santa clara is into the finals of the cbi basketball tournament will they will meet george mason in a best of three championship series beginning monday. meantime stanford and cal are headed to the sweet 16 in the women's ncaa tournament stanford off to the sweet 16 stanford hit the practice

>> solman: one-third of george mason's tenured professors are 60 plus, up from just 10% in 1990. it's one of many schools trying to grease the skids to retirement. >> the central task of retirement is really finding activities that pvide meaning and purpose for your life. >> solman: it gives courses on lifestyle and financial planning... >> this is your new favorite exercise. >> solman: ...even tips on staying in shape. more faculty left after phased retirement debuted in 2010. mason now runs focus groups to find new incentives. >> if they had offered a part- time job in perpetuity, i would have been first in line to grab it. >> solman: but don't these people have a fallback? hobbies, say? >> we're so entrenched in everyday crises and writing and doing what we have to do here that we leave very little time for anything outside. >> i think it's more also that when you leave, there's a real sense of being physically disconnected, that you don't belong to that place somehow. i'm not sure what it would look like, but if there were a space where you could work or you could have some o

last night as a one seed they played 8 seed george mason. robert morris, not george mason. they fell like a sack of potatoes. kentucky is shaking and waiting for determiney time. i'm shep, that's it. the dow' up, we're happy about it. but there's trouble, trouble, trouble. as you've been filling out your march madness brackets, quietly, without a bunch of fanfare, wait until you hear this. >> you know what is good? pitino knows how to motivate his crew. >> neil: he may know how but does the president? while he released his ncaa brackets today, he's yet to get a budget in at all. get ready because a very different march madness is about to kick in. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto. forget the hoops, republicans say time to dunk the perez. before he got to israel he got to this. >> good match but i like syracuse because biden told me if i didn't pick them he wouldn't talk to me. >> the president gets the brackets in on time but missing his budget deadline four out of five years sends a different signal. as much as we love a good game, the president's budget 44 days late. t

the study from george mason university, go fungal infections, measured freedom through tax rates and government spending and gun control. there that is again. free of states that were conservative served better on population ships. that means they are going to places where there is intrusive government and doing better economically. this short video explains the finer points of the research. >> edited in an odd way, but still somewhat enjoyable, i might ad. i might add. it cleansed the whole point of the story which i can't remember. jedediah, are you surprised by the findings i can't remember? people speaking about intrusive government. >> people actually work and they actually want to keep some of that money. they don't want to hand it back to the government. they are going to states where a, there are more jobs and b there are more taxes and c, michael bloomburg is telling you you can't do this, can't do that, can't eat salt, can't have guns and can't do this. they want to live their own life. >> michael bloomburg says, i do what i want. bring it bloomburg. >> what do you lose? >>

santa clara is into the finals of the cbi basketball tournament will they will meet george mason in ahree championship series beginning monday. meantime stanford and cal are headed to the sweet 16 in the women's ncaa tournament stanford off to the sweet 16 stanford hit the practice floor today. led by tara vanderveer who has her team in the postseason for the 26th straight year chiney ogwuimike likely the best player in the country not named britney griner the team leaves for spokane tomorrow around 12:30and plays saturday at 6 o'clock against georgia last night the cardinal easily beat michigan - who happens to be jim harbaugh's alma mater tara the raiders salary purge continues. defensive tackle tommy kelly has been released - saving the raiders nearly $5 million in cap space tommy kelly released defense tackle tommy kelly the latest casualty of the salary cap. you may remember kelly for his role in this scuffle against cinncinnati last year by cutting him the raiders will save $4.75 million dollars.though the team still owes kelly $13 million over the next two years.ouch! in 2008 a

george mason 10 and george washington, who had been friends and collaborators and leading up to the revolutionafter the constitutional convention, which washington sanctioned, it really spelled an end to their friendship. >> on twitter, someone said, quite the power couple. [laughter] what are the important things to know about the influence of martha washington? >> it is important to know how smart and powerful she was and how dependent he was on her. his achievements were his achievements. having her there with him made them much more possible. >> i think that is true. she defines influence in a way that perhaps a temporary americans -- contemporary americans might have a difficulty understanding. she was the most influential person in the face of europe -- in the face of europe. >> this is the biography of george washington, "patriarch." a striking portrait of young martha on the cover. our partners for the entire series is the white house historical association. they have been helping with documentary evidence. we get ready for the series and we say thanks as we finish up the first program

