he is a research director with the independence institute and a policy analyst with the cato institute in washington. before joining the independence institute, he served as an assistant attorney general for the state of colorado. known fortionally his expertise in national firearms policy. ," was namedamurai of the year by the american society of criminology, division of international criminology. and resident of colorado expert on firearms policy, dave will bring an interesting and resourced viewpoint on the issue of gun control on the point of view of a coloradan seeing all of these new gun laws he made here at home under our gold dome. trevor burress is a research fellow at the cato institute center for constitutional studies based in washington d.c.. ms. richards -- his interests include constitutional law and criminal law. his work has appeared in several law reviews in agazines and ripped he holds ba philosophy from the university of colorado at boulder and a jd from the university of denver college of law. trevor is often do go to expert by the washington d.c. expert firearms e

libertarian party so i think they absolutely have libertarian roots but still even though the cato institute you could argue have done some things that are that are you know in the vein of civil liberties and and good on some foreign policy issues i mean you can argue that they've they're there you can find a buyer of the l a times chicago tribune i mean these are things that are you think that's good for billionaire brother venture capitalist to be buying up media everywhere and you know from my viewpoint the koch brothers really are all about free markets all about free markets they're all about civil liberties they're they're all about the role of active in. the you know i do believe that i do believe that well let's talk about the free market i mean would you support legislation like reinstating legend like glass steagall and if not how do you prevent monopolies from forming or do you think that's all about i do think about those things and i think glass steagall would be something you know looking at it. it seems like a commonsense thing to do but i will tell you that even the most comm

cato institute hosts a discussion about the oversight of federal boards and commissions created under the dodd-frank financial regulations law and the affordable care act. participants include a former white house counsel in the first theh administration aned health policy studies director trump the cato institute. that is at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. na monday night, ane tyler, andeticia julia tyoler. is like the madonna of first ladies. she posed as a model at a time when that was frowned upon. she was known as the rows of long island, by all accounts was bewitching spirit-- rose of long island. she bewitched 57-year-old john tyler, who married her. she loved being first lady. she had a job for less than a year. it was julia tyler who ordered the marine band to play "hail to the chief" whenever the president appears. she greeted guests while sitting on a throne on a raised platform with purple plums in her hairbru. -- hair. that marthale washington had rejected. >> tonight live a 9:00 eastern on c-span and c-span3. also on c-span radio and c- span.org. reduce ouruester will gran

group of outspoken scientific contrarians, like climatologist pat michaels of the libertarian cato institute. >> every paragraph can be contended. >> hockenberry: willie soon is an astrophysicist who studies the sun and stars. >> ...a mechanism to transport anything from the tropics to the arctic... >> they cannot fit northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere... >> hockenberry: and fred singer, the veteran scientist at these proceedings. he's a retired physicist once responsible for government weather satellites, who tells people the climate needs no help from worried humans. >> climate, to me, has become a non-issue. it's a phantom issue. there's nothing wrong with climate. it will change no matter what we do. it'll get colder, it'll get warmer. we just have to wait a little. >> hockenberry: singer says he's dedicated to explaining his theories about global warming. what keeps you going? what's your motivation? >> basically i like to see good science being done and protected. i think i'm fighting here for scientific truth. that's important to me. >> hockenberry: do you think the science i

and jeffrey myron from the cato institute brought us that number and jeffrey, welcome back. see you again. >> nice to see you. stuart: 20 billion dollars, it seems like a low number because you know, if you're not paying for all of this law enforcement, and all those people in prison because of weed offenses, and yet, taxing marijuana where it's sold legally, it seems like 20 billion is a low number. justify it. >> well, first of all, over the past several decades, marijuana has become a lower and lower priority for law enforcement, so, absolutely, we're still making lots of arrests for marijuana and some encarnacions, but not nearly to the extent that we did, 10, 15, 20 years ago, the emphasis shifted to other drugs. and although marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug, it's 6% of the population that says it uses marijuana so it's one product of many, many, many products to take a related example, alcohol of course is a big industry and brings in about 25 billion a year, okay, in tax revenues, but that's based on 50 to 60% of the population using alcohol. so, my numb

