to aei and cap for collaborating with us. i think we need to have a fundamental conversation in this country. we can debate where the government does, businesses do it, communities do it, goodwill does it. we've got goodwill working with us and that's not what i used to go to goodwill for. it's changing because of the needs in cities and states. we need to figure out what we're going after, and then we can address the policy, as mitch said. >> i have a question for the two governors and then i'll be opening it up. i've watched steve case who has a new book out, going to the rise of the rest. meaning, cities across this country that are suddenly coming back as opposed to it all happening in silicon valley or new york. and in your state, whether it's boulder or denver, certainly indianapolis, but south bend, many other places in indiana, there's a new creative economy that's coming back into cities in particular. and starting new jobs, being innovators, being entrepreneurs. what can we do to encourage that? is it a real phenome

it's so important to us here at aei. aei is a think tank dedicated to really two things. human dignity and human potential. we believe our commitment to truth requires a competition of ideas to function well in a free society. this requires an opportunity society as well. there's a lot that americans disagree on these days. one thing that brings us all together, the real moral consensus, i believe, behind the american experiment is that we have to push opportunities to people at the preriphery of society. indeed, to the people who need it most. what are we missing that is making this so hard right now? if this were just a question of government money, we could have solved it. our panel today will talk about what we really need. now we thought about this a great deal. there are a couple of philosophical points i think are worth making in passing. i was listening to a speech by roman catholic cardinal by the name of francis george, the cardinal of chicago. one of the great intellectuals of the catholic church. he passed away relatively recently. i was listening intently. he

it's a special pleasure to have karl zinsmeister back at aei. he held the jb fuqua chair at aei.ei is a launching pad for many talented individuals, and karl's career since aei is one of the best examples. he's the author of 11 books, including a cookbook called the finger lakes feast. he was an embed in iraq, and produced two great books, "boots over dawn" about what he wrote about when he was there. marvel comics invited him to write a nonfiction graphic novel about his experiences there. he is also a fill maker. along with his wife he produced a documentary for pbs. he then became president george w. bush's domestic policy advisor. he has private sector experience as well having worked for the stickley company. i remember the townhouse he single handedly renovated on capitol hill many years ago. he's renovated a total of seven properties, and now lives on a houseboat. today karl is president of the philanthropy round table where he oversees the magazine, book publishing and website. and he started a program for veterans and service members. the book on which tonight's lecture

aei is a launching pad for many talented individuals, and karl's career since aei is one of the best examples. he's the author of 11 books, including a cookbook. he was an embed in iraq, and produced two books about what he wrote about when he was there. marvel comics invited him to write a nonfiction graphic novel about his experiences there. and he produced a documentary film for pbs. he then became president george w. bush's domestic policy advisor. and worked at the stickley company. i remember the townhouse he single handedly renovated on capitol hill many years ago. he's renovated a total of seven properties, and now lives on a housebo houseboat. and he ovstarted a program for veterans and service members. the book on which tonight's lecture is based, the product of years of work. it has shaped his thinking about this lecture tonight. please join me in welcoming karl. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. we're going to improvise very much today on the a/v. that's how it goes sometimes. you can't be a reporter without being able to improvise. i'm going to make it work

what an honor it is for me and my colleagues from aei to be here and participate in this event. thank you to the white house for hosting and the brennan center for being involve the with this as well. aei is a think tank in washington and my colleague are dedicated to human dignity and human potential. and there are relatively few subjects that scream out more than what is on hand here today. there are going to be a lot of facts you're hearing from the panel. i'll ask you to consider three. the first is that only a third of america's incarcerated have any access to vocational or educational programs while in prison. thus leaving them entirely ub prepared for life after prison. the fact is that about half of the incarcerated are functionally ill litter sat. the third follows from the first two facts is that 60% to 70% of all parolies end up back in prison within the first three years after being released. now as jason furman and doug holtz-eakin spointed out and will talk about here today, our society pays an enormous material price for this. it creates an enormous amount of econ

