. tweet us your feedback about the programs you see here. twitter.com/booktv. >> as chief economist at a major international consulting firm, john perkins advised the world bank, the united nations, the international monetary fund, the u.s. treasury department, fortune 500 corporations and leaders of countries in africa, asia, latin america and the middle east. his groundbreaking expose the confessions of an economic hitman spent an astonishing 73 weeks on "the new york times"' bestsellers list. his books have sold more than one million copies. he is also a founder and board member of the to nonprofits dream change and the -- alliance. would you please give a big round of amaze and help us welcome john perkins. [applause] >> thank you. thanks, clay. thanks to this amazing independent bookstore. a round of applause for this bookstore. we love these independent bookstores. thank you. [applause] thank you all for being here tonight. it's a great pleasure to be here with you. i think, well, i wanted to actually share a st. patrick's day story with you. [laughter] happy st. patrick's day. s

off like china or vietnam or japan i could name any countries they are beating us. i here's this guy i wish i could stand next to him so i could tell the truth. repeal and replace obamacare. so he gets up with the big flourish honestly held the key is very good at debating every single online poll or debate i have been hampered got my whole life is a debate. i talk about obamacare for everything we will repeal let it replace it with something great. your premiums are going up. 3545 or 55% the deductibles are so high you can never use it. it is the disaster. and blogging ted said donald trump loves obamacare he wants to take it to the next level. he is such a liar. i was given a little better shelter with one of the debates marco rubio call him a liar. so now i feel much better. but i have never seen him live like this. he said donald trump will not build the of all. -- build the wall. >> we will build it. [cheers and applause] . . i think he's crazy. lion ted does not have the temperament to be doing this. he is choking like a dog because he is losing so badly we have to put them awa

. by the use of parliament maneuvers, the minority leader here who was just talking about not getting anything done is the person -- is the reason why we're not getting it done. and i can understand there is an issue that the other side doesn't think should go forward, and they want to use senatorial privileges and procedures to stop it from going forward, i mean that happens on both sides of the aisle. but national defense is something that we might have a bipartisan support for. in the end, this bill will pass probably 98-2 or 100-0 or something along those lines. what the minority leader didn't say is that the defense committee, which has spent literally hundreds of hours putting this thing together, every democrat on that committee has supported it. and so the leader comes down here and says we don't know what's in it. well, it's his own people that have written this thing, along with republicans, and in the end sanctioned it by voting for it. every democrat on this armed services committee has voted for this bill, and the minority leader comes down here and says we don't know wha

we'll see. it's not something that we can do on our own. >> you are joining us here on c-span tv. >> we walked over to the ford displayed to see what you are displaying, carrie is with the ford motor company, what technology are you showing to congress question what. >> what we but we have to show is really two things, this is a generation of our technology, ford was the first automaker to bring conductivity technology into the car and mass-market to consumers. we do that in 2007 and we change the industry and the way the industry approached electronics in the car. this launched about 12 months ago. it focused this generation on the user interface and making the system is easy to use as possible for customers. the other thing we're showing today's new technology brought by apple and google that lets you integrate your experience with your phone into your car. i have my iphone and all i do is plug it in and you'll see that the sink display will change to an apple display. and so here's an equivalent feature for google which is called android auto. in both cases the two companies h

that's quite interesting for all of us here is to hear about your accidental advocacy. because you believe strongly in aid in dying for john, but you did not become a public figure speaking on behalf of aid in dying all on your own. it happened because of some events. some talks, some things you got involved in. >> right. >> but now, and this is the important part, now you want to -- once you've retired and your show is no longer on -- [laughter] going to take me a moment for that, you want to move on to working full time in this cause. and so i wanted to give you some time to speak about the public side of aid in dying. >> you know, it was "the washington post" who labeled me a new and strong advocate for the right to die after i had attended three dinners, attended three dinners sponsored by compassion in choices. they did these dinners as a fundraising vehicle and felt very strongly that my presence would attract large donors. each of those dinners was for 20 persons, each of whom paid $2500 to attend. at those dinners i did nothing but speak of john. and to speak of how he died

