has outgrown the analog act. 30 years ago when thinge act wa passed by congress there are fewer analog users and few traffickers that exist today. the trafficking networks that existed in 1986 were significantly less so fiphisticd than the transnational criminal networks currently operating. we will continue do everything we can working with the tools you generously have given us to bring these substances under control and protect public, but we are many steps behind the traffickers and need your help. in the short term, this esteemed body could provide d.e.a. and law enforcement partners throughout the country immediate relief by placing the hundreds of substances we determined to be dangerous into schedule 1. this would allow us to keep these synthetic drugs out of the country, get them off the shelves of retail stores and bring to justice not the user population but egregious, domestic and foreign traffickers preying on our youth, exposing human frailty for profit and floods our country with these dangerous drugs. in the long term, we could welcome amendments to the controlled subst

but the sheer difficulty not to have an analog of civilian life. if you look back at earlier periods of military history even back to world war ii you don't see those types of arguments more important it is used to the debate the benefits of military personnel and their families >> fascinating. >> ivan independent scholar. following up on a question i am wondering if you could make the argument the senator levin countered danger but the other part is analogous to this geography of the welfare state and those are two types of expenditures that both service members in the intelligence committee get all sorts of tax breaks and that is another way welfare is being provided. >> is a very important point with the ps2 to observation. i can't remember that a regional real that they showed the various benefits but absolutely it is an important component. but i would go back a little bit your first comment reminded me of there were other professions it reminded me of the work of the '70s and why we talk about the spanish -- but it's especially not comparable

however, today's crisis has outgrown the analog act. when the act was passed by congress, there were far fewer and trafficking networks. the networks in 1986 were significantly less sophisticated than the criminal networks currently operating. dowill continue to everything we can, working with the tools you have given us to bring the substances over -- under control and protect the public. however, we are many steps behind and need your help. in the short term, this body could provide dea and our law enforcement partners throughout the country with immediate relief by placing the hundreds of substances we have determined to be dangerous in to schedule one. keepwould allow us to these drugs out of the country, off the shelves of retail stores, and bring to justice the agree just a mistaken for an -- for ans traffickers preying on our youth and flooding the country with these dangerous drugs. would long term, we welcome commitment to the controlled substances analog act , and perhaps other tools that would allow us to more quickly bring t

some derivatives and analogs analogs of clinton now are manufactured in china and shipped to the united states. drug traffickers and associated profiteers are continuously developing new ways to exploit the american market. evidence of new opioid drugs some more powerful than fentanyl are turning up on the american street corners. for example a synthetic opioid potentially 100 times more powerful than fentanyl which line for smith called the next deadly synthetic street drug. we are under siege. it's time for congress to act in this hearing represents a great first step or they think the witnesses for their testimony look forward to their response to our questions. >> i thank the chair and without without objection members opening statements will be made part of the record. i recognize chairman goodlatte for five minutes, i'm sorry. we have a various distinguished panel today. i will begin by swearing in our witnesses before excusing them. if you'd all please rise. raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give us the truth the whole whole truth of nothing

some derivatives and analogs analogs of clinton now are manufactured in china and shipped to the united states. drug traffickers and associated profiteers are continuously developing new ways to exploit the american market. evidence of new opioid drugs some more powerful than fentanyl are turning up on the american street corners. for example a synthetic opioid potentially 100 times more powerful than fentanyl which line for smith called the next deadly synthetic street drug. we are under siege. it's time for congress to act in this hearing represents a great first step or they think the witnesses for their testimony look forward to their response to our questions. >> i thank the chair and without without objection members opening statements will be made part of the record. i recognize chairman goodlatte for five minutes, i'm sorry. we have a various distinguished panel today. i will begin by swearing in our witnesses before excusing them. if you'd all please rise. raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give us the truth the whole whole truth of nothing

