dan mitchell, senior fellow at cato institute.ood to have you here. 10% of these multiemployer plans, pension plans for unions, of the 1500 total, 10% will run out of money in the near term, in the next few years. how big is this? how does it get fixed? are taxpayers on the hook? >> we already have a government department, pension benefit guaranty corporation, that exists to bailout and take over these underfunded and bankrupt pension plans almost all of which are associated with unionized plans. and according to the numbers on the pbgc website the unfunded liabilities is 10 of billions of dollars. so where is that going to come from? taxpayers unfortunately probably do have their necks on chopping block. gerri: dan, slight tweak to what you said there, my understanding these specific plans, this flavor of plan, is not supposed to be bankrolled by pgbc. it is not supposed to be bankrolled by taxpayers yet i certainly expect the queries, the requests, demands for money to start piling up. do you? >> well, you have the single employ

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journal,xt washington a roundtable discussion on creating private and public eisenbray andss dan mitchell. kurtzleben. unrest inntinued ukraine. ," live atn journal 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. i love duke. i am a loyal duke alum. i did not do this to hurt duke. outd this to try to figure what had happened in a dispassionate way. again, there is a tremendous amount of passion about the story, even to this day. all one has to do is go onto amazon and see, already, that i .ave amassed 20 51 star reviews the book has not even been out a week and it is a 600 page book. i'm guessing that not many of those one star review writers had read this book. my last book was about goldman sachs and people have a lot of passion about goldman sachs, too. >> author and duke alumni william d cohan looks at the lacrosse scandal of 2006. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> supreme court justices anthony scalia and ruth bader ginsburg were guests on "the kalb report." they talked about how freedom was defined. the composition is part of the kelp series -- kalb series. this is an hour and 15 minutes. the k

the vice president of the economic policy institute and dan mitchell with the cato institute. daniel, a correspondent for fox.com will talk about what the fed might do to help stabilize the economy. matthew with the wilson center talks about president putin and the chance for civil war in ukraine. plus, your calls, tweets and facebook comments. live tomorrow morning and every morning at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. supreme court justice stephen breyer will talk about human rights with advocates and senior officials from the department of justice. an event cohosted by georgetown, the new york review of books and law.enter for the rule of we'll have live coverage starting at 4:00 eastern time on monday on c-span. finished al have qaeda in 2001. our general who was there -- all of us think back. when we were attacked on 9/11, 3000 americans died. more americans than died in pearl harbor. we had al qaeda and we had osama bin laden tracked in some mountains. we did not finish them off. then we let him escape over the other side of the mountain because we said, that is pakistani territory.

you will also hear from dan mitchell of the cato institute.king about the federal reserve and banks from fox.com. and then we will talk about the latest when it comes to russia and the ukraine. all of that, plus a look at the papers in your phone calls as well when "washington journal" comes her way tomorrow at 7 a.m. we will see you then. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] ♪ >> today on c-span, former british defense minister liam fox talking about government surveillance programs and privacy issues, followed by assistant secretary of state p.j. crowley and the importance of diplomacy. later, a look at immigration and the hispanic community, chances for legislation in congress, and the obama administration's deportation policy. >> one of the real signatures of this boom is how quickly it has moved. there is some good about that, but there is also some bad. we were 10 years into this room before regulators and the companies themselves started asking tough questions t

host: dan mitchell is a senior fellow with the cato institute, cato.org and ross eisenbrey is with therg. thank you both for joining us this morning on the washington journal. up next, business and economics reporter daniel kurt slaben is joining us to talk about what steps the federal reserve may take to help prepare the nation's banks for further emergencies and later matthew rojansky from the wilson center on the u.s. role in the u crane and what's motivating russia president putin on this ongoing crisis but all week long on book tv and american history tv, we continue our tour of american cities as we visit the city of palms in fort myers, florida, today at 2:00 p.m. and you can look at the history of that city and the surrounding area, including a visit inside thomas ed usson's botanic research laboratory where edson developed and tested a domestic source of rubber. >> the research lab was built in 1928 and was very active until 1936. his primary focus for laboratory work was new jersey. edson's life in the early days was built around the creation of electricity. and in the early

ben dan ike himself said that for mozilla to succeed, employees needed to leave their politics at the door when they walked in. in a posting on the company's website executive chair woman mitchell baker, who helped found mozilla with ike, stood with the company's stated mission. we welcome contributions from everyone regardless of age, culture, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, gee graph location and religious views. mozilla supports equality for all. ike is not the first high-profile boss to come under question for his beliefs. in 2012 owner of chick-fil-a dan cathey said that he stood in form support of the family. he later admitted to regretting making the stand as it led to a boycott. john mackey once described the affordable care act as fascist and socialist. both snyder and mckay have retracted comments because of customer backlash. others are unapologetic. the makers of honey made graham crackers faced openly hostile criticism after putting a male couple on the front of its ads. they doubled down and did another ad and turned it into the word love. so if you're sitting in the corner office making business decisions, how you react when social values and politic