host: our guest is frank buckley, a professor of law at george mason university. to join our conversation this morning host: i want to ask you about more details in the book. you say that separatn of pos not thbest you have written that separation of powers is not the best idea. >> guest: well, it was not the primary idea behind what the framers wanted. and they ended up with a government where they thought in most cases congress would be appointing the president 95 percent of the time. and when i say congress, then in the house of representatives vary by state. imagine what that would be like, imagine the 2012 election with the election from to the house of representatives. a different president. they thought the president would be more accountable to congress, and they did not expect the rise of the great federal state. they did not seek a greater regulatory state. they thought the executive would be charged with defending the country if invaded, but not a lot more than that. the government has changed and the institutions, the presidency has changed with it. is

that was john boudreau economist and senior fellow at george mason university. time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return i sit down with bryan caplan now kaplan is an libertarian with some pretty interesting views on the types of economic policies that voters tend to gravitate towards then in today's big deal edward harrison and i are discussing the possible possible final days for mortgage lenders fannie and freddie and as we head to a quick break here are a look at some your closing numbers of the bell stick around. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question for. welcome back to do so now brian kaplan is a professor of economics that george mason university and a blogger for econo log his work debunk some of what we might take for granted now his first book the myth of the rational better examines the package of bad economic p

host: our guest is frank buckley, a professor of law at george mason university. to join our conversation this morning host: i want to ask you about more details in the book. you say that separation of powers is not the best idea. n't thewell, it wasbn primary idea between -- behind what the framers wanted. to imagine what it would be ,ike, imagine the 2012 election with the election thrown to the house of representatives. different president. they thought the president would be more accountable to congress and they didn't expect the rise of the great federal state. they didn't see the great regulatory state in the offing. they thought the executive would be thin. the executive would be charged with defending the country is invaded, but not a lot more than that. the government has changed, and the institutions, the presidencies change with it. host: first call is nancy in los angeles on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. guest: hello, nancy. caller: hi, how are you? guest: good. caller: i think the congress has ceded power to the president. what do you

host: our guest is frank buckley, a professor of law at george mason university.to join our conversation this morning host: i want to ask you about more details in the book. you say that separation of powers is not the best idea. n't thewell, it wasbn primary idea between -- behind what the framers wanted. to imagine what it would be ,ike, imagine the 2012 election with the election thrown to the house of representatives. different president. they thought the president would be more accountable to congress and they didn't expect the rise of the great federal state. they didn't see the great regulatory state in the offing. they thought the executive would be thin. the executive would be charged with defending the country is invaded, but not a lot more than that. the government has changed, and the institutions, the presidencies change with it. host: first call is nancy in los angeles on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. guest: hello, nancy. caller: hi, how are you? guest: good. caller: i think the congress has ceded power to the president. what do you t

that was john boudreaux economist and senior fellow at george mason university.time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return i sit down with bryan caplan now kaplan is an libertarian with some pretty interesting views on the types of economic policies that voters tend to gravitate towards then in today's big deal edward harrison and i are discussing the possible the possible final days for mortgage lenders fannie and freddie and as we head to a quick break here are a look at some your cousin numbers of the bell stick around. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. remember back in the twenty's and thirty's you had the stock market bubble of the twenty's followed by the bust followed by the depression what's different about this era is that you've got the depression and the stock market bubble happening concurrently simultaneously that's the genius of financial engineering. right from the scene. first street. and i think that you're. on a reporter's. instrument. the in the. welcome back to the show now brian

that was john boudreaux economist and senior fellow at george mason university. time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return i'll sit down with bryan caplan now kaplan is an libertarian with some pretty interesting views on the types of economic policies that voters tend to gravitate towards then in today's big deal edward harrison and i are discussing the possible possible final days for mortgage lenders fannie and freddie and as we head to a quick break here are a look at some your closing numbers of the bell stick around. nothing has been done this complex by the military since world war two. this is portrait we have historical terms the berlin airlift it reverse. course the seven or seven go down to some load shifts on takeoff because you're going to become unstable you're talking really billions of dollars to move billions of dollars worth of equipment at what point do you see the course no longer worth your precious. washington well it's a miss that is being sued to the latest numbers in the media and the congress even going to is

