baker as margaret tutwiler who is a close adviser to him throughout washington she said aker doesn'tregrets and we found that to be a the case in our interviews with him. we couldn't get him to say he regretted anything. my record is my record and i'm comfortable with that kind of person. this is the only thing, willie horton was the only one who he said to us probably i may have gone too far. he didn't want this strategy in approaching his own biography and his own history was here's my record words and all. he would say well i didn't authorizedat this and it was an independent in signature so the recorde shows willie horton in the primaries and the bush campaign that did in fact say we are going to make it indelibly associated with michael dukakis. jim baker was a promoter and adviser of lee atwater. it does tell you about how much politics have changed. youu have this absolutely attack in 1988 on dukakis and again this was the only way they could win the campaign. baker was very pragmatic. and he runs the campaign in the very end only at the convention. they understood the only re

by the time i moved about a mile away from the navy yard it was home to a few warehouses but akers on the body that have been reported by one of the legendary wiseguys. there were still plenty at the time from the earlier waves of immigrants. our next-door neighbors were an elderly irish couple who'd taken in borders has for so many dead in the brownstone areas of brooklyn during the depression and in the decades following. they were beating paid by new york many of them sick and moaning. brooklyn was actually losing population and they would say about this time we've got to get out of brooklyn. a lot of people did. so, the question i have in my mind as i approached the book is how did the old brooklyn become the new brooklyn, the place that gq magazine called the coolest city on the planet hell is it they have bulletproof cages to protect the cashiers and they have picture windows and free tastings. how could we have gotten to the point in history as we did in the fall of 2015 where the departments have a most celebrated the brooklyn mania with an exhibit called. how could the only p

s akers said there's a memorandum of understanding. the prime minister said there is no deal. she's now unclear about this. did she actually know what arrangement was made with the county council? she's send key and answering questions on that. there is another area of concern over the whole country. could the prime minister tell us how many new school places will be needed at 2020? >> lusciously to the right honorable gentleman, that really he should listen to the answers for the next question. he said i didn't answer the question and i think i've answered now three times a month i'll do it a fourth time. they were not available to other councils. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister asked a question a moment ago about the number of new school places needed by 2020 to actually explain why we have class sizes soaring thanks to her government. so what is the answer in the number of school places prime minister? >> well, this government has a policy about increasing the number of school places, they doing more than that. so that every child has an opportunity to go to a good schoo

akers. as the orchestra salutes the president. we bring to a close, a salute by the american to their leader. the president, the united states. dwight david eisenhower, and his beloved mamie mamie. mean. you've done a scale guarantee do solemnly swear. i am going to swear that you will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states faithfully execute. the office of president of the united states. and will to the best of your ability? well, to the best of my ability. preserve, protect and defend constitutionally. united states will protect and defend the constitution of the united states. so help you god. so help me god god. vice johnson at a the speaker, nancy justice. president eisenhower. vice president. nixon. president truman. reverend. clergy. elitism. we observe today not a victory of 40, but a celebration of freedom symbolizing an end as well. a beginning signify renewal as well as change. for am fallen before you and almighty god the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly century and three quarte

akers novel was written on the mid-80s.r writers that are writing on screens people were baker was. it is fair to say that the first novel for him and his career it is not to say that akers concern for this was only a senate easiest for the digital revolution. he didn't sign himself wholly over to that. later on he wrote a book about libraries called double fold and he was thinking about what was happening how technology was impacting the world of books and the way that the processes of miniaturization and digitization were impacting libraries that what they would do and what their holdings, what they thought of as their job and what they thought of his books. miniaturization had a bizarre history stretching back to the shrinking of battle plans down to the size of things you could strap under the leg of the page and so you could communicate your plants across distances or whatever. digitization had a similar kind of history in the intelligence community. baker documented all of this and the way this enables libraries to de

akers. as the orchestra salutes the president. we bring to a close, a salute by the american to their leader. the president, the united states. dwight david eisenhower, and his beloved mamie mamie. mean.