brought us to here, and i go into great detail in the book about all of these different forms of the new economic hitmen that have come along, but i just will share a couple of things with you. met with a bank, senior bank vice president from chase bank, not too long ago. the short version is he explained know, you know, back a few years ago we bankers had a lot of integrity. if you came to me and asked me for $500,000 loan and for a house you wanted to buy, i'd probably try to convince you to buy a $300,000 house. i didn't want to foreclose. but after 9/11, which was really the cutoff date, after 9/11, we all got together and said we'll tell you, take out a $700,000 loan youch may hear of have too tighten you belt but you can get twice nat for it in a few years. then the market crashes and the person loses their house, the banks then repackages it and sells it to some developer, makes a double profit off of it. and this banker from chase was very frank about this. this is what has been happening in this industry. we have seen our bankers, people we were taught all our lives to trust

thank everybody for joining us here today. i know that this panel will be enlightening, may throw some shade, but it will be enlightening nonetheless. i hope you had an opportunity to attend some of the other workshops that have been happening over the course of the weekend and that are going on for the rest of the day today. what i want to do is introduce our very distinguished panel and they are going to be sharing their ends ties, their experience is in their vision as well as answering as many of your questions as possible at the end of our session. so first we have bernice mcfadden. she is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels in limiting sugar, loving donna finn, nor is the place are the warmest december, one of my favorite comic gathering of waters which was in "new york times" editors choice and one of 100 notable books of 2012 as well as glorious, which is featured in o magazine and a finalist for an image award yet she is a three-time person legacy award finalist as well as the recipient of three awards in bca l.a. ms. mcfadden is in brooklyn in her latest book

and commerce committee, and he joins us here on "the communicators." [inaudible conversations] >> host: congressman fred upton brought us over to the ford display to see what you were displague, and gary jablonski is with the ford motor company. what's the technology you're showing members of congress? >> guest: really two things. this is the third generation of our sync technology, so ford was the first automaker to bring connectivity technology into the car and really mass market numbers. and we did that in 2007, and we really changed the industry and the way the industry approached consumer electronics in their car. this is our third generation, it launched about 12 months ago. really focused in this generation on the user interface and making the system as easy to use as possible for customers. the other thing we're showing today is new technologies brought by apple and google that let you integrate your experience with your phone into your car. so i have my iphone, and all i do is plug it in, and you'll see that the sync display is going to change to an apple display. thi

visited, do you recall speaking with us prior to coming in here today and giving us general findings from the visited? do you remember telling us your general observations? >> yes, sir. >> now, tell me, in those seven airports you visited, how many of them have explosive trace detection equipment? >> the last time i spoke with you, sir, we were in a closed session, and i spoke frankly about what we had and did not have within cuba. with this open session i'm reluctant to get into exactly what equipment they have. >> let me pause for a moment, please. [inaudible conversations] >> so just for the record, are you saying that the information you provided to us in nonsecure setting is considered ssi information? >> yes, sir. >> okay. then we'll probably have to move this to a secure hearing. let me -- one second. [inaudible conversations] >> i just want to make sure the record is clear. have to make a record. with respect to the k-9 discussion we had with respect to the seven lpds, is it still your position those are also ssi? >> yes, sir. it's a level of security that -- so again, ssi. >

water some where? here we are. the school suspended him for violating a rule prohibiting the use of obscene language on campus. thank you. i'm trying not to spill it. [laughter] >> a majority of the supreme court upheld the disciplinary action, although i agreed that frazer did not necessarily have a constitutional right to deliver his suggestive speech at a school assembly, i thought it clear that he had not received adequate notice that he might be punished for doing so. the school agreed that frazer had violated the rule against, quote, disruptive conduct, unquote, but in my view the general prohibition was insufficient to notify frazer that his speech would list disciplinary consequences particularly as there was no evidence that speech has caused any material disruption to school educational's activities. in light of free expression protected by the first amendment and the interest in fair procedure protected by the 14th amendment, i would have held that the constitution barred the schools punitive response to frazer's speech. in 2007i dissented from chief justice roberts' opin

wanted to get people with dominant views to come here and debate us. the first amendment was essential to our idea of how it became part of the national conversation and we always want to make sure that the things we have in the cato position was enunciated and today professor ross ipad of inciting a despair that would be part of the cato advocates for the libertarian position on the spirit but we also do education here in the education axis. i want to include my colleague, director of the cato center for educational freedom prior to arriving at cato he served in the u.s. army, tight high school english and maybe he'll have some stories for us. was a freelance reporter covering government in education and suburban new jersey. before becoming the direct terror, he was policy analyst at the center for education reform. he's the author of sets in the classroom of big government cripples and compromises american education and his writings have appeared in all the recent publications. he has been on c-span before, cnn, fox and numerous programs. he holds an undergraduate degree from georget

