i want to make it clear the main reason i am here is bob bauer told me to be.laughter] and i'm delighted to be here. is a great friend and his advice is only exceeded in its wisdom by his wife, who is been advising me for a long time as well. i think bob is one of the more great legal minds as well. this is a man to every piece of legal advice he's given me, i am sure is consistent with what i decided when i got elected as a 29 year old kid. i remember sitting with my legal advisors and then sitting with, either dubious distinction when i fly on my campaign finance disclosure as vic vice presiden, delete paragraph in the "washington post" and the front page and my wife, the professor was saying can google it because it is probable no minutes have assumed the office of vice president with fewer assets than joe biden. [laughter] i assumed they were talking financial and not intellectual. [laughter] but i would say to the guys helped me with my tax return. just make sure if it fell like a year, make sure you make me keep at least two feet behind the foul line. bob

i want to make it clear -- the main reason i'm here is bob bauer told me to be. i'm delighted to be here, bob is a great friend, and his advice is only exceeded in its wisdom by his wife, who has been advising me for a long time as well. i think bob is one of the great legal minds, as well. a man who every piece of legal advice he has given me, i am is consistent with what i decided when i got elected as a 29-year-old kid. i remember sitting with my legal advisors, and then sitting with -- i have the dubious distinction, when i filed my campaign finance disclosure as vice president -- the lead paragraph in "the washington saying no man has ever assumed the office of the vice president with fewer assets than joe biden [laughter] . [laughter] vice president biden: i assume they were talking financial and not intellectual. i would say to the guys who helped me with my tax return, make sure you keep me at least two feet behind the foul line. bob has kept me behind the foul line. i trust his judgment implicitly. when he asked me to join you all here today, i was reall

if bob bauer is not home, i have to schlep five walks over and talk to someone else. it is a time-consuming process. number one, polling needs to be accurate. polling needs to be effective. polling needs to be efficient. 15 days or 20 days just is not practical given where we are now in society and we have technology, it sounds like the line from the $6 million man. we just have to figure out what this new polling world looks like. maybe it's a blend of different technologies. maybe it's something else. we are all striving to figure out how to do our jobs better. >> you are one of the nations premiere cultures and we are grateful you could be with us today. thank you very much. [applause] >> we are moving to the reception upstairs. thank you. >>> while congress is on break this week, we're showing american history tv programs normally seen only on the weekends. tonight a look at world war ii. it starts at 8:00 eastern with spies and code breakers and followed by the fbi vins gags of a spy ring and then world war ii veterans on resistance in paris and then the start of

we had a public finance system for president of the united states until bob bauer broke it and it didn't work. it didn't have enough money. you couldn't run a campaign. even when the federal election campaign act was established was to set the amount ott two third of what george mcgovern spent in 1972 in what was the most disastrous presidential campaign of all time, so many people who run for president, actually want to win and they don't want to reproduce two-thirds of the successes of mcgovern, which means just boston and its suburbs of that sort. it's just not wii that our politics has been organized, so ma my view, where this has led as in the arizona case that went to the supreme court is the recognition there's not enough public funding for this, so you couple the public funding with an attempt to dampen down other sources of funds and that's what's been constitutionally problematic and would take a number of votes on the support to get that to be approved. the idea that you can silence speech in the name of supporting other speech. constitutionally as a dock trinal matter, that's

. >> here with us now senior international correspondent clarissa ward, former cia operatative bob bauer and david swordlic. good morning to all of you. bob, i want to start with you. can we get bob's audio. your reaction, i want to start with china and what we're hearing from officials it there, the chinese defense ministry saying that they have decided to handle this in an appropriate manner. and the u.s. is hyping up this issue and it's unhelpful for resolution, your thoughts. >> i don't care this was accidental, grabbing this drone. the chinese are so sensitive about taiwan. and if we step back from that one china policy, the chinese are going to make it known from north korea to naval over flights to expanding military bases in the south china sea. this wasn't an accident. they can play it that way but this is their way of sending us a diplomatic warning. >> david, we saw our first comments from the president elect donald trump on twitter about this capture of this drone -- theft because it was international waters of this drone. he says china steals united states navy research dron

