my first one is the cato institute. listened some mornings when i get up and i hear people calling in and saying how biased you are and how this is like -- the cato institute is a right-wing think tank. they were part of the problem when we had this health care, and regarding the waivers, united healthcare and a lot of these other huge insurance companies were asking for waivers when this first happened. another thing he mentioned -- i'm a union worker. i have not gotten a waiver. these insurance companies were asking for waivers. obamacare, they say, has done nothing but attempted and it has not even kicked in yet, and they do not want it to kick in. but the same premise, giving vouchers to people 45 and under, 55, 54 and under on medicare so that they can go to the private industry and buy is the same thing that obama, that obamacare is doing for the american people. give you a voucher, and all that is going to cost. did the gay doctor to go into the private sector and buy something -- given the voucher to go into the

my first one is the cato institute.tened some mornings when i get up and i hear people calling in and saying how biased you are and how this is like -- the cato institute is a right-wing think tank. they were part of the problem when we had this health care, and regarding the waivers, united healthcare and a lot of these other huge insurance companies were asking for waivers when this first happened. another thing he mentioned -- i'm a union worker. i have not gotten a waiver. these insurance companies were asking for waivers. obamacare, they say, has done nothing but attempted and it has not even kicked in yet, and they do not want it to kick in. but the same premise, giving vouchers to people 45 and under, 55, 54 and under on medicare so that they can go to the private industry and buy is the same thing that obama, that obamacare is doing for the american people. give you a voucher, and all that is going to cost. did the gay doctor to go into the private sector and buy something -- given the voucher to go into the pri

so thank you to the cato institute. i want to start off today by reflecting on sending that conrad hilton said. use one of the great american business leaders. when i was younger, i remember hearing about an interview on one of the late night shows where he was asked towards the end of his career -- now if you had to look the american people in the eye and tell them some that you have learned that is a profoundly important lesson or something you give them as they take away, what would it be? he said, well, i guess what i would tell them is pleased that the shower curtain inside the tub. of all the things he could have commented on, he picked that one, and i think there's a message in that for us and for the topic here today. which is that we have to use common sense. we have to make sure that we do the basic things right in the ways we know have served this country so well for so long. and if we had the time to go around this room and talk to each person, you know, starting with kim and then going to hillary, and i thi

and thank you to cato institute for publishing the paper. um, i'm going to just briefly go through some of the highlights of the paper and then talk about some of the implications as we, as we move forward in thiswe m congress. essentially, the point of the -- >> [inaudible]ntia >> sure. essentially, the point of the paper was to see where it might be possible to bridge some of the division on immigration inoi the country by looking at five of the main arguments used against having some type of comprehensive immigration reform legislation.nsiv so i'm going the get right into what some of those arguments are and what some of the responses m are.an um, first, that immigration reform will harm taxpayers.ll h the argument is, essentially, that by let anything people or allowing to stay here people why maybe have less skills be a big drain on taxpayers. what we need to look at is to compare the status quo to what a change in policy would be, not some type of ideal world as if we were starting from scratch. what we have now is roughly 11 million p

thank you to the cato institute. i want to just start my remarks today by reflected on something that conrad hilton said. when he was younger i remember hearing him on one of the late night shows where he was asked towards the end of his career, if you had to look the american people in the eye and tell them something that you have learned that is an important lesson or something that you have given as a takeaway, what would it be? he said well, i guess what i would tell them is please put the shower curtain inside the tub. of all the things that he could have commented on, he picked that one. i think there is a message in that for us and for the topic here today. we have to use common sense. we have to make sure that we do the basic things right in the way that we know has served this country so well for so long. and if we had the time to go around this room and talk to each person, you know, start with kim and going to hillary and i can't read the gentleman, i think it is ted's name behind hillary and asked each of

our oligarchy they funded a university study that pollution was good for us well that was actually cato study but done by a professor at a university that's accepted money i mean what they do is they give these grants universities and usually hire someone that's gone through the kind of coke machine of either studying at some point at george mason or spending some time at a place like cato or the mackay distance to which are fully owned by and then once they've gone through that training then they're excepted a school like utah state or u.c.l.a. or george washington and then they're giving professorship with coat money extraordinary leaf on thanks so much for the great work we're doing research thanks to keep it up this is. pretty amazing i can see a billionaire is going to have their way with private universities. dropping truckloads of cash on a school like jerry falwell's liberty university and then being able to pick and choose what classes or says are offered students of public universities if public schools are being bought off by the coax or anybody for what choices to students h

