i also read an excerpt of your speech when you received the daniel moynihan prize for social science research. and you said in that speech that this country is another pivotal moment in history. what do you mean by that? >> what i was referring to at that moment was there have been two periods in our history where inequality had risen to what i thought was an unckoconscionabl era. the gilded age and the roaring '20s right before the great depression. in both of those instances, we stepped back from the brink. we realized where we were going as a country. we said, that's not where we want to go. and the gilded age was followed by the progressive era, antitrust policies, trying to get at the monopolies, getting at some of the sources of inequality that was undermining our society. the roaring '20s was followed by the legislation of created social security, created labor legislation that, you know, minimum wages, maximum hours, lots of things that we take for granted now but are part of our social fabric. the question i asked was, inequality has now gotten back to the level, that peak t

it actually had a spot for daniel moynihan for his reelection.they work so much in tandem with each other. if you go up and do a briefing on congress, the assumption that the white house is that information will be public very shortly. it is only in a very restricted basis when the very top leadership or maybe the top of the intelligence committee. >> they do that all the time on things that don't leak, correct, speaker? >> we did it on some things that they forgot that they even had room. this comes back, for instance, to the taping of telephone conversations. we agree it should happen. .> there is a way both houses, both democrats and republicans. it can work and you have to make human contact on this. obama and his operation to a certain extent. i am sure that the instinct of getting bergdahl released was humanitarian. this is a good thing that we're going to do, something positive for somebody. they didn't have a strategic plan to win over the congress and once it became public, the general voters out there. something that may have had one of

the actually had a spot for it daniel moynihan for his reelection.they worked so much in tandem with each other. but then i have also been at the white house, and bob, the truth is if you go up and do a briefing on congress, the assumption at the white house is that information will be public very shortly. it is only in a very restricted basis when the very top leadership or maybe the top chairs of the intelligence committee. >> they do that all the time on things that don't leak, correct, speaker? >> that is correct. we did it on some things that they forgot that they even had room. then it comes back, for instance, to the taping of telephone conversations. that was a discussion that the big eight talked about, and we agreed it should happen. >> there is a way. >> describe the big eight. >> the big eight is the four leaders and the four members of the intelligence leadership. >> in both houses, both democrats and republicans. it can work and you have to make human contact on this. i got to know obama and his operation to a certain extent. i am sure

senator daniel patrick moynihan was a liberal democrat who invited his conservative friends and his liberalnd there they sat merrily dining and disagreeing about politics. yeah. that used to happen in washington. because people like pat moynihan understood the difference between disagreeing and fighting. the difference between disagreeing and insulting. >> the energy tax a fight until death or are you willing to compromise a little bit with senator borne, modify it -- >> fight to the dead over taxes? oh, you know. women, country, god, things like that. taxes? no. >> of course disagree is easier if you're laughing. and sandy frank always found the joke in everything. including politics. maybe the next time i have a conservative on the show we should begin with a clip of "velcro man." just to get the conversation going the right way. with a laugh. >> okay, could you -- this is the first power plant in the country to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. at night and when it's cloudy, we use more natural gas.

build the george washington bridge and they did it in exactly four years, which as the great daniel patrick moynihan often pointed out, was eight months ahead of schedule and $15 million under budget. [laughter] that was my pat moynihan in addition for those of you who didn't know. so anyway, it's fair to say that history has not been kind to tammany hall politicians and those who voted for tammany hall, particularly the irish. >> tammany hall is not only un-american but distinct un-american and its ideals because it represents a broad distinction between what may be called anglo-saxon ideals, character of public service and the celtic ideals. spirit that was from the new york journal called the outlook. and then there's this. >> refuse, scullion's be permitted to dictate what tammany must do? >> that was walt whitman. discussing tammany's voters and let's not forget what they were saying about tammany and the irish and other places. >> the irishman uses his vote, his faithful influence in ruins, every anglo-saxon policy and anglo-saxon civilization throughout the world. >> so wrote a report in the

he began his career with senator daniel patrick moynihan which is one of my favorite facts about him into the policy accomplished in all of the government service, but also currently served as the imaging director of phone com llc. please welcome paul. [applause] >> thank you for that generous introduction and for hosting this very important events. it is true that as assistant secretary of defense i had the privilege of bringing the dod capabilities to bear in support of the department of homeland security and many other occasions. we found sometimes the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing. it reflected a broad lack of cohesion across every part of the federal government. that's why the unity of effort and initiative is so vital and its historic, it's transformational. unity of effort is going to enable the department decision-making to be much more transparent and much more can he save -- cohesive on the budgeting and budget execution and the department of homeland security. as a vital enterprise and the quadrennial homeland security review is going to provide the a