e cpra, the national trust and so on to reassure them and their millions of members that the proposed changes to the planning system don t represent a blank check for the development? well, i m very happy to meet anyone to discuss this. and i know that the national trust i know that the national trust the national trust have specifically met already with the planning minister the right honorable member and have had a lot of reassurances about what these planning changes mean. and let meust say it again, because we re going to he stronger local plans, that gives local people a greater ability to decide what s in the local plan and what s out of the local plan. at the same time, having a presumption in favor of sustainable development will cut another bureaucracy in our system but we re not changing the rules for greenbelt, for anob s, for speal scientific interests and all the rest of it and i do think people need to focus on that because what we need to happen is sensib
is all that is important. i think for mitt romney, it is not as much a big deal in 2012, at least publicly. economic concerns, a tea party and all that. with rick perry getting in the race, he also has michele bachmann and rick santorum doing the dirty work for him. he can come across as the mainstream guide. host: this is from a research poll that came out in may. what are the chances that you would vote for mitt romney as a mormon? 44% saying they would not vote for a mormon candidate. guest: this is clearly a problem. that is why i mention that it has not been a public issue. privately, there ll be quite a few evangelicals that will not even take a look at him for that reason alone. that is why you will not see him compete this heavily in iowa this time around. he will make a plague in south carolina. play in south carolina. host: michael is joining us from new york. caller: we are building towards tension in this country. we need to realize that we are headed for anothe
[speaking mandarin chinese] [speaking mandarin chinese] [speaking mandarin chinese] the united states is the biggest developed economy in the world. the united states has a strong based economy, it has advanced science and technology and a large well-trained labor force. we have the confidence that the united states will overcome the difficulties and achieve a full economic recovery. we hope that the united states will take the right economic policy, maintain fiscal and financial stability and keeps the confidence of the investors and ensure the interests of global investors. in my meeting with the president barack obama last year, i proposed to him that china and the united states engage in large scale financial economic cooperation. two elements are essential in this proposal. first if the united states should open its market to the chinese companies so that china will turn from just buy u.s. bonds to making investment in the u.s. market and that will help generate more j
down and it wouldn t work anymore. we should lift the federal restriction on tolling. if they want to take on that decision and won t explain it to the taxpayers, that s their risk. in terms of separating out transit from the trust fund, transit because it is it s actually not so exclusively in big cities as people would suggest. in pennsylvania we have 39 mass transit systems and some of them are in counties with less than 10,000 people. and bus lines are the only way that working people can get to work. we think of mass transit as subways. but it s more than just subways and metro rail lines. it s buses as well. if you separate it out then it would become a step child. then it would lose any chance that it would get significant funding. lastly in terms of deinvolving to the states. if you did that, took the federal gas tax money away and so the states could do it on their own, tell me what governor or what legislature in today s atmosphere is going to to impose a state ta
this is 50 minutes. [inaudible conversations] to have everybody s attention, please? can i have your attention so we can start? thank you very much. we are very honored today to have as our special guest of the president s national security advisor, tom donilon. thomas had a distinguished career in government works generally over some 30 years. i first met tom when i was working under president carter. tom had just graduated from catholic university, came to work in the white house and very quickly became so apparent that he came in charge of the president delicate at the age of 23. he did a spectacular job and hoped president carter every nomination. that election didn t go the way we thought it would go. [laughter] den to help president carter set up his post government career and then went to law school at the university of virginia, where he became a member of our review. he bantering subsequently all milly and meyerson is back and forth for many, many years. he served