it doesn't mean it's the most cohesive and coherent and organic. it has this trait whereby it's very difficult to separate the parts of the regime in syria as you would be able to in egypt. in egypt you have to some extent, a modicum of autonomy for the army and also for other parts of the regime. and this can be debated to the extent in terms of the extent to which the autonomy of these institutions of the regimes in egypt exist. but certainly in syria, the autonomy of the different parts of the regime. whether we're talking about bureaucracy, army, security services and the top leadership, it's very difficult to try to institutions. had makes it very difficult for a solution which is akin to egypt and tunisia's quote-unquote solution, where the head of state departs, as a result of some sort of bargain, usually pushed by the security services or the army. in syria, this is literally impossible. at least it will not be effective. because the regime is considered, is actually one and the same with its institution. with its institutions. and it's ve

let me come to a conclusion by saying that if a country wants to be coherent, if it pushes at the eu level in order to see a concrete policy with deadlines which we hope we will get to in order to stimulate growth through more single markets among other things, then that country has to be coherent domestically and not only will have to comply with a budgetary rules, but will have to be even more insisting on structure reforms domestically so that it can have a market which can cope with a challenges of being in a more and more real single market. these are the two lines budgetary consolidation and more structure reforms that our government is committed to in italy. i kept the objective that my predecessor had set an agreement with the ecb and the european commission. and that was done last summer in a moment of extreme financial emergency for italy only this, you believe, can expect the fact that the italian government accepted to balance the budget by 2013 which means a couple of years before the other member states. and after a very quick reflection, we decided to stick with that c

. >> i sincerely hope the security council members will be united at this time, speak and act in coherent manner, reflecting the international community and reflecting the urgent and aspirations of the syrian people who have been yearning for freedom and dignity. >> on tuesday, the council began discussing a draft resolution that calls for syria to stop the crackdown and president bashar al-assad to step down. the united states and european nations aim to adopt the resolution at an early date, but some countries including russia prefer to promote dialogue between the syrian government and opposition groups. >>> fiscal deficits are on the minds of americans and others as well. ai, tell us about the situation in the u.s. >> the deficit continues to be extremely high. new u.s. budget report predicts the country will run a deficit over $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row. a report released by the congressional budget office said the deficit will likely amount to $1.79 trillion for the current fiscal year that runs through september. >> the pace of the recovery has been slow since the rec

what do i mean by coherence? consistency of route, it is part of the mobility change and access to the railway station, taking the train to what ever destination city, continue on the other side. directness, we mean it detours faster with a constant speed. there is nothing slowing down or speeding up again. and with a minimum of delays. what makes a bike route attractive, it is a psychological element. it is different for every person. we know that people like to cycle along the waterways or railways. but not along the motorways. and they like a scenic route more than an infrastructure area. it needs to be wide enough to cycle a side-by-side. it is a social events. what we say in the netherlands, car drivers are all the time aware of cyclists. and when there are too many trucks, a high traffic volume, then we should worry. it is for you to decide what you want, if you want to introduce a cycling, maybe it is better to start with separation and to get the cars used to of the cyclists. they can go in the streets an

this shift from coherence to fragmentation. it could be a duality to drift. drift is not always a bad thing. you can drift into interesting places and reconfigure public discourse accordingly. that would be my hope. >> i will invite questions. there a microphone which will come to you. though it won't amplify your voice. don't use it as a reason not to speak loudly. yourself. steve. the microphone is there. you are good. >> steve ross. i have a comment and you can respond, if you want. getting back to marty's original question about differences between fundamental differences with historians and journalists. timing and style and profits. timing. a graduate student at oxford in the '70s. modern history was 400 a.d. to 1918. when i ask my tutor why you stopped at 1918. he said everything after 1918 is "journalism." all of you have written op-ed pieces, but it is con temperature rain yus history and events that mark the journalist. we venture into it, but we only do that if we are doing our own op-ed pieces. otherwise we are looking at a more distant past. secon