patrick leahy for hosting us here today. the caucus hosts events every few weeks on salient topics to the internet and policy, and and we invite you to come out for events throughout the summer. so today we have several excellent panelists with us today. we have emma llanso from the center for democracy and technology who works on the free expression project. we have rashad hussain from the department of justice, counterrerring violent extremely over there, and we also have seamus hughes, deputy director for the program on extremism at george washington university's center for cyber and homeland security. and my name is miranda bogen, and i'm a fellow at the internet law and policy foundry and a fellow at the congressional internet congress in the past. so let's get started. i'll just give a brief overview of the issue going on, and then we'll jump right into it and get into what's the real issue here with extremists online, what role do the platforms like twitter, facebook, google play in this, and how -- what is the right way to be approaching the issue of dealing with extremist con

us here, but the effort continues, and we always say when a report comes out here halfway done so likely months more of actual advocacy and education work around the recommendations here. so, please reach out to us, dr. park and i, to figure out ways to work together to advance what is in here and the work you're doing using our bipartisan platform. thank you all for coming and for your patience staying overtime. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> coming up on c-span 2, the supreme court oral argument in foster v. chapman i a case that ruled in favor of a black georgia death row inmate who was convicted and sentences by an all-white jury. later the supreme court oral argument in bitman very person, a case decided today regarding virginia redistricting. >> c-span's warm journal with news and policy issues that impact you. tuesday morning, with presidential candidate bernie sanders declaration of pursuing the nomination through to the democratic convention, congressman rick know land of minute talks about the 2016 campaign, the future of the sanders candidacy and his support of

recommendations we released, and many of you have been a part of our process to get us here, but the effort continues, and we always say when a report comes out here halfway done so likely months more of actual advocacy and education work around the recommendations here. so, please reach out to us, dr. park and i, to figure out ways to work together to advance what is in here and the work you're doing using our bipartisan platform. thank you all for coming and for your patience staying overtime. [applause] [inaudible conversations] both -- you can always have -- as miller recognizees -- >> well in response to justice sotomayor's question, if the prosecutor argues a laundry list of reasons for striking a black juror and some of those are reason -- some are imapplause able -- implausible, how should the court -- >> the fact there is a laundry list suggests in and of itself that the court should scrutinize the reasons carefully and should be suspect of the reasons because otherwise what the court is going to do is just simply encourage prosecutors or any party in a case, since batson ap

have you here with us. many other gets in the room. thank you for joining us and thank you for coming this afternoon. and for those who are knew to usip we are an independent national institute founded by congress 30 years ago, and dedicated to the proposition that peace is possible, peace is practical, and peace is essential for u.s. and international security, and we pursue a vision of a world without violent conflict, by working in conflict zones, with partners, equipping them with dollars, with knowledge, and with training. there's probably no place where usip teams have spent more time than in afghanistan. working with civil society and government partners to help make peace possible. so, we're delighted to have today a panel discussion to discuss exactly who are some of the powerful women helping to make peace possible in afghanistan, and i have the distinct privilege of introducing our panelists and our moderator. let me note that we will have ushers coming down the aisle to collect your question cards, for questions after opening remarks. if you have a question, please write t

california. i'm here to express my concerns with the disabilities act and how it is being used. i understand. i've been disabled all my life and i'm grateful for president george bush to recognized the need to do when he signed it into the law. the public buildings should have a federal entrance door and tables should be high enough for wheelchairs to sit but eating areas should be just for the disabled people. and eating area shouldn't have a sign that says for wheelchairs only. buildings that allow people with disabilities allow people to become more independent and self-sufficient. for me, i appreciate the businesses but personally it doesn't matter if it is at 37 inches or 32 inches. all business have to recognize the need for all customers. for example many have been able [inaudible] many business owners are not aware of the changes or regulations related. not all businesses are up to date, up to code with the guidelines of the regulation was due to a lack of information from the city and the state's regarding the changes. my mother has two doughnut shops and has been sued at

before this hearing. general, i admire you for that. the deputy is no stranger to any of us here. she's worked on refugee issues at the state department, the united nations for i think over 25 years if i'm correct. it seems every time we have had an issue here you have been involved and i appreciate it. then there's a list of 48 issues and secretary blink and is involved in every one of the 40 with an expertise on the issue. i know from the president and others it has been apropos to them. now we look at the kinds committed some of the groups like isis. as you said we can limit the territorial control by these organizations to the use of the force that we are not going to defeat those ideas by bullets and bombs. and i think that the foreign aid programs can substitute the policies and strategies in places like the middle east and north africa which must promote to protect fundamental freedoms and if they don't, then they don't have a counter to the recruitment and those policies and strategies in the area are lacking. we support a wide range of programs that support these and they inclu