that was john boudreaux economist and senior fellow at george mason university. time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return i sit down with bryan caplan now kaplan is an libertarian with some pretty interesting views on the types of economic policies that voters tend to gravitate towards then in today's big deal edward harrison and i are discussing the possible possible final days for mortgage lenders fannie and freddie and as we head to a quick break here are a look at some your cousin numbers of the bell stick around. the star wars. in the finish line of the marathon. we welcome there are nate and i believe mark to be terrific oh show me your team at work. us it's going to give you a different perspective give you one stock never i'll give you the information you make the decision don't worry about it i'll bring you the set works it's a revolution of the mind it's a revolution of ideas and consciousness is frustrated with the system extremely your public use would be described as angry i think i'm a strong you know i'm a single. welc

we have bob dietz, a distinguished professor of public policy at george mason. he has been the consiglio ari to the intelligence community. did you work for dulles or not? the first cia director. bob was general counsel to the nsa for eight years. amazing. he then was the counselor to the cia director general hayden, for three years. has worked in defense department, state department, and was unbelievably, a law clerk to justice william o'douglas, one of the great civil libertarians. we will get to the question of what douglas would think of your career path. >> [laughter] >> mark mazzetti of "the new york times." he has worked for "the l.a. times," earned an award for his work in afghanistan and pakistan. i will say this from the point of view from "the washington post," covers the senate and intelligence committee better than anyone. next to him at the end is peter maass, who writes for first look media. done a number of books, including the book "love thy neighbor" about the war in bosnia. i want to make this a conversation, not presentations. do not hesitate

and the director of strategy at energy initiative at george mason university. and sam stein, a white house correspondent and political editor with "the huffington post." coral, i will start with you. you're covering this this week. if you could give us the bottom line of what this report is saying. people have heard so many reports with warnings and dates and targets. what's the bottom line that this report is trying to tell us? >> this report was about policy. we have heard report after report after report about what the science tells us. bad stuff is coming. we're going to probably very likely tip past this 3.6 degree tipping point before the end of the century. this report laid out what governme governments need to do to make that not happen. it said there is still time to do something. the window is very rapid. it essentially said that governments have to have very strong carbon cutting programs in place up and running by 2030. it particularly recommended pri pricing or taxing carbon pollution as the most effective policy. and most specifically it called on

. >> i graduate this semester at george mason. 11 years in the making. >> reporter: but adam so you anng and co-founded ready for hillary and recruited a few people, including his girlfriend, who is also a cheerleader ambassador for the washington redskins. >> which one are you? >> right there. >> reporter: what they lack in experience, they make up for in enthusiasm. in one year alone, this super pac has grown from a handful of volunteers to 25 employees and 15 interns, all sharing the same key goal. >> the mission is simple. to build a list. the secretary of state couldn't be political and we wanted to make sure if she does this, she is as prepared to go from day one as she ever could be. >> reporter: so while hillary clinton has not committed to running, a shadow campaign is already under way. raising money at fund-raisers like this one in los angeles for gay and lesbian supporters of clinton. collecting e-mail addresses from potential campaign volunteers. >> pretty much sold out. >> reporter: and even selling swag, along the way ready for hillary has more iffed into a polished oper

mo for more, we are joined by john antide at george mason university. john, always good to see you. lot of debate about this one, about whether organic is all it's cracked up to be. let's start with the little girl's video. it has close to 2 million views on youtube. is an organic sweet potato safer because it has been chemicals? >> that was a great video. it is a good science experiment. i think it shows what any good scientist would tell you, which is the chemical clorphopham stops buds from agreeing, an essential components of food distribution. so, it works. what it doesn't show is that chemical. >> chemical is used in the european union where they have the precautionary principle. it's not carsinogenic. it does what it's supposed to do but it doesn't cause any harm. there is an illusion that organics don't use pesticides and they are more nutrition and they are less harmful and the science just doesn't show that. >> but there is not a lot of rebate data on how much better organic food could be. isn't there an agreement that that that is not pesticide free, concern? >> yeah. i m

. >> reporter: and, enthuses veronique de rugy of george mason university's conservative mercatus center, we get their lives out of the hands of government bureaucrats. >> the current system is not serving poor people well. the appeal of the guaranteed minimum income is it doesn't dictate that people who gets this money how to spend it, and it assumes that they, better than anyone else in washington, know what they need. >> reporter: on the left, anthropologist and activist david graeber, a key cog in the occupy movement, is similarly disenchanted with social welfare bureaucrats. >> i think this is a perfect left critique of bureaucracy, we employ thousands of people to make us feel bad about ourselves, just get rid of those people, just give everybody some money and i think everyone will be much better off. >> reporter: now to be clear, folks on the right believe a guaranteed minimum income only works if it wholly replaces current programs. >> there's no more food stamps, there's no more medicaid, you just go down the whole list. none of that's left. we're going to go to a system whereb

