he's going to have to have some sharp elbows there if he wants to win this primary. >> bill bennett,riefly, this authentic conservative business, do you buy that in jon huntsman? richard vig ory told me he doesn't see huntsman as a conservative. >> i don't think we know that until we hear the policy, which we haven't heard yet. we didn't hear much today. the guy's got great experience, terrific background with the business, foreign policy -- >> bill bennett, i'm going to jump in because once again we're still having that aud yoen problem with you. thank you so much for joining us and talking to you. thanks to all of you, jim acosta, gloria, once again, thanks for coming. >>> next, a rare 100-0 vote in the u.s. senate. what brought on the bipartisanship? nothing helped me beat arthritis pain. until i tried this. it's salonpas. pain relief that works at the site of pain... up to 12 hours. salonpas. sculpted by an unyielding passion for design. ♪ and tempered by 125 years of legendary performance. introducing the all-new 2012 cls from mercedes-benz. where the world's greatest automobile

bill bennett, frequent guest on this program, according to moody's analystics, every one of those jobs supports 3.1 private sector jobs. bill is the co-owner of superior uniform sales in toe lowdo, ohio. he has 17 employees. they supply uniforms to police officers, firefighters, nurses and public sector employees. >> we caught the recession fourth quarter 2008. '09, like budgets were cut. this is mainly the first time that we've been affected this much because the previous recessions never really touched policemen and firemen. but this time, you know, you see layoffs and, you know, even in the health care sector. >> bill, the leaders of your party want to keep cutting. is that going to keep hurting private sector -- >> whoa! we want to -- >> right away. >> we want to keep cutting federal spending. we're in a severe economic turn down and i think partly to do now in the last couple years to the policies of this administration if we want to do politics. let's not do politics. we're in a severe economic turn down. everybody is tightening the belt, everybody has to tighten the belt. privat

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bill bennett is a cnn political contributor, former secretary of education for the reagan administrationproblem here? are high schools not aware of what's expected in college or do the couric cue la not line up? >> dumbing down of almost everything, grade school, middle school, high school and college. that's the problem. when i toured the country, when i was secretary of education, went to 120 schools, what i found was this -- everybody at every educational level above third or fourth grade, believes the fundamentalal education work was done at the preceding level. therefore they do creative this, revisionist that, special aspect of with who's doing the basic work and a lot of the basic work isn't getting done. when you add to that, christine, the fact that the s.a.t.s have been dumbed down and higher education has not -- does not have real expectations of competency to get into higher education, you've got this problem. >> why doesn't higher education have higher expectations? is it because as long as -- >> it wants bodies. >> as long as someone is paying the bills that's what it's abo

the modernized economy cured of corruption is one of the top priorities in president bill bennett was to do list in which he outlined russia's directions in pittsburgh this week the international economic forum staged to breathe new life into the country's investment climate and attracted some of the world's business and political heavyweights that is necessary sums up the showcase highlights. yron is a scent based on stifling corruption dees actualizing power and government reforms all goals voiced by president majid of at this year's international economic forum here in st petersburg where how russia is going to attempt to become one of the world's biggest and most active of commies was laid out. we shouldn't hesitate to say goodbye to many bad habits we should focus on the following improving the investment climate in russia to create new jobs in the regions the creation of a modern police service and other security forces improving the effectiveness of the justice system and finally the modernization of government of course the main bad habit as the president calls it is corruptio

in 1989, the first president bush named bill bennett the first so-called drug czar.day he told us fighting the war is worth it. >> it's like the war against ignorance or barbarism or anything else that's horrible and persistent. when you let up the pressure, things get worse. when you keep the pressure on, often things can get better. >> this war on drugs, when i look at from a civilian's point like, "okay, there's still a lot of heroin, still a lot of drugs on the street, what did it do?" and the second question is, "well if there wasn't a war on drugs, how much more drugs would there have been in here?" >> reporter: he also worries it could claim a third generation, like his granddaughter. sharyl attkisson, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: no illegal drug worries law enforcement more than crystal meth. but the federal government is stepping back from that fight. that story is next. ext. çó people with stomach ulcers or conditions that cause bleeding should not use plavix. taking plavix alone or with some other medicines, including aspirin, may increase bleeding ris

governor of california and then when he became president he put in charge of the education part of bill bennett the guy who when he had in his one attempt to run for the presidency had run on the campaign platform of abolishing the department of education of course he was the guy reagan but charges so we just basically stopped with reaganomics and we're almost out of time if you could sum it up what is the biggest or. some of the biggest takeaway lessons that we can and we can take away from from germany's operation and its economy and well i here in the last number one the demand is not supply is what drives an economy and the demand is money in people's pockets we have to figure out a way to get it there whether it's unemployment benefits or or whatever number two that we need to really reconsider our trade policies which is a conversation we haven't had but it's an important one and and number three that government taxes really have no impact on whether government's going to grow or not or an economist if you like that the floor is about to open up and there has to be followed that's just a

concerned about they they run into the ground there so you're going about things like reagan putting bill bennett who who at one point campaigned for president on the platform of destroying the department of education in charge of the department of education if that's what he did that's actually that's sort of the classic example but the it goes it's much worse than that it's also involves appointing cronies incompetence intentionally well because they don't really care you know because they don't believe in government that's right its government is not important or going to outsource all the all the work anyway there's all this money has been laid around from all these to exactly it so it's a it's a place where people. go to get rich but here in d.c. this is the wrecking crew starts off with a little known fate was a little known fact at the time maybe it's better known now washington d.c. is essentially the richest city in america the washington metro area and then i did a sort of historical you know rundown of that when did that happen how did that happen did it happen because of liberals and

