beecher slows down in the economy would create big problems.it's really hard to put the genie back in the box. that is to think about giving consumers trust, the sense of choice is really what has been powering china's economic revolution. it's going to be a race against time. >> my question is related to die. someone who is concerned about the development of press freedom in china or lack thereof, what do you think jack mas intentions are? >> way. alibaba recently purchased in hong kong, which he knows he made english-language newspaper. there is one other still left it hanging on. my colleague ted wrote symmetry with this whole story. just a so says he now has purchased the "washington post" and by all accounts going well. people have the feeling that editorial and opinion. that's not really an accurate comparison for jack. he did it through the company. it is taking them into pretty choppy waters. hong kong has never been more -- it's had some rough times in the past. but today we see a new political party. so why would she wander into that?

state of the world it doesn't provide a moral guide its with the good eddie will coming space to beecher the only law that is the survival of the fittest that is what stolid believed. >> host: thank you for your time. author of "the ten commandments" still the best moral code". >> immediately i am so honored to be here i am a book reviewer and i have the panel now 130 about the book that changed my life my recent in college that is why get the privilege to be here today and i love it our panelists does not need an introduction however the host of her show on npr and we are delighted to have her here to speak about her new book on my own and i have a lot of questions i will make sure i leave time for yours. >> my pleasure. [applause] >> diane is a national treasure and her new book is very heartfelt about coming to terms with what life is like after a beloved spouse dies in the marriage ends and life continues:and i will speak today and today but we'll also talk or her career is and radio but first come on my own is about being on your own but also a solitary life alone that has a differe

. >> host: beecher people read that that is the hard part. >> host: people talk about scandinavia as the ideal we should be more like a dam and what do you say about that? >> we started to write but i do little but not know what. i work with a colleague who is from sweden. one of the surprising the news i found was actually looking at the history it is the complete opposite conclusion. >> host: really? >> guest: i think the comparisons are dangerous it is just the political policy it is easy to cherry pick that characterize weeded verses america. and we are a capitalist country but we are compatible with the government control and it is different with much higher taxes is and to so they're not the parable in that sense but here is what is fascinating the history of sweden with the poorest countries id europe. it then became one of the richest and one of the free market countries you could make the argument it was more free market for many years the of the united states to become very rich very unequal. then that is how we hear it talked about today. >> because it went far of a the so

what traumas trigger the gun violence is in the first place to beecher treatment is part of the processthat there is a complete understanding of what is really happening. and that is a major part of the experience. >> what would be appropriate to what led have happened to the 19 year-old kid with a background like yours? >> i think the way kids brains develop and to sentence the young person to life that doesn't allow them to return their lives around core for those teenagers to be sentenced at 20 years in prison. i do if they there are alternatives but i think there are different ways to deal with the young people. >> i agree with you. >> but you don't get one of those alternatives. there's so many powerful adjectives. it is like a sensory experience. you are big to bring "the reader" of right there with you. that has to be the worst places in the united states and michigan state prison. >> what is set like now? >> it is horrible. it depends on what part of the cellblock for where you are at for the first prison was one of the oldest in the state and the plumbing system was horrible. w

she was introduced by african-american activist nannie helen burroughs as the successor of harriet beecher stowe, james hayes said amen. he said, "we thank god for such a white woman as you. thank god for sending you to us, and thank you for coming. a few more like you would awaken the sleeping conscience of this nation." lesson 17: promote peace, always. at the same time that she was writing for the family magazine, fighting racism, and campaigning for women's suffrage, la follette took up a new cause, becoming one of the most recognized leaders in the crusade for world peace. la follette widely recognized war's futility and the practical possibilities of world through binding arbitration. her impassioned advocacy would reign of denunciation, but she refused to modify or soft-pedal her beliefs. la follette's argument was that quote, "in the struggle for the balance of power, the idea of war is the only way to settle differences is a survivor of the dark ages." on belle la follette was one of january 10, 1915, 3000 women who gathered in washington d.c. in a , meeting that formed the women'

which is the nature so i will apologize for my tone but the interest of our country is at stake to beecherhe "washington post" talking but individuals trying to use false cuban documents to get into cuba then the united states and there is serious concern am not saying you are malfeasance but just trying to get the facts that need you to a tissue with ito and i will apologize but understand the interest of this country to keep the airline safe to open travel to a former communist country there are major concerns of these activities make sure we got our eyes and cross our teas. >> then let's not make it us versus them there is no market on national-security there is no one that has a priority to keep the country safe and if you want to get to the bottom of proper analysis going forward before we open travel as part of the normalization of relationships bin do in a private setting where we can get the information instead of putting on a show asking questions people can answer that is all i am asking for take the policy out of a clearly politicized issue to get to the heart of the matter. >>

