joining us now, michael goodwin. michael, your column you talk about that balancing act that seems to me all but possible. that is to control guns without infringing upon the second amendment. >> i think president obama has two challenges. the first is as someone else put it, to take the mass out of mass murder. that is what is scaring the country. although these are fairly small number of the overall homicides in this country, they're the ones that terrorize people. we saw in connecticut the abity to target children and put them over the cliff now. lou: we should point out we're talking about .0001%. we are talking about so many thousands. >> nine to 12,000 per year it ranges, homicides, not including suicides, which are actually more. so you have this small number, but horrible, horrible kind. taking the mass out of mass murder. lou: this all sounds great, don't think anybody would say i am against mass murder, i am against murder, i'm against violence death, but would people are for us the freedom to choose the con

is a reader in politics and environment at king's college london and in washington we cross to michael goodwin he is a south asia associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in any time one twenty five go to you first in london do you like the term water wars because it's used a lot in media. it sounds good because it's a literal served want to was but in fact it misleads people into thinking that once you run out of water whatever that means you then automatically reach for a kalashnikov and go to war waters we have seen over the past forty years at least if not more is that when people are a lot of water that is they haven't got enough water to raise the food that they need at home they're not no longer self-sufficient they then reach for trade because trade is quiet and invisible it doesn't raise any politics a country all the twenty countries in the middle east and many other countries in the world and all the countries in europe except france can easily move into dependence on imported food which h

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government's misuse of 9/11 funds, we have the manhattan institute scholar and "new york post" columnist michael goodwinwelcome to you both. -icole, i'm going to start with you. you just read an article on this, and you have done a ton of research. let's talk about the dollars and cents. how much money as the port authority gone through and how much are they overbudget? >> originally in the first month after 9/11, when the port authority had a first financial where they put out, they said we are not going to have to pay the cost of this in rebuilding. and they said that we are going to get all of this money for the federal government. do not worry. ten years later, they had borrowed nearly a billion dollars. after th storm, they thought they were getting all this free money from washington and they didn't spend it very well. >> all right, why ishe port authority involved in the first place? are they supposed to run the bridges and tunnels and transportation? i don't get it. >> one of the things abouthe port authority is it is a bistate agency. new york and new jersey governors run. what they have done i

pulitzer prize winning journalist, judy miller and michael goodwin among the guests here tonight.ay carney said gun control is only part of the president's plan. he said it requires more than just legislation to prevent more shootings like friday's. fox news chief white house correspondent, ed henry, with our report. >> crowds in connecticut lined up for the first of 26 funerals starting with 6-year-old noah h posner, and in washington, they fell back into the ritual of vowing never again. >> twenty children who will never grow up to learn to drive or go on the first date. >> doesn't just break our hearts, but shatters them. >> yet neither senate leader called for gun laws, and at the white house, jay carney vague on specifics tied to theecrusade president obama hunted october. >> there's common sense measures that he believes should be taken to help address this problem, but he made clear that more needs to be done. >> reporter: far more he has at that particular time that the president at that dramatic prayer service. >> i'll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fel

michael goodwin is a columnist for the "new york post."ith the debt and the deficit, the entitlement issues and the president doesn't want to address them. he simply wants congress to give him the power to raise taxes now on the top 2% of income and put off entitlement reform and spending reductions until later. we thought the whole campaign was about how you're going to fix the entitlement situation. instead, the president wants to put it off again. i mean, this can is going to be so big, you won't be able to kick it down the road. >> brian: the debility creeling i want the power, as the executive branch to raise the debt ceiling as high as i want it and i want more stimulus spending? look what he's proposing? $1.6 trillion in tax spending. $400 billion in unspecified medicare cuts. the doctors are going to love that. by the way, they say unspecified, that means unspecified, that means they don't exist. >> right. they won't exist. the president just wants to off, he wants all the power. and this is a constitutional issue that goes to the

columnist for the "new york post" michael goodwin joins me now. what do you make of it?al-qaeda is on the run, osama bin laden is dead. over and over we heard that. turns out now the administration has cited al-qaeda groups throughout africa is a serious threat, planning to ebbs up and down operations in a number of countries and going to congress to ask for wider authorization. they have said it could involve drones, it could involve boots on the ground. calling this, as i say, a national security threat. we heard none of this during the campaign. as i say, imagine if mitt romney said what's going on around the world, what are we doing in syria while the jihaddist groups are taking over syria? what are we doing in libya? now there are reportedly 19 countries -- >> gretchen: let's show the map. >> 19 countries where al-qaeda groups, affiliate groups are spreading throughout africa, in addition to morocco, sudan and for the administration to have said nothing about this during the campaign was really clearly by design. it was designed to show that the president had won th

michael duffy, co-authors of "the presidents club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." it's selling off the shelves. >> it's insane. they're rich. >> yeah. i just saw some money fly out of nancy. doris kearns goodwinll with us and john meacham also joining the table from the flash cam. >> you know, nancy -- >> set it up for people who haven't read it. so cool. >> this is a great book. i tweeted a few weeks back that this is like crack for people who love presidential history. and i've had a lot of people follow up with it. there are so many stories. and stories that i had not heard before. been reading presidential biographies since i was 6 or 7. and the interaction's amazing. but there seems to be a formula and we saw it here, too. president obama and george w. bush would not have been that relaxed two years ago even though president bush did his best to make the new president relax. but there is a learning curve. every president seems to walk in saying i'm the first who did this. i cracked the code. i'm smarter than everybody else. you guys just go home. then they find themselves two years later going i can't call my friends. they don't get it. i can't call my campaign people. they don't get it.