what is common sense? what would it be? it's every day. everyday ordinary wisdom, reasoning, about everyday ordinary matters that we're supposed to agree upon without discussion. >> when did it enter -- the term enter the political discourse? >> well, it's a very old term. the term goes all the way back to aristotle in political form. it's not political, but starting in the early 18th century in england. it starts to become a political term. and it starts to suggest a kind of politics that everyone can participate in potentially. a sense that politics isn't something so complicated that ordinary people can't participate in it, and that ordinary people have a collective wisdom that lends itself to thinking about political issues. that happens after the glorious resolution in england first. >> how did aristotle use common sense the term? >> it's completely different. it's some residue of the term. for aristotle, there was some notion that humans had five basic senses. we still think that. that's right out of greek phil -- philosophy. we trie

i think that it would make sense. it might make sense to consider -- and i would use the term safety sensitive -- there are certain jobs where a drop in productivity is not explained and you just have to have someone there. an example might be working overtime delivering food. if the person is a little late for the person forgets milk, they can go back and get it. different from someone driving a large vehicle with many passengers. it might make sense to consider the people operating things like power tools, driving vehicles, i would view them differently from those who are trying to meet a deadline for the state. it would perhaps make sense to bear down a little bit and look at the kind of work we would be happy to provide a less by classification. -- provide by class less by classification. i certainly agree that for public safety and people involved in transit, if i can be so bold, it makes sense to distribute, even if it is less overtime work, there is better distribution with significant safety benefits. supervis

when what i found is that sense of -- that minor sense of revollings of china which has been given to them from images they are receiving from hollywood is very, very thin. once you crack that initial surface, there is a depth of welcoming humanity that you receive in china. it was almost pavelovian. every time you meet someone, try to get through that surface. below that, it was just -- a treasure chest of love and appreciation and so i was -- every time and to do it on a larger and larger scale on television and radio. so it was my motivator. tavis: you come here with your $1,000 that your father gave to you and decide there is a way to use some of that money to have a club night and start playing some hip-hop. i'll let you tell the story. >> hip-hop was the beginning of our economic success in china. only fitting. i came here having nothing to do with business at that point. i was teaching english, tavis, honestly. i don't know if you realize that. i was teaching english at that point. i thought to myself, i love china, but if i don't find some hip-hop here soon, i'm going to have

which tells us about the sense of cohesion and sacrifice. we're determined to get to that good job or what ever it is. how many people would take a year out to build bridges or teach in schools? some people do, but i am not sure you get everyone. >> that might be good. >> on the right here. >> my question and then a quick comment. at any of you done any work in the arts in terms of social cohesion? i would like to suggest also that instead of cohesion, you should be talking about understanding. i interviewed 19 artistic directors of culturally specific dance companies and found that in a startling way, all of these different ethnic companies -- we used the word culturally specific -- are becoming integrated into the mainstream of american dance and creating an understanding that is going beyond the specific communities, from working in the basement to working in the kennedy center. and i would like to avert more about the role of the arts which i think is quite important and interesting. that is the question and comment. >> a great comment.

-- better sense of self determination. what do you think the founders could teach them and in the same breath what can they learn by looking of the experience of america as young americans wrestled with setting up their republic? >> well, presumably these people are seeking democracy, that's what we are told and that's true they want to vote, they want all the other things that come in their mind with democracy. they see how the rest of the world is living and they want a share of that. i think the issue is democracy is hard work. it does not come easy and authoritarian governments are easy to put together a and the world has always had authoritarian governments, monarchies although it's the wrong word to use not because half of nato is made up -- we have a lot of the mind monarchies, eaglen, sweden, holland, so marchi isn't quite the word but that's how the founders saw it. markey was the enemy and they meant offer rotarian governments. authoritarian governments have existed in a timely memorial because it's difficult to

there was a sense of uncertainty.iblical document is nowhere in the founders conceptions. what's striking about it, by the way, at the time to have written such a secular document as the constitution. really, there's not a word about religion at a time when everything was about religion. >> hold that thought. we are going to come back for more on that topic. we'll be right back. ve the future of business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ we like to go the extra mile for our clients. with the wassman family, it was 2,500 extra miles. we're the wassman family from skagway, alaska. livin' so far out and not havin' a bank within 90 miles... i was runnin' into dead ends. happened to come across quicken loans online. [ chris ] walked over to the computer... i was able to see all the paperwork. while i

in the best sense we ought to be complimenting each other. "the last gunfight" is a book with my name on it. i hope i wrote it well. i spent a couple years of full-time research going all over the country trying to find new things, to ferret things out and bring new conclusions and concepts, that none of us read books like this without standing on the shoulders, without standing alongside of other people who had been doing a great and honorable and often unrecognized work. and yet without these people, people like me don't write our books at all. i think it is only appropriate particularly with some of the folks in this room to speak to that as a way to close down this part of our program because i am sitting up here but i am also sitting beside so many people. when you talk about those who unselfishly research, devote themselves to trying to learn things that help the rest of us understand better and there are folks in this room, there is tom gomer who keeps saying keep laughing but he also keeps sharing his research. scott blake led me on a