aey formed an alliance with small contra of student radicals student radicals who were extremely intelligent and wanted change. send the they began to student body in a new direction in terms of the kinds of issues they would bring before them. forum tonce, having a discuss civil rights, coming down on the right side of civil rights issues. the establishment of an african-american student association. and then, academic freedom was a big issue on campus and in the state. realizedge wallace what was going on here, they decided they needed to take control of the university. at them powell came here to speak in 19 624. powell came here to speak in 1964. some of the more radical student decided they did not when he kind of us want any kind of impediments in bringing speakers. sts invited the founder of and the president said no. the university would have gone under the thumb of the legislature very drastically. what battles were worth fighting and what battles were not. we had a program here called emphasis that started in 1966. bobby kennedy was the first keynote speaker. you bring in people to

aei is a think tank in washington. my colleagues and i are dedicated to two basic values -- human dignity and human potential. there are relatively few subjects that scream out to these values more than what is on hand today. you'll hear from the panel who will ask you to consider three. the first is that only a third of americans incarcerated have access to educational or vocational programs in prison, leaving them entirely unprepared for life after prison. half ofnd fact is that the incarcerated are functionally illiterate. the third follows from the first two fax, which is that 60%-70% of all parolees end up back in prison within the first three years after being released. and doug pointed out in their op-ed in "the new york times" last week, our society pays in a norma's price for this. -- an enormous price for this. as much as it pains me as an economist to admit it, however, this really is not about money. this is about the lives that we are throwing away. want to take a few minutes here at the outset to remind m

where there is so much shouting in the world, we very much appreciate the sharing of ideas we have with aeind a whole host of issues. i think there is really no putting aside the fact that essentially the country is right now struggling, struggling with a lot of important issues about how to ensure that prosperity is , for the everybody margin in the middle, not just those at the top. it is then tossed it that the markle foundation has been able to bring together a bipartisan arenaof leaders in this and proving that, even in an election year, we can have a real focus on these challenges. there is obviously no hidden issue here that globalization and technology are really weving a lot of challenges are facing. people feel that wages are stagnant, the job engine in the united states is growing shelving, but wages and middle-class are many things -- i think that many people have fundamental questions about. these kinds of challenges offer us a real opportunity though. it is an opportunity to try to address these challenges. again, i'm honored to be here ath governors who are the forefront of t

>> well, thank you to aei for being here, thanks to gary and paul -- [laughter] and i will answer the question. i think chief judge garland is a brilliant jurist. he is a good friend of mine. he is a great chief judge. he's thoughtful, he's consider rate, he's collegial, he works well with others, he's a good man, great integrity. and he is supremely qualified by the objective characteristicsing of experience -- characteristics of experience, temperament, writing ability, scholarly ability for the supreme court. obviously, questions about the process of what's going on and the direction of the supreme court and what role judicial philosophy should play in the confirmation process are really above my pay grade and, thus, i can't comment on how that should all proceed. nor would i know what to say about how all that should proceed given the different circumstances. that's not my role. but as to the person and the judge, i have nothing but the greatest respect for him. he's been a great friend to me, he's been a role model to me in how he goes about his job. he has a wonderful work ethic

aei, for those of you who don't know is a think tank here in washington. my colleagues and i are really dedicated at the end of the day to two basic values. human dignity and human values. there are going to be a lot of facts that you will hear from our panel. i'll ask you to consider three. the first is that only one third of americans incarcerated have any access to vocational or educational programs while in prison. thus leaving them almost entirely unprepared for life after prison. the second fact is that about half of the incarcerated are functionally illiterate. the third follows from the first to fax that at 60 or 70% of parolees end up back in prison within the first three years after being released. now as jason pointed out in the op-ed in the new york times last week, and they will talk about here today, our society pays an enormous material price for this. it creates an enormous amount of economic inefficiency. as much as it pains me as an economist to admit, this really isn't about money. this is about the lives that we are throwing away. i wan

