robert lawson and professor edmund powell, professor of economics texas tech. hello, how are you.ood to see you. >> good to be here. mark: i read your book "socialism sucks". two economists going through the on real world and you came close to them. that is seller, with gray, support, china but this is a fascinating book. one of the things i liked about the book is it's readable. the people who need to read it it's readable like millennial and leftists and like democrats running for president of the united states. let's get started. let's start with you professor laughlin. what is democratic socialism? we hear bernie sanders use that term but what does it mean? >> let's start with socialism. it means the state will control the means of production, labor, land and capital will be run by the government. if you want to attach democratic in front of it the idea, i suppose, is you will have democratic system voting politicians who will elect central planners. that is for the problem comes in. once you centralize economic control in the hands of a few people and that's what socialism in

. >> pelley: nearby, in hugh herr's lab, everett lawson's brain is connected to his prosthetic foot,club foot he was born with. >> everett lawson: the very definition of a leg, or a limb or ankle is going to dramatically change with what they're doing. it isn't just whole, it's 150%. >> herr: you feel directly corrected? >> lawson: yeah, when i fire a muscle really fast, it makes its full sweep. >> pelley: herr's team has electronically connected the computers in the robotic foot with the muscles and nerves in lawson's leg. >> herr: he's not only able to control via his thoughts. he can actually feel the designed synthetic limb. he feels the joints moving as if the joints are made of skin and bone. >> pelley: for professor herr, necessity was the mother of invention. he lost his legs to frostbite at age 17, after he was stranded by a winter storm while mountain climbing. >> herr: through that recovery process-- my limbs are amputated, i design my own limbs-- i return to my sport of mountain climbing. i was climbing better than i'd achieved with normal, biological limbs. that experien

she was placed in the hospital under the care of another nurse named betsy lawson and betsy lawson nursed her back to health. after she became healthy, she was hired as a nurse by the white surgeon in charge. in her pension application poll jer describes how she became a head snurs in the hospital ward. she said my husband took down small pock and we were taken to the ward. we nursed both white and colored general and women. the nurses were very committed to their work. they were dedicated to providing them with care and comfort. he wrote a letter to his uncle and said they were the ernest laborers these angels of mercy. a lot of times what they did was write letters to newspapers like the christian recorders and tell about their experiences. one soldier named jane john pain. he spoke about the service of women and whoet to the reason recorder. he said many of our officers and men who are wounded at the bat the battle of deep bottom. they lay weltering in their plood on the pang of the land. there she could be seen. the only woman present like an angel from above giving words of cheer and

saying lawson used to advise cruise lines now he's professor at the university of bag and we have started this extensively over many years and we have data from social show for visitors to our poll and we do know that the people who live the nice mommy and the burger that's for course truly just even the backpacker all become part of the . home more part time for live for at least twice as much mana per person per day as the cruise ship patrols. according to research by the university of bag and passengers from all cruise line is spent an average of $41.00 euros per person per visit on land. for 2017 crew ship companies estimated that their passengers spent 48 euros a day on land in germany. in hamburg the chamber of commerce calculated that in 2012 cruise tourism brought the city around $540.00 euros per passenger. however the hamburg chamber of commerce study included additional data including figures from the port anniversary. hamburg zora turnover of 270000000 euros in 2012 with cruises to cities. politicians aboud these figures justify the taxpayer funding costs for terminals and pow

economics professor robert lawson weighs in on socialism and the former public radio host offers her thoughts on how women can reclaim their voice. check your cable guide for more schedule information. >> jennifer grossman who is eyeing rant. an immigrant in 1905. they witnessed their russian revolution when she was just 12. from the window of her parents apartment. after the revolution the communist came and took her parents business they wandered and struggled she was inspired by what she saw that there was up possibility that they would live their life and pursue her dreams and that place was america. she barely spoke a word of english. the epic novel that we know her best buy the fountainhead in between those two books she wrote in them which was a short sci-fi novel and that's when we chose to adapt with the graphic novel. what was her philosophy. she still relevant among a segment of society today. you been watching politics lately what we are seeing a lot of his entitlement the 1% are the ones that are causing the problems in our society. we are seeing an epidemic of envy whic

. >> and talking with professor lawson from methodist university along with economist benjamin powellare the co-authors of the book socialism sucks. professor, we left out some of the countries that people can be those for themselves. thank you for being with us.

