charles, go ahead. caller: mr. murray, pedro, thank for letting me speak.a couple of points i'd like to make. last book, i ur think "coming -- guest: yeah. book.r: i enjoyed that i would just, one point, i've with ly been involved college selection process and of course in my life, i've lived in areas and very affluent areas. i continuing is interesting, admission process, it's very interesting to me. self-select nothing one way of thought, people are saying on college is really one dominant thought and i think the people who make the selections, to see you explore that at some point. the second point, observation is last eight years, it as become so common place for young women to accept the fact that they are going to have children without their fathers it is across the board, increased, i continuing has gone african american community as 73% of all babies that are born do not have a dad. seems like that puts people behind the eight-ball. welfare uestion on the state. but when we have medical and government these programs designed, support going you have

i'm thrilled to be here with charles murray. so i'll frame our conversation very briefly but then it's going to be q and a with charles. so one of the most striking things about any conversation about poverty and afford mobility in 2016 is how the topic has changed from just six months ago. the conversation -- what has happened is the conversation has expanded beyond the people that we traditionally think of as the poor, poor people in cities, multi generational poverty. we are now also talking about the working class. some of us were thinking about the working class for 20 years. some ways, thanks to donald trump for waking us up to the problems of the working class. so why they are in the conversation now, two reasons. one is because they made themselves heard in this election. but they're also on our minds because the way things of the way things are changing in their communities. and they're not changing for the better. i call it working class decline. other people have other names for it. but the defining symptom is that the

charles murray, welcome. guest: thank you, pedro. host: could you give your assessment of the current welfare program or social safety net program as far as it is operating? do you think it is an efficient way of doing things? guest: it is crazy. we have $2 trillion a year we spent in transfers. we still have 13% poverty depending on what year you are talking about. we still have millions of elderly without the means to live with decent existence. it is crazy you can spend that much money and still have poverty be a serious problem. host: is the problem the money transfer itself or the rules attached? guest: it is a combination of things. it is not so much that we are paying thousands of bureaucrats. that is not the big deal. it is doled out and did 10 pieces. a lot of it is in kind. a lot of it gets lost in the pipeline. what we have now is a kind of patchwork of assistance that we try to target to individual needs. we do not do a good job of that. if we instead just gave people cash resources to make their own decisions about how t

you know, charles murray and his book coming apamplet he says you had the bottom wrings. social capital. >> sew yabble. society. they don't have it today. you lower taxing in the 1960's. it ben its. now now they don't. >> through yune that affects financial indense smuffer. s. take that season sun. that might change the decision of 40u to work. but it is sbive book. or whether to turn their lives around for the sake of their children? is he write or song? explain. and that is the case here too. this allow me to seg yament nto defending the. i like don't think that the. or expanding the. whoa insent jive people -- and uch the same way, it could . ve been to offensive d speed is not too late to make people nar rid. so the f his doubts road. then they could recommend anish fair. and i believe it it. . and that parents especially parents of a large family ren't exposed sbfmenter sbur challenges. unlike a large family. i the be. families size. if expanding the child yet were to increase the number of. they. they had been in. advance. which i deal with family size is larger tha

charles murray in his book "coming apart" said in 1960, you had the bottom rungs had social , theytedness, churches don't have it today. you lower taxes in the 1960's, it benefit -- the benefits go to people who have civil society. today they don't. he said this cannot be done through a uniform social policy that injects financial incentives into people's lives to nudge them into making different choices. that might change people's decisions about what -- how to consume but it is less likely to change their judgments about whether to marry or whether to turn their lives around for the sake of their children. is he right or wrong? explain. my disposition is always to believe he is right. to --at is the case here who do. this allows me to segue into saying the report child tax credit which has been beaten up think there, i don't purpose of the child credit is to incentivize people to have more kids. i think of it as the same way i think about the marriage penalty, the reduction of which has been consensus position for a lot of conservatives. the point of reducing the marriage penalty in the

the other book i recommend highly is by charles murray called "coming apart." it describes the rise of what he calls super zip codes, neighborhoods in which people are in the top 5% economically and in the top 5% in educational attainment. so he says, people from princeton, harvard and yale mary people from princeton, harvard and yale and they then have children they send to prep schools so they can go to princeton, harvard and yale and live in a zip code surrounded by other people that go to princeton, harvard or yale. when trump began to rise, none of them junld stood the power of "the apprentice," because it wasn't on pbs. it wasn't "downton abbey." i am going to close and take a few minutes of questions. i apologize i ran quite this long. this is a very important tushing point in american history. i cannot say to you too strongly, every day by inertia, by bureaucracy, by hostility, by the very definitions of the old order, every day, we will face active resistance trying to stop us from the revolution we need. so we need a movement nationwide. we need to ta