the minimum wage and aei tc complement each other. they bring more people into the labor market. but i have never seen any evidence that the s.n.a.p. program, unlike aei tc, it does not have effects on the supply. >> an interesting question. is s.n.a.p. being ignored in the presidential election? if so why? >> i do not think it is being ignored in the sense that i think there has been a good deal of conversation about poverty, income inequality. i know coming from iowa obviously i watch the presidential campaign begin another was a greata great deal of conversation about economic opportunity, support for programs that would provide people a chance to make it, so i am not sure it is being ignored by the candidates. it may very well be not something that the media is focused on. because they are more interested in the theatrics of the campaign. i guess that is a polite way. it is not as -- not as much advertising is some of the stuff that is being reported. honestly, i think we really should demand more from our presidential campaigns.

aey wanted to bring their spotlight.re is a kind of solidarity and women start to feel a certain point in their careers. they compare their own paths to what must be like to be a woman with absolutely zero inclusion of any kind. culture is so much against them and so anyways. it is very scary. what is very interesting i find is the sense of paradox in the world. on the one hand, you have in india women marching on the and creating women entrepreneurs. at the same time marital rape is legal. it gets pushed back every time it is brought to discussion. is a man's privilege and the right to rape his wife and use her sexually in any way he wants because it is not against the law. you have these great things that are happening but also you can't get change. it happens again and again. in afghanistan we have the first lady of afghanistan coming to the summit. we opened to the summit with an afghan wrapper. rapper. she was supposed to be a child bride but she got away. charlie: women from other religions are raped and the belief

the aei, a conservative think tank in the united states in brooks has just voted for a substantial increase in the minimum wage, and this is one of the issues that cuts across party lines in the united states. while the increase in the minimum wage is strongly supported by deputies, it's actually spored by the majority of republicans as well. >> strongly supported by the majority of republicans, and supported by democrats, but there are arguments, not least from the american action forum that says that the increase could cost several hundreds of thousands of jobs. what do you say to that. >> that doesn't track with any of the economics. the economic studies find that there are very modest effects on employment. in the city that i grew up in, dearborn, michigan, who is famous for henry ford, who from the opposition of other business leaders doubled what was then the prevailing wage, and the result was very favorable. ford motor company was able to hold onto employees, and the employees were actually able to earn enough to buy a car. and in the service sector, there's a real problem with rete

aey have been able to have lieu tooth connection to a app, so they can institute precise controls orow much light or timing of the flash that goes in the camera, but you can also go to the cap and do filter features like you can on instagram. it can do fairly complicated things like create a double exposure which puts to photographs in one frame or a countdown timer. things that would have been pretty much impossible with older polaroid camera technology that are not possible. david: when i used polaroid cameras in the past, part of the fun is you take a picture and you really don't know how that image will come out. david: exactly. maybe when digital was first coming out and the precision and predictability of the digital camera was the great selling point, that would have negated the possibilities to be successful, but the fact of the matter is, we all have digital cameras. we walk around with one and our pockets now. those have become so ubiquitous that a number of people are turning back the film cameras to instant cameras the curse of the unpredictability, because they are seren

aey asked, when will we see woman on some tender?stocks soaring, now pulling for once boring forefather andrew jackson, on there for years, trail of tears. ?n his place on the 2-0 an abolitionist hero. ♪ >> ♪ just you wait, just you wait ♪ mark: coming to a $20 bill there you. john: how good was that? hip-hop genius. amazing. .com hasgpolitics everything you need, including a story about the rise and fall of the tastiest vodka. ,oming up on bloomberg west emily chang will be speaking with the ceo of the huffington post. we will be back here. we have one word for you -- sayonara. ♪ mark: let's begin with a check of your news. president obama has wrapped up a an, whichith king salm included a persian gulf summit. it comes at a time of increasingly strained relationships with the saudis, who are angered over u.s. legislation that would allow 9/11 victims' families to hold the saudi's libel an american court. 500 people may have drowned in a shipwreck in the mediterranean. the incident happened last week between italy and libya. there we