saying lawson used to advise cruise lines now he's professor at the university of bag and we have started this extensively over many years and we have data from social show for visitors to our poll and we do know that the people who live the nice mommy and the burger that's for course just even the backpacker all become part of the. whole. time of our lives for at least twice as much mana per person per day as the course of 2 hours. according to research by the university of bag and passengers from all cruise line is spent an average of 41 euro is proposing to visit on land. for 2017 cruise ship companies estimated that their passengers spent 48 euros a day on land in germany. in hamburg the chamber of commerce calculated that in 2012 cruise tourism brought the city of around $540.00 euros per passenger. however the hamburg chamber of commerce study included additional data including figures from the port anniversary. hamburg zora turnover of 270000000 euros in 2012 with cruises the city's politicians obvious these figures justify the taxpayer co-founding costs for terminals and on shore

let's check in with frances lawson. >> it was plenty of sunshine early on.e're under mostly sunny conditions except along the coast. in fact, quite a bit of clouds along the peninsula coast as well. we're getting some clear skies around the bay area. temperatures range from 60s at the coast to mid 90s once again. and we had comfortable 70s around the bay. san francisco is currently at 65 degrees. san jose currently at 79. and this is a little bit cooler compared to where we were 24 hours ago for many areas. some were just about the same, like san francisco and half moon bay. but it's only been in the 60s there and it's going to stay that way through the week. other areas that were warm definitely fell a lot, like concord dropped by 7 degrees. this is due to an increase the sea breeze. you notice gusts up to 30 miles per hour in san francisco. even up to 20 miles per hour in novato, and in half moon bay and also san carlos, so that on-shore flow bringing us that cooler marine air is going to drop temperatures. and that trend will continue into the week. overn

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we sit down with economic professor robert lawson to discuss his travels to socialist countries. former virginia democratic governor terry macola recounts the events in charlottesville showing the rally of 2017. warren farrell argues boys have been shortchanged in our current culture and journalist david epstein says it's more ad mentation to have a broad set of skills went to specialize in a particular area. check your cable guide for more scheduled information. >> book tv is on location in las vegas at the freedom fest libertarian convention and we are talking with authors and we want to introduce you to one hiram lewis who teaches at byu cannot help and here's the cover of his book. there is a god how to respond to atheism in the last days. i went to start with those last words, in the last days. what are you referencing? guest: referencing a specific tradition. obviously there's a lot of work in apologetics coming out and new atheists have gotten aggressive in the 21st century. host: who are the new atheists? >> they usually talk about the four horsemen. sam harris, christoph

international space station and for 2 weeks it will be working alongside russian crewmembers this step lawson has more on moscow's plans to claim the lead in the space race. he has the looks and most of a science fiction movie star if you do push ups drive a car and pick up small objects but the human like robot has a serious task ahead of him for the next 16 days he will be working in space as a cost monarch crew member 1st on the human guidance but his creators hope eventually independently. aiming for him to be able to prepare the customer notes work in space so the customer not only needs to spend one and a half hour outside instead of tell robert will clean up afterwards to this is how he helps the customer not and decrease his time and there's not an oxygen environment which is potentially dangerous the project was nearly lost in 2017 after a futile was put trait shooting to guns foreign partners stop sending components as a result and russian scientists were forced to complete the robot on their own evgeny due to office at the birth of fewer and sas is nothing to fear. we wanted to dem

but lawson was militant and aggressive in an apologetic i don't know where he was when he went to the grave, but his role this is a completely illegitimate inquiry by the house committee on american activities coming out guns blazing which is ironic because the nazis and fascists did what they did because in 1939 joseph stalin in the soviet union signed a pact with hitler to launch world war ii which many american jews were communist and they said how dare stalin do this? i'm leaving the party i will remain a communist. i will follow trotsky but i will never be a member of cp usa because stalin helped hitler launch what he did andnd became an ally and it was barack obama's friend and then he joined that afterwards for go afterwards. that is bad. >>host: our guest and out of the skull calling in from new york city. >>caller: hello. so recently with all of this discussion with the soviet union i have noticed there seems to be a lack of any tribute since many people say his publication was the principal cause of the fall of the soviet union and i wonder why in relation to this subject ma

economics professor robert lawson weighs in on socialism and the former public radio host offers her thoughts on how women can reclaim their voice. check your cable guide for more schedule information. >> jennifer grossman who is eyeing rant. an immigrant in 1905. they witnessed their russian revolution when she was just 12. from the window of her parents ap

robert lawson and professor edmund powell, professor of economics texas tech. hello, how are you.. mark: i read your book "socialism sucks". two economists

betty lawson escaped her religion of plantation of 1862 and she made her way to washington to the contraband camp. she was hired by one of the white surgeons and she earned $10 a month. i would give medicine by doctrine give personal attention to the care of sick people. she became acquainted with many of the hospital nurses including a young girl. who served in a smallpox world after she spent three months there is a patient. page was a former slave who was a young child who had no family she escaped during the war. she arrived in washington and she was first put in the contraband camp. since she was taken outside the camp by a white woman after contracting smallpox a year later the camp small parts ward. became acquainted while she was nursing her. in her deposition she wanted to support the pension application. she described how she met page. she said i could stand but the guard between meals i'd. all cooked by the same cooked it to duty as the nurses to bring meals patients, and that you pointed maria page. a little bit different to see, but you can see the female wards and male wards ov

