>> i would agree with alice the could be connected on something like social security. there is a problem there, there's a matter of political will and will power but we kind of know what to do. it isn't complicated so it seems to be moving their makes a lot of sense. i am probably a little more pessimistic about the health care. we've got to remember health care is the pac man of state government and federal government, 90% of these problems are basically health care. and i think we've got at this point i am assuming these bills are going to pass in congress and in some ways i think that the date is going to change at this point, and i also think probably the senate bill is going to dominate given how fragile it is with the 60 votes and so on. and you have to start looking down, breaking down the pieces and pulling back and deciding whether you can create a framework around those changes that begins to bring health care costs down. a lot people argued and i haven't been one of them but a lot of people argue you have to get everybody in the system before you do that, an

. >> here's the 3-d clip in "alice in wonderland." >> you're back. >> alice! >> alice! >> alice.absolutely alice. i'd know you anywhere. >> tell us about this movie. >> this is tim burton's interpretation of "alice in wonderland." it is not the disney animated happy kind. johnny depp plays the mad hatter. he's made some comments saying he thinks the mad hatter's very poisoned. >> finally, is 2010 going to be as strong a year as 2009? >> for sure. a lot of sequels, throw-backs to the '80s. look for "ironman." "sex and the city." "twilight" eclipse, the final chapter in harry potter is coming out in 2010. >> kim, thanks so much. >>> in a moment, more fallout from the botched terror attack. will it trigger a political fight here in the united states? you're watching msnbc sunday.un p with hungry. or, you can follow the weight watchers plan entirely online and learn life skills that put you in charge. sign up for free right now and see how 31,000 food options give you options, and 1,800 recipes keep them fresh, so when life comes knocking, you can learn to live it, and lose weight an

baker, tom daschle and bob dole has a task force which will be led by pete domenici of new mexico and alice rivlin who served during the clinton administration. their announcement from yesterdas ines. we sw wt out ahoe i >> it is a pleasure to welcome you here today.

alice? >> i did what is really important is the direction of change.e is no magic number and bill is right when he says 60% is debt held by the public. it does not count the amount that the social security and medicare systems we are indebted to them and have to pay those liabilities so these are a lot of numbers to keep juggling. but what is really important is the direction of change. as long as this debt held by the public or total debt is rising as a percent of gdp you are in trouble. we need to get it coming down. >> go ahead. >> this discussion is on the unraveling of the dollar in the crisis. but there is a couple of other causes pretty significant. first is the cause of the interest itself is growing quite rapidly and i think once interest rates move up that is printed a pretty significant and there is obviously intergenerational if she was around there. but there is also the second issue i worry about is because of the entitlements all of us in the government are basically cutting discretionary which means we are cutting infrastructure, we are

more with david wessel and alice rivlin and minute. "after words" with david wessel and alice rivlin continues. >> host: back again david wessel. we are talking about your book "infil we trust ben bernanke's war on the great panic," and we were in mid panic when we took a break. it was a bad moment when whether by design or by accident history ben bernanke and tim geithner, still dennett the new york fed and hank paulson at the treasury let and lehman brothers fail, and the consequences were dire. and almost immediately they were faced with another giant. aig. now, aig isn't a bank. it isn't even an investment bank. it's an insurance company. and what was the fed doing bunning in insurance company? i used to have a fantasy back when i was at the fed if somebody from the staff had walked into my office and said i think we ought to buy a large failing insurance company -- [laughter] -- what what i have said? >> guest: i think there was quite a bit of that at the fed at that time. so, they're stearns and lehman brothers are kind of second

alice? [applause] >> i share senator pete's obvious fervor, that we are engaged in a very important enterprise here. i think the biggest threat to the united states' economy as we look ahead is this trajectory that we are on, this unsustainable trajectory of rising debt. i also think the greatest threat to our political system is the strident partisanship which has developed in the last few years, both parties thinking they have the only answer and less and less communication between them. so we are here to try to do our best to bring people from both sides of the spectrum together to face this issue. we don't have any illusions that the easy. if it were easy, it would have been done a long time ago. the problems to be solved are very difficult and will cause real pain. raising taxes cause -- causes real pain. taking benefits that people have counted on causes real pain. but the nothing compared to what would happen if we continue to go on this trajectory. we actually can't. the top end of t