aei is a think tank dedicated to two things, human dignity and human potential. and we believe that our commitment to truth requires the competition of ideas to function well in a free society. there is a lot of americans disagree on these days but one thing that brings us all together, the real consensus behind the american experiment is we have to push opportunities to people at the periphery to the people who needed them most. need it the most. so what are we missing is making this so hard right now? if this were a question of the government money we could have solved it. our panel today is going to talk about what we really need. we thought about this a great deal in the works that we have done and there's a couple of philosophical points worth making just in passing. there was relatively recently about five years ago i was listening to a speech by a cardinal by the name of francis george was the cardinal of chicago and one of the great intellectuals who passed away relatively recently i was listening intently because he was getting a fund-raising speech and

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aey were representative of larger thrust and philosophy of american business and american politics andmerican foreign policy. brian lamb: where did stephen bechtel senior fit in all of the bechtels? sally denton: the company starts with warren bechtel who was an old-fashioned american western. the hoover dam was really his project, his protege. it was called six companies, but there were actually a companies. this was a huge hoover project, to channel the colorado, the raging colorado river to provide water and irrigation and electricity primarily to southern california. with,l got the contract it companies but they called afterlves, six companies family.ese there was no company in the american west that was big enough to tackle this job. they are arguably -- there was arguably not a company in the east. all of these companies came together to put up the money and to get the bid to build this dam. brian lamb: is kaiser the same one that built the car, the hj kaiser automobile? sally denton: i think so and also the panama canal. brian lamb: here is a video of stephen bechtel senior, ass

aey just want to have peaceful, prosperous life. of course, the situation in syria is not going to be easy. to respect the reality that exists, and i think in terms of long-term stability, it will be required to see the president it should involve a dialogue of all parties involved in the process. optimist, am not a big as far as the speed of the process is concerned. however, what we have seen in the past few months, such as achieving the cease-fire, and, in fact, to a great extent a kind of willingness to maintain a cease-fire, it gives us there it willhope, and now require all to look for a pragmatic solution and really organize or put in place a government that will be really able to gain the trust and confidence and also provide stability for the people of syria. >> can we characterize that as cautiously and patiently optimistic? >> well, i do not think there is no no other way other than stopping the war in syria and ,inding a large-scale agreement and this consensus really has to have the elements of the political camp war on

whatever the -- if aei put out a -- >> word count. >> exactly. these are the set of words you put in your foreign policy speech. he correctly picked all the right words to sort of appease the serious crowds. >> back to the big topic of the hour, the upcoming announcement of ted cruz, he's got a running mate. he's taken the stage. we'll see what kind of political fire power, this move of picking carly fiorina as his running mate. here he is. ♪ ♪ here's what i tell everyone ♪ i was born in an extraordinary place ♪ >> god bless the great state of indiana. [ cheers and applause ] >> elections are about choices. the republican party faces a choice today. indiana and america, i believe, want to unite behind a positive, optimistic, forward-looking, conservative campaign based on real policy solutions to the problems facing this country. [ applause ] >> and the american people deserve a real choice in november. a choice and not an echo. a meaningful distinction, if we come to november and the american people are given a choice between two big government

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and the two of them had met randomly at aei events. but they didn't really have a real relationship. they had talked a few times. and i didn't have the chance to be on the road because i was chained to my desk in boston running the campaign. but immediately when they started campaigning together i started getting reports back from our advance team like oh, my god, you've got to see these guys together, mitt's on stage doing town halls and he's asking paul to come on stage and answer the questions and it was so obvious right out of the gate that there was chemistry and a partnership was already forming. and then i used to have, because i was in boston, i wasn't on the road as much, i had 15 minutes at least every day set aside for governor romney and myself to talk and go over things. and during the leadup to the wisconsin primary it was like talking to your buddy in high school who has just met a girl he's smitten with. and all he was talking about was paul this, paul that, paul thinks this, paul thinks that. and it was just so obvious

