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and i was just at this event in aspen, aspen environmental forum. and the head of the u.n. population division was there. and she went through the u.n.'s numbers which were just announced a few weeks ago. about 40% of the world is far below or enough below fertility -- replacement fertility. which means families are small enough to put them on the replacement curve. just under 20% are growing. so this means that, you know, 40% of the world is on its way to where japan is today where older places like spain is today. 40% we don't know, and then all of the worlds growth, population growth will come from about 18% of the worlds population. there and japan has eye popping statistic of being the first modern nation to shrink unrelated to war or disease. that's amazing. >> it is amazing. it's amazing while you are there. young people talk about it. if you are a young person in an aging japan, you feel like you have to do everything that you can to separate yourself socially from the aging country. so, you know, tokyo is huge. here we are in chicago, the metro area has around 9 mi

malec is from aspen with us tonight. it's good to see you. you've been sarah palin's escort.troduced her to people. is she going to run? >> sarah palin is a friend and i think she does a great job of energizing people and getting people interested in voting. i think we owe a great debt of gratitude. i don't think you're going to see her on the ballot but i think that she will continue on have influence because she does suck up a lot of oxygen in the room and she really does bring a lot of attention to wherever she goes so i think she'll be influential, i think she'll be a part of the process but i don't expect to see her on the ballot. having said that, i do believe, john, that our nominee in the next president of the united states is going to be a governor or a former governor but it's not going to be sarah palin. >> well, then, why do this? you know her well, you've been through this with george h.w. bush, you've been through this with john mccain, you've been through this with others. you know what it is like to be especially if you're one of those candidates who desperate

initially the aspen grove was simply a tea garden in brown's backyard, where black new yorkers congregated for musical events and social activities. once the theater company was formed, he played in different locations until brown opened his own space on mercer street in 1822. from then until the early 1830s, hewitt performed with rounds company and also in many other venues close to home, the military guardian in brooklyn, somewhat farther afield in philadelphia, saratoga in alexandria, virginia and even across the seas in london and south america. hulett aspire to be a pure shakespearian terror. he played the lead role in richard the third and also gave solo performance is a scenes from a fellow. much like other budding actors of the day, he honed his craft by imitating famous shakespearean performers like admin team. some of hewitt's other roles were more explicitly subversive however. , indirectly hinting at subordination resistance to black americans. .. or even his politics that his family found so offensive. they might well, because of that, there's a note in the papers saying he wa

and come back passionate working with both the ford foundation and the aspen institute a u.s. vietnamese dialogue project to try to raise thirty million dollars a year for ten years in a row to clean up the hotspots in vietnam where the dioxin is still killing and maiming. children and families in vietnam and set up some health facilities in vietnam but my passion is to remind americans that wars aren't over when the last soldier leaves the battlefield they were going to have similar problems in afghanistan and iraq given the chemicals that were used the unexploded munitions the land mines and so the the dippers pleated are iranian as well and i think vietnam is a good case for us there at a country that loves us which is really startling they're very frightened of china they want to increase trade with the united states they're an emerging economy travel and tourism is going to increase in that in that part of the world and with a little investment over a short period of time we can show the world that in fact you can go back in and clean up what was left as a legacy of the v

primer impacto pitt bull, le dio tremendo puÑo a un seguidor que le tirÓ servilletas en la cara esto en aspenuiÓ lak presentacion, pero nunca bajÓ el microfono. >>> bueno, ya veremos que fue lo que pasÓ. >>> el mundo artÍstico estÁ de luto por la tragedia de monterrey, muchos artistas por twitter expresaron su tristeza por el atentado, gloria trevi dijo: tambiÉn alejandro fernÁndez comentÓ q:. y alejandro sanz pidiÓ justicia. y demandÓ juan luis guerra a su antigua disquera por presunto im cumplimiento de contrato, esto en un tribunal de miami le tendremos al tanto. >>> entre las chicas provocÓ un poco de envidia, dulce marÍa y es que como ven compartiÓ el escenario con joe jonÁs de los jonÁs brother en una presentaciÓn en mÉxico interpretaron un tema juntos, en el auditorio nacional, el concierto serÁ transmitido el 23 de septiembre por mtv. y anahÍ tambiÉn acapara noticia, segÚn una revista aunque su primer sobrino no nacerÁ hasta final de aÑo ella le depositÓ en un banco cien mil dÓlares para sus estudios. >>> muy generosa. >>> pero bueno, mientras ernesto solano ex vocalista de la banda m