alice, spees.ant to say to the board, the task force members, we just casually invited you today and it's great that you found time to come. now it's my privilege to introduce my partner in this venture, dr. alice rivlin. doctor. [applause] >> i share senator pete's obvious fervor that we are engaged in a very important enterprise here. i think the biggest threat to the united states' economy as we look ahead is this trajectory that we're on, this unsustainable trajectory of rising debt. i also think that the greatest threat to our political system is the strident partisanship which has developed in the last few years. both parties thinking they have the only answer and less and less communication between them. so we are here to try to do our bit to bring people from both sides of the spectrum together to face this issue. we don't have any illusions that it's easy. if it were easy it would have been done a long time ago. and the problems to be solved are very difficult and will cause real pain. rai

i'm alice rivlin and it's my pleasure to be talking to david wessel about his book, "in fed we trust." ben bernanke's war on the great panic. which actually has a second subtitle as i read it. not every book has two subtitles, david. how the federal reserve became the fourth bank branch of government. it's a fascinating book. >> guest: thank you. >> host: and i think i should make that clear. at the outset. you take the reader step-by-step through the crisis of the last couple of years from the eyes of the chairman of the federal reserve, ben bernanke. so the book lets you see what dan and his colleagues weresed,d why they did what they did, the internal tensions and uncertainties, and how they were learning along the way. you're a very good translator of fed speech by the way. and i've been known to speak fed speak, though i always tried not to. [laughter] >> host: but the last couple of years were a wild ride at the fed, and it's not necessarily over yet. i was watching closely during this period, but i learned a lot from this book. there are other books about the crisis, quite a fe

i picked that alice schrag and read its 1168 pages in four days. it was the most fascinating thing i have ever read. add plot and characters and narrative force along with powerful ideas. today there are no ad campaigns for alice schrag, no literary critics recommending ayn rand. she just keep selling by word-of-mouth and through the efforts of a few institute devoted to her ideas. and now these two books provide further evidence of the growing impact, the growing interest in the lifetime of the ideas and the impact of ayn rand. both of these books are available in every bookstore and of course we have copies here and the authors would be happy to sign then after our formal session ends. ivillage is both others and let them speak of them will open the floor to questions before the book signing. in goddess of the market, ayn rand in the world she made. jennifer burns, a professor of history at the university of virginia looks at the development of ayn rand's ideas and her alliances and clashes with other intellectual and political figures. in "ayn r

alice rivlin, who you will be hearing from. -- senator pete domenici.ck, i think you all know came to us with experience with the administration and the hell. as both senators baker and dole turned out to be unable to be with us today. sheila burke will say a few words on their behalf. she was chief of staff for senator dole for number of years. she was a senior policy adviser for baker and donaldson. but we think most important -- she is on the board of the bipartisan policy center and will be participating in this project. thank you for being with us. >> thank you very much. on behalf of the bpc board of directors and particularly senators dole and baker, two of the founding fathers of the organization, i want to welcome you to the launch of the task force. over the course of my kabir, i had the great privilege of working on federal budget -- course of my career, i have the great privilege of working on the federal budget with senators dole and baker and senator pete. there were a variety of issues we worked on year after year, but we knew full well t

it was a four letter word beginning with alice. so she delighted in knots.he brought this back to new york and i didn't go over well with "the new york times" newsroom because she would yell out hey at the same the full name. to mix it up she would walk down the street and do that too. in new york that didn't faze anyone because everybody calls each other that anyways. sometimes she would say hey spinner. so there were a lot of things. she laughed too hard. she smoked too much, drink too much, had too much fun for "the new york times." that was an oil and water mix. she came back to texas, "the dallas times herald" and the late great paper that was a little more liberal in the place where i work that, the "dallas morning news" and we were locked in war. i was there at the time ali was there in dallas. she came back and was given a very, very, very long leash. and guess what? they begin regretting that long leash almost instantly because molly didn't like dallas a whole lot. she liked a lot of the people there. she loved a lot of the people there, but there w

there is a literal rico and that happens under the age. >> women like alice wilson and a number of black men. the case file you are reading as you go along in the book, really deeply affecting. their families are involved, they are trying to get them out in it is quite moving. you get a number of blacks men. what about black women? >> there is invisibility of african-american women based on the particular archived i am looking at which is -- this is a hospital which in the early part of the twentieth century, thirty-five% women and over the course of time as this narrative plays out it becomes a predominantly male institution. it is not a huge surprise that african-american women and women in general disappear from this particular narrative but also in terms of a larger cultural story of what is happening here the angry protesting black man character that emerges doesn't leave tons of space for talking about black women. she works on black women's depression. basically, black women suffer violence or these particular forms of protest are not seen as threatening in a particular way. i tri

