i also want to thank cato, and dr. roger of cato. they have made this collaboration easy. i thank them. in addition, dr. pilon is going to be the moderator today. he's frequent at student events and chapter events around the issues. again, thank you, roger, for making this program possible today. [applause] [applause] >> well, thank you very much, dean, for introducing me. i want to also join dean in welcoming all of you to the event this afternoon and to the cato institute, and to thank dean and the federalist society for co-sponsoring this forum. let me welcome those of you who are watching the forum through cato simulcast, or later c-span. when dean called me a couple of weeks, a couple of months ago actually about doing the forum on the right to keep and bear arms, we had no way of knowing, of course, the issue would soon become salient once again as it has in the aftermath of the tragic shootings in arizona, less than two weeks ago. gun control is a perennial issue in american politics, of course, but at times like this, the debate becomes especially intense. our conc

i also want to thank our co-sponsor cato and dr. roger pylon of cato. i thank them for their help. in addition to help organizing the program, dr. pylon's going to be our moderator today. he's the founder and director of cato's center for constitutional studies and he's a frequent speaker at federalist lawyers and student chapter events around the country discussing all manner of constitutional issues and including of course the second amendment. again, roger, thank you for your role and in making this program possible today. >> well, thank you very much, dean, for introducing me. i want to also join dean in welcoming all of you to the event this afternoon and to the cato institute and to thank dean and the federalist society for co-sponsoring this forum. let me welcome those of you who are wahing the forum through cato simulcast or will later be watching it through e good offices of c-span. when dean called me a couple of weeks -- a couple of months ago actually about doing this for him on the future of the right to keep and bear arms, we had no way of knowing, of course, that the

secret until twitter fought back so as twitter now become the new privacy advocate going to speak with cato institute's julian sanchez next people are biting their nails after reports of china upgrading their weapons arsenal this comes right after robert gates announce defense cuts for the u.s. but should china's actions really warrant fears or are people overreacting we're going to have a debate on the issue and then we'll tell you about the latest chapter in espionage animal spies there's been a recent reports all over the world where countries are suspecting animals of spite but these claims might not be as crazy as you think we're going to look back at the long history of you know using animals as spies and weapons around the world but now let's move on to our top story. this weekend on saturday morning america experienced another killing spree a tragic event that saw twenty people shot six of them dead as well as leaving democratic congresswoman gabrielle giffords in a very serious condition after being shot point blank in the head now what we now know about the shooter twenty two year

maybe even in the cato institute. and i think a lot of the litigation we see out here is an effort to achieve through the courts that vision of america. there is, however, a competing vision, and that is the vision which allows responsible citizens to have guns in the home for self-defense, but allows government to impose reasonable restrictions to try to prevent those guns from being accessed by dangerous individuals. and the real world consequences of those competing visions were made starkly clear by the tragedy in tucson. the state of arizona has largely realized the vision of guns everywhere. it some years ago eliminated all law enforcement discretion over who gets a concealed to carry permit. it recently became the third state in the country to require no concealed carry permit. arizona's gun laws were so weak, that if the shooter's community college officials had reported to the tucson police his dangerous behavior, the police under arizona law would have had no power to prevent him from carrying a concealed we

the cato institute holds this te event. naudibcoertis]thank >> hello and welcome.iencede and thank you to c-span forvent. covering our event today. it's always a welcome addition i am vice president and a directo our prctice groups of the federalist society to read our program today on the futureig of nce right to keep andberms tehaving been conceived in of the first instance by thets pra. federalist society civil rightsr practice group. i want to thank the panelists in re wevance for their remarks and their time today. hear we are expecting to hear pretty sharp contrasting views from the four of you cat institute. if this collaboration very easy and i tthhaiornk them for theig in addition to helping organize a program, he's going to be our moderar da he t ouder adeorf quo nt f cotitial uds speaker at federalist lawyers and student chapter events around the country discussing all manner ofib >> well, thank you very much, dean, for introducing me. i want to also join dean in welcoming all of you to the event this afternoon and to the cato institute and to thank dean

