President Obama believes that it is in keeping with America's values and our history of compassion to lead an effort to solve some of the most serious...

And joining us today to make this announcement is Jack Lew, the Deputy Secretary of State, and I'll turn it over to him.

As the United States continues to lead on global health -- global HIV/AIDS, on tuberculosis, on malaria -- we now have the opportunity to take an extraordinary...

The administration will release its budget this week, and in the area of global health we're going to be investing $63 billion in an integrated approach...

We need to harness the energy and focus that has made such a difference in addressing HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB to tackle this broader range of health...

Thank you.

The President, at the closing press conference after the Summit of the Americas, talked about being taken aback by all of the comments that other leaders...

Is this something you've seen where Cuba seems to have sort of a little better --

Sixty-three billion [dollars] is a lot of money. Where are the countries on the top list and what are the diseases that you most want to deal with...

How much of a problem is it that in some of those countries you could have real security and governmental cooperation problems?

Jack, can you give us a little more detail on the numbers? Sixty-three billion [dollars] over six, is that roughly $10 billion a year? Does it escalate?...

Can you give us the '10 year, or 2010 number?

Have we lifted all the bars, Republican bars against family planning on these global issues?

So this includes the AIDS funding, plus this extra stuff for family planning?

Well, can you just say what's the add-on, as opposed to what we were spending last year, and the last couple of years?

Say that again?

And do you know where that extra money, that extra money is going now and what you'll be doing with that money that you hadn't done last year?

Family planning? Is that the biggest part?

What would have been, say, the five- or six-year figure last year so that --

The $400 million or $500 million doesn't make it sound like a very dramatic increase --

-- 4.59 times $100 million, you guys didn't think was big last week? (Laughter.)

These guys are a little -- (Laughter.)

Well, I can't say what the Bush administration would have done. We're dealing with a baseline that we started with. So I don't want to characterize...

Well, I'd say that at this point, what we've been thinking through is the health needs that are out there. I would defer to later discussion of issues...

That's not what this funding is about. This funding is about dealing with prenatal care, postnatal care, tropical diseases, children who die from diarrhea....

Well, it is an appropriation, so Congress will have to deal with it.

This is our budget proposal for --

Right.

I think we'll have more details on that in the budget on Thursday.

Anything else for Jack? Thank you, sir.

Give me one minute to get organized.

You like that? I figured I'd bring the President on Friday, then step it up and bring Jack here on Tuesday. (Laughter.)

Since you say that looking quite comfortable with your arms crossed, I'm going to presume the answer you're looking for me is no.

I don't seem...

Well, I didn't hear the conversation. I can allay your fears that it's not going to happen this week -- or maybe disappoint you, but not this week.

I think the President is, as I've said the last few times I've been out here, working with the team to get a look at the people that he thinks are best...

Well, as I've said, I think the President will look at a diversity of experience and background. I think he said on a number of occasions that having...

Well, Jeff, obviously you heard the President on a number of occasions mention that his three most important priorities are health care, energy independence...

Well, I think you can be -- I think the meeting today denotes both his interest and his activity level on this in trying to move a solution forward.

Ed.

That was suspended pending, as you know, a review of the process, a review of our policy relating to detainees. That review is ongoing and I don't...

I think it would not be wise for me to prejudge the review the President laid out.

We anticipate the review will be done this week. I've watched CNN -- I didn’t notice a lack of archival material from that flight. I can --

I don't know where those are.

I think the President was pretty clear on this. Senator Specter has his full support, and he'll do what's necessary to see him reelected. I think Senator...

Let me check with USTR and folks here on what's in the trade agreement and some of the statements that have been made. I don't have anything with me,...

Well, I would say that anytime we're experiencing the type and the magnitude of job layoffs that we've seen over the past many months it's very concerning...

Well, look, I'm not going to get ahead of the Thursday announcement that will be made by the regulators that conducted these tests, and Treasury and...

Well, look, I think -- I hate to get into playing market predictor. I think you've seen -- I think it's always hard to correlate what's happening in...