thank you, very much, and thank youtube cato institute for publishing the paper. i'm going to briefly go through the highlights of the paper, and then talk about some of the implications as we move forward in this congress. essentially the point -- >> [inaudible] >> sure. essentially the point of the paper was to see where it might be possible to bridge the division on immigration and the country by looking at five of the main arguments used against having some type of comprehensive immigration reform legislation so i'm going to get right into what the arguments are and what some of the responses are. first that immigration reform will harm taxpayers. the argument is essentially that by letting in people or allowing tuesday people who have less skilled that there will be a big drain on the tax payers. but again, what we need to look at here is to compare the status quo to what a change in policy would be not from the tide of ideal world as if we were starting from scratch. and what we have now is roughly ten to 11 million people in the country illegally. what past

from cato, new york, the former rookie of the year is in victory lane. matt yocum? [ cheering ] >> matt: waltrip, and legendary names that won the crown jewel event. now you add your name to t trophy. can you describe what it means to you? >> i can't. first and foremost to the moms out there, happy mother's day. my mom comes to every race i run just about and she missed this one. sorry. she's in tuscaloosa, alabama, with some animals. and saving animals after the tornadoes down there. mom, hi. i love you. sorry you missed this. i got to thank the fans for all the fans coming out. furniture row, the guys stuck behind me for three years now. we've had major ups an major downs. i think this would be classified as a major up for sure. the car was good all night. we never had track position and the opportunity showed up to stay out there. and pete made a great pit call. i was going to be mad if he didn't say that, but i'd do what he told me to do. it worked out. we're in the all-star race. there is so much cool stuff going on right now. i had to get my composure. just ri

if you got time to come to the cato institute or aei or heritage and attend seminars, that's terrific. it is important information and it is wonderful but all you really need to know about much of government reform is to go to two weddings. go to one wedding where there is a cash bar and go to another wedding where there is an open bar. you will see two very different sets of behavior. if people have the impression that people are free and they get to consume it endlessly and the provider has the only incentive to provide on volume and the light is greeted that the bill goes somewhere else and a third party pays for it, that is a system i can tell you is doomed to inefficiency or failure. that is much of our government, unfortunately. as a tug of education, health care and other things, we have to reform it with those principles in mind. i was governor and we put forward one of the first performance pay systems that were offered statewide. that was performance pay for teachers and teacher unions did not like it. we resulted as part of a government shutdown. it was the first in the 150

letting our number one enemy osama bin laden crash in their guest house like some sort of turbanned cato camesch-- kato kaelin and now holding on to our helicopter tail. everyone knows that is the best part of the helicopter. it's where the meat is. send now, send in seal time one. >> senator john kerry is preparing to travel to pakistan. >> jon: not seal team yawn. seal team one! let's not send yackmaster general over there that's not going to do anything. >> they've agreed now to return the tail section of that american stealth chopper that crashed during the osama bin laden raid. >> jon: wow. i simply told them in no uncertain terms that given my proclivity for these types of negotiations that i would heretofore pledge my-- . >> jon: just-- the helicopter, get out. just get out. take the [bleep] helicopter! now obviously-- (laughter) >> jon: those are the only two voices i can do. (laughter) >> jon: thank god they worked in that story. obviously repairing our relationship with pakistan will take more than a failed presidential candidate. that's why we're joined by our resident expert

i'm with the cato institute. we'll be talking about newspapers answering the critics of comprehensive immigration reform. there are copies up front. we can get people extra copies if you need them. our first speaker -- i'll give you a little back ground and then hand the pome podium over. stuart is a scholar at the cato institute and executive director at the national foundation for american politics. he previously served as executive associate commissioner and counselor to the commissioner at the immigration and naturalization service. he also served capitol hill on the subcommittee. in a prior role at cato, director of immigration studies, he wrote on military contributions of immigrants as well as the role of immigrants and high technology. frank is the founder and executive director of "america's voice" which he began in 2008 in an effort to focus on communications and media, a renewed effort for comprehensive immigration reform. prior to heading america's voice, frank served as executive director of the nati