structures and protest activities are in fact taking hold and are consolidating and beginning to cohere around a narrow set of forms for the management and governance of the uprising, we have on one hand the syrian national council, there are out liar groups related to older previous efforts to bring together opposition figures. within syria we have the national coordinating committee which took a more pro regime, and we have the local coordinating committees which are organized through, i don't know if -- but there's an effort to kind of forge more democratic frame works for governance of the local coordinating committees around syria and within the syrian national council itself, we saw, and it was most evident in the first aassembly in late december in 2011, the want to acknowledge the concerns about representation and inclusion that had hinderred them in previous months. no one would claim that they act with -- without an enormous amount of mistakes and stumbling along the way, this notion of disarray and incoinheritance has to be properly framed. we have to recognize that there's a

we like having a coherent philosophy. that is a judgment call but it is nevertheless pretty important. the last thing is, a part of what is going on here is driven by some changes in the law related to lobbying. it is something called the lobbying disclosure act that is a parallel legal framework that does cause some institutions to want to rethink how they operate, especially on capitol hill. we spend a lot of time, talking to cover individuals under that law about legislation. even pointy headed discussions about the effect of a bill on something. you need to be invited up to the hill by a professional council or committee to talk about it. that starts to count as a consultation, and if you spend more than 20% of your time doing that kind of work, then technically you are a lobbyist, even if you are a public intellectual trying to educate members about what they are about to vote on. some organizations do not want to be labeled lobbyists. maybe what to think about that law and have a category for people like cap, people

what do i mean by coherence? consistency of route, it is part of the

. >> we see regulatory coherence. i'd like to use the word harmonization, but start with coherence. we need to see a leveler playing field. we're not against regulation, but we need smart regulation. and what we need to say away from is those thing that is hurt the market and create unintended consequences. >> tom: on the education side of the business, i know you're working with closely with apple and the ipad initiative. what is the growth potential for textbooks delivered electronically. >> huge. the digital transportation of education is the opportunity of the century. what we've done is we've got about 20 professional titles for the ipad, and 50 now in the higher education space. this project is focused on high schools, and we're failing our kids in america and in our k 12 space. you have to do a lot of things differently, and the use of the ipad and interactive content that you can put on this will open doors. >> tom: one of the challenges is technology, and geting it in the hands of the students. how do you address that when you have got so many layers of regulations? local,

>> guest: we don't really have history in the american public system in a coherent sense anymore. is mostly subsumed within so-called social studies. history is not -- history merits respect sufficient that richard have its own place in the curriculum and be taught in a coherent way. with regard to islamic imperialism it is fascinating that everything that has happened there are times foretold by the early years of muslim extension. we accept -- the muslim world operates with an efficiency that brezhnev in the late period soviet union could only admire. once they take the land they hold the land. when president obama went to, a row to give a speech to the muslim world was fascinating as much as anything else was he actually said--the new york times said president obama goes to give a speech to the muslim world. they would never speak of the christian world in that sense. no one uses the word christian them. the muslim world is asking how did it get to be the muslim world? we talk about mesopotamia as the cradle of civilization but this civilization it was the cradle of -- is now a

made here the only way in which a true democracy could be brought about in genuine leadership and coherent sense of ideas for how to take the country forward can really be established is through the syrian people doing this for themselves rather than having western intervention which effectively is trying to deliver democracy to that region it doesn't work like that it hasn't worked actually it's actually been with me every country where that's taken actually if it may be contributing to the violence because if i go back to kurtz in washington you may have elements within syria they're hoping for a western intervention and that's not stopping them from the go sheeting and assad i mean you could look at it from a different point of view if there's going to be an intervention he's going to do as much as he possibly can now to make sure there's nothing to intervene about so i mean this. prospect of outside intervention makes the situation even worse in the country you know i think one of the one of the difficulties not just in our conversation but in the broader conversation about syria is th

