this week i'm off on q&a, our guest is john sopko. "q&a."s week on c-span >> john sopko, explain what you do. >> i am the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, appoint

this week i'm off on q&a, our guest is john sopko. "q&a."s week on c-span >> john sopko, explain what you do. >> i am the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, appointed by the president about two years ago to oversee all reconstruction money that the u.s. government spends in afghanistan by any agency. i am not in the department of defense, department of state, but any u.s. government agency that spends money over there, which is about 100 $3 billion via spent so far enough to understand. lex what does it mean by reconstruction gap go-- >> what does it mean by reconstruction? >> reconstruction is defined broadly. schools roads paying the salaries of the law ,nforcement am of the army fighting the equipment, seating them. lex why did you do that? why did you come out of private practice? calls, youe house usually return the call and listen, and they asked if i could help out. they needed someone to take over the reins. it was a challenge. i was happy at the law firm but was interested in a challenge, and this has been challenging the pas

people now can sit on a computer in a village in the middle of nowhere and have an accurate image of what it's like to live if washington, d.c. > evan s -- oslos tonight at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. the act that was passed in 1933 after f.d.r. came to power as a very leer -- clear line between the speculative versions and things that a bank could do and the things it could do to regulate businesses. the bankers were on the same side as f.d.r. the population was on the same side and things became stable for several decade after that. you contrast that to what happened in the wake of the 2008 crisis, which has been a much more expensive crisis for the general economy, for the actual unemployment level, not the tagline unemployment level for what was lost to individuals throughout and relative to the bailouts and subsidies that have been given since and dodd-frank came along and did nothing remotely like dissecting speculation from depositors and traditional banking activities. >> a look another the relationships between 1600 pennsylvania avenue and wall street tonight at 9:00 on "afterwards." part of book tv this weekend on c-span 2. and our book is "it calls you back." join oth

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