from cato, new york, the former rookie of the year is in victory lane. matt yocum? [ cheering ] >> matt: waltrip, and legendary names that won the crown jewel event. now you add your name to t trophy. can you describe what it means to you? >> i can't. first and foremost to the moms out there, happy mother's day. my mom comes to every race i run just about and she missed this one. sorry. she's in tuscaloosa, alabama, with some animals. and saving animals after the tornadoes down there. mom, hi. i love you. sorry you missed this. i got to thank the fans for all the fans coming out. furniture row, the guys stuck behind me for three years now. we've had major ups an major downs. i think this would be classified as a major up for sure. the car was good all night. we never had track position and the opportunity showed up to stay out there. and pete made a great pit call. i was going to be mad if he didn't say that, but i'd do what he told me to do. it worked out. we're in the all-star race. there is so much cool stuff going on right now. i had to get my composure. just ri

stewart is an adjunct solar at the cato institute'. he served as executive associate commissioner in council at the immigration and naturalization service. prior to heading america's voice, frank served as executive director of the national immigration forum, a national organization, for 17 years. he worked with the late senator kennedy and has appeared on a host of tv networks and is a regular contributor at the huffington post. >> thank you very much and thank you to the cato institute for publishing the paper. i am just going to briefly go over some of the highlights of the paper and talk about se of the implications as we move forward in this congress. essentially the point -- is essentially the point of the paper was to see were not be possible to bridge some of the division on immigration in the country by looking at five of the main arguments used against having some type of comprehensive immigration reform legislation. i am going to get right into what some of those arguments are and what some of the responses are. first, that

is starting in the one nine hundred seventy is a number of free market think tanks were born at the cato institute the heritage foundation partly an uncensored these groups were purpose built by right wing or anthropos like the coax to forward a corporate agenda and the regulatory agenda there is no better example of how the small parly coordinated network of crips the thought regulation been there almost single handed effort to manufacture to pite of the global warming this two thousand and eight study of one hundred forty one pokes skeptical of global warming found that out of the ninety percent of them were written and or published by free market think tanks at the heart of what opponents have called the to noyon machine. the resident policy experts such as myron ebell of the competitive enterprise institute saying here talking to a group of if paying members. can be reached for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues did a human voice face to face with the news makers on the. wealthy british style. sometimes. find out what's really happening to the global economy. global

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calling to end their voting rights is a political move, argues the cato institute's mark calabria. >> any time there starts to be voices that say "inflation is getting out of control, we need to do something about it," you tend to hear some complaints that, "well, stop listening to those regional fed presidents, you know. they're just fronts for the banks and they don't really care about the working people." >> reporter: economist mark zandi thinks the fed's structure has worked well. he says bringing the reserve bank presidents to washington helps reduce the risk of fed group-think. >> there are very few dissents, historically, but those who dissent are reserve bank presidents. they are the ones who sort of break up the consensus thinking that goes on. >> reporter: but frank argues his bill will make the fed more accountable. >> every time we have forced the federal reserve to comply more with the norms of democracy, they've benefited and the economy has benefited. >> reporter: with republicans controlling the house, frank's bill is unlikely to become law. but it is another reminder

for your tuesday, high temperatures, 65 pative cato the low 80s towards the delta, discovery bay, back to your oakley and trace see mountain houses, 75 degrees in oakland which is a couple degrees above average, there you have 90 degrees well inland in throughout the tri-valley wednesday. we'll bring down the number a couple notches by thursday. then with the return of the deep helping marine layer, notice it tumbles back into the 50s, while the inland areas stay seasonal into the 70s, 60s bayside. i want to run this forecast. any chance he was walking outside of regal cinema in dublin and he saw these ducks trying to cross the road. momma duck and her ducklings there. i lost it. keep the picks come to mypix at cbs5 do. >> adorable. amazing to see how protective they are of their little tricks. >> and i just said "why are the ducks crossing the road." >> to get to the other side. >> it's all it is cracked up to be. >> to watch a little matinee there. >>> coming up a whole new meaning to distracted driving went up in flames along a bay area freeway this afternoon. that's going to go rig

the debt and the discussions that continue led by vice president joe biden and michael can of the cato institute to talk about the health care law and white states are pushing businesses to seek waivers from that legislation. "washington journal" is heard every day at 7:00 a.m. here and on cspan radio. thank you for joining us this sunday and enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week ahead. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] ♪ ♪ guest: the only way to cut money is to cut money. representative paul dax ryan has done well enough score. >> we share altogether as a country the problem of rep ryan is that health care needs to become sustainable and our country. there are two ways to do that and one way is to cut. you can cut a budget and take things away for people and his plan does that effectively. the beneficiaries lose a lot. there is an alternative to that and that is to make care better and that is the strategy that i am more committed to. there is nothing proposed by paul ryan that improves care.