i want to disagree a bit with what he said in the sense of the cato institute we were completely against the wall street bailout we are completely against what was described as corporatism because there is a lot of that corrupt and to relationship between washington and wall street we want genuine free markets where there is not any sort of central planning there spontaneous order based on the interaction of millions of consumers and millions of businesses if i have to choose what's going on i want america to follow more of the hong kong model han kang is rated by the economic freedom of the world and x. and the end of economic freedom as the freest economy with the least amount of government intervention and government spending and taxes that's the model we should be following unfortunately bush and obama and geithner and the fed are following this model of crony capitalism of corporatism of having the special interests in washington sort of this corrupt if we've all heard of the iron triangle this is an iron rectangle because it's bureaucrats lobbyists politicians and special interest

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foreign policy analyst at the cato institute. thanks to both of you for being with us. marc, is the united states safer today than it was ten years ago before 9-11? >> yes, i think it is. if you'd asked me that question five years ago, i probably would have said, "no." i think we made a lot of very damaging decisions in the years immediately after 9-11 but then in, in the second half of the bush administration, i think they corrected course and did a number of things that i think have made us a lot safer. i think we're doing much better now in the battle against al qaeda. al qaeda, i think, is much more marginal than it used to be to, uh, to mainstream arab politics and it's much less able to mobilize anger against the united states. >> what did the u.s. do in terms of changing policy during that, the second five years that you mentioned? >> i think it, it did a number of things. uh, it corrected course in what used to be called "the war of ideas." it did a much better job of focusing strictly and very specifically on violent extremists instead of focusing on islam more

it's a pleasure to welcome her back to cato. susan? >> chris, thank you very much for that nice introduction. what a pleasure it is to be back at the cato institute. we have a wonderful panel here to discuss one of the important aspects of dwight d. eisenhower's farewell address. i have worked in the national security field a long time, myself, so i'm going to be an interested consumer in the panel's deliberations here today, but i think my function really in getting this event started is to say something about the man who gave the speech in the times in which he lived. again, scholars have examined this speech in great detail over the years. certain things about the speech have now become known that weren't before. it's one of those amazing stories about how to be careful with what's in your garage. it turns out that the son of the speechwriter, malcom moose, was moving the lawn mower to a different part of the garage and discovered five boxes left from his father's life. his wife said it's time to clean it up and get it out and disco

it's a pleasure to welcome her back to cato. susan? >> chris, thank you very much for that nice introduction. what a pleasure it is to be back at the cato institute. we have a wonderful panel here to discuss one of the important aspects of dwight d. eisenhower's farewell address. i have worked in the national security field a long time, myself, so i'm going to be an interested consumer in the panel's deliberations here today, but i think my function really in getting this event started is to say something about the man who gave the speech in the times in which he lived. again, scholars have examined this speech in great detail over the years. certain things about the speech have now become known that weren't before. it's one of those amazing stories about how to be careful with what's in your garage. it turns out that the son of the speechwriter, malcom moose, was moving the lawn mower to a different part of the garage and discovered five boxes left from his father's life. his wife said it's time to clean it up and get it out and disco

and i'd just like to welcome everyone to the cato institute. my name is andrew coulson, and i direct the cato institute's certain for educational freedom. now, if you're here today, it's probably because you recognize that there are serious problems with the american education system. and if you're watching us on c-span, that probably goes for you too. unless you just switched other here because the -- over here because the show you were watching went to commercial, in which case i hope you'll stay. but that's the great thing about channel surfing these days. we don't just have broadcast tv, we've got cable and satellite and youtube and video and hulu and netflix. it's easy to flip away from something that's boring or some annoying commercial and find exactly what we're looking for. it's a lot harder to do that in education. it's still the norm today in the united states that the typical child attends a school to which she was assigned by a bureaucrat who's never met her. and some of those schools are really quite good. and many of them are not