aey upgraded china, a bit of surprise to some. that is where we are right now, growth with sub 3% globally. right around that level, 2% in the developed world. it is not spectacular but it is a half-full depending on your view. online with historical averages. manus: glass half full. fairly good form. and because i see news coming from russia, our chart that anna and i chose this morning is the 120-day correlation between wti and msci equity. owned, this under relationship matters. do you believe in this relationship and where are we in the oil story? patrick: if oil prices are plummeting, i think some people are taking the narrative that oil prices are weaker because economic growth is so slow. i do not agree with that. world oil demand is 95 million barrels a day. supply is 97 million barrels a day. the outlook on economic growth, it is more production than demand. and when it does get rid of the tail risk, any spike even after worry about contagion and effects reading a financial crisis. we are seeing the stronger oil prices ge

the caps weren't playing for aei lot. was a little nervous.tle man, maybe this first playoffrs game, that playoff atmosphere as might kind of take them bym surprise. they were ready for it. w i terhink the better team won.on as jp said 15 more. we'll take them one at a time.aa 15 more. >> i will take that trade-offe-f of losing willie every game if m he can get simmonds off thes off ice as well i think we win thine that battle just by getting simmonds off the ice. >> interestingly those guysly t worked out together in the offon season and they're just j throwing vicious punches at v each other on the ice. the ice. >> well you know what thatell means, they need to go again g a now to settle this one because -- get them both off of there. t >>> cakes rocking the caps t gear. aaron you've got the nats hat on. i turned to the game in time and he nailed it.ed i >> this guy is just playing atit the peek of his powers right now and sometimes i thinkimes it ab and a half ago we kind ofki wondered is he ever going to ise reach his

aey are taking delivery of 321 and that's one of the best products in the area.lauderdale to the west coast -- basically you need to do long haul with this because there is so much demand for this. that means long-haul. is talks that hawaiian airlines might be a partner. is that a possible tie up? hawaiian air flies into jfk. if you mean are they going to take it further and do some kind of joint venture, that's a possibility. that's definitely a possibility. would it really be enough to offset the consolidation we are seeing? meaning they are going to have to do m&a at some point? is it really going to be enough? guest: the typical analysts answer -- they are going to grow first and foremost and that .akes sense remember they have a pretty big operation internationally to the caribbean, central america and they will use that as well. relevant, they will have to continue to grow the way they are growing and more rapid growth, which is why we have the market to perform. scarlet: another airline you have an outperform on is delta. it was seen as a smooth consolidat

mackenzie eaglen, resident fellow for aei. it has worked as a principal defense advisor to senator susan collins back in 2004. a legislative a sensitive to john sweeney back in 2003 and 2004. that is a mouthful. , you wereh deleon director of the armed services. what year was that? guest: from 1989 to 1993. on the committee professional staff from 1985 to 1993. host: let's go to mike in pennsylvania, a democrat. good morning. .aller: the panama papers we have the military running all over the world taking care of corporate interests, spreading -- being the policeman of the war. the very rich benefit from it, keep fromtheir way to paying taxes to help support the military. i was wondering if your guests had any opinion on that? host: let's hear from them. guest: you are hitting on the budget. the government is spending more in. we are taking that is simple math. we have a hard time in washington making choices of what we are spending. our entitlements are on autopilot for spending. we don't have any real changes. every year wer

. ♪ g7 leaders are likely to talk about the again when aey meet in japan to discuss host of geopoliticalincluding north korea and maritime disputes in the south china sea. tell me about your shema. -- here is shema >> there will be a number of ahead, one of 10 meetings of the big summit at the end of next month for the leaders of the g7 nations. these foreign leaders will be there to discuss the nuclear ,tation of the korean peninsula but also south china sea. the united states is leading that push to have that discussed. china's ambitions in the south china sea, obviously. china is not in the g7. rishaad: there are six claimants , and none of them will be there. >> but china is letting it be known that it is not happy with japan and the united states pushing this agenda, perhaps overshadowing some of the bigger issues. the foreign minister of china over the weekend saying, urging g7 nations not to hype the south china sea issue. they have a lot at stake, so does china. china has a ready built airstrips, radar installations, a lighthouse. it is basically laying its claim to that area. ri