that is from david stockman today who was ronald reagan's budget director and he joins me from aspen,r. stockton, why don't you say how you really feel. >> well, you know, the way i feel is that we shouldn't be

i mentioned a moment ago the aspen's ideas festival has great thinkers so i would like to cite another great thinker, george harrison of the peoples. he, in a wide-ranging ramble, detoured out of the harry fish and the british version of the u.s. anti-trust division, and he goes, you know, this is the thing i don't like. it's the moaks notary monopoly's commission. kodak is cleaning the market of film, and the government is in there saying you can't monopolize, but when the governments monopolize, who sends in the monopolize commission to sort that one out? that is one of the most brilliant observations on government that has ever been made. there was an old joke in britain at the time, why is there only one monopolize commission? [laughter] it is, in fact, an incisive observation on the nature of government. we wouldn't like it if there was only one automobile company or breakfast cereal, but there can only be one government which is why in george's words when the government monopolizes, it should do so only in very limited areas. that's true of national go.es when they govern more 30

i mentioned a moment ago that the aspen ideas test value has great thinkers like barbra streisand, so i would like to cite another great thinker, george harrison of the beatles. in 1969 george harrison in the course of a wide-ranging ramble briefly detoured out of the harry crush that chants and lsd into some remarks about the monopolist commission which is a british version of the u.s. antitrust division. and he goes, you know, this is the thing i don't want like. it's the monopolist commission. if anybody, you know, kodak or somebody is cleaning up the market with film, the no lop list commission sends them in there and you're not allowed to no knop his. yet when it's the government, who's going to sort that one out? if that is one of the most brilliant observations on government that has ever been made. there was an old joke in britain at the time, why is there only one monopolist commission? [laughter] it is, in fact, an incisive observation on the nature of government. we wouldn't like it if there was only one automobile company or only one breakfast cereal, but by definition the

he became emotional and profane at aspen institute forum last week. >> bret: european leaders aren'tetting the prospect of economic disaster keep them from the vacations. nicolas sarkozy is chilling by the mediterranean. his prime minister is relaxing in tuscany. britain chancellor in california where he rode the ride at universal studio. the cabinet of the debt-ridden ireland left dublin. however, as we reported, british prime minister david cameron did cut his vacation short to deal the london rio riots. >>> our top story at the bottom of the hour. stocks rebounded today strong in late afternoon following the federal reserve announcement that he will keep the interest rates low for two years. the dow gained 430 points. much of the volatility of late has to do with the fight over the debt ceiling. and also the uncertainty overseas. democrats want more revenue from the tax increases in one way or another. republicans reject increase in tax rates but chief washington correspondent jim angle tells us there is one option that many see as a possible middle ground. >> lawmakers and analys

>> like my colleagues, and in aspen spirit, i will say wikileaks good and bad. second, wikileaks should not be prosecuted. third, there is an alternative. it is called openleaks. it is good and bad. my views are shaped by a remarkable memoir recently published by daniel burke, who no. 2 man. assange's he basically supports the transparency, message of wikileaks. he praises the early successes like publishing the records of this was banking house. there were other successes like the release of the video of the helicopter strike that killed unarmed people. he became convinced that the troubling aspect soon came to overwhelm the benefits because assange had a paranoid resistance to transparency and have a lack of political neutrality and was addicted to concentrated power in his own hands. these for example, there was the mistaken identification of a german citizen and last summer, and they published of the police fire of a belgium politician who had been associated with a pedophile and the allegations were completely false but his career was barely harmed as a res

