>> oh, come on, eliot. your viewers need to know, every state in the country could enact this federal health care bill in this state and it's perfectly constitutional for a state to do it. it is the federal government that the constitution restrains and limits the powers of, not the states. >> ken, the fallacy is this is a tax, it is recognized as a tax, it is enforced by the irs, it is imposed upon you as many taxes are, if you do not do something else. you're trying to slip this in, call it a penalty. frankly, i think it's a distinction without a difference -- >> me, congress called the penalty in the bill. >> when the supreme court look at this, it will view this as attacks and say because this is attack, congress has the right to impose is, triggers of things that people either do or don't do. >> ken, i've interviewed several legal scholars who think you may have a winnable case but it's very complicated and you people have argued at a level most people can't relate to. but they can relate to, what does

. >> i'm eliot spitzer. welcome to the program. we have bjorn lomberg, a skeptic who thinks everybody telling us what to do to soflt prob lve the problem is getting it wrong. >> russell simmons, an entrepreneur in the hip-hop world and also a big fan of barack obama still, may be the last man standing who believes in hope and change. >> there are a lot of us out there. we all believe in it. come roaring back. numbers are up like we predicted last week. for opening argument, kathleen. 100 new members of congress descending on washington. we are going to give them a little advice about what to expect. you know what, folks, governing is not campaigning. and those who are out on the campaign frail say we are the not going to raise your taxes, not going to cut any spending, balance the budget at the same time. welcome to the real world. they will have to make the tough choices we have been talking about on the show. other thing they're going to have to do is realize until they say no to their best friend, they're not making those hard c

many thought former new york governor eliot spitzer could have been the first jewish president if not for his appetite for the girlfriend experience, and thanks to a new documentary called "client nine," we get a tour of this highly selective world, gimded by the madam, the customer, and the call girl he risked everything to be with. like most successful industries, the world's oldest profession offers something for every taste and budget. and at the very high end, there is a very exclusive group of women. >> i have rich lowered. i don't go out with pool men. i've got no reason to do so. i don't call prostitution an escort i escorting selling your body. you don't sell your rent. >> reporter: with beauty, personality and discretion, they cater to men who are rich -- >> when you're sending a girl on a trip to chicago for $30,000 overnight, it doesn't necessarily feel like you're running a prostitution. >> reporter: and powerful -- >> i never acknowledged who he was, but he -- he knew that i knew. >> reporter: and more often than not, married. men just like eliot spitzer. >> governor spi

>> i'm going to ask eliot to help me out.ving a process, there's three points i want to make in respect to that. we are not taking money from iran or organizations with un-american values or that -- this is an american project. you know, everyone has to remember that, you know, this is an american project that is going to serve the needs of lower manhattan, the fastest growing residential neighborhood in the burrows in manhattan demographically speaking. you know, cb one, community board one, has 50,000 residents that reside there. this is about serving the needs of american citizens and americans that live in lower manhattan. it's a muslim led project like a jcc or ymca. it caters to the people living in the neighborhood. >> right. >> $100 million is a big number. when the media hysteria was going on, should you, the constitutional issues. put it aside. how much money do you have now to move forward? >> you are from a family of real estate developers. it's about putting together a capital stock. we are not putting in $100 mi

eliot, you've got to own the other side of this equation, and that is own up to the tax increases that are necessary. if we don't contain spending to its historic norms. and congress is more than doubling taxes on our children and grandchildren. >> i agree with you both about how you articulate extend telling bush tax cuts, i'm just trying to understand why your constitutional amendment requires cutting a trillion dollars and i have just gone through the programs that are a majority of the budget and you're not willing to cut anything. so where will you cut $1 trillion out of this year's budget? >> i put out a plan in may along with paul ryan that frankly cuts a trillion and a half, we start out by rolling back -- it's on the internet, you can find it. we want to roll back our discretionary spending to the prebailout levels, the prestimulus levels. we freeze government hiring, we put out an entire plan. >> with all do respect, that doesn't come with an anything close to the trillion dollars. you know that as well as i do. total discretionary spending is several hundred billion dollars,