here, research director at the independence institute and the says the policy is to do with the cato instituteon and adjunct professor of advanced constitutional law at the university of denver's stern college of law. before joining the independence institute he served as an assistant attorney general for the city colorado. it is -- he is nationally recognized for his expertise and firearms policy. his book, the samurai, should america ad dubbed the gun controls of other democracies, named book of the year by the american society of criminology, the division of international chronology. as a president -- i'm sorry, as a resident of colorado and expert on firearms policy, dave will bring an interesting and resource viewpoint on the issue of control from the point of view of a colorado and seeing all these gun laws being made right here at home under our goldome. trevor burris is a research fellow at the cato institute's center for constitutional studies based in washington d.c. his research interests include constitutional and criminal law. his work is appeared in several newspapers, magazines,

with more with the confusion had, michael cannon, the director of health policy studies at the cato institutehank you for coming on. why can't we get a straight answer about the cost of this? wire the costs rising? >> blasting the obama administration wants is for anyone to know the cost of this law. the cost is spread out among federal agencies. we pick out individual parts, we find the projections, like you said. like you said, kathleen sibelius has been spending lots of money to encourage them to implement the law. earlier this year, they said they would be spending $2 billion by the end of the year. but now we learn it will be more than twice that amount to an you say the devil is in the details. look at the insurance exchanges. we were told 4.4 billion and now we are told it will be more than that. but can we trust her for numbers >> that is the cost of driving the states. states don't want to do it. only one third of the state say that they want to run these exchanges because this is going to be a disaster. and they don't want to take responsibility for it. the federal government has to

trade specialist at the cato institute.sts americans about $3 billion per year in higher prices. >> events and the difference between prices and domestic, but they were between 700 million in 2011 almost $4 billion per year. john: it is not a direct subsidy , but the price -- explain it. >> that's right. we don't actually give money ted sugar growers combat except in exceptional circumstances like what jay leno was referring to. what we do is we shall support to these farmers by keeping prices high. the way we do that is by as letting the market. domestic supply, something called marketing allotments, and we limit imports. john: out of this come to be? this is sugar. we are supposed to sugar. >> right. we have had sugar tariffs since 1789. there is a sugar act of 1934 that added to the program. john: to protect the american sugar industry. >> and this comes about through three main sectors, all political. first of all, we have to make you like, a very powerful group that spends a lot of money on lobbying. they are a sma

. >> dan mitchell, the cato institute.nks for joining us. >> remember these help wanted ad inside employers telling the unemployment, don't bother applying. well, now, new york city passing a law to give jobless applicants the green light to sue employers over claims they were reject because of their unemployment status. will this law just backfire on everybody? legal eagles, jennifer and heather, try this, as we call this segment. heather, it would seem this law just inviting an avalanche of litigation. >> that's exactly right. and it don't see how it is improving the unemployment situation. the only way is it's going to improve unemployment is lawyers. about it's going to have defense attorneys teaching the companies they represent how to comply with these laws. >> jennifer, if you're on the other side of this one, and i suspect you are, how would spun prove that they were discriminated against because they were unemployed and didn't get the job? >> plaintiffs will have a difficult time proving it: in the same way they h

trade specialist at the cato institute.sts americans about $3 billion per year in higher prices. >> events and the difference between prices and domestic, but they were between 700 million in 2011 almost $4 billion per year. john: it is not a direct subsidy , but the price -- explain it. >> that's right. we don't actually give money ted sugar growers combat except in exceptional circumstances like what jay leno was referring to. what we do is we shall support to these farmers by keeping prices high. the way we do that is by as letting the market. domestic supply, something called marketing allotments, and we limit imports. john: out of this come to be? this is sugar. we are supposed to sugar. >> right. we have had sugar tariffs since 1789.. there is a sugar act of 1934 that added to the program. john: to protect the american sugar industry. >> and this comes about through three main sectors, all political. first of all, we have to make you like, a very powerful group that spends a lot of money on lobbying. they are a sm