hemmingway had no sense of humor whatsoever. and i mean that in the classic sense, sense of humor.e had no distance on things. he could not stand back and look at things esm was always telling you that something was important. that it was true. that it was fine. that it was this or that and the other thing. well, ernie, show, we don't tell. we show. his writing on bullfighting is particularly offensive in this respect. his women characters are hopeless. they really don't exist at all. and "the sun also rises," my least favorite hemmingway book, is really my least favorite, well, it's a tough call, but i would say it's my least favorite because you think this book is about a generation destroyed by world war i, about cynicism, about the breakdown in western culture, but if you read it more carefully, you realize what it's about is drinking too much. they drink too much. of course drin he is impotent. he didn't get hit in the war. you cannot drink that much and be anything other than impotent. >> i am sure you both want to have at him with that. >> well, you know, it's difficult for

i think it's important as the other senses.and once you acquire a historical sense, and i don't think history is just information about the past. i think once you study history and read enough, you develop what i would call a historical sense so you see the world differently. it's an added dimension on the world, on reality. suddenly the whole world is different to the perception of your present is different because you have an understanding of the past. >> as we sit here speaking, these set of remarkable momentous events are sweeping the world today in the middle east. under the so-called arab spring where people are rising up and they're trying to grab a piece of a greater say in their destinies, a greater sense of self determination. what do you think the founders could teach them? and in the same breath, what can they learn by looking at the experience of america as young americans wrestled with setting up their republican? >> well, presumably these people are seeking democracy. that's the we are told. i think that's true.

as soon as he senses there's an public opposition he backs away. he gets the organization to promise that they will not be hereditary. well, of course, they are still around to it is hereditary. on massachusetts avenue they have this huge building, society of cincinnati. they have a great library, and a lot of documents, and it doesn't have any -- but there's a real fear with breeding aristocracy, the very kind of thing that the revolution is about. revolution is anti-blood. marriage only should count. people should be distinguished only because of marriage, talent, not because of who your father was or who you married. that scared the bejesus out of a lot of people. i think there's a lot of opposition. it pulls in its own, and an interesting, kind of a lobby group, washington thanks he's got a promise they will not make hereditary, of course they remain a hereditary organization. >> are there any more questions? [inaudible] >> the question was what's the future of the american idea. i wish i knew. i don't think anyone knows the future. historians

i would think of intially i would think that i believe that that makes sense i know that. president zuma just got into sort of deep raúl with cameron in south africa over this matter and i as i understand you sent your great chess experts to negotiate a libya so i mean i think that that is what makes sense in terms of bringing in other members of the international community and their experiences of resolving conflicts. what do you think. libya's war means for the future of nato and the e.u. common defense project does it need rethinking is it in the in the in the rethinking process the moment a sign of things to come i think increasingly we will see coalitions of the willing like we saw in iraq. like we saw it like we're seeing in libya. i think what will happen within nato is you will see these coalitions of the willing group around certain issue areas so for example with cyber defense or with climate change or with nuclear defense and in terms of i think it's ringing the death toll of the interventionism i think imposing values at the point of a gun hopefully is a policy

questions, not the least of which does this make sense for him to do? and were the details known to us merely from the very beginning of the trial, did they correspond to the idea that a sexual assault had actually taken place? i think it happens more in the case of dsk. i think it's pervasive how we make drp there are aneck dose, and we suggested this led inescapably to a conclusion. we forget that stories in life and in history tend to be crooked. >>> hold that thought, bret. we're going to leave the dsk business, but with one footnote rape charges are still spending. >>> when we come back, we'll talk about much more. >>> we are back, talking about everything other than dominique strauss-kahn, since we did that for the last segment with bernard-henri levy from france, simon schama, bret stephens and chrystia freeland. bernard, what the the mood in europe with regard to greece. is there a sense this is one more week of crisis and they will somehow muddle along or is there a more fundamental fear to put it blently, that the european project is falling a

and there was the sense that something was going on, but no one really quite believed it. and then when the photograph started being published in the first appearance tried to hide it because she was a child caerphilly question, why that? and her parents just didn't know how to answer these questions. so she was completely traumatized by that. and you know, the jews world asendin going to start this state of israel, she was very excited come initially very excited. she got the jews -- we connect with our roots them are going to learn how to be real jews again. that was the word she used. and the arabs are going to protect us from the horrible christians. and not lies -- when she thought that was not how the state of israel was unfolding, that was sort of the beginning of her move, you know, to radicalization, and sympathy she moved towards the arabs, she'd always sort of been fascinated by air or poetry, music and at least in the age of 10 onwards. she got drawn further and further in her parents had saved the arabs are killing the jews. they are dirty, low people and she