i'm waiting to hear from the republican candidates a coherent vision of what conservative means to them i'm waiting to hear a definition that was actually offered in the 1964 campaign by barry goldwater. you knew in '64 what you were positioning against because there was an ideology there and it was coherent. and it was consistent with what he had acted upon across his career. it would have been a very interesting race had we actually had a debate between john kennedy and barry goldwater as proposed or between lyndon johnson and barry goldwater because they each incarnated a philosophy that they could express, very different views of government, very difference-- different views of federalism, very different roles of the individual in society. it would have been a very, very interesting campaign because it was there. i don't hear it there in the republican candidates. i am not clear with these conservatives about what they mean by this ideology. and i have the sense that they're chasing this thing called the base and trying to identify with it without bringing the rest of us along in an

wells fargo worked closely with our office, in coordinating the dollars, so we could have one coherent loan fund, which leverages the dollars that we are talking about introducing today, with their what -- and the wells fargo money. the business technical assistance provided by working solutions has helped. we feel this is a true partnership. it is not just two pots of money we are announcing today. >> first of all, thank you. i want to thank the mayor and supervises for being here today and to celebrate the revitalization of this loan fund. in case you did not know, wells fargo is 160 years old this week. we are still the largest and oldest financial company here in the city. san francisco has special meaning for us. i have to tell you, i was at the mayor's inauguration and he said he would never stop using the words job and job creation. that is what this is about today. we have given $431,000 to the revolving loan fund at below market rate. for 160 years, we have helped businesses thrive, through the gold rush days, through the technology boom, and now through the economic recovery,

let me come to the conclusion by saying if a country wants to be coherent, if it pushes the e.u. level in order to see a concrete policy with deadlines in order to stimulate growth through more sand or markets among other things than that country has to be coherent and not only will have to comply with the budgetary rules but will also have to be more insistent on reforms domestically so that it can have a market which can cope with the challenges of a more and more real single market. the the vote but terror consolidations that our government is committed to in italy. i kept the objective that my predecessor had set in agreement with the pcb, extreme financial emergency for italy, this can explain the effect that the italian government expected to balance the budget by 2017 which means a couple years before the other member states and after a quick reflection, to speak to that commitment although some macro economy is contend that that was the optimum course. he raised any authority and ability to increase developments, presenting themselves first, we put together a package adop

it was critical to look at this as a coherent whole. the timing was right, given the level of development. this map summarizes current parking regulations and how it has managed near. bluelines signify the time limits of two hours. there was a stop-gap measure put in place where a real parking management proposal could be developed in partnership with various agencies, something we have been working on for over a year-and-a-half. in the surrounding areas you will see the dots that -- represent existing parking meters. redlines represent completely on managed parking. the green lines are the areas of existing residential parking permits. pretty dense red -- residential areas. what this really says, and shows you, is that a lot of the parking in the surrounding area is a relic of another kind. 20 years ago, not managing parking in that area may have been fine. as this has become a dynamic area, it is only becoming more so. the time is ripe to manage parking effectively.

you want to have a coherent view. is it ok for a think tank to want to have a coherent world view?may imply that some of the papers and studies go through some kind of process internally. we find at heritage a lot of times, you have an issue. we cover a broad spectrum of issues. almost every major issue on capitol hill has relevance to us. the cut across disciplines. a lot of times you want to be writing something on health care or trade and make against the interests, values and thinking of some other analysts in another area. if you have an export issue that traders concerned about military capabilities, you want to put free trade guys in the same room with military authorities to figure out the best way to go forward. you do want to have that kind of cross pollination. immigration triggers every issue i can think of. you do not want to have one paper saying one thing in one paper saying another. that is a threshold question. that is something think tanks want to address. sometimes it is ok to have multiple voices on the same issue, contradictory points of view, the thousand flow