according to the pro-free market cato institute, india would today have fewer impoverished people, 175lion fewer. that's why india's recent drop in economic growth is alarming. those most affected would be the poor. africa is also changing, but for its poorest, changes still come slow. look at this graph. since 1981, poverty rates have been dropping steadily in both the developing world and the world as a whole, but in s subsuheron africa it has gotten worse. only recently began to turn the corner thanks in part to larger, faster economic growth. china deserves most of the credit and thanks to the communist party of china, we now know that the path to poverty is capitalist led growth. >>> up next, how technology can detect terrorist. google executive chairman back from north korea and myanmar joins me. man: how did i get here? dumb luck? or good decisions? ones i've made. ones we've all made. about marriage. children. money. about tomorrow. here's to good decisions. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to u

joining me the ceo of alternative lender and the director of financial regulation studies from the cato instituterk, i want to go to you first. you were listening during the last discussion. what did you think of what the senator had to say? >> obviously i'm fairly sympathetic with the concern. i don't want a debate about numbers. i don't think the proof is ironclad. i think evidence suggests to me that too big to fail, i'm skeptical of the bloomberg number but i believe it's real. i believe there is a subsidy out there but i --. melissa: it is real but is this the right way to solve the problem? >> that is the correct question. i think too big to fail is political problem caused by willingness of regulators in government to throw money at failing banks. i don't think there is anything inherently bad about a large bank. i do think the solution needs to be how do we tie hands of regulators and tie the hands of government? for instance, we have $100 billion treasury called the exchange stabilization fund which was set aside in the '30s to manage the gold dollar parity. there is no reason that treas

. -- lists include from the cato institute this is one hour and a half.n may 21, 2000 thousand to the american democrats and republicans -- which pledged to dance the creation of a broadbased gender sensitive and fully represented government in afghanistan. those goals were in keeping with the december 2001 bond agreement. the united states and international community have helped -- pledged to promote lasting peace, respectability for human rights in the country. nearly 11 years later amid a labor -- amid a daily parade of reports citing human-rights violations and rampant parity in large-scale corruption, afghanistan continues to face serious obstacles. what went wrong? typically here is one of two responses. the first is that president george w. bush squandered america's quick and easy victory. but both committee and insufficient number of troops in the beginning and redirecting our energies to iraq, he enabled the top and to resurface. the second explanation for what went wrong was the president barack obama correctly shifted america's focus back to af

according to the pro-free market cato institute if those reforms had taken place two decades earlier,ia would have fewer impoverished people. 175 million fewer. that's why india's drop in economic growth is alarming. those most affected would be the poor. africa's also changing, but for its poorest change is still too slow. look at this graph. since 1981, poverty rates have been dropping steadily in the developing world and the woeld as a whole but in sub-saharan africa it got worse in the '80s and '90s. it only recently begun to turn the corner thanks in large part to faster economic growth. global poverty is falling but china deserves most of credit and thanks to the communist party of china we know the path to poverty and alleviation is capitalist-led growth. >>> up next, how technology can detect terrorists and defeat repressive regimes. google's executive chairman, back from north korean and myanmar joins me. [ female announcer ] the only patch for the treatment of mild to moderate alzheimer's disease is exelon patch. now with more treatment options, exelon patch may improve over

joining us now from washington chris edwards from the cato institute.ou think it's a much higher theft ratio and we will get to that in a moment. but, first, why do you think so many americans are getting food stamps? is it purely because ever the dicey economy? >> it's partly the economy, but both presidents bush and then obama have hugely expanded eligibility and benefit levels for the food stamp program. to give you one example, president bush changed the law and lo allowed immigrants to get food stamps. immigrants barred from food stamps. one must be on this in the poverty hasears the number gone up 10 million but the number on food stamps have gone up 20 million. so you can see it's not just a poverty problem. it's this expansion in eligibility under the last few administrations that is the real problem here. >> bill: the government expands because they want to be humane though. you say it's a problem. isn't it a humane thing to do to get people who don't have a lot of money the ability to buy better food. >> old fashioned welfare program. the whol

