About that . Should we continue with the Affordable Care act . Should we adopt a single payer system . Obviously, doing nothing will not work. What would you recommend . The programs already existing for a long time, like medicare, for which the projections of spending are just growing and growing and we also of Social Security as well. But in the case of medicare, there is a bipartisan agreement that we need to control the growth. The president a couple of years ago said it should not grow much more than gdp. The House Republicans have also agreed. Theres a difference on how to do that. House republicans wanted to decentralize, as you know. And the president wanted to centralize it. It seems to me that is something we could come to agreement on. It is really not about current retirees. It is about future retirees. People know it has to be addressed. I would try to go after the medicare issue. And of course, the Affordable Care act is even more difficult now because it has become so partisan. But it is also something that could be improved. But in the meantime, focus on entitlements that are clear the expenses right now, like medicare. One more question. I want to get your reaction, specifically on the story in the wall street journal with it to the financial crisis and when you were prosecuting banks. Attorneygeneral holder announced hes getting ready to bring a bunch of new cases and i wanted to get your reaction to that. Is this because we are five years into the crisis and these cases were to complicated to get to them quickly . It is tied to the anniversary of the crisis . Are there cases out there that are still prosecutable . What about the statute of limitations . There is a fiveyear statute of limitations. That may be part of it. I think philemon university anniversary, scrutiny, a lot the Lehman Brothers anniversary, scrutiny, a lot of that. You want Enforcement Actions and the accountability for people who break the law. It helps our markets. Having the accountability and the certainty of Enforcement Actions helps to make sure there is full compliance and generates the kind of behavior is that we want to see in our financial system. When you have enforcement, that is because theres political pressure to do it. That troubles me, too. I wish we would have had earlier energy on this and more consistency about the kinds of cases we are bringing, the kind of the years we are targeting. Of behaviors we are targeting. Why isnt there consistency in the enforcement . I do worry when Enforcement Actions become a response to political pressure, or perhaps other reasons, that you lose the benefit of enforcement, which is accountability and changing the bears. I should not be so negative. Maybe the positive is that good enforcement action will be consistent and their archives of the bears that need to be addressed, but we just dont know yet. [inaudible] i dont know. I did see the article. I dont know. The enforcement priorities of this department have confused me. It is not myspace, so i dont talk with them regularly. I do wish there had been a more robust policy. But again, when it is consistent and send clear signals about unacceptable behavior, looking into more rather than looking into discretionary type things or responding to political pressure. That is all the time we have. Thank you for your excellent insight. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] on monday, a conversation with former Vice President dick cheney and his daughter, liz cheney, who has said shes running for u. S. Senate in wyoming. They spoke at the Freedom Conference dinner. That was hosted by the Steamboat Institute in colorado. We will have that tomorrow at 7 30 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan. , outgoing Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano will say farewell from the press club. She was the first woman to head the department and was head of the department for four years. Her remarks are at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Cspan we bring Public Affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings, and conferences and offering complete apple to gavel coverage of the u. S. House, all as a Public Service of private industry. We are cspan, created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and funded by your local cable and satellite provider. Ow, you can watch us in hd turning to Serious Health the u. S. Has confirmed it has reached an agreement with the Syrian Government to allow inspectors to visit the site of an alleged emma attack a suite near damascus. The date and times still need to be worked out. Opposition groups and Doctors Without Borders say more than 300 people were killed. U. S. Lawmakers talked about those attacks on the sunday news shows. On fox news sunday, corker and eliot talk more about the issue. I think we will respond in a surgical way and i hope the president , as soon as we get back to washington, will ask for authorization from congress to do something in a very surgical and proportional way, something that gets their attention and causes them to understand we are not going to put up with this kind of activity. At the same time, i hope its the kind of action that does not move us away from the policy we have right now where we want to see the Syrian Opposition group taking the lead on the ground. I hope we will lose our training up. I know we are doing it covertly now. I think we need to move to more industrial Strength Training on the ground. We need to tilt the balance