. >> i can never get enough car talk, eliot. we el look at a controversy with wr the new president at fresno university is an illegal immigrant. there is talk of deporting him. we'll look at that. >> and we have barney frank to tell us why the economy is coming back and why government played a critical role. first, opening arguments, very simple. it worked. the gm bailout, an enormous success. your tax dollars did two things -- restored an iconic american manufacturer to produce cars and it makes money. it is profitable. what more can you ask for? we'll get our money back. >> whoa, hoss. this is a great suess story. i'm not about to put a cloud over this wonderful story. we have a ways to go. the u.s. government is owed $27 billion. chrysler isn't a great success story. we can't get too carried away but the money is doing a good job. >> of course we're not there. we have unemployment. we have been talking about the crisis, but the notion that you have government completely step back which is what the tea party was calling for, n

we want to head up to new york to check in with kathleen parker and eliot spitzer.gram starts at the top of the hour. they'll be watching sarah palin who is going to appear live. i wanted to, since you're going to have her -- pardon me, she will be giving a speech live and you will be carrying it. let's just be very clear. i'm sorry to blow the cover. but you'll be taking the speech live from pennsylvania. there is a headline that intrigued us from the huffington post which says sarah palin complains about invasion of privacy on the first episode of her reality show. i want to play you the cogent part of that reality show and get your reaction. >> certainly it's changed because of this new neighbor. >> he's probably over there. >> do you want me to look? you need to drill out a little tiny hole there, peephole and let me look through and see where he is. i want piper to play on the other side of the house too. okay? >> i think it's an invasion of our privacy and i don't like it. some reporters said i was overreacting and i wanted to ask them, how would you feel if s

being inappropriate veteran larry king is retiring and new york governor turned client number nine eliot spitzer. has failed to draw the feedback of his female counterparts. and with the t.v. news industry struggling to survive its bikes out this morning but it is cold so you've got your warm gear weathering the storm may mean wearing a bit less not necessarily more important r.t. new york. offer more on this in those stories just log. on terra web site at r t dot com right now. and after decades of rotting man to the stars the stars by going to war germany are the rector was chosen because of a drone as a launching pad for his latest movie. and on this very day nineteen years ago the communist party that had been in power for more than seventy years was banned around russia who did it and why i find out in our russian now section. the u.s. has for the first time faced the united nations human rights council over accusations of rights abuse an american off officials faced harsh criticism over violations including racial discrimination at home and torture in the country's jails abroad cou

eliot spitzer. there always has failed to draw the feedback of his female counterparts. and with the t.v. news industry struggling to survive it's nice out this morning but it is cold so you got to have your warm gear weathering the storm may mean wearing a bit less not necessarily more important r.t. new york. for more on this and any other story that we're covering for you here on earth he can log onto our web site our problem right there now. after decades of rocketing man to the stars the stars come to baikonur a german art house director has chosen the possible drone as a launch pad for his latest movie. and on this very day thousands of years ago the communist party to have been in power for more than seventy years was bands around russia who did it and why find out in our russia now section. and the u.s. has for the first time faced the united nations human rights council over accusations of rights abuses american officials faced harsh criticism over violations including racial discrimination at home and torture in the country's jails abroad council members in gen

eliot spitzer. there always has failed to draw the feedback of his female counterparts oh yeah and with the t.v. news industry struggling to survive its diets out this morning but it is cold so you've got to have your warm gear weathering the storm may mean wearing a bit less not necessarily more marine important i am artsy new york and for more on this and other stories just log on to our website at r t dot com right now after decades of rocketing the man to the stars the stars come to buy in or a german art house or rector chosen the drone as a launch pad for his the latest movie. and on this very day nine thousand years ago the communist party that had been in power for more than seventy years was banned throughout russia who would it and why find out in our russia now section. the u.s. has asked for the first time face the united nations human rights council over accusations of rights abuses american officials faced harsh criticism over violations including racial discrimination to hold and tort