the top ten -- we'll just talk about the top ten -- are the american enterprise institute, the cato institute, the competitive enterprise institute, the heartland institute, the heritage foundation, the hudson institute, the institute for energy research, the george c. marshal institute, the manhattan institute, and the mehr kay did -- andthe mercada center. who is giving? charles koch is the chairman and c.e.o. of koch industries. he is the sixth-richest person on the planet. koch industries is the second-largest privately held company in the united states of america. koch companies include the koch pipeline company and flint hills resources which operates refineries with a combined crude oil capacity of more than 292 million barrels per year. that much oil accounts for 126 million metric tons of carbon pollution each year, as much as 35 coal-fired power plants produce or 26 million cars. so to put it mildly, this fellow has got some skin in the game. between 2006 and 2010, the charles g. koch foundation gave almost $8 million to think tanks and institutes, including $7.6 million to the merc

he is able to say he cut lines in the dmv, he was rated number one by the cato institute.like to think they're forgiving. let's not forget that, especially when it comes to politicians. >> i'm very forgiving about all of that. let's listen to more of that debate last week. >> people kept calling, kept calling, they said mark, you need to do this because here is a chance for you to learn not only from your experience in congress and governorship but more significantly what you learned on the way up and on the way down and apply it to what is arguably one of the great could nun drums of the situation, how do you get the financial house in order. should i make it, that's what i intend to do. >> nia, what fascinates me, exactly what do you think he learned on the way down about how to get our financial house in order? >> right. absolutely nothing. on the way down, he had to pay a $70,000 ethics fine. the largest ethics fine in south carolina history. but there you have him trying to explain where he is and where he wants to go. i think he benefits from the fact he was never so

i have offered -- i would love to see a debate between paul cordman and the head of the cato institute, for example. i think we should try to raise $100,000 for cancer research. that pull klugman debate a prominent conservative economist so so as not to make an egg go, two or three of each side. but they don't debate. they call us names. i of you believe major should be between a man and a woman, then you are called a hater. so, who wants to debate haters? i wouldn't debate the klu klux klan. that's how the left feels. if you are not on the left, you're a hater. you are sexist,en tolerant, racist and bigoted. howard dean, candidate for u.s. president, said that republicans that good to bed at night not caring about the welfare of children. this is typical of how we are perceived. and that is what sustains leftism, because right -- the right must be so awful i better be on the left because i have a good heart. >> host: where did you grow up? brooklyn new york. my father, who is still with us, is 94, and will be on my radio show on his birthday, as he has been every year for years. was u

went to work at the cato institute. i love coming back here because this is where my heart is. mary katharine had some excellent points. i get to do a lot of these things and usually i don't have as friendly an audience. i usually assume everyone thinks i'm crazy when i open my mouth because i'm a libertarian. one of the things i've realized about gun control advocates is they are in in their heads, they are in their hearts hearts. and we should be in our hearts too. the simple fact is for advocates, what they feel owards decpwuns disgust. when you say we are going to put guns in schools to stop other ghuns schools, their immediate thought is contamination. and that is fine. but what really is a contaminant is when someone goes into a gun free zone which is like a diversity zone. when someone goes into a victim zone and kills a bunch of kids. there is another thing that guides gun control advocates too which is the view of prohibition. i talk to a lot of crowds and i ask them two crowds, who is disgusted by guns and i get a lot of hands. and who think that is a civilized societ

cato institute. people who you usually agree with, say this is going to be a shot in the arm for the economy because we'll take people in who will create jobs and prevent people coming in from lowering wages and taking away american jobs. that's such a logical approach. it's logical -- >> it's logical that if you bring in a massive supply of low-wage workers, you're going to pull the workers down. >> they're already here, though. >> well, you're -- >> that's the point, isn't it? >> you're bringing in huge more numbers of legal workers, chuck. and the ag people you've been listening to are getting what they want. it will impact and -- >> very quickly -- >> and i have to -- >> senator schumer? >> jonathan, the bottom line is very simple. the number of illegal people will greatly decrease. and the number of legal people will not equal the number of illegals who cross the border. they will have to be part -- let me just finish. they will have to be part of our society. they will not be able to bring down

to be shown not only to be really rather thuggish in their political behavior, but even in the cato institutes going in a direction they didn't like, they fired the executive director. >> steve, what's their record in the media? there is no record. so you cannot as describe that to them. >> i think -- >> i think turner has given billions of dollars to left wing causes. are you ready to say right now he should never be involved in the media anywhere, ever again? >> no. because he keeps his hands off newsrooms. >> all right. i just think steve pearlstein, if it happens, if the koch brothers do this, you ought to give them a chance because these guys are good businessmen. and they know that a biased news slant is not going to sell papers for long. the editorial page is different. that's what rupert murdoch proved. other people are proving the same thing. i think, yeah, your reporters can walk off the job but wind up losing their job. why don't you talk to the koches, interview the koches. >> yeah, that's -- >> they're businessman. good businessmen. they're good businessmen, steve. all right, you