they share space with george mason in the george mason building and there is an affiliation with thesity. the center is an independent entity. host: from baltimore, maryland on the intended line. good morning. caller: the question from the senior citizen is ssi. can you comment on diets -- on that to help him understand the requirements so they can achieve -- received ssi. my question is on medicaid expansion. i am injured and possibly disabled from and on the job incident. one final question to you please if you can handle it. what is the payroll contribution limit? i think it is $160,000. if you know that, please share that. and also for that senior citizen, there are people who need support. i would thank you to explain ssi to him. host: the caller, walter from maryland, one of the states that is participating in the medicaid expansion. guest: some programs i am more or less an expert on them than others. ssi eligibility is established by the federal criteria. it is a need space program. it is administered by the social security a administration, but is not part of social security

kevin foster leads santa clara to the invitational final where they will face george mason and the best of three series. this report brought to you by river rock casino. we have the nit and a college basketball invitational. everybody gets to go to a urn it it -- to a tournament at the end of the year. >> up next, one of the >>> here is a look at your wake up forecast. mostly cloudy skies. we are looking at a few sprinkles, patchy fog, upper 40s to low 50s. at 8:00 a.m., low to mid50s. as you check out live doppler 7hd, a few sprinkles off the coast. lisa argen in with mike niko. and she will be tracking any sprinkles. >> thanks. >>> a colorful celebration in india. >> this is the holy festival that marks the start of spring and all of the colors that come withwit. >> and these are photos from southeast india where children celebrate by throwing brightly colored powder. and you can get in on the action as well. there is a two-day festival next weekend at stanford right here in our own backyard. >> sand you -- sandhya tells us this is one of the more frightening ideas. "jimmy kimmle live

kevin foster leads santa clara to the invitational final where they will face george mason and the best of three series. this report brought to you by river rock casino. we have the nit and a college basketball invitational. everybody gets to go to a urn it it -- to a tournament at the end of the year. >> up next, one of the >>> here is a look ake u your wake up forecast. mostly cloudy skies. we are looking at a few sprinkles, patchy fog, upper 40s to low 50s. at 8:00 a.m., low to mid50s. as you check out live doppler 7hd, a few sprinkles off the coast. lisa argen in with mike niko. and she will be tracking any sprinkles. >> thanks. >>> a colorful celebration in india. >> this is the holy festival that marks the start of spring and all of the colors that come withwit. >> and these are photos from southeast india where children celebrate by throwing brightly colored powder. and you can get in on the action as well. there is a two-day festival next weekend at stanford right here in our own backyard. >> sand you -- sandhya tells us this is one of the more frightening ideas. "jimmy kimmle l

. > let us go to our other guest is a hington, d.c., helen is a mason fessor at george mason universityantly a consultant to the pontifical ouncil for the laity here and, helen, good morning. good very early morning. >> yes, very good morning. >> and i wanted to ask you, your perspective having worked on the pontifical council for the laity under pope benedict, what do you expect so many people wonder d at kind of changes, what kind pope francis t pope francis have from your perspective, what o you see shaping up as the hemes and things you like, pope you hope for in pope francis. >> well, first of > well, first of all, it's so interesting here's a man born in raised and then worked in one diocese essentially. a taught there, he's been a bishop there. he's it alreadyw he knows how to ++k relate to all the different kinds of lay people and religious and religious institutions in a diocese. he knows the church on the ground so i suspect that he will have a lot of good ideas about how people like me and other lay people can serve the church, can work with the church and bishops and archbis

kevin foster leads santa clara to the invitational final where they will face george mason and the bestseries. this report brought to you by river rock casino. we have the nit and a college basketball invitational. everybody gets to g to a urn it it -- to a tournament at the end of the year. the end of the year. >> up next, one of the most [ man ] i got this citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. we'll leave that there.