without further adieu let me welcome beth akers, beth. [applause] there,. >> well, thank you, dan, very much for the generous introduction. i'm thrilled to be here, meaning here at the manhattan institute and part hover this great organization, but also here today to be able to put some of my ideas intoure ear' hope they stick. so thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to speak with you today. so, it sounds like you already heard what the book is about butll give you detail and kind of sell you on my arguments here. i think you took the first page of my notes. >> i did. >> i was going to say that's not the first idea i wanted to talk about. so i think it's help inflame talking about the become book to start before the book started and give you a sense why i wrote the book, why i embarked on the agenda of research in the first place. joined the think tank community five years ago i idea had just finerned graduate school and was studying economics in a athlete resident cal department. so i theoretical department. i had reported cal

fellow here at the manhattan institute, and it's my pleasure today to introduce our speaker, beth akers. first thing's first, i'd like to welcome beth to the manhattan institute where she's recently become a fellow. prior to joining us, she was a fellow at the brookings institution center on children and families, and before that she was a taffe economist -- staff economist at the president's council of economic advisers and worked extensively on higher education policy. second, i'd like to welcome beth back to new york. beth received her ph.d. in math -- excuse me, her b. a. in math and economics from cuny-albany and her ph.d. from columbia university. beth's here to talk about her book, "game of loans." recently published by princeton university press and written with matthew of the urban institute. so after reading beth's book, i can assure you she's going to fit right in at the manhattan institute -- [laughter] where the scholars really delight in debunking poorly argued narratives in the press and the public debate. and beth's book does just that. it's a timely corrective to the wi

blue akers has to be part of it. sadly you've got folks that have been, they see this every three to four years i can't tell you how many families i've met some of these folks need to be taken out of their home in a reasonable and acceptable financial arrangement and it becomes a national runoff. it will be assets like dikes and gates -- >> mr. ciattarelli, climate change is increasing the risk of flooding across new jersey. mr. murphy's administration once more rules on development in places that flood frequently right now and places that will likely flood more in the future. would you continue this plan which is opposed by business groups or would you relax the development rules knowing the risk of future destruction? you have 60 seconds. >> first, let me revisit from a few moments ago the governor hasn't been endorsed by the two most prominent police unions both of which endorsed him four years ago. [applause] second of all, please stick to the question. >> tropical storm ida the declaration came 13 hours after th

much larger training data set than any hacker and could defense -- mobilize more quickly than any akers. that is interesting for the companies to pool their data so as not to raise privacy concerns. but that is another p&l. on -- panel so now to disclose against the political process of the united states as they have high confidence with a foreign act or behind it and fairly confident of those methods obviously this is an issue very much in the forefront today and we are concerned if russia will speak to the midterm elections. so what do you think first of all of this idea and what about integrating that intelligence? >> thank you i think that decision to name or disclose is very much in line what we are describing with the american public u.s. companies in the private sector and customers of u.s. government we are always taught to think about who the customer is in the policymaker but increasingly we have to think more broadly u.s. government does not have the monopoly on intelligence with cybersecurity there is a very robust and looking at new ways to partner with them from classified

so without further ado let me welcome beth akers. beth. [applause] >> well, thank you, dan, very much for that generous introduction. i'm thrilled to be here, meaning here at the manhattan institute and part of this great organization, but also here today to be able to put some ideas into your ear and hope that they stick. so thank you so much for giving me the applican opportunity to o you today. so it sounds like, you only heard what the book is about but i will do my best to fill in a little more of the details, and kind assault on some of my arguments here. i think you took the first page of my notes which is going to make it -- [laughter] i was going to say, that's not the first idea i wanted to talk about. i think it's helpful in talking about the book to start back before the book started into the sense of whatever the book, why i embarked on this agenda of research in the first place. i joined the think tank community about five years ago. i just finished graduate school and i was studying economics in a pretty theoretical departme