former vice president al gore is making news, thanks to his speech about global warming he gave in aspenarming is a topic al gore is passionate about. he got angry during the speech. he got so angry during the speech, he almost woke a couple of people in the audience up. scary. he went on a tirade about the scientists who get paid to tell us we have nothing to worry about. he used the "f" word. the "b" word. he didn't use the "n" word. but the other words seemed very out of character. all a sudden he's joe pesci with aer this moral thermometer. this is the real audio. we combined it with video from "frosty y e snowown." well, here it is. al gore, the snowman. >> they pay pseudo scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message this climate thing, it's nonsense. c 0-2 doesn't trap heat. it may be volcanoes. [ bleep ] and when you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again. there's no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate, even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened. peo

he addressed his critics in aspen, last thursday. >> bill: memo to al gore, if you want to refute yourritics, do it with facts, not cheap invective. you're a pinhead, wise up. that is it for us tonight. check out the fox news factor website. spout off about the factor from anywhere in the world. oreilly@foxnews.com. name and town if you wish to opine. word of the day, do not be inso length when writing to the factor. -- inso length,

from the aspen institute, this is just over an hour.plause] >> good evening, ladies and gentleman. [applause] thank you all for braving rain and welcome to listeners on aspen public radio. and most of all, they welcome to you, just as kagan -- just as kagan -- justice kagan. >> thank you. it is my first, but it will not be my last. [applause] >> it may be pouring down, but when i left, washington, d.c., it was at record heat. [laughter] it is great to be here and it is great to be here in this terrific community can i have been taking advantage of all of the music and all of the beauty. it is a wonderful place pierre -- a wonderful place. >> comparing notes on hikes. many of you will see her on the shelves over the next few days. we will take your offer seriously to come back as often as possible. in 1998, a profile of the young in a kagan -- young elena kagan after being promoted to the chief of domestic policy in the clinton white house, she was discussed as the white house's all purpose brain. [laughter] an adviser to the president o

this discussion comes from the aspen institute's annual ideas festival. it's an hour 10 minutes. >> good morning and welcome to the aspen ideas festival on this glorious after morning. the wikileaks release of government files last year has been described as one of the largest leagues of the u.s. military diplomatic information in american history. but in truth, it is much more than that. the wikileaks disclosure of nasa security information represents a symbolic transformation. particularly because the means by which the information was released so quickly and without attribution to a particular source or person. the u.s. has struggled for centuries to determine the appropriate trade-offs amongst security, privacy, transparency and access. but the disclosure of critical buzz -- information is not really new or unique. for example, how is this any different from the disclosure of the pentagon papers many, many years ago? what is new, however, is the use of anonymous technologies to instantly disseminate massive amounts of data. and we need to ask ourselve

kind of stuff in september and october, but gosh, you want to be fly fishing now, you want to be in aspen, in the hamptons. and world events kind of flung this on to wall street. i think people stepped back and realized that for all of that record volatile in in four days, 400 points up, 400 points down, 600 points up, 600 points down, that in the end this isn't really accomplishing anything but generating so much stomach acid so why don't we step back and wait for events to unfold. >> woodruff: well, we did have these good retail sales numbers today. what do they tell us if anything about the health of the economy. and by the way they seem to be con draw-- contradicted by consumer confidence survey numbers which are down within yeah, consumer confidence numbers are down to reagan morning in america levels. 30 years ago, 31 years ago t just tells you how far this economy has fallen. i mean after all unemployment is near double digits. there isn't much to really hang your hat on if you are someone look for wealth effect. gas prices are up, certain food prices are up. cost-of-living is not