the other part i'm wondering the tax analogous to aspect of the welfare state. those service members and members of the intelligence community get all kinds of tax breaks by virtue of their employment and that is now also --ther way prof. mittelstadt: the latter point is an astute observation and an important point. i cannot remember their original will that i showed you that show benefits thatx absolutely it's an important component of the benefits of military service. i would go back a little bit, because your first comment reminded me of something, which was whether or not there are other professions that had this concept a special sacrifice. the work thee of army and the military did in the 1970's and trying to think about why they can talk about the event as special and non-comparable. there was a brief time in which the defense department in one of its quadrennial reviews considered whether or not to talk about firefighters as a kind of analogous group in american society. it came up both with unionization and benefits. after all, it's quite a dangerous jo

he's fantastic, but i don't think the reagan analogy, i agree with john on this. reagan was consistent. the shot in the arm against jimmy carter's sluggishness. the problem, donald trump is not consistent. flip-flopping ought the time. >> true. >> on minimum wage, on trade plans, tax plans. that's concerns with a lot of conservatives. >> bill it is true. the tax plan first, came out with it. then said he may modify it. now he says he's going to stick with it. there is a lack of consistency there. >> i think trump is worse than inconsistent. he could poison the conservative movement and the supply side tax economics for which it stands. >> hold on a second. >> i think -- >> hold on one second. his tax plan as it is now, if he does stand by it, does reduce rates dramatically the way ronald reagan reduced rates. it has the essence of supply side tax cuts. >> the saysens of voodoo economics. there's no way he'd make those -- >> ah, you didn't believe in reagan, either? >> well, i believe in ronald reagan. i don't believe in this phony. >> the fact is, you look at rona

and at the time, ben carson was making all these abrupt pulses of holocaust analogies and so i told them about the places i thought he should go to in berlin to really understand what nazi and holocaust analogies were part of. so when it is relevant i bring up being jewish. it turns out you don't have to bring up being jewish to be attacked for being a jew. it actually would be wrong to suggest that it's something new and its ugly new phase of our society because in our experience which is now probably into its fourth decade in washington, people there has always been a small group of people who can only see through the lens of your religion or ethnicity, or gender. one of the things i really love is the people who e-mail me and they address me as ruthie, which first of all really pisses off my mother. second of all, it is always followed by something by something that is condescending, demeaning, nasty, and political nasty. there's i spent a group of people who many years ago will like they stick cut out the thing and write jew bench on the thing and mail it to usf okay that's who i am,

it's like i can't even come up with the sort of animal also in a cage analogy. but i think she has every prospect of really getting under his skin in some way in the debate and having him say something that is going to be splashed all over the news. of course, you know, maybe he has the prospect of getting under her skin. but she's done a lot more debates so, you know, sign me up. yes, go ahead. yes, your face did say a lot but the floor yours. >> the good old days. the silent movies. [ laughter ] i want to say something that's a little different. i think people formed judgment. you try to have an open heart and an open mind. i think everybody's trying to figure out how somebody seems to say things that are so outrageous can end up where they end up. but that's because it's been turned on its head. what i want to say is the reason that anybody thinks -- anybody thinks that donald trump could beat hillary clinton in a general election. i've been thinking about this. what is it? what happened? you know what it is? the clintons have lost their mojo. they're not gro

first, your response to bob mcdonald and his analogy. >> obviously, he said something very clumsy. entire conversation. i think wait times and wait times have caused lives and it is a silly comparison to disney but there is also a quality of care and that has been lagging as well. they are working on that. the entire thing has to get dealt with because the entire thing is a mess. >> you deal with ptsd in your book and tribes you have an interesting comparison. first, talk about what happens to our returning vets and the care they get. not just the care from va but the care from our society from the emotional experience they had. >> my book "tribe" is of the differences of the community. what happens from ptsd rates to suicide depression and the political situation we are in right now it affects all of that. israel, there is national service, something like a 1% in the u.s. military to around 20%. the thesis in "tribe" the level of long-term ptsd in the veterans population a, is in the function of the war. it is a function o f the fractured nature of the society that veterans come b