of thousands of euros so just five months into twenty eleven the forces of broke even with madame cato's pension it's pretty much up the defense operational budget for a year military excess snaps france's reputation as a careful spender investors now plan to scrap the country's prized aaa credit rating which lets it go on the cheap course if you have a country which is very rich. it can afford it but france has been named as possibly losing its aaa status so everyone you shoot is one closer to losing aaa status france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remit in the ivory coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de villepin. pays the price of gunning for regime change and for each. for integration support and to follow strict principles the one of the international community the treatment of the united nations costs are reportedly hidden from the public this military advisors back from libya he says for months france has set soldiers on the ground there contrary to its claims. well you were. good. to find someone but it was totally free but she worked all her life for a decent re

those things it's not against any nation in the face in the flag is just that if you if it's like the cato to taleban i hope maybe you know they didn't have any hearings on this at all and as you pointed out it was just folded to defense authorization but it is so immoral that is the protection of human life and the ability for anybody you know america's the good guys but a lot of bad guys do these things and we're critical of them to just take up all people without any justification and as you pointed out you can trust obama but you have to love and trust the constitution this is so bad article one of the constitution which defines the powers given to congress as opposed to article two for the president article three for the judiciary article one explicitly says that only congress has the power to declare war the president doesn't why would congress hand this power off to the executive branch for ever i mean is the result of defense contractors just you know buying off some congressmen or is this some kind of temporary insanity i don't understand where this came from. well. either i hate

these issues is dr patrick michaels a climatologist and senior fellow and byron nelson he's of the cato institute for america's welcome. nice to see you and i see. the army corps of engineers predicts how often really bad floods happen in up until last fifteen years or so the predictions have been spot on but now and just last twenty years since one thousand nine hundred we've had. one in every five hundred year event one hundred eighty three one two hundred year flood in two thousand and eight one hundred year flood two thousand and one to fifty year floods five twenty five year floods and between ninety seven and two thousand and two just five years we saw for twenty year floods you talk about there's five reside in one basin you know. i'm not sure exactly where is this house with but the point is that you know we have over the last twenty years we have about five percent more moisture in the atmosphere because it's warmer so you would expect you know we have a storm that was a mile wide him. idea i actually studied this and i don't know if you have the graphic that i sent you to put

in my name is dan mitchell of the cato institute. i want to mention a couple of points echoing what bryan said. the federal government is expected to collect more than $2.2 trillion. the interest is supposed to be $2.7 trillion. even if we assume the forecasts are off, there's more than enough money to pay every single penny of interest on the debt. this is not an issue about the fall. the treasury sector -- secretary and the fed chairman are being very deceitful. the issue is whether now we get government spending under control. i want to make one important point about this. the deficit and debt are the symptoms come of the underlying problem is a government too big, and it has been a bipartisan problem. during the eight years of the bush to ministers in, spending exploded to $3. 5 trillion. that is why we are in the ditch coming because the government under republicans and democrats over the last decade since we have a surplus, ryan was talking about, government spending has exploded. how do we get out of the mess. if you look to t

interpretation so what do we know about it or discuss this with me is julian sanchez a research fellow at the cato institute joining thanks so much for joining us tonight so we just found out minutes ago that in fact it did pass the senate despite all of rand paul's efforts he really did become the lone man here at the end of the day but we'll get back to some of the wrangling amongst the politicians first let's talk about this this provision that apparently the government is secretly applying their own their own use to it the only one of the more disturbing things about the free market size and one of the reasons oversight and limits are so important because unlike most other forms of law all the decisions of the flies accord or for the most part classified the opinions of the office of legal counsel on how the justice department allowed to apply these. provisions of the patriot act are secret or classified and the result of that is that you know in reality we think of the law as the statute on the page but you know if you think about how we interpret the concept you know it's what courts rule it

actually if you go and look at it if they take network in this country if you go and you can find cato papers that advocate for privatizing every single square inch of planet earth they're arguing that if a person or firm oh and everything every bit of air that we breathe every bit of land that we can step on that everything we maintain better because it will be for profit i mean this is this is the final goal of a lot of these people and what we're saying is that you know it's time to reclaim the common designer and clean democracy and the idea that anyone no matter how rich or poor they are can go and enjoy it when they don't have to pay a premium on it or libraries or public schools or fill in the blank so i just want to very well said thanks for joining us next time and place for the great research that you're doing writing on those republicans look out at of acres of public land they don't see parks and wildlife that americans and future generations can enjoy and so they see untapped oil and chemical fields unexploded mountaintops of the rich minerals buried deep inside land that