they've had on the reliability of the test results, the validity of them, that the vendor, the provider, aei, is unable to make a cash assessment platform work in the state given some of the complications and divots that we have with broadband. this is not a good situation, of course. but this is a very difficult decision that the state of alaska made because of just broad system failure. so given all of the problems that we have seen related to this state wide assessment, can you give me the assurance, as well as the state of alaska and our department of education that the department will not force alaska's students to resume testing this year? >> so, very concerned about how the test administration has gone. our team has been in touch with dr. mccollie, as have i. we've also been in touch with the folks at university of kansas, the vendor that alaska selected, to try to get at the issue. we have, unfortunately, in past states in past years had issues around the technical glitches. states and vendors have worked together to try to resolve those as best they can and to assure we have assessm

i have so many years of experience and fanc aey certificates i thank my great est experience is someone who can listen. every year for a week i would sleep on the streets to figure out in my bones a bit of what it feels like to navigate the continuum of care in san francisco. i slept in shelters and held hands with people as they mourned and as faithful san franciscan without fancy caller yz know we can do a lot by cleaning the bathrooms so other people can feed and serve and work. i believe deeply that having someone on this committee who understands 30 percent the homeless population in san francisco , lgbt, a number i'm [inaudible] the laws argued about in other parts of our country. having someone who understands the difficulty of wondering fuf you will get hit in the head with a perceive en if you feel safe in the places you receive the care. i feel very inspired to think about not only the emergency of homelessness but the potential emergency of fires and homes of ether earthquakes and effects of global warming. i am usually covered in paint and worried i'll track mud on carpet li

i heard your speech before in the aei on some other places.congress, senator or house, they're busy with legislation, but state or local government, a lot of times legislation -- what i mean is it's not really working for the general public, except as an appropriation to benefit a few. and currently if you're busy for a budget, the social issues are there, nobody touch it. nobody care about it. so a lot of the crime, not the abuse and other ways, other corruption, including in the budget, maybe they have fraudulent charges, and maybe they have a lot of fraudulent transaction of public/private partnership or economic development. whatever of transportation. can see a lot of problem, the people pay but not really in a way they receive. >> got a question? >> my question is can you really work on the real issues people are suffering, trim those costs and budget and you don't have to do the legislation budget but cut the budget down. >> yeah. this is a great point. but the concerns that the person people have in so many ways the addressed by congre

on the reliability of the test results, the validity of them, that the developed door, the provider aei is unable to make a cached assessment platform work in the state given some of the complications and difficulties we have with broadband. this is not a good situation. of course. but this is a very difficult decision that the state of alaska made because of broad system failure. given all the problems that we have seen related to this statewide assessment, can you give me the assurance that the department will not force alaska's students to resume testing this year. >> very concerned about how the test administration has gone in alaska. our team has been in touch with the doctor as i have. we've also been in touch with the folks at university of kansas, and the vendor that alaska selected to try and get at the issues we have unfortunately in other states in past years had issues around technical glitches. the key thing has been that the states and the vendors have worked together to try to resolve those as best they can. and to ensure that we have an assessment system that provides go

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and andrew kelly, american enterprise institute resident scholar and director of the aei center on higher education reform. and our capable moderator today is danielle degilou douglas-gabrielle, for the "washington post." we should be able to see our proposition up on the screen pretty quick here. i want to explain the voting process that we're going to be doing. there we go. so you can see, the proposition is now up on the screen. we want to take the temperature of the audience before and after the debate to see how much our debaters have actually changed how people perceive this particular issue. so you can vote now by texting new america, all one word, to 22333. and then putting in a or b depending on whether you agree or disagree with the proposition. >> can we vote? >> i think the debaters cannot vote. so with that, i'm actually going to turn it over to danielle to continue on with the debate. thanks. >> thank you guys for joining us this morning. so we're going to start with some opening statements so that we can kind of firm up the proposition in favor and against. i'm going to sta

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