c-span: nick gillespie i want to read back to you from your book. senate minority leader tom daschle democrat of south dakota, former senator, precisely the sort of wealth quaffed non-entity who passes for a wise man in washington d.c.. non-entity? >> guest: yeah. i would say so. let me put it this way. a couple of years ago i wrote a piece called the leak league of and distinguished gentleman and or ordinary gentlemen about the senate and tom daschle had a long record of service. does any rate red really miss him? does he like many senators, in the anti-was just a time passer and he wasn't even a big enough presence for the obama administration to fight for him to be their secretary of health and human services posed -- services. i certainly don't mean it as an insult to him or to the senate but let's face it most of our elected officials in the greatest deliberate if chamber are interchangeable. c-span: you wrote this common world where choices are limited to john boehner and nancy pelosi the survivors envy the dead. >> guest: i think that's true.

we are a joy and by mark mcclure from the independent women's forum and nick gillespie from recent tv. [applause] they taught me about liberty were you inspired? >> client it stood to stay up later that days than i could i think he gave a good speech unfortunately i did not hear the specifics i would have liked to have heard. he proved beyond a reasonable doubt he is a human being which was a question. he had a lot of passion. i wanted to hear it is time to cut the spending of government. even the weakest gesture was we will get contract obama's said we will cut 50%. he is lowering the bar the government will stop spending money it doesn't have an. >> he did not say anything like that. >> i don't like the idea or the implication that obama does the poor job so they will fix the economy and everything will be better. i want to hear the of entrepreneurs and us exchange jane will fix it. >> he made fun of the line will stop the rise of motions but i assume he meant he will get out of the way? but he implied government would solve it. >> but that was the void. he did not say anything, the

we are joined now by nick gillespie, and the former mtv video editor. >> would we learn?rrible. if you want to see private escalators working well, go to a mall. if you want to see government escalators -- don't go to washington dc, because you'll probably land in the hospital. >> its greatest museum is the museum of broken escalators. they're talking about talking about taking eight half monster place over 500 escalators. if you talk to anybody there, they are figuring eight and a half months -- that's a lowball. it's going to be longer than that. stossel: whited things things happen -- why did these things happen in government? >> they shifted away from contracting work out, and they took it inside. the public sector was thinking that that would be a more efficient way -- cut out the middleman -- [talking over each other] >> they are not sufficiently trained, and there too many of them. there are poor escalators or elevators per one mechanic. it is a ridiculous ratio. they say from and that shows 10% of the workforce does the labor and 90% slacks off. in the private sec

i get just gradually from college and nick gillespie from reason he contacted me and said that he woulde interested in me hosting a few of their videos to try out. and this was the first video that i did for reason tv to get him and jim epstein who was the camera man, they told me do not worry, it is just going to be this small protest. people probably will not even be there and we can sort of just get you in there and see if you like it, see how it works, it will not be a big deal. so, i went and it ended up going viral. c-span: we are going to show it in a second but before i leave that, who was the videographer that was with you? >> guest: jam epstein. c-span: no, i'm talking about before the occupied wall street. we did not quacks >> guest: occupy wall street direna. she's a girl that just graduated from college as well, and she does my videos. c-span: she does all of your videos? >> guest: her and grace. c-span: and they work for the daily scholar? >> guest: yes. c-span: working for reason tv quacks >> guest: this is my first video. mick just wanted to see how i did. c-span: let's

the guest is nick gillespie, the executive editor of reason.com. that will be on c-span2.day, look at our interview with andrew nagorski. >> i had no idea about the people who are essentially my predecessors as correspondent for diplomats in berlin. i had not spent a lot of time thinking about what it would have been like to be a correspondent in the 20's and 30's. how would you have operated. what would you have noticed or not noticed, much less how would you have acted. >> sunday at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> starting shortly, we will go live to the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. until then, your phone calls on today's "washington journal," looking at your personal economic situation. host: from kabul, afghanistan, a man in an army uniform shot and killed service members in southern afghanistan. the u.s. military command said. the shooter joined the insurgency after the attack. the shooting happened in the district of the helmand province. a front-page story from "the wall street journal," "better off seen, -- better off? the theme framing in the election." you go