washington, d.c., is about 43 akers. over 1500 fire engines and 80 aircraft and fema is providing assistance to those who need disaster aid. climate change is causing more extreme weather events. california had the atmospheric rivers and now these wildfires. and second, i just want to say it is outrageous for speaker johnson to try conditions on to this disaster relief or to tie disaster aid like the debt ceiling. we shouldn't be leveraging the pain and suffering of our fellow americans and when mother nature strikes she doesn't care about party affiliation. it is now my great honor to introduce the freshman class president from phoenix. she was a vice mayor of phoenix and served on the city council of phoenix and first democratic iranian-american to serve in the united states congress. mr. ansari: i'm humbled to arizona's newest congresswoman and i join as freshman president. my thoughts are with the californians lost, displaced and devastated. my state is no stranger to this uniquely painful natural disaster. i feel yo

then came along john akers who is a casino entrepreneur still lives in las vegas today and in fact he standing in front of some of his current innovations. what he realized what he was opening a present he was packing some presents for his children and amongst them was to speak and spell game which is a primitive early electronic game where you see a word and spell it out. he was startled that this game was only 50 or $60 but it was sophisticated at the time. he had been trying to build brains that could track people on the slot machine but you have to build it for each different machine. there's a lot of hardware to be installed. >> may i have for attention please? the testing is concluded. thank you. sorry for any inconvenience. >> so john akers was packing these presents as i mentioned that he became fascinated. how can they do this so cheaply when it's costing me three or $400 to build the tracking machine on the side of the slot machine. he got out a screwdriver and opened up the back and was quite inspired by what he saw. their children ended up getting one last gift that you're

sustainable to pass down and would also help with women's suffrage there were parcels of land thousands of akers and president johnson came and put an end to it and then we could pass that legislation which was amazing and then had stop to that part of it there was still a massive support even putting petitions before congress thousands of signatures but actually suffrage was an easier concession because i think it's easy to take away practice but the idea is ill get these communities they sure look after themselves with the vote but of course that was not possible in the context that followed. >> what did you learn about leadership? >>. >> that's a really good question. inspirational leadership was important there are a few of these colts that had charismatic leaders he would imagine but in terms of actual political movements many of the most inspirational leaders that succeeded where others failed that they could position themselves for the black community in boston picking at work they were already doing like the most groundbreaking radical newspaper of the century early subscribers were afri

if we're in this position to save the forest or tigers we have to use stopped expanding said akers to make more of what we have in production. >> host: how do do that? >> guest: there are two things. look at what is in production they are the yield gap already have landed production of the week to do a better job to get more off of each acre by just forming smarter to improve knowledge how to go about cropping. on another level is also improving the productivity were the efficiency that we are already doing using precision in agriculture. and what we really try to say is take the land you have and what can you do to get more out of it without also damaging? >> how do we produce food verses other countries? >> guest: in the united states we produce food in a myriad of ways and retry to get out we have huge industrial large-scale monoculture that dominates landscape and also have traditionally before world war ii there was more small-scale all diversified forms that has a variety of crops but that ecological organic farming on the rise. see you have the spectrum between large individual

writers and producers of the simpson kevin davis another writer was there, you were there with dave akers, pollick came in, okay robert frizzell, i've been doing this for a long time of written books before. this was a break my agent called me or e-mailed me one day said an editor not a big publisher to talk too. i might sure why not. when in the past some people had come to me with projects they were projects i would fail at miserably, ghost writing for executives et cetera. i was pretty skeptical i was happy to talk he came to be read my first book and said you have to write a book proposal but i'm really interested in having someone write this book. this guy's name was bennett george is a great relationship from the start. so to answer your question i got lucky on this one. as i was talking to some young writers before this, there's a lot of bad luck in writing. increasing amounts of bad luck and read music think the good luck when you can get it. >> 's i think this topic because you have been spent a lot of your career writing about on. these little inlets of history that overlooked o