[applause] >> well, thanks to lou and the cato institute for putting this panel together. also i have to start off, with i was going to ask you to do this, but i have to start out with a disclaimer that says the views that i'm about to present to you are mine and not necessarily those of the u.s. government or the department of defense. so now having said that, let me, i am serving army colonel, and i teach history at west point, and i consider myself to be a student of history. and so if you don't mind, i'd like to start off with some history. and to talk about the american war in vietnam and pose this question of what went wrong for this panel in afghanistan to the question that people were asking, um, shortly after the united states lost its first war in vietnam as to what went wrong with the war in vietnam. and more specifically, why did the united states lose the war in vietnam? and what came to be, i think, understood is that the reason why i think the right answer for why or what went wrong be many vietnam and why the united states lost was that the united states lo

it adds up to the cato institute rating me as financially most conservative governor of the united states of america. it adds up to being the first gotschor of the united states of america to actually turn back stimulus money at a time when it was anything but popular. [cheers and applause] >> i simply make those points to underscore a larger point which is i think if we are ever going to get our hands around a whole host of issues in washington, d.c. is what we need is leadership and what has been shown in my time in washington and columbia is a consistent willingness to lead on financial matters. [applause] >> thank you both very much. the first question is on the topic of immigration and goes first to you, governor sanford. and then you'll have a chance, also, to answer with one minute each first. senator lindsey graham and the bipartisan gang of eight has offered an immigration plan that offers a path to citizenship, awards workers and researchers who have advanced skills, while mandating increased border security. would you vote for the graham bill? why or why not? >> i would not vot

afternoon, y everybody, and welcome to the cato institute. i'm jim harper director of information policy studies here at cato. pleased, in a way, to welcome you here to talk about the governmentat impinges on your travel. and directseillance indrawin indrawin intrusion intrusion. talk about we'll that different but related and s with the government trav travel. irst we will hear from ed hasbrook. him give this i thought more people need to travel nd the intimate surveillance the government law cts over all of us, abiding and law breaking. a full will have regarding n from him his research in this area. after that we will turn to the news topics the rule making in strip regarding ginger ch machines. mccall will talk about that with the introduction of a rulemaking the part of the t.s.a. with aul making required by court order and the t.s.a. having aken 20 months to produce two regulatory language and 52 pages of justification for the regulation it has proposed. a couple of internet notes for hose watching online on c-span or here in the room th

i am jim harper, director of information policy studies here at the cato institute. i'm so pleased to welcome you here today to talk about all of the ways that the government infringes on travel. we only talk about the major ways that they do. so today will be to different but related issues of the government and travel. first, we will hear from edward hasbrouck. when i saw him give this presentation at the brennan center for justice a few months ago, i thought, more people need to see and understand the intimate travel surveillance that the government conducts over all of us, law abiding citizens when we try to run the country where the world. we will have a full presentation from edward hasbrouck regarding his research, which i think is very interesting and very concerning. and then ginger mccall will talk to us about the introduction of a rulemaking with the tsa and the strip search being required by court order. the tsa took 20 months to produce two sentences of regulatory language and only some of the language was used that was proposed. we welcome you who are l

tomorrow, the cato institute looks at aviation security and governance -- government surveillance at noon eastern. discussion of the government plan to close nearly 150 air traffic control towers due to sequestration cut. from "washington journal," this is 40 minutes. at thee are looking control tower and surrounding area in lakeland, florida. it is expected to close on april 21 due to sequestration. here to talk about what is in store for control towers, the former inspector general of the transportation department. they do so much for joining us from south carolina this morning. located? these towers >> these hours are located all over the country, and most of them are contract hours. i worked on these as inspector general. we determined they had such little air-traffic activity that they were selected for a program where the tower activities are actually performed by contractors, and the faa pays the contractor to perform those services for the united states government, and these are some of the 149. there are actually 250 contract towers. here is the difference. over 19,000 airpo

