>> reporter: the parents of brenton miraj say living in america saved his life. brenton was born in 2001 with congenital heart disease while the family was visiting detroit from albania. he had two open heart surgeries before he was six days old and spent the next three years in a new york hospital-- paid for by medicaid. at the same time, immigration officials were threatening to deport his parents for overstaying their tourist visas. >> i went to immigration everyday, i said "this kid is sick. this kid cannot go nowhere." >> i have four other children. they have to get fed. to get fed i need a work authorization. >> reporter: it took an act of congress to keep them here. house resolution 2763, a private bill for the relief of the miraj family-- a bill just for them sponsored by their congressman joseph crowley. >> i think it's an extreme case, i think it's an unusual case as well. it's really a case of life and death. >> reporter: there are 66 private bills pending before congress. even if they don't pass, they buy illegal immigrants time. one of them-- house r

he believed in brenton woods and this ordered a framework.n connally who nixon brought in really had no political and economic ideology at all except maybe what worked. he was famous for saying, "i complete it square -- i can play it round, i can play it square. just tell me how to play it." he really put together the idea of saying instead of us going to the world and saying we, the united states, cannot support your demand for gold anymore, he decided to turn it into a moment of hubris and said you are not going to take our gold anymore and we are going to set controls on imports. we are not going to send our dollars outside the country any more. we are going to demand more favorable exchange rates. it became a very red, white, and blue moment. he also put on wage and price controls which was a political winner. the right and left, the new york times celebrated. and adviser of the nixon administration hated to be a free marketer, but the public at large saw the administration taking control of its own destiny and in the short term it played

child when she turned around and supported the cause that they hated most of all which was brinton -- brenton woods. these people learn not ideologue's, okay, and but because they are championed by the right and left, you often don't hear about the positions they took that would seem to contradict the sponsors. >> host: the intellectual tapestry that emerges is constructed of lots of threads going in different directions and it was the most interesting things up the whole book is looking at it as a whole. i mean if i had one regret about your book which is a terrific read it's the fact that you in the 1970's. duralast character of course was a towering figure and in some ways trying to synthesize these divergent intellectual currents >> guest: right. well, other than the fact that it would have been a thousand page book, look, the idea at the core of this book that the plant would bring people to economics is the desire to put mankind in the saddle in some control of their material circumstances the fact is that what i did is to trace that idea from london in the 1840's out or is it rippled o

at what point are we forced to a bigger conversation that goes to marshall plan, that goes to brentonods, that goes to a fundamental restructuring of, let's say, the swaps market, so classify, let's say, a portion of the speculative stuff as online gaming and take the end users and make -- there's a way forward here, but we never seem to get to the conversation, and i don't understand why, jimmy. >> i hate to say this, but the world is not trading in dollars and euros. the world is trading in nuclear waste right now, it's not worth anything, and nobody wants to touch it. and the reason they don't want to touch it is because it's not worth anything. i predict in less than two years, the european union is not going to exist. >> because they're going to end up holding the bag. >> are you telling me that the bank of england is going to look at angela merkel and say, we're going to help you? hell no. >> every time somebody gets a little cajons and a little yippy kyai. >> i think the answer lies in not blowing up the european union, but bringing more people in. turkey has wanted in in the w