enough bad press that i think they'll be forced to do the right thing all right michael shank george mason university professor thank you so much for coming on and weighing in on that is critically. new research could shed some light on why the reaction to the crisis in ferguson may have been so polarized along racial lines research suggests it couldn't be because most white americans have almost exclusively white social networks according to a survey by the public religion research institute three quarters of whites have entirely white social networks without any minority presence taking on hypothetical from a group of one hundred friends each researchers found that in a white americans social networking on average ninety one of those one hundred friends would be white with the equivalent of one minority friend of various groups all african-americans social networks were eighty three percent black with an average of eight percent white friends all that also shows significant social segregation it does mean that while black americans have ten times as many black friends as why white americans have ni

program that funds these police departments i want to bring in michael shank professor at george mason university michael thank you so much for being here it's great to be here ok so let's first talk about the pentagon program which really allows this equipment to be shared what is the process by which the pentagon determines which police departments get what they actually don't determine it's a pretty simple process let's say you're a police chief of a small town like roanoke rapids north carolina sixteen thousand people live there all they really have to do is apply online there's a one page form they say we want to end up in the pentagon is able to give away almost twenty thousand rounds from the war zone from iraq and afghanistan if given maybe a thousand so far along with one hundred thousand sold weapons but it's pretty simple process there's not a needs assessment there's very little accountability after they get it and they have to use it with so you mean there's no justification that a police department has to put forward for needing a tank correct so you see towns across the country get

democrat will and face-off at george mason university's arlington campus.they are vying to win the august election. -- resigned in june to take a position and terry mcauliffe's administration. and mayor will hold a public hearing on flooding. evacuatere forced to when flooding hit the city. and damaged parts and several businesses. parks andged several businesses. and begins at 7:00 at partnership call on 5th street and laurel. some students will be in a building. ceremony at the new thomas jefferson elementary school. the school was damaged in an earthquake and had to be torn down. the students have spent three years in modular classrooms. korearancis will head to and it will be his first trip as pope. it will be his first visit to an asian country in three decades. a ferry asked and killed more than 300 and the pope will conduct a korean reconciliation mass in the capital of seoul. more on the search for an arsonist. ñoñí more breaking from prince george's county. the police believe that he is a two-year-old girl being shot this afternoon. he opened fire

that was bryan caplan fessor of economics at george mason university and blogger for in qana log time now for today's big deal. big deal time with my favorite guy mr edward carriers yes and today we're talking about burger more specifically can you have yeah after hearing years of burger king will merge with comedian based him to dodge higher taxes u.s. senator sharod brown is calling for a boycott boycott of the fast food giant so how exactly would you do burger king's home address to canada benefit their business model cancer and what's going to happen there i think would a lot of this is about is not lowering income taxes. when people talk about these inversions but rather it's about being able to repatriate cash back home but they can't. because some companies are doing because of political pressure etc but all these other countries companies are saying to themselves look you know we have all this money that we're earning over seas we want to be able to use it for capital expenditure or dividend distribution whatever it may be and if we bring it back home we'll be taxed at the mar

foster and richard sullivan will be aired tonight at 7:00 in founders hall auditorium on george mason university's arlington campus. that election will be held next tuesday. meantime, the corruption trial of bob donnell and his wife, maureen, injuring its third week now. the governor's chief of staff is on the stand. we were there as he walked into court this morning. he testified that the former governor was visibly upset after they interviewed his wife. i asked him not to drive a ferrari from jonnie williams' home. the governor remains optimistic. >> we're about halfway done. i am looking for to presenting our case. >> they are charged with accepting more than 155 thousand dollars in gifts and loans from williams. they could face decades in prison if convicted. jeff goldberg is still in richmond and will have more on the testimony coming up tonight on abc 7 news at 5:00. the washington redskins are wrapping up training yesterday in richmond. this is the last session for fans this afternoon at 10:00. there will be a walk-through. they say that they are a little sore after landing on his back. the