the airport security procedures are the subject of an event hosted by the cato institute. it is one hour and 20 minutes. >> good early afternoon and welcome to the cato institute auditorium. i am jim harper director of information policy studies here and i am very pleased in away to welcome you year-to-date to talk about all the ways through surveillance and direct intrusion on your experience as a traveler. on second thought, we won't talk about all of them but in the major ways they do. today's event is something of a two-fer. we are going to talk about different but related issues with the government and the trouble. first we will hear from edward to it when i saw him give this presentation at the center for justice at nyu a few months ago, i thought that more people need to see this. more people need to understand the internet travel surveillance that the government conducts over all of us law-abiding and lawbreaking when we try to move the country were moved around the world. so first we are going to have a full presentation from edward hasbrouch letcher think is inte

the koch brothers funded cato institute, heritage foundation as well as americans for prosperity, a tea that rattles the editor-in-chief of the rap.com a hollywood website who writes, koch brothers are known for fun nilling millions of doll into right-wing and ultraright-wing political campaigns. this should make anyone who cares about journalism nervous. the chandler family founded "l.a. times" in 1838 as conservative paper. no complaints were raised after reports democratic billionaires ron burkle and eli brogue were interested in big the "new york times" and. freedom. press goes to the guy who owns one. is it red or blue? it is green. money. tribune company just emerged from chapter 11 for the second time and the koch brothers bid may be the best because they want to buy all eight tribune newspapers together. the hollywood suitors? they want to buy only "the l.a. times". lori: did i detect a hint of sarcasm? melissa: i like that. right and ultraright-wing. >> there you go. melissa: dennis, thank you. melissa: that was great. as we do every 15 minutes let's check the markets. mark new

first, michael kamen is the director of policy studies here at the cato institute.e has been at the forefront of measures to challenge the affordable care act both at the federal and the state levels. he's the author of several policy papers on the impact of the affordable care act, including a paper on the constitutionality of the ipab and is a commentator on health policy in the media. his most recent policy paper, and i have it here, 50 votes, how states can stop the obama health care law is available online. please welcome michael cannon. [applause] >> thank you luis and trevor and all of you for coming here today it's 50 vetoes help the states can stop the obama health care law because there is the law itself and the supreme court is keeping the provision and with that that isn't what we are here to talk about today. i would like to start actually a little off topic as well. i want to start my remarks the same way i began a radio show this morning which is to wish my father a happy 72nd birthday. he is supposed to be joining us today. i think that he is on boar

here now, the author of that, doug bandow who is with the cato institute.ning us ambassador john bolton, fox news contributor and former ambassador to the u.n. doug, a different perspective for us today. why do you believe this. >> north korea is a evil regime but i don't believe they're stupid. they know they would lose a war. they want is attention. they gotten everything they want. they are driving the agenda. washington officials running around looking how silly how dangerous this all is. i think what we want to do is downplay this. it maintains no sense to put conventional forces within reach of their mills sills when the south koreans are capable of defending themselves. this is problem for their neighbors. it is a nasty regime but not something we should fixate on like we've done. jenna: ambassador bolton, what is the risk of downplaying this. >> i think the are north koreans are a threat to the united states, to our allies in the region, south korea and japan in particular. they have a million man army and nuclear and biological weapons. they are no

welcome to the cato institute auditorium. ofm jim harper, director information policy studies here at cato. i am very pleased in a way to welcome you here today to talk about all the ways that the government in pages on your travel through surveillance and direct intrusion on your variance as a traveler. on a second thought, i want to talk about all of them, some of the major ways that they do. twoill talk about different but related issues with the government and the travel. first, we will hear from edward hasbrouck. when i saw him give this presentation at nyu a few months ago, i thought more people need to see this and understand the intimate travel surveillance that the government conducts over all of us law abiding and lawbreaking alike when we try to move around the country and the world. first, full presentation from edward hasbrouck regarding his research in this area, which i think is very interesting and concerning. after that, we will turn to the .ewsy topic, the tsa rulemaking ginger mccall will talk to us about th

