without further adieu let me welcome beth akers, beth. [applause] there,. >> well, thank you, dan, very much for the generous introduction. i'm thrilled to be here, meaning here at the manhattan institute and part hover this great organization, but also here today to be able to put some of my ideas intoure ear' hope they stick. so thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to speak with you today. so, it sounds like you already heard what the book is about butll give you detail and kind of sell you on my arguments here. i think you took the first page of my notes. >> i did. >> i was going to say that's not the first idea i wanted to talk about. so i think it's help inflame talking about the become book to start before the book started and give you a sense why i wrote the book, why i embarked on the agenda of research in the first place. joined the think tank community five years ago i idea had just finerned graduate school and was studying economics in a athlete resident cal department. so i theoretical department. i had reported cal

when it came to justice at home, told aker, barack obama us that adult male transvestites had the moral right and legal into the bathroom with little schoolgirls, whether their parents liked it or not. fundamentally sought to abrogate religious freedom in america. weaponized the internal revenue service, the environmental protection agency, the attorney general's office justice department against america's own citizens. epitome of the tyranny. mr. obama unconstitutionally selectively applied america's immigration laws and llegally suspended immigration enforcement. criminal d 19,723 illegal immigrants from prison into nearly every state of the union. ese nearly 20,000 criminal illegal aliens were collectively crimes,d of over 60,000 including over 12,000 drunk driving convictions and over crimes such as assault, rape, and murder. mr. obama's actions endangered americans and denied justice to crimes.ims of their . obama bears a share of the responsibility for every crime these criminals have committed or will commit against americans them from leased prison into american society. mr. spe

fellow here at the manhattan institute, and it's my pleasure today to introduce our speaker, beth akers. first thing's first, i'd like to welcome beth to the manhattan institute where she's recently become a fellow. prior to joining us, she was a fellow at the brookings institution center on children and families, and before that she was a taffe economist -- staff economist at the president's council of economic advisers and worked extensively on higher education policy. second, i'd like to welcome beth back to new york. beth received her ph.d. in math -- excuse me, her b. a. in math and economics from cuny-albany and her ph.d. from columbia university. beth's here to talk about her book, "game of loans." recently published by princeton university press and written with matthew of the urban institute. so after reading beth's book, i can assure you she's going to fit right in at the manhattan institute -- [laughter] where the scholars really delight in debunking poorly argued narratives in the press and the public debate. and beth's book does just that. it's a timely corrective to the wi

with rising bond yields seeing a real rally in the german stock market. 23%akers help lifting by you the green circle right there. it means the lowest ever valuation relative to the stoxx 600, which is what the chart is. dax ande line is the the purple line is the relative. trading your its highest level since april of 2015. only 7% below the record. what a turnaround it's been. another wonderful chart here, showing you how the pound has risen percentagewise since the 30th, just after brexit. he will remember that date. these are the key speeches from prime minister theresa may since brexit. the reaction to her conference speech wasn't taken well with the interview yesterday from sky downsending the sterling to its lowest level in 10 weeks. of immigrationol and lawmaking, the priorities, even if it means exiting the european signal market, she said yesterday that leaving the eu will be about getting on the right relationship, not getting its of membership, with sterling falling to 121 against the dollar as the government struggles to distance itself from brexit. look at that. that's

. >> so is governo beth akers is a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. and why don't we start with you. you are a graduate of the state university of new york, but you are not a fan of governor cuomo's plan for this. why is this? >> that's right. i really just have one big complaint about cuomo's proposal and that it's very largely aggressive. free college prosoposals benefi the more well off households. students are going to go to the federal aid system to get grants from there and that's going to cover a lot of the cost for the lowest income households and this new scholarship will cover the difference. so that gap is going to be biggest for the highest income households. >> for the people who don't qualify for the financial assistance along the way so the bulk of this will be paying for middle and higher income students. college affordability. you found that not just low income students but also middle income students are struggling with tuition and housing and food. do you think this plan would help? >> i do think this plan would help and one reason

it is a set of cloud-based tools that are going to empower the own aker to develop their car connectederiences. and by 2020, something like 90% of all the eagles on the road will be connected. it is a great opportunity to work with them. >> deepening by 2020 there will be automated driving on the road? 2020, 90% of the eagles on the road will be connected. this presents a great opportunity for us to work with they develops as their own in car experiences. division of the data occurring between microsoft and the auto companies? some of these companies have been wary about the ownership of the data in the car. what agreements do you have in place? >> we are not going to be building our own autonomous self driving car, but we are in the business of producing software that we believe will enable car companies to reach their goals and ambitions in this space. many of them have turned to us as a partner. we will not be competing with them on that front. we have the tools that they can use to really engage with some of these complex technologies they are dealing with as they go through their