eliot spitzer. is sitting there always has failed to draw the feedback of his female counterparts. and with the t.v. news industry struggling to survive its diets out this morning but it is cold so you got to have your warm gear weathering the storm may mean wearing a bit less not necessarily more her an important r.t. new york. now let's take a brief look at some of the other international news making headlines this hour and security has been tightened in india as u.s. president barack obama has arrived in the country the visit marks the start of his asian tour designed to boost u.s. exports and increase access to markets the president's first stop was india's financial hub among by where he remembered the victims of the two thousand and eight deadly terror attacks barack obama will also meet with local business dealers and american executives. the leader of a powerful mexican drug cartel has been shot dead by security forces in a town near the u.s. border tony the storm was killed after a gun battle that raged for several hours three gunman and two marines also died in the confli

eliot spitzer. there always has failed to draw the feedback of his female counterparts oh yeah and with the t.v. news industry struggling to survive this morning but it is cold so you've got your warm gear weathering the storm may mean wearing a bit less not necessarily more arena port r.t. new york. and for more on this and other stories you can always log on to our website was there too dot com right now the stories are available year after decades of rocking them and to the stars the stars come to baikonur of the german our house director has chosen the cause of drone missile launch pad for his latest movie. and on this very day nineteen years ago the communist party to have been in power for more than seventy years was banned throughout russia who did it and why find out in our russia now section. the u.s. has for the first time faced the united nations human rights council over accusations of rights abuses american officials faced harsh criticism over violations including the racial discriminat

eliot spitzer. there always has failed to draw the feedback of his female counterparts oh yeah and with the t.v. news industry struggling to survive this morning but it is cold so you got your warm gear weathering the storm may mean wearing a bit less not necessarily more arena porton i am artsy new york. well for more on this or any other story that we're following for you here you can always turn to our web site which is our call at available right now after days of rocket and man to the stars the stars come to by going to war a german art house director has chosen the cosmic throne as a launch pad for his latest movie. and on this very day nine thousand years ago the communist party that had been in power for more than seventy years was banned throughout russia who did it and why find out in our russia now section. a journalist to writing for the russian commerce and daily has been brutally beaten in the center of moscow with a caution is currently hospital and in an induced coma neighbors say he

lineup to be less about hard straight news and more about you know characters like former governor eliot spitzer soon piers morgan the british talk show host going to be joining them in january one different with you there you know if you're going to be watching something on t.v. i think that people obviously want to be entertained and sound forman thanks to the internet thanks to your i phone your smartphone whatever you have you can read all of the details the straight up news at any time that even you know those news articles that you read on line they claim to be objective they always come to some sort of conclusion so do you think that perhaps you know there's a difference between objectivity and neutrality that some people think you know that just to be objective and to show both sides but never come to any you know never add any analysis that that's really what's wrong. absolutely and why you and what you journalism professor jay rosen calls so-called neutrality the view from nowhere and he favors what he calls the view from somewhere which is to approach a situation with a point

what is the brain have to do to notice moret lease eliot situations? but science is not purelyrienceo descriptive.ely what i'm saying is there is. another chapter open to us. an the moment we recognize we canr talk about morality. evolution has not designed as to de flourish to the ultimate degree. evolution doesn't care about ou. well being. it can't see. it does not care what we care about. it does not care about novels, music, mathematics or science. it cares about successful scie reproduction of the species. asically we have flown theit'sa purse that has been prepared fot us by evolution, and we have to do that with the brains that we have evolved with. the prospects of human flourishing can be and is itshiu scientifically, and we can talk about morality and human valuesf in the context of the larger conversation. that is no longer reject a descriptive conversationco.ppeno that is a conversation about. what we can and should do so ase to maximize well-being. many scientists fear that scienh somehow you forsake your scientific dispassion the moment

