was paroled january 17th. dean actually invited him to be here tonight, but he was not allowed to leave the five boroughs of new york city, so he wasn't able to be here. that was like a show and tell thing, you know? that a would have been fun. [laughter] but he, of course, he's thrilled about parole, and he really is looking forward to doing something productive with his life. you may not -- you might find this difficult to believe, you know, i've seen lots of journalists have written op-eds saying who would hire him, he receives job offers daily. he has proven himself as a brilliant business person no matter, you know, if you're convinced or not about my conclusion. so he has a long line of people who want to hire him to consult or work for their businesses. and that's what he wants to do, he wants to get back out there. he did make the comment that he just wants to prove that he still has it so, you know, he's

still the same ambitious guy that he's always been, i guess. thank you so much for coming. i hope -- [applause] >> probably when you look at the threats we face, when you look at things like improvised nuclear devices, we know that no one jurisdiction would ever have the capability to respond to it. we're going to have to bring resources from across the nation. and so in looking at the various threats -- several of which are terrorist-based, some of which are natural hazards -- we started adding up the numbers, casualties, fatalities, injuries, search and rescue, immediate recovery needs. and if looking at that, we began identifying critical capabilities and gaps in that. so part of this was to address the funding not only hoping that by juris diction by jurisdiction it adds up to national capability, but actually driving some of the bigger riskings and

threats and how do you build that capability and direct that funding? part of this would remain by the 9/11 statute grant funding based upon the division between the states. but the other has to be competitive so that we can see in some areas of this country where maybe sponsorship by one state or one community could provide resources to an area, versus each jurisdiction, trying to build that capability. i know there's a lot of concerns about that tricks of funds. i know there's concerns about our jurisdiction, my jurisdiction, getting what we need. i also hear this a lot, there's not a lot of trust out there. well, that also concerns me because in these types of large scale events if we can't agree upon our responsibility to work together as a team, how does that work when a real disaster that exceeds that jurisdiction's capability and requires all of our capabilities, not just the local jurisdiction, the state of impact, but multiple states and multiple jurisdictions responding to these types of events. >> fema administrator craig few

gate on his agency's 2015 budget request, this morning at 10 eastern. and on booktv, from arizona, the tucson festival of books. alan weissman on saving the planet followed by panels on u.s./motion coe border -- mexico border. later today on c-span2 starting at noon. and on american history tv, the origins of the cell phone with the motorola researcher who led the team that invented the first cell phone in 1973, sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> booktv spoke with scholars at the hoover institution, a public policy think tank at stanford university, to find out what they're reading. senior fellow michael healthcarefall who -- mcfall who recently stepped down as the u.s. ambassador to russia is currently reading "the shah." he shares: >>

you can watch abbas milani's interview on booktv.org. victor david hanson just finished richard ovary's "the bombers and the bombed." he mentioned: >> larry i diamond who focuses on democracy in asia, africa and latin america, is reading jonathan heights' the righteous mind. mr. diamond explained: >> in march 2012 booktv covered mr. haidt's to discussion of the book. the former director of middle east studies after johns p hopkins said: an exwiz quiz sit book that i have read recently

and will reread in the future is "the forever war" by dexter filkins. he brings to his readers the ordeal of war for the soldiers who fought fought it and the civilians who were caught caught up in it. the book was discussed at the 2008 miami book fair. you can find his talk at our web site. shelby steele, who specializes in the the study of race relations and affirmative action recently reread "a bend in the river." he says: it shows more graphically than anything else i've read how so many third world countries coming out of colonialism descend into chaos, corruption, and totalitarianism. and to wrap up our hoover institution scholars reading list, john taylor is reading "why growth matters: how economic growth in india reduced poverty and lessons for other developing countries."

the author's presentation from the council on foreign relations can be viewed on booktv.org. if there's another institution whose reading lists you would like to hear, e-mail us at booktv.org. >> and now i from the 2014 conservative political action conference, david harsanyi. he says it'sgjñ