just like alice chalmers am i painted that one. i took it to show. everyone said you paint it had the wrong color. i took the paint back off and put this color on it. whether it's right or not, i don't know. >> our runt country church salute travels to wisconsin to the first lutheran church. they celebrated their 120th anniversary this year with a special service led bay home grown pastor. reverend gordon scott the newest member joined reverend bob to lead the service. reverend scott was recently ordained and called to the grace lutheran church in marshfield. we thank dawn for sending in her church information. as always, we'd like to learn about your home church as well. salutes can be sent to the address on the screen. please, stay with us. mailbag is next. >>> closed captioning is brought to you by optimum brand innovations from pie here hybrid. science with service delivering success. >>> time now for our weekly look inside the "u.s. farm report" mailbag. l. c. mashburn brings up a recurring complaint about food and farm price. i wish when commod

it is about the trip that and theodore roosevelt sent his daughter, alice, on along with william taftnd that a book, of course, points out that theodore roosevelt was a man of his time and that he had strong racial feelings of prejudice towards the cubans who fought with american forces in 1898 and my own view is on the basis of having written tests comment on this research, it is that we would not have a won the war in cuba in such a short time had it not been for the intelligence provided by the cuban volunteers who knew exactly where the spanish were, who fought alongside the americans, and americans who die in cuba during the war in 1898, and number of them got congressional medals honor. they were sort of being handed out by hotcakes posthumously and almost all of them gone military burial site. the cubans were buried with a foul. in some cases if they were near the local villages, people might come out and reclaim the bodies, but they were buried in ditches and i had no names. and, yes, there were a number of people in that era of theodore roosevelt and others who really didn't

he will discuss his book with alice rivlin.rt of this weekend's booktv on c-span2. >> the new c-span video library is a new video archive. from barack obama to ronald reagan, and everyone in between. it is fast and free. >> saturday president obama as ambassador at large for global women's issues talks about supreme court justice ruth ginsburg and the changing role of women in the law and the rights of women around the law. >> i am always concerned about the potential for an unintended consequences of the new regulations. they act as a tax. when you regulate something you tend to get less of it. this weekend, republican fcc commissioner on efforts to create a national broadband plan among other things. "washington journal" continues. host: bob cusack is the managing editor of the hill. he is here to talk with you about his and his reporters' view of the party's chances of the 2010 elections coming up. i want to show you in the audience about what the morning headlines look like. the democrats may not be enjoying them this morni

. >> talking about the fed, the author will discuss the book with alice rivlin. that is part of book tv this weekend on c-span 2. >> coming up on c-span, "washington journal"is next with your phone calls. later, the u.s. is to to the peace looks at the afghanistan election process. and there will be a discussion about the health insurance exchanges. in about half an hour, the republican national committee chairman michael steele

. >> guest: should you had the easy times, alice. >> host: absolutely. i think we are out of time. >> guest: thank you. it's been a pleasure. .. >> this is not just ammonium the elite, academics, it is often shared by businessmen of cells. when bill gates announced his philanthropic organization to give away billions of dollars to help fight poverty in africa and elsewhere he said it is about time he give back to society. i thought that was an odd way to put it because he gave us the computer and internet revolution and contributed vastly to the welfare of his business and i applaud him for his efforts but it is not a matter of him knives giving the philanthropy is in addition through his enterprise and for-profit activities. in some will show this has been like behind in america. strangely enough today i found it rasmussen poll through september show wayne favorability ratings for various professions. small-business owners those who start their own business are ring to #1 and number two. they are doing fine but the ceo is second to last. outside the ent

and one of the last letters in the book was written in 2008 by alice walker, who wrote barack obama to congratulate, you know, to say what his election meant it so it has this amazing arc showing the history of african-americans, enslaved and free over three centuries. >> what surprised you in your study of these letters? >> i guess one of the things that surprise me is the extent to which enslaved african-americans continue to communicate with their loved ones. or even that african -- that slaves wrote letters at all. by the extent to which they maintain the bonds across plantations, across the state, and of course this was an illegal act, but they somehow managed to stay in contact to the best they could with their loved ones. >> the regular booktv viewers may recognize you because we shot a program of yours earlier in the year which you can walk on booktv, go to our website and watch that program. what are you working on right now? >> right now i'm still here with this book. this is probably my 40th event since february. and we've also been to a number of dramatic readings around th

and alice in wonderland which is coming out in march, tim burton must have been so jazzed to be ableo do it in 3-d. we'll see more of hat. >> what movie are you most looking forward? >> most forward to iron man 2. i think robert downey jr. have really made a mark for themselves. they want to make a rock 'n' roll superhero franchise that stands apart from itself. i think that one's going to be the best. >> it's always good to see you. thank you for coming in. and still ahead, more on those full body scanners in the wake of the christmas day plot. are they an invasion of privacy? and in our next hour, man gets creative as he tries to come up with some extra pocket change. but his extra effort didn't get him very far. (woman) dear cat. your hair mixes with pollen and dust. i get congested. but now with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breathe freer, so i can love the air™. (announcer) zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed. announcer: you could buy 300 bottles of water. or just one brita filte