cloakroom. her husband marty used to as well. the two of them even met right here in the senate. so we're glad that ruby will get to spend more quality time -- that is, non-senate time -- with her family, and we're sure she would like to see a little more of her son alexander as well. but as ruby knows, she will be leaving a family behind here, too. she served as a surrogate mom of sorts to many doorkeepers, pages and interns. they have looked up to her for wisdom and for advice, and it's no wonder. she has got a lifetime of stories and experiences to share in a retirement that's richly deserved. so we'll miss ruby paone and wish her the very best, and above all, we thank her for her many years of service. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: it's real unfortunate that the republican leader comes here often and continues to harp, complain about obamacare. even though it's continuing to work. more than nine out of ten americans now have health care. this is the best it's ever been. never been this way before. they say they want to repeal ob

. so the question here, do you want us to go back and forth? it doesn't matter. my son sat in on one of my lectures recently, he suggested you do rock, paper, scissors to decide. [laughter] that's up to you. before we begin, any final questions? yes. >> [inaudible] >> are you going to -- the question here is are we going to have an ongoing relationship. [laughter] are you married? >> [inaudible] trying to not hurt the other person's feelings? are you trying not to -- why would you hurt the other person's feelingsing? i won't ask. is so how are you feeling right now? >> i'm feeling a little anxious. i'm not sure what my mindset should be going into the conversation. am i trying to develop a rapport with the person because we're going to have an ongoing interaction? >> yes. so the question is what should my mindset be? are we going to have a working relationship? is this exercise going to have a second part to it that i should know about? if i saying? that's -- say something that's offensive, no. i can tell you factually there's nothing beyond this. there's no other part to it beyond t

these would have come out and told us, we know it's a problem and here's how we're going to fix it. two weeks ago when this news came out, we heard nothing from this administration, nothing. now, when they do talk about the economy, it's typically three type of responses. one is my colleague from south dakota mentioned, there's this kind of talk in washington about the -- quote -- new normal. the new normal. in my view, one of the most dangerous phrase being bantered about in d.c. because the new normal says, hey, we know america has been growing at this robust rate, almost 4% g.d.p. growth for most of our history but there's new factors we should not expect that anymore. heck, we shouldn't even expect 3%, where the red line is. let's just dumb down our expectations. so they talk about the new normal. new normal should be about 1 and a half, 2% g.d.p. growth maybe. and the people in washington are telling the rest of the country you guys should be satisfied with that. well, we shouldn't be. that's a surrender. that's a surrender of the american dream. so that's one response, the ne

for joining us here at politics & prose for our monoevenning event. before we get started, just a few quick things. one with, please take a moment now to silence your cell phones or pagers if anyone uses those still or anything that could possibly make a sound during our event. two, after her -- after his talk, mr. brady carlson has agreed to take questions, so if you could line up behind this microphone and speak clearly into the microphone, because we do have c-span filming today. so just make sure that both the audience can hear and that it can be recorded for posterity. third, after the event if you could help us out by folding up the chairs and just kind of stacking them, leaning them against the sides, that'd be great. so, yeah. i don't know how you heard about us, but politics & prose, we try to be more than a bookstore, also a community center. we hold about 500 events a year between this location on connecticut avenue and our three busboys and poets locations atta coma, 14th and v and 5th and k. so, yeah, we have little fliers at the inknow desk, they're also -- info desk

coming to you live from the studio at the museum in washington d.c. and here to welcome us is the former president of colgate university award-winning author and political scientist the president and ceo of the museum, mr. jeffries herbst. [applause] >> good morning. welcome to the studio and welcome to the museum. the new cm explains promotes and defends the five freedoms of the first amendment and the right of free expression. we do so through a building which welcomes 800,000 people each year to 15 galleries paris set of programs that contain stakeholders to discuss important issues around our foundational freedoms and an educational program which reaches close to 3 million schoolchildren through digital outreach. in our building you will see the long history of struggles for freedom in the united states and how the struggles have depended on the rights of assembly, speech, press, expression, religion and petition. critical to our building has been the long struggle in the united states for civil rights. we tell the story of what has been accomplished and we will also tell the

you so much for having us here. obviously is very difficult. we are passionate about the subject. obviously needs to change now. getting a public service announcement now happening with the opiate and heroin epidemic, getting public service announcements out there, recognizing that these products are available and candy form, liquid form, getting that message out there, they simply do not know. full stories, full stories from people who lost their children out of to death or mental illness. people simply don't know. teachers need to know, nurses even out,now, counselors need to know. this is something that can be done immediately. awareness, education prevention. thirteen, 14, 15, in addition to spice, there is not a place that your child to get treatment plan this is a very serious issue. >> appreciate your testimony. i wonder if you might be able to address this. kaytoo was an issue not too long ago. hit theago. hit the stores. it was in the local gas station. got a call from one of my local police chiefs who told me that he was trying to get it off the shelf but could not do i