of the taxman, director george mason university center for advancing excellence, looks at the cost and effectiveness of the justice department halfway house program. "washington journal," live on c- span. " with dr. francis collins. commons. house of then george osborne, chancellor of the exchequer, talks about the british budget. >> monday night, on "first ladies," called a bigamist and adulterer during her husband's campaign, rachel jackson dies of an apparent heart attack before andrew jackson takes office. his niece becomes white house hostess, but is later dismissed as followed from a scandal. later, angelico ben-gurion is hostfo

this is the conservative center of george mason university they've named north dakota the country's freest state and north dakota is arguably the country's most socialist state because most states when they take tax money they put it in a bank at wall street there's only six banks that can handle the kind of money that new york and california generate for example north dakota they've got their own bank it's nationalized or state ised why doesn't the rest of america i mean this there actually spin off a profit they used to pay for schools what's wrong with this bob well you know if i was socialism that lets you know two thousand and ten there was a big debate going on in capital called the obamacare and one state was singled out it was a little deal to some people made they they called different different names but one state was singled out if certain senator voted the certain way all of a sudden no no go according to. it was the state you're talking about they don't have to be involved in the federal student loan program and when you don't have that. one major bubble but you have all these

and the director of the george mason university center for advancing correctional excellence looks of the cost and effectiveness of the justice department halfway house program. live atton journal," 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. monday night, called a bigamist and adulterer during her husband's presidential campaign, rachel jackson dies of an apparent heart attack before andrew jackson takes office. his niece becomes the white house hostess but is later dismissed as fallout from a scandal. during the next administration, angelica van buren is the white house hostess for her father-in- law, president martin van buren, who is a widower. we include your questions and comments by phone, facebook, and twitter, live monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span and c- span three. also on c-span radio and c- span.org. >> during his weekly question time, british prime minister david cameron answered questions on the british economy ahead of the budget address by the chancellor of the exchequer. also talkednister about the eurozone bailout of cyprus. opposition leader@miller band said the situation in

fact and small businesses across america are already hurting our new professor stephen fuller george mason university the sequester budget cuts that went into effect will result in nearly one point four million lost private sector jobs and according to for nearly half of those job losses will come from small businesses so what are small businesses across the country doing to whether these devastating budget cuts as well as to survive in an already weak economy joining me now is elliot richardson president of the small business advisory council of chicago illinois eliot welcome thank you for having me great to have you with us so the sequester what are the what are the consequence was this an accurate characterization this is going to get whacked yet we're going to get hurt i mean i mean there's there's money that's going to come out of small businesses because of the sequester so nine hundred million dollars in lending that the s.p.c. may have been able to do the s.b.a. will not be able to do now that the ministration small business ration exactly government contracts are going to be there

george mason university did a study how much freedom americans have.st state including economic and personal freedom is north dakota. rounding out the south dakota, tennessee and new hampshire are oklahoma. least free not surprisingly, new york and runners up, california, new jersey and yes, hawaii and rhode island. not surprisingly free states tend to be red ones. the study every year they come out of it. it has a lot to do with economic freedom but also freedom from excessive government regulation. i was reading about how california, it's so hard to do business and people are moving. >> eric: we took the ten top freest states, and ten least free states. highest tax rates in each state. not for the ten least free. the top freest states average, top rate, 3.9% state income tax. least free, 7.8. what do you notice about that? it's exactly double. it's hundred percent higher than the other ten freest states in the union. i would like to know if these are republican governors and stated houses. i have a hunch they would be the freer state. by the way, the

a study by the universities of british columbia and george mason broke down american university faculties this way. 51% are democrats. 35% are independent. just 14% republican. in fact, some the top donors to president obama last year were colleges. the university of california gave the president a whopping $1,200,000. unbelievable. harvard university almost $700,000. so you can see that american college students are mostly caught in a liberal environment whether they like it or not. enter ryan row rotela a student north of fort lauderdale. vine mormon enrolled in a communications class taught by the vice chairman of the democratic party if you can believe it dr. deandre poole has been a democratic activist, an activist for years. yet, is he running that class. and as part of the course, dr. poole apparently ordered his students to disrespect jesus. >> he said everybody write jesus on bold letters so what i did was wrote jesus just like this. afterwards he said everybody put it on the floor. he took it out. put it on the floor and he had us all stand up once we were standing up he said st