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so we're here at the aspen institute there's something that infringes on our identity.l fortunate. you feel like the world is open to new ideas. it gives you courage, it gives you hope. it's remarkable. being poor is exactly not that. it's exactly the thing that it's hard and you can't make it. that you struggle, that you fail. there's a threat to your identity that's very effective, and i'll give you an example. the first one about budgeting we go to people in the mall in new jersey, and we ask them to participate in the study. they sit down in front of a computer, we give them scenarios about budgeting difficulties. and let's call them difficult and easy. some decisions are difficult. the car breaks down. it's going to going to cost you $1500 to fix. while you're thinking about even how you're going to take care of this financial problem, which will then tell you at the end to keep you busy and entertained we'll give you a couple games to play on the computer. these games are well-known experimental manipulations from cognizant psychology. the first one is about cogni

joining us now, sara sidner with opposition forces, matthew chance in tripoli and from aspen, colorado, retired allied commander wesley clark. sir, you've been with the opposition forces. how close are they to tripoli, and how much trouble is gadhafi in right now? >> reporter: anderson, they're just 30 miles from tripoli. we're talking about nothing, basically. but what we are seeing in the city of zawhi very strategically important, there is an oil refinery that rebels now have a hold of. they gave us a tour of the refinery. it's in perfect condition. it's one of the only functioning refineries left in the country. and for them it's very important that they're able to cut off that oil supply to tripoli. so they're very happy about that. and they say they have now gotten control of 8 of 0%, 80% of the city, but they are still battling it out in 20% of the city. we've heard heavy, heavy gunfire, mortars, artillery rounds, going on in just 20% of the city. they feel like we're going to end this thing in the next day or so, and then they tell us they plan on pushing forward to tripoli whi

in fact, here's gore during an event hosted by the aspen institute. >> they pay pseudo scientists toientists to put out the message, this climate thing it's nonsense. manmade co 2 doesn't trap heat. it may be volcanoes. [ bleep ]. it may be sunspots [ bleep ]. it's not getting warmer [ bleep ]. >> tell us what you really think. arizona senator john mccain is known for his feisty demeanor, also known as mavericky. the maverick got an earful from some angry tea party conservatives last week. >> we need to raise taxes on the -- >> one woman demanded an poll from mccain after he called members of the tea party hobbits during the debt ceiling debate on the senate floor. okay. here are the pictures of hobbits. you can see why somebody might get their feelings hurt. mccain said the hobbit quote came from "the wall street journal" article. he apologized if he misunderstood what it really meant. but he refused to apologize for telling debt ceiling deniners they're in a fantasy lands. >>> michele bachmann's all the rage among conservative republicans, but it's not exactly what the editors of "

joining us now, sara sidner with opposition forces, matthew chance in tripoli and from aspen, colorado, retired allied commander wesley clark. sir, you've been with the opposition forces. how close are they to tripoli, and how much trouble is gadhafi in right now? >> reporter: anderson, they're just 30 miles from tripoli. we're talking about nothing, basically. but what we are seeing in the city of zawhi very strategically important, there is an oil refinery that rebels now have a hold of. they gave us a tour of the refinery. it's in perfect condition. it's one of the only functioning refineries left in the country. and for them it's very important that they're able to cut off that oil supply to tripoli. so they're very happy about that. and they say they have now gotten control of 8 of 0%, 80% of the city, but they are still battling it out in 20% of the city. we've heard heavy, heavy gunfire, mortars, artillery rounds, going on in just 20% of the city. they feel like we're going to end this thing in the next day or so, and then they tell us they plan on pushing forward to tripoli whi

raising eyebrows for losing his cool at climate change skeptics happening at an event hosted by the aspennstitute. >> they pay pseudo scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message, this climate thing is nonsense, and manmade co2 does not trap heat. it may be volcanoes. [ bleep ]. it may be sun spots. [ bleep ] it's not getting hotter bull p[ bleep ]. >>> and michele bachmann campaign says that the picture was part of a lighting test and not the one that the campaign had preferred, and someporters photograph made her look crazy and it is sexist and michele bachmann is taking the high road, and not commenting. those are things that we thought you should know. it's how our rough ideas become "you did that yourself?" so when we can save more on the projects that let us fix, make, and do more... that just makes the stories even better. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. right now get this vanity and matching mirror for just $99. pnc virtual wallet gathers your spending and saving in one place. credit and debit purchases, checks, bills, and other financ