. >> peter, that brings us to you. >> good morning, everyone. i'm delighted to be here. first of all, thank you to columbia for hosting this. second, there are a lot of people in the room i know and have known for a long time. some of whom i have seen twice in one week, which is a remarkable thing. sometimes i go months without seeing them, so that's sort of exciting. on director of the pacific institute in oakland, california , a nonprofit research and policy group working on creating and advancing solutions to the world's pressing water problems. we do a book every two years called the world's water global water issues. we did a book a couple of years ago on a 21st century us water policy, which i will draw on it today, oxford university. i'm a scientist by training, hydrology and climatology and i realize this is a water policy panel, but that's with the institute does, merge science and policy and water as we heard this morning already in interesting comments, so from water deficit to water surplus. thank you. actually, you could leave all. you can't address this only with the science.

like ourselves who use reach out as an app for their daily life. in china, which we can't do here, you can go out without your wallet if this is your digital wallet. i can save you money right now. i could do location. everybody in this room, we could put ourselves on a map. they were dispersed over d.c. like to converge on one point, using we chat. there is a huge functionality and that's been a challenge. they have their own path, but they're a bit late to the game and they spent a lot of money catching up. they bought at china's twitter and internationally they've invested in and snapchat in things like that. what's important on e-commerce is i think i can have up to 100 people in a group, maybe 200 in my private group. people are selling stuff this way. the types guy or the umbrella guy cannot 100 people in the group and its very powerful because of my friend says these are the best umbrellas, i'm more likely to do it. so with that we chat commerce. so it's a very interesting time across the border from hong kong and is worth actually more last i checked an alibaba. so that is

joining us tonight. i'd like to point out looking at us here you can't tell who is the privacy professor and the inmate and in fact that was in part one of the changes from this expansion of emotional sensitivity and range that i've experienced through this. this book of mine. one thing it's not is a story of curing autism. that's what this is about and it's not. what this is about is a therapy that in my opinion is one of the most powerful tools available to no scientist today but no one knows about and the reason that no one knows about it is because it draws electricity from the ball and sends it to the brain you can make changes. but the effects of these experience -- experiments were life changing and i think that although i'm autistic and i talk about why. tuesday emotion for folks like you is a magical thing. it was magical and wonderful but at the same time as devastating an overwhelming. it was a metaphor for what we can do elsewhere because it isn't just an autism therapy. it's something looking at epilepsy and if it can stop seizures it is going to save peoples lives. now it i

us here today, the institute of peace i want to thank mrs. laura bush, and mister steve hadley, our chair. thank you for reminding us after 37 years of war, it will take a long time, maybe generational to emerge from that conflict but there are extraordinary signs of progress and much hope. thank you for your collective passion and inspiration this afternoon as we look at the pathway forward. mrs. bush, special thanks for what you have done for afghan women and women around the world, your work at the bush institute and these beautiful powerful stories to all of us with your wonderful book voice of hope, and it is an honor to host everybody today. i want to ask everybody to stay seated while the panel departs the stage and join me in one more round of thanks and applause for our wonderful panel. [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv, television for serious readers. watch any program you see here online. [inaudible conversations] >> i want to bite. i don't think it sounds -- i welcome you all, thank you for coming. my good friend kate bolick has

. professor ben-porath for coming on a potentially difficult day to be with us here and a colleague for it. on the panel. most of all, you must really care about the first amendment to come out today and appreciate each one of you coming. let's go have lunch and talk more about this. once will be held at the georgia day care conference center which is a spiral staircase. restrooms on the second floor in your way to lunch look for the yellow wall and you can purchase your own copy of less -- "lessons in censorship" affair. thank you very much. clap back [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> hello, ladies and gentlemen. my name is john and i work here in the store. before we get started, if you could please silence or from, just to let you know this evening we are recorded and we went to make sure that your questions are recorded as well. you will see when you have a question-and-answer session tonight if you could speak directly to the microphone i would appreciate it. finally, once the event is over if you could do a favor floating chairs a

