now more from washingto >> after the largest ever release of supposedly private correspondence, ey want to make se a leak like this does not happen again. >> we have an active ongoing criminal investigation with regard to this matter. >> the adminiration has also ordered an immediate government review. a memo said failure to safeguard classified information is unacceptable and not tolerated. more than a quarter million documes were released by the whistleblower website wileaks. they pulleded the can you rememr tin over diplomacy. the documents revealed some candid comments about u.s. friend and foe. nicolas sarkozy is the emperor with no clots. kim jong-il is called a old chap. there were no bombshells. administration officials say the leak resulted in significant damage to national security. >> we live in a world where just a little bit of information can be added to a network of information and really open up an understanding thajust wasn't there before. >>> there was bipartisan condemnation of the leak. >> this guy is putting danger our foreign policy. >> and the people that are leak

the prime minister, center left candidate, never thought of doing the cuts he had to do, washingto walks in there in an economic cat claz. i just hate to -- reality that is going to force those cuts. >> let's put the actual problem in context. we spend more than anybody in the world on health care. we spend more on education and despairty and quality of education is massive. the inefficients of our power facilities are embarrassingly low. we have a wide -- almost an absurd tax code when you look at the variety of loopholes. on and on and on. and what we're getting is a conversation about things we've got to cut. whether it's defense, social security, farm subsidies. i'm not saying whether those are should, shouldn't be cut. what i am saying is facing $70 trillion in unfunded liableties and understanding that we spend vast sums of money to get a relative pit ens, that it goes to the functioning of the government. are we kids ourselves to try to solve this country's problems by austerity when it's going take major structural change and innovation that will drop costs to even give us a chan

bt a problem for the washingtos post. yes it is making money, it is aa problem for us because ouruffe society without that kind of unfettered reporting will suffe are similar but diversity in the nineteenth century was so much larger than it is today. >> you mentioned in passing william randolph hearst. the extent to which pulitzer is remembered historically, tends to be paired with william randolph hearst. could you spend a couple minutes comparing and contrasting the two men? >> william randolph hearst -- i'm not belittling him but he was the best imitator of pulitzer. he studied pulitzer's methods. he bought a newspaper that was interestingly started by pulitzer's younger brother so every day when pulitzer open up the journal and realize this competitor might put him out of business he was competing with of the work of his brother. talk about sibling rivalry. william randolph hearst how did him on the less good aspects of their journalism, in raising greater sensationalism and was far more successful at that but the ke

why did you come to washingto guest: i learned a lot when i clerked from the justice alito. growing up, i learned that a lot of the problems that we have argued to the failure of congress. the fact that those are not always enforced by the court does not mean that members of congress should restrain their own power. when they are looking at a proposal that does something extraordinary, for example, telling americans who their doctor is, purchase an insurance policy -- we have to make sure that we can sustain it. host: talk about where you grew up. guest: i was born in arizona, i grew up in the utah. my father was an assistant attorney general in the ford administration. from 1981 to 1986, we moved back here in washington when my father work for theolicitor general. then i moved back to utah and went to law school at brigham young university. host: i read that you went to school with harry reid's kids. guest: that is right. strom thurmond's as well. host: have you met harry reid? guest: yes, absolutely. we have swung in their pool. some of the young politician that i knew --

he kept his appointment as the head of the australian defence staff, here in washingto of acac degreesis a member of the order of australia, has been awarded a conspicuous service across -- cross. at the end of the day, the australians and the americans have fought together in every conflict since world war one. they have been tremendous allies. they have shed their blood with us. join me in welcoming speech welcoming air vice marshall, kym osley. -- air vice marshal kym osley. [applause] >> and australian cannot resist collet -- responding to that call. thank you for that introduction. to all of our vietnam veterans, veterans of all war, and ladies and gentlemen, it is of great honor to be up here and to talk about a struggle contribution over the years. -- australia's contribution over the year. i was quite amused to see how many people had come across australians in the vietnam. i should ask the question, who has parted with the australians in vietnam? [laughter] >> i am surprised he is survived. [laughter] -- you survived. [laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen, a very warm good day fr