are they even the worst offender of this process with me is julian sanchez research fellow at the cato institute thanks so much for being here tonight it's always a pleasure first of all are you with me here right seven hundred million users worldwide these are pictures addresses names entire networks that you build depending on who your friends are and who are connected to you is that the biggest known database in the world. i think actually i got to say may take the cake for that but we already knew they were a spy machine i think if you want to sort of think about the private entity that has the amount of data that if you thought about a government having it you would think gosh that must be a police state probably google you know would take the cake on that because they cross so many domains and because they're integrated in so many other and so many other web sites and pieces of software and we talk about things like google analytics that are built into lots of other pagers and google ads that are tracking ip addresses that are serving ads to i think they may have principles the b

know what you're talking about i have every right cato you don't know i couldn't tell first if you're doing nothing wrong you don't mind me if you're not but i'm not going to talk i need to go to europe of a corporate i'm an american you're american you're supposed to serve the people and that's what it's all about you have you should have no problem no problem at all right now officer if you're not doing anything wrong what's the role you feel most everybody. welcome back to adam vs the man what you just saw in new york city being confronted by cops unlawfully subverting his rights sadly they have general legal clearance for this kind of behavior since the courts have ruled repeatedly but it's ok for cops to lie to citizens in the course of duty without consequence of course thanks to our corrupt from top to bottom court system cops are generally able to get away with assaults kidnapping theft in this part of property when in the course of duty without consequence the best weapon that we have to fight back against cops is a video camera and no one is more familiar with that then adam

away your constitutional rights joining me to discuss this is julian sanchez research fellow at the cato institute julian thanks so much for being here tonight it was a pleasure i mean am i right or am i right i understand there is a need to combat piracy but this feels like a bit of a drastic measure to take you know musically feels like an industry that is not really come to terms with the fact that it enjoyed this incredible boom in the ninety's when lots of people were buying their entire vinyl and the second lections on cd and then once that was done and people could just transfer there he used to form that kind of boom of people rebuying the whole collection again one format string just doesn't happen again so they're sort of failing to come to grips with this you know trying to pretend that somehow if they can you know to clap hard enough and stamp out piracy you know the industry will be saved in this case here it's a really unusual kind of measure they're all kinds of situations in which there are warrantless inspections but it's usually not in the context of just ordinary crimi

which i know that we're all looking at this is is a you tube sensation as it's been but you know the cato institute an analyst says that these kind of searches and raids are have grown and that they often target nonviolent offenders for you know drug or insight we just saw and they've really increased violence i wonder what cost these kind of things happen on people's psyche in terms of what they think they're able to do and what the consequences could be you know it's absolutely shameful what happened there. you know what. you know one of the great lessons of history is that in the face of violent oppression people have great great courage when they have an eye for justice and time and time again they tend to win so i think that. you know that you know. these kinds of things are horrible but i don't think that in the end it will stop people from fighting for what they believe in which. a lot of people that i've interviewed or talked about this or write about this say that these kind of things breed a culture of fear eva things like the patriot act also twenty six hundred activists have b

you know and get this is my independent research on this and my work of the were a lot of work with cato and different things and it's this is huge because right now winners we could literally cut the intelligence budget by fifteen percent keep the exact same capability so we don't lose any capabilities but just cut down the waste and reports that aren't read and we can save something like forty billion dollars over a long period of time and there's other ways i think there's just simply waste where doesn't reduce our power but it reshaped the way that we structure the pentagon research reshapes the way that we interact with the pentagon for instance cutting down the civilian workforce things like good things we don't need really need that that is crucial that the the center right really needs to pick up on and take on i think not mr ellsworth said that specifically karl ryan. his claim was that this is all we can push for within the republican caucus corrected we can't we there's too much support within the republican party for this massive welfare program called the military industrial

not look like a good sign so your discuss this with me is julian sanchez a research fellow at the cato institute thanks so much for being here tonight. starters i don't know if that is that ironic is that just tragic already hearing about privacy and then hearing you know this official who says we want less of it it's. not very surprising though in fact one see also testified in a month or two ago. at a previous hearing that was about data retention. from justice and law enforcement really would like to use the law to require not just phone companies but all sorts of electronic communications providers to retain more and more data because they find it so useful but are now becoming frustrated because not all. phone companies keep the same amount of data for the same amount of time and it's actually an interesting kind of way of doing a little weird end run around the fourth amendment because the doesn't protect in the same way information that is stored by a third party like a telecom so they have this kind of clever two step they couldn't get these information from you directly withou