the new subtitle, beach philosophy read i want to thank the people who are here from the bush-cheney white house administration many of whom were incredibly generous to take the time to talk with me sometimes more than once, sometimes three, four, five times and e-mailed akin for it. the patience and the willingness to cooperate with a book they had no control over and no knowledge about how would turn out. they told their story and it came out in a fair and accurate way. i'm not going to name anybody because they might be in exile from whatever bush-cheney alumni society is but i want to thank you all for doing that. [laughter] i want to thank, i want to thank president bush and vice president cheney for giving us a very interesting administration to write about. [laughter] it's endlessly fascinating. we will be writing about it for years to come and i think this is one effort among what will be many to define, shape and interpret this history. i'm going to end it with that. thank you so much. i probably have forgotten everyone else. my host committee, john and mike and everyone els

the new subtitle. and i want to thank the people who are here from the bush cheney white house administration, many of whom were incredibly generous to take the time to talk with me, sometimes more than once, sometimes three, four, five times, and this e-mails back and forth among the patients and their willingness to cooperate with the book that they had no control over and know, you know, knowledge about how it would turn out. they told their story. but come out in a fair and accurate way. will not name anybody because that might be exiled from whenever bush and cheney alumni. i wanted thank you for doing that. and now want to thank president bush and vice president cheney for giving us a very interesting administration to write about. you know, it is fascinating. we will be ready batted for years to come. i think that this is one effort among what will be many define, shape, and interpret this history. i will and with that. thank you so much. i have probably forgotten everybody, but my host committe

as it happens, new jersey has a very clear criminal statute about official misconduct that may be relevant here. i will share it with you. this is from title 2c, subtitlepart 4 chapter 30 of the new jersey code of criminal justice. "public servant is guilty of official misconduct when, with purpose to obtain a benefit for himself or another, or to injure or to deprive another of a benefit, he commits an act relating to his office but constituting an unauthorized exercise of his official functions. knowing that such act is unauthorized or he's committing such act in an unauthorized manner." new jersey law is clear, and it seems relevant to the kind of activity that has both been alleged and documented among the governor's top staff and appointees in this bridge shutdown scandal. the question, now, is who enforces the law in new jersey? chris christie's chief of staff? the direct boss of the woman who ordered the bridge shutdown? joining us now is kendall coffey, former u.s. attorney and news analyst. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for including me, rachel. >> the new jersey senate said today they need more time to prepare for kevin o'dowd's conf

fox news is a prime example of what my next two guests call the outrage industry. they wrote a book by that name the subtitlendustry: political opinion media and the new incivility." jeff re ber-- jeffrey berry and sarah sobieraj. thanks for joining me. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> jeffrey start with you, what was your reaction to what gabe was saying about fox news? >> sounds like an interesting book and one that's well researched but i have a fundamental disagreement with his perspective on fox. fox would continue to do the same thing. fox is the most profitable part of its parent corporation 21st century pox. it makes more profits than any other part of the business and this is not a very inknow vative business. they follow a template, talk radio, on the blogs, and on fox and msnbc it's all the same. they're going to continue to do the same whether ailes is there or not. >> sarah, your book, you co-wro co-wrote, it argues this industry has grown because it is profitable. is that something you see changing any time soon? >> no. i think what happened is that there was an earlier era when there were few optio

news. that particular evening the french national television was compelled to use the sound bite in english subtitles and french. what an embarrassment. a french minister speaking in english and french television. imagine. trust me, it never happened again. after that it became impossible to obtain an english sound bite from a member of the government. but it wasn't something cosmetics. was every aspect of politics, society, economics that the small band councilors control over 14 years. the longest in the french president would ever likely ruler gentry the reason for that in the year 2000, the constitution was amended and provided a maximum of the twofive-year terms rather than seven year terms when he came to power. now, three presidents later war has changed. she finds himself in a pickle that is reflective of many fellow presidents but fared less room to maneuver to get his dilemma is terrible the burden editorial list writes because recognizing his strategic office he undermines his presidential credibility. but continues to function. he may have all presidential powers, but they would assert th

there's going to be a new sense where people are native to the digital sphere and those guys are going to have the answers. that is why the subtitle is the last of the old empires and it's my hope we will see some new ones as well. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir. [applause] ♪ kenneth walsh is next. he talks about the isolation of the white house also known as the bubble and what effect it has on presidents. this is a little over an hour. [applause] >> welcome and thank you all for coming. i want to also acknowledge that i have friends in the audience here. claire, steve and my daughter gene who actually encouraged me repeatedly to arrange this event which i'm so glad i did. so i've been visiting with her since i've been here in the area so i'm so glad i pursue that and listen to my daughter. so that was great. lots, i will come back to my main sort of prepared remarks in a moment that today of course is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of president kennedy and those of us of a certain age remember this very well and remember where we were. looking at the audience i think most of you are in that same category as i am in.

