more sensible place. president obama while he was announcing not only does he want to take noaa out of commerce department, and put it somewhere more normal, like the interior department, which is sort of in charge of our country s physical plant. not only does he want to move noaa somewhere that makes more sense, maybe he wants to get rid of the commerce department altogether. he wants to take six departments or agencies that deal with business or trade, the commerce department, small business administration, u.s. trade representatives office, export-import bank, overseas private investment corporation, trade and development agency, he wants to take all these agencies that have overlapping responsibilities for different parts of business and trade, wants to take all of these six agencies and consolidate them. the white house says that consolidation would not only simplify and streamline government would save $3 billion and cut 1,000 jobs off of the federal payroll over a period of t
state department and the u.s. trade representatives. as far as what name it will be, certainly not the department of jobs. that would just be easy pickings for republicans out there in this down economy, bill. bill: not enough of them at the moment. thank you, from the north lawn of the white house. martha: we ve got new details for you in the case of robin gardner, an american woman missing in aruba, the suspect in her disappearance, a judge ordering this maryland man held for another 16 days at this point. now, the police believe he was the last one to see the 35-year-old woman before she disappeared, the two were reportedly on a snorkeling trip together when she vanished. phil keating is live on this story for us in miami. phil, what was unusual about this hearing they had yesterday? reporter: hi martha. in aruba, typically when a suspect is being held in jail, not charged with a crime, just held, every # days they get a new hearing where the evidence has to be greater, more indic
leaders at this white house, and at what they see as an abandonment of old allies and friends? well, i was hearing that before i came here, as i made the calls around the region, getting ready for this trip. and i it was certainly reinforced in the conversations that i had here. in fact, i heard for first time here that the saudis sent trade representatives at a very high level to moscow and beijing to say to those two countries, we re open to doing more business with you, that s a real affront to the united states. they feel very strongly that the president didn t stand or that the administration didn t handle president mubarak in the appropriate way as a man who been an old friend. at the same time, a lot of the leaders here believe the saudis can only paper their country, that is spread money around for only so long. they believe that the popular uprising that we have seen in other parts of the middle east eventually will begin to take hold in saudi arabia as well.
a huge trade imbalance, still. all of the jobs here, manufacturing jobs that could go to the low-wage companies and go to the same product much less. they didn t have the language standards or the environmental standards, they were allowing countries like china, etc., to steal intellectual property and copy a design and to sell it. those things have not been addressed. you can adopt great trade agreements. we re not afraid of trade. we can compete anywhere, any time, give us a fair playing field. we would rather be the export nation rather than the import nation. you need nafta to reopen. you disappointed that the president hasn t done that. he said he s going to do that. he s abiding by almost all of the campaign promises, as he said. i expect and i ve had conversations and meetings with his trade representatives on the trade agreements that they re in the process of negotiating, i believe that he s committed to
are you kidisappointed that e president hasn t done that. i expect, i have had conversations with his trade representatives on the trade agreements, that they are in the process of negotiating. i believe that he is committed to fair, to robust trade but fair trade for our businesses to be able to compete on a fair playing field. i think he will hold his trade rep to that. let me ask you about bailouts in general. americans hate them. they think that they have spent a lot of money to bail out wall street. is it different to bail out the consider companies? i think it is. this is main street. look at what s happening. chrysler is going to pay back its loan to gm. they have completely redesigned their management structure. they have shaken the blanket and done something new. they are going to come out with the first all electric vehicle, the volt. i think it will be extremely successful. in the process, we saved