Sure. I presume that the authorization for increased troop activity in Afghanistan goes back to 2000 -- I don't know exactly when the vote was, late...

I think it was pretty apparent the threat that they posed and the destruction that they ultimately caused in 2001, and that the President will take...

Flesh out for me the reticence a bit.

Well, a couple different things. Understand that nobody is more impatient in seeing progress on a strategy to deal with Afghanistan and Pakistan than...

Well, I'd say al Qaeda's -- I think I said al Qaeda and its extremist allies. Obviously that denotes al Qaeda, and in specific instances, the Taliban.

I think they can speak to the danger of doing that.

Well, let me -- back to your funding, I mean, understand that we organized -- helped organized a donors conference in Japan that brought forward $5...

Well, I think the President has made clear the priority in ensuring that we're addressing this extremist threat. Nobody is more impatient than the President...

Well, I think if you talk to -- I don't know the years that you're talking about in terms of Germany, but I think the agreement that was announced with...

I was not in the meeting. I know that the President is clear that any increase cost for consumers should be compensated through rebates.

Sure.

Wait a minute, Mark said would I try, and I said, yes. So you're -- let me find Mark's answer before you follow up with the negative.

As I said to Chuck, our goal is to ensure -- well, let me start again. The President, I think, is doing exactly what he said he would do in working...

I have not honestly seen the details of what the House is working on, and I'd have to check on that.

It will include revenue from that. I have not looked at the individual aspects of the budget as far as that goes though.

Well, I think your model only presumes if you don't change the allowance, or change the threshold on a yearly basis to ultimately make it -- I mean,...

Again, I think you're projecting --

I understand. But I think you're projecting one year in the totality of the program. And I think that's a somewhat unfair comparison of --

Well, I don't know that I'm an authoritative speaker on Congress.

I used to work in that building. But I also think, again, Major, your question I think is in many ways premised on not knowing the back end of this....

Well, I think it understands, without knowing exactly what was discussed or the details of the legislation that are currently on the Hill or what might...

Right. I have not either read the IMF report or seen the results of the stress tests.

If you would just give me a couple of minutes I'm sure I can -- but I think in some ways you're talking about something that impacts on one problem,...

Well, I --

Well, I think without prejudging the criteria that you'll get a chance to see I think it's -- like a I said, I think it's a bit premature to use a report...

I don't know whether they're going to move that bill separately or not. I would point you to --

Well, I think notwithstanding Jonathan's example, I think the President believes that it would help the American auto industry and at the same time...

Well, I'm not going to get into what we might tell the Israelis before we have substantive conversations with them both today and later on in the month....

Well, again, I'm not going to get into prejudging this. I think it's important -- we'll have readouts on the meeting that we had today with President...

No, I mentioned, I think when I was asked about this last week, that prayer is something that the President does every day. I think, given some of...

No, I'm not going to get into that. Again, I think the President understands, in his own life and in his family's life, the role that prayer plays....

I'm sorry --

He may. Amen. (Laughter.)

There will be a series of meetings. There will be -- there will be bilateral meetings before the trilateral meeting.

Yes. Hence bilateral. And the -- I don't have the schedule in front of me -- these meetings also continue throughout the day and into the next day....

Well, I'll go to both of you, but go back first.

Well, I think you know where the United States stands on that issue. And I think -- you heard Vice President Biden today discuss a two-state solution....

Well, I think the administration would denote --to the administration's position that you just intoned, I don't think that -- this administration does...

I'm sorry?

I did address that. The President and the administration and this government are very clear on that.

Well, I'll let the President make his points to both of those leaders during the meeting without me doing it here, except to underscore what I had previously...

Well, the President is deeply concerned about the security situation. That's why he ordered the review. That's why we're sending additional troops...

No, I think the commitment that the President and the world made to spurring economic growth with this important aid is something the President believes...

I don't know what the specific hang-up is, but, like I said, the President intends to work, and his team do, to work with Congress to straighten that...

Well, no, I think -- as I mentioned here yesterday, the President supports the democratically elected governments of both of these countries and looks...

I will check on next week. I can certainly rule out this week.