, double crossed, incarcerated, profiled, starved, miseducated, used and abused and even shot down on our streets. graduates, please leave here on the straight and narrow, and be please don't go the way up straight-up skullduggery. i got that word from mike tyson, one of my favorite words, skullduggery. the united states of america a very diverse nation. this is one of the many things that makes us great despite the legacy of the genocide of its native people and slavery. the united states census bureau, and not spike lee, says five years from now white children will be a minority. and by 2049 white folk will be wholly outnumbered by non-whites. this is happening, people. here and now. i feel it's time to start embracing, not fighting. no matter how one might wish it to be otherwise, we are not making america great again by going back to eisenhower, jim crow, firehouses, german shepards and leave it to beaver. [cheers and applause] not having it! now's the time to seize the day, take advantage of this unique moment in history and build bridges amongst us. we're talking about gender, r

month for us here at the store. we've had some terrific events i think for me this unwith is the highlight. we have a whole table dedicated to books related to women's history up at the front of the store and we're very, very happy to be able to celebrate this month with such terrific authors and terrific books. with that, i just want to say what a privilege it is to host walter at pnp tonight she'll be talking about her new book a 10th book called civil wars of julia ward how, i'm sure many of you saw that it was the lead review in the sunday new york times few weeks ago so congratulations on that and very well deserved and very exciting to see that. [applause] and i'll get to the book in a minute but i want to mention that several of elaine family members are here tonight too, and it's just frankly not fair that so much talent results in one family gene pool at the back she was handing out the beautiful lings m&m's because a friend and former colleague of mine from clinton white house, and i have to say she's too humble to say this but she's one of the finest writers in the cou

history month. it's been a great month for us here at the store with a terrific events and i think for me this one is the highlight. we have a whole table dedicated to brooks about women, by women, related to women's history. it's up towards the front of the store and we are very very happy to be able to celebrate this month with such terrific authors and terrific books. with akamai just want to say what a privilege it is to host elaine showalter tonight. she will be talking to her new book, i think it's her 10th book called "the civil wars of julia ward howe: a biography". i'm sure many of you sought was the leader of you in the sunday "new york times" a few weeks ago, so congratulations on that. [applause]. >> well deserved. zero get to the book a minute, but i wanted to mention several of elaine's family members are here tonight, also. it's frankly not fair that so much talent resides in one family's gene pool. elaine's daughter was the one handed out the beautiful little m&ms. she is a friend and former colleague of mine from the clinton white house and i have to say she is too

backlog nationally to bring transit up to a state here. yes, the fast act will give us more money, that's good but with the amount of money there, we're never going to get a state of repair, never. we're just treading water. and right now, dot says the average annual level required to eliminate the backlog is $18.5 billion a year. and we are putting up 10 oh. that doesn't sound too good, does it? it's pretty embarrassing . the capital of the free world, the greatest country on earth, american exceptionalism, we are killing people on a transit system with a combination of budgetary pressures and management issues. now, i think we are going to make real progress on the management issues and we will hear about that later today but what about the money? we cannot ignore the need for additional investments. now when the american recovery act passed which i voted against, four percent of that 800 some billion dollars went into infrastructure investment, four percent. cities like chicago just pulled projects off the shelf, they have the money committed in 30 days. they could have spent 1

the ts got us questions will ask you again here today. in scotland is a drive out of the european union against its collective will, what will the uk government do in response? >> a message from the uk government is this was a uk wide a font which was to come across the uk. i think it's very interesting to note the polls, we're talking about polls which indicated very clear that the majority of people in scotland, if scotland was to leave, would've vote to leave you can be the scotland have remained in the eu would not favor a second independence referendum. i think that is, that was very, very clear. >> a few hands have gone up. >> just a very quick question. in terms of encouraging people to vote, the best way is to make it relevant to the. so can you tell us the tangible benefits to individuals and families in scotland of remain in the uk, the eu? >> i can so relate to this. the latter is, employment or the are hundreds of thousands of people in scotland who have come for any job because of the opportunities for scotland within the eu. the opportunity for scots to move around t

coverage before we wrap up this year's festival. and joining us here on our set is radio talk show host and author of seven books, dennis prager. his most recent book is called "the ten commandments: still the best moral code." dennis prager, what's on your mind? >> guest: oh, that's a very good opening question. and i'll answer you completely honestly. what's on my mind -- and it's not totally germane, but quite germane to the ten commandments, is what i believe is the undoing of the american revolution. and the decline of my beloved country, the greatest experiment in liberty and decency in human history. and i do believe that a big part of the reason is the radical secularization of our society. >> host: where did that come from? how did it come about? >> guest: it came about, its origins really emanate from europe. after world war i and even somewhat before but especially after world war i, europe decided that everything it believed in was nonsense because of the massacres of world war i. the atrocious loss of life for no apparently good reason. that's a very important point. e

