going to have senator lamar alexander, we're going to have educators like steve perry rick hess at aei and dr. heart stock to phone to action as well. here's what i want you to walk away with an understanding that we understand that we believe that a child's education should not be determined. the quality of your education should not be determined by your zip code. that every child in every facet of this nation has the potential to be a lifelong learner. and to be a child of excellence. we want to make sure we focus our attention to make sure that every single student, everywhere in the nation, no matter your zip code, no matter your ethnic background. no matter your family income.

i also want to thank aei and the friedman foundation. [applause] >> senator cruz.would love to hear little bit about how you can to this issue and some of the challenges that you've had for pushing for school choice in south carolina. >> thank you. thank you senator scott for bringing us together. we live in exceptional nation. some people don't like to say that, but we do. we live in exceptional nation. we have the highest standard of living, the greatest quality of life that any body living on this planet. you have to ask yourself, why. we value freedom. we will die to defend freedom. we employ freedom in every aspect of our lives. we believe that you should have choices. jefferson. the jefferson memorial, i saw this morning. jefferson finds freedom as having choices. it's because of these choices that we have achieved more than any people that has ever come before us. but for some reason, we do not think that those choices should extend to parents when it comes to their child's education. it is mind-boggling. i do not get it. we see how freedom has created such

aey have called y combinator frat house. funded 4% of the founders were female, and no are -- now it is more like 12%. we don't want to ideally be there, but it is moving in the same direction. >> how do you get more women? >> examples make everyone want to start start ups. how do you make sure you are getting the best people? >> one thing that changed recently is that we have a female partner in everyone of the interview rooms. why not blind screen everyone? >> then i cannot observe their interactions. ♪ >> you have two children. a kind of parents are you? >> policy best father i ever met. -- he is the best father. he's since been time exposing them to things, and teaching them. how do manage being married and colleagues? >> you have different responsibilities. each person is responsible for their own thing. boosted boards. let's just say they have bigger ambitions than making skateboards. >> i put out fires, at least 10 week of co-founder disputes. that and fundraising, interactions with investors. we intervene. how do you

, entity, that's what i was looking for entity within aei that supports original domestic policy-relateed research and big think books of which our current speaker, arthur herman, is the author of the book that is the summit of today's -- subject of today's discussion, "freedoms forge," clearly is one of. the 2012 election is, in many ways, a debate over the 1932 election. should we continue or extend the legacy of franklin delano roosevelt in establishing the federal government as one of the preeminent directors if not the preeminent director of american economic life, or should we embrace the creative animal spirits of free enterprise capitalism and trust more to ourselves and more to the great men and women who fuel our nation's economy and whose ideas and innovations change our lives? when we look to the future of american public policy. economists and historians have debated whether or not roosevelt's move in his signature domestic accomplishment, the new deal actually helped or hurt, whether or not it prolonged the great depression or helped to bring us out of it. but whatever side

zack from aei engineers demonstrated the process for us in a safe environment. >> this is essentiallypacked full of the marijuana trimmings and when they introduce the butane through tube, it acts as a solvent and scrubs the essential oils from the marijuana. >> butane is the fuel used in cigarette lighters. when it comes in contact with an ignition source, someone lighting a joint perhaps it does one thing: >> the house is on fire, the house is on fire. >> the government can't stop people from processing marijuana. >> attorney rob corey is defending three people from producing hash oil. this regulationive gives people the right to do this. >> the question is whether the government should try prohibit it. and whether prohibition in and of itself could be more dangerous than the activity. >> corey says it's no more illegal than frying a thanksgiving turkey. >> god forbid if an explosion happens when you are frying a turkey, nothing happens because you are not doing anything illegal, frying a turkey. >> now grappling with how to tighten the language in the amendment. >> the people of th

