very well said ron pollack thanks so much for being with the at home and keep up the great work with families it was great to have you republicans have always champion states rights well let's come up they want one progressive states like vermont and oregon create single successful excuse me single payer health care systems and the rest of the country may well stampede to follow suit. and still ahead here on the big picture of divide and conquer a new g.o.p. strategy. for flimsy low and you are a stronghold of rachel bodies and women nothing people are suggesting she's told her no she says she's a star. the arrest. time now for the good the bad and the insanely ugly the good filmmaker charles ferguson ferguson and producer audrey mars won a cat any award for best documentary film last night for an inside job a film about the two thousand eight hundred enterprises and how the actions of a greedy few ruined the lives of the working class masses ferguson used a spotlight at the oscars to lament the lack of accountability on wall street three years later. i must start by pointing out tha

. >> warner: kenneth pollack ost e more likely that iran will get involved. >> warner: kenneth pollack of the brookings institution, thanks a lot. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> ifill: >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. thousands of bodies of earthquake and tsunami victims washed up in northeastern japan, amid estimates of 10,000 dead.r. libyan government forces attacked another town in their steady push to recapture the rebel-held east. and to kwame holman, for what's on the newshour online. kwame? >> holman: we have much more on the earthquake, including video and photos, a map of live seismic data, the science behind the damaged nuclear reactors, and a lesson plan for teachers on explaining tsunamis. patchwork nation previews paul solman's next report on income inequality in the u.s. that's on our making sense page. plus, on art beat, find our weekly poem. tonight, carol ann davis reads her work, "distal." all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> suarez: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll have the latest on the

interested in abstraction and was engaged in dialogue with the guggenheim about bringing the jackson pollack showed to the west coast. the original price for the painting, $750. are directors thought that was too much of a stretch before the board of trustees, so she convinced them to reduce the price to firefighter dollars. it was just -- to $500. it was what was needed to persuade the board. it is a very subjective history of art. it has been very much shaped by the individuals involved with the museum over the years. in 1935, would start with the gallery with works that came in through albert bender, one of our founding trusties. when we opened our doors in 1935, 181 of the 186 pieces in our permanent collection had been gifted. >> what are the names that pop out as the museum evolved? >> we have another gallery that looks at the theories that the museum has since the late 1980's. we focus on a particular aspect of that program that developed under one of art curators. he arrived in 1989 and was especially interested in artists. >> are some of the highlights? >> one of the aspects of the

the capital's famous book and pollack is getting a facelift billions of dollars with no man out of them over job or to be behind the project. with a recap of all top stories in just a few minutes all next they will the latest business news to be true. welcome to business are so eager to have your company oil prices are continuing to look at highest levels in more than two years as tension and north africa middle east continues to fuel concerns over crude supplies libya's oil chief has just announced a fifty percent drop in the country's crude production and unexpected drop in crude supply in the u.s. is also contributing to the growth. brant crude rose to almost one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel on wednesday on light sweet as hovering around the one hundred dollar mark news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil until brant reaches under twenty dollars a barrel added. total says russia is a safe market for investments and more stable than other oil producing countries meeting with president medvedev head of the french oil giant of th

david pollack from the washington institute. thanks very much. i wanted to ask about the military in egypt and its views about its own longer term or medium least interest. some people have argued, including a lot of the tahrir square revolutionaries that by handing over power as quickly as it wants to in a way that is democratic but it may also mean that the remnants of the ndp and the muslim brotherhood will be the ones that the military will end up working with and is most comfortable working with because they are -- they have a headstart so to speak. do you see the military's role in egypt as one of let's say hanging onto its economic privileges, opposing worker rights, opposing serious economic reform? in other words, something that would be not that different from what we have seen up until now despite the revolution? and one more question. >> thank you. allen from the middle east institute. i would like to encourage you to go back and think big. 10 years he wrote an article called arab democracy, dismal prospects. i outlined it has my grad

moscow is getting its own existing capitals famous sports and pollack is going to have a place there where they lead ins and dollars with romanov i'm over it supposedly behind. when i'll be back with a recap our top stories in just a few minutes all next day with the latest business things to be true. welcome to business are so good to have your company oil prices are continuing to look at the highest levels in more than two years as tension the north africa middle east continues to fuel concerns over crude supplies libya's oil chief has just announced a fifty percent drop in the country's credit for the auction and unexpected drop in crude supply in the u.s. and also contributing to the growth brant crude. rose to almost one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel on wednesday and light sweet as hovering around the one hundred dollar mark news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil until brant reaches under twenty dollars a barrel added. total says russia is a safe market for investments and more stable than other oil producing countries m

