>> commissioner paul hoover -- commissioner kasselman: there are so many places that people have to weigh in with their supervisors and their neighborhood community meetings, and organizers give a tremendous amount of time to organizations, and forging their comments through their supervisor or letters and emails, you know, i respect that, and i respect the public's time, and i take it very seriously. each piece of wood is the issue comes before us, and the fact that there is not a person here to speak to me of the general support of the would distillation. president o'brien: thank you. any other comments? again, this is an action item, so we need to take a vote. i would like to address those comments and say that i actually agree. i will have it out with supervisor farrel when i meet him. i think people should be there to support their legislation, just as we saw with the president being here. i also think there is probably a really good reason for it. separately, a supervisor farrel probably thought this was taking care of, and there was an emergency that took place, and sometimes you c

>> commissioner paul hoover -- commissioner kasselman: there are so many places that people have to weigh in with their supervisors and their neighborhood community meetings, and organizers give a tremendous amount of time to organizations, and forging their comments through their supervisor or letters and emails, you know, i respect that, and i respect the public's time, and i take it very seriously. each piece of wood is the issue comes before us, and the fact that there is not a person here to speak to me of the general support of the would distillation. president o'ie

paul is also a visiting fellow at the hoover institution on war, revolution and peace at stanford university. he's a frequent contributor to msnbc, c-span and fox news. in addition, he has written for the "new york times," "wall street journal," political science quarterly and many other publication. among the numerous books he has authored are the crusader, ronald reagan and the fall of communism, god and reagan, god and george w. bush and william p. clark, ronald reagan's top hand. today i'm excited that paul will be focusing on his newly released book "dupes." we are really looking forward to hear your discussion of this troubling aspect of history, the prominent role of the dupes. please join me in welcoming paul kengore. [applause] >> thank you, heather. john, and everybody here at heritage, everybody for coming. lee edwards. i really struggled how to organize this talk because i turned in a manuscript of 250,000 words and about 1,000 pages. and i think the book god and ronald reagan i believe was somewhere around 100,000 words so that gives you an idea of just how enormous the task was

paul requested -- host: tell me about the national infrastructure bank. guest: apot of money to debate, significant projects. i was just in nevada. i was dedicating a bridge the goes over the hoover dam. that project was started seven years ago. people were thinking big. we know there are big, bold, significant projects in america that need to be funded. we will continue to use the highway trust fund to fund transportation projects. we'll use the infrastructure bank to leverage some private dollars to leverage some other dollars from the states to continue to build a significant projects around the country -- bridges, finishing interstates, and other types of infrastructure. host: our next call comes from morgantown. caller: am i on the air? the last caller was talking about the cross border truckers per if you could get the truckers to get the trucks up to code, there are a lot of trucks on the road. they will get the bridges and roads. i think it would be a lot better spent than the high-speed rail. if people want to go somewhere, they get on amtrak and the go slower. we cannot afford this right now. a lot ex-presidents have had big vision. we're about to go broke in the govern

paul requested -- host: tell me about the national infrastructure bank. guest: apot of money to debate, significant projects. i was just in nevada. i was dedicating a bridge the goes over the hoover dam. that project was started seven years ago. people were thinking big. we know there are big, bold, significant projects in america that need to be funded. we will continue to use the highway trust fund to fund transportation projects. we'll use the infrastructure bank to leverage some private dollars to leverage some other dollars from the states to continue to build a significant projects around the country -- bridges, finishing interstates, and other types of infrastructure. host: our next call comes from morgantown. caller: am i on the air? the last caller was talking about the cross border truckers per if you could get the truckers to get the trucks up to code, there are a lot of trucks on the road. they will get the bridges and roads. i think it would be a lot better spent than the high-speed rail. if people want to go somewhere, they get on amtrak and the go slower. we cannot afford this right now. a lot ex-presidents have had big vision. we're about to go broke in the govern

paul requested -- host: tell me about the national infrastructure bank. guest: apot of money to debate, significant projects. i was just in nevada. i was dedicating a bridge the goes over the hoover dam. that project was started seven years ago. people were thinking big. we know there are big, bold, significant projects in america that need to be funded. we will continue to use the highway trust fund to fund transportation projects. we'll use the infrastructure bank to leverage some private dollars to leverage some other dollars from the states to continue to build a significant projects around the country -- bridges, finishing interstates, and other types of infrastructure. host: our next call comes from morgantown. caller: am i on the air? the last caller was talking about the cross border truckers per if you could get the truckers to get the trucks up to code, there are a lot of trucks on the road. they will get the bridges and roads. i think it would be a lot better spent than the high-speed rail. if people want to go somewhere, they get on amtrak and the go slower. we cannot afford this right now. a lot ex-presidents have had big vision. we're about to go broke in the govern