george mason job anyway, but that definitely help. >> host: and we have been talking with tim groseclose, future george mason university professor to a left turn is the name of his book, a liberal media bias towards the american mind. and you're watching book tv on c-span2. >> next professor lynn vavreck discusses her book "the gamble" in which she and her co-author evaluate the factors that impacted the top to toe presidential election. this interview, part of book tv pellets series is just over 20 minutes. >> host: the gamble is the name of the book. ucla professor lynn vavreck is a cut-author of this book. lynn vavreck, when you hear the term gained change in politics what does that mean to you? >> guest: it is a great question to start off talking about the 2012 election. it is something that happens during a campaign that fundamentally chefs the ways the election is headed. so if you are behind suddenly you have the chance of becoming at. if you're winning maybe now it really looks like you will start losing. is something that shakes up the status quo. >> host: are there can changes in elections? >> guest: there certainly and

new york, a recently discovered photograph by a graduate student, a new graduate student at george mason university. this is a man whose feet became infected and his feet were literally cut off by scissors and later they had to use bone saws to solve the bones off, and along with this picture is an affidavit that he sent to the government about what happened to him. he was at andersonville. this is another person from andersonville, another soldier, this is actually the same guy being examined in a number of different ways. i will shut these off because i don't think we really want to be staring at them. but i think it is important to understand that when we think about the trial of henry wirz, we start with these images because what americans saw at the end of the war as the prisoners came back from the south, where horrors that seemed unbelievable. andersonville was the worst of the prison camps. approximately 45,000 u.s. soldiers were held at andersonville, approximately 45,000 of them -- died while they were held at andersonville. henry wirz was arrested and tried. while he was held in jail, on

certain the would have taken the george mason job anyway, but that definitely help. >> host: and we have been talking with tim groseclose, future george mason university professor to a left turn is the name of his

and western michigan university and george mason university in fairfax, virginia, and antioch college in yellow springs, ohio. universities across the country, college students across the country did this today as part of a hands up, don't shoot, college walkout on the day of michael brown's funeral in st. louis. one of the terrible material consequences for the family of not just the death of their son, but the means of their son's death, is that they were not able to bury him until now. until more than two weeks after he died. you'll recall that this young man's body laid on the street in ferguson for hours after he was shot two saturdays ago. then there was a first autopsy done by the county medical examiner, then there was a second autopsy done by experts hired by the family because they said they did not trust the local authorities with this, then there was a third autopsy done by the federal medical examiner, and i'm sure it has been the longest two weeks of his family's life. but today, at least finally, they laid him to rest. it was a closed casket. and now finally he's buried

i got my phd from george mason university and made the transition into academia. i am now at george mason university running us them professional development program stem professional development program for teachers in virginia. difficult to find examples of philanthropists investing in defense research and development. as rich and dan have alluded, there are areas there have been investments and defense affairs, narrowly look to defense research and development. rich looked and started googling. i did that too. started drawing venn diagrams to see what would happen. overall research and development in the united states in overall defense budget, and then i could and overallropy various types of philanthropic activities. i could see the giving to defense in certain areas, especially nowadays with help to wounded warriors and things like and jim mentioned some things there. but then i found it hard to find examples when i got into research and development. of course, when you peel the onion back, as he just did, you find there are areas out there if you look at a b

she joins us live from fairfax to show you the city's unique relationship wit george mason universityhey, angie. looks like you're right back at home. >> reporter: i know, right? i just finished a whole book on astronomy. i'm exhausted. leak our littl dorm room? the lava lamp never gets old. these days they have the thing called the bungee chair. so cool. okay. let's talk about the relationship ben grge mason pd a fairfax. because when you think about it, 15 years ago, coming up this fall, that's when they opened their doors. now they have 34,000 students and with that number, talking about head count, it is the largest univers in t state of virginia. and ever since it was founded, the friendship between gmu and the city of fairfax has been very strong. gmu and fairfax have joined forces for many th li t pop uhe are lar fall for the book event. this year it coincides with the university's fi11ayf service. students and city members will spend september is doing a range of service projects across cam mus to honor the memory of those we lo on 9/11. and you are part of plans the events. h

he holds a bachelors and masters degree in economics and a phd in economics from george mason university. david burton focuses on tax matters, entitlements, and administrative law at the heritage foundation. he was a general counsel for the national small business association for two years prior to joining heritage. he was previously chief financial officer and financial counsel of a conservative alternative to the aarp. ike brannon is a fellow at the george w. bush institute. he is president of the consulting firm capital policy and analytics and former director of economic policy and economic relations for the american action forum. he served as an economist for the john mccain campaign in 2008 and he has a phd in economics from indiana university. i will turn it over to the policy guys. >> hello. remarks is going isbe explained to you -- it going to his bike to you how the international tax system works and dan and i will tell you -- you how to fix it. -- in states is the only the united states. there are a few smaller countries that do so. chile, israel, and south korea are the three