buckley on the federalist society of the institute for humane studies at george mason university provide internships and seminars for budding conservative academics and future jurors. the list goes on. with the support of foundations with many familiar names. out, while this movement to build a choir of young, ideological lawyers, journalists , congressional staff, and voters has been a central priority of the right, very few social scientists have studied the effort to mobilize the students or to examine just how the students experience their undergraduate life in the first place. this has left us in an odd situation of not knowing if the accusations leveled against the university's resonate with the students on his behalf vermeil, nor do we know what to anything else about the students such as when and how did they become conservative? were under political turning points? both before and during college. one of the issues that they care about, and how did these differ from their elders? who do conservative students know in a larger world of conservative thought and politics? we have als

buckley on the federalist society of the institute for humane studies at george mason university provide internships and seminars for budding conservative academics and future jurors. the list goes on. with the support of foundations with many familiar n

. >> i'm from george mason university. effectld you assess the of gays to serve openly in the military has had on the huge cohesion and readiness since the repeal of don't ask, don't tell? >> i think that is a great question. i do not think it is that any effect at all. i am very proud at the way all of the services have, and i am proud of the way our service has reached out. unless i'm missing something, i don't think i have, there has been zero. i think the cohesion, the units, the morale is just fine. >> thank you. >> here, and then right here in the front row, then right here in the second row. >> thank you. breakingdefense. com. hello, general. good to see you again. i wanted to push on the intersection of strategy and sequestration, two things that are not particularly compatible. if you have a world in which most of the things are going to model,n your sedan yet you have to worry about the contingency operation, there is forces, someround would say, what investments apply it across that whole that you can get multip

for one thing, todd zywicki who's a great bankruptcy scholar at george mason disagreed about that, i was against it precisely because of that entrepreneurship connection. he was for it. and he had said you'll see the rates of bankruptcy drop, and he was right about that, and i was wrong. so -- [laughter] i think we can infer from that that there was some abuse. there were people who didn't need to declare bankruptcy. and yet most people who could benefit don't use it by par the. i mean, many more people don't use it when they could than do use it when they shouldn't. in general, we focus a lot on abuse. we focus a lot on moral has card because it really ticks off a deep concern and correctly, right? bernie madoff, we should be really angry at him. he did something really terrible. but the on the much level of abuse -- optimum level of abuse is not zero. you talk to banks, well, they don't really say this, but it is sort of widely known that they just tolerate some level of embezzlement because the optimal amount of embezzlement reduction is not 100%. getting that last 10% is so much

buckley on the federalist society of the institute for humane studies at george mason university provide internships and seminars for budding conservative academics and future jurors. the list goes on. with the support of foundations with many familiar names. out, while this movement to build a choir of young, ideological lawyers, journalists , congressional staff, and voters has been a central priority of the right, very few social scientists have studied the effort to mobilize the students or to examine just how the students experience their undergraduate life in the first place. this has left us in an odd situation of not knowing if the accusations leveled against the university's resonate with the students on his behalf vermeil, nor do we know what to anything else about the students such as when and how did they become conservative? were under political turning points? both before and during college. one of the issues that they care about, and how did these differ from their elders? who do conservative students know in a larger world of conservative thought and politics? we have als

he is currently a principal of the chertoff group, a distinguished visiting professor at george mason university. barton gelman is a two-time pulitzer prize winning journalist and lead reporter on disclosuresen's nsa at the washington post. he has actually met snowden several times. >> in person wants. spent 20 one years on the staff of the washington post and has won numerous awards, which i will mention only a few. his first pulitzer was awarded in 2002 for reporting on the september 11 attacks. the second pullets are was awarded to him in 2008 for a series on dick cheney's vice presidency that went on to become the basis of his best-selling book. that book won the los angeles ames book rise and was named new york times best book of 2008. today he is a senior fellow at the century foundation and lecturer and author in residence at princeton's woodrow wilson school. he returned to the post temporarily in 2013 after receiving various nsa documents from edward snowden. with his colleagues he has broken stories about many of the things that we are going to be discussing tonight. you joi