it's not a great analog necessarily, but the organization level is there. worker rubio is pretty decent as well. donald trump is the variable because of the republican party in 2008 and 2012 in terms of messaging, donald trump is that the 40,000-foot level. he's very punchy. concept soulman doesn't necessarily offer a detailed substance behind it, but talks about my commitment and i will do this and make this work. i'm going to win and make this great and people respond to that in the primaries. so it is interesting to see how that'll work out if donald trump is the nominee, does he switch to a ground game of the type that is described in go and read or does he try to stay at the 40,000-foot level or 30,000-foot level and see if he can bring in people through sheer messaging and celebrity status alone. an interesting test. >> host: ed morrissey's new book is called going red, howy . conservatives team within.on for thistv

i cannot even come up with the animals in a cage analogy. but i think she has every prospect of really getting under his skin, in some way, in the debate. and have him say something that is going to be splashed all over the news. of course, maybe he has the prospect of getting under her skin. but she has done more debates. sign me up. [laughter] >> your face does say a lot, but the floor is yours. peter: the good old days of silent movies. [laughter] something that is a little different, because look, i think people form judgment and you try to have an open heart and mind. i think everybody is trying to somebody that seems to say things that are so outrageous can end up where they end up. but that is because it has been turned on its head. when i want to say is, the reason anybody thinks donald trump can beat hillary clinton in the general election, i have been thinking about it. what happened? you know what it is, the clintons have lost their mojo. they are not groovy anymore. that was 20 years ago. when you look at it, i have high regard -

i don't know if that's -- that's a direct analogy but is that an accuse?ver may have been more secure than the government server so therefore it's okay? >> well, i don't think that's a fair analogy because it's important to point out there is nothing in the this report that suggests criminal behavior by hillary clinton. this is a political problem, not a legal problem, at least as far as this report goes but it's a real political problem. they set up this ridiculous system for her which was not in conformity with the rules of the state department. that much is clear. she broke the rules of the state department. that is not a criminal violation, that is not something that can get you indicted, but the report could not be clearer that she did not follow the rules. that is a political problem. it -- it compounds the political problem that these e-mails have presented for her for the whole time but you need to keep in the perspective. it's not a criminal offense and this does not really affect the much more important fbi investigation which presumably will com

drawingdrawing that analogy. she is part of a protected class. does she deserve it.ing to use that clearly very smart, capable. have a lot power behind her. >> you're too smart. now you all see why i love him. >> i think it is simpler. this gives us a chance to focus on record. state department, benghazi, egypt, all these problems, russia, lawyers. she made all the mistakes with the billing records, blah, blah. gives him a chance to focus on her record. >> when dealing with donald trump, a man, she says i have a lot of experience dealing with men. when asked about his rhetoric, she says i could care less about trump's rhetoric and what he says. your take? >> we should turn this issue to some of our finest american colleges and universities who are so politically hamstrung, by political correctness. why don't you sub second the phrase she used to that prism and one of the jokes she made with mayor because because. sandra: right. >> this humor culturally insensitive f not, listen, this was i had yo mat i can expression, people use this stuff all the time. that is fine.

making those analogies in their mind.t and saying it, it's kind of you know, right to the kisser. pow. now, on the other hand, nazi analogies make people queasy for a reason. calling somebody a nazi is usually a shortcut to losing an argument. there is nothing quite like a nazi. that's not actually a nazi. usually a bad analogy. still though, nice to remeet you, governor bill weld. that's kind of the wrapping of where i'm at, the wrapping of hello, nice to remeet you and also, nazi metaphor in the same bonbon, we're in that now. on an issue that has me genuinely confused. i'm not sure what to think. a question of whether or not the libertarian party might make a real run for it in 2016. i mean, if they are ever going to, 2016 feels like this might be the year. most people couldn't tell you who is on top of the libertarian ticket for 2016 now. but the fox news poll this week actually asked people if they would vote for gary johnson, libertarian for president, he polled 10% against donald trump and hillary clinton. nationwi