a documentary about eliot spitzer and client number nine at the mayflower comes out just two weeks after new show, parker spitzer debuts on cnn, which by the way to such a disaster it and going to last. your phone calls again, 866-55-press. we been talking this morning especially about whether or not the message, of the midterm elections, is that the voters review the eighth all the policies of barack obama. that's what republicans are claiming, that's the message. so, therefore, just be honest and say i'm sorry, we're going to undo everything we did, just pull the plug and there's no more health care, reform, no more credit card reforms, no more student loan reforms, no more lilly ledbetter act. it's all gone because you repeated it. that's what the republicans say. how about you, 866-55-press. back to calls and justice act, but meanwhile, this little update on the political front, easy republicans got all their wins on tuesday night. democrats are a little smarter. they are stretching this out. and there were things i decided on tuesday but yesterday we learned that michael bennet is,

. >>> and promises to cut federal budget deficit, tonight on "parker/spitzer," eliot spitzer asked randaul to be specific about cuts he's going to propose. >> my answer to the question is that nothing is off limits. >> well, then let's -- >> let me finish. the other thing is, is that we will look at each individual program and do a step process to this. we will say, can it be downsized? can it be privatized? can it be eliminated? or can we not look at this program at all, because it's too important that it can't be cut. so we will look at this in a step-wise fashion and we will look at everything within the budget and we will make those determinations. but i'm not prepared to look at all thousand different categories and tell you what we'll cut about each one, other than i'm serious about doing this and i will introduce a budget and we'll be happy to come on back in january if you want to go through each individual item. but it's impossible to go through each individual item of the budget and tell you exactly what percentage and what we will cut at this juncture. >> can you see more, 8:

>> eliot cannot talk about the budget -- nothing gets past him without missi goldman-sachs and now it's sarah palin. even when we're talking about diminishes price of chocolate. >> i see chocolate, i walk right past it to the pine al. >> i hate to be the party pooper. thank you all for being with us. >> thank you. >> chocolate or everyone. and thank you for being here, good night from new york. "larry king live" starts right now. . tonight, order in the court, judge judy rules on bullies and bad parents and same-sex marriage and sweets in schools and happy meals, all food for thought. >> that's what happens when you try to talk over me. >> judge judy with your phone calls next on "larry king live." . >> larry: good evening, judge judy presides over the number one rated daytime court show. judge judy is now in its 15th year. she has been on this show 24 times. here's a sampling of some of those appearances. why do we like you? >> i'm not sure. and i won't give you the formula even if i was sure because i wouldn't want anybody around here to replicate it for a while until i'm ifinished wi

eliot spitzer wasn't a hypocrite. it wasn't weird that he didn't tell his wife.g prostitution. the fact is he engaged in behavior which certainly you don't want from a chief executive. it was risky, not hypocrite call and of course he lied about it. >> right. so finally let's talk about the political consequences of this, right? we have on the one hand bill clinton who republicans say i cannot believe he lied about having an affair. to me that's the most believable thing i've heard in my bir life. on the other hand you have republicans who campaign on family values and then get caught with prostitutes. and he's admitted it. so is one lying okay and the other not okay? or both okay? >> we equivocate too in things. one lie is worse when you campaign on family values and against any aberrant social behavior that people in general criticize and then engage in it. it's worse than if you don't make that a key part of your political life. bill clinton didn't make that a key part of his political life. still terribly irresponsible behavior. but they're not the same. if y

