more external pressure allowing them to delay their decision. >> michael rubin of the american enterprise institute, brian katulis, at the centre for american progress, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> still to come on the newshour, >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour, the oil spill seen from a ship at the center of the containment efforts; secretary sebelius on health care reform; the deadly floods in northwest pakistan; and a son writes about his famous father. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: six children died in a suicide car bombing in southern afghanistan today. they were in a market area when the bomb went off. it happened in a district west of kandahar city. the target appeared to be a police truck carrying an afghan official. he escaped unharmed. president obama today acknowledged "huge challenges" remain in afghanistan, but he said there has been progress. on sunday, the netherlands became the first "nato" country to withdraw troops from afghanistan. 1,900 dutch soldiers began leaving yesterday. wall s

alex pollock of the american enterprise institute thinks private companies should back most home loans. >> this private secondary market should handle the loans for the middle class and upper middle class mortgages, which are the vast majority of the market. >> reporter: n.y.u. professor ingrid gould ellen says the government should limit the scope of its guarantees and make them explicit. >> the government should place limits on the types of loans that should go into the guaranteed securities, and it might limit mortgages than can go into the securities to plain vanilla-- the safest, most easily understood. >> reporter: but, pimco's bill gross warns, reducing government's role comes with its own risks. >> we need the government balance sheet, and to suggest that the private market can come back in and take the place and do the same thing it's been doing for the last 20 to 30 years is simply impractical. it won't work. >> reporter: policymakers also heard that we're not getting our money's worth out of the billions spent subsidizing housing. michael stegman of the macarthur foundation

i love to go to the american enterprise institute a think tank like a university without students. it has a lot of the benefits of college professorship without all the papers to grade. >> what about the end of tenure. we're now more than half just about 30% of professors tenured, do you see in this century a complete end to tenure, period? >> i'm sorry to say that i do think it's slipping away. just going to become an obsolete institution. >> still some good reasons for it. it was kind of a gu lirksd to, train scholars. if you are a person with a phd typically you're very intelligent you can make money at other fields. this is a field that offered security. without that i think going to lose a lot of very talented people. >> all right from, college to the world of work. men and women can achieve nearly identical career success, as long as women don't have children. this according to a recent economic study, which finds child-free women earn more than working mothers. the study surveyed top mba graduates. it found in the years following graduation, men and women worked the same hou

and thomas donnelly, director of defense studies at the american enterprise institute. welcome, gentlemen, to you both. mr. wheeler, beginning with you. what is secretary gates trying to accomplish here? >> he's announcing a continuum of decisions to try to internally transfer money inside the pentagon from overhead to force structure. it's important not to get too hyper ventilated about what's going on here. the department of defense is at the highest ever spending level since the end of world war ii , and since secretary of defense rumsfeld on september 10, 2001, complained that 50% of the pentagon budget was overhead, it's grown since then. the steps that secretary gates has announced are very welcome. they're the right thing to do. but they're only a modest step in the right direction. they don't address at all the situation of the department of defense budget and our overall federal spending plan where if we're going to get anything under control, the defense budget has to be a part of the spending going south not going north as secretary gates would like to do at

. >> lehrer: alex pollock is with the conservative think tank, american enterprise institute >> we need a private secondary market for the bulk of mortgage loans. we should have no g.s.e.s-- frannie and freddie should no longer be g.s.e.s. you can either, in my view, be a private company or a government agency-- one or the other, but not both. >> lehrer: in the meantime, fannie and freddie continue doing business. they bought or guaranteed nearly three-quarters of all u.s. home loans last year. we get two views now: william poole was president of the federal reserve bank of st. louis from 1998 to 2008. he's a scholar in residence at the university of delaware, and a senior fellow at the cato institute, a libertarian think tank. john taylor is the president and c.e.o. of the national community reinvestment coalition, focusing on housing in traditionally under-served communities. he has served on housing advisory boards for fannie and freddie. mr. poole, now, you believe that it's time to phase out fannie may and freddie mac, correct? why? >> absolutely. there seems to be general agreemen

the american enterprise institute hosts a discussion on the fiscal condition of social security and medicare. we'll hear about a government report released yesterday that cited an improved outlook for medicare and a slightly less positive picture for social security. we have it live on c-span3 starting at 9:15 a.m. eastern. and the joint economic committee meets today to hear testimony from keith hall, the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, on unemployment numbers for july and national employment trends. caroline mull ownee of new york chairs the committee. it's live on c-span2 starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern. >> "washington journal" continues. host: edmund andrews, senior washington correspondent for "the fiscal times," new unemployment numbers. here it is, the associated press is reporting private employers added 71,000 jobs in july. unemployment rate unchanged at 9.5%. interpret that for us. guest: disappointment. disappointment. perhaps not too much of a surprise, but anything under 100,000 jobs is going to be sort of a discouraging sign that we're not going to be doing much t

i gave a speech last thursday at the american enterprise institute in which i basically outlined the we are not engaged in a war on terrorism. we are in a war with the radical islamist who want to impose on the united states. we are building an entire package of materials. you can go back to campus this fall and raise the following questions. see how the canvas handles this conversation. a man was brought into court in new jersey and his wife was trying to get a restraining order. on the grounds that he had been torturing her for several hours of it -- at a time and then raping her. the judge found that the man was not guilty on the grounds that he believed it was his right to do anything to is wife that he wanted to and he was the judge to impose his views. i am not making this ought. he gets overruled by the appeals court. you can read the appeals court description of what he was doing to his wife that the local judge found acceptable. we had another case in minnesota, a class in which there was a student who was blind who was coming to class with a seeing eye dog. several students

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