please join me in welcoming alissa quart and barbara - -. [applause] >> i am barbara and i thought i would spend - - start by introducing alyssa. start with how i came to know her. i started something called the economic hardship reporting project which is this. >> there's more for people up here if they're interested. >> this is like five years ago. six, oh my gosh. before alyssa came along, we were floundering. in many ways. i take a lot of the blame. i'm not able to manage or figure out projects. i just like articles and essays and things like that. >> what are you trying to do with the - -? >> the idea was, we would raise money so that we could pay low income people, journalist generally. there's no shortage of low income journalists. because nobody else is paying us anymore. i don't know if i should mention the atlantic.com. >> according to cdr there's been a 50 percent contraction of newsroom since 2005 so that's a lot of jobs lost. using a lot of people that needed help.>> but also who will turn in a 2-3000 piece to some well-known on

credited with saving a teenage girl after she was kidnapped and sold to a sex trafficker, reporter alissa becerra is in sacramento with this story. >> i was kidnapped and held captive and abused and stuff. >> reporter: 16-year-old crystal said she might not be standing here today if it were not for the heroics of postal carrier, yvonne. >> it was an adrenaline rush. i felt like i was being saved. >> reporter: in fact, she was saved by a postal carrier, her story could've been ripped from the pages of a crime novel, the terror in this story is very real, unfortunately. crystal's mother stacy says her daughter was lured to sacramento by someone she thought was a friend. she found herself trapped in a world of drugs and sex trafficking. in this oak park neighborhood crystal sought an opportunity to escape, she was in the car with captors when she heard them discussing a crime. she jumped out of the car, grabbed one of their phones and ran for her life. >> i heard crying when i came out of the vehicle, i approached her and asked if she was afraid, she did not want to talk. >> reporter: she wa

i guess this will be the last question i have before i let you all loose on alissa. there was an article in the new york times just a couple days ago suggesting that some of the kinds of frustrations and discontent that went into the trump phenomenon and his election might also account for the election of alexandria ocasio-cortez. if that is true, that is very interesting. it's an interesting way to begin to look at something. do you see some chances for alliance across that gap? that political gap. >> yeah, i hope so. i'm happy to be a small pebble. i'm hoping that's what my book will be useful for. that's one of the things i'm hoping people wereout there for policy people can take it places that i as a journalism or author chance. that's my hope. >> does anybody want to come up? choose a microphone and ask a question. it doesn't have to be a question. it can be an answer. [chuckle] >> thank you for coming. in the federal reserve, we've had so much quantitative easing which is printing money. has that helped us, the local people? i feel that we are just spinning our

. >> at a bookstore in washington d.c., author alissa quart discussed her new book, "squeezed". why our families can't afford america. she was interviewed by barbara - -. this is just under an hour. >> good evening everybody, welcome to politics and prose. please silencer cell phones and other devices. we are audio recording and video recording this event so we prefer no interruptions.

that is based on on pressure from the united states but the reason we've seen such a high spike in alissa production of marijuana illicit production of coca which is the raw material for the production of cocaine is that it is the foreign peace deal three years ago. it gave rise to to these other group. whether they'd be dissenters from the far corner or new armed groups that are trying to fight over control of the territory where these illicit crops are being held so this is one of the big challenges facing the incoming in his administration the other of course is the question of venezuela we know for instance the president has said that he's not going to be appointing an ambassador to venezuela signaling that the diplomatic relations between the two countries are practically non existent and we're seeing an influx of everywhere anywhere from a thousand to two thousand venezuelan refugees coming into colombia almost on a daily basis so there is a whole slew of issues that are going to be front and center for president coming into his administration and manuel to other high expectations i

journalist, and mom, alissa walker is one of a small group of beta testers for an app called "quake alert"" >> i've gotten a few where it said don't expect shaking and i did feel some weak shaking so it doesn't always know where you are, but the fact that i'm getting alerts and have at least a few seconds to figure out what to do makes a big difference. >> reporter: entrepreneur josh bashioum partnered with the u.s.g.s. to create the app andha automateware. when triggered, this device leopens elevator doors ands residents over an intercom in a marina del-ray high rise condo. bashioum is making money on the hardware, but he says the app will be free when its launched and there are more than 100,000 on a waitlist. >> t mobile application can support millions of people. really the bottleneck is the ish notifications. we have challengn relation to sending out, you know, a million push notifications for residents in los angeles. >> reporter: but what about an emergency notification, like an amber alert used when a child is missing?g. u.s bob degroot, who works with the shakealert technicals te

there is a statue honoring him in kurdistan. , alissa rubin. the new york times correspondent , pull a surprise winner. i urge you to read her article. incident.s this mention masoud, who shortly after the first wave of the forces, stop the attack of isis came to paris. i asked what is the most difficult thing you are facing right now. he paused and said preventing young people from seeking revenge. this is consequential. it is not a casual remark. , 8000 suffered deeply kinsman kinswoman disappeared. mentioned, the first american to die fighting isis. actually he went beyond the mandate of his mission and gave his life for this honorable cause. , tens ofntion thousands of iraqi soldiers and volunteers who gave their lives, most of them, they actually came from all parts of iraq and curtis stan with the regular army or counterterrorism service, volunteers. most of the victims came from the south and gave their lives to defeat isis militarily. isis is defeated militarily but it is still a threat. it is still dangerous. the example you mentioned

then we will hear about the economic pressures that american families face from alissa quart and later eric puzder argues that a truly market leads to prosperity and cooperation in his book radical markets, book tv is tonight on c-span2 starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> sunday night on q&a. >> what must that sound like? [crying] >> we -- what we are hearing are the cries of immigrant children who had just been separated from their parent in a border patrol detention facility and it was audio that i obtained a month and a half ago or so through -- with the help of a lawyer, civil rights attorney on the border named jennifer and she had obtained the tape and thought it was important and shared it with me and asked what i thought about it and i told her that i thought we should try to publish it. it was -- it wasn't an easy decision for the source of that tape who felt that, you know, the tape could put them at risk for being identified and fired but the source ultimately agreed to allow me to publish the audio. >> thompson talks about covering mÉxico and u.s. government's immigration pol

for control of these territories all of that is sort of opened the gates for the sharp increase in alissa production of cocoa which is the raw ingredients in the production of cocaine another major challenge for president is going to be mediating that crisis that's going on that ongoing crisis in venezuela and the influx of thousands of venezuelan refugees that are coming into colombia on a near daily basis and and then trying to figure out what the diplomatic relationship with with venezuela is going to be we know for example that president who has not has decided not to appoint an ambassador to venezuela signaling that the relationship between the two countries is practically nonexistent one of the other challenges the new president faces of course is bridging that political and ideological divide that occurs here in colombia but the mood today during a digression is festive i think people here in colombia are optimistic tense but optimistic. the diplomatic dispute between saudi arabia and canada over human rights is deepening on monday saudi arabia froze all new business with canada as