. >> i'm eliot spitzer erroll southers joins us. he does not like the way things are being done right now. i'm talking about those body scans. >> newt gingrich's daughter will be with us too. she's a chip off the old block in certain respects. you'll want to hear what she has to say. >>> we're here nonstop about the body scanners. it's important to remember they're just a distraction. the real issue, folks, we're losing because the terrorists are playing puppet master and we're the puppet. the terror group behind the failed parcel bomb al qaeda in the abian peninsula posted an online article in which they basically mock us. they call what they're doing operation hemorrhage. what is that? it's really a simple strategy. employ low cost operations against america and get us to throw huge sums of money at the problem. we bleed money and that's why they call it operation hemorrhage. for example, that parcel bomb attack aimed at the jewish synagogues but intercepted in britain and dubai cost the bad guys $4,200. but the security measures

divorced twice, married three times, and when you look at a recent case, look at david vitter versus eliott with prostitutes. when david vitter returnsed to the senate, of course as republican senator from louisiana, he literally got a standing ovation. and in these elections, just got re-elected, seemed like even though he ran on family values, who cares? allowed back into the senate with no problem what is so ever, including with republican voters will claim to be voting for family values. on the other handing you look at spitzer, he was run out of town, he is doing all right now but not allowed to remain as governor and had to resign in shame but when you look at the republicans, it is fascinating the difference between what they say and what they do and what their followers are following tolerate. you had rush limbaugh caught with the oxycontin and the painkiller abuse there you had newt gingrich with the three wives. you had david i will have the we are what he did. you have john ensign with the staffers. unless you get caught, honestly in some sort of gay affair as larry craig did al

. >> i'm eliot spitzer. welcome to the program. >> the big news of the day was of course president obama's disastrous trip to asia. i think we can say it was an unmitigated disaster. >> no question about it. >> you know, it was nothing more than a global rebuke of the president. >> indeed. in fact, we'll have david gergen here later in the show to talk about that. david gervin has been in the white house advising multiple presidents of both parties. we'll talk about what they should have done differently to step aside. >> call david. >> no question about it. before we get there, last night on the show john ziegler, an ultraconservative radio host claimed the liberal conspiratorial media destroyed sarah palin intentionally. they didn't like her. the funny thing is -- >> yeah, yeah, yeah. that was hilarious. >> -- it led to quite a ruckus on the show. let's take a look to see what happened last night. >> -- targeting of sarah palin. you essentially took part in the assassination of sarah palin 1.0. that person

. >> look at the smiling faces, eliot, just like the first day in congress when they said look to the to the right, in four years, one of you won't be here. >> keep in mind, rent, don't buy. you may not be there very long. >> the political parity is next. stay with us. >> best-trained military that grew up on video games. predator drones and these guys are good at it simply because they -- they know how to use these controls and specifically if we -- if they're using stuff like this, i think that we're very lucky. ser: well you rarelye them in this good of shape. appraiser: for example the fingers are perfect. appraiser: the bird is in mint condition. appraiser: and i would say if this were to go to auction today, woman: really? appraiser: conrvativy it would be worth 2 in the bush. praiser: it's just biful, thank u so much for brinit i woman: unbelievable appraiser: conrvativy it would be worth 2 in the bush. anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. slow you down. introducing bayer am. its dual-action formula delivers extra strength pain relief, plus it fights fatigue. so

. >> look at the smiling faces, eliot, just like the first day in congress when they said look to the left, look to the right, in four years, one of you won't be here. >> keep in mind, rent, don't buy. you may not be there very long. >> the political parisi ty is next. stay with us. >> best-trained military that grew up on video games. predator drones and these guys are good at it simply because they -- they know how to use these controls and specifically if we -- if they're using stuff like this, i think that we're very lucky. >>> welcome to our political party. it's a chance for our guests to speak their minds in a whole range of subjects. meet our guests. you go first. >> the op-ed columnist for "the new york times" who stresses using design and graphic techniques in his pieces. editor of the water cooler blog for conservative media company, "the washington times." a previous life, carrie produced new segments for robin quivers of the howard stern show. that's quite a jump. >> quite an eclectic background. >> seeking diversity and resume. we have over here elizabeth spiers, the med

