with us, agriculture secretary tom vilsack. >>> i will sentence you to one year in the orange county jail, imposing a $1,000 fine on each count. >> casey anthony will not walk from court today a free woman but she will be released from jail next week for time served and for good behavior. >>> and blastoff or bust? the latest on the "atlantis" launch and the future of the space program with former nasa administrator sean o'keefe. >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. we are expecting president obama will come into the briefing room at any moment. there is the president. let's go to the briefing room. >> all the congressional leaders from both chambers, from both parties, and i have to say that i thought it was a very constructive meeting. people were frank. we discussed the various options available to us. everybody reconfirmed the importance of completing our work and raising the debt limit ceiling so that the full faith and credit of the united states of america is not impaired. what we decided was that staffs as well as leadership will be working during the weekend

secretary vilsack is a former governor as working with us and how we really get our agriculture up and booming again. he understands. you don't have to have a governor as president of united states but you do need to have a president who understands that rubber meets the road with the governors and the states and reaches out and listens and responds that works well together. that is what we want and that is what this president has done for us. host: governor gregoire, that you for your time today. james holman, there was a lot of ground cover but what was -- what struck you? >> she wants a job in the obama administration and a second term. she is the chairman of the national governors' association. she very deliberately avoided any of the republican governors partly because she sees her role in the non-partisan way but to also talk about real pain. call it one of the toughest jobs you can have a she talked about shredding critical parts of the safety net. safety net.

join us, white house communications director, agriculture secretary tom vilsack and congressman pauln joining us. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what's next on "newsnation." hi, tamron. i understand you are the planking champ of the msnbc. >> i don't know if i'm the champ. >> i am so impressed. >> "newsnation" is challenging you to an official plank-off. that's me planking. a craze all over the internet. miss mitchell, we'll see what you bring to us tomorrow. >> i'll bring it. >> thank you, tamron. >> you are on. >> speaking of bringing it and twitter and all these things, we're bringing it together, the east room of the white house as the president is taking questions from the people who are sending them out via twitter, including speaker of the house john boehner among those who have submitted a question. politico's john allen will join me. this is a live picture. "newsnation" is up in three. adv. it's the only complete multivitamin with ginkgo to support memory and concentration. plus vitamin d to help maintain healthy blood pressure. [ bat cracks ] that's a hit. one a day

speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert in the record the letters from secretary vilsack pointing this out and to make the record clear that the w.i.c. program is indeed being administered very soundly and fiscally serve servely. thank you very much. -- conservatively. thank you very much. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlelady from california, ms. speier, for five minutes. ms. speier: mr. speaker, for the last few months i have come to this floor every week to talk about a moral black eye on this country. the issue of rape and sexual assault in the military. i mentioned the fact that the pentagon has estimated that 19,000 service members are raped or sexually assaulted each and every year. the victims typically are blamed and the asillants are promoted. and i have shared the personal stories of several women who needed to have a bright light shined on this ongoing epidemic. but it's not only females in the military that are victims. men are being victimized as well. in april, 2011 article entitled "military's secret shame

. >> thank you, secretary vilsack. [applause] thank you for coming today. what it to thank the national press club stuff including the broadcast operations center. you can find more information about press club on the web site and if you'd like a copy of today's program check out our web site at pressboard. thank you for coming today. this meeting is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] on july 21st 2010, president obama signed into law of financial regulation also known as the dodd-frank act. the financial reform project of new york university business school posted a daylong conference focusing on the implementation and impact of the legislation. next, remarks by the president of the federal reserve bank of kansas city. he discusses regulating so-called too big to fail institutions. this is 50 minutes. >> it's time for the lunchtime keynote and it's my pleasure to introduce president and ceo of the federal reserve bank of kansas city and the senior fomc member. he's a person whose practice law from colorado to misery and and mexico to wyoming. it's a big

i was just briefed by secretary vilsack when i was out there. he talked in the southwest region about 1,600-plus fires burning 1.5 million acres. and this is still very early in the fire season. we could see a lot more burning going on. and then the thing that really hit me was that the -- the fact that we were told this was the driest recorded summer since the forest service has been keeping records. so pretty remarkable that we're in this kind of situation where we have a drought, we have fires that heat up. this particular fire for new mexico, the name of it is called the los conchos fire right near los alamos. as we speak, it is more than 135,000 acres. it is almost three times as big as the previous fire situation that we have seen. and what happens with these forest fires in our dry, arid region is that we get extreme heat within the forest and you get what are called crown fires where the tops of the trees, these trees may be 30 to 50 to 100-feet tall and the fires burn in the top of the crown, and they can spread when there is a 40 or 50

vilsack secretary of agriculture. he comes right out of monsanto which is engineering seeds that will commit suicide after one generation of crops. so they are organizing people who hand their home grown seeds that they have treasured for generations to each other against this monsanto oppression of farmers of the world. mr. rushdie chose a very important theme really for the first night written on water but he was the only one who said, water is our only monarch. i didn't hear much of the public intellectual a-la emerson and al-la our high schools and they need to understand citizens united against -- the idea that the corporate state can now contribute to our election has made us an olligargy. we need writers imaginations against the corporate global state. our nations have little to say really and i want to refer you all to roj patel "the value of fog." he's a print economist who explains all of this and the corporation the pathological pursuit of power by joel bachmann because these nonfiction writers are so vital