reinhart: thank you. [applause] >> c-span history, a tweet from across the water, asking about what still resounds today. his question is about how many people were fathered by gis, in vietnam. how are they treated 45 years after the u.s. departure? >> can be featured in our next live program. join the conversation on facebook at facebook.com/c-spanhistory, and on twitter. >> monday night, on the communicators, a look at the internet, broadband expansion, salter.ith jonathan he is interviewed by kyle daly. >> you mentioned that the group you represent, the companies you represent, have a lot of work to do. can you talk about that? you hear about five g networks, ultrafast, ultradense wireless broadband networks. can you talk about how we get to that stage? >> sure. the essential ingredient to moving forward with this thing, extending more broadband more americans, and ensuring our global competitiveness, is this wonderful technology called broadband. to companies are committed making the investments, prov

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power of academic paper by harvard economist rogoff and reinhart which conservatives will need wide to argue for austerity was recently refuted by a us grad students just because it had a few simple spreadsheet errors and a couple of little staggering omissions that made it slightly fundamentally wrong please welcome thomas hearns and mr arnold thinks probation. one of the most important american company talks to realize that you have upset some people in the austerity crowd who have someone starting your car for you right now it's austerity policies on the theories of reinhart and rogoff when the public exceeds ninety percent of g.d.p. it becomes an obstacle to growth however the two great economists had committed and the line in the columns of their ex bridge time as i've been talking to a lot of the media across the world are pretty heartbreaking stories about what's going on in europe and you know i've also seen the effects of it in this country as well why we have to keep cutting the government budget and laying off people until those people get jobs that's right you've got it the

but the sabres stuck in there and sam reinhart dragged them back before this second from rasmus ristolainen where jt miller scored a power—play goal to hand the rangers victory at the home of the new york mets baseball team also taking the rangers to a four and zero record in outdoor regular season games. i thought we played, you know, pretty good. we had a great start, and then a couple of penalties which put us on their heels a little bit. buffalo i thought played very well and were extremely difficult to get through the net. overall, i thought we we re through the net. overall, i thought we were the better team, five on five. their powerplay definitely gave them some momentum and speed to the game. north korea's leader, kimjong—un, used his new year's day speech to announce for the first time that the country would be willing to take part in next month's winter olympic games in pyeongchang. skating pair ryom tae—ok and kim ju—sik are the only north korean athletes to have so far qualified for pyeongchang 2018. meanwhile, kamil stoch leapt up to second place in the fis skijumping world cu

. >> let's talk about rebecca reinhart, first female, in that position as well.t spending and to be more proactive not just reactionary but pro active and maybe be more efficient and effective and have a role where she tells, folks maybe what it would be a better twi streamline government. do you think that is property role, is this something you are looking forward to. >> well, you know, reinhart is known, another nutter member and kenney group and she's part of that relationship. she has taken issue don't necessarily attack this administration but attack, as you can see, the parking authority which is, run by republicans. she's looking for areas where she does not have in anyway conflict was her relationship i'm a inform county controller i think what she's proposing is g controller should be active. what concerns me is she comes from the mayor's office. controller need to be independent. i wonder how independent she can be. some of those ideas good are. >> for objectivity. >> she wasn't elected -- she may have been in the nutter administration and kenney admin

crowd who have someone starting your car for you right now its austerity policies and theories of reinhart and rogoff when the public exceeds ninety percent of g.d.p. it becomes an obstacle to growth however the two great economists had committed another line in the columns. there x. bridge time as i've been talking to a lot of the media across the world they've given you some pretty heartbreaking stories about what's going on in europe and you know i've also seen the effects of it in this country as well why we have to keep cutting the government budget and laying off people until those people get jobs that's right you got it the austerity policies are based on a full blown miscalculation. you know but they see the already using it all over europe and they love it so much that they have celebrations in the street sometimes with. sometimes just wire and everything. despite seven years having elapsed since the beginning of the crisis the economic studies continue to support the danger of public debts which are too high and the need to cut public spending and the deficit. back also for. the