. >> john: i'm joined by michael shanker adjunct professor at george mason university and board memberonal peace academy and john rosenthal co-founder stop handgun violence common sense about kids and guns and the american hunters and shooters association. thank you for being here. the president asked for that in the state of the union address and they applauded the concept. we know what happened to that. now there is a story in the "washington post" headline the assault weapons ban was always doomed john, is that right? >> well, look, our strong is broken, and the democrats are afraid to take a hard vote on banning assault weapons which is the weapon of choice by gang members and the common denominator of all the mass shootings. harry reid is running for re-election, and he doesn't want his democrats to have to vote on the assault weapons. john frankly, magazine clips prohibition on large ammunition clips like colorado passed will not pass the u.s. senate, and will not pass the house. and we'll be lucky if we get a background check for our gun sales. believe it or not in america a bac

george mason did a study on how many freedom americans have in each of the 50 states. if you are considering a move grab a pen. the freest state is north dakota. rounding out the top 5 south dakota, new hampshire and oklahoma. the least free, not surprisingly, new york, home state to michael bloomburg. runners up a california, new jersey, hawaii and yes, greg, hawaii is a state. >> not true. >> and rhode island. also not surprisingly freest states are red ones. every year they come up with the study and it has a lot to do with economic freedom, but also freedom from excessive government regulation. reading about how california, one of the reasons a lot of people live there is it is so hard to do business so people are moving. >> when we started talking about this and we freest states and the 10 least free states, let me just do something. let me throw the highest tax rates in each state and see what happens. something cool happened. the top freest states, top rate, 3.9% state income tax, top rate, the least free 7.8. what do you notice about that? it is exactly double.

the broncos face george mason in the first of a best of three, which will start monday for the championshipthat. >>> the raider player purge continues. tommy kelly officially released. the ravens have snatched up former raiders safety michael huff. tough chore for him replacing the great ed reed in baltimore. tomorrow night at this time, we're going to be talking about the a's and giants back home. the bay bridge series starts tomorrow evening. highlights then, and opening day, less than a week away. >> what is that april 1? >> sporting life. but baseball right offstage. >>> thank you for trusting ktvu, channel 2 news. we'll see you the next time news breaks. >> right now, crews are tracking a high speed chase in san jose reaching speeds over 100 miles per hour. we'll have that for you tomorrow beginning with the ktvu morning news at 4:30. we're [ teen ] times are good, aren't they, kids? it's nice having u-verse, isn't it? see back in my day, we didn't have these newfangled wireless receivers. fangled? no, we watched march madness in the living room... that's where the tv outlet was. what

his wife liz was director of scheduling for dick cheney while her husband coached at george mason universityratulations to billy fleming. if you have a trivia question for us, e-mail us at daily run down. we will be right back with more of our gale. how do you measure? by the armful? by the barrelful? the carful? how about...by the bowlful? e.ell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. ge.ge.le.e.ecampbell's. give you nutrition, energy, it's amazing what soup can do. otherworldly things. but there are some things i've never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. suddenly, faraway places don't seem so...far away. ♪ if we don't double the number of kids graduating from high school in the next 8 years, our country won't be able to compete globally. what uncle sam needs now are more good teachers. are you up for it? you can help kids graduate. the more you know. >>> all right. wish you were here during the bre