i draw the analogy to you here in our closing minutes to the u.s. energy picture and environmental stewardship. you know, ladies and gentlemen, we are the number one producer of oil and gas in the world right now. we clawed and scratched our way to the top. and by analogy, our minerals and mining and critical mineral industry can do the same thing. we can improve ourselves to the top of the heap because mining today is not like your grandfather's mining from years and years ago. it's responsibly done, environmentally sensitive. and i have seen some of these sites, so has dr. michaels. you know, people, these companies do not want bad press. when they mine or drill and produce resources. they want clean, nice, good media coverage for the good work they've tried to do. in summary, we need a better way to get a huge commitment to our industry just like they have given to us. and we want to start with improved federal stewardship. and i think what i'll do, ladies and gentlemen, is i'll leave it there, and we'll take, marc and i, any questions. and i tha

with analog in and miserable winter.beginning this summer holiday season with the palm trees give away. people realize the of holidays are coming. they want to replicate that. >> you may ask what is the catch? >> and i thought why not pick up that palm tree? i have these two guys gentleman behind me and i will put it in the back to bring it to the studio. >> do we have to plant the tree? >> we could figure that out together we are smart. it cannot be that hard. right? >> here is nigeria. -- my chariot. ♪ ♪ ♪ lot at the back of the truck. ♪ >> i don't like that. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it's perfect. it's perfect go to instagram >> i am all over it. >> i know if that is far enough south? they don't do that well did new york. it will be fine in the studio with we water that. >> in the orchids are almost dead. that is so little concerning >> it is like a charlie brown tree. [laughter] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the most part trenching version of girls want to have run as hundreds packed the stadium to remember three beautiful teenage girls whose lives was

up until now, doctors have been living in an analog world and it's incredibly painful and complicatede been living in this digital world where we understand scalable systems. the sequencing machines and all of that kind of stuff, so you can get proper personal medicine and really change things. that youa technology can reassemble and do gene editing. is transformative not just a little city but of the whole globe. that is how i found it is. it is a race. there is a similar one with ai and machine learning. that's one category. , the most interesting question to me is can you -- i will say it rhetorically -- can you solve climate change which i'm sorry to say is actually true? is true that carbon does lead to these things. there's some evidence the current relative lull in warming has actually slow down a little bit and will get worse pretty soon. i can go on and on about that. whether theing solutions are sufficient to solve this problem 100 years ,rom now and if they are not the most likely solution is nuclear. nuclear has a zillion problems. it has never been able to be driven by th

i focused particularly on areates, but phosphates analogous, but slightly less interesting. it was stumbled upon. trade att was urban cause people to think about fertilizer as a commercial commodity. and is it was liebig reductive chemistry. eventually people said, we know we need nitrogen, where can we find it? theory, thisus approach might not have made quite as much sense. does that answer the question? good question. south, they did not use a tremendous number of chilean nitrates. we will see some ads, european. they ended up shifting to a different source of fertilizer. this is a fish called the menhaden. it is like an anchovy, a very small fish. it is a plankton feeder. it exists in huge schools in the atlantic ocean. does anyone know what it is harvested for today, it is controversial? there is a company called omega that harvested these for fish oil, or supplements for human ingestion. menhaden came to replace wales as whales were increasingly extinct or hard to find as a major source of oil. . once at oil was pressed out of them, and they are fish that are not good

what they're doing is training analog advertising dollars for digital pennies and that is not a goodess. that results in its secular decline in circulation and advertising revenue. i don't think the market feels like there is a solution for the newspaper industry other than just battening down the hatches what the new york times has done. they have sold everything that's not nailed down and they will ride it out until they can develop their digital business. tribune is probably in the same ballpark but we have not seen any success stories to speak of where newspaper company's success would have been able to manage that transition. journal isreet probably for a but there are very few examples. next, we are up tracking apple's supply cycle. to recaptureough customer attention? ♪ shery: time for the bloomberg business flash. ares capital is buying american capital in a deal valued at $3.4 billion. aries is a public -- publicly traded lender. the deal does not include american capital mortgage management, is being sold separately for $562 million. general electric is taking part in diver

