[inaudible] well come to order. We are considering President Bidens nomination of julie su to be the secretary of the United States department of labour. I welcome her this morning. Let me get directly to the point. I strongly support miss sus nomination. She has been an excellent deputy secretary of labor for the last two years and i believe she will make an excellent secretary of labor into the future. I hope very much that you will be confirmed by the senate and we need her in her job as soon as possible. Let us be honest as we gather this morning, a debate over miss su really has nothing to do with her qualifications. No one can tell us with a straight face that miss su is unqualified for this position. In fact, she is extremely well qualified. This debate, really, has everything to do with the fact that julie su is a championing of the working class of this country who will stand up against the forces of corporate greed. That is really what this debate is about. Lets be very clear
[inaudible] well come to order. We are considering President Bidens nomination of julie su to be the secretary of the United States department of labour. I welcome her this morning. Let me get directly to the point. I strongly support miss sus nomination. She has been an excellent deputy secretary of labor for the last two years and i believe she will make an excellent secretary of labor into the future. I hope very much that you will be confirmed by the senate and we need her in her job as soon as possible. Let us be honest as we gather this morning, a debate over miss su really has nothing to do with her qualifications. No one can tell us with a straight face that miss su is unqualified for this position. In fact, she is extremely well qualified. This debate, really, has everything to do with the fact that julie su is a championing of the working class of this country who will stand up against the forces of corporate greed. That is really what this debate is about. Lets be very clear
[inaudible] well come to order. We are considering President Bidens nomination of julie su to be the secretary of the United States department of labour. I welcome her this morning. Let me get directly to the point. I strongly support miss sus nomination. She has been an excellent deputy secretary of labor for the last two years and i believe she will make an excellent secretary of labor into the future. I hope very much that you will be confirmed by the senate and we need her in her job as soon as possible. Let us be honest as we gather this morning, a debate over miss su really has nothing to do with her qualifications. No one can tell us with a straight face that miss su is unqualified for this position. In fact, she is extremely well qualified. This debate, really, has everything to do with the fact that julie su is a championing of the working class of this country who will stand up against the forces of corporate greed. That is really what this debate is about. Lets be very clear
[inaudible] well come to order. We are considering President Bidens nomination of julie su to be the secretary of the United States department of labour. I welcome her this morning. Let me get directly to the point. I strongly support miss sus nomination. She has been an excellent deputy secretary of labor for the last two years and i believe she will make an excellent secretary of labor into the future. I hope very much that you will be confirmed by the senate and we need her in her job as soon as possible. Let us be honest as we gather this morning, a debate over miss su really has nothing to do with her qualifications. No one can tell us with a straight face that miss su is unqualified for this position. In fact, she is extremely well qualified. This debate, really, has everything to do with the fact that julie su is a championing of the working class of this country who will stand up against the forces of corporate greed. That is really what this debate is about. Lets be very clear
[inaudible conversations] are we ready to go . Great. Welcome to todays launch of the council on Foreign Relations and the pendant Task Force Report north america time for a new focus to rid the cochairs hear Robert Zoellick of course, somebody who i think last time i interviewed you we were both in sudan. So thank you very much. Shannon oneil, director and cochair, David Petraeus i think last summer i into the jew we were in iraq. So its good to be in a slightly more tame environment. I want to get right to the question of why now, why this . Reading newspapers, the attention, the focus of this administration clearly on Foreign Policy, current prices the in the middle of these, please to the idea of a pivot to asia and effectively what youre talking about in the Task Force Report is a pivot to north america. So why . Its time for a new focus. The reason is when you come back to it, our number one and two trading partners are our two neighbors, not other countries or regions of the wor