researchers at george george mason university say the deduction has not helped middle class home ownershipch as people think. it's a tax break that costs the government about $70 billion a year that they say helps mostly higher income taxpayers to itemize their deductions and who would probably buy a house anyway. the authors found that two-thirds of the benefits go to house olds earning more than $100,000. researchers acknowledge the politics of all this would make it hard, will make it hard to eliminate the deduction because of the voter support for it generally and the lobbying by powerful housing groups. so the authors say that washington should at least consider replacing the deduction with an annual tax credit of $900 per homeowner. as a percentage of income, that could help many more lower and middle income homeowners. >> you'd have a fixed credit that would actually continue to help you stay in your home and afford your home year after year. and once i explain that to people, they say, oh, that's a better idea after all. >> reporter: of course, some supporters of the mortgage inter

i am from george mason university, i was wondering what reforms you think you can do to optimize both the need for the people to provide oversight to the nsa and also the nsa's needs to protect ways and means? >> one i did not mention before that i touched on his possible changes to the way the fisa court operates. one of this just seems there, a judge who wrote a letter recently that touched on this, addressed this issue. advocating an amicus role in certain cases at the discretion of the court. that seems to me like a reasonable way to increase public confidence in the work of the court. the work of the court is necessarily classified, much of it. it is not a secret court. we know the court exists. we know who is on it. it does operate much of the time in a classified environment because information being presented is classified. one way to build additional trust is to have an amicus role. that is one that makes sense. >> they do not have the resources to monitor the things that they are asking nsa and others to do. almost three years the nsa was clearing data without reasonable sus

and a graduate of george mason university. will turn it over to jim. >> i think we are going to really talk about interesting stuff today and we can do a lot to advance the ball on transparency in congress. the issues are very interesting. wikipedia editing for congressional staff. there is aversion on capitol hill to editing wikipedia and distrust among the wikipedia community for edits coming from congress. with work and care i think we can improve the information available to the american people about what happens here. i want to open up by doing a brief history of the modern history of the transparency issue. the work that we have been doing at cato before i turn it over to michelle and jim. michelle has the numbers to prove she is talented and capable at wikipedia. we want to make others as good as michelle and producing more information for people to gather so they have better insight into what is happening in congress. what has been going on with transparency? i have been working on it longer, since 2000. i ran a websit

i am from george mason university, i was wondering what reforms you think you can do to optimize both the need for the people to provide oversight to the nsa and also the nsa's needs to protect ways and means? >> one i did not mention before that i touched on his possible changes to the way the fisa court operates. there, ais just seems judge who wrote a letter recently

a graduatem hayes, of old dominion and george mason university. with that, i will turn it over to jim. >> thanks, john. i'm very pleased to be here and to have you all here as well as the c-span audience. we can do a lot to advance the ball on transparency in congress. very interesting. wikipedia editing for congressional staff. there is an aversion to editing on wikipedia and a mistrust within the community for edits coming from congress. informationve the that is available to any american people about what happens here. i want to open by doing a brief history, the sort of modern history of the transparency issue him and the work we have been doing at cato, before i turn it over to michelle and then jim. michelle obviously has the caners to prove that she make a talented and capable wikipedia and we want to make others as good as michelle at producing information for people together to get insight into what people are -- into what is happening inside congress. what is going on within transparency? it longer.orking on since 2000, i run a website c

i am from george mason university, i was wondering what reforms you think you can do to optimize both the need for the people to provide oversight to the nsa and also the nsa's needs to protect ways and means? >> one i did not mention before that i touched on his possible changes to the way the fisa court operates. there, ais just seems judge who wrote a letter recently that touched on this, addressed this issue. inocating an amicus role certain cases at the discretion of the court. that seems to me like a reasonable way to increase public confidence in the work of the court. the work of the court is necessarily classified, much of it. it is not a secret court. we know the court exists. we know who is on it. it does operate much of the time in a classified environment because information being presented is classified. one weighed to build additional trust is to have an amicus role. that is one that makes sense. they do not have the resources to monitor the things that they are asking nsa and others to do. almost three years the nsa was clearing data without reasonable suspicion even t