speech but they don't want charles murray speaking at the school because it affects the sensibilitythat he even steps foot on campus. i watched a lot of the stages and i want to get back to the way you introduce the section and i thought it was great that you started talking about pluralism. i think any time you pass anything like a speech code, you are making a very narrow statement of culture. and i think you're basically saying our culture -- this harvard campus culture is superior and meanwhile at stanford, i was pointing, while, it's weird, all of the acceptable views, one of the reasons why you don't see micro aggressions, for the elite colleges it's a 14-1 ratio if you're going to one of the elite schools and i think that universities have become so lop-sided in ideology, they can't see, in some cases administrators can't distinguish a good person should say from absolute truth and i always refer back to my father. my father is russian and my mother is british. my father would always teach me, the first rule of dealing with other cultures or people that aren't like you is try

on monday december 19 charles murray joins us to talk about his book, in her hands. her plan the plan to replace the welfare state. author mark levinson discusses his book, an extraordinary time in the postwar boom the return of the ordinary economy. thursday december 22 author james with twilight worriers, the soldiers, spies and special agents revolutionizing the american way of war. friday december 23 other kathy kramer with her book the politics of resentment. on saturday december 24, 2 authors join us time with a nation of nations, great american immigration story and robert jones with his book the end of white christian america. finally on sunday december 25, the author with shall we wake the president. be sure to watch others we can "washington journal" beginning sunday december 18 at 8:30 a.m. >> next, federal reserve chair janet yellen on the economy and the fed's decision to raise interest rates. then the father of a child killed in the sandy hook elementary school shooting speaks about gun violence prevention. later, afghanistan's ambassador talks while th

so we're really lucky to have charles murray here to talk to us about it. charles really emphatically does not need any introduction. he's the brady, w.h. brady scholar at the american enterprise institute. he's author of more important books than most of us can keep track of. losing ground, the bell curve, coming apart, mice stones in anybody's intellectual development over the past 20 years or more. and more than a dozen other books you don't know the names of. in many ways in my mind, charles is the dean of center right thinking about poverty and opportunity. so i'm pleased to be here with you. and you studied both the poorest of the poor, and working class. and you right you've been writing about working class decline since the 1990s. you were 20 years ahead of of else. you saw it much earlier. i'm hoping you can help us understand what's going on in working class communities today. help us understand what we're going to talk about a little bit is the similarities and the differences between working class poverty and poverty poverty, urban poverty. and a

december 19, author charles murray will talk about his book. on tuesday, author mark levinson will discuss his book " an extraordinary time." wednesday, author carol anderson will talk about her book "white rate." james with twilight warriors. 23, thefriday, december author of the book "policy of resentment." on saturday, december 24, two withrs will join us -- tom "a nation of nations," and theert jones with his book " end of white christian america." be sure to watch all this week on washington journal beginning december 18 at 8:30 a.m. eastern. now, a discussion on the potential, national security and foreign policy agenda for the first year of the trump administration. this is just under an hour. >> our final panel on a terrific day, and i really want to thank everyone for powering through three of these terrific discussions. havee really delighted to three of the best here. and i have gotten to work with all three of them over the last set of years, and this is really a terrific group of people. starting with our moderator and executive vi

charles murray, author of the book "in our hands" outlines his plan to dismantle all forms of welfarend replace it with an annual sum of $10,000 for life for those 21 years in order. watches c-span's "washington journal," life beginning at 8:00 a.m. eastern monday morning. announcer: british prime minister theresa may takes questions from the members of the house of commons. after that, new york senator charles schumer calls for a committee investigation into foreign hacking. outgoing u.n. secretary-general holds his end-of-the-year news conference. at 11:00 p.m., another chance to on the life of president james buchanan. on wednesday, british prime minister theresa may talked about the uk's role in offering humanitarian aid to syrians, health care for the elderly, combating racism, and the ongoing brexit negotiations. this is the final question time of the year. it is 45 minutes. >> questions to the prime minister.