is sue akers who's leading the current investigation into phone hacking by british news organizations. >> order. could we go straight into our next witness? detective deputy commissioner akers, could i start with an apology for keeping you waiting, and the journalists clamoring over you. there we are. my apologies. we know how extraordinarily busy you are, we are extremely grateful to you for coming here. i would start with a general statement to members of the committee and others watching. we will not ask you about operational matters. we know, obviously, these are very sensitive, you're in the middle of an investigation, and we appreciate the fact that you've come here to tell us about the process that you're adopting. please, do tell us after the evidence we've heard so far that there is a thorough inquiry going on headed by you and what the process is, what your ambitions are for this inquiry. >> um, i'm very happy to do so. can i just, first of all, say i'm very conscious that all of you are relying on a document from "the guardian" and are quoting it as something that operation

francis akers passed away this summer.in conclusion just when you think you have heard all the stories, the incident i just described constitutes history's worst example of friendly fire, the british, constitutes one of the most tragic maritime disasters in history. it is the single bloodiest hour of the entire holocaust, the final tragedy of the war happening is the surrender was being worked out. with that, for the words of the holocaust, never forget, never again, that tells every story, the story of those who passed, those who survived and stories for the next generation. with that i think you. [applause] questions? questions? >> what was the name of the german liner that was loaded with german refugees that was sunk by a russian submarine? >> there is another german ship, wilhelm, a liner equivalent to the "cap arcona," equivalent to the titanic. in the final weeks of the war there was an operation the german navy put together, operation hannibal. it constitutes the largest marine if not evacuation period in world his

just down the road from here a visitor stopped by and assuming we were cemetery curator, akers commented that it must be quite honor for us to care for a presidential gravesite. we agreed it was and just kept on working. and in my opinion, calvin coolidge his character was, one of his strongest qualities. some of his character and values were shaped by his parents and grandparents and his childhood. some formed later in life during his years of public service. he left us with many notable quotes. here are a few them that can be present. coolidge's character. his memories as a young boy of his own father. the lines he laid out were true and st the curves regular. the work he did endured, if there was any physical required hints of country life which he could not perform. i do not know what it was from watching him and assisting him. i gained an intimate of all this kind of work. his reflections on the presidency. it is a great advantage. a president and a major source of safety to the country. for him to know that he is a great man. when a man begins to feel that is the only one who can l

we been able to up the akers retreat and that can be as you know different kinds of activities including, clear brush active force management, controlled burns those kind of things there we've gone from a little over 200,000 acres this year up from about 1.7 i think the last year. excuse me, 170,000. got up to about 268 i think. >> how about your workforce? , which has increased under the plan? >> i'll follow up and get yourre note on that peer we've been doing better. their support for wildland firefighter pay, those kind of issues. i haven't heard of any major problems with staffing this year yet. >> let's talk a little about maintenance budget and maintenance backlog. for years, heard of the park service come before the committee and see - if we'll e more money we could fix all these problems with the outdated buildings and trails in the parks here if we had more money we could hire more employees but over the last few years congress has made historic investments in theks park system, yet it seems these problems if they are improving they are not improving very quickly. and to add ins

have federal agencies like cisneros the director of head at the time in the nineties, he sponsored akersocieties grandson money given to universities because the argument is if you want to bring back people to the city what will be the come back? it will be revitalizing in the idea was university. so universities latched onto the idea to be the anchor answer to. we are not going anywhere. so people like henry saylor junior and others were old-school justice oriented civic engagement figures originally. actually he was a student at the moment when they were demolishing black neighborhoods in west philadelphia the - - philadelphia taking way for the science center he was an activist to stop that he stayed at you pan and became a professional and then he began to cultivate the idea in latin self-interest that it was a crisis surrounding you pan and chicago and usc and south central l.a. the only way we are going to save ourselves and come to the universities is to revitalize the neighborhood around it in the way to appeal to the president if you want to enliven your brand now originally th