my some time employer, boss, camarade in arms bob bauer. i've been dubbed the demon spawn of bob, i wear that proudly. i see trevor morris here from columbia and dear friend, and so many people i worked with who are here. we had a conference at stamford on the digital campaign. when we planned this conference, i thought what the conference was going to be is how hillary clinton's campaign marginally improved on barack obama's campaign of 2008 or 2012. here are the new digital tools and here is how she won. needless to say, we had to change the topic. in part not just because of the surprise victory of donald trump. who knew we had to talk about macedonian teenagers and russia and fake news and the like? that was not something that could be forecasted in the last eight months or year or more than that. there's a lot to say here. i don't want to take too much time so we can have a lot of discussion. first is digital tools are only tools. the fundamentals of a campaign and qualities of a candidate are not affected by those tools. secondly, the

binding.ons voted non still with us on set, bob bauer, chief global economist at the book liberte principall . the consumer has been pretty resilient within the u.k. a lot of concerns about whether investments will hold up as uncertainty continues. do you see evidence of weakness yet? >> i think it will come in the future. ata we have seen, whether they are business surveys, mortgage o approvals, the last number was really strong. there is not a sign of weakness yet. tourism is very strong. of course, that had to do with the pound. exports have been strong. we just do not see any bad data yet. anna: i am going to turn my house into a hotel. [laughter] [laughter] manus: air bnb. we were looking at the current account deficit and we saw the treasury review the current account deficit. it was just not as bad as had been expected. toat are the risks policy next year for the bank of england? did mark carney misstep by going to 0.25%? where is the crunch point for carney, in terms of inflation? >> you mean, where does inflation have to go? clearly, we are in a reflationary environment around the

i want to make it clear the main reason i am here is bob bauer told me to be. b is a great friend. his advice is only exceeded in the wisdom by his wife who has been advising me for a long time as well. every piece of legal advice he has given me i am sure is consistent with what i decide decided when i got elected as a 29-year-old kid. i remember sitting with my legal advisors and i have a dubious distinction when i found the campaign with the finance disclosure as vice president and the lead paragraph. no one has ever assumed this office with fewer assets than joe biden. but i would say to the guys helping me with my tax return if the foul line is here make sure you keep me at least 2 feet behind the foul line. bob has kept me behind the foul line. when he asked me to join you all here today i was really happy to say yes and i wish i could attend the whole day you are addressing some of the most interesting and emerging issues of modern-day politics. from the role of big money which i find corrupting on our political system if you want to change overnight inst

we had a public finance system for president of united states until bob bauer broke it. [laughter] and it didn't work. it didn't have enough money. you couldn't run a campaign, as a public commitment even when the federal election campaign act was established was to set the amount at two-thirds of what george mcgovern had spit in 1972, and what was the most disastrous presidential campaign of all time. and so many people who run for president, here's a little secret, actually want to win. and they will don't want to reproduce two-thirds of the successes of mcgovern which i means just boston and its suburbs or something of that sort. it's just not the way that our politics has been organized. so in my view, where this has led as in the arizona case that went to the supreme court is the recognition that there's not enough public funding for this so you couple the public fund within an attempt to dampen down other voices are other sources of funds. that's what's been constitutionally problematic, and it would take i think a number of votes on the supreme court to get that t

if bob bauer is not home, i have to schlep five walks over and talk to someone else. it is a time-consuming process. one, polling needs to be accurate. .ulling needs to be effective pulling needs to be efficient. 15 days or 20 days just is not practical. given where we are now in technology,we have it sounds like the nine from -- for the line from the $6 million man. figure out what this new polling world looks like. maybe it's a blend of different technologies. maybe it's something else. we are all striving to figure out how to do our jobs better. you are one of the nations premiere cultures and we are grateful you could be with us today. thank you very much. [applause] we are moving to the reception upstairs. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> tomorrow, a discussion on the anti-poverty policy and the potential impact the trump in ministration could have on working class emily's on the center for american progress. watch live at 10:15 eastern on c-span.

and bossme employer and comrade in arms bob bauer. -- i amns mann of sometimes referred to as the demon spawn and i were that probably. [laughter] >> and thanks to the conference at stanford last week and the digital campaign. when we planned this conference, ben ginsberg and i come about six months ago, thought what the conference was going to be about was -- cap here is how hillary clinton's campaign marginally improved on barack obama's campaign of 2012 and here's how she won. needless to say, we had to change the topic. in part just not because it was a surprise victory by donald trump but there are all kinds of other issues. who knew we would have to talk about macedonian teenagers putting up websites? or robots? this is not something that could've been forecast in the last eight months or year or anything like that. there is a lot to be said. it is a big question. let me tell you about three things. digital tools are only pills, right? the fundamentals of the campaign and the quality of the candidate are not affected by those rules. thatdly, there are things donald trump did in th