the offer will discuss his book with alice.ivlin. >> i am always concerned about unforeseen consequences of new regulations. regulations of any kind act as a tack. when you tax or regulate something, you get less of it and to manage it. >> this weekend on "the communicator's," and efforts to create a national broadband plan. that is today at 6:30 p.m., eastern, on c-span. >> "washington journal" continues. host: the president spoke about the attempted terrorist attack on that flight to detroit. >> that is why we must communicate clearly to moslems around the world that al qaeda offers nothing except a bankrupt vision of misery and death, including the murder of fellow muslims. the united states stands with those who seek justice and progress. two events that progress, we have sought new beginnings with muslim communities around the world. we engage on the basis of mutual interest and respect and work together to fulfill the aspirations that all people share, to get an education, to work with dignity, to live in peace and securi

a relatively small bad -- alice had escalated into an enormous balance and people were upset.st: this is a congressional legislation. was there a move by federal agencies that oversee credit cards? where the differences between the 12th? guest: the federal reserve board has to issue this. the federal reserve board explains how it will work. host: as far as the specifics, i will read some of them and you can add. there would be one that would ban on fair rate increases. what would happen on this? guest: if you get a new car, you have to get a rate last for eight years except there are exceptions. promotional rights must last six months and after the end of the introductory rate, your bricken automatically rise. if your rate is based on an index of most cars are now based on some kind of index such as the primary, your rate will rise when the index rises no matter how often that is. the other thing is that if you are 60 days late on your payment, they can raise your host: this is just for new cards that people get, not for existing ones? guest: the rules don't go into effect unt

alan's sister kept coming in and out of the house and was sitting next to the sister alice on the porch swing. she'd been picnicing the day before on the fair grounds but about a hundred other people when they receive words the riots were spreading. she hadn't been able to make it back to her mother's in highland park she had come to ronnie's parents and sit with her daughter. together they watched the orange glow of the sky, 29 fires out of control that night in vietnam. is this what ronnie saw in vietnam, alan wondered? it looks similar to the news they watch in the states. they steered the black smoke as the smoke rose from the building casualties. the dark haze covered of detroit much more honestly than this mark of the -- spoke of the ford plant. alan wanted out of here, finish college and buy a nice house in a neighborhood where you didn't have to take your window shut to keep from the soot or don't worry if you get your car outside it wouldn't turn rusty from the fire negative. ford neighborhood lee on the wrong side of the few tracks and from the west where management left, it w

shoulder and-- >> host: doesn't this strike you as an absolute upside down allison wonder signed-- alice-in-wonderland craziness were an entity on talk radio which is very far to the left base for by taxpayer dollars that they would essentially be protected from this kind of imposition of fairness and whenever euphemism they want to stifle free speech? >> guest: our dear friend alan colmes neal that. he says we have to be careful for what we ask and he is absolutely true, and right because it would impact national public radio potentially and all other liberal media potentially. let's face it, again they have control over most mainstream media. their thoughts permeate most mainstream media so i think they are on slippery, slippery slope and then nice big time. >> host: you mention president obama and he has got a little bit of a track record in talking about these issues and certainly he is a smart politician to the extent he will put people in place it will do the heavy lifting in the dirty work for him so he can look like good cop as opposed to say john podesta or the head of the fcc who will be the

i'm alice dunston and i've been a member of st. paul for three years. i just want to say that i want to thank dog for his blessings in giving you and your mother the big worry because i assume you feel that you have the three. and i want to thank them for giving you the desire to share your story with us. because looking at you and seeing where you were at such a success story, no one would have ever thought it. so i want to thank you for the courage. and i also want to say this is exactly what our pastor who doesn't like to be praised is trying to do for us, to help us to see that his mission is for us to really give to someone else, to share what we have with others and do our best to be those good people who otherwise wouldn't be good to you. [applause] >> thank you so much. other questions? yes, ma'am? >> my name is filling. i am just full of admiration for you. my question is, after the completion of the book, what is your hope that you would bring about or cause an improvement in the quality of life of our young men who feel helpless, hopeless, an

always looking for my name and i would kind of get down alexandra, i would come back and there was alice, it was never there and that somehow it to me you're really not supposed to be here so it always made me feel a little bit on the outside which also let me to want to be a civil rights lawyer but eventually i learned about the outside story of basically african-american people and i found my america there in many ways. parts of that receipt dated with me. everyone has their own journey. okay. that's good. do you need to say some closing -- thank you, everybody. [applause] >> alia malek is a former justice the permissible rights attorney and a contributor to the colu and the new york times. for more information on the author, you can go to aliamalek.com. >>> too good to be true is the name of the book by erin arvedlund the rise and fall of ferdinand off. what is too good to be true? >> everything about bernie madoff was good to be true. the returns, the consistency of the returns and the fact that nobody seemed to be knowing how he was investing the money. so all in all it turned out t