has brought together issues that we have worked through throughout the last few months in a really coherent way. it brought together on issues of responding to persons meetings and it takes care of the constitutional fixed meeting. i would be in favor of voting for it. >> i have a concern similar to the one that you raised with respect to fees soft cap for the male role elections. to me, the board of supervisors number is well reported by the data. what we have seen, the male role number certainly could escalate to the level of the cap proposed historic fleet and has not been that high. and the winner is a well-under the proposed cap. we're looking at an election four years from now and then four years after that. as i supported the last time around, i think 1.75 is more precarious. obviously, we're trying to submit something that meets our goals and would find support at the board. is there procedure for providing a choice? we think 1.75 should be the number, 1.975 would be acceptable. >> not like that, no. you cou staff has recommended and adopted again with the different numbers and send

enormous amount of mistakes in stumbling along the way but i think the notion of disarray and in coherence has to be in some respects properly framed. i also think we have to recognize that there is a bit of a catch-22 that the opposition has confronted in trying to respond to and overcome its own organizational capacity limits. for many reasons including very many smart reasons the u.s. and eu it and arab governments have held back or did hold back during the early times in which opposition was emerging out of the conviction that it was critical to provide the space for an organic authentic syrian opposition to emerge and consolidate, one that would not be laboring under the shadow that it was nothing more than an instrument of the west, serving a western or for an agenda, and therefore it legitimate as representatives of the syrian people. within the state department there was a great deal of concern about any effort to reach out to the opposition because the proceeds consequences if it were to become known that the u.s. were engaged. yet, what that created was a context in which an oppo

it is communicated more from a coherent attitude by airily great actor. tavis: i have some questions about the horses. but let me start with the humans. you mentioned dustin hoffman and nick nolte. dustin hoffman has been on this show many times. nick nolte i have never met, but they're both a list of actors. why are dustin hoffman and nick nolte doing television? >> this will sound like a commercial. because this is not really television. tavis: it is hbo. it is not television. [laughter] that did some like a commercial. go ahead. >> they are doing some of the most outstanding dramas around. and they have a very unusual business model where the content is unconventional. that is what they seek. it is edgy. along with that, from hbo, comes tremendous commercial success. the combination of both of those means that they can afford productions like this and they are akin to galleries. that is how they view what they do. it is an extraordinary time to be doing this kind of work. and a lot of other work that cable television has to be terrific on. "homeland,"

. >> it's time to put aside our wish lists and to serve in a more coherent and equitable tax policy. >> the ways and means took up corporate tax policy and how to encourage job growth by eliminating special tax breaks. follow the instruction jauchb lijauchb online at c spahn -- every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story, on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> the senate judiciary committee voted on a bill that would put -- allow the justices to ban cameras in certain instances. the vote was 11-7. we're going to watch that judiciary commission session which is about 40 minutes. >>> a moment ago, two, three, four -- we have six in the room, a couple of others out in the anteroom, so i think we'll check, if you have no objection, we'll get started. >> usually once we get started people will show. today the committee can move forward for judicial nominees for the confirmation hearing we held last month, three with no judicial emergency vacancies in illinois

do they actually get coherent thoughts? >> well, it's different for different people. some people claim they text gibberish. but in the case of kandi here, she has full-on conversations with people that are completely comprehendible to others. >> they're not surprised or dumbfounded when i call back and say what did we talk about? >> she might be dreaming, but she'll pick up. >>> in malaysia, i think kfc stands for kung-fu chicken. this is at a kfc in malaysia. some of the workers come out the side door and all of a sudden one of them just charges at one of the customers and kicks him. >> what the heck was that about? >> the poster of this video said there are so many people there waiting for their food and all the employees are back chilling, not really giving service, not really making their chicken, frying the chicken. they're just chilling in the back. the customers started yelling stuff at the employees. the employees started yelling stuff back. they got all mad. and what other ways we saw this issue. [ screaming ] >> i have a theory. i'm not a detective. >> no. >