rose: welme to the broadct. tonight we looat the growing coern about the u.s. budget deficit with rog altman, form depu treasury secretary during thclinton administration and a wall street veteran. it the most serio and fascining fiscal policy challenge i ever seen. and it s been 41 year since i started finance and i served twice in the treasurywhich was a greatprivilege and i ve never seen a challge like this, becausas you just said, at one vel, the economs going to be exaordinarily weak and stimulus is cessary. indeed, the argume in the last few days has been do we need a second stimulus ? buat another level as the deficits emerge and they ven t really zuck in on main street yet but as they emerge and people see how lge they are, the public i believeill vi them as unacceptable. this is already evident in the polls. and the ainistration will be in a vice. we should be pursuing stimulus and we should keep that going, say, f two more years. and we should wait as e pr