--aker paul ryan, i really oh, no, i have come to appreciate him.peaker paul ryan, where is the speaker? where is he? beenl you, he has terrific, and you know, honestly, he is like a fine wine. every day goes by, i get to appreciate his genius more and more. we are going to need our more engaged be and more vigilant than ever before, to help us accomplish the reforms and overcome decades of stalemate and gridlock. we are going to get it done, folks. with cabinet confirmation hearings underway, we start by looking at the team trump is building to run his administration. we sorted into four categories, the generals, john kelly to head mattisd security, james for secretary of defense, and michael flynn as his national security advisor. mark: we are calling the next group the tycoons, rex tillerson to be secretary of state, steven ross, who trump wants for commerce secretary, and the fast food mogul. choicecmahon is trump's at the small business administration, and tapping carl icahn for a special role of regulatory czar. there is no shortage of d.c. in

i'm here today to introduce our speaker, beth akers. i would like to invite her to the institute for she's become a fellow. she was at the brookings institution center children and families and before that, she was a staff economist at the president's council of economic advisers and worked extensively on the higher education policies. second i would like to welcome beth back after receiving her ba from albany and her phd in economics from columbia university. so, she's here today to talk about her book game of loans rhetoric and reality of student debt, recently published by princeton university press and britain with matthew at the urban institute. after reading the book i can assure you she's going to fit right in at the manhattan institute. we have a delight in debunking poorly argued narratives in the press and the public debate in her book does just that. it's a timely corrective to the wildly exaggerated student debt crisis that persists in the media. her thesis is there is no broad-based student loan crisis "the new york times"

and at 9:15 pm eastern, the manhattan institute's beth akers argues that the student loan crisis is overblownyork magazines jonathan chase examines president obama's legacy and a conversation with cnn's jim acosta. and we wrap up our saturday prime time lineup at 11:00 p.m. with john's thoughts on the evolution of language. that all happens tonight on c-span.org's booktv. >> [background sounds] [applause] >> good evening everybody thank you all so much for coming out tonight.what a great crowd. my name is lissa muscatine i am the co-owner of politics and prose. my husband and co-owner is right he appeared on behalf of our grace that we welcome you all want to thank all of our friean

and we wrap up our sunday prime time lineup at 11 with the manhattan institute brad akers who argues that the student loan crisis is overblown. that all happens tonight on c-span2 booktv. >> hello everyone. happy bill of rights day. for those of you who do not know me i am tom donnelly, the national constitution center fellow for studies and thank you for joining us. today on this important anniversary we have a reading defender of the bill of rights today. david keene. just to read a bit of background. so david is the opinion editor of the washington times and former president of the national rifle association. he also served as the chairman of the american conservative union in his new book which he co-authored with thomas mason is called shall not be abridged. >> infringed. >> you are right. [laughter] i obviously am thinking of the 14th moment. the bill is called on your second amendment. and obviously the second amendment can easily shade into contentious political policy debates. this being bill of rights they like to keep this conversation unconstitutional ground. to do that l

thomas cook is preparing to bring thousands of british holiday—akers home from gambia because of a worsening to avoid all but essential travel to the country, after its president refused to step down and declared a state of emergency. thomas cook said it was implementing contingency plans to bring home all its uk customers on additional flights over the next 48 hours. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. more at 10am. here's some sport now withjessica. dan evans is up against seventh seed marin cilic in the 2nd round of the australian open. evans lost the first set 3—6, but managed to fightback in the second taking it 7—5. he's going with serve in the third set. non—league lincoln city beat championship side ipswich town 1—0 last night in their third round fa cup replay. it's the first time they've got this far since the late graham taylor managed them in 1976. another non—league side, sutton united, also made it through. they beat league one afc wimbledon 3—1 in their replay. they're now at home to leeds in the fourth round. manchester city midfielder yaya toure has turned down £430,000