richard fall brook -- richard holbrooke proceeded to attend that meeting. she was examined and they determined that it was appropriate for her to go to the hospital. >> why did it take until 1255. -- until 12:55 p.m. to report it? >> she proceeded down the street to george washington hospital. she got back to her house at roughly 10:00 p.m. she took a call from the president shortly thereafter. we started to work on a statement some time in the next hour and put it out as quickly as we could. >> it was 11:55 p.m. >> yes, sir. >> obviously, we knew she had fallen. we thought it appropriate to get complete facts before we informed the public and the media. >> [unintelligible] >> cheryl mills is a very close confidant and counselor for the secretary. with all the was the most appropriate person to comment. >> is it likely that she will likely not be in attendance because of surgery? >> will it will be able to address that later appeared >> was a bad break? >> i am sure it was painful. i am not a physician. i do not think it was a severe break. that is why i th

just before the incident, secret service spotted richard holbrooke sprang to be 40 all over the driveway. -- spraying wd-40. on top of the cost of health care and energy, we have another fiscal problem. fortunately, the lawyers telerate -- tell me that hillary is ready to settle. [laughter] i have to admit, it was not easy coming up with fresh material for this dinner. a few nights ago, i was up tossing and turning trying to figure out exactly what to say. finally, when i could not get back to sleep, i rolled over and ask brian williams what he thought. [laughter] [applause] now the truth is, brian williams is actually a terrible houseguest. he put an empty milk carton back in the fridge, leaves his wet towels all over the roosevelt room, and were pretty sure he called the toilet and didn't tell anybody. -- clogged the toilet and didn't tell anybody. [laughter] i must say the whole thing was worth it. inside the obama white house is my favorite new show. there is something really compelling about the main character. a wonderful narrative'. in fact, the show has been such a hit that all o

just before the incident, secret service spotted richard holbrooke sprang to be 40 all over the driveway. -- spraying wd-40. on top of the cost of health care and energy, we have another fiscal problem. fortunately, the lawyers telerate -- tell me that hillary is ready to settle. [laughter] i have to admit, it was not easy coming up with fresh material for this dinner. a few nights ago, i was up tossing and turning trying to figure out

. >> richard holbrooke on the weekend said that u.s. policies are changing. instead of revocation, -- of eradication, there would be a policy of stopping drugs. they used the word "interdiction." this combined with support to farmers in afghanistan. i wonder if you have strategy for how this interdiction works, and if nato would be in cooperation with other countries in the area that are affected by the flow of drugs. is there a clear road map? >> first and foremost, this is an afghan operation. our efforts have been to support the afghan governments' efforts in the problem of narcotics. we remain committed to counter narcotics in afghanistan. what we're talking about, here, is we would like to increase our efforts to alternative crop development, public information, and interdiction. eradication. it is up to the afghan government to determine how they go about their own counter narcotics efforts. we do support them, of course. >> they seem to indicate that they are happy with the policy and there was some discrepancy there. >> i have not seen any statements

just before the incident, secret service spotted richard holbrook spraying wd-40 all over the driveway. on top of the costs of health care, energy and the recovery plan, we've got another fiscal problem. fortunately, the lawyers told me that hillary is ready to settle. i have to admit though, it wasn't coming up with fresh material for this dinner. i was up tossing and turning trying to figure out what to say. i rolled over and asked brian williams what he thought. [cheers and applause] >> now, the truth is brian williams is actually a terrible house guest. you put an empty milk carton back in the fridge, we're pretty sure he clogged the toilet and didn't tell anybody. [laughter] >> i must say the whole thing was worth it inside the obama white house is my favorite new show. there's just something really compelling about the main character. wonderful narrative. in fact, the show has been such a hit that all of you guys now want to come and tape one in my house. abc is planning a series called "dancing with the zars." tlc has something called "jon and kate and peter orszag." knick at n

that will require some pretty tricky bilateral diplomatic work thank god we have richard holbrooke in charge of that because i would not want that job. but a regionally-based guarantee to the pakistanis is probably the only thing that's going to get us to the point where they feel comfortable to not support the taliban. [inaudible] >> yes, absolutely. >> yes, please. >> paula, i'm a research assistant at harvard university and an army reservist that has been called three timing. i read michelle was advocating for the civilian response corps which would fall under the state department and i'm wondering if you could comment on the feasibility and efficacy of such a corps and how soon we might see it? >> first thing, thank you for your service. there's been a lot of discussion where the civilians and there have been successive attempts within the state department to increase the number of field-deployable civilians who can get in the higher risk environment and do civilian jobs but in a more dangerous context. is eric here? i think he is somewhere. eric was the first aid officer in afgha