officers able to you that everyday and every state, many of our communities are under attack not from akers them sitting in the basement in their pajamas, who were under attack from foreign national efforts to try to break into the key essence that we have. and all of the data that we have and certainly powers infrastructure we have. and for estate liquors, this art of two of the greatest and stately forefeet includes some of the nation's most important airbases in missile defense. the fact that we can have foreign nationals trying to hack in to a local two-person school district, to get access to information there. because the parents of those kids were for the national guard in the state and national guard in our state has the full-time mission of protecting those missile bases. you can see where there is risk in hidden ways to go well beyond important things that we work on everyday like flood protection. broadband horses are critical for us to deliver healthcare and education in rural areas. our state has 71000 square miles is exactly the same sizes all six states combined. so we have r

there are stories about it but one simple answer is in the picture is looking at the other day jim aker pointing to the wall before george h.w. bush showed up in houston at the houston country club. it was james a. baker to third and george h.w. bush wanted to team up with the winner. there's no question about that. jim baker's father exerted and his family in general exerted is over leaning power over his early years. his dad literally beat this competitiveness into him. they joked, they call them the warden but jim baker would play tennis matches and his father was a successful tennis player and when he was done as and why playing is mapped his father would make him stay on according keep practicing. baker and holbrooke both men of ambition both had an insecurity and an obsession with how they were perceived by others but the difference was jim baker i think had enormous self-discipline where is holbrooke was the character who emerges in george's wonderful and powerful book. baker had that discipline that was beaten into him and take never could have done it while his dad was still ar

you have to be male and over the age of 21, you have to own 50 akers of land, but it is equal -- own 50 acres of land, but it is equal voting rights. the entire northwest territorial ordinance does not use the word white once. i've teached sometimes i always ask my students if you can find it -- i've taught sometimes and i always ask my students if you can find it, i will give you 5 bucks. but they haven't found it. this is a deliberate inclusion of people. they are modelling this ordinance after the wording of the brand new north carolina constitution which also removes the word white from their constitution knowing they are going open up the vote to african-americans. when george washington runs for president the second time, the vast majority of american states plus the northwest territory has equal voting rights for blacks and whites. so something happened. something happened. as soon as the first state was created, ohio, in 1803, the majority population in that state, which were white, managed to outvote the african-americans who were already there and added the word white to th

. >> this question is the one from carolyn akers.what would either candidate duke to do to support farmers and agricultural communities as a whole. >> they have to have the background to stand up to the president. they are hurting a lot of those. they are hurting the toyota and automotive industry. it someone that worked in arts and crafts. her raw materials had gone up 35 percent. she is worried about her job right now. but one of the biggest folks that were hurting as our farmers. they have essentially lost their market. because of the presidents tariffs. nobody wins a trade war in so one of the things that we need to do is to elect leaders that don't just sit there and think i'm for free trade but i'm really only for free trade when that president of my political party is for it. when he comes out with the disaster tariffs i'm just in a cave and look the other way. be a puppet of my party. that is not something you will get from me. i'm not owned by a political party. i ran this campaign because i thought we needed a new generatio

i'm here today to introduce our speaker, beth akers. i would like to invite her to the institute for she's become a fellow. she was at the brookings institution center children and families and before that, she was a staff economist at the president's council of economic advisers and worked extensively on the higher education policies. second i would like to welcome beth back after receiving her ba from albany and her phd in economics from columbia university. so, she's here today to talk about her book game of loans rhetoric and reality of student debt, recently published by princeton university press and britain with matthew at the urban institute. after reading the book i can assure you she's going to fit right in at the manhattan institute. we have a delight in debunking poorly argued narratives in the press and the public debate in her book does just that. it's a timely corrective to the wildly exaggerated student debt crisis that persists in the media. her thesis is there is no broad-based student loan crisis "the new york times"