aspen ideas is the hash tag for this. thank you all very much. appreciate it.next, a discussion on national security since nightfall nightfall. after that, a speech by texas congressman ron paul. then seeing the co-creators of twitter talk about the future of the internet. tomorrow on "washington journal," a political round table on the 2012 presidential campaign. retired lieutenant currently john nagl has the lateos on insurgent attacks in iraq and the plans to reduce u.s. presence there by year end. and peter gaytan on unemployment. >> it's a country fraught with corruption, natural disasters and islamic extremists. >> what was shocking to me and many people in pakistan was that these assassinations were welcomed, were congratulated by many pakistanis. these are not terrorists, not al qaeda, not taliban, but ordinary pakistanis, who feel their religion is threatened, that the country is becoming to secular, that the islamic values are under attack, and that blasphemy, which is anything that insults the prophet or islam is something to be defended with your li

[applause] welcome you back to aspen. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> congressional budget office is issuing a their economic outlook and budget forecasts. we had planned to bring into law but we're having technical difficulties. we're covering the event and we will show it to you later this afternoon in our program scheduled on the c-span network separas. 11:30 eastern, we'll take it to the white house briefing room and it may come to you from martha's vineyard at 11:00 eastern on c-span and later this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. eastern, we will be at the pentagon for deputy assistant secretary of defense michael schiffer talking about the military and security developments involving china. both of those events will be live here on c-span. lots of live events that have our sunday coverage of the dedication of the martin luther king jr. memorial statue in the nation's capital. this morning, we asked our viewers about the impact of the martin l

i don't know. >> aspen ideas is the hash tag for this. i've been reading all the tweets on the board, so thank you all very much. appreciate it. >> president obama is traveling to michigan today to talk about technology jobs. >> the court of public information officers hosted a discussion on the impact of new media like facebook and twitter on courts. former judge dennis sweeney and committee patient professor genelle belmas talk about a new generation of chairs that are digital natives. the 45 minute discussion with the final day of a three-day conference held here in washington. >> okay, again i want to say right on, on schedule. i want to do some quick introductions, sit down and let, i guess as buffett would say, let's get ready to rumble. i've got a really, really all-star group to my left. let's start with judge dressel. judge william dressel is sort of my dotted line boss. my office is upstairs. is downstairs at the national judicial college on the campus of the universe of nevada real. he is a friend, a confidant. he's been for 20

but this is from a recent aspen institute security forum. >> great to be here in aspen. it is great to be here instead of afghanistan. that reminds me that it is better to be in afghanistan than washington, d.c., especially right now. when he was a little boy, he would go swimming with his knife to kill fish. that is if you believe everything that you read in "the to, press people he made his first wet suit out of scraps of rubber. -- everything you read in "the tacoma press." "tacoma plays it's part in osama bin laden raid." or "tacoma mom gushes in son's role in finding osama bin laden ." [applause] way. beautiful, by the he told her nothing. he hadn't called her for four days. he called her to tell her when his retirement ceremony would be taking place. it occurred. it was successful. and now we are on to today. well, we are hoping to get a bit more than that from him tonight, but i will tell you right off of the bat that amaral olson has had a successful career as a seal because he has kept his mouth shut. this is how far i got in advance. in an off the record sessio

sam swung into sedona, arizona, aspen, colorado and emeril hit the beach in destin, florida and ashevilleor cameron mathison is here with our last two. i got shut out of the best boondoggle in "gma" history. >> i'm listening to you and thinking, wow, those are beautiful places but i got lucky too. thanks to you at home i got to enjoy the trip of a lifetime combining sky and sea. skiing and surfing. i'm a lucky guy. lanikai beach, wyoming and wyoming. across the great plains of america where the buffalo roam rises the nation's mountain rank grand tetons. dolly sent us this, inspiring choice for one of "gma's" most beautiful places in america and says "i have that view engraved in my mind and i close my eyes and i see it." the largest peak in the range rises to nearly 14,000 feet. and either summer or winter this is a aplayground for everyone. even hollywood royalty like harrison ford and sandra bullock take advantage of this american wonderland all year long. >> it's like a human magnet. just draws you in and it's unbelievable here. >> reporter: from winter's deep powder for skiers and sno