and finally wednesdays here in france are the days when new movies opened one to watch is miniscule. french animated no subtitles required is no dialogue. it all goes pear shaped. ladybug get separated from its family and ends up discovering the sugar cubes left behind by the picking the it is all the way later on although the false and dad today the eye. call. it is time indeed for the wholesome until today. earlier this month when a french gossip magazine noted music also known as midnight its ropes to the apartment. to say g'day. the story overshadowed what will perhaps eventually go down as the socialist president coming out. my phone number with a gets himself who said dr lewis said you think this could signal can be enough. he was flown on saying he's a social democrat france's socialist have long been moderates party rank and file feel uneasy about singing from the rooftops year olds grafting is the tax the rich mantra of the past two years in favor of thirty billion euros in payroll tax cuts belt tightening and now word of a secret meeting back in november with its own hearts and brains behind the german

new look with the title "why growth matters". he has coproduced it actually. like most children it has two parents, in this case with a colleague of his at the same university, colombia and the subtitle is 10 -- how economic growth in india reduced poverty and the lessons for other developing countries. let me ask the obvious first question. why do you even have to write a book called "why growth matters" who in the world would not rank that? >> that's the question i'm frequently asked but it's not just in india but around the world that people in fact do raise questions about growth partly because there is an antigrowth movement and an antigrowth sentiment around the world. what i want to do in this book is basically bring out the notion that in the very large countries with a lot of poor people in few rich people, even the 1% ers, you can put them all over the florida sinkholes and there would be another 1% of course pretty soon but that is not going to make any difference. the real problem is what to do about the large numbers of poor people. i think that is where india had a comparative advantage. too many exploiters so even if you ask are created the exploiters you could not red

news. rapidly evening, french national television was compelled to use my soundbite in english subtitled inrench. what an embarrassment, mitterrand sniffed. a french minister speaking in english on french television. imagine. trust me, it never happened again. after that, it became all but impossible to obtain an incursion soundbite from a single member of the government under franÇois mitterrand -- a single english soundbite from a single member of the government under franÇois mitterrand. it is the longest any french president will likely will again. the reason for that is that in the year 2000, the constitution was amended to provide a maximum of 2 five-year terms. three presidents later, even more has changed. francois hollande finds himself in a pickle that is deeply reflective of many of his fellow presidents, but with far less room to maneuver. writesemma is terrible, the leading editorialists of the brilliant french daily. he continues to sap his ability to function. francois hollande may well have all presidential powers, but his power is to assert himself as a leader. the immediat

and now the new book has been released with the title why growth matters. and he is coproducing it and then the subtitle is a lesson for other developing countries. and so why do you even have to write a book called why growth matters? who in the world wouldn't think that? >> the people do raise questions partly because they have sentiment around the world. and what i want to do in this book is bring the notion back then in the very large countries, there were very few rich people. and too many exploited individuals have been a part of this and even if you have been a part of this, you cannot read this except to give everyone out and it wouldn't go very far in that it would disappear as small as a wise. so you have to think of a different strategy and this is where the five countries i would say are relevant in china and indonesia and brazil and that is about three fourths of it in terms of the population. and it doesn't cover saudi arabia and we had a very different kind of problem as well. and then what would we do? and so the idea was that we would have to go through it. and people at the very bottom

new networks that will work for both politics and society. >> this concept you write about in several books, the subtitle is, the creation of the american nation. you write about the fact that the women of this class understood their power and their ability to be able to use social skills to build the nation. >> the founders understood the american revolution was more than a political revolution they were going to build the world anew. that meant everything was under consideration. they were going to score and eliminate everything of the old world. kings and monarchies and courts. they turn to the women, and this is a political theory. it says that, in a culture, laws can come and go. what they call manners stay. manners are the way people treat each other and how they regard each other and how they behave. this is very appealing to the new americans. for one thing, they are inventing a whole bunch of laws they are not sure people will buy, and they need people to behave. the phrase they used was republican virtue. and that is republican with a small "r." that meant people would put the interests of the country before themselves. how do you ge

