and so kboing from there we've got to understand and appreciate that we've got a cultural bias that we've got to deal with in those nations. and that has to deal with the way that they deal with food. and the practices. dr. kadlec said very clearly that rain forest and you know, deforesting, a lot of land in africa and what that is doing is it is bringing the food back into close proximity.

for our kplut complete schedule, kbo to c-span right lane. >>> now a conversation on attempts to recover the assets of dictators over thrown in the arab spring. dictators from egypt, libya and tunisia allegedly held billions of dollars stolen from their countries. most of the money has not been recovered. from the center for strategic and international studies this is about 90 minutes. >> good morning. welcome to the centers for strategic and international studies. i'm the senior adviser here. it's good to see lots of friendly faces in the audience. thank you for coming. for those new to the new headquarters, i know some of our panelists have -- this is their inaugural visit here to csis headquarters. welcome. hope you enjoy the space. we'll have a reception. we hope unyou can mingle with ore panelists. we hope you can join us. welcome, again. we are being joined via live stream on internet as well as c-span. keep in mind that you're on tv as well as we are. behave. we are very excited to not only be hosting this panel. the panel entitled returning stolen assets, current issues and futur

but when they kbo to the store and buy something, their u bill has the tax on the bottom and they pay, but then the government pix up the tab. but they see the cost of government. thank you. >> thank you very much, karen. we have a few minutes left for any questions of the two panelists. we have a question that came across the interpret. if i understand it correctly, social security payouts are based on what is paid in. how does that play out under the fair tax act? if you want to answer, that's fine. otherwise, i know the answer. >> good go ahead, i know the answer, but you haven't been talking lately. >> the fair tax bill is written so that an amount goes into social security trust funds that is equivalent to the amount that would have gone in if the payroll tax remained in place and off of wages and would be precisely the same as today. just as they do today. and the benefits would be precisely the same as they are today. so in terms of the basic benefit structure, nothing would change. it would simply be the source of the ref knew flying into the trust fends, rather than payroll t

and so kboing from there we've got to understand and appreciate that we've got a cultural bias that we've got to deal with in those nations. and that has to deal with the way that they deal with food. and the practices. dr. kadlec said very clearly that rain forest and you know, deforesting, a lot of land in africa and what that is doing is it is bringing the food back into close proximity. not only human population but the primates. once the primate gets it and the food supplies are short in those countries and guess what they depend upon from food supply perspective. so they eat the apes and monkeys and basically that's the meat that they utilize. and if the animal is infected, once they slaughter the animal, they will potentially, if the animal is infected, will get the disease and you know, those practices have to change. the practices have to be modified. so a lot of work needs to be done. but one of the critical things before and beyond all of that is that we've got to help those nations build health care infrastructures. they don't have the bed capacity to deal with the regular iss