a little more as it relates to the opposition groups on the ground. I dont want our actions in response to this Chemical Warfare two off to alter that. Inwe have to respond conjunction with our nato allies and we have to respond much as we have done in libya with the nato allies. I think we cannot afford to sit back and wait. We cannot wait for the United Nations. The russians are ready to block it with their veto. This is analogous to the 1999 situation pose of oh where there population situation in coast of oh. Situation inkosovo i think you can do that without boots on the ground and having americans in harms way. You can destroy the runways, you can destroy his munitions could destroy his fuel. There are lots and lots of things we could do. We could even destroy this. Air force if we wanted to. I sent a letter to joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey, to ask what kinds of options can we do . We have to move and we have to move quickly. I do agree with senator corker effect Congress Needs to be involved. But perhaps not initially. Perhaps the president could tort and Congress Needs resolve it and assent to it, but we cannot sit still. We have to move and we have to move quickly. Hear more from those lawmakers and others. Cspan radio reairs the talk shows throughout the afternoon and again at around midnight. Now, more challenges for u. S. War in policy, including serious, from this mornings washington journal. On your screen is by taylor, a senior policy correspondent for the washington times. We also have the Christian Science monitors diplomatic reporter, joining us for a discussion about u. S. Foreign policy challenges, particularly focusing on syria and egypt and the middle east in general. We will start with a look at a headline this morning obama reviews Response Options in attack to syria this is the Washington Post headline. The president met yesterday with his National Security team. What are they trying to figure out . Theyre trying to figure out how they could respond to this redline issue with. The president has come out and said the use of chemical weapons would be the crossing of the red line and that would suggest or that was red in the media here in washington as a warning from president obama that the use of chemical weapons would trigger some kind of surgical military strike by the United States. They are debating, i think, what to do. Is it time for the United States to do some kind of military strike or how could they talk their way out of not doing that and telling the International Community we can move forward with our syria policy even if chemical weapons are being used. Host given the definition of this red line, what are the options for the administration at this point in conjunction with our allies or through the u. N. . Guest we president obama friday morning in a kind of rare out some, and he laid or some of the challenges Going Forward on this. He did not lay out what might happen, but i think we are hearing in the white house, discussions talking about perhaps starting with cruise missiles that would be launched syrianfshore and hitting military installations. Also that in talk earlier meetings in the white house that there was some talk vo model,he koso referring back to that in the 90s when president clinton misevic regime. Kes against the maybe where the comparison is that is a step that was taken without you and without you and approval. There is not going to be u. N. Approval for anything the u. S. And other western powers might do. Russia would stand in the way. That is where kosovo might be a model. But i dont think in the sense went on for three months and it was really designed to turn milosevic away from the ethnic cleansing and things that were going on. But in this case, the first up would probably be cruise missiles, warning shots, dont do that again and then maybe ratchet it up if for some reason the asad regime continued with chemical weapons. But first, it would be kind of a warning or retaliation for a specific attack, but not aimed at a full military intervention aimed at bringing down assad. Lets bring our viewers and listeners into the conversation. You can join us via facebook or twitter and here are the phone bers lets look at egypt as part of this conversation. Reports this morning in egypt that they are moving forward with the trial of Hosni Mubarak or the retrial of Hosni Mubarak. What is at play in egypt at this point . He has been released from his Military Hospital or the prism, what is next there . I think what is that play is the extent to which they have taken control of the government in cairo can control the situation in the streets. If there are not massive protest and the next two or five weeks with clashes resulting in the deaths of citizens regardless of who they are and what everyone else thinks about the Muslim Brotherhood, how can the government that is now Holding Power in cairo create a peaceful situation . The question of mubarak being released from prison in calling for a new trial is certainly disconcerting from the washington perspective regardless of who is in power. That is the big question. How does this government shore up the reputation . It is cracking down in a way that hundreds of egyptian citizens were killed. Creating a situation where a dialogue can be created. Host howard wrote about the administrations careful efforts to preserve a decade old regional strategy based on egypt. They can proceed knowing that the u. S. Needs egypt more than the then egypt needs the u. S. They cut up 1. 