[applause] alice huffman, president of the california naacp, [applause] speaker hertzberg, right over here. [applause] also hone assie community college chancellor jack scott, big hand to him also. and then we have a very, very special guest here sara granda, who overcame great obstacles to pass her bar exam and become an attorney. let's give her a special, big, big hand for the great work that she has been doing. [applause] i want to begin with a true story from which we can draw a worthwhile lesson. as you might guess, the schwarzenegger household is something of a menagerie: an austrian bodybuilder, a tv journalist, four children, a dog, the normal goldfish and hamsters and so forth. and in recent years we added a miniature pony and a pot-bellied pig. it's not unusual for me to look up from working on the budget or something to find a pig and a pony >> standing right there in front of me and staring me. now, the dog's food, which we keep in a canister with a screw-on lid, sits on the top of the dog's kennel. the pony has learned to knock the canister off the top of the kennel, and

alice speaks.y to the board in past board members we casually invited you today and it is wonderful that you have come. we will have another meeting shortly. it is my privilege to introduce my partner in this venture. doctor? >> i share the senator's fervor that we are engaged in important enterprise. i think the biggest threat to the united states economy as we look ahead is this trajectory that we are are, this unsustainable trajectory of rising debt. i also think the greatest threat to our political system is the strident partisanship which has developed in the last few years, both parties thinking they have the only answer and less and less communication between them. so, we are here to try to do our bit to bring people from both sides of the spectrum together to face this issue. we do not have illusions that it is easy. it would have been done all long time ago. the problems to be solved are very difficult and will cause real pain. raising taxes causes will pay. cutting spending, especially en

she set up her new down the street further to alice mayfield was an editor at time in massachusetts.we got halfway there a preservative page and often interrupts the spirit she is very impatient and just said yes, yes i've always wanted to do the book and i've always wanted to call it the wise men. and that's how we wrote her first book when we're in our early twenties and it was a book about the wise men of the american political establishment. particularly interesting because matt bundy, who we interviewed and i have a sketch of him in the thought that someone was far too smart. if you then have to smart and twice as wide as he would've been a great man. he was a little bit too smart. but matt bundy said, there's no such thing as the establishment. we went down to the archives at the lyndon johnston library and there was this wonderful memo from matt bundy that we started about by saying there's no such thing as the establishment, bundy says and make this argument and then there's this memo that wendy had written called backing from the establishment. it was a memo to johnson about

. >> guest: you had the easy times, alice. >> host: absolutely. [laughter] so i think we are out of time. >> guest: thank you. it's been a pleasure. .. not only for the amazing resources, that goes without saying that for the amazing people. as i said with my book this is a place the historical society, were uncommon generosity is a counter virtue and i am immensely grateful to the staff of the papers and the massachusetts historical society and in particular conrad wright, the research director and especially in particular maggie hogan to, without whom there was no way i could have possibly written a book. if you find in the mistakes in the book maggie will be available after the top. [laughter] one of the fun question sets everybody writing a biography of abigail adams gets to and has to confront is how lucien how are other women affected by the american revolution? many of you know that john adams was gone for most of that decade that overlapped the american revolution from 1774 to 1784 and during that decade he put abigail in charge, not only

changes and i would get to my name and i would get down to alexandera, okay, come back up there was alice. there was no alia. it was never there. you're really not supposed to be here and that kind of always made me feel on the outside which also led me to want to be a civil rights lawyer but eventually i learned about the outside, you know, story of basically african-american people and i found my america there in many ways. parts of it. the narrative resonated with me. everyone has their own journey. okay. that's good. do you need to say some closing -- i don't know. thank you everybody. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> alia malek is a former justice department civil rights attorney and contributor to the columbia journalism review and the "new york times." for more information on the author, you can go to alia malek.com. >> long time journalist steve roberts and professor of media and public affairs at george washington university has just written a new book called "from every end of the earth." steve you want to tell us about one of these families that you followed. >> well, one