on the wall it says the best way to a national single payer system may be through the states ron pollack joins me now to offer his take executive director and vice president of families usa ron welcome to the program good to see you tom great to have you here with us are we seeing the saskatchewan set up here for our listeners who we don't know maybe you'd like to describe that or i can but first i think it's very important to understand that what the president did today is not a big departure of what exists in the current laws reciprocally any affordable care act there really is a clear set of provisions that allows the states to do experimentation and as you indicated there are some rules that go with it first you've got to cover at least as many people as the affordable care act would have in years say you've got to provide at least those generous benefits at the affordable care act and it's got to protect people's out of pocket costs not what the president did today is the effect of twenty seventeen that's right so what the president did today was he allowed if this legislation passe

ron pollack will be following me. ron is the founding executive director of families usa, a national organization for health care consumers. families usa's mission is to provide high quality health care for everybody in the u.s. ron will be talking about the access provisions in the new health care law. and ron will be followed by douglas holtz-eakin who will be batting cleanup for us. doug is currently the president of the american action forum and a former director of the congressional budget office. so if -- i'll turn the mic over to kavita right now. afterwards, i hope you have questions for the panelists. there will be a brief break between this panel and the next, a 15-minute break where we'll have a debate between roger and nira over the constitutionality of the health care law but for now, kavita. >> thank you. thanks so much, michael, for inviting me and it's -- it's an honor and privilege to be here and getting to talk about the affordable care act but i want to actually spend some time -- hopefully i will o

on behalf of the program, and especially the center, ken pollack here in the front row this morning, we are delighted to bring you another statesman forum. this time to host the minister of foreign affairs in corporation of the kingdom of morocco theory. it's a special pleasure to me. the minister has been a good friend personally and of the united states for many years. and i've long wanted to have the opportunity to host him here. i'm delighted that he's agreed to do so. the minister as a distinguished career in diplomacy. but it didn't start out that way. he was a professor of microeconomics at the university of paris, then became research fellow at the french institute at the international relations. before he joined the planning directory in the ministry of planning in the kingdom of morocco. from 1986 to 1989, he served as the head of the division in the charge of the relations with the european community. at the foreign minister. and then was nominated as secretary of state were foreign affairs incorporation in 1993 by the late king. he served in successive governments and the

program and especially the saban center, director ken pollack is here in the front row this morning,we're delighted to bring you another statesmen's forum, this time to host the minister of foreign affairs in cooperation of the kingdom of morocco, taieb fassi fihri. it's a special pleasure for me. the minister has been a good friend personally and a good friend of the united states for many years and i've long wanted to have the opportunity to host him here and am delighted that he's agreed to do so. the minister has a distinguished career in diplomacy, but it didn't start out that way. he was a professor of microeconomics at the university of paris, then became a research fellow at the french institute of international relations, ifri, before he joined the planning directorate in the ministry of planning of the kingdom of morocco. from 1986 to 1989 he served as the head of division in charge of relations with the european community at the foreign ministry and then was nominate das secretary of state for foreign affairs and cooperation in 1993 by the late king hassan ii. he served in

as i said, alex pollack will have to leave early and will talk about principle four, what happens to fannie mae and freddie mac. >> thank you. fannie and freddie will, over time, sees to exist as gse's. it is clear that if we want to get to the overall housing finance sector which we should have which is mostly a private market although it does have a government elements in it. you are either a private company or you are explicitly the government and there is nothing which tries to be both at the same time. no fannie and freddie in their gse form. the huge losses and the consequent government taxpayer bailout has brought this to everybody is attention. at a deep level, we note the presence of these gse forms is consistently distorted credit at credit pricing and house pricing and it is trying to transition away from this demonstrably unsuccessful form but as we know, they represent half of all mortgages outstanding and a good bit more than half of current production. it has to be a transition. we suggested should be a five- year transition in which fannie and freddie continue to oper

