weapons of mass destruction, help mitigate epidemics and food and security, watch over the united states business interest and travelers, promote democracy and assist in combatting terrorism. we're asking them to achieve these united states foreign policy goals and enumerable others in a global environment that's increasingly dangerous for diplomatic personnel. we are very grateful for their willingness to serve their country and grateful for your willingness to serve our country and we greet you again and look forward to your testimony. thank you, chairman. >> thank you, senator luger. madame secretary, the floor is yours. we welcome your comments. >> thank you very much. i appreciate senator kerry, ranking member lugar, members of the committee to be here once again to have this opportunity. i want to thank you for the support that this committee has given to the state department and usaid over the last three quite consequential and unpredictable years. i'm especially grateful for the very kind words about our diplomats and development experts who are serving around the world, some in very diff

it has, it's very welcoming to international business and particularly to the united states business. it has a lot of needs. it has a young population and so they're really looking to do exactly what the title of our session here is called and that is diversify their economy to ensure that beyond the area of hydrocarbons they will have a well-structured and well diversified economy. when we look at oman let me conceptually divide the commercial opportunities into two elements. one is oman as a market and the second is oman as a platform and i think that's a very important way for businesses looking to engage in the region and should look at oman as a market, oman does need a lot of things and is doing a lot of things and they've been very successful in not only maintaining and expanding the hydrocarbon production and where they had reductions and had declined for a period and they've turned that around and now are generating revenues and are using those revenues wisely to invest in the future and one aspect which again is another example of where american companies can play a very imp

in the last four years the number of united states businesses has increased by 34% while the number ofesses increased by 50%. >> calledself employment. it's the best way to handle your business and make sure you don't have to worry about losing your job. use your natural gifts and talents,. >> reporter: enrollment at the initiative is up during the economic down turn. maybe because if anyone knows how to turn lemons into lemonade it's women. >> we are really dedicated focused motivated and i think women are really hard workers and used to seeing problems and overcoming them. . >> reporter: in oakland. . >> turning to the race for the white house, romney and santorum took the day off but grin gingrich campaigned in delaware. he was asked about remarks, said he and his wife believe the augusta gulf club should be open to women. >> i just told them that it would be great to be the first woman member. >> i lovet. i welcome that opportunity. >> he said he understands private property rights but he said he believes that's wrong. >>> the primary here in california is still two month away but

statistics the last five years, just as many are leaving as are coming in, crazy entering in the united states business is over for now. we don't have the jobs we had 10 years ago. there is not the opportunity at this moment. i am sure they want to get ready for the next batch. >>randy: an interesting platform, see how bad things are, even illegal immigrants don't want to come here. >>shepard: that mexican beach is mighty nice but they won't sell you any. and murdoch has been questions over the phone hacking scandal at news corps tabloid "news of the world." they are also the parent of fox news channel. today, rupert murdoch acknowledged his political connections but denies using them for commercial gains. >> in the discussions you had with senior politicians before a general election, that the negotiations was occurring and they wanted to know how far they had to go. >>guest: i want to say, that i in 10 years never asked mr. blair for anything nor did i receive any favors. >>shepard: in reference to tony blair, and he says he never asked any prime minister for anything. the news corps c.e.o. is set to

in the last four years the number of united states businesses has increased by 34% while the number of women owned businesses increased by 50%. >> calledself employment. it's the best way to handle your business and make sure you don't have to worry about losing your job. use your natural gifts and talents,. >> reporter: enrollment at the initiative is up during the economic down turn. maybe because if anyone knows how to turn lemons into lemonade it's women. >> we are really dedicated focused motivated and i think women are really hard workers and used to seeing problems and overcoming them. . >> reporter: in oakland. . >> turning to the race for the white house, romney and santorum took the day off but grin gingrich campaigned in delaware. he was asked about remarks, said he and his wife believe the augusta gulf club should be open to women. >> i just told them that it would be great to be the first woman member. >> i lovet. i welcome that opportunity. >> he said he understands private property rights but he said he believes that's wrong. >>> the primary here in california is still t

it as a proxy for china's willingness to address the persistent trade surplus with the united states. nightly businessreport. >> susie: joining us is europe's analyst at the eurasia group. thanks for being here. >> thanks for being he, uzisusi. >> we see the market north of 6% today, and in terms of the euro strategy, we don't have to worry. i think the ero zone policy have a strategy for dealing with spain if it faces the same pressure in the market. >> susie: how would you compare the crisis in spain to greece a few months ago? >> i think they're very different. essentially spain has a problem with it's banking sector, and a difficult environment and high rates of unemployment. greece has a dysfunctional state, and it's very unclear where the growth is going to come from, what are the sources of potential growth in greece. i don't think that's a issue in spain. they're export competitive. >> susie: we know the european policy makers have been demanding tough austert measures from greece and now from spain and italy and other troubled countries. i don't know if you saw paul krugman wrote an article s