in 2006 his george mason team was the cinderella of the big dance. making it to the final four.ball program's winning ways couldn't have come at a better time to raise spirits. an ncaa investigation determined there was a lack of institutional control, primarily with the football team. that's the worst possible violation. the key figure in the investigation, a one-time booster, now serving time for running a nearly $1 billion ponzi scheme. during an eight-year period he allegedly doled out money and favors to players and recruits. ncaa penalties have not come down yet. it's unclear whether this could impact the basketball program. but for some fans, none of that matters. >> really don't care what the ncaa has to say. we're just here to support the team. >> reporter: for this slice of time, no matter how brief it may be, at the u., it's about sneakers, not cleats. john zarrella, cnn, coral gables. >> wow. as we said, today is selection sunday for the ncaa tournament. 68 teams vying for college basketball's biggest prize will be announced. that means you can start filling out your

a study by george mason university projects a loss of 2.14 million american jobs if we fail to act. half of those jobs will come from small businesses. businesses that are the engines of our economy. perhaps most unfair as part of the sequester are schools and students will be hurt. now, a couple of weeks ago, i voted along with many of my colleagues, to not adjourn this body, to stay here throughout the so-called district work week to work with my colleagues across the aisle to try to come up with a balanced solution to avoid these devastating cuts. but the leadership, the republican leadership, decided to adjourn. and so instead of spending time with our families, we went out and met with our constituents to listen to them about what these cuts mean in their evidence lives. let me -- everyday lives. let me talk to you what it means in my home state of nevada. nearly 300 nevada children will lose head start and early head start services. these are programs that provide critical early education programs. at a time when we talk about wanting to close the academic achievement gap and

we had george mason, butler made a couple of runs.d by, barely got by in a lot of their games. they're rolling over people, they're dunking on everyone, they got the name dunk city. they beat georgetown and san diego state, both by ten points. you know, you never see a 15 seed win and never see them roll over people the way they're doing right now. and there is just so many levels to the story. all the players are older than the university itself. >> founded in 1991. >> yeah. 1997, they had their first classes. and then you have a coach, you know, he's self-made millionaire, marries a supermodel, seems like they'll make a movie about this at some point. >> you go to class, the beach not too fair away. it is the cinderella story, i remember living in d.c. when mason made the final four. you look back at how george mason has done, at the time, academically, the enrollment at the school was improving, it is a bigger picture for the school. >> the school is on the beach. they said they're not having problems getting students to come to th

william ruger, affiliated scholars at george mason university. gentlemen, thank you for joining me.bust discussion here. >> sure. >> thanks for having us. >> i appreciate there are different definitions of freedom. >> sure. >> but police explain to me how things that seem like basic freedoms including reproductive rights or marriage equality or who you married isn't given the same weight that let's say gun control or tobacco free or taxes are. >> we are excited to initiate a conversation about what freedom is. >> yes. >> we know people have different views. that's where we have the ability to actually look at what we would want to include. what i might want to include and we provide that data. but jason can tell you about how we measured it here. >> tell us how you sort of weighted the different categories. >> even even though we can see that everyone has a different conception of freedom we wanted to be as objective and signtiving as possible. we collected all this data on different policies and we waited each of them according to the value of americans. we looked through extensive

george mason university distinguished professor anthony sanders says we very well could be.ortgage president fred glick counters that these loans are safer and very much needed in this recovery. welcome to you both. anthony, i'm going to start with you, if i can. you know, you say that, basically, this is a repeat of the cycle that we saw before. others say it's a little bit different this time. the economic underpinnings are different as well. why do you think it will be a repeat of what we saw previously? >> well, the economic underpinnings are actually worse than they were during the housing bubble. but here's the problem. it's not that i have any problems with low down payment mortgages. that used to be the domain of the fha, first-time home buyers and minority communities. but now we're seeing fannie mae, and probably freddie mac, but fannie mae at this point creeping back in. this is what we call mission creep. so we have fannie mae doing the mission that the fha was set up to do. and maybe it's because fha was too expensive. but, again, where's mr. d'marco, who's tryi