i want to thank cato for organization this event. for national security policy and the future of the united states. and this wonderful speech from 50 years ago, which i think really can guide us in a lot of ways. so i should follow up on what ted said in the introduction, that i'm speaking here as a scholar and of myself. none of this is official. and i'm not only obligated to say that but it's clearly true. i guess the only other thing i'll say about my job is it sounds like the title i'm in the bows of the military industrial complex. the fact that there is an office with this name, the office of industrial policy in the pentagon probably suggests there's something to the concept. it's not -- what we try to do is balance the positive aspects and avoid the negative aspects of the military industrial complex and, i don't know, it's interesting you'll hear through my remarks, you should interpret for yourself what it might mean that someone who thinks the way i do can actually show up in that office. and i can't, you know, go further

-- cato institute? go ahead and laugh. there is a nice ivory paneled walls and it is a chield for -- shield for wall street. you want to get rid of the general welfare principal because it will be easier for these wall street clowns to rollover the state. guest: tell us what you really think. ok. i do not know where you find these callers, pedro. this man has obviously not look at our annual reports. if he had, he would see that george soros does not give us one penny. i can stop right there. we do not have wood panels. we're funded by individuals mostly. it is less than 2% of our money that comes from corporations. we're funded almost entirely by individuals and to some extent by foundations, but that is the nature of our funding. it is all voluntary. we accepted no government money. host: cordova, md., on our independent line. caller: good morning, pedro. you hit a grand slam this morning. sir, you are a natural -- a national treasure. we should put more people like you on the airwaves. we home school so my kids get to r

it's a pleasure to welcome her back to cato. susan? >> chris, thank you very much for that nice introduction. what a pleasure it is to be back at the cato institute. we have a wonderful panel here to discuss one of the important aspects of dwight d. eisenhower's farewell address. i have worked in the national security field a long time, myself, so i'm going to be an interested consumer in the panel's deliberations here today, but i think my function really in getting this event started is to say something about the man who gave the speech in the times in which he lived. again, scholars have examined this speech in great detail over the years. certain things about the speech have now become known that weren't before. it's one of those amazing stories about how to be careful with what's in your garage. it turns out that the son of the speechwriter, malcom moose, was moving the lawn mower to a different part of the garage and discovered five boxes left from his father's life. his wife said it's time to clean it up and get it out and disco

i'm vice president for defense of foreign policy studies here at cato. friendly reminder since we've just come off a break, please check and be certain that you have turned off your cell phones. when president eisenhower gave his farewell address, he was worried about the early indications of the development of the military-industrial complex. and what he regard i think quite of a legitimately as disturbing, ifgk unintentional for the most part, consequences of always having this country prepared to confront the soviet union and waged the cold war. it is a very important aspect that his view, and that was a many policymakers at that time, at the cold war would be anas mn aberration in american foreign policy, that once this rather foreig brittle and confrontational bipolar structure in the international system would an change for the better, would return to something more resembling normality, then there was a chance to at least undo many aspects of this emerging military industrial complex what we have discovered, of leao course any intervening half-cen

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michael cannon is at the cato institute. some months back, he recruited a university of chicago professor to show us how we really ought to be handling the problem of pre-existing conditions. we had a lively discussion of it at my blog. i have asked him to tell you about it today. please welcome michael cannon. [applause] >> thank you, john. thank you all for coming. i may have to leave before the question and answer period. if you have any further questions about my remarks, i encourage you to visit the cato institute web site. you may have heard today that the department of health and human services released a study that says that about half of non-elderly americans have a pre-existing condition and repealing the health care law known as obamacare would mean that those folks who have trouble getting coverage. but, in obamacare, it guarantees that those folks would get coverage and the care that they need. there is problem with that. a government survey conducted just a few years ago found that only 1% of americans had ever

