Transcript: Obama On The Economy, Iran   Below is the full
transcript from the interview with President Obama on June 16th,
2009.  Thanks so much for being with us. Mr. President.
President BARACK OBAMA: Thank you, John. Great to be here.
HARWOOD: You unveil your regulatory reform proposal tomorrow,
and from what we know it's a little bit different than some had
anticipated; less consolidation of agencies than had been
predicted. We've heard about turf fights among regulators and
committee chairs in Congress. Does that mean in the final
decision making that you listened more to political advice about
what you could get done rather than what made the most sense and
was most efficient economically?  Pres. OBAMA: No. I think that
what we focused on was, number one, do we have the tools to
prevent the kinds of risks that we saw back in September? And
our conclusion was we didn't, and we had to make sure that we
had a systemic risk regulator. So that is in place. We asked, do
we have the resolution authority if