welcome back to spotlight i'm arguing arvin just a reminder that my guest on the show today is scott goodstein external online director for the brock about two thousand and eight election campaign scott you mentioned the middle east north africa lots of people say that these were revolutions these were events and mass protests that were internally reminded organized online. what do you think what was the true old social network in these revolutions i don't think in a lot of places around the world social networking had been sort of given credit i think the obama campaign social networking got a lot of new credit because it was something that was that was new ultimately obama was going to win a campaign based on his candidacy the right candidate the right message and lots of people very upset with the direction of the united states in places like. going out and organizing in egypt i truly believe that social networking was was the impetus for a lot of that revolutionary change it got people excited and motivated that they were not alone in their feelings against the government it kept

arvin widener worked there 33 years before retiring. marvvn: 09:40:09 "i was hoping &psomebody would start it up again."hope seemed to fade for good tuesday - when the mill was sold at auction.... to a liquidation company that deals in scrap metal.ken: 09:43:13 "i will be getting laid off." standup - 09:37:41 "it's unclear at this point when liquidation .... employees and families."kamenetz: 13:01 "the news is not obviously what we were looking for."county executive kevin kamenetz is block the sale - since he winning bid of 72 million dollars is far less than expected.he's also vowwng to fight for union jobs.kamenetz: 14:47 "steelmaking is still... it's not over yet."ken: 09:44:00 "there's still some hopes that maybe somebody will come in and purchase the plant and start it back up."while this could very well mark the end of an era ---workers hold out hope - f not for the mill - at least for thh community. 09:46:38 "i think these people are survivors."melinda roeder... fox 45 news at ten. the current owner - r-g steel bought the mill le

arvin is currently a senior fellow jointly at the peterson institute for international economics andhe center for global development. he is the author of a book called "eclipse: living in the shadow of china's transformation." turn:o wrote "india's understanding the economic transformation" in 2008. foreign policy named him one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011. "india today" magazine nominated him as one of the top intellectual masters of the mind over the last 35 years. that is a very heavy burden that he is bearing extremely well. he has been research director at the international monetary fund, and he has also worked on the year great wound up trade -- a round of -- the uruguay round of trade negotiations, and he contributes frequently to the "financial times" and other groups, and he is educated in india and taking his master's and ph.d. from oxford. with that, we expect nothing but the best from him. i am sure that all of you will have many questions. i am going to request to speak for 20 or 25 minutes, and then we will have a conversation with him. i would request