for those of you who know me, i left washington this 2006 and i'd like to thank ted and chris and cato for a good reason to come home and see many of you, a little bit older and hopefully a little bit wirz. but i'm going to focus on something different from the last speaker. i'm going to talk about mind sets which is something that i know a little bit about. when i left washington, i was a made man, a member of the -- life member of the council on foreign relations, senior research fellow at the heritage foundation, a rather young guy, and i fell out with the kind of foreign policy establishment over nation building and the iraq war. so that's where i'm coming from. returning to talk to you about this lovely topic. we talked about eisenhower in-sain incein in-says auntly. he said the thing that's different has to do with mind set. we can talk all we want about the things that i hope the other panel lists talk about, the lobby i go and the nuts and bolt, with ybolt but there's a mind set that underlies this.lists talk abouty i go and the nuts and bolt but there's a mind set that underli

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. >> dave ritgers, cato institute. my question is for mr. henigan and mr. gura. first, to clarify a couple of points, mr. henigan, your characterization is a little off. in fact, the phoenix shooter was not law-abiding until he pulled the trigger. he lied to purchase the gun. i'm not sure why you place such focus on having a gun-free zone sign there if he would disregard the laws against murder. moving on to discretionary permitting, which you recommend, it essentially means either that all permits are denied, the situation we've seen in the willlard case in maryland is litigating, or the discretion that are objectionable. in los angeles county, or new york, these are essentially sold for campaign contributions. or used in a discretionary manner, such as the one that martin luther king mng applied for. after a bombing of his house in 1956, he applied for a permit and it was designed for, i think, what are pretty plain reasons given the atmosphere in alabama, under their discretionary permitting system. so if it's from having no right, or is it a right that can be

they are different than the cato institute is putting out. but i think some the differences reapyre. -- reappear. they will this year, how to cut the budget, are we at war with the welfare state? there i think some the neoconservative, versus libertarian, or more traditional conservative issues differences will come up. look, there are many strains of neoconservatism. my father moved over the years. one has to make practical judgments. if 90% of the budget of the gdp is going to the federal government, you can see that's okay we don't have to be concerned about the size of the welfare state. we concerned about some of the programs that are counterproductive. others are fine. if you have a big increase, wait a second, we need to be more concerned about keeping it in check. i think one could practically become slightly more libertarian, or slightly less. one has a critique of hayek, very interesting essay. which is fairly tough on hayek, and libertarian. he moved towards the greater respect for the kind of practical utility of the hayekian poin

now, the third thing, and the reason that was so important, you know, the cato institute graded all the governors. we're one of four to get an a grade, and our credit ratings have gone up, not down, the last couple years. we want businesses to know we want them to invest and grow in our state. we want them to know there's a predictable pro-growth environment. the third thing we've done, we've improved work force training. 70% of the companies want to move or expand in louisiana tell us their top concern is finding a skilled worker. we offer a guarantee saying our people will be ready to work on the first day, or we'll retrain them for free. the forty thing we've -- fourth thing we've done, we've continued to improve education. i could talk to you about new orleans having a higher percentage of their students in charter schools, i could talk to you about the value-added assessment act to connect the evaluation of our teachers to student performance. the red tape reduction act. i could talk to you about the scholarship program to help students in new orleans if they want to go to private,

michael cannon is director of studies at the cato institute. he recruited a university of chicago professor to show us how we ought to handle the problem of preexisting conditions. we had a discussion of it on my blog and i've asked him to tell you about it today. please welcome michael cannon. [applause] >> thank you, john. thank you all for coming. i may have to leave before the question and answer period, so if there's further questions about my remarks, visit the cato's website. www.cato.org. you may have heard today that the department of health and human services released a study about half of nonelderly americans have a preexisting condition and repealing the health care law known as obamacare mean those folks have trouble getting coverage, but obamacare they tell us guarantee those folks get coverage and the care they need. there's a couple problems with the study and these claims. the first one is a government survey conducted a few years ago found only 1% of americans were turned down for health insurance. research by the rand corpora