tim ferris and ambrose are two of the authors that my editor, alice mayhue, at simon and schuster, has nurtured along, and so that was her choice. c-span: who's in this picture right here? >> guest: that's a very famous photograph that was taken in berkeley, and that is when the group of physicists were meeting at lawrence and loomis's request, to discuss the financing of the big atom smasher. c-span: alfred loomis, all the way to the right. your grandfather in the middle, james conant? >> guest: james conant is the one with his hands up in the middle. loomis is on the far-right. let's see if i can -- then there's vannevar bush, who's in the middle there under the blackboard. c-span: with the glasses. >> guest: ernest lawrence is all the way on the far-left. i believe you have karl compton, sitting right next to loomis, and arthur compton is next to lawrence. and it was, i think, taken by john (unintelligible). c-span: when you hear the name ernest lawrence, is that the lawrence livermore laboratory? >> guest: yes, it is. c-span: and located where? >> guest: that's located in californi

he'll discuss his book in fed we trust, with alice rivland, resee chairman and first director of the budget office. >> anthony pitch, author of seven books, including "the born of burning of washington" has a few book out "they have killed papa dead, the road to ford's theater, abraha abraham lincolns murder." >> i spent nine years researching. i have he tons of new information. the big of the thing i found was lincoln was going from the old senate chamber in the capital, having witnessed the inauguration of his vice-president. he went to the rotunda, a man burst from the crowd a few feet behind him and the commissioner of public buildings seized him. the man insisted on his right to be there and the man seizing him said maybe as a new congressman, i don't know, release him. lincoln was inaugurated unaware of this. six weeks later, lingual on was shot. this man seized him, wrote to a relative, i found the letter, and said, that was the face of the man i restrained. it was john wilkes booth. >> you can find that photo online now, the photo of booth? >> oh, yes. plenty. >> you talk als

the defeats in disengagement can be even more expensive and i think alice painful and expensive house our engagement is, increasingly less so in iraq because we helped bring that country to a better place but certainly in afghanistan the cost of disengagement would be far higher. >> host: dearborn heights michigan joe of the independent plan. >> caller: good morning. hell are you? >> guest: doing well. >> caller: three good. thank you for your service. i have a question may be so much as a comedy and would like your opinion. i've been looking at a map of the questions in iraq, saudi arabia, afghanistan, and pakistan. with the strategic intervention of iraq and with saudi arabia being i'm assuming an ally to speak with our strategy and intervention in afghanistan and pakistan be setting up for lack of a better word hour chessboard for overall objective being iran could we comment that? >> guest: you're absolutely right to look at a map americans are truly great people but we have our challenges and limitations one of them is on geography so good time for all of us to take a look at the

you can see that alice has bite -- alloys have spiked up clearly in the past couple of years, now attheir highest -- relative to gdp projected to fall back but to remain well above their average denoted by that horizontal -- line. revenues have fallen sharply, the lowest share of gdp seen in many decades and are projected to rise again. again this is under current law which assumes the expiration of the tax cuts. under the akerlof revenues move up above another why this historical level however if all of the tax provisions that are set to expire under current law were allowed to expire, that's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts extension of this before and also ascension of other expiring provisions, that revenues would remain below the historical average three of the tenure projection. it would be inching up close to it at the end of the 10 years. and i think it is a third pitcher which is the picture of the unemployment rate outlook. which i am not sure where that -- that picture. you can see the very sharp rise in the last several years and the decline. on this bridge to the decline it looks

[applause] >> and then alice, president of the california naacp. [applause] >> then speaker hertzberg, vice president right over here. [applause] >> and also we have chancellor jack scott, community college chancellor, big hand to him also. [applause] >> and then we have a very, very, very special guest here, sierra grantor, who overcame great obstacles who became an attorney. let's give a special big, big hand. [applause] >> now i want to begin with a true story from which we can draw one lesson. as you may guess, the schwarzenegger household is something of, often bodybuilder, a tv journalist, four children, a daughter a hamster, and so forth. in recent years we added a miniature pony and a pot bellied pig. that's not unusual for me to look up from work on the budget or something and to find the pig in the pony standing right in front of me and staring at me. [laughter] >> now, the dog food which we keep in the canister, with a screwed on lead, sits on top of the dogs canister. the pony has learned how to knock it off and then he and the pig push

he's discussion with alice, the congress no, ma'am budget office.this weekend on c-span two. >> i'm always concerned about the potential unforeseen consequences, unintended consequences. regulations of any kind act as a tax. and when you tax or regulate something, you tend to get less of it. you tend to diminish it. >> this weekend on the communicators, republican robert mcdowell on efforts to create a national broadband plan, net neutrality, and the wireless industry. saturday on c-span. >> now available c-span's book, abram ha lincoln, great americans historians on our 16th president. from 56 scholars, journalist, and writers from his early years, to his life in the white house, and his relevance to today. now in digital audio to listen to any time. available where digital audio downloads are store. >> now a look at u.s. social safety net services. yet scholars from the world bank, brookings institution, talked about a new book on how to improve the work force and federal poverty programs. this is an hour and a half hosted by urban institute. >> i