we sit down with economic professor robert lawson to discuss his travels to socialist countries.former virginia democratic governor terry macola recounts the events in charlottesville showing the rally of 2017. warren farrell argues boys have been shortchanged in our current culture and journalist david epstein says it's more ad mentation to have a broad set of skills went to specialize in a particular area. check your cable guide for more scheduled information. >> book tv is on location in las vegas at the freedom fest libertarian convention and we are talking with authors and we want to introduce you to one hiram lewis who teaches at byu cannot help and here's the cover of his book. there is a god how to respond to atheism in the last days. i went to start with those last words, in the last days. what are you referencing? guest: referencing a specific tradition. obviously there's a lot of work in apologetics coming out and new atheists have gotten aggressive in the 21st century.

disney is seen lawsons and streaming and investments in espn, disney plus and hulu.hat is the future of this business. he wants to compete with the likes of netflix and the other services that are out there. also seen that on growing integration of the fox entertainment assets that it required in march was taking a little bit more time than expected. disney plus is going to launch in november. they will charge $6.90 a month, if you choose to go with the plan. investors are looking at this compare to netflix who was the first mover in the space. it had a very rough quarter. it's all about original content. it's about competition in the space. so many more players there now. the question is, it is disney really going to compete here? one final point, the highest grossing films help them. avengers, 2.79 billion globally. that was the highest grossing film of all time. those kinds of titles, lying king, toy story four will help them in the future. you can see there down more than 3%, coming back a little bit. investors are going to look at this and not be as negative as

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here's meteorologist frances lawson. good morning. >> good morning, everyone.ally starting to see the marine layer thin out. here's live doppler 7 and the satellite image. we saw socked in conditions through the north bay earlier this morning. now that has improved although there is still thick fog in half moon bay where visibility is down to half a mile. here's your 12-day planner with a beautiful live shot from the santa cruz area. foggy parts in the north bay. actually it now moved to the peninsula coast. bright sunshine. by lunchtime a warmer day for everyone. low 90s inland. upper 70s around the bay and mid sixty to near 70 along the coast. it is going to be mostly clear this evening. high pressure builds. things are going to warm up around the bay area. we will be well above average. details coming up. >>> democratic presidential candidates are calling for tougher gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings. 31 people killed and dozens more injured last week, this on the heels of the gilroy garlic festival the weekend before. >>> democrats taking their cas

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joining us now is political science professor rachel bitecofer with the lawson center for public policyrt, virginia. this is your third round here on the "last word." and i actually want to once again start from the beginning and step through this analysis. and, you know, there's a lot of emotional reaction to this kind of talk now because i think there's such a shocked electorate especially on the democratic side that donald trump won before. and i believe that there is an exaggerated notion of donald trump as some kind of super man politically including in the media, which overreacted to donald trump squeaking out the electoral college. >> right. >> and i have not given up on looking at polling information in the traditional way. and all of the polling information on donald trump is disastrous and always has been in terms of re-election since inauguration day. you look at that but you go way beyond that. and so talk us through how you get to the point where tonight you can say you're sure that you can either say the democrat will get to 78 or possibly put a better way, donald trump wi

>>lawson vincent is in jail right now because of new and unrelated charges of an attack that happened back in february and those charges are actually in the process of being dropped and that's after the incense public defender is it has actually proven that he wasn't even in town during the attack use in los angeles so it will be interesting to see what happens in court today, he very well could be released from jail take a look at this video of him walking into court that time when he surrendered to police when those charges were first filed. we saw him walking into court and that was right before he surrendered to san francisco police now the district attorneys plan is to argue against his release this morning since he is still on the hook for the attack of a woman outside her condo you've probably seen the video by now the 25 year-old has pleaded not guilty to the charges involved with this attack. judge van aken cause some major controversy after she released him after that video went viral. many people were angered by the judge said in previous court hearings, vincent has followe

joining us now is political science professor rachel bitecofer with the lawson center for public policyport, virginia. this is your third round here on the "last word." and i actually want to once again start from the beginning and step through this analysis. and, you know, there's a lot of emotional reaction to this kind of talk now because i think there's such a shocked electorate especially on the democratic side that donald trump won before. and i believe that there is an exaggerated notion of donald trump as some kind of super man politically including in the media, which overreacted to donald trump squeaking out the electoral college. >> right. >> and i have not given up on looking at polling information in the traditional way. and all of the polling information on donald trump is disastrous and always has been in terms of re-election since inauguration day. you look at that but you go way beyond that. and so talk us through how you get to the point where tonight you can say you're sure that you can either say the democrat will get to 78 or possibly put a better way, donald trump