kenneth pollack is from the brookings institution. everybody's bio is online if you crave additional information. ken has written extensively on libyan military history. he will have a lot of perspective to bring. michael o'hanlon is the senior fellow in foreign policy at the brookings institution. he writes often and wonderfully on military affairs. paul wolfowitz is a visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute and has been following these issues closely. thomas donnelly is the director of the aei center for defense studies. we are going to go slightly out of order. for those who have not been here recently we used to have a set piece and i would talk a lot. i have kept to that tradition. i apologize to the panelists. our panelists with each give a presentation and we returned to the floor for questions. we have been doing it differently lately. i hope you will enjoy the change in format. if you do not, i am sure you will not hesitate to tell me. we've done a more interactive style that we call "meet the press" style. i am

going down the line, ken pollack is the director of this upon director of the brookings institution. everyone has a buy online. can reminded me he has read and extensively on the libyan military history. michael o'hanlon, let me get your title wrong -- senior fellow and foreign-policy at the brookings institution. he writes often and wonderfully on military affairs. paul wolfowitz, the visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute, and has been following these issues extraordinarily closely and riding a great deal. and finally tom donnelly, the director of arts center for defence studies. to confuse everyone watching the panel, we're going to go in slightly different order. for those who have not been here recently, the way we always used to do evince is that we had a set piece and i would talk a lot. i have kept to that tradition. i apologize to our panelists. and in our panelists would each give a presentation and we would turn to explore questions. we have been doing differently lately. i hope that you will all enjoyed the change in format. if you do not, none of you will

ron pollack will be following me. ron is the founding executive director of families usa, a national organization for health care consumers, and their mission is to achieve affordable health care coverage for everyone in the u.s.. ron will be talking about the active provisions. he will be followed by douglas holtz-eakin batting cleanup for us. is currently the president of the american action forum and a former director of the congressional budget office. i'll turn the mike over to kavita right now. if you have questions, there will be a brief break between this panel and the next, 15 minutes, where we will have a debate over the constitutionality of the health care law. but for right now, kavita. >> thank you for inviting me. it has been an honor and privilege to be here and getting to talk about the affordable. at. i want to spend some time -- a cut -- the affordable care act. we will have spirited questions and discussion afterward, but i want to spend time because one will speak more to the access and coverage pi

david pollack from the washington institute. kingsbury match. to ask about the military egypt and institute and do you feel that its own longer term or medium term interest, some people argue in putting a lot of the revolutionaries that by handing over the power quickly as it wants to in a way that's space but it may also mean that the remnants of the ndp and the muslim brotherhood would be and the most comfortable working with because they are a head start so to speak to you see the military rule in egypt as one of let's say hanging onto its economic privileges, opposing workers' rights, posing serious economic reforms and so on and other words that would be not that different of what we've seen up until the revolution. >> one more question. >> from the resources and then at least institute. i would like to encourage you to go back and think big. ten years ago you wrote an article called arab democracy, a dismal prospect so i dug it out last week and asked my graduate students to look at it hot and ask the question and i think you've already su

program at brookings and on behalf of that program and especially the saban center, director ken pollack is here in the front row this morning, we're delighted to bring you another statesmen's forum, this time to host the minister of foreign affairs in cooperation of the kingdom of morocco, taieb fassi fihri. it's a special pleasure for me. the minister has been a good friend personally and a good friend of the united states for many years and i've long wanted to have the opportunity to host him here and am delighted that he's agreed to do so. the minister has a distinguished career in diplomacy, but it didn't start out that way. he was a professor of microeconomics at the university of paris, then became a research fellow at the french institute of international relations, ifri, before he joined the planning directorate in the ministry of planning of the kingdom of morocco. from 1986 to 1989 he served as the head of division in charge of relations with the european community at the foreign ministry and then was nominate das secretary of state for foreign affairs and cooperation in 1993

just going down the line, ken pollack is the director of the brookings institution.verybody's baidoa is online if you crave additional information. ordaz -- everybody's biography is online if you crave additional information. ken has a lot of perspective to bring on military history. michael hammond i'm going to guess your title wrong -- michael o'hanlon senior foreign-policy. he writes about military affairs. paul wolfowitz is a visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute and has been following these issues extraordinarily closely and has been writing a great deal. and finally tom donnelly, the director of the center for defense studies. i think what we will do to confuse everybody watching the panel is that we will go in a slightly different -- out of order. for those who have not been here recently the way we always used to do event is that we would have a set piece and i would talk a lot. i have get to that tradition. [laughter] and i apologize to our panelists. our panelists will of -- what each give a presentation and then return to the floor for ques