[laughter] elliott abrams, another protagonist in my local salles so. his mother was a schoolteacher, and his father was an immigration lawyer and they were middle-of-the-road democrats, new dealers come and his mother enrolled eliot in the school in ninth grade having heard of the school's reputation. most american high schools in the early 60's the abram family politics would have put eliot to the left of his classmates. elisabeth irwin, the equivalent of the republican -- [laughter] culturally, eliot was also out of step. like most of his classmates, she was jewish but unlike most of his classmates he either came from secular families are the product of mixed marriages his family was observant and kept a kosher home. eliot began to react to what he preserved the orthodoxy of the school. browsing the magazine rack in the library, he saw progress of publications like the nation. why come he asked the library in could the school not achieve some balance in the publication in displayed? why not stop a magazine like the "national review." the culture is d

elliott abrams, another protagonist in the book was in the class of '65 with tom. he was a middle-class, his mother was a schoolteacher and his father was an immigration lawyer and middle-of-the-road democrats, new dealers and his mother and rolled elliot in the school in ninth grade having heard of the school's reputation. most american high schools in the 1960s the abram family politics put elliott to the left of his classmates. and elizabeth apps he was the equivalent of a republican. culturally he was also out of step. like most of his classmates he was jewish but unlike most of his classmates from secular families or the product of mixed marriage elliott's families kept a kosher home. as of the months went by eliot began to react to what he perceived a knee-jerk left-wing orthodoxy of the school. the magazine racks and a library, he saw progress of publication this like the nation. why he asked the library include the school not achieve some balance in the publication it displayed? why not stop the "national review"? the culture is dominated by right-wing poli

. >> elliott abrams on the israeli-palestinian conflict, sunday at 10:00 eastern on c- span2.gton journal" continues. the: gregory angelo is head of log cabin republicans. tell us about log cabin republicans. guest: log cabin republicans was founded in 1978 in response to ronald reagan and is opposition to an amendment that, not unlike a position eight, would have made it in for a teacher to be openly gay in schools. , at tremendous political risk, came out and said it was unnecessary, and he opposed it. after ronald reagan came out in opposition to it, the proposition failed. a local group of gay republicans founded a local chapter and wanted to pay all my to the roots of a quality that the root publican party has -- roots of inequality that the republican party has, and they chose the name log cabin republicans -- the roots of the quality that the republican party has, and they chose the name log cabin republicans trad. host: how would you make the case for the republican party and gay marriage? guest: you are seeing tremendous movement on this issue, allowing same-sex coupl

. >> elliott abrams give inside view on the israeli-palestinian conflict. "washington journal" continues. >> our america by the number segment this week looks at economic misconceptions and myths. we'll dig into those with our guest steve landefeld p he's director of the bureau economic analysis and also ryan avant with the economist. thank you to you as well. let's start by talking about federal taxes. tax season right now. here are some things that b.e.a. looked at, are federal taxes at a record high? >> yes and no. every number that we come out with in a growing number will be bigger than the last number. there's always a record. when we look at federal taxes paid it's a record in the since it's $2.7 trillion. when we look at it as a share of the economy, it's 15% in recent years which is a record low. we also have on our chart there, income taxes both federal, state and local as a share of personal income, which is a little bit more than what the average person will be seeing. there are two we see there's been a decline and in recent years, it has been

. >> elliott abrams gives his view n the bush failures on the palestinian-israeli conflict. >> the supreme court ruled 5-4 that using a drug-sniffing dog immediately outside a suspect's home is an unconstitutional search under the fourth amendment and requires a warrant. it limits dogs sniffing around the outside of a home. the oral arguments are an hour. >> we'll hear argument first this morning in case 11-564, florida v. jardines. mr. garre. >> thank you, mr. chief justice, and may it please the court -- in the three prior cases in which this court has held that a dog sniff is not a search, this court has emphasized that a dog sniff is unique, both in terms of the manner in which information is obtained and the nature of the information revealed. as to the latter point, this court has emphasized that a drug detection dog reveals only the presence of contraband, and that no one has a legitimate expectation of privacy in that. >> i mean, that just can't be a proposition that we can accept across the board. nobody under that view has an interest in contraband in their ome. the question is,

dealers, and his mother enrolled elliott in the school in ninth grade, um, having heard of the school's reputation. so, in most american high schools in the early 1960s, the abrams family's politics would have put elliott to the left of his classmates. at elizabeth irwin, he was the equivalent of a republican. [laughter] culturally, elliott was also out of step. like most of his class mates, he was jewish, but unlike most of his classmates who either came from secular families or a product of mixed marriages, elliott's family was observant and kept a kosher home. elliot began to react to what he considered the left-wing ott docks says of the school. browsing the magazine racks, he saw the nation. why, heed is isabelle, the librarian, could the school not achieve some balance in the publication it displayed? why not stock a magazine like the national review? the culture is dominated by right-wig politics, she replied. we don't need to get more of it in our school. [laughter] in elliot's view history teacher harold kirscher in personified the school's politics. of he was a rigorous and dedicated teacher, but his analyses of historical movements seemed patently abs