages mean nothing to me. when i walk on that airplane and stick my head in the cockpit and say i feel so good in that the average salary here is what ever you told me it was. i would never say that. i want to know that they are trained and ready and can handle thunderstorms and i sing and keep me out of trouble. so your average is just all land anywhere with me, they miss the mark completely. what would be the minimum salary per year that a pilot would be hired to come on board? >> mr. chairman, i don't have a -- senator, i don't have a the the minimum again. the average which is -- i believe we provided some information to the committee. i can get to that of our member airlines. we can provide that. >> i want you to get that. and your averages mean nothing. the. >> that new pilot would be making between 16 and $18,000 a year for a full-time job unless he or she is on reserve. >> and doing that kind of commuting practice. >> yes search. >> okay, i have travelled extensively

the auto train to florida. it is quite an impressive experience. uc cars rolling off the trains. you can predict you see cars rolling off the trains. you get out and travel to your next destination. it has been so successful, that it needs renovation. thank you for participating in that event. you mentioned a positive train control, investing $10 million. that is under the recovery act money? >> yes, sir. >> could you list for us the company or companies that are producing the pt septc technolod how many jobs are created by that work. >> the total amount that we put this together, it would be 146 jobs in the first year. but that second year, it would be 8000 jobs. i do not have a broken down that way today. on the positive train control, we are doing in number of things. we are extending our access system, which is the enforcement train controls that exist already in the northeast quarter. we are extending our itcs structure, consistent with illinois and lockheed martin. the platform that will be the gps space, there are a couple of different suppliers. one of them is wedtech. we

barring of a leftist and, in fact, i defended the a flaming leftist when he was appointed into the new law school at uc irvine because i don't thank you cannot hire somebody for their politics. the same leftists are trying to get john atmar in from being a faculty member and i don't see the droves of liberals coming to support him the way i did say many conservative support the others. >> what about the wealthy alumni that donate money to the university is that they went to? don't have any influence on his policies? >> of course, they couldn't, but there were run-in's with an incredible firestorm if they do. first of all, let me same the primary motivation of most donors, there are too. if you can find the 50-yard line in the name on the building. and these are very prestigious institutions with long histories, there are hundreds of years old. and so with the dollar is looking for -- the donor is looking for, forgive me, the illusion because that is all it is, of a taste of immortality by being associated with the school. so then they -- they all want to make trouble, that is the number one. and the se

when you look at the data, use the specific and significant health disparities -- uc pacific -- you see specific insignificant health disparities. -- you see significant -- you see specific and in the -- you'll see a specific and significant health disparities. it is difficult to suppress for it. i happen to serve on the board of a public hospital in atlanta. we have a tremendous problem because we have a growing hispanic population and the very issue that dr. gramm mentioned is one that we're dealing with. we do not have enough interpreters to speak to the spanish population that we are serving. we have been told by leaders in the hispanic community that many of their citizens to not come to the hospital. that is a factor that weighs on the care that the individual receives. in 1996, in the new england the journal of medicine, there was a study with the university of california san francisco and it showed that black or hispanic physicians were three times more likely to establish their practices in black or hispanic areas. the health care in their communities improved. one might say th

the republican line. caller: i just wonder where uc -- i am from wellington where dhl made the decision to close 10,000. we felt it was somebody from germany who made that decision instead of somebody who knew us, most of the people who worked for dhl wonderful people. we thought it was from afar. with so many of us unemployed workers in america now, already the obama administration has made a decision on health reform that is really helped. i just have a feeling that nationally with so much unemployment going on, what is your national field on -- you have 10 percent of america on an unemployed. how does that affect everything on a global picture? guest: fortunately -- or unfortunately for our viewers delaware -- the rate is not 10 percent but he is right, i think it will reach 10 percent before this is over. what happens is even if the economy begins to rebound, the unemployment rate continues to grow for a period of time. the bigger danger is that in our last two recessions, we had jobless recovery spirit we had a pickup in economic activity, but we never quite return to the level especially of manufa

they brought them together and remount the process, every mapped the protocols and words collaborative lee in a very different way than uc in a lot of other communities around the country. now that protocol they have established is 100 different places around the country but it comes from that ethic around collaborating in getting outside your walls and thinking more holistic we about the delivery of care. i am going to switch the focus to second and look at access because it is also a very important part about what we're talking about when covering the uninsured population in the country. in minnesota today recover 92% of our citizens so we have a percent uninsured it with a country is average i believe around 15%. of the 8% 4% and chile have access and have not availed themselves of coverage entitled to so we need to do a better job there but we really have programs available to 96 percent of the people and our state. we absolutely are not happy with that and we need to close that gap and we would like to have everybody covered the part of this is making sure you that availability to everyone and i think we've done a p

out the conservative judges particularly on the court of appeals that president bush and previous republican presidents have put on. what kind of attributes to uc president obama looking for in selecting judges? >> i can speak from the transition standpoint where we worked on this. it was clear that he was looking for very capable, intellectually gifted lawyers, jurists, law professors. that was first and foremost. clearly superior qualifications. i think my sense of the extra factor that -- the distinguishing factor was more just a sense that this was a person who understood -- who had a sense of why they wanted to be a judge. not just a pristine piece of paper, not just reading bricks, but understood and had some interest in the human dimensions of judging, who wanted -- had some life experience dealing with people and i have this sense the president was not that interested in -- was more interested in people who had litigated real cases and worked with people and did not have to be in the context of litigation. someone who had a sense of the human dramas and stories behind the cases. that was the extra factor. >> he has been involved in the