that when i was a student and a professor of political history, i often read the writings of of george mason. ironically, i live where he lived now there in virginia many fairfax county -- in fairfax county. he was one of the founding fathers at the philadelphia convention. so in 1789 he wrote about the u.s. house of representatives. and he said it's the closest thing we have in the u.s. to being a repository of our democratic principles. and so he said a member of the house of representatives, unlike, you know, members of the senate, for example, should be very close to their constituents. they should think as they think, they should feel as they feel, and they should be residents among them. and mr. mills took this very seriously and never bought a home in washington. and he was always here when congress was not in session. and then when i was a professor and teaching the brilliant skip rutherford what i knew about the constitution, we looked in many article i of the constitution as the legislative article. it sets out the powers of congress. and it says that congress has the premier power

according to a libertarian think tank based out of george mason university some states do not live up to the land of the free guarantee as much as they should. at the top of the list of the most free states, north dakota. the rankings take into account economic and personal freedoms but in keeping with libertarian values, government regulations carry the most weight. that means new yorkers can partially thank their rent control apartments and soda bans for coming in dead last. and now it's time for the small world challenge. where i see how long i can listen to the theme from disney land's "it's a small world." okay. cue the music. ♪ it's a world of laughter a world of fun ♪ >> that's enough. that's enough. ♪ and a world of -- >> please. enough. i love walt disney and i love disney land and i love the disney organization, but i cannot stand that song. i don't think i'm alone. luckily i can kill the music any time like just now. but those trapped on the ride back in 2009 for a half an hour didn't have that option. >> oh, lord. ♪ it's a small world after all it's a small world after all

washington -- george mason university talks about federal halfway houses. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] good morning, and welcome to "washington journal." in four briefnly pro forma session. the members are out of washington for the easter and passover holiday. down the street people are lining up in front of the supreme court, despite the weather, in hopes of watching tomorrows oral arguments over same-sex marriage. the editorial pages are asking whether non-5 lead to illegal immigrants should be detained. what you think should happen to be legal tender in the united states illegally? this stems from the release of more than 2000 detainees because of sequestration budget cuts. here are the numbers to call -- republicans 202-585-3881. .ou can also find us online or joined theet conversation on facebook. you can also e-mail us journal@cspan.org. here is the editorial in "the la times." this is a commentary piece by the editorial board. what is certain is that those that were r

also, to help us get perspective is lisa sturtevant from george mason university. you to you as well. that thek at the map u.s. census has shared. how the population is changing in 2011 to 2012. we are seeing in green, areas that are on the rise. what are the takeaways from this? populationnew estimates, these are four counties and metro areas. host: counties and metro and micro? they are defined by the office of the and budget. they are built out of counties and the outer counties connect with intricate meeting. metro areas have a core of 50,000 or more. are very similar, just a big brother, little brother. host: what do we learn from this map? -2000 12.e top is 2011 we see different patterns going on in the country. this latest. arehis latest timeframe places we have not been talking about, places like small counties in western north dakota, eastern montana. these are very rural counties. the fastest- among growing in the country. this is is a departure from a couple of years ago. host: what are other growth rates in dark green? we do see growth in some of the tr

mark katz from george mason university. thank you for both presentations. with regard to dr. brzezinski's comments about iran and the president's statements in israel, i have to admit i'm very confused by what he means by all means necessary. i don't think that the israeli government is interested in occupying iran, and i don't think the obama administration wants to do so. but it seems that the strategy, if there is one, is to make some kind of surgical strike to knock out the iranian nuclear capacity. and i'm just curious, is that possible? or is that another example of faith-based strategy? and for the general if -- in particular in that, you know, you have raised the importance of understanding how the opponent is going to respond, how -- what is the likely response of the iranians to what is, what we hope to be a surge call strike such as the -- surgical strike such as the israelis delivered on iraq or syria? >> okay, i think we've got it. go ahead. >> why don't i deal with iraq and iran, then there's another issue which i want to address. on iraq the question's very sim

a new study by george mason university ranks new york dead last for the level of personal liberty, 50thtates in the union, the empire state's high tax rate, to of business controls, regulations on tobacco products. and if you are a new yorker you need to go west. the study found the number one state for personal liberty is north dakota but it is cold as you know what. grandparents taking a more active role in saving for their grand kids education while reading portfolio benefit themselves. and a cyberthreat coming up. how safe are you when your mobile on your phone? the first, best and worst when it comes to keeping your information private. and jay leno started taking jabs at udc. may be smarter than you think. and very public product sets war. ♪ [ male announcer ] how could switchgrass in argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global ecoomy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. we price. invest wi