and tyler cowen is our respondant from george mason university. a couple quick comments about the program. if you have a cellphone, turn it off, first. feel free if you want to do twitering stuff about this. we just don't want phones. there is time for questions but it will not be formal. it will be something like a question. think about making your question as concise as possible. we will break up at 6:30 for wine and cheese and we are selling copies of the book outside. if you like what you hear, i recommend you buy them. i am in favor of people buying books they find interesting. >> me, too. >> thank you for coming. megan, i read the book. i loved the book. i thought there was a dozen interesting things in here. more than that. stories from all sorts of things ranging from bad date to failed companies to drug addicts. my favorite line was if you don't already have trouble with delayed gratification the best way to get there is develop a drug habit. i am probably misquoting it. >> no, that is right. >> we have a washington crowd, what do you thi

know where you are coming from. , ahave robert dietz distinguished professor of public policy at george mason. he has been the consiglio ari to the intelligence community. not?you work for dulles or the first cia director. he was general counsel to the nsa for eight years. amazing. he then was the counselor to the cia director your general hayden, for three years. has worked in defense department, state department, unbelievably, a law clerk to justice william o douglas, one of the great civil libertarians. we would get to the question of what douglas would think of your career path. >> [laughter] of "the newetti york times." he has worked for "the l.a. earned an award for his work in afghanistan and pakistan. i will say this from the point of view from "the washington post," covers the senate and intelligence committee better than anyone. hymn at the end is --next to him at the end is peter maass, who writes for first look media. done a number of books, theyding the book "loveth neighbor" about the war in bosnia. do not hesitate to interrupt. i would do the same, if that is ok. the perils of

they're not like a george mason or harvard making it. >> what game with kentucky. >> they're the team that sort of caught people by surprise and they also have this very tough road. they beat wichita state louisville, who people thought was going to win the tournament and michigan. >> do you think uconn has a chance to go all the way? >> i really do. thing any team can beat this tournament. connecticut, florida -- they're riding a win streak. >> 30-game win streak. >> they beat them on a buzzer beater. there's a little bit of a different issue there. a player was injured. it's not the same scenario. it was in connecticut, so that helps out. >> what about the other game? >> the other game kentucky they could win it all, to be honest. >> kentucky went into the season. people had high expectations but then they had a disappointing season. >> right. they were number one because they had recruited five freshmen. they struggled because they were freshmen. >> i have to say i'm somewhat mag any advertised to all the coaches. watching them has been a side sport itself. >> there are great stori

principal andy a a distinguished visiting professor at george mason university. gelman spent 21 years on the staff of the washington post. he has won numerous awards. was awardedlitzer in 2002 for reporting on the september 11 attacks. the second was awarded to him in 2008 4 his series on dick cheney's vice president see that a best-selling book. that book won the los angeles times book prize and was named a new york times best book in 2008. today he is a senior fellow at the century foundation and author and residence at root -- at woodrow wilson school. he returned temporarily and 2013 after receiving various nsa documents from edward snowden. with his colleagues he has broken stories about many of the things that we are bound to be discussing tonight. i would like you to join me in welcoming our distinguished speakers and the national audience of c-span. [applause] the format as we are going to have conversation among ourselves for the first hour and then we will open it up to you all. i see two microphones, one on the middle and one on the side here. it seems

a political analyst at george mason university joins us.se numbers not anything new to you, 62% of the public supports the policies that help the families get ahead, more than half of all voters women. why this gap? >> why the gap? because employers can often get away with paying women less, claiming women have less experience, some have less education, but even among women with similar levels of experience and education, you find the wage gap persists. people just don't know what the differences and the executive order being signed by the president today allows people, employees to discuss those wage differences. >> there's a study in 2014 finding 83% of democrats, 58% of the independents and 44% of republicans support paycheck fairness, so why don't republicans line up behind it, as well, because the numbers are there. >> well, republicans first of all, don't believe that this is the government's business to tell employers what they have to pay employees. they think the government should simply stay of out of there and argue also that a l

our respondent is tyler cowen from george mason university and the her cay that center. you might know him from his broking and his recent books. a couple quick comments before we begin. first, if you've got a cell phone, just turn it off. feel free if you want to do twittering stuff about this, to do that too. just we don't want phones ringing during this. there will be time for audience questions, but i won't be a formal question and answer. we'll intersperse it, and we're going to have something of a conversation here. so if you have a question, try to spend some time thinking how to make it as concise as power because we're going to break up about at 6:30 for wine and cheese, and we're selling copies of book here. i'm very much in favor of people buying books that they find interesting. this is a very important economic -- >> me too. [laughter] >> yes. so, again, thank you for coming. megan, i read the book, i loved the book, i thought there was a dozen interesting things in here, more than that. stories about, from all sorts of things ranging from bad dates you had