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before we wrap up this year's festival. and joining us here on our set is radio talk show host and author of seven books, dennis prager. his most recent book is called "the ten commandments: still the best moral code." dennis prager, what's on your mind? >> guest: oh, that's a very good opening question. and i'll answer you completely honestly. what's on my mind -- and it's not totally germane, but quite germane to the ten commandments, is what i believe is the undoing of the american revolution. and the decline of my beloved coun t

time, please stop by and take a look. finally, i'd like to thank "washington post" for having us here, for giving us the opportunity, and thanks to all the speakers in the audience. thank you. >> discover a way to hear what others saw. since before you could buy books on the internet -- transformers are dreamers, makers, doers. they're the famous and the unknown. they are people who can see, build, or leverage an idea that by design could better everyday life. how the age, how we move from here to there, the way we retreat each other, transformers push the boundaries of what we know. >> good morning and welcome to transformers. i on behalf of the "washington post," oiled like to introduce you to our first guest, who is a stunner. it's actually sort of impossible to imagine the modern world without our first guest. one of her college thesis became one of her satellite companies. she was also the president of the first company to commercially offer gps devices in cars. after that she created sirius xm and was a founder of the entire idea of satellite radio. not a bad start. as she left siriu

know that gaithersburg was voted recently the most diverse city in america. so those of us here today who live in gaithersburg may not fully appreciate that race relations were not always as they have been. and that's what this book is about. kristen grew up in farmville, virginia, in prince edward county, and for those of you that do not know this, in the wake of the seminal supreme court decision, brown v. board of education, which ruled that segregation of schools and education was unconstitutional, prince edward county was the only county in this country to close its schools rather than desegregate their schools. and what this book is about, it's an interesting introspective where she goes back to look at her own family's involvement, her own community's involvement with this very troubling time in our nation's history. so the book will flip back and forth between the history -- which i love, i'm a nonfiction guy -- but it also talks about her own experience with that history and confronting that history. so i encourage you to listen to kristen here today, go to the politics & pro

could slide to the bottom, pinchers like to the topic something all of us have a concern here that you would, in fact, the new meaning to a general obligation on holder, which is full faith and credit. so for that reason this bill, this law should require that those priorities be fully put in place and complied with, rather than at the last minute through some shell game be moved about. and again just like we saw in the general motors situation where priorities were turned upside down against law. i yield back. >> mr. chairman, i yield back. >> is there further discussion? >> look, i'm going to weigh in with one word. because to be honest with you, i don't know what to do on this one. originally i said this was comfortable. i am hoping go buy some of the council that we may have problems with this if it goes forward on the floor. so unwilling, i do know what i'm willing to do. i will be willing to work on this particular language if you want to. if it's not adopted in this bill i would be willing to work with you. i think i'm going to devote no. simply because i don't know what i'm

here as a member of the medical advisory committee. what can you tell us about the guideline changes usa football has made the sport safer for younger athletes? >> there are practice guidelines for chaplains as a part of the heads up program and the limited context of 30 minutes per practice. do they operate at some change? >> we can only make a suggestion that the change anof the changem all of you have is we can't enforce them. >> so it's just another recommendation there's no way to implement the guidelines? >> there's no way to enforce it so we have to get b by him like the other colleagues talked about by showing them that it works with these youth coaches. >> have you been monitoring the rate of injury is particularly head injuries since implementing these changes? >> in the three areas that we showed with the football study in fairfax county information here and south bend indiana, it is the educative component and practice limitation. >> do you know any more than that other than dropping? >> i did the members i can get them to you. >> just so the committee has them and would

pointed out that we have some civics students seated behind us here today. i hope they are learning something, but think of the lesson that where we are at this moment in connection with this nomination teaching them -- is teaching them. these are matters that should be of critical importance to all of us on both sides of the aisle. the future really is at stake. these kinds of decisions that were issued on monday have real consequences. in brown v. board of education, you had decisions in one part of the country that went one way, and in delaware in particular -- my former colleague on the third circuit, colin seitz, was the chancellor of delaware at that time and was the only judge affirmed by the united states supreme court in that case. but imagine if the court said, you know, we're going to punt on this and hope that you all will just work together and figure it out so that in one part of the country we have people continuing to pursue one set of policies and in another we have another. these matter. these matter. elections matter. the duly-elected president of the united state