hosted by the cato institute, this is an hour and a half. >> my pleasure to welcome you to the event,war in afghanistan: what went wrong?" republican and democratic lawmakers passed the afghanistan freedom support agent in 2002 which pledged no less than four times to advance the creation of a, quote, broad based multiethnic gender sensitive and fully representative government in afghanistan, unquote. those goals were in keeps with the 2001 bond agreement in which the united states and the international community pledged to help, quote, end the conflict in afghanistan and promote reconciliation, lasting peace, stability, and republic for human rights in the country, unquote. nearly 11 years later, a daily parade of reports detailing human rights abuses, bloody insurgent attacks, chronic political instate, and rampant petty and large scale corruption, afghanistan continues to face serious obstacles. what went wrong? typically, here's one of two responses. the first is that president george w. bush squandered america's quick and easy victory committing troops in the beginning and redist

[applause] >> tanks to the cato institute for putting the panel together.have to start off with a disclaimer that says the views that i am about to present to you are mine and not necessarily those of the u.s. government or the department of defense. am serving that, i army colonel and i teach history at west point. i consider myself to be a student of history. i would like to start off with some history. the american war in vietnam and pose this instion of what went wrong afghanistan, to the question that people were asking, shortly after the united states lost its first four to vietnam. what went wrong with the war in vietnam, and why did the united states lose? what came to be understood is that the reason why -- the right answer for what went wrong in vietnam is that the united dates lost the war because it failed at strategy. strategy in the vietnam war should have discerned early on that the war was unwinnable, based on a moral and material costs that the american people were willing to pay. strategy also failed to appreciate in the post-world war ii

that is live from the institute at noon eastern -- cato institute.ot, senior adviser president obama talks about her role in the white house and about women in politics. she spoke with linda douglass of atlantic media. this is 55 minutes. .> thank you, elizabeth thank you very much and all of you for being here. thank you, valerie. i will take you a couple of things about her before we get started. full disclosure, we used to work together on the first obama presidential campaign. heri get the chance to ask all those questions that i always wanted to ask. [laughter] is a senior adviser to president obama. she oversees the white house office of public engagement, an important office to the president. also the head of the council on women and girls. she was the senior official in many capacities in the city of chicago and was the chief executive officer of the habitat company. she is a lawyer and has practice in a couple of law firms. she has gone from law to private business and now to the very top position, one of the very top positions in the white

the cato institute commissioned a study a few years back using a model originally designed to estimate the impact of trade. they found the economic impact was bigger, but it's not clear that model even applies to immigration. they largely ignored the actual physical characteristics of immigrants like their use of social services. more recently, douglas will take in, in an article, argued that immigrant induced population growth would generate large fiscal benefits or increases in per capita gdp, but he also ignored academic literature and ignored development ladder truck that looked at the impact of population growth on a per- capita gdp if that does not show a big benefit. and he never mentioned in his paper and the impact of legalizing illegal immigrants. >> thank you. >> could i say one more sentence? in conclusion, if we decide to go ahead with this, after be honest with the american people and make it clear it comes with very large as costs. >> our next witness is grover norquist. here patiently all day. go ahead. >> good to be with you. thank you. people are an asset. they are no

that's hosted by the cato institute. and we also have live coverage here on c-span2 this afternoon. at 4:30 eastern, we'll bring you remarks by former treasury secretary hank paulson. he's speaking about u.s./china economic and environmental policy changes at george washington university. again, that's live at 4:30 here on c-span2. >> you're watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs. weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events. and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our web site, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> investigative reporter seymour hersh spoke to journalism students at indiana university in february about his experiences chasing stories, ethical standards and the use of anonymous sources. this is 90 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. good evening. thank you for joining us. investigative journalists are described by the scholars james and theodore glasser as custodians of conscious. investigative reporti