main author, peter beckman, row from 1973-1992 so i had this advantage even though i was born in 19 aei read the whole history of energy and a vibrant like month by month by the best guide and into the present but maybe is that 2008 or 2000 it took about. what was crazy, everyone was make all the exact same predictions back then, like the exact same prediction. we are running out of resources. they're predicting that in the late '60s and early 70s. so, for example, paul irwin who still one of the world leading a colleges became so popular he was invited on the tonight show over a dozen times. imagine an election today being on jimmy found a dozen times to talk about how we're going to run out of everything and he predicted income would basically be destroyed by the year 2000. and that we would run out of america's economic joyride is over. that's what he said in the early 70s. tons and tons of people say that. the same thing with pollution. derrick mentioned the actual stats, instead of saying this is probably to solve they thought there's a solution, it's going to be a disaster and we

scott gottlieb from aei. former policy advisor for medicare & medicaid services. welcome to you both. fred, this is political story. these are democrats, sometime long ago, this law is four years ago actually supported this. now what? >> well, they certainly did. now they don't want tople w have to pay a lot more in taxes than they expected. gerri, there was a way in the beginning to avoid all this. that would have been to have a compromise, health insurance plan, health care plan. but obamacare is -- obamacare is purely a one-party deal and they can't go to congress on this now because that is republicans. they don't want to bail out democrats. gerri: listen this particular law, i think there has been something near approaching 40 changes to it. either extension of deadlines, tweaking the language, so many problems with this thing. dr. scott, to you, i know you've been following this so closely. how much money are we talking for american families? >> could be substantial. they want to extend enrollment period for people with a penalty for the being insured to get

conversation around the country starts at the grassroots level and we have a number of partners like aei and others who have done a fabulous job of providing us good data and good information to encourage the conversation that goes to the next level. thank you. >> thank you. if you will all join me in thanking the panel. been a terrific start to the day. [ applause ] we're now going to break for a few minutes and reconvene at 11:00. >>> so this day-long forum on education policy is taking a short break at this point. coming up next a panel discussion on how to strengthen communities through education. and later we'll hear from a pair of former education secretarys, rod paige who served president george w. bush and senator lamar alexander, who held the same post in george h.w. bush's administration. while we're in this break here's a look at the week ahead in washington. -- >> to our table this morning jonathan allen washington bureau chief with bloomberg news here to talk about the week ahead here in washington. let's begin with what's going to happen at the white house this morning. ang

aey said there is also been decrease in chinese demand for commodities, which has a severe impact on uncertainty in timing and the extent of the expected increase in household consumption and investment and a lack of clarity on the chinese property markets. whye are among the reasons the reserve bank of australia decided to act and cut the cash rate at the start of the month. as for the currency, it is still too high. it has increased slightly since the release of these minutes. earlier this month, we have been hearing a lot from the rba recently. glenn stevens testimony to ,arliament about the currency he said he is less concerned about where it sits against the u.s. dollar and more so against major trading partners, which include china. he wants to see it weaken further. rate cuts do not provide the stimulus they once did. unemployment, overreacting was warned against. this month has been notoriously volatile. the headline out of these minutes, and certainty of consumer spending and a pickup rba.vestment prompting the they will act again pretty soon. >> thank you for that. it is th

bank, my friend alex pawlik from aei a number of years ago wrote a wonderful essay comparing fannie and freddie to the first and second bank of united states so to me it's always a wonderful parallel with some of the same problems that were there. so i found this a great introduction. to me it was a little bit frustrating in terms of can we really have some fixes here? i guess i would put it this way. if you are looking for a laundry list of how we can fix all this and go back in time you will probably be disappointed. again it's a great read of history and a great set of examples. i think again i really enjoyed it and look forward to the next next book to matt prater will turn it over to chris for a while. >> thanks jay. it is a fantastic book and you're clearly a historian by heart. the detail is tremendous. if you want a good introduction to america 19th century public policy this is a great book to start with. your discussion of the rise of the patronage in the 19th century the rise of the parties the rise of the progressive movement the new deal fantastic. jay has chapters on farm