corporate governance diminish the importance of the party bill bennett's a system. make them give it back. the return. it may be a little slip, but it is a huge array that they're trying to get done. but the underlying thing, in multiple positions the government structure will have to move along side. i think the best guess based on predecessors, japan, korea, and taiwan, more dominance in the party structures that involved in part because of good is a multi-party democracy. the economy reaches a certain state. so it is not a bad guess that ultimately china will end up in that position. now, if you go into the people in china who are members of the communist party you probably won't hear that. and they may have a new model. they invented the new model for doing great things so that some of this evolution may occur inside the shell which is the party structure. so you sort of don't see the evolution as clearly as a formally more familiar structure >> i'm sorry. china, the question. you may have answered one of my questions. let me ask. you mentioned about the chinese

and am also reading a book called the fight of our lives written by bill bennett, which is laying out the real threat, the existential threat of the united states faces from islamic fundamentalism. >> visit booktv.org to see this and other summer reading lists. >> next take a tour of urban sites in savannah, georgia, with a co-author of civil war savannah. >> we are standing in the basement today of the second african baptist church and a second african baptist church in savannah's history tells the story of twice freedom is what i like to see. first of all, second african baptist church was founded in 1802. reverend cunningham was the first reverend, and second african over its use has trained more ministers in the baptist church than any other baptist church in america. but it's important to our city of savannah, in 1865 on february 4, it was the site of the 40 acres speech but it was delivered here by general saxton in this room. also, here in this room are the benches that the congregants would've been seated on that day. these benches were made in 1810 by the members of second af

and also reading a book called the fight of our lives written by bill bennett which is laying out the real threat, the existential threat united states faces from islamic fundamentalism. >> visit booktv.org to see this and other summer meeting rest -- reading list. >> when the deepwater horizon exploded on april 20th off the coast of louisiana i was in houston with a group of oil activists -- activist is the wrong word. a group of people who lived in oil impacted communities around the world. nigeria, angola, cavs expand, california, tx, coming together in houston for chevron's annual shareholder meeting and they came to explain to the shareholders would it means to live in a chevron impacted community. while we were there, it with a couple weeks during the course of our time there after the explosion happened after the loss of life, after it started flowing. it was an enormous disaster but a really crushing reality to people like myself who spent the significant amount of time setting the oil industry who spent a significant amount of time being in places where oil operations take pl

and then on the last night of the show we had clinton, obama, tony bennett live from a concert. bill maher and ryan seacrest co-hosting. my family. my son was hysterical imitating me. they threw a party for me at spagos. i thought it was a nice way of ending it. it was bittersweet. tavis: i'm curious to get some advice from you. >> are you leaving? tavis: not at the moment at least. you never know in this business. you might be leaving and you don't know you're leaving. >> they didn't tell you. tavis: what advice do you have for persons who are trying to figure out when is the appropriate time to levee? whatever job they -- leave, whatever job they may be doing? >> a lot of this book is about loss because you're giving up something. i've been in the business 54 years. half of it at cnn. tavis: mm-hmm. >> and the way to end -- of course jon stewart said you jump off a sinking ship. he said they got an english guy to replace you and when anderson goes they got a guy from turkey. tavis: he is funny. >> yeah, he is. bright as a whip. i don't think there is a rule. i think you know it whe

a radioed a campaign against senators michael bennett and another from colorado to pose a bill for thewipe fee reform. the u.s. senate is expected to consider the bill this week and the vote coming up this afternoon. that story from the denver "daily news." from our twitter page another follower saying let's not forget banks also raised the amount of money you have to give them to invest from $500 to $2,500 or you pay a monthly $10 fee. more from senator dick durbin who is the sponsor of the bill that would reduce the swipe fee from 44 cents to 12 cents. >> they were raising the amount they were taking each time the debit card was used to now the highest level debit card transactions fees in the world. now the federal reserve tells us they charge on average 44 cents every time they swipe a debit card. in other words, if you're running a little store in springfield, illinois. and a person walks in, and i've seen this happen. and say i want to buy a $1 spnt 29 -- $1.29 pack of gum. that merchant has to look at it and say i just lost money -- when they swipe their card. host: the key numb

bill in house and the senate, here's what barney frank says. is today the eighth by the way? 8 he said it today. the eighth of june. and i quote speaking of the tester corker crapo bennett amendment, this amendment, i quote, this is a good balanced compromise approach. i support this and i hope will the pass. the author of this bill from the po house thinks this is a goododd-fran policy change to make dodd-frank better. and i yield the floor mr. president.elaware i >> the senator from delaware is mr. preside nt recognized.od t >> it's good to be with you morni again. spent most of the morning withthis you and part of the afternoon. is this-- is really a difficult issue for a number of us in the senate si because dewe have friends on both sides of this issue, and it'sf also a difficult issue for a lot b of people because we don't want to be unmindful of the concernsely raised legitimately by the merchants for a number of years about the dead it charges we had and to pay and we don't w want to be unmindful of the concerns raised by credit unions.redit one of my colleague said i don't want to vote on this again, i on had a vote on it once i don't want to vote on it again.w