. >> the dog analogy sound pretty good.: never leave me to my own economic devices, professor brenberg. what can we expect from donald trump? >> the american people don't want to negotiate with their president. they just want to know where he stand. he threw minimum wage out there and now he's walking it back. help us make a decision. but he actually sound a lot like hillary clinton with his policies. >> if they are saying the same thing, people are going to go with her. but he's supposed to be the visionary who understands how to best grow businesses. i'm sorry, but as the wife of a small business owner, he doesn't sounds like that. >> his job is not to grow a small business it's to create the space for small business to grow. everything is a negotiation for him. you are not negotiating, you are creating space for businesses. consistent and clear, strong property rights and clarity for businesses and he's not doing that. kennedy: it's like training dogs. >> it's a perfect analogy, i couldn't have said it better myself. ken

the other part i'm wondering about is, again, analogous to the broader historyography of the welfare state, tax expenditures. both service members and members of the intelligence agency get all kinds of tax breaks by virtue of their employment. that is now another way in which sort of welfare is being provided to them. >> yeah. that latter point is a very important point and an astute observation. i can't remember if that original wheel that i showed you, that particular one showed the various tax benefits, but absolutely. that's an important component of the benefits of military service. i would just go back a little bit because your first comment reminded me of something, which was whether or not there were other professions which had this concept of special sacrifice, and it reminded me, too, of the work that the army did and the military did in general in the 1970s and trying to think about why they could talk about these benefits as special and noncomparable. there was a brief period in which the defense department as part of one of the quadriennial reviews considered whether or

. >> answar responds with an analogy from america. >> the christians that west borough baptist churchod hates home sexuals and as a result, they picket the burial ceremonies of american soldiers who die overseas. now christians in the united states also believe that home sexiality is a sin. so, they share that belief. but they would never share in those actions. by bill maher's logic, those two groups are essentially the same, because they share one fundamental belief. >> sam, a critic of islam, counters with his own american analogy. >> to have a play on broadway, like the book of mormon, it is unthinkable to produce such a play on the topic of islam. >> the hit broadway musical, lampoons the salt lake city based religion. >> what did they do? they took out ads for mormonism in the program, which is an adorable response. but there's no one who lost any sleep about whether they would be killed or hunted for the rest of their lives by crazy mormons. that is where we have to get to on the topic of islaislam. >> reporter: on this, i certainly agree with harris and yet there's another ide

. >> it was a bril yept only -- brilliant analogy. you say they will not have any influence, correct? >> probably not. the people who have influence are the people that have wardrobe malfunctions. >> exactly. we will talk about that later in the show. meanwhile, trump was dealing with nonliterary dissenters in albuquerque. >> isn't that nice? get him out of here. go home to mommy. he can't get a date so he is doing this instead. get out of here. ing still wearing diapers. >> later trump talked about hillary clinton's tone. >> i will never say, this but she screams and it drives me crazy. i didn't say it. >> he didn't say it it. trump continued. i didn't -- >> i didn't say. and she says and donald trump is a terrible person interest. >> some polls say trump is not doing well with women, but trump disagrees. >> i think i am doing really well with women, but what do i know? i want to set records with women and not with men. the hell with the men, right? the hell with the men! >> he believed it so strongly that it is now his campaign slog

he is drawing these analogs.iece by piece, brick by brick. 020, he has 30 years to figure out how to be president. john: the million things that donald trump wrote this year was broke the notion of the republican party. he was next in line, number two in 2012. not only did he did not get the guynation, is ted cruz the who will be looked to by the republican party if donald trump fails as the inheritor, or will people be like let's move on to something else? >> he will be a voice for freedom, the constitution and so forth. if you need the party to rely on, he doesn't have the groundwork for that. does he have a passion among a certain grassroots activist voter? yes, he does. will he have the organization. i think there is a strong case to make for that. will times be different then? the pendulum back to way more next man of scenario? it's hard to imagine that but i think he was to remain a national voice. john: is there a way given the things he said about donald trump that he could end up supporting donald trump?