eliot in may and came close, finished second. he almost won. the hard thing for me is i think what -- you know, we've seen success in the past, angus king got elected as dependent and whatever party, u.s. reform party of lincoln minnesota. we've seen kind of this happen here and there. the thing for me i think is that it would have to happen at the presidential level think before we saw a real extended trickle-down. i think there are certain states, minnesota is one, mean is another where there's a history of kind of an independent candidate being taken seriously. but i think until you see the presidential level i don't know that it will be any more than kind of drops in -- you know, kind of random occurrences, as opposed to there's a real party. because i think people like the idea of a third party because they are sick of democrats and republicans, but of course if there was an actual third party that had a set of core beliefs and the platform they were running on other come to other parties that are bad, it would aim at the people called the

it is a movie about eliot spitzer. i am going to that. buthe timing is perfect.cumentary about eliot spitzer comes out just two weeks after the new show. it is a disaster. it is not going to last. your phone calls. we're talking about whether or not the message of the midterms elections is if the voters repudiated all of the policies of barack obama. that is what the republicans are claiming. he should just stand up and say that we are going to undo everything that we did and pull the plug and there is no more health care. no more war street reform -- wall street reform. it is all gone because you repudiated it. what do you think? we will be back to your calls in just a second. meanwhile, this little update on the political front. republicans got all wins on tuesday night. the democrats are smarter. they are stretching them out. there were things that were undecided on tuesday. yesterday, we learned that michael bennett is the new senator from colorado. yesterday, we learned that pat quinn is reelected as governor of illinois. good news for democrats. and we also

. >> reporter: deb eliot was in the barn and a tree fell on it. >> the glass breaking around me. i didn't know what to do. i just ducked down and let it go through. >> reporter: police in northern illinois say the driver and five children riding in this school bus escaped a brush with a tornado without serious injury. the bus fell on the side as it approached the same intersection a twister is believed to have touched down. >> a tornado. >> reporter: a tornado also tore through the small town of caledonia, illinois, near rockford. siding stripped, cars tossed around and debris littered lawns. officials say the worse damage to the town's center. >> buildings gone. parts of the mill down here's gone. >> reporter: no serious injuries have been reported. they're working to restore power to 42,000 customers that lost it at the height of the storm. or the real brown, cbs news, new york. >>> and all of that makes ate very busy morning for our favorite weatherman dave price here with the first check of the morning that -- i know you're checking on weather in london for april. >> i'm on t

second, during the home prices, -- crisis, they refused to support state people like governor eliot spitzer going after home mortgage fraud long before it became a problem. third, in terms of tax cuts -- when dick cheney was saying deficits still matter they were doing tax cuts, not realizing the law of diminishing returns. when kennedy did tax cuts, reducing rates, you could see some benefits. when you go from 39% to 34%, that is like somebody going on in a diet, then suddenly becoming anorexic. when you are anorexic, people do not think calories are -- limiting calories is a good thing. providing health care is a question of you that should be upheld. we need to build policies and find ways to make our values be put into action. thank you for the opportunity to talk. host: the former president is back with his memoirs and the round of tv interviews. do americans see him differently now? that is our question. a caller from mesa, ariz., on our line for independents. caller: nearly two good years after a democrat promising hope unchanged enter the white house, unemployment remains at high le

host: talking about people and politics, you wrote about eliot spitzer and remarking in a profile suggesting he had not read a novel in many years. guest: he says it to the person writing a profile. host: what are you reading? guest: i just finished "freedom ," the jonathan franzen novel that is getting all the publicity. other than that, i like trollop. it's good you do, after all these years? guest: it is just about politics. there are a lot of very heavy 19th century novels. he is not that. host: the next call is from charlotte. calvin, independent line. what is on your mind today? caller: i want to tell mr. kinsley that i hear the tea baggers complaining about that particular word and it seems destined to me that nobody brings up the fact that they have no problem saying obamacare. i think that is just as much of an insult. guest: i think that is a good point, but could anyone explain why that is offensive? truly, i am curious, and it might -- nicknamed tea baggers? host: westwood, new jersey. caller: the fellow answered the phone who says to me, what would i talk about? what i wanted to