>> like my colleagues and in the aspen spirit i'm going to say wikileaks good and bad. second, wikileaks should not be prosecuted. third, there is an alternative. it is called open leaks and it preserves the benefits of wikileaks while avoiding its troubling aspects. so wikileaks good and bad. my views in this are shaped by a remarkable memoir recently been published by daniel berg, who was julian assange's number two man at wikileaks for three years before assange expelled him from the organization. he basically supports the transparency message of wikileaks. he praises its early successes like publishing the records of swiss banking house which exposed tax shelters. there were other successes like release of video of the u.s. apache helicopter strike that killed unarmed people in iraq. but he became convinced the troubling aspects of wikileaks soon came to overwhelm the benefits because assange was, had a paranoid resistance to transparency. he had a lack of political neutrality and he was addicted to concentrating power in his own hands. ironly the very vices wikilea

sam spent a few days out in sedona, arizona, and then aspen, colorado, and had so much fun out thereor mountains of asheville, north carolinin >> wow. ♪ >> ah, that destin, florida, sunset. there's simplylyothing like it. when "gma" viewer terri rose sent us this picture of her beautiful place, i just knew i had to go there. we're getting really close. here it is. oh, yeah. e most beautiful place in america. destin's vanilla sky will take your breath away, but the view at twilight is just the beginning. ♪ sugar white sand, emerald green water. walking through destin feels like strolling down an exotic beach, but don't take my word look for yourself. whwh you heard that "good morning america" chose destin, what did you think? >> i thought, shut the front door. at was my text message that came out. i am just honored. you know, destin is just a beautiful place. it's got the southern hospitality but the caribbean feel and the caribbean look. it's got these emerald green waters and the whitest sand you will ever find in the world. >> reporter: and check this out, crab island. it was once

. >>> tomorrow, everybody, sam champion going to sedona and aspen and we want you to vote, everybody.ur website, use the "gma" app and we'll announce the winner next week and coming up a personal conversation with dr. jill biden. and coming up a personal conversation with dr. jill biden. >>> oakland police are contact cal alert where a 3-year-old boy was shot and killed yesterday. 10 shots were fired from a passing car. a stray bullet struck the boy as he sat in his stroller. police are on overtime to track down the shooters. the mayor is holding a vigil at the scene at 7:00 tonight. >> hot spots, 680 corridor, southbound from 242 down through danville because of an earlier accident that is just cleared. it is bumper-to-bumper. same with the toll plaza earlier stall incline section bay bridge traffic backed up, lights are on. >> overcast we'll check in with lisa and see when things with lisa and see when things ♪ ♪ free access to chase atm's wherever you are. that's a step forward. chase customers can avoid atm fees with over 16,000 nationwide. take a step forward and chase what matte

aspen, colorado. dustin, florida. grand tetons. jackson hole, wyoming. lanikai beach.aii. port reyes, california. and sleeping bear dunes, michigan. we want you guys to vote on your favorite place. we all have our thoughts on it. check out all the places we visited on abcnews.com/gma. then, vote for your favorite on our website. or use the "gma" app on your smartphone. we'll announce the winner of the most beautiful place. next week. and tomorrow, josh, you're up. ere are you going? >> i'm not going to tell you. but it's a familiar place. >> you're doing the trick that i did. >> it rhymes with california. >> let me think about it. all right. thank you. i can't wait to see that. and sam champion will be so upset he's not here. he loves it. >>> and the ace of cakes is here. another duff in my life. duff goldman with gorgeous weather. >> the audience. >> isn't it? weather-inspired cake. and amy, take it away. >> sam would explain this is a high-pressure system with the snow-capped mountain and the cumulus below. >> it is a meteor logic event. new york city under a heat ad