up until now, doctors have been living in an analog world and it's incredibly painful and complicatede been living in this digital world where we understand scalable systems. we have finally been able to break through with modern monitoring systems the , sequencing machines and all of that kind of stuff, so you can get proper personal medicine and really change things. there is a technology that you can reassemble and do gene editing. this is transformative not just of a little city like new york but of the whole globe. that is how profound this is. it is a race. there is a similar one with ai whichchine learning, google is trying to do, primarily. that's one category. in energy, the most interesting question to me is can you -- i will say it rhetorically -- can you solve climate change which i'm sorry to say is actually true, and case you are concerned. it is true that carbon does lead to these things. there's some evidence the current relative lull in warming that has slowed down a bit will actually get worse pretty soon. i can go on and on about that. there are people debating whet

because i think there is a real analog here between tapping into these fossil forms of soil fertility and the shift in organic to fossil fuel regime. now, the peruvians retained control of the islands, but it was dominated by british trade houses. w.j. myers out of liverpool, and another ad from london that had a motto applied to them, "the house of gibbs made its dibs selling the turds of foreign birds." that is how this works. i will mention this quickly, and there is a chapter in the mann book that i almost had you read, but it was almost certainly the case that the potato blight that would undo the irish potato crop in 1840's and prompting massive wave of irish immigration, would walk from south america to europe. ok, so there is another little interesting tidbit of the columbian exchange. now, a lot of this guano was sold to french sugarbeet farmers. fromlp ween themselves caribbean sugar. but probably half of it went to british agriculture to help grow food for the industrialization of britain. about a quarter of it went to the united states. not surprisingly, a lot of it went t

the health thing could be understood as analog meets digital.w, doctors have been living in an analog world and it's incredibly painful and complicated. we have been living in this digital world where we understand scalable systems. we have finally been able to break through with modern monitoring systems, the sequencing machines and all of that kind of stuff, so you can get proper personal medicine and really change things. there is a technology which is a way in which you can reassemble and do gene editing. it is a very big deal. this is transported -- this is transformative not just of a , little city like new york, but of the whole globe. that is how profound this is. it is a race. there is a similar one with ai and machine learning, which google is trying to do, primarily. that's one category. in energy, the most interesting question to me is, i will say this rhetorically, can you solve climate change, which i am sorry to say is actually true? it is actually to that carbon least -- leads to these things. there's some evidence the current re

in that sense i don't think that this is a perfect analogy.owever, i want to get my old friend, andrew sullivan, a shout out. and also article just came saying that this is all why more moment wheremar he is a tyrant of poses a threat to the duchenne. it's an extraordinarily powerful piece and i must say that having read this and thought about how violence plays a part in the trunk movement, rallies, language, i'm beginning to revise my view. he's beginning to cross the line from populism into fascism, which is really disturbing. him take a could see decisive step closer to the nomination. if ted cruz cannot turn it around fast in indiana. and then you got questions about the whole hillary clinton campaign. can she withstand this populist fascist challenge? in theory she should win easily, but i'm worried that as we get into the final stages of this she will lose votes. you mentioned latin america may be coming out of a phase. what did we learn from the populist experiment in latin america? prof. ferguson: that populism doesn't work. , theromi

>>reporter: bill in california assembly wouldz let phone companies phase out their old analog networknnual the ever popular cell phone. rofit over pu access. >>reporter: but spokesman for access to anything. bill he says is about % technology not about eliminating>reporter: he explained it all goes back to 100 yourself ago. when at&t strung copper wire across the country for the first trans continental phone kawchlt the analog system was a utility regulated by the state. even though tiny$ digital devie cost now do the same job. at&t requiredif to maintain the old network. >> you have a mish-mash of old systems and new systems and very expensive and very inefficient to maintain the systems in parallel. >> protestors point out the old stuff works. >> in an emergency in a power outage land line generally continue to work where the oral alternative are useless e-earthquake can knock out cell phone service and storms cut power to know net base phones. >> land line telephone are the highest quality,@ voice service available so it