news. that particular evening the french national television was compelled to use the sound bite in english subtitlesench. what an embarrassment. a french minister speaking in english and french television. imagine. trust me, it never happened again. after that it became impossible to obtain an english sound bite from a member of the government. but it wasn't something cosmetics. was every aspect of politics, society, economics that the small band councilors control over 14 years. the longest in the french president would ever likely ruler gentry the reason for that in the year 2000, the constitution was amended and provided a maximum of the twofive-year terms rather than seven year terms when he came to power. now, three presidents later war has changed. she finds himself in a pickle that is reflective of many fellow presidents but fared less room to maneuver to get his dilemma is terrible the burden editorial list writes because recognizing his strategic office he undermines his presidential credibility. but continues to function. he may have all presidential powers, but they would assert themselve

new issue for the insurance agency. congress recognized the need to reform the insurance licensing system 15 years ago, back in 1999 when it incorporated the national association of registered agents and brokers subtitle into the gramm-leech-wylie act. unfortunately, during the consideration of the act congress did not provide for the immediate establishment of narab. instead it included provisions to simply encourage state reciprocity for licensing. as a result, gramm-leech-bliley wasn't able to achieve the uniformity that congress had hoped for and these efforts became something of a dead end. and that's why we're here today, considering this important legislation. title 2 would provide agents and brokers with the option of becoming a member of narab provided they need standards set by the association and undergo a criminal background check. narab will streamline the licensing process for agents and brokers, enabling them to be licensed once under a single high national licensing standard, rather than follow different state standards. this will save time and will save money. the association will set rigorous professional and consumer protection standards including the requirement that all associatio

to your books subtitle, you already interest -- addressed it in an interesting talk about you could your experience, especially jury notification. the economic piece is so important. in new york city, they have these blocks that are called million-dollar blocks, because if you look at just how much money the government is spending on this one block to lock folks up, it's $1 million. a lot of people say, what if we spend that money on job training, on improving schools, to provide people with treatment when they have problems with drugs? would not go a lot further than just spending the money to lock people up? urban economics, absolutely. because there is an economic cost, a huge cost, to locking up 2.5 million people come a big opportunity cost. i do have a chapter in the book about this concept called and jury notification. that is an idea that i learned about as a prosecutor from the jurors and the district of columbia. most of the jurors at this time were african-american, and i got schooled by the experienced prosecutors when i was a rookie. if i had a drug case and the defendant was a young black man and it was a nonviolent drug case, the jurors were not going to s

to your books subtitle, you already interest -- addressed it in an interesting talk about you could your experience, especially jury notification. the economic piece is so important. in nework city, they have these blocks that are called million-dollar blocks, because if you look at just how much money the government is spending on this one block to lock folks up, it's $1 million. a lot of people say, what if we spend that money on job training, on improving schools, to provide people with treatment when they have problems with drugs? would not go a lot further than just spending the money to lock people up? urban economics, absolutely. because there is an economic cost, a huge cost, to locking up 2.5 million people come a big opportunity cost. i do have a chapter in the book about this concept called and jury notification. that is an idea that i learned about as a prosecutor from the jurors and the district of columbia. most of the jurors at this time were african-american, and i got schooled by the experienced prosecutors when i was a rookie. if i had a drug case and the defendant was a young black man and it was a nonviolent drug case, the jurors were not going to sen

new look with the title "why growth matters". he has coproduced it actually. like most children it has two parents, in this case with a colleague of his at the same university, colombia and the subtitle is 10 -- how economic growth in india reduced poverty and the lessons for other developing countries. let me ask the obvious first question. why do you even have to write a book called "why growth matters" who in the world would not rank that? >> that's the question i'm frequently asked but it's not just in india but around the world that people in fact do raise questions about growth partly because there is an antigrowth movement and an antigrowth sentiment around the world. what i want to do in this book is basically bring out the notion that in the very large countries with a lot of poor people in few rich people, even the 1% ers, you can put them all over the florida sinkholes and there would be another 1% of course pretty soon but that is not going to make any difference. the real problem is what to do about the large numbers of poor people. i think that is where india had a comparative advantage. too many exploiters so even if you ask are created the exploiters you could not red

new republic" with the billions he made is one of the first guys of facebook. there's going to be a nuisance where people get it and those guys allow the answers but is why the subtitle is the last of the old empires. it's my hope you and i see some new ones as well. >> thank you, david. >> thank you, sir. [applause] >> we would like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> next on booktv, from the heritage foundation in washington, d.c., a discussion on the legal arguments against the affordable care act. trevor burrus, editor of the book and a panel, all law professors and bloggers for the volokh conspiracy website, talk about the impact of their argument on the obamacare debate, both in public and in the courts. this is about an hour 15. >> thank you very much for being here. i applaud the party souls who braved the cold weather today in order to be a. we are here today with several distinguished panels o