one of the problems has been, it is objected to by some colleagues and we know we are not going to get a uc to take it up, and it will take some four-time. four-time is a precious commodity in the united states senate, particularly this summer so i am not optimistic that we'll will see anything advance before the end of this work period which puts everything in the fall. if people think we are busy now. >> right here. >> i wonder if you could clarify a comment you made, the oil and gas provision, that some of the [inaudible] >> for instant, senator dorgan coming out of north dakota. north dakota is doing a terrific job up there in advancing their oil and gas reserves. and i think senator dorgan and senator conrad also from north dakota appreciate that as a resource to their state. so even they are democrats who are, you might ordinarily put on the other side of the column when it comes to oil and gas production issues, i think again it comes down to who they represent and the industries that provide for jobs and resources. so i think it's making sure that amendments are good and balanced an

advocate and look at the schools, which they aren't now, many of them, you know what they are with some exaggeration, custodial institutions. so you see, this situation is very bad at uc, and you must understand also of our church. you see, we have now a radical diminution of the number of young people who want to become priests or who want to become nuns, you know. thereby, you know, many of our schools have to be staffed by laypeople, which is not necessarily bad. but you must understand, these things, these things that we can -- these things that we can, there are many, many things wrong with this world. i need not mention them going on abortion, same-sex marriages, education, we have been over all that. but every turn is not possible. this is not the way history works. this is not the way human life works. yes, when things go to a bad extreme, a reaction sets in. but history in our life is not a pendulum. it does not swing back. it will swing unpredictably in a different direction. which we cannot foresee. this in a way is supposed to occur and the blessing of human life that life is unpredictable. this is god's will. that history is unpredictable or to put it at

the next call is from south brooklyn, new york. caller: good morning. this show is very good overall. thank you. uc obama being careful with iran -- it will do only one thing. what is going on in iran right now -- obama is playing politics right now and is dangerous. asked the iraqi people who are rallying there now. do you like democratic? if they say yes, then they should accept the election. because when we have an election and the united states in the party wins, go ahead. the party who loses, if you do not like it, you do not go into the street. [unintelligible] host: before we run out of time a couple of other opinion pieces. "the wall street journal" puts it this way. the president yesterday denounced the extent of the fraud and a shocking in response of the running regime to public demonstrations. he says if ahmadinejad had made such progress why such violence? they show that the president who spoke these words was nicolas sarkozy of france. this is that the rebellion which is too soon to call a revolution is turning out to be the 3:00 a.m. phone call for mr. obama. as a french president sh

i thought about and and i said, you know, when you think of the republican party you think of vietnam, you think of watergate, uc conservatives as opponents to civil-rights, i understand that. and i grew up in your time perhaps i would have been a liberal teaching in berkeley and when i think of democrats i think of jimmy carter, the iranian hostage crisis, malaise, why the hell would i want to be a democrat? of course, reagan came in and there are a lot of us -- i mean, i've played in bands with guys with. down to their belts who smokes pot as much as i drank milk and in these guys like to bring in. it was because at that time we will end one day from jimmy carter became president and the american not being able to do anything with the iranian hostage crisis to the next day ronald reagan being sworn in in the eye radiance saying take them, we don't want them anymore. and reagan came in and it was so confident, that is one part of it. also i grew up in the shadow of the ill effects of the 1960's. my sister who it is fine, but my sister had a lot of friends, she listens to jefferson airplane and my parents would

i think that's the border crossing in mexico see that who is your co-author daniel sperling. >> i have known for 25 years. he is from ucavis and i spent so much time at berkeley and a northern california. i knew him very well. five years ago that and decided we really want to write a book like this. and we did. and like i said got to gather very few times actually wrote this all virtually, basically. on the computer back and forth back and forth. and he now is on the california resources board where he is able to really help regulate these policies in california which we both argue there's a chapter on california in the book, it is head of the game in terms of pushing innovation. certainly california is ahead of the u.s. in terms of thinking ahead. the u.s. has been much slower as a nation, compared to definitely all of the western european nations, much slower to innovate a much lower than california's. >> and forward by governor schwarzenegger. >> yes! what does he say. >> governor schwarzenegger has been, it's nice to get a bipartisan message. for many years we talked about the environment and the economy not be in

way is one of the things that makes these campaigns so successful and allows people not to sort of think so critically about them as i think they should. >> as a sociology professor at ucanta cruz, why are you writing a book called "branding new york." >> well, i recently relocated to santa cruz. not that i wouldn't have been in it otherwise but ikçy in new york for 20 years before i moved to california, and so -- and over the course of living in new york, i became, you know, very fascinated with theology -- sociology of the city, i was a media maker, a representation of the city. and i became fascinated with this period which i see is really formative in the contemporary form that new york takes and this strange juxtaposition on the win hand these draconian cutbacks and on the other hand these investments in marketing the image of the city at the same time that, you know, resources for the livelihood of the city were being taken away. so i think while in new york, that really fascinated me. i've taken that fascination with me to california and tried to convince people in santa cruz of the importance of this, and i think it has resonance because cities around the coun

the philanthropic efforts that they funded of those probably most important ones have a students and free enterprise. >> host: i wanted to ask about that because young people play an interesting role. >> guest: uc generations moving from farms. of a service jobs or management jobs and where they go to serve it -- small christian colleges tiller business and become white-collar professionals and so wal-mart funded through a variety of vehicles a number of small christian colleges and arkansas and the evangelical sunbelt cos more generally have these relationships with many of these colleges throughout the sun belt of promoting what i call christian free enterprise the colleges of business in these christian colleges. and so one part of the book i spend in prison business schools looking at what is being taught and. they were marvelous places to study. have these and many values of service come to be attached to this particular economic vision of free enterprise and a lot of as -- is not a foreordained. a small christian colleges are without an office support base. they don't have all the alumni, they can't win a particle accelerator or robotics laboratory when despite suddenly means there's all