dewitt, it's been a while since you had the podium or the mic. there has been a lot said, i am wondering when you hear this talk about eliminating money bail system. is this something that can realistically happen or were we able to achieve that, there would be a move to reinstate what your organization does? >> let me first off thank you, matt, let me first say i feel like a minority among the panel. but i am not overwhelmed by it. i think we have a little misconception here and what we forget all along, the public, the taxpayers. the bail industry provides a service to the criminal justice system and has here in the united states. we do this without cost of the taxpayers. none of this burden is on the taxpayers. and what i see happening, and i have had discussions with the aclu and pretrial on. it's not a cookie-cutter situation. bail is very personal. to have a policy or government entity responsible for arresting you and adjudicating your case and the sentencing and bail. there no check balances involved in this. i have sat in los angeles and

c-span: you were a dewitt wallace fellow? >> guest: yes. c-span: what is that? >> guest: it's a fellowship that was set up by the reader's digest to give itinerant journalists a place to come and alight while doing what hopefully is serious work. c-span: do people support you because they know what you're going to write, or do they support you and say, "suzanne garment, have at it"? >> guest: tell me, which people? c-span: in other words, did you get your dewitt wallace fellowship because they knew what you were going to write? did you get your fellowship at the american enterprise institute because of your political views? how does all this work here? >> guest: my political views made me congenial to the american enterprise institute, and because i had been writing for a long time -- i had been writing a column in the wall street journal -- everybody had a clue as to what kind of thing i was going to write, what kind of views were going to be expressed, so even if someone had the inclination to corrupt the process and lean on me, it wasn't necessary in this cas

sign it no no and i'll yell it at the president, i'll yell it at roosevelt, i'll yell it at general dewitt and it matters. it has to matter. and to me it's the speech i gave him was in part all just drawn from what's happening i think in the country right now in relationship to the war, who is considered patriotic, who is considered a traitor, and the point of a play to me is that it isn't just a museum piece, that in fact it does have relevancy right now and that it does kind of spark a certain amount of controversy in relationship to what goes on now. so that's how things that are happening in one's life feed into it. other things feed into it, too, like my wife and i have been trying to build this house in the berkeley hills for about 5

if it takes prior procreation not dewitt played out, arizona with a and may be whatever the most juniorright is probably in colorado because those projects in utah as well as vegas. and california has understood it will have to give up time of drought as well. california gets a bigger share of the colorado river, even though a lot of that water is pumped out of the watershed to los angeles for a huge agricultural print basket of america. so they will have to cut back, but it's not clear how that's going to go smoothly. the good news is we are talking, but that's as far as it's gotten. this interim guidelines. the bureau of reclamation in 2003 sent to the state, okay, if you don't come up with an agreement, while they do for you. if you don't want to see to see if i do who has a shortage or how were going to manage this, all of you get together and sit down and negotiate is that this really started the process of talks between the states in the basin. i've been very helpful and another good thing is finally we are bringing exit onto the conversation. we like to think of the early 20th ce

work two jobs while going to school because their chances of completing are so low if they try to dewitt without borrowing anything at all and if they took out the loan to prepare their car so they have a better chance of completing, then that would be a good investment. >> he's telling me that he's going to save in the balancers if we don't get off the stage but i would like to suggest they will stick around for a little while and can answer questions one on one. they are incredible resources. so if you cover this topic or if you want to cover this topic, come out and get their contact information. thank you very much. [applause] >> there are no breaks scheduled at this point. there will be a schedule on the case. in the amphitheater there will be in session on covering private companies and both will begin as soon as we can make change. thank you for your attention. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> a break here and we will be back for more live coverage of the conference at 3:15 on the panel on tax reform. here on c-span2 tonight in prime