. >> misters aker, given your interest in tennis and the success of jimmy singles in the single and double as the increase intended to scotland with certainly mention which encourage more people to engage in the the small discovery. >> thank you, mr. speaker. as is the arthur's legacy company will be great to see that the u.k. government special counsel can work together to make a profitable level. >> indeed come to scotland has a great venue for tennis. it's the governor's lead on this and we'd be welcomed to hear anything from the government and situated. >> thank you. order. questions to the prime minister. mr. simon hall. [shouting] thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to begin by a dating house on the government's response to the incidents that occurred on sunday and pay tribute to the work of all the emergency services who responded at the scene as those who are now caring for the two critically ill individuals and hospitals. as my right honorable friend the foreign secretary delete investigation is ongoing. i chaired a meeting of the national security council where we're updated on

the neighbor frank aker was a mastercard or in the studio down below, then working on the set of the judy -- jody foster movie. is concerned about a man we shall refer to as mr. x a particularly tenacious squatter whose trail of raw sewage was approaching baker's well-traveled airfield where members of the ultralight community gathered and kept their planes. the august morning heated up heading past 100 degrees. it was even too hot for rattlesnakes and to escape the furnace they were treated to pockets of shade. under that greece would bring to the sand. i tend to human and animal sounds deputy sorensen walked beside where he'd recently served eviction papers to the squatter, seeing no sign of him and told the baker's. then he got back in his ford expedition and started for home. but something changed his mind. to this day what that was is not known. .. at. >> we dodo whether or not he looked to his right to see the grave he was digging and what he thought about it. did he stop? blinder? keep going? but one of the most mysterious elements to dig their own grave to take the town sheri

. >> we remember them, john, michael, gerard, sarah margaret ach acher, john david akers trump, ronaldan. margin lewis applebaum. rachel maria is realski. judith owen atkinson. william garrett atkinson iii. nicole elizabeth goins. gerri don avery. claire louise baccioschi. anthony lacey hawkins. >> harry michael bainbridge. stewart berkeley. jean mary bomb. julian mcbain. lawrence ray bennett. philip vernon bergstrom. david berkley. michael stuart bernstein. stephen russell your l. noel, battia. kenneth john. diane. >> stephen john bowen. john buckley. paula marie buckley. nicole, francis bowyer, nicholas bright, daniel solomon browner. colleen renÉ bruner. timothy guy berman. michael warren buser. warren max busear. stephen butler. william martin catin. >> louiseeron. valerie kennedy. timothy michael caldwell. carlson, richard anthony coley. eric michael kocher. jason michael kocher. gary leonard. bridget, sean, thomas concanon. >> theodorea cohen. tracy jane corner. willis, patricia mary quayle. john bennink come, william manion daniels, gretchen, shannon davis, gabriel dellarepa. fr

it is as if the people who are on twitter is publishing or sent to intellectual life, david akers is not on twitter. if you go to the list of the writers he would take to an island with you why do we look to trigger a if you look at polarization why look at something run by zeros and to complain the complexity. it's absurd. the polarized political moment has a lot to do with the catastrophic and obscene amount of wealth that is being made through policy that is being driven by people who have no care for everyday people. but it's also being driven by a machine. we are right down the hill from one of the best universities. universities. i was a judge for the national book award last year. i read 550. i didn't read every word. the intellectual life of the country is thriving. there is a brilliant biography. it was a 29 year in the making biography by jeffrey stewart. the contradictions -- >> 's >> argue on twitter? it is full contradictions that's full of a whole new idea of what the transnational blackness meant and i think that if we lose the plot we start looking to all the other th

in the early 1870s the first few years of cotton planting, and aker produced a bail or more of cotton. by 1900 it took 11 acres, the hill country had been a beautiful trap. getting to the point where it is a trap, thank you. >> host: she read that wonderfully. >> host: i didn't even practice. >> guest: i can add something to that. how did i find out about the soil? lyndon johnson, when lyndon johnson is at the center, his aides never let him lose a vote. you can't ever miscount the votes johnson would say to his aides, find out how a senator is going to vote. if the aid said he is going to go with us johnson would say, and realized, something that ties into that paragraph, the majority leader for six years, he never lost a single vote and this was a divided congress. because he learned the course of one mistake, his father thought the land of the johnson ranch was covered with grass that looked beautiful, it was always going to be that way. but he found out when the first rains came that there was very little soil there and he went broke, couldn't raise enough cotton or cattle and the