conversation around the country starts at the grassroots level and we have a number of partners like aei and others who commit fabulous job of providing us with good deed and good information to encourage the conversation to go to the next level. thank you. [applause] >> if you will join me in thanking the panel expenditure exports to fix start to the day. [applause] we are going to break for a minute and reconvene at 11:00 now a panel of education administrators discuss school reform in the public, private and charter school perspective. this is 45 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second panel building stronger communities through exemplary schools. that's harder to follow from the first one i have to say that was amazing and we heard some great stories and great information and we will do the same here. we are honored to be here with senator scott and our friends at the american federation for children. i'm excited about the sale for three reasons today. one is that features representatives from every sector in the k-12 education public, private and charter. number two,

going to have senator lamar alexander, we're going to have educators like steve perry rick hess at aei and dr. heart stock to phone to action as well. here's what i want you to walk away with an understanding that we understand that we believe that a child's education should not be determined. the quality of your education should not be determined by your zip code. that every child in every facet of this nation has the potential to be a lifelong learner. and to be a child of excellence. we want to make sure we focus our attention to make sure that every single student, everywhere in the nation, no matter your zip code, no matter your ethnic background. no matter your family income. has the opportunity to succeed. and if we do that, our future will be amazing. >> amen. >> thank you, brother. >> i like that, the president over here to the left understands the amen. thank you. let my make it crystal clear we must act now on the issue of educational choice. this is not an issue that we can just say is a good issue. this is an issue that we have to fight for every single day to make sure th

to learn more about the poll, go to aei's website, aei.org. carla bowman, thank you for your time. >> chancellor merkel and president obama met at the white house. they spoke to reporters. the news conference is. then, remarks from bernie sanders. and, louisiana governor bobby jindal talks about -- talks at a n event. the headline from cq roll call after the news conference, obama and netanyahu's rift over a ron wyden's. a suggestion that was inappropriate for israel's prime minister to seek an invitation to address congress before parliamentary elections. the israeli leader reaffirmed his plans to speak to lawmakers on march third. obama had knowledge tn netanyahu have a difference around iran sanctions. netanyahu called a potential agreement with iran a bad deal that will endanger israel. he said, therefore, i am determined to present israel's position before the

the heritage foundation and aei and cato have lots of people writing for them. they get paid very well to write the kind of stuff -- that kind of stuff. >> keith very, hillsboro community college, tampa florida. as public intellectuals, have any of you ever written anything that you regret? [laughter] >> i did actually. it was probably one of the things of mine that got circulated all over the place. it was a piece that "the washington post" asked about -- was george w. bush the worst president in american history? i think this is a debate that historians should resist jumping at. somehow, maybe for the reasons michael pointed out, i jumped at it and wrote a column about why george w. bush was the worst president in american history. it was polemical obviously, but it had historical fact and it, too, here or there. [laughter] i compared him to other bad presidents. looking back, it probably wasn't a very well-considered thing. than a reporter for "usa today" asked president bush about this in an interview. he said, this historian has said you are the worst presi

educators like steve perry from capital preparatory schools to grassroots energizers like rick hess at aeiand dr. cam ya hartsock as well. here's what i want you to work with is an understanding that we understand that we believe that a child's education should not be determined, the quality of your education should not be determined by your zip code. that every child in every facet of this nation has the potential to be a lifelong learner. and to be a child of excellence. and so we want to make sure that we focus our attention on making sure that every single student everywhere in the nation no matter your zip code, no matter your ethnic background no matter your family income has the opportunity to succeed. and if we do that, our future will be amazing. >> amen. [applause] >> thank you brother. [applause] i like that. [laughter] the brethren over here to the left understands the amen. [laughter] let me make it crystal clear. we must act now on the issue of educational choice. this is not an issue that we can just say is a good issue. this is an issue that we have to fight for every singl