safety and security but if we want a big gold britain to tackle climate or change with russia to beecher of the nuclear weapons to be in the european union does not restrain a or restrict our power to get things done but it increases it there is the patriotic case to be made that it my view does because it isn't threateningst deshabille you walk away from that or what you want for your people your country >> what is your insert to the most powerful point with the sense of identity is obliterated? and the self-respect as a country? >> i don't feel any of that.we e end to provide aid independent and strong. a but we don't give up the national identity or the g-7 or the commonwealth. we should not walk away from institutions so there is the big bold british case to make and i will use the next 50 days to make that. >> thank you very much i do you have the previous engagement. >> en to be even better. >> june 22nd with the former commissioner from george mason law school to speak of the independent agency in july 6 the former president of colgate-palmolive diversity luck helgi speaking about

what is clear the affordable housing needed now more than ever is indispensable to encourage this beecherestment when i served as head secretary i consider this to be one of the most successful initiatives many more restive institutional alsatian but benefits from those services available to them the nonprofit sponsors enhance the lives of hundreds of thousands of lower income seniors and families unfortunately sinceel 2011 there is no funding for new construction or rental assistance for new units so while we work together to find the program it is time to try something different to propose a new program to use project based rentall assistance and housing credits to finance new construction from health care programs the approach is designed to ensure that a broader set of factors has given in the game not just the government are not for profits but private sector developers requesting statesth g to commit to health care promoting a more integrated delivery of services the task force spent time examining the impact of regulatory policies including housing for seniors and issue that deserv

marshall, james madison, monroe, harriet beecher stowe. all of these people did not have a belief that you could have this one country together because we talked about the fact that home was important to jefferson and family. the notion was the family is the basic unit, then the community, the state and out to the nation. how can you be equal citizens if people cannot be in your family? how can you say we are all one people if we are not actually one people? obviously he could not advocate for that. it is difficult to advocate for that now actually. everybody is one was not something that was on the table for him and he also suggested if we had that separation we would end up with a race war, people laugh at that, isn't that ridiculous but in point of fact we have had some version of a cold and hot war. think about lynching, think about what happened after reconstruction, lynching, all kinds of things, conflicts that have taken place among african-americans and whites and i should say the policeing of blacks lose this has not been an easy

the fact that mark twain and harriet beecher stowe were next-door neighbors are 20 years.se homes are open to the public today. finally, one more surprise, the martin luther king birth home in atlanta, which is a national park site, ebenezer baptist church right down the street, i was surprised to learn that martin luther king jr. was born -- when he was born, his name was michael kink and his father changed both their names after his father, who was a minister, made a visit to germany and learned about martin luther and andprotestant reformation was inspired to come home and change his name to martin luther king and his son's name. host: mall of america also on your list, which is on the screen now. why? guest: the last chapter is on the first enclosed shopping mall in the u.s. and it was in minnesota, designed by a major influence on commercial design in this country. it was the way to write about the importance of suburban growth in the country after world war ii and the fact that the shopping mall, which now many are close in, but the shopping mall was synonymous inh t

doing that right now with the airlines but i have focused daily now that i intend to become operative beecherincludes the airlines in the airport's to be a more realtime and not just after the fact but more so what is coming and then in realtime. >> keep me informed in terms of the canine -- k-9 program banks for everything you are doing under the tough situation and i yield back. >> thank you for your candid this to this committee we saw the shooting in lax last year of vulnerability of the transportation hub does the tsa have a role of the non to caria? >> we do with setting standards and expectations my primary role is the checkpoint in the baggage area we work very closely to guard the public areas as well. >> that may have happened before your appointment with that covert testing with the vulnerabilities and some changes had been they have you found that have improved the ability to do with the checkpoints? >> there is a roll going into details with an open setting but we have a ways to go buy it is significantly improved for that training that we did in the change of focus helped consid

to distinguish him and was here at harvard pain beecher does a scholar and during the remarkable zero courier courier, first of 1968 to headline the two worlds of its patrick of a connecticut teenager who had no knowledge of our drug real-life after they were found beaten to death the second came meteors later of a turbulent decade and a landmark work and it is hard to overstate the power of the book holds a place of distinction for many that i know it has served as a standard bearer and it is their rare year i did not hear a fellow named with the most profound impact as the development of the writer. to pare the common with the combustible always a fine tension in that must characterize what it was like during that period and indulge me something that exemplifies that. at the beginning of chapter 24, the lobster shift was lonely for the guards manning of lobby. in the dismal hours between midnight and dawn fewer employees came anger out the phone stopped ringing in the early sound was the giant presses. he would fortify himself with styrofoam cups of coffee while waited for the print