there's only one thing to do so my analogy which started off as a bit of a joke, but then it took on a level of seriousness because i really meant it was about a building in london called somerset house which was the administrative center of the british empire. it's a very big building and it's now a space for restaurants and so on. it did run the british empire. now, you're not talking about the british empire. you're not even talking about britain. i said how many people could fit in that building that once ran the empire. the answer was about 10000. we actually reduce the number to 10,000. what would we do, how could we run the modern state much more in scope with the british empire with that number people. it started off with intellectual and experiment. the more time i spent, the more i realize that really is the answer. he was a nonexecutive advisor and i could tell this is what i thought we needed to do. it was the number one

. >> you're making fun of the analogy. >> his analogy. >> it's so wrong on so many levels.'t -- i mean, you know, come on. come on. >> and when eugene and joe say the same thing in unitson maybe we have a point. >> hillary clinton spent monday marching in a memorial day parade. she's cancelling events in the northeast to return to california early for five straight days of campaigning. a sign of the rising stakes. she doesn't want to lose california. and while it's possible that she could secure enough delegates to shut the book on the nomination before polls even close there, bernie sanders is looking for a comeback. over the weekend, he spoke at event after event with thousands of people. here he is in oakland, in front of what police say was 11,000 people. but the biggest crowd wasn't his. sanders showed up at halftime as the golden state warriors sought a game seven come-from-behind victory against the oklahoma city thunder. he watched with danny glover. sanders did not wear the free yellow t-shirts that thousands of others did. when warriors won with con fetdy in the a

the more appropriate analogy is vietnam.uch has been made recently of a pair of interviews on american foreign policy. one by president obama, and the it took just weeks to defeat the old regime. but years later, despite varying approaches, all of these countries remain in chaos. can anyone seriously argue that a few more troops here or a slightly different strategy there would have created stability and peace when you have instability in all three? most of obama's critics want a quick plan to defeat isis or more troops or greater u.s. intervention. they are blind to this dominant lesson of almost two decades, the failure of nation-building in the middle east. in syria, washington's real dilemma would be if its strategy worked and isis were defeated, this would result in a collapse of authority in large swaths of iraq and syria that are teaming with radicalized sunnis who refuse to accept the authority of baghdad or damascus. having led the fight, of course, washington would be forced to assert control over these territories

when it comes to obama, you know what, given the rather sharp, stunning, astonishing analogy that professor mohamed has put forth black people think that tough love is the only love available for black americans, we confuse love with abuse. when bill cosby was doing his thing, we are begging for it. come on. buying tickets to the parade and you -- a you were the disney character and you didn't even know. you in a drama that bill cosby was chilling for. bill cosby was berating but it wasn't a problem when he was berating black women, it wasn't a problem when he's berating black young children. your garbage gets out every day and pretty soon you will have d dna in the the geto to make sure you're not making love to your grandma. you do the math. that baby has -- 26 six year's old, i might be saving you from having section with your own grandmother. assault and so the point is we beg for more. i have to do a book signing in la, i thought they were joking. [laughter] >> it was black people because we are resistent to anybody and here is the irony the very people who are beating us up and somebo

the more appropriate analogy is vietnam. much has been made recently of a pair of interviews on american foreign policy. one by president obama, and the other with one of his closest aides, ben rhodes. both men have been described as arrogant, self-serving, and brimming with contempt for the foreign policy establishment. as most administrations would, they both sought to present their actions in a positive light to obama congratulates himself from stepping back from the edge of military invention in syria. he never grapples with the fact it was his own careless rhetoric about assad's fate and red lines that produced the crisis in the first place. but on the most important issue of substance, obama is right and his critics are wrong. the chief lesson for american foreign policy over the last 15 years is that it is much easier establish political order in these troubled lands. in iraq, afghanistan, and libya, it took just weeks to defeat the old regime. but years later, despite varying approaches, all of these countries remain

