professor at the department of philosophy at de paul university and in washington we cross to william burns he's a professor at george washington university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want there are difference of opinion here and i'd like my viewers to see it if i go to home in cambridge first when the word west is used first of all do you like its usage its application and what does it mean to you. well i don't like the word west when it's used in a kind of simple polarity with something that is not to the west because i think these geographical issues have really changed quite a lot but i think on the other hand one cannot ignore the fact that there are certain institutional political and financial arrangements which are very much addressed to the interests of what we would call your america in a very general sense and i think that's the entity that is often associated with the west whether it's called of washington consensus at some time or some other such name so i think there is a political financial entity which we associate with the west secondly however the west is also very ri

university. so it is very much a pleasure to welcome you here on behalf of all of my colleagues in the graduate school of education and human development and across the george washington university family. i'm very much looking forward to hearing some of the details from the survey as i know you all are as well. i'm very happy to turn this back now to shane wolfe lopez. [applause] >> thank you dean feuer. he reminded me of a wonderful day in my first day of college when i first started a career in the aforementioned student loans. we are going to throw a lot of information that you come in and i want to help you get more of that to stick. each one of us comes with our own issue as it relates to the education. and i do appreciate that. so, i can listen for every time that bill talks about the hope of american students, the wellbeing across american campuses. but what i'm trying to do today and i encourage you to do or think about those issues that bridge the case for 12 and a higher education. those commonalities, the points of discussion that maybe we don't have across k-12 and higher education. also, i'd like you to think about where the public will twice today in te

all created? >> as george washington once said to john adams, tag, you're it! chris: love it. when we come back, coming fight in the meeting universe over the super debt tradition. and tax increases. some on the left are firing things up over medicare cuts. cc: : chris: welcome back. the tea party is generally credited with playing the best hardball on the debt standoff but not to rest on their laurels, they're ready to deep six the next stage, the super committee that will have to report by thanksgiving. listen to rush and ann coulter this week. >> everybody's crowing about how this deal doesn't include any tax increases.cc1: in the commission, this super-select commission, will demand that the bush tax cuts are matched dollar for dollar by tax increases. >> this is the single most cc important thing tea partiers can do right now. partiers on that joint committee. one republican has to agree to taxes to go up or1: under this bill. chris: that call to action is matched on the left. from s the callcc1: moveon.org -- quote, we are angry, we are motivated and we will not sit and watch. gloria, both sides at their battle stations right

university. it is very much a pleasure to welcome you here on behalf of all my colleagues in the graduate school of education and human development and the george washington university family. i am looking forward to hearing some of the details from the survey as i know you all are as well. i am happy to turn this back to shane lopez. [applause] >> thank you, dean feuer. he reminded me of my first day of college. we are going to throw a lot of information at you. i want to help you make some of that state. each of us, with our own pet issue as it comes to education. i do appreciate that. i listened for every time bill talks about the hope for american students, when wayne talks about will delete -- will being opposed american campuses. but what i encourage you to do is think about those issues that bridge k-12 and higher education. does commonalities. those points of discussion that we do not have. also, i would like you to think about what the -- where the public will like the day in hell we can inform education, change education, and reform education. i want to thank -- i want you to think about how public policy place on making a better system. i want

george washington university says decisions taken at the meeting reflect only the political aspirations of german and french leaders and not market demands unfortunately this is not going to make much difference for the ongoing crisis all the news that came out of this press conference was quite negative for the market the most negative i believe was the fact that it was announced that the european fund stabilization facility their bailout fund for the european euro zone members will not be expanded and they believe it enough as it is for the moment the second thing there's no common euro bond that is going to be issued in there were very clear about this and the markets were not expecting this other bad news for the market was that taxation is going to go up especially in terms of corporate taxation more harmonization and then down the road they also want countries to have a balanced budget so the european leaders unfortunately have done it again they haven't really addressed the market's needs for clear concise action but what they are doing instead is looking at the long term political solution to this dilemma that they have it doesn't seem that they understand the market's seriousness about what's going on no one i

university. so it is very much a pleasure to welcome you here on behalf of all my colleagues in the graduate school of the education and human development and across the george washington university family. i am very much looking forward to hearing some of the details from the survey, as i know you all are as well. i am very happy to turn this back to shea and -- shane lopez. [applause] >> thank you, dean feuer. he reminded me of my wonderful first day back in college when i started accruing the aforementioned student loans. we are going to throw a lot of information at you, and i want to help make some of that stick. each of us comes with our own pet issue as it relates to education, and i appreciate that. i listened for every time the bill talks about the hope of american students, but what i am trying to do today and what i encourage you to do our think about the issues that bridge k- 12 and higher education, those commonalities, points of discussion that maybe we do not have across k-12 and higher education. also, i would like you to think about where the public will lies today. where does the public will lie in terms of how we can reform education, change educatio

george washington university. thank you very much for adding your perspective to all of this. me ask you about the lessons of the berlin wall. guest: the lessons being drawn in germany are that one must not take for granted democracy and that the freedoms we have under democracy. the germans are reminding the young people they need to fight for these democratic freedoms every day. this was one of the big messages yesterday here in berlin at the official ceremonies of the 50th anniversary of the building of the wall. the other lesson germans are drawing from this is that the walls can come down peacefully. people should have the courage and optimism to bring down all sorts of walls all over the world, whether they are physical or walls in the mind. host: there is a new generation of germans and europeans who may not remember the wall. it came down in 1989. how is it being depicted in germany and europe? guest: on this 50th anniversary, there have been all sorts of personal stories being told. it is in the newspapers, on tv, on the radio, particularly by east germans who suffere