the operation that killed osama bin laden, admiral eric olsen will be interviewed at the aspen securityorum, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. live coverage of that, followed by your phone calls. right now -- what e.j. dionne writes today. what do you think? can america still lead? let's continue on. let's get right to the phones. dennis on the line for democrats in maryland. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for the opportunity. the short answer, yes, americans still lead. america is still the richest nation in the history of the world. we still have trillions and trillions of dollars that these bankers are sitting on that they will not release into the economy. even though the president has to deal with this small minority of republicans, the so-called tea party people, who has his hands tied, i think it is really a shame that the credit score had to be reduced. i blame it -- i put it squarely on the backs of the republicans. one last thing. america will get a chance to speak next year in the elections and i can guarantee you they are going to clean house with these

i think you tell me this is your first time in aspen. >> it is. it will not be my last. >> thank you. it is my first, but it will not be my last. [applause] it is great to be here and it is great to be here in this terrific community can i have been taking advantage of all of the music and all of the beauty. it is a wonderful place pierre >> comparing notes on hikes. many of you will see her on the shelves over the next few days. we will take your offer seriously to come back as often as possible. in 1998, a profile of the young in a kagan -- young elena kagan after being promoted to the chief of domestic policy in the clinton white house, she was discussed as the white house's all purpose brain. an adviser to the president on all things legal and constitutional, she developed a reputation that just grew over the years of being able to bring together people of diverse ideological positions with enormous skill. in the white house, for example, she was the one who convinced john mccain and the republicans to allow the fda to have regulatory authorit

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. >> now from the aspen institute wikileaks and freedom of the press.ed to determine the appropriate tradeoffs between transparancy and privacy. the disclosure of government information is not really new or unique. for example, how is this any different from he can pose sure of the pentagon papers many, many years ago? what is new, however, is the use of anonymous technologies to instantly disseminate massive amounts of data. we need to ask ourselves, what is different now? how will the acks -- actions of wikileaks affect the actions between government and traditional media? how will it enhance our actions as citizens and voters? is it investigative journalism or is it, as some have said, promoting a culture of anarchic exposure of openness and transparancy to be picked apart by the sound-bite culture of the 21st century. this event has raised some fundamental questions, questions which defy simple answers. at one extreme the disclosure can be seen as a natural consequence of a society using web technology to do business and represents nothing wrong. th

we welcome you [laughter] back to -- we welcome you back to aspen. [applause] video of thee candidate. see what political reporters are saying, and track the latest campaign contributions with c- span's web site for 2012. easy-to-use, it helps you navigate the political landscape with deeds and updates. candidate bios and the latest data. plus links to c-span media conference -- partners. all at c-span.org. >> good morning, everybody. i would like to thank you for coming to our release of second quarter results for the banking industry. the latest data indicate the banks have continued to make gradual but steady progress in recovering from a financial market turmoil and severe recession. that infolded from 2007 through 2009. the turf before you here shows that earnings improved year- over-year -- the chart before you here shows that earnings improved year-over-year. this trend has expanded to include a growing proportion of insured institutions. you can see in the next chart 60% of banks reported improved earnings this quarter while the percentage th

last week, he spoke with abc foreign correspondents had an aspen institute security forum. this conference was held before a group of u.s. navy seals were shot down and killed in afghanistan over the weekend. >> i am so happy to hear the great biography of admiral olson which i have been pouring over facts, and i found a few that you didn't mention, and that is he was born to be a navy seal when he was a little boy, he'd go swimming with his knife and that's how he could kill fish. if you believe everything you read in the tacoma press. he also made his first wet suit when he was 9 years old out of scraps of rubber. why do i know this? because if you put in eric olson, bin laden, and his hometown of tacoma, this comes up in the headlines. tacoma plays its part in osama bin laden raid. [laughter] or my favorite, tacoma mom gushes about son's role in finding osama bin laden. [applause] >> she is beautiful, by the way. his mother is beautiful. but i was eagerly reading this thing, he must have called her and told her everything about the raid. he told her nothing. in fact, he