and chris edwards is director of tax policy studies at the cato institute, which is dedicated to free markets and limited government. welcome to both of you. chris edwards we don't have specifics yet, do we? as a starting point, how hard or easy would it be to do what the republicans are talking about this year? >> well, the republicans are off to a good start. they promised to reduce spending on domestic programs back to 2008 levels. what that means is this. spending on these domestic programs has roughly doubled since 2000 from about $280 billion a decade ago to about $550 billion today. the republicans want to take about $100 billion out of that. that seems like a good start to me. i wish they would include defense cuts. they also have to tackle entitlements. >> brown: how hard or easy? same question to you. >> very hard. we're talking about $100 billion that doesn't include any changes in the pentagon. it rules out any of the spending or the subsidies that are in the tax code through special interest tax loopholes. the $100 billion would have to come entirely from things like elem

there are only four governors in the country that got an "a" from the tough grading cato institute.'m one of them and the only one in the north half of the country, by the way. >> chris: okay. i want to ask you about -- you'll probably contest this. some apparent flip-flop in your position. in your book "courage to stand" you oppose the tarp bail-out. here is what you write. "when e rain started to fall on america's picnic, washington hung up a big old plastic tarp to protect us from the deluge. ever wonder why they call some of these things 'tarp funds'?" but in 2008, you defended john mccain's plan in the campaign for a huge bail-out, as long as some of the billions of dollars would go to main street as well as wall street. look at what you said back then. >> if we don't do something to get rid of this cause, which is declining home values, he believes that the problem is going to continue to spiral downward, so he is trying to get at the root cause, home values and bad mortgages. >> chris: governor, isn't that a flip on bail-outs? >> no, it's not, chris. i was in the role of spea

mike cannon is director of health policy studies at the cato institute. some months back he recruited a university of economy economy professors -- professor to show us how we should handle the problem of pre-existing conditions. we had a lively discussion of it at my blog and i have asked him to tell you about it today. please welcome michael cannon. [applause] . >> thank you, john. thank you-all for coming. i may have to leave before the question and answer meered so if anyone has any further questions about my remarks, i want to encourage you to visit the website, www.cato.org. you may have heard today that the department of health and human services release add study that says about half of nonelderly americans have a pre-existing condition and that repealing the health care law known as obamacare would mean those folks would have trouble getting coverage, but obamacare, they tell us would guarantee that those folks would get coverage and the care they need. there are a couple problems with that study and these claims. the first one is that a governme

read them and distinguish them, the critiques in the national affairs different from the critiques at cato institute putting out also they are what happens in some ways, but some of the differences reappear. i think they will reappear this year when republicans and the house have to talk about how should we cut the budget what are the priorities bold and dramatic are we at war with the entire state or trying to get rid of social security or put it on sound footing? there think the neoconservative versus, libertarian conservative or more traditionalist issues differences will come up. i would also say there are strains in the neoconservatism. my father probably moved somewhat over the years and one has to make practical judgments, too if 90% of the budget in the gdp is been to the federal government you can say that's okay about to be concerned about the size of the welfare state that much just concerned about the program's very productive, others are fine and a big increase in the size of the government might say with a second we have to be more conservative and libertarian we keeping this

it is great that cato is doing this. it is important to have these discussions. i would hope it would be more balanced. i have some questions about these two systems. i want to go to performance. first of all, sweden has gone down since 2000. i read in one place three times as fast as any other country. they have gone down in half between 2006 -- science between 2006 and 2009. it would seem to indicate that there might be something wrong with this particular forum. in the chilly case, the school by school comparisons that i have read do not show much of a difference, but if you get to the individual students you will find that the private voucher students are doing considerably better than the public. this may be due to saucier- economic choices. my hypothesis is that we are talking about neighborhood schools here and you are getting intensify stratification. you are not getting a true measure of what the schools are doing. i would like to know what you think about some of that and hopefully cato will have some other views on this panel next time. >> i think it i