6 million in military assistance. It reminds us of a scene from Brokeback Mountain where one cowboy says i cannot quit you. Guest i think he was saying that we are seeing the administration being very careful about egypt. They do not even want to determine whether or not what happened was a military coup, because by doing that we would have to say it is a to and cut off aid coup and cut off aid according to law. The administration looks at the National Security interest that they see in play here. There is islamist militants that are ever more active in the siani. We have seen that more recently. We saw oil prices go up in the aftermath of events in egypt. I think the administration is showing that they are very reluctant to cut off aid, to cut bridges with Egyptian Military. The u. S. And Egyptian Military have a very long, close relationship. In the view of many, the generals see this and they feel like they know it and they can go pretty far without risking a closed door and washington. Host several countries are just fine with the generals in power. They would rather see that. Guest sure. When at the Big Questions is what is, better for the United States and its allies to have the Muslim Brotherhood in power for a few years in cairo or a military junta that is very secular and interested in controlling volatile elements right there is such as hamas in gaza. The United States is trying to pursue greater peace. In the last month or so, the narrative is that the state department is going to want to pursue Israeli Palestinian peace. A Muslim Brotherhood in cairo with hamas which has disavowed the peace process. There are lots of different strains to this. Host i want to get to a broader look. You wrote about a couple of weeks after the crackdown in egypt following wednesday, you rode the middle east Democracy Movement is hailed as the arab spring and was transformed wednesday. Do you think that will cause a reset . Both what is happening in egypt and syria, do you think it will cause the administration to look at a reset of the Foreign Policy . Guest i think what they do is a big question. With regard to the lofty goals, it is not a reference to the last five years of the Obama Administration with the eight years or when the neoconservative push was to spread democracy to the middle east. Seeing a democratically elected government in cairo getting knocked back down by a military coup essentially, even though that is the dirty word in washington, dc that happen does raise the question of how are we going to proceed here. Guest i think what we need to look at is, a reset i do not know, but the administration would like to keep the middle east to the background. That is not what it wanted. Obama came in. He wanted his administration to be the one that turned away from the middle east or pivoted from the middle east in u. S. Foreign policy and focus to asia. Secretary defense hagel is in asia right now. He is having to talk about syria and the middle east. President obama, and this is coloring their decisions, knows that to get involved directly in the war in syria that is it for the rest of his administration. I think that is one they are being careful about. He still has lofty hopes for the middle east. He wants to pivot away from this region and put american Foreign Policy attention elsewhere, primarily in asia. Host we want to go to a middle east correspondent to his joining us from syria. Good morning to you. I think we may have lost him. All right. We will go with our caller. Caller it is concerning to me that regarding the chemical use in syria is slanted to one. America has concluded that facade has artie use chemical weapons. Do we already have any evidence . We have concluded that assad used it. What is the evidence . I would like to know. Host what is the latest . Guest we do not have evidence that was standup. We we have video of people testifying to reporters, locally on the ground, footage that suggests pretty seriously that missiles landed in a couple of towns. It is a great question. I applaud the viewer for bringing it up. This is something the Obama Administration will want to strategically hide behind. We have had a time in the United States of about six or seven years of a very militarized foreignpolicy where we responded to these threats around the world and even going back to the former u. S. Lobby where we responded with military strikes. There is a kneejerk sense that we have to respond with a military strike. The Obama Administrations mantra has been we are going to be the administration that does not do that. That is what is playing out here. This slow resistance to jumping to conclusions. Guest organizations such as yesterday, Doctors Without Borders said that three of their hospitals that they work with in the damascus area reported thousands of, or within hours, victims coming in with symptoms of some sort of neurotoxic attack. You go back prior to that and both, not just u. S. Intelligence but the israelis, have been saying that the assad regime has been keeping very careful control on their stockpiles of chemical weapons. That does not mean that there is proof that it was his regime. There are all sorts of possibilities. Is he losing control of some of his commanders may be . Might it have been someone separate who decided to test the limits . We do not know. The caller is correct in saying the administration, we also do not know what evidence has come in. There is video. There are photos. As of thurs