now, here's the most interesting idea i heard in the aspen security forum is among the cyber specialist was this: it's a cultural idea. as we go forward, we have a whole generation of people coming along who don't care much about privacy. it's an interesting idea that i'm thinking of, you know, my kids and others who -- let's leave my kids out of it, this might be on television. [laughter] but we have -- >> other kids. >> -- a generation of young people who are throwing a lot of stuff out there on facebook and linkedin and everything else without the kind of concern about privacy that my generation grew up with and have sort of rubbed into it. so when we look ahead, it's not that we don't want to protect vital information, but the whole idea of, basically, americans like government when their security is threatened. they don't like government when their privacy is threatened or when their communications are threatened. so just going forward that's an interesting thing to think about, that culturally we may be evolving into a society or a world where a lot of people don't particularly ca

this took place earlier this summer at the aspen institute festival in colorado. this is an hour and 10 minutes. >> in truth, it is much more than that. the wikileaks disclosure of information represents a symbolic transformation, particularly because the means by which the information was released so quickly and without attribution to a particular source or person. the u. s has struggled for centuries to this cover the appropriate trade-offs among security and access, but the disclosure of critical government information is not new or unique. for example how is this any different from the disclosure of the pentagon papers many years ago? what is new however is the use of anonymous technologies to instantly disseminate massive amounts of data. we need to ask ourselves, what is different now and how will the actions of wikileaks affect the interactions between government and the traditional media in the future? how will such releases impact our enhanced understand anding as citizens and voters on the events on which they report? is it investigative journalism, or i

. >> aspen ideas is the hash tag. so thank you all very much.appreciate it. >> next, a discussion on the potential threats from a lack dramatic that pulls, and emp which is capable of disabling entire electrical power grids can be produced by detonating a nuclear bomb at a high altitude or from unusually powerful solar activity. posted by the heritage foundation, this event is an hour and dirty five-minute. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. thank you for joining us at the heritage foundation. it is my privilege to welcome you to her louis letterman leatherman out of torian and to welcome those who join join us on our heritage.org website. we would ask if everyone in house to make the courtesy check the cell phones have been turned off as we prepare to begin the program. we of course will post this on a website within 24 hours for everyone's future reference as well. internet viewers are always free to e-mail us questions or comments at any time. simply addressing to speaker@heritage.org. posting our discussion is james jay carafano, dir

former oklahoma representative vice president of the aspen institute and co-founder of no labels, mickeyive director of public notice, gretchen hamel. gretchen, is that message going to resonate whether it's correct or not? >> i don't think it will register with independents and that's where this election will be won or lost because independents don't like the partisanship and the finger pointing that the white house is doing, won't work. >> brian: representative edwards, i tell you what, it's true that if the economy is bad, republicans have a better chance of winning. why wouldn't they be doing exactly what robert gibbs is saying? >> it's outrageous that somebody would make a comment like that. republicans are also americans. republicans live in this economy. and the idea that you have to demonize people on the other side is one of the real problems. that's why we formed no labels, to get rid of comments like that. >> brian: and what do you think, tamara? >> i couldn't disagree more. respectfully disagree. the republicans campaigned for their majority of congress based on jobs, and the

initially the aspen grove was simply a tea garden in brown's backyard, where black new yorkers congregated for musical events and social activities. once the theater company was formed, he played in different locations until brown opened his own space on mercer street in 1822. from then until the early 1830s, hewitt performed with rounds company and also in many other venues close to home, the military guardian in brooklyn, somewhat farther afield in philadelphia, saratoga in alexandria, virginia and even across the seas in london and south america. hulett aspire to be a pure shakespearian terror. he played the lead role in richard the third and also gave solo performance is a scenes from a fellow. much like other budding actors of the day, he honed his craft by imitating famous shakespearean performers like admin team. some of hewitt's other roles were more explicitly subversive however. , indirectly hinting at subordination resistance to black americans. .. >> so it's not necessarily his acting or politics that his family, so offensive. they might have enjoyed watching him and the rules