host: talking about people and politics, you wrote about eliot spitzer and remarking in a profile suggesting he had not read a novel in many years. guest: he says it to the person writing a profile. host: what are you reading? guest: i just finished "freedom ," the jonathan franzen novel that is getting all the publicity. other than that, i like trollop. it's good you do, after all these years? guest: it is just about politics. there are a lot of very heavy 19th century novels. he is not that. host: the next call is from charlotte. calvin, independent line. what is on your mind today? caller: i want to tell mr. kinsley that i hear the tea baggers complaining about that particular word and it seems destined to me that nobody brings up the fact that they have no problem saying obamacare. i think that is just as much of an insult. guest: i think that is a good point, but could anyone explain why that is offensive? truly, i am curious, and it might -- nicknamed tea baggers? st: westwood, new jersey. caller: the fellow answered the phone who says to me, what would i talk about? what i wanted to t

eliot in may and came close, finished second. he almost won. the hard thing for me is i think what -- you know, we've seen success in the past, angus king got elected as dependent and whatever party, u.s. reform party of lincoln minnesota. we've seen kind of this happen here and there. the thing for me i think is that it would have to happen at the presidential level think before we saw a real extended trickle-down. i think there are certain states, minnesota is one, mean is another where there's a history of kind of an independent candidate being taken seriously. but i think until you see the presidential level i don't know that it will be any more than kind of drops in -- you know, kind of random occurrences, as opposed to there's a real party. because i think people like the idea of a third party because they are sick of democrats and republicans, but of course if there was an actual third party that had a set of core beliefs and the platform they were running on other come to other parties that are bad, it would aim at the people called the

eliot in may and came close, finished second. he almost won.he hard thing for me is i think what -- you know, we've seen success in the past, angus king got elected as dependent and whatever party, u.s. reform party of lincoln minnesota. we've seen kind of this happen here and there. the thing for me i think is that it would have to happen at the presidential level think before we saw a real extended trickle-down. i think there are certain states, minnesota is one, mean is another where there's a history of kind of an independent candidate being taken seriously. but i think until you see the presidential level i don't know that it will be any more than kind of drops in -- you know, kind of random occurrences, as opposed to there's a real party. because i think people like the idea of a third party because they are sick of democrats and republicans, but of course if there was an actual third party that had a set of core beliefs and the platform they were running on other come to other parties that are bad, it would aim at the people called the c

this evening's event is sponsored by the eliot school security policy for them, which was launched in 2007. over the course of the past three put five years, it has brought more than 40 experts here to give gw campus to assess international and national security issues and the proper policy responses to these problems. i would like to think the professor who convened and started and lead the series from the beginning. his leadership and efforts have made this possible. it is my pleasure and privilege to introduce my colleague and friend. jim? [applause] >> thank you very much for that kind introduction. it is my pleasure to have this assembled a group of guests. i would like to briefly introduce them. stephen is the senior fellow for defense policy at the council on foreign relations. before joining the council, he held positions with the u.s. army war college, the university of north carolina chapel hill, the institute for defense analysis, and hardy diversity. he is a member of the defense policy board and has presented testimony before congressional committees on various issues rel

eliot in may and came close, finished second. he almost won. the hard thing for me is i think what -- you know, we've seen success in the past, angus king got elected as dependent and whatever party, u.s. reform party of lincoln minnesota. we've seen kind of this happen here and there. the thing for me i think is that it would have to happen at the presidential level think before we saw a real extended trickle-down. i think there are certain states, minnesota is one, mean is another where there's a history of kind of an independent candidate being taken seriously. but i think until you see the presidential level i don't know that it will be any more than kind of drops in -- you know, kind of random occurrences, as opposed to there's a real party. because i think people like the idea of a third party because they are sick of democrats and republicans, but of course if there was an actual third party that had a set of core beliefs and the platform they were running on other come to other parties that are bad, it would aim at the people called the