charles murray was a well-known conservative economist with a book he wrote in the 1980s wrote a much more interesting book that was published several years ago called coming apart. it was just about the white population. so no racists here. and really an admirable heart for what is happening to the white population. for 50 years, every chart goes from 1960 to 2010 and here's the one that is most striking. for 40-year-old women, the percentage whose biological children are living with both parents decline over those 50 years from 85 to 40 percent, by more than half area and what happens to these children growing up in single parent families despite loss of income and a much higher percentage of poverty? they are less likely to complete high school, more likely to engage in crime. this is one thing that is a big one. >> we find greater control and other societies. that's a big question but i tell you other things we may reflect about. the first is that despite the sociologicaldecay , i know the family is changing, we have different ideas about what families constitute and thank god we

charles murray, author of the plan to our hands" and replace the welfare state authorizes his plan to dismantle welfare and replace it with an annual sum of $10,000 for life the 21 years and older. watch c-span's "washington journal live 7:00 a.m. monday morning. intelligence officials, security experts and professors on government surveillance and privacy concerns and the incoming trump administration's relationship with the intelligence community hosted by the cato institute. this is one hour 20 minutes. julian: good morning, and welcome to the cato institute. welcome virtually to all of you watching at home to the 2016 cato institute surveillance conference. something of a now annual tradition where we explore the array of diverse legal policy and technological issues surrounding government surveillance for both law enforcement and intelligence purposes. 2016 is a case in point of a possibly popular chinese curse may you live in interesting , times. for better or worse, the obama administration has shown us eight years of perhaps surprising continuity with its predecessor. that is

the other book i recommend highly is by charles murray called "coming apart." it's about white america and it has super zip codes. these are people on the top five percent economically and top 5% in educational attainment. he says people from princeton, harvard, yale mary people from princeton, harvard and yale and have children and are surrounded by other people who went to princeton, harvard and gail. -- yale. which is why when trump began to rise, none of them understood the power of "the apprentice." because it was not on pbs. [laughter] it was not "downton abbey." i apologize i ran this long but this is a very important turning point in american history. i cannot say too strongly that every day by inertia, by bureaucracy, by hostility, by the very definitions of the old order, every day, we will face active resistance trying to stop us from the revolution we need. we need a movement nationwide. across the country, whether you are in the school board or state legislature or just a citizen trying to help, we need to think through why is our side of this wate

another book that people close to trump read a couple years before he even campaigned was charles murray'sn't think i have ever read a book, and i read it -- i guess a year and a half ago, that better explains the rise of donald trump than that book. >> what's fascinating when you look at some of these studies, what are the things that make it harder to escape poverty. it's a mix of issues that the left emphasizes and the right emphasizes. yes, it is inequality. it's also family structure. growing up in with a area with fewer two-parent families makes it harder to escape poverty. >> sam stein, jump in. >> i wanted to jump off what david was saying about policy solutions to derive from this. what has gone unnoticed somewhat is one of the last major pieces of legislation president obama will sign is this bill called the 21st century cures act. i think it sort of summarizes our two steps forward, one step back approach to this. which is there's a billion dollars to address the opioid epidemic. a huge investment relative to where we were. funding for the cancer moonshot, the brain initiative,

monday december 19th charles murray will join us to talk about his book, "in our hands" the plans to replace the welfare state. tuesday, december 20th, mark levinson will discuss his book "an extraordinary time ". then on wednesday, december 21st, carol anderson will talk about her book, "white rage" the unspoken truth of our racial divide. thursday, december 22nd, "twielight warriors" friday december 23rd, the book "the politics of resentment." and the rise of scott walker. then on saturday, december 24th, two authors will join us, a great american immigration story and robert jones with his book "the end of white christian america" finally on sunday, december 25th, with "shall we wake the president." be sure to watch on washington journal beginning sunday december 18th at 8:30 a.m. eastern. >> lisa mon coassistant talked to reporters about the obama administration's record on fighting terrorism and addressing security threats around the world. she also answered questions about the white house transition to the trump administration. this hour-long event was hosted by the christian s

december 19th, charles murray talks about his become "in our hands." on tuesday, december 20th. author mark levinson doeses any book. an wednesday, author carol anderson will talk about her book "white range." and thursday, december 22nd, "twilight warriors. >>> and then on the 23rd, the politics of resentment, world consciousness in wisconsin and the rise of scott walker, on saturday two authors, "the end of white christian america. >>> and on sunday, "shall we wake the president? " to levels of disaster management. >> and we'll be live again here in about ten minutes at the state department for comments from secretary of state johnnue. kerry. >> at our table this more than, donna reduce hughes, the president and ceo of enough is enough. >> our organization is dedicated to making the internet safer foe children and family, we were the first internet safety organization. we started in 1994 witha focus on the internet before the world wide web was online. it was being developed but had not gone live yet. before e-mail. >> so, before melania trump, which is why we asked you to com