university. >> i will be at patriot at george mason. >> data fairfax virginia? why do you go east? >> i used to have a job there 20 years ago i have fond memories of george mason and it is little uncomfortable at times being one of the only non a concern -- one of the conservatives on campus i had a suspicion with a review for a raise may have hurt me but george mason is fairly balanced and economics department is a law school the rest is pretty close to universities but it is very balanced and that was a big attraction. >>host: you are working on another book? >> yes. this was another reason i started the book before i got their job offer at george mason but it is the expos a the time amazon the additions committee the oversight committee and i saw a illegal behavior's this is the controversial book cheating with the insiders report of the use of race at ucla's why will not make friends with that book. when pretty's surgeon i would have taken the job anyway but that definitely helped. >>host: we're talking with professor groseclose "left turn" is the name of his

holds a bachelors degree in american government from the university of virginia and masters degree in economics and law and economics from george mason. speaker froma their western reserve university school of law where he teaches environmental and constitutional law. prior to joining the faculty was onprofessor adler the u.s. to lick -- u.s. district of columbia circuit, and before that, he directed and environmental studies program. with that, i will turn it over to michael. >> [inaudible] the federal government [indiscernible] >> thank you, john. thank you, jonathan, and thank you professor gruber for being here today. the issue we are presented here was ruled upon by the 2014.ircuit on july 22, it is often known as the second highest court in the land, the d.c. circuit. this caseourt did in is that it ruled the president of the united states is violating the law, and not another small way. the patient protection and affordable care act of 2010, also known as obamacare or the aca, directs to establish health insurance -- the directs the state to establish health insurance exchanges. and if it does not, then it directs the federal

holds a bachelors degree in american government from university of virginia and masters degrees in economics and law and economics from george mason. also speaking today is jonathan adler, professor of law for business law and regulation and case western reserve university school of law. there,o join the faculty he approached the court of heeals and before that worked at the enterprise institute where he directed the environmental studies program. with that, i will turn it over to michael. [indiscernible] >> in manger citizens don't get the tax credit. you are saying to citizens you will pay all the taxes. when will they get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here? john, thank you jonathan, thank you professor gruber for being here today. the issue we are presented with was ruled upon by the d.c. circuit on july 22, 2014. it is often known as the second highest court in the land, the d.c. circuit. what the court did in this case is that it ruled the president of the united states is violating the law, and not another small way. the patient protection and affordable care act of 2010, also known as

george mason and is graduatese. of the he is the coeditor of american volumeand another edited , "why did the united states invade iraq?" he was associate professor at the university of michigan dearborn, where he directed master of public policy and master of public administration programs. he received his phd from m.i.t. normally, we have a lot of university of chicago, m.i.t., conspiracy. today, it seems like we have a michigan, m.i.t. overlap, with john being up the chicago deal to some extent. with the introduction of the speakers, i will turn things over to john mueller. much.nk you very it is nice to be here. i will change the order of things i'm talking about. i did not realize i was going to be going first. like to put i would on the table, essentially, that fit into this. sortirst one, basically, of sets the overall image. states has fought four worse come along, ground wars, since world war ii. it is possible to well compare the degree to which the wars have been supported. the same poll question, you think it was involved in get this conflict, was asked in each of the four worse. the pass for the four wars are there at the very top, afghanistan, and it

university camps that would create another source of income. in fact, during a panel discussion about the documentary school, the price of college sports, head coach of the george mason men's basketball team, paul hewitt, stated his team has to do an internship before they graduate, a mandatory one. i think this is a great practice. if the ncaa truly wants to develop student athletes and prepare them for success in the field, they should mandate that all athletes complete an internship. the reason is it needs to be mandated is because of the existing culture that demonizes any activity that won't directly help a program. players that go home for a semester, and i have friends who have done this, are labeled as selfish and lazy and almost a cancer to the team. but in fact, he's just going home, he's still working out, just trying to improve his own value for the likelihood he's not going to make the nfl. i have come to realize there's a void in college athletics. the incaa as an institution no longer protects the athlete. they're more interested in signage and profits. i wasn't aware that i needed to defend myself against my university and the ncaa, and as a student,