. >> my name is alice day. i'm a filmmaker.2008 we finished a film -- a documentary film on the environmental consequences of war. we certainly looked at the vietnam situation. but right now i'd like to think about the implications of this for what's going on now and in the future. you touched on this briefly. but we were interested in depleted uranium. we wanted to have something on that in the film and we were told by people we talked with that there was absolutely no empirical evidence available to put a case for looking at this into the film. but in terms of the science we gathered, the tests for this were not really being conducted in a way that would give science a chance to say something about this. and i think just from a point of view of the future and preventing some of these things that this needs to be considered. >> so i think clay probably could best address that. >> sure. yes. depleted uranium is an issue that comes up a lot. is also an incredibly popular munition or element in munitions mostly tank shells and ar

good morning, alice. republican line. caller: i know everybody is out raised about these bonuses, but why aren't they outraged for bonuses for freddie mac and fannie mae? they are getting large bonuses, too. and they are giving them more money. i just don't understand the reasoning. host: i think we did address that as a "washington journal" issue when that came up a mo thank you. host: "los angeles times," harry reid's remarks threatened to change his game. from the politico -- reid holds his ground. georgette, and we go to the georgia -- georgia, we go to ray. caller: corporate profits are created by capital and labor. everybody would be upset if we took profits of capital and gave it to workers. but it is equally wrong to take the profits created by labor and give them to the capitalists. what we need is a national profit sharing program where corporate profits created by capital are paid to the stockholders and corporate profits created by labor are paid to the workers. right now the bonuses are paid to the -- bonuses

how are and alice -- our analyst process and integrate the intelligence they receive. my director of national intelligence will take the lead. my intelligence advisory board will examine the longer-term challenge of sifting through vast universes' of intelligence and data in our information age. finally, i am ordering an immediate effort to strengthen the criteria used to add individuals to our terrorist watch list, especially the no- fly list. we must do better in keeping dangerous people off airplanes while facilitating air travel. taken together, these reforms will improve the intelligence communities ability to collect, share, analyze and act on intelligence swiftly and effectively. in short, they will help our intelligence community do its job better and protect american lives. but even the best intelligence cannot identify in advance every individual who would do us harm. so we need to add the security at our airports, ports and borders and through our partnerships with other nations to prevent terrorists from entering america. at the amsterdam airport, abdul mut

to meet this is outrageous, a kind of alice in wonderland in turning the world on a sense -- in turningcommon sense on its head. i urge the authorities to turn abdulmutallab where he can be held as a prisoner of war, which he is, acknowledging with some certainty and gratitude that this means he will be held and given rights far in excess of what the geneva convention requires enemy combatants or prisoners of war be given. we will stay on top of this to make sure this mistake, the failure to consult with -- to decide how to handle abdulmutallab and the decision to turn him over to the civilian courts is ever made again. i do believe our intelligence gathering analysis remarkably improved since the attack of 9/11. the sharing of intelligence is vastly improved. this is due in part to the judgment with us today. shares of the -- shares of thcsf the 9/11 commission. driving the changes that make the american people more secure today than they were during 9/11. that leads us in part to refer to the act i just referred to as the 9/11 commission act. it sounds a lot better above saying the ac

[applause] alice hoffman, president of the california naacp. [applause] the speaker -- [applause] will also have chancellor jack scott, our community college chancellor. a big hand to him also. thank you for your great work. [applause] then we have a very, very special guest -- someone who overcame great obstacle to pass a bar exam and become an attorney. let's give a special big hand to the great work she has been doing. [applause] i want to begin with a true story from which we can draw it worthwhile lesson. as you may guess, the schwarzenegger household is something of a menagerie. an austrian bodybuilder, a tv journalist, for children, a dog, a goldfish, hamster and so forth. in recent years, we added a miniature pony and potbellied pig. it's not unusual for me to look up from working on a budget on something and find the page and pony standing right there in front of me staring at me. [laughter] the dog food, which we keep in a canister with a screwed on lead sits on top of the dog kennel. the pony has learned how to talk a -- to knock the