mark, when you have anthony sanders who teaches at george mason on earlier and we were talking aboutning prosperity of the middle class, how do you get people to change a mindset and that's put away what little excess money they have every month? >> well, confidence certainly is the topic of this survey, right? if you have a lot of confidence, you're going to be investing it somewhere and i think that lack of confidence we've seen across the capital markets have been really the big issue for the middle class. how do you get to this point, right? in the cycle and still haven't saved for your retirement. stock market has doubled since the bottom. we're up 16% last year on the s&p 500. we're up 9% already this year. you've already seen a whole year's return in three months. so if you're not ready at this point because you're not invested and i think that's part of the problem with a lack of confidence across the system so we've got to create more confidence first of all, and creating confidence is something that i think investors can get to. connell: do you sense some people just don't

they share space with george mason in the george mason building and there is an affiliation with the university. the center is an independent entity. host: from baltimore, maryland on the intended line. -- independent line. good morning. caller: the question from the senior citizen is ssi. can you comment on that to help him understand the requirements so they can receive ssi. my question is on medicaid expansion. i am injured and possibly disabled from and on the job incident. one final question to you please if you can handle it. what is the payroll contribution limit? i think it is $160,000. if you know that, please share that. and also for that senior citizen, there are people who need support. i would thank you to explain ssi to him. host: the caller, walter from maryland, one of the states that is participating in the medicaid expansion. guest: some programs i am more or less an expert on them than others. ssi eligibility is established by the federal criteria. it is a need space program. it is administered by the social security a administration, but is not part of social secu

he earned his ean international relations at george mason university. i'd like to begin the discussion today by asking a question to inspector campbell. the postal inspection service has been actively involved in combating lottery fraud in jamaica. how is this fraud committed, and what is the inspection service doing to combat this fraud? >> [inaudible] >> yes, the inspection has been actively involved in these types of scams and investing these types of scams. since 2009, the postal inspection service has been part of a task force that was initiated by the department of homeland security, immigration, and its jamaican operations went through telemarketing as a result of that, it's a multipage task force that focuses on investigating crimes that involve advance scams or lottery scams. how these scams work is that individuals or victims, predominantly older citizens, are contacted via the internet, telephone, or the mail. and told that they've won some type of prize, an award, a car or lottery. and then once the individual sins, their children were to re

we've got a new report from george mason university and a colleague from harvard who said the main part of that austerity program was tax increases. that was the main part of this austerity, taking money out of the economy, with tax increases, and that's produced this recession. now that's mirrored over here. right now in america we've got a dead flat economy. very, very weak economy. in large part because of the tax increases we've put in on january the 1st and the likelihood of more tax increases to come from president obama. so they're ahead of us over there. we're going down exactly the same road. that's where we are today. also cut entitlements? i remember the protests in the streets in france. >> they did. martha: over the retirement age and students and all of that. what impact did that have and how does all this add up for what we can expect here in the future, stuart? >> they did cut entitlement programs in some countries in europe that tried to cut to, cut the, raise the retirement age in france. that was struck down and they put it back to 60. and what does that mean for amer

he earned his be a at george mason university -- his b.a. at george mason.inspector campbell, the postal inspection service has been involved in combating lottery fraud from jamaica. how is this fraud committed and what is the inspection service doing to compact -- to combat this? >> thank you. yes, the inspection service has been involved in these types of scams. since 2009, the polls for inspection service has been a part of a task force initiated by the department of homeland security called jolt. as a result, it focuses on investigating crimes that involve lottery scams. individuals, predominantly older citizens, are contacted via the internet, phone or mail, and told they have won some type of price. -- type of prize,. . they are told to receive their feet, -- to receive their prize, they have to pay a tax. the payment as always -- the price is always one cash payment away. that is how the operate. >> what are you doing to investigate to combat this crime? >> we had 18 field offices. all offices have been working fraud scams for years. the scams have be