. >> charles murray is a scholarme at the american enterprise institute and the author of thio book:in our hands, a plan to replace the welfare state." welcome. could you give your assessment of the social safety met program and do you think it's an efficient way of doing things? >> guest: it'ses there. 2 trim a year we spend in -- $2 trillion a year we spend and we still have poverty, we have millions of elderly who are without the means to luff a deposit existence. it's crazy you can spend that much money and still have poverty be a serious problem. one refor writing the book. >> host: is this money transfer or the programmed. >> guest: it's a come brian nation of things. not so much we're paying thousands of bureaucrats. it's doled out in bits and pieces, a lot of it in kind, a lot of it gets lost in the pipeline. there is -- what we have now is a kind of patchwork of assistance that is -- we try to target to individual needs. we don't do a very good job of that. if we instead just gave people cash resources to make their own decisions about how to deal with their needs, i think y

monday, december 19th, charles murray will talk about his book "in our hands," a plan to replace the welfare state. on tuesday, december 20th, mark levinson, will discuss his book "an extraordinary time, the end of the post world boom and return of the ordinary economy." wednesday, december 21st, carol anderson will talk about her book, "white rage, the unspoken truth of our racial divide." and author james kitfield, "title warriors." revolutionizing the american way of war. and author cathy kramer with "the politics of resentment." the rise of scott walker. on saturday, december 24th, two authors will join us. tom geldon with "a nation of nation." an immigration story. and robert jones with "the end of white christian america." finally, sunday, disease 25th, tebby troy, "shall we wake the president." washington journal, beginning sunday, december 18th, at 8:30 eastern. >>> the senate foreign realizes committee recently held iran's role in supporting terrorists groups in the middle east and around the world. two pentagon officials chaired the hearing. it was chaired by senator bob co

the other book i recommend highly is by charles murray called "coming apart." and itout white america has super zip codes. these are people on the top five percent economically and top 5% in educational attainment. he says people from princeton, harvard, yale mary people from princeton, harvard and yale and surroundeden and are by other people who went to princeton, harvard and gail. which is why when trump began to rise, none of them understood the power of "the apprentice." because it was not on pbs. [laughter] ." was not "downton abbey this long butan this is a very important turning point in american history. i cannot say too strongly that every day by inertia, by bureaucracy, by hostility, by the very definitions of the old order, every day, we will face active resistance trying to stop us from the revolution we need. nationwide.vement across the country, whether you are in the school board or state legislature or just a citizen trying to help, we need to think through why is our side of this watershed where we tell the truth or the work ethic where we wan

monday, charles murray will join us to talk about his book, "in our hands." "extraordinary time."sday, carl rage." warriors." also on friday, kathy kramer with her book "the politics of resentment." saturday, two authors will join us. " and "theof nations end of white christian america." president?"ke the be sure to watch all this week on "washington journal ." >> "washington journal" continues. host: two guests joining us to talk about the influence of money in politics. served asim roemer representative of indiana. also joined with ray lahood kim , served as the transportation secretary from 2009-2013. welcome back. with a both affiliated group called issue one. what is that group? one, we think the most important issue in politics , whether you are concerned about guns, climate change, , issue one is concerned about our democracy and making sure the people own our government. we the people is what we are all about, not big money interests, not the billionaires telling legislators what to do. , aformed the group bipartisan group working together, 165 former members of congress,

charles murray will join us to talk about his book.n tuesday, mark levinson will talk about his book. wednesday, carol anderson will tug about her book about the unspoken truth of our racial divide. on thursday, "twilight warriors." , friday, december 23, the resentment."ics of on saturday, two authors will join us to talk about their books. finally, sunday, december twice "shall wedecember 25, wake the president?" authors week on "washington journal." 1, a livenuary discussion on the presidency of barack obama. we are taking your phone calls, tweets, emails, and facebook questions during the program. author of "the presidency in black and white" will be there at a princeton university professor. a pulitzer prize winning journalist and associate editor of the washington post. from noon toth" 3:00 p.m. eastern on sunday on booktv on c-span2. continues. journal host: joining us now from denver's former colorado lieutenant governor joe garcia, no with the western interstate commission for higher education, where he is president, and he is