. >> this is the largest small- business week in the united states, bigger than new york, chicago, los angeles. this is not something san francisco can say we are number one at. they have the most small- business participation of anyone in the united states, and that is great. >> one thing the regional director said is we have the most small business involvement you're good in a lot of areas they made to an awards -- the most small business involvement. they reach out to small businesses and trying to engage in networking within air corridors as well as citywide and also provide a large amount of education opportunity. good parts are want to thank the director for helping secure the premises -- >> i want to thank the director for helping secure the permits. we look forward to that. that is one of the biggest shopping days. it is a iq to draw into our neighborhood, -- a huge draw into our neighborhood. we just need to expand to other neighborhoods. >> my dad helps me never gave some of the politics and policies to make sure this moves forward. -- helps me navigates some of the politics

he moved his business back to the united states, doubling the number of american workers employed there. it's exactly the kind of small business that can export to new markets but also needs support to take those initial steps. in june of 2011 servelift received a 250,000 express insurance policy from the export bank and it was approved for buyers for ireland and for turkey. and as ray zuckerman put it, the bank's support gives us the credibility that we need to pursue foreign buyers. and he added extending credit makes us more attractive to our customers and allows us to sell to larger companies. small business success stories such as ray's help build the world's largest economy and strongest middle class right here in america. we know when small business owners like ray get the credit financing they need, it doesn't just help the company's profitability, which it does, it helps create jobs for american workers. it helps support other businesses in their community and it helps our country recover from the worst economic crisis in our lifetime. now, there's no question that we still hav

united states. to be harnessed the united states. the best experts in this business for we have dinner sharper and his. love for evolution technological his goal of revolution handbook dryly and i have george soros me as sources as balls or and by the donor sharp is an ideologue and. that's a man who invented the whole technology of that but on company political english and so. of course the united states are the leading power when it comes to business knowledge i can see you know just recently way in tribute to the newly appointed yes investor to russia. fall and he said yes america used to fund opposition movements and cow them but it was under a different administration we no longer do that under obama's administration do you believe that personally that's not a i believe that mr michael is one of the. best specialists and that scholars who are working on michael of all revolutions and i think you're right is an expert and in that i don't believe that united states don't use this technology because i have just returned for it for instance from syria this is the pi

united states. then the united states recruited people from muslim world after 1952, because that's when the united states went into the business of trying to block the spread of communism in muslim countries. so we have a lot of propaganda based on the come and they recruited students to come and study for their master's degree or ph.d degree in the united states. and some of these people did not go back. and then after 1965, we had major immigration when the united states abolished the ac added exclusion act, and then we begin to have people from asia coming in, like pakistanis and more iranians. so we have different ways. >> professor haddad, how many muslims am or how many arabs are in the u.s. at this time? >> there is a contestable, nobody knows. in everett they say god knows best, because nobody has counted them. the mosques estimated that there are about somewhere between seven and 11 million. some of the surveys, like you, -- like pew say there may be about 2 million. the arab christians say that there are 3 million arab christians in the united states, and, of course, their number is increasing now with the influx of

he's long advocated for a level playing field and more normalized business environment in the airline industry in the united states. that commitment and business focus has served airlines for america well during richard's tenure as our chairman. he has led with great vision and commitment and dogged determination, the effort to transform and rebrand the old -- he's also led our effort to lay out a clear path to create a more competitive global aviation industry in this country through the adoption of a national airline policy. this is a major issue not just for airlines but for the economic connectivity of this country. richard is going to talk about that in his remark. richard's stemming up to business challenges is well documented. what is less well documented perhaps is his commitment to social issues that impact all of our personal lives. this was recognized last year when he was given the sandra taub humanitarian award for the breast cancer association. it's my great personal and professional privilege to introduce richard anderson. [ applause ] >>> carol, thanks for having me here today and nick for that ver