[applause] >> live this afternoon on c-span2 the cato institute holds a discussion on the oversight ofes of legislation passed in 2010. >> the sequester will reduce our grants by about 5% which reveille equates to $22 million or so. we shall be distributed amongyÑ÷ the various licensees and stations that i have described. so we have in fact taken about a 13% cut in our overall federal funding over the last two years and if the entire federal government had to stay in the cuts that we have sustained the budget would be $500 billion smaller than it is now. so we feel like we have made a significant contribution to deficit reduction and retirement of the federal debt within our own context. >> julia i think is the madonna. she loved publicity. she actually posed as a model at a time when that was needless to say frowned upon and she was known as the rows of long island by all accounts was bewitching and certainly bewitched 57-year-old john tyler who married her and she loved being first lady. it was julia tyler who ordered the marine band to play hail to the chiefs whatever the president

c-span3 will be live this afternoon with a cato institute discussion on the war in afghanistan. experts will discuss the challenges of achieving regional stability. that will be on c-span3 today at noon eastern. >> where is the perfect ability ? what are the assurances that this committee and the senate has as to where you will be, given the background and history? >> as a teenager and into my ,arly 20s, i was a socialist hardly seems to me to indicate fundamental instability. as winston churchill said, any man who is not a socialist before he is 40 has no heart. and a man who is a socialist after 40 has no head. i think that kind of evolution is very common in people. >> of those two characters you saw, one was the einstein of the law, the other the einstein of the senate. burke was brilliant. . brilliant judge he taught antitrust law. he wrote the book. here these two guys were meeting and they were passing like to trains. never did they come together on anything. >> more with tom korologos sunday night at 8:00. >> they had a very political marriage, much like john and abigail

and to steve hank key who not only has a perch at the cato institute and johns hopkins, he was named one of the 25 most influential people in the world in 1998 by world trade magazine. but if you really want to know why you should think he has credibility, it's important to note that he grew up in atlantic, iowa, which is a very trustworthy place. iowa is a place where things grow, and so we, we're really happy to have everyone here. dambisa, let's start with you. your book, "winner take all," really looks at how china has embarked on this incredible resource rush, if you will, of commodities. talk about sort of both the political and the financial implications of them doing that. is it a good thing, is it a bad thing? >> so thank you very much. i'm glad to be here. in order to answer the questionfectively, i think it's really important to set the global context of where china's operating, and very quickly, if i may, just remind people in the room and elsewhere that there are two key drives of commodities which are obvious on the one side we've got demand pressures and effectively wh

i have offered -- i would love to see a debate between paul cordman and the head of the cato institute for example. i think we should try to raise $100,000 for cancer research, paul klugman debate an economist, or two or throw on each side. but they don't debate. they call us names. of you believe marriage should be between a man and am woman you are called a hater. who wants to debate haters? i wouldn't debate the klu klux klan. that's how the left feels. i you're not on the left you're a hater. you are sexist intoll rant, racist and big gotted. howard dean, candidate for u.s. president, said that republicans that go to bed at night not caring about the welfare of children. this is typical of how we are perceived. and that's what sustains leftism. because right -- the right must be so awful i better be on the left because i have good heart. >> host: where do you grow up in. >> caller: brooklyn new york. my father, who is still with us, is 94, and will be on my radio show on his birthday as he has been every day for years. was until very recently a certified public account. i'm one of

rich history today and the political leaders and the institutional base, and you mentioned before some of the friendly competitors downtown like cato, aei, and others with whom we work americans for tax reform -- i'll leave somebody else but that's dangerous, but they were not there 40 years ago when we were youngsters and you were central to the goldwater camp. by the way, the sunday before election in 1964, the "philadelphia bulletin" called me saying you're the highest ranking goldwater volunteer we can find in eastern pennsylvania, what's going to happen in philadelphia? [laughter] that's big stuff for 23 years old. [laughter] i said, well, if we lose philadelphia by less than a hundred thousand votes, barry will carry the state of pennsylvania. it probably was true. the problem was we lost philadelphia by 400,000 votes and lost the state by a million. [laughter] pennsylvania was not strong goldwater country, but my appointment is -- my point is that was -- that was tough politically back then. now, my gosh i basically good guys have got control of one-half of the congress, at least, basically good guys. they need reenforcing.