he will discuss his book with alice rivlin, former federal reserve vice chair.rtment said that a number of visas had been revoked following the christmas day bombing attempt on flight to madrid 53. the spokesman discusses this and other security efforts for about 45 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome to the department of state. happy new year to you all. a few announcements before taking your questions. the united states embassy in yemen reopen today for business following the twa -- the two-day closure pointing to the likelihood of terrorist attacks in the yemeni capital. it is offering its full range of consular services as usual today. we know that there was some action by the government of yemen security forces yesterday north of the capital. those actions addressed a specific area of concern. the contrary to the embassies decision to resume operations today. -- they contributed to the embassy's decision to resume operations today. it has been subject to attacks in the past. we know that the world food program has suspended its operations in southern som

alice, did you have a question? dor>> jfk and barack obama stard i and the white house the day that they were elected. >> i know what to be disrespectful but i have had no sleep right now. i am not even been down to washington yet. i do not want to say that that is a silly question, but i am just so thankful for the support that i have received from everybody for it last night when i stated shook everybody's hands who are sweating and pushing -- those of the people i want to go down there and represent and to think about something higher, i am just happy to be in this position. if you would have told me growing up that a guy whose mom was on welfare and parents had marital troubles, and i had some issues growing up, a guy from rent them would be here standing before you right now and going to washington, d.c., are you kidding that? i know that you have jobs to do. and i have a life and i respect those jobs. but it is not only overwhelming, it is so -- i cannot tell you how proud i am to be here standing before you a

he will discuss it with alice rivlin, first director of the congressional budget office. >> the new c-spanideo library is a digital archive of c-span's programming, from barack obama to ronald reagan and everyone in between. over 157,000 hours of c-span video now available to you. it is fast and free. try it out at c-spanvideo.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from allan meltzer, professor and export -- expert on the federal reserve and he has written three books on the federal reserve. the front-page story in "the new york times" this morning is -- host: before you answer that question, was the federal reserve set up in the first place to recognize baubles and our economy? guest: not at all. it was set up back in 1913 by president woodrow wilson under the gold standard, so there weren't very many possibilities of bubbles and you could not do much about them anyway. it was a very passive institution when it was set up and set up on a program that president wilson did. the big argument was not whether we would have a federal reserve but the question was then and many

to meet this is outrageous, a kind of alice in wonderland in turning the world on a sense -- in turning common sense on its head. i urge the authorities to turn abdulmutallab where he can be held as a prisoner of war, which he is, acknowledging with some certainty and gratitude that this means he will be held and given rights far in excess of what the geneva convention requires enemy combatants or prisoners of war be given. we will stay on top of this to make sure this mistake, the failure to consult with -- to decide how to handle abdulmutallab and the decision to turn him over to the civilian courts is ever made again. i do believe our intelligence gathering analysis remarkably improved since the attack of 9/11. the sharing of intelligence is vastly improved. this is due in part to the judgment with us today. shares of the -- shares of thcsf the 9/11 commission. driving the changes that make the american people more secure today than they were during 9/11. that leads us in part to refer to the act i just referred to as the 9/11 commission act. it sounds a lot better above saying the a

i will point out that david wessel will be interviewed by alice rivlin talking about the fed. that will be on book tv this week and did you can watch it all live online at a booktv.org. enjoy your weekend. thanks for being with us. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . >> just after 10:00 a.m. we plan to bring you a discussion on afghanistan's election. we will record that program at the u.s. institute of peace and show it to you later. negotiations are underway on a health-care bill on capitol hill. if the house and senate proposed a different ways to increase access to health insurance. the alliance for health reform will hold a discussion of the insurance exchanges. we will have live coverage on c- span. hillary clinton will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the un agreement on global reproductive health policy. 180 nations agreed to reduce infant mortality. see her comments today on c- span2. >> [unintelligible] it offered an explanation for something that had been baffling westerners in pa

alice rivlin, bob reischauer and douglas aiken in different ways have mentioned their support for thatapproach. i think it is fair to say grudging support. douglas walz said he had come to that process of elimination because other things seemed to not be getting the job done. but analysis that have been done of the effects of various commissions and budget rules and other process, changes in budget process showed that sometimes they work and sometimes they don't and that depends partly on whether the change in process is trying to enforce its position that is widely held or whether it was trying to impose something against the views of most people involved in the process so the sense of most people in the number of previous co detectors testified to this effect is that the paygo rules and the discretionary spending caps in the 1990's did help to restrain the policies the would have made the deficit worse. during the period most policy makers were very concerned about budget deficits when that concern waned lead in the 90's than those process constraints were generally ignored. moreover