almost in some ways that disintegration of nature that we knew about and we knew of the united states will be busy busy as mr obama has of declared europeans will not to take better. part in the financial responsibilities and believe afghanistan and also the european constituencies also do not want to see this they want to turn their face away and they want to hide their head in the sand and there will be. ninety's revisited in afghanistan in a different shape and form afghanistan people like us who are touting democracy and freedom and human dignity and human rights we will be left in the large and we will be. hanging on threads to think in some degree and obviously this is this is that to be extreme degree but certainly in the west with america and nato continuing its war in afghanistan with us soldiers posing with body parts of wall of suicide bombers perhaps there might be a mentality of well look you know we got the bad guys here we are celebrating with photographs of the bad guys i mean do you think that kind of mentality could be weighed up in some way. i think i don't know what kind of cel

the united states, our business have created nearly 4 million new jobs.conomy is getting stronger, but with lots of folks still struggling to find work and pay the bills, we are doing everything we can to speed up the recovery. that includes boosting trade with our two largest economic partners. as president, i've made it a priority to increase our exports and i'm pleased that our exports to canada and mexico are growing faster than our exports to the rest of the world. in fact, last year trade in goods with our two neighbors surpassed $1 trillion for the first time ever. this trade supports some 2.5 million american jobs and i want more trade supporting even more jobs in the future. so today, prime minister harper led us in a very good discussion about how our three countries can improve our competitiveness. we agreed to continue making our borders more efficient and more secure so it's faster and cheaper to travel and trade. we're expending, expanding cooperation to create clean energy jobs and combat climate change. an area in which president calderon

ange wouldn't be a match for china any now and the real question is why does the united states think it has any business being in the south china sea i mean what if china was saying that its business was the gulf of mexico i mean we would be incensed so why shouldn't china be upset when we say that their home waters is our national interest all of this is to provoke conflict it's nothing to do with oil or who owns islands but paul there is a treaty back in the one nine hundred fifty of bad blood that states that if a country or something was the price the philippines that the us would provide some kind of aid. yes but china hasn't threaten the philippines they're not threatening anybody. they're not bombing any countries they're not inviting them. they're not doing anything and they're trying to trading people economically with trade and and but they're not you know look at africa china is their business terms house united states they're they're there with the africa command militarily. so china has warned that these military exercises what raise the risk of an arm come for a confrontation and tension h

i think people don't understand how important it is for us here in the united states for our businesses, for our small business, certainly on long island we do a lot of exporting. how do you see that future coming? >> you're absolutely right that europe has a big impact on the united states. because it's so large, and because we have such a huge network of trade and financial ties with europe. the effects come through a variety of channels. if they grow more slowly, or fall into recession, then the direct demand for things american companies create and produce is reduced. that hurts us directionally. the effect goes beyond that because when europe slows the rest of the world slows too. so that means growth outside europe is weaker, that hurts american business exporters. when europe's in crisis as we've seen over the last 18 months, you tend to see stock prices fall around the world, that's damaging the confidence here and around the world. the typical pattern has been when europe has been in crisis, this is a good sign of confidence in the united states but the dollar has risen relativ

restrictive, that can be limiting for innovation, that can limit opportunities for united states companies doing business in those third countries. we think it's very important for congress to be able to establish an alternative model to the european model. we wouldn't try to say that it's more protective of privacy. we also wouldn't say it's less protective of privacy, but it's a different model and we think it's one that can advance technology in the new innovation environment. >> thank you. any questions? >> lynn stanton, tr dally. last week there was a hearing before the house committee with larry strickland and chairman leibovitz and a number of members seemed to feel, or to be concerned about restrictions on business and how it might curtail innovation to have this kind of legislation. do you think you're doing a good enough job, the administration is doing a good enough job, in your view, of getting across its vi view, business' view, this would be helpful to innovation, to business? >> that's why we're here. i think that, you know, we're at the beginning here of the legislative discussion. we've