george mason. they never won a tournament game before 2006, went to the final four.out of the horizon league, back-to-back championship games, that was unheard of. and bcu going all the way to the final four. those are some of great stories we had over the past ten years that everyone thinks of. this is good. it has all the elements. the coach, an entrepreneur, made some money, the super model wife, and he's -- he was a coach that coaches them, got them back on track. it seems like, hey, they'll make a movie about this at some point, aren't they? >> who knows? it sounds like a -- the school there in ft. myers not a bad place to study if you can study on the beach that kind of thing. we'll watch for them. how will they do against florida? >> this is the david versus goliath situation. the kids that go to the gulf coast, they don't even get a sniff at a scholarship with the florida gators. have to see if they can carry the magic over to north texas. >> i want to ask you, not necessarily a cinderella story, but tiger woods, he just won. he's back on top. is he back? >>

purse, senior research fellow at the mercator center at george mason university. before cheney served as senior counsel to senator richard shelby steps on the senate aging committee as council commissioner paul atkins at the securities and exchange commission and a staff attorney at the sec. research focus on regulation of financial markets and recently released the lack of economic analysis by regulators who were entrusted with an lamenting the dodd-frank act. finally, we would hear from wayne abernathy, executive vice president for policy and regulatory affairs at the american bankers association where he oversees policy development, regulatory and compliance issues and general counsel securities and investment, derivatives posting risk management. what was previously assistant secretary of the treasury for financial institutions and member of the board of securities investor protection corporation and staff her of the senate banking committee. needless to say, when response after the senate banking committee was dodd-frank was enacted. we're looking forward to

a study from george mason university projects a loss of dollars -- of 2.140 million jobs.now is not the time. for the department of defense and all the other agencies, the effects of sequestration could be compounded by the effects of a continuing resolution that does not update budgetary priorities. our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines can be called upon at any time on any day to defend our nation. we have a responsibility to set aside our ideological differences and provide them with the resources they need. i would also like to take a moment to think general grass and his response to that guard after super storm sandy. we're so appreciative. but new york national guard deployed approximately 4000 soldiers to assist first responders with equipment, supplies, search and rescue, and cleanup efforts. due to sequestration, new york alone is looking at a furlough of 12,000 defense employees and a reduction of her $108 million for army base operations. this could hurt the ability to maintain a top much worse. i look for testimony for our witnesses and i don't think we sho

it in the all-time cinderella category and i think push it beyond like a vcu and into like the george masonhey, jay, given your knowledge of the game and your respect for the game, what will go through your mind tonight? what are your feelings when you see these two iconic coaches, your guy, coach k, against tom izzo tonight? >> you know, mike, i would have loved to have played for izzo. he probably wouldn't have recruited me but i would have loved to played for him. they are very similar. krzyzewski and izzo are very similar. they are similar in the trust they build with their teams and similar in the fact they are incredible self-evaluators and never let anything slide and they correct everything and their teams, they trust enough in their coaches that they can hear the tough things and they can say tough things to each other. but i think in this game -- these teams match up really well individually at each spot. michigan state a kid gameday gary harris was a football in high school and scored 33 touchdowns. he'll probably wind up guarding seth curry i think duke's player the last month a

the space shuttle program manager for return to flight who had to incorporate the mess sons, and george masonuniversity who wrote a nice book between challenger and colombia. lessons learned and unlearned. i shamelessly stole the tight of the program from. i figured i would start with discussing some of the personals on -- observations and a little bit of synthesis. >> as i said these are my personal impressions of the accident. frankly, i was asleep when the phone rank. -- rang i got a call from kennedy waiting for the challenger -- to return. and said that the vehicle was late. you don't lose shuttles. something is bad. i had to get to the office fairly quickly. on the way there, of course, we had the report of the breakup 0 occurring in the skies over texas. we set up a war room on the sixth floor. deputy administrator rick gregory come in. a lot of folks had come in that weekend. we had a crisis response plan set up for notification and coordination as several earlier speakers mentioned. it was something created after the challenger accident. i think something we were greatful in providin