here. we look forward to your testimony. >> thank you. as we know, us consumption of heroin has increased significantly, the us portion of the world heroin market is quite small by comparison, but outsized in terms of potential earnings. the rand corporation estimated us consumer spend as much is $27 billion on heroin each year increased from 20 billion in the year 2,000. criminal organizations have reacted to changes by producing more heroin. as noted already in the earlier panel mexico accounts for the bulk of poppy production in the region. seizureseizure data of heroin along the southwest border also indicates mexican criminal groups are moving increasing amounts into the market. criminal organizations are the crete -- key transport is a colombian heroin and manage and purchase the heroin produced in guatemala or opium gum wholesale and process it themselves. the trend appears to be the same. >> can groups are seeking an increasing demand of the market share and distribution, displacing other wholesalers. the picture is one of an increasing lucrative vertically integrated ma

they try to use this matrix here to show supply risks on one axis and the importance of use and, let's say lack of substitutes on the other axis, further right you go, more critical the material might be. this is just an example of some of the minerals that they looked at to kind of classify. one of the key things that came out of this, this is a fluid or dynamic type of assessment. this was done around 2008 or 7. it was redone again by the department of energy which looked at using the same matrix to try to classify where the minerals would fit on this matrix, whether they're critical, near critical, not critical. but as it is fluid, so this contains at anytime, contains year to year. what i've done is also highlight this import reliance chart and it is hard to read but there are 19 minerals that the u.s. is 100% import-reliant on at this point and if you go on down, there are many year that you're import reliant on but not 100%. i've taken several of these minerals and looked at them more closely to try to highlight the minerals that are being used in the high-tech world, the clean e

colleagues will do into few hours on these proposals that stand with us. >> jennifer haberkorn is here. health care reporter for politico. your police in political getting published today. there were three amendments considered in the senate. tell us the one that past. >> it was put together by senator blunt and murray. it is for 1.1 billion. it is not the 1.9 billion requested but it was the best they could do. it passed with support from nearly all democrats and federal republicans. republicans are concerned the white house hasn't provided all of the details they need and some republicans oppose this because it was emergency money. >> host: what did this amendment, the one by rubio and nelson and the cornyn amendment blocked in the senate? >> the republican amendment by cornyn was 1.1 billion paid for by cuts to obamacare. the argument is we are preventing zika virus so it could be funded through obamacare money. obviously democrats were not going to support that one because they don't want to see the aca cut at all. and the democratic amendment put forward by bill nelson and marco r

here is the irony the very people who are beating us up and somebody steps up to try to challenge they get beat up more. that's what happens when you remove the abuser from the home and the woman sides for the abuser because she needs love, welfare, i'm not making that extraordinary, yes, our inability to tell the truth and have a reasonable conversation leads to, let me tell you this, i'm going to make an extraordinary statement to some of you, leads to what we see now with donald trump. now, i don't go with blame obama for donald trump, i will tell you where i would hold him accountable, your choice is are you going to get ahead of us and ride that and direct it or you're going to lead from behind and get stampede, obama hesitation left, had obama placing his rhetoric, tongue and mouth on the rhetoric of civic engagement and civil and intellectual deconstruction of race, there wouldn't have been a big as when he refused to speak and now all the as a vulchers ascend. sparked the rise of a figure like donald trump that's what happens when they can't get together to have a serious conve

providing us this opportunity. all four commissioners here, and i want to start a little broad, and let's start down at this end. commissioner rosenworcel, as a regulator and as a consumer, what's your view of the cable industry? >> guest: wow. well, first of all, thank you for having me here. it's a treat to be here with my colleagues and back in new england. i'm a native, so it's a real joy to be able to come back to boston. the cable industry strikes me as supplying some of our nation's most important infrastructure. it's not just traditional video, but broadband. and it's clear to me that the broadband they provide is a market leader, and it's now gone from just luxury to necessity in all of our households, because it's an essential part of what we do every day. >> host: commissioner pai. >> guest: thanks, peter, for having us. thanks to intx for giving us this opportunity. to me, the cable industry has helped drive the digital revolution. i think the broadband networks we enjoy today that have created the economy that's the envy of the world are due in no small part to the fact that