business is expanding overseas, it means their product is in demand good news for the united states that u.s. business has more demand. they will sell more, they will have to grow here in the united states to chase the opportunities overseas. we want our companies to grow. we want them going into new markets that are emerging. >>neil: what do you make of a tax holiday of the companies that hold billions upon billions overseas to bring it back, one of the ideas mentioned you can repatriate it back but you have to hire people? a quid pro quo attached to that. what do you make of that? >>guest: with, i find that hard to believe that could be enforceable. money is fungible. no way to know if they were use it for are that purpose. a better step to going to a territory a.m., tax. all other countries besides having a lower tax rate tax on the income they earn in their border and we are the only country that taxes on income they earn all around the world. it would be better step to go to tax businesses only on the income they earn here and that makes us more competitive. >>neil: good points all

we're 100 years later and the united states, the business aggregated hasn't been profitable, let alone talk about free cash floor or roic so we'll stay the course from the standpoint of this contrarian model, offering a product, direct cultural relationship with our staff and a strong financial sheet. i believe, guy, that will be the difference in the long run. you look at history, we're definitely playing the contrarian role right now. >> dave, always great to speak with you. dave barger, the ceo and president of jetblue. we should note jetblue hedged 26% of its fuel needs in the second quarter and experts the average price per gallon of jet fuel to be 3.33, 2012 the average to be 3.30 and that's certainly the key as we've seen fluctuating oil and diesel costs. >> but they have been able to raise fares which has really helped them so as long as they continue to do that and the mix between business and leisure travel, business is a higher yielding product, as lange as they can increase, that they should do all right. at some point fuel costs get to go high and 100% of your planes fille

businesses in the united states most of nerves small so what the government thinks is that the businesses aren't growing because the banks won't loan a money. that's a real important promise that they have so then they all say what are we going to do get banks the law is a perfect example of not knowing what's on the minds of the people and then making stupid policies that make everything worse so we do a poll of the six million businesses and we say to them what's the biggest problem you have for growth they don't save they don't say get the money they can get money what they say is that they lack confidence in the economy because of the all the new regulations as far as foreign policy one of the places that i get concerned are state department intelligence defense everybody. there's a huge black hole. in that we're not very good at. mathematically describing huge shifts of the will of civilizations of people others give you an example right now if you were to ask the united states government to mathematically describe the relationship between muslims and the west so you get a little bet

united states, but they are also moving it into tax havens. so this gives them tremendous incentive to locate profits and businesses outside of the united states. >> brown: is, i'll start with you martin sullivan, is all this bringing about a larger debate about, with states at the federal level about changing the tax code as technology changes, as commerce changes? >> well, there's an enormous debate going on right now in the international tax community on the one hand there's the argument by conservatives and republicans to totally exempt foreign taxes, foreign profits from tax. and meanwhile, you have folks on the other side of the spectrum who say we need to close these loopholes in order to help pay down the deficit. there is some middle ground. the middle ground would be to reduce our corporate tax rates to improve our competitiveness, as i think almost everybody in washington is arguing for that right now, the president and the republicans. but we need to pay for that some way, and to pay for that we must close loopholes. and this type of loophole that charles is talking about is probably the biggest loophole we have. >> brown: charles,

united states, washington, d.c. so, that the president can conduct business of the united states of america and to conduct foreign policy and domestic policy. and that is what our job is. >> you know, it's been said that if female agents would never have gotten themselves into a mess like this with one and that there should be more female agents in the secret service. what do you say to that? >> well, no agent should be involved in situation like this because it brings shame not only to the agency, but we're representing the united states of america when we're overseas. no agent should be involved in any conduct as has been reported. >> do you think, though, there should be more women in the agency? >> well, of course, being a woman i would love to see more women in the agency. but it's a tough requirement. it requires you to be away from home inordinate days and hours. it's a demanding job. it's not a 9-to-5 job. it's a 24-hour-a-day job. there are men and women who don't want to make commitment. the people who do make the commitment, that i know in the secret service, have made the commitme commitment. they carry out

republicans have no right to be critical when virtually every day in the united states senate they're busyny effort that we want to make to create jobs. in the senate we passed a bipartisan transportation bill. over a billion dollars for two years would create hundreds and hundreds of thousands of decent paying job. bipartisan isn't the senate. the house can't get their act together. these guys do not want to invest in america. they don't want to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create the millions jobs that we desperately need. >> the tea party wing, it's personal with them. they hate the president. they are very clear about that. should we brace ourselves for some tough months ahead with republicans jumping all over this. it seems we're having the discussion in the office, all it will take is one month where maybe it's 30 or 40,000 jobs added and the reasons will be relentless. what would the climate be like then? >> if you're asking me are the republicans prepared to do whatever they can to torpedo the economy in order to defeat obama. i think the answer is clear. they have show