. >> and to make that analogy is preposterous. people are going into a private place for fun. you know lines are part of it. >> imagine taking just a short flight and you have to get there three hours ahead of time. i think most people would start walking. >> or start driving. >> democratic party, at least under bill clinton did embrace to some extent privatization. that was mayors like ed rendell in philly. and there was a con sebsz in this country about privatization until obama administration where now -- >> would you -- magically correct it? bad elements can -- >> no listen, i think there are some things that shouldn't be privatized. but adding that sentive in there. maybe there should be some combination. often spurs more inflation. >> what do you think of this. the message you are getting. and that is your going to have to deal. hurry up and wait. the tsa three hour things. hurry up and wait. and the waiting isn't the big deal. what you do make of all this? >> i think they need to spend more money. i hate to say it but in a way the tsa is like the armed forces. a way of

and i think in many ways it has kept us -- i hate to use analogies about slavery in all those, but i feel like it has kept us impoverished as a race. and when you look at little -- in 1964 daniel patrick moynihan, i i talk about this in the book, he said that he was disturbed by the fact that 23% of black babies were born out of wedlock, and he warned president johnson in his moynihan report -- which is called the negro family: a case for national action -- he told president johnson if we don't do something about this, you're going to see generational poverty and crime developing within the black race because at the same time that moynihan found the broken family emerging among black americans, he also saw an increased dependence of black women in single-family homes, you know x they were the head of the homes, a dependency on welfare. forward to today. 72 of black babe is -- 72% of black babies are born out of wedlock, and you can go to brookings institute or heritage, and all the data is the same on the left or the right. a child that is born into a single-parent household has abou

one of the comments i made was we're talking about hallucinogens, analogs, fentanyl analogs and synthetic compounds. there's no legislation that would take care of a new chemotype. so we have another cathinone. some chinese chemist finds something we've never sewn before. based on if everything you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. we need an out of the box thinking in terms of ways to approach this that would cut off the possibility of new chemo types of drugs we haven't seen yet and be more careful in circumscribing the things we have using expertise. there's lots of expertise in the american chemical society, in pharmacology societies that could sit down and look at these and say, these are problems, these need some evidence. rather than casting a wide net that's going to create all kinds of problems. many of the compounds may not be harmful to human health. it's kind of an unfocused shotgun approach i think could be much more focused on real problems with some expertise and i just haven't seen that brought to bear. >> let me thank you. i know the other witnesses will hav

analogies can be very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. should have said something like the va services are worth it like it's worth the wait, like the next "ghostbusters" film or the iphone 7. my point is don't do it. don't do it. >> unless you're greg gutfeld. >> even i wouldn't do it. >> oh well. >> we talk a lot about making mistakes, making errors in judgment on saying things and we have to sometimes apologize, and i never, ever say someone should be fired or quit because of something they say because it's offensive to a group of people. this guy is, as greg points out, was a terrible analogy. that's not the problem. the problem is he doesn't understand what the problem at the va is, he's made it clear to the world that he's running the va and he has no idea what he's supposed to be fixing. that's why i think mr. mcdonald should step down. should leave. not because of what he said, because the fact that he has no idea of the problem and we've all noted the hundreds if not thousands of veteran who is have died waiting for care and ther

the analogy with trump is yes, let's learn about the things ross said and let's never -- let us keep the people when voted for trump and let us also understand what he is and what kind of president he would be and how unacceptable -- >> why are you learning lessons four or five months before we even have an election? >> do you think he has the temperament to be president? >> i do. i've interviewed him and i've seen a different person from the campaign trail. >> so why a very different person? >> i was surprised even the first time i interviewed with him. very thoughtful, calm, direct, listens very well. very different than sort of the person you see at these big -- which you have to be different in the rallies than you are one-on-one than direct with the person and he's had the same executives in his companies for years and years and years and well liked by the people who work with him and i think you'll see that type of person emerge more when he's not fighting 17 people around him when he's just one-on-one with hillary. >> we'll have to end on the hopeful note that we all agree on.