will include health policy analyst from the heritage foundation, the american enterprise institute, cato institute, and the american academic forum. here at c-span2 at 1 p.m. eastern, the house democratic steering and policy committee will look at the future of the health care law and gop efforts to repeal it. members have invited patients to talk about how the law has affected them. >> the house takes up the repeal of the health care, watch the debate and final vote on wednesday, and go to c-span.org to read online, and continue on twitter and facebook pages. >> in a few moments, we're going to show you an hour of venezuelan president hugo chavez state of the nation address. first a background with a reporter that covers venezuelan issues. >> president hugo chavez gave his state of the nation address saturday, how long did he speak, what key points did he touch on? >> well, he spoke for more than seven hours. i suppose the most important thing in defense, at least what most of the commentators have been focusing on since is that he was remarkably con sin tri, he usually in the his publi

michael cannon is at the cato institute. some months back, he recruited a university of chicago professor to show us how we really ought to be handling the problem of pre-existing conditions. we had a lively discussion of it at my blog. i have asked him to tell you about it today. please welcome michael cannon. [applause] >> thank you, john. thank you all for coming. i may ve to leave before the question and answer period. if you have any further questions about my remarks, i encourage you to visit the cato institute web site. you may have heard today that the department of health and hun services released a study that says that about half of non-elderly americans have a pre-existing condition and repealing the health care law known as obamacare would mean that those folks who have trouble getting coverage. but, in obamacare, it guarantees that those folks would get coverage and the care that they need. there is problem with that. a government survey conducted just a few years ago found that only 1% of americans had ever bee

perdue, lieutenant governor , kate to cato, all the representatives and leaders of our government and be here this day and to pray for our new governor, nathan deal and for sandra diehl. let us play. dear lord of all, you long ago plans that we should live in peace, security and verity together. and you are dank government for that purpose. today is the new leader takes the helm of our government, that peace, security and prosperity for all georgians be issued. we thank you, god, for the honorable nathan deal, whose life, experience and passion have prepared him for this moment. we are indeed grateful that he has been a servant of our state and our nation and that he is genuinely cared for those in his charge. here's a man who loved our state and our country and will now govern with devotion to the law and admiration for justice. surely your hand is in this, lord. we're further grateful that nathan deal is a servant of yours, one whose faith in you and your teachings runs deep in his life and does. here are lord is one who faithfully serves your church and who is brought of mind and h

a conference on line we have jim harper who is the director of information policy studies for the catoinstitute. jim also serves in the interest of the public as a member of the homeland security data privacy and integrity advisory committee which is actually the committee, the advisory body within dhs to help guide the agency regarding privacy and security matters. staff is also present with us at the table, which i didn't know was going to happen so i'll have to let you introduce yourself. >> this is what it happens when you invite former cia officers to participate at the last minute. >> is good to have you. your training is very good. but i tell you, what i would like to do is let troy stock speak and then of course let you speak and then we will go on to the councilman and then we will wrap up the panel's presentation was jim harper. so without further ado, i will allow you to begin troy. >> thank you. thanks to e.p.i.c. for having this and for inviting us. when we first started, i will kind of go through the story but as we introduce our bill and worked on this e.p.i.c. was extre

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that'll include health policy analysts from the heritage foundation, the american enterprise institute, catoinstitute and the american action forum. that's at noon eastern on c-span. and here on c-span2 at 1 p.m. eastern, the house democratic steering and policy committee will look at the future of the health care law and gop efforts to repeal it. members have invited patients to talk about how the law has affected them. >> on television, on radio and online, c-span. bringing public affairs to you. created by cable, it's washington your way. >> the special inspector general in charge of overseeing spending for afghanistan reconstruction resigned last week. members of congress had urged president obama to dismiss arnold field z saying he had not aggressively looked into billions in spending. in a few moments, we're going to show you an hour of mr. fields' testimony from november. before that, some background from a reporter covering the story. >> john bennett, defense reporter of the hill newspaper. did general fields resign voluntarily, or was he fired? >> by all indications it certainly loo