. >> reporter: antwan lawson and his son antonio watched the water make the sink hole bigger. they managed to safely get to their cars. houses on this street have been without water as public works crews work to fix the leak. city workers trucked in water bottles for residents to drink and a couple of port-a-potties. some residents went to relatives homes to shower. according to the vallejo department of public works, a 14 inch water main broke. fixing it involved bringing in massive metal frames in replacing the pipe. >> it's better than what i expected. i don't know what i expected but they're doing pretty good, i guess. >> reporter: sergio quintana, "nbc bay area news." >> thank you, sergio. >>> there were some tense moments for a san jose neighborhood after a man barricaded himself inside a home for nearly five hours. several police officers responded to the home on kipling court yesterday afternoon. just after 10:00 last night, the man surrendered and was arrested. neighbors say it was the suspect's mother's house and he had recently been evicted. a former roommate says o

institutions, we work together in tackling the challenges of the environments, climate change, the lawsonia, iran, china, what is going on in hong kong, many other subjects, including of course, the small matter of brexit. which we are fated to discuss. ijust want to be absolutely clear, with all our german friends and with the german government, that we in the uk want a deal. we seek ideal. i believe that we can get one, we can do it. i think there is a german phrase for it. but clearly, we cannot accept the current withdrawal agreement, arrangements that either divide the uk orthe arrangements that either divide the uk or the law because into the regulatory and trading arrangements of the eu, the legal order of the eu without the uk having any see on those matters so we do need that backstop removed. if we can do that, then i am absolutely certain we can move forward together and i want to make one crucial points, which is that we in the uk are absolutely dedicated to the protection of the rights of the 3.2 million eu nationals in our country who contribute so much to our country and of

they are expected to report an eps of 37 cents, a 9% decline year over year the ceo lawson whiting callingriff and saying that tariffs had a $125 million negative annual impact on the company another thing to watch for are sales of jack daniels. last year they were flat for the iconic spirit, while its premium segment including reserve showed double-digit growth. back over to you. >> thanks very much. >>> all right. we have another read on the consumer >> exactly. >> we have consumer confidence today, so we will see if it goes to the company. >> we will get another read on gdc as well. a big data week to go here even though it is coming into a holiday weekend. >> plenty of people are sitting it out that dose it for "closing bell." >> "fast money" begins right now. live from the nasdaq market site overlooking new york city's times square, this is "fast money" i'm melissa lee. your traders on the desk are pete najarian, guy adami and tim seymour. another rate shock hit stocks, so where are the markets headed from here. we are digging in. also asaid, a $16 trillion warning from a top wall str

the reverend james lawson of united methodist church, who we saw was the organizer of the freedom movementr part of the decade, in i-8 dr. king to come to met -- invited dr. king come to memphis pretty arrived on march 18 and received a wonderful reception at the nearby mason temple. there he tells reverend abernathy and other aides of the sclc that we are going to come back to mom's and lead to a march on behalf of the sanitation workers -- come back to lead a march on the behalf of the sanitation workers. once dr. king returns to men is on this day, -- returns to memphis on this day, there are words going on in the back of the march 1 hour after it takes place. eckstein-year-olds -- a 16-year-old youth is killed by a member is police officer. -- memphis police officer. dr. king was assassinated on thursday, april 4 at 601 time -- at 6:01 p.m. after his death, many began to worsthat was the worse -- -- take life of a man who fund for freedom, justice and , but shows that a nonviolent movement creates a violent response. of all the political assassinations occurred in the decade, dr. king

nathan lawson, 17, i studied five highers this year. i was waiting on those results this morning.as it gone for you? it has gone well, lam happy, it is how has it gone for you? it has gone well, i am happy, it is howl expected it to go. what does it mean for you? it means that if i want to go on to bea for you? it means that if i want to go on to be a doctor, i can, i have still not fully decided, not settled on one thing, but i did well, i am happy. fergus, nationalfive, you still have your highers to go, a little bit away from university if you choose that, how are you feeling? i'm feeling quite happy and confident with next year, i'm going on to highers. this gives me a bit of confidence going into that. and, holly, how about you? yes, i'm really pleased, really happy with them. what is it mean for you, what will you be able to do with your results? i can do advanced highers next year and hopefully go to uni after that. i'm being very rude, looking at the certificate... it is a long line of a5 which is pretty daunting to me! laughter lam daunting to me! laughter i am surprised