about national security here, this is not a question of pro business, anti-business, this is the security of the united states we are talking about. we want to work with business, but we can't just allow business here to dictate what the security of this country is by saying they oppose standards, instead we would hope that they would work with us on those standards. and there's flexibility on how to meet those standards, but not weather to meet those standards. are you with me so far? >> i am, and i agree. >> also another piece, and that's the information sharing piece. we -- as you point out, you want them to get to the point where they can tell us about an attack, and the bills make it easy for them to tell us because we're addressing some of the issues about proprietary information for instance so that they will be protected in that. but i think it's also clear as your answer to senator collins made clear, that weren't they share, and we're talking here about the major infrastructure here in this country, whether or not they share information with us is not a question of whether they agree to it or not. a

because the swiss bankers weren't licensed to conduct business in the united states, it was a clear violation of american banking laws on u.s. soil, and birkenfeld provided internal documents that proved the length that ubs would go to in order to avoid detection. >> call it a vacation rather than a business trip. rather than saying, "oh, yes, i'm coming to see my private clients here in the united states. and i'm coming in from zurich, switzerland." >> did you bring records into the country with you when you came in? >> generally, no. i did not. my colleagues brought in encrypted laptops. >> encrypted laptops. >> yes, so that even if they were discovered, you couldn't see what was inside the computers, which were portfolios of the clients, and they were product offerings for the clients. [watch ticking] >> up next, bradley birkenfeld pays a price after going to the government. >> i gave them the biggest tax fraud case in the world. i exposed 19,000 international criminals. and i'm going to jail for that? >> the day he walks into prison is the day you will lose a generation of tax whistle-blo

united states. for the people to serve, the hard workers who used to pay a lot of taxes and so on it's comprehensive reform. but not only -- [ applause ] >> not only the people businesses here in the united states need workers. our sector in the united states is losing a lot of competitiveness and opportunity due to restrictions. you can see the numbers like it's very important difference between migration towards mexico. and immigration coming from mexico. but today we are tying the flows. what that means that today we are reducing mie brags to the united states almost to zero in net terms. why? somebody tole me that today appears an article in "the washington post." i didn't read that. but the fact is that due to several factors because we are creating job opportunities in mexico, educational opportunities for young people. the fact is that migration is probably one of the most important news that we need to consider about this quite important debate. actually a lot of people the fact is it's a swing in terms of opportunities. you can see how this year we are observing year after year how the net rate of migration has been reducing and today. >> the world needs more

now it is my pleasure to welcome back to the chamber a great friend of the united states, a great friend of business, and a great friend of challenging the problems we all face in this world. and he's here because of the strategic importance of the u.s.-mexican relationship. because 6 million u.s. jobs depend on trade with mexico, because the united states is year in year out the largest source of foreign direct investment in mexico, because our countries share a land border of nearly 2,000 miles, and because more than $1 billion a day in goods crosses that border, and because our people share the same resources, breathe the same air, drink the same water, and share a common culture, and because our nations work together both will be more competitive, create more jobs for our workers, and be more economically and physically secure in today's global environment. in his nearly six years in office he has demonstrated the strength of his convictions, confronted head on the country's security challenges, and worked with the united states as a critical ally while urging the united states to do more to add

people who don't like the conditions in one think can move to another state they can do the business of making nuclear assets. united states it's time to quit as as we showed in iraq we can't we can't even occupy a country we can we can do here we conduct a four day war that was a six week run and we america is it's a country where people are so there's so much opportunity people are so busy having fun. i don't want to go to work americans don't want to go to work and i think america has to be lied into war no i actually was tony blair that that united states is crippled. in part because its commander in chief is a leftist here i expect for he said yes he can i could say speak of a set of facts and i won't go but of and sort of thing for you because of people like obama who can succeed or days into obama's administration he authorized he's grown striking pakistan do you think about really is when he came into office and actually when he was running he knew that his weak point was that the military so he picked pakistan. he has killed more civilians and the left much and get away with it because they're left because