all right. you're out of here. >> what state do you represent? >> california. ♪ captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> welcome to the united states capitol where george washingtond the cornerstone of this building 218 years ago and where the great dome above us was still being worked on during the civil war and where this week you would have to say congress looked like it's still a work in progress. we received permission to do this months ago, to come here and flood the hill with nbc news cameras and journalists, unprecedented access. this had never been done before. we did not know that our day to come here and shoot it all would coincide with this titanic battle and this toxic atmosphere over the fight over raising the debt ceiling of the united states, so what you're about to see from behind the scenes shows how congress works and how it doesn't work. we can guarantee there's never been a view of any of it like this before. here now, a day in the life of the united states congress. dawn's early light, wednesday, july 27th, 2011. ♪ it's a beautiful morning ♪cc1: and a small army of caretakers begins its appointed rounds before the guests arrive. slowly the v

at the table to tell us all we need to know is brian biles, a medical doctor and health policy professor at george washington university here in the district. he is also a former democratic staffer on the house ways and means committee in the late 1980's and early 1990's. first question, what is the state of medicare's finances? how is the program doing right now? guest: well, the overall problem is health care costs in the nation as a whole. like health insurance and the rest of the system, medicare costs continue to increase more rapidly than the the economy as all. on the other hand, compared to private health insurance, medicare costs are growing less rapidly than private health insurance. host: what makes the cost of medicare grow? give us examples. guest: what happens in health care is you have three elements -- price, quantity and intensity of care. intensity is new services from a biomedical research. the majority of the increase in medicare and health care costs generally are the increase not so much in price but volume and quality of care every year, particularly the continue introduction of new high-tech ser

challenges of medicare, and at the table to tell us all we need to know is brian, a medical doctor, and a health policy professor at george washington university here in the district. he's a former democratic staffer on the ways and means committee back in the 80s and early 1990s. what is the state of the medicare's finances? how is the program doing right now? >> guest: well, the overall program is health care costs in the nation as a whole, and so like private health insurance and the rest of the system, medicare costs continue to increase more rapidly than the economy as a hole. on the other hand, compared to private health insurance, medicare costs are growing less rapidly than private health insurance. >> host: what makes the cost of medicare grow. give us some examples. >> guest: what happens in health care is three almosts. you got price, quantity, and intensity of care. intensity is new services from biomedical research. what we know is the majority of the increase in medicare costs and in health care costs generally are the increase, not so much in prize, but in volume requiring the care every year, and particularly the continuing int

there's all kinds of examples in the sports world at the same time and politics wants to debate or whatever. suggest those basic things you instinctively know. >> from george washington university my question is the left often says how hypocritical the right is, some spending so much money on our national defense and military budget. so how do you think that the right can show, can streamline that budget and cut down on the waste that is happening? >> i would disagree slightly with the premise. after world war ii we were spending 38% of gdp on the national defence. now it's less than 4% on national defense. we are spending too much on the national defence i think is just not consistent with the fact. second, we are supposed to spend tax dollars on the national defence. if you look that we probably shouldn't be spending as much money on that we shouldn't be the national defence is not one of them. that's where we are supposed to spend taxpayers' money. it's the four most responsive to become defense of the homeland. so, now are there areas in the pentagon budget and the defense budget where you probably have some excess and you can trim things back? certainly come and we should

george washington university examines the expectations americans place on colleges and universities. and whether those institutions are meeting expectations. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much, shane, and thanks to allf you for being here. first of all, on behalf of lumina i want to comment how really pleased we are to be able to join pdk and gallup and what has been a long and very distinguished record around the poll adding the higher education component to the poll is something that we're extremely excited about. and it's something we hope will continue. i thought i'd probably should take a few moments before in -- first of all, sharing some of the results with you and then inviting jamie and tony to come up here and talk a little bit about the results to explain a little bit about why lumina was interested in doing this and why we see this as something so critical to our work as a national foundation focused on increasing access and success in post-secondary education. as governor wise mentioned there's this growing national awareness of the need for increasing higher education attainment in the united states. you see this reflected and starting with lumina's own goal for increasing the proporti

george washington university. so far there's been no discussion of race. in his book, jim loewen has suggested that mortgage deduction should be eliminated for residents of highly segregated communities, particularly all white communities. the argument he makes following the logic of incentives that economists like to talk about, it changes the incentive from one of creating barriers to restrict access to one of wanted to encourage more minority stumbled into all white communities. so that you can get the mortgage deduction back. i'd like to know if you have given any thought to this particular use of the deduction as part of the reform and? we don't eliminate it altogether in the near future. >> u2 reformers, if you'd like -- you probably would like to just keep it simple. >> the race and ethnicity aspect of the distributional, distribution of the mortgage interest deduction, we spoke in terms of income but the white income is distributed, there's going to be an unequal distribution of tax benefits by race, just simply follows the distribution of income. i haven't thought about that specific proposal, and i think i would be skeptical just if using the attacks -- the tax code solution to those problem