because it will be all of us and that's hugely -- there's tons of human turmoil, we can talk about charles murray and putnam and the j.d. vance's new book on the shrinking of the institutions, but we're not talking about the underpinning of that, and the nature of work from stable life long jobs to unstable occasional part-time flex jobs where everybody is going to have to become a life long learner. so we haven't talked much about trade, but when people feel about anxiety right now, they're trying to project the things they're worried about on trade. trade is a big deal. where i'm from, there's a pretty broad consensus that trade is a big deal. if we had more trade with asia, nebraska which is the -- you know, we're known for our corn and football, but we're the largest cattle state in the union. in nebraska, if there's more trade with asia, you'll nd one a cheaper silverado and we'll end up with more beef markets for export. so trade is a win-win for nebraskans. trade is a win for all consumers nationally. trade is a net win for producers nationally but they're geographic and sub sector folks w

it's going to be all of us send their sons of human turmoil we can talk about charles murray and robert putnam, jd events is sv selling book on the shrinking about this mediating institutions. but we are not talking about the underpinning of that which is the transformation of the economy and the nature of work and stable lifelong jobs to unstable occasional part-time flex jobs for everybody has to become a lifelong learner. when people feel anxiety right now, they're trying to project the things they are worried about in the economy onto trading traders have been the big deal. four in five there's a broad consensus trade is a good deal. if we have more trade with asia, nebraska which we are known for quantum football, but were also the largest cattle state in the union. a nebraska is trade with asia whether you want to buy a japanese pickup or not you'll or not you'll end up with a cheaper at 150 and chevy silverado and more market for export. trade is a win-win for nebraskans. trade is a win for all consumers nationally. trade is a net win for producers nationally but their geographic

charles murray will join us to talk about his book in our hands, a plan to replace the welfare state.on wednesday, december 21st, author carol anderson will talk about her book, white rage, the unspoken truth of our racial divide. and james kitfield with try light warriors, the soldiers and spies and special agents revolutionizing the american way of war. on friday december 23k, kathy kramer with the book the policy of resentment, and the rise of scott walker. then on saturday, december 24th, two authors will join us, tom jeldin with a nation of nations, the great american immigration story, and robert jones with his book, the end of white christian america. and finally on sunday, december 25th, author tabby troy with shall we wake the president. two centuries of disaster management from the oval office. be sure to watch authors week on washington journal beginning on sunday december 18th at 8:30 a.m. eastern. >>> at an american bar association conference, four past administrators of the centers for medicare and medicaid talked about the challenges in implementing new federal health c

charles murray will join us to talk about his book in our hands, a plan to replace the welfare state.ednesday, december 21st, author carol anderson will talk about her book, white rage, the unspoken truth of our racial divide. and james kitfield with try light warriors, the soldiers and spies and special agents revolutionizing the american way of war. on friday december 23k, kathy kramer with the book the policy of resentment, and the rise of scott walker. then on saturday, december 24th, two authors will join us, tom jeldin with a nation of nations, the great american immigration story, and robert jones with his book, the end of white christian america. and finally on sunday, december 25th, author tabby troy with shall we wake the president. two centuries of disaster management from the oval office. be sure to watch authors week on washington journal beginning on sunday december 18th at 8:30 a.m. eastern. >>> at an american bar association conference, four past administrators of the centers for medicare and medicaid talked about the challenges in implementing new federal health care

murray mecklenburg co. district attorney "after a thorough review and given the totality of the circumstances and this case, it is my opinion that officer vincent acted lawfully when he shot mr. scott." charles monnett scott family attorney "we still have real questinos about the decisions that were made that day in terms of how they confronted keith, how they reacted to the information that he had a brain injury, and whether they used appropriate de- escalation techniques to end this situation that didn't end in a way that didn't result in the loss of keith scott's life." the scott's to say they were prepared for an emotional day, no matter the outcome. in missouri... a big pipeline explosion lit up the sky overnight. it happened outside kansas city... and people who live nearby say they could see the bright flames but did not feel the explosion itself. the explosion went off on an underground line carrying liquid propane.... officials aren't sure what caused it to rupture. no one was hurt... and crews shut the pipeline off and got the fire out in a couple of hours. in california... one person is dead and several other hurt after the side of the freeway and landed on top of a homeless encam