and it's in their hands in some sense.e've crawled sourced it. >> host: there was a paper written out of mit singing we can infer your sexual preference and figure out whether you are gay or not. based solely on your social net for confirmation. but that is a general principle, that kind of inference, the general principal of the social network. >> guest: you wouldn't want to make a lot of particular -- you wouldn't want to use that to make important decisions for the simple reason which is that -- let me rephrase that if you're a business you might want to use it to make important decisions. if you're an individual we really don't want that to be the way the decisions are made about us because guilt by association not in the case of being gay obviously it in the case of, you know, you can get some credit rating on their friends. now, should banks not offer people loans because their friends have bad credit ratings? that's not -- i don't think we want to get into that world. but we are -- actually because there is so much

commissioner vietor: i think that makes sense. infrastructure still manages it, but project managers over atwater enterprise for some projects? >> we actually have all the project managers and program managers in infrastructure. the client. we will work closely with the client. basically, julie will not be the client to water enterprise for these projects. that is why she will not report on it, but we will have a new project manager working with the water enterprise to actually work on this. that is my understanding. commissioner vietor: right. i think that makes sense. still trying to figure that out. commissioner caen: mr. kelly, did you say the five projects will go from the same time line? >> from my understanding, yes. it has been very difficult in trying to cite the recycled water. the golden gate park. we started the design because we are designing things at risk. maybe these projects are not good projects. the environmental impact comes out, and you cannot even do it there. these have been very challenging. >> i have been

we are on the side of the common sense and the american people. we are doing what we told the voters we told them we would do when they sent us here. >> the democrats would say they are on the side of the american people. the american people don't want you to cut social security and medicare. >> if you look at what happened in the last election, the american people send more republicans here to make the kind of changes i am talking about and that is what we are supposed to do. it is a common sense to do and i think that will save the country from financial collapse. >> do you view the ethanol tax credits and eliminating tax breaks for oil company, is that on the table? >> yes. raising taxes is the bottom line. we will be against raising taxes. if there is a broad tax reform package, that needs to happen for economic growth. every american understands that. i am not going to be for raising taxes. we're not going to support that. the big reform package that reforms the entire tax code and lowers rates or doesn't raise rates, that is something we can

in a sense, it reflected larger issues that are impacting the city as a whole. so, there are issues like that that would require a knowledge of the neighborhood, and knowledge of what is happening on the ground, and knowing the difference is of how all bernal heights may look at an issue vis a vis the mission or portola. as a supervisor, i do have to be able to balance managing citywide issues, which is very important, but at the same time, focusing on the specific needs of your neighborhood. that is really important to us. one of the things we need to prioritize is that making sure we focus on the nuts and bolts of government. a lot of the calls we get involved fixing alights, replacing a pothole. i think it is really important to make sure we get those things right and we try to work very closely with the city agency to make sure government is responsive. if we do not do those things right, those little things, which are big things in life of a neighborhood. >> how you reconcile the needs of your district with the needs of the city? supervisor campos: i think

>> guest: it was contacted in some sense but it was not in practice. it was the taking of the larger idea of national some and whereas in the modern state system there is nationalism within a state in a state's culture and its own view of its place in the world. what happened in the middle east is the nationalism became pan nationalism and it was another way within the region that the idea of the states became undermined so when you would say 30 or 40 years ago talked to someone from damascus and what mengin the nation of syria they would say you can't see that, there's only one nation and that is the arab nation. >> is the iraqi party calling itself the syrian division of the arab baathist party as the boundaries were momentary inventions. >> i asked about iraq because in the book i found more enthusiasm for george w. bush's call to arms in 2003 in the march invasion of iraq than one usually has now, even among people who were supportive of the war who were members of the bush administration. it's typical in my experience of a columnist to find people

from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this national security add their oil industry international affairs spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with. twenty years ago in the largest country in the way to certain places of the. us had been. to teach began a journey. where did it take the. low income to the. what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns advanced science into high gear cheap products they don't understand oh jesus got he followed russian evaders to egypt meters and brought it in their big breakthrough back home sunlight on stone on technology update here on. we've got the future covered. welcome back to spotlight than just a reminder my guest in the studio today is alex's crown an expert in international security at the royal institute of international affairs well we've been talking about d'arcy and there will be talk about the military operation and you compare the two to the saw it's been fighting with the one hand behind the tide to back but many experts say that even. even if we try to to to t

this sense of malcolm -- we are there together and women over there. whether that is about erotic engagement with one another's body is a separate question than whether or not it is a social or political space that says the only body's ideas or person's goals that matter are men. part of the transition of malcolm is a move into an increasing willingness to embrace a leadership role for women which seems to be at least in part engaged with liking them as human beings. taking the section melody out of it, that you have this narrative about his mother's mental illness or the woman who helps -- all these things manning built up and what he gives us is malcolm does not like women and maybe this is sexual and maybe it is not but the big issue is he thinks women could sit down and shut up. and malcolm turns into a person person becomes more of a -- what also has to have ethical and personal liking for women. it can't be just an exclusively political but the sexual erotic is in part standing in for the political and theological. i couldn't agree more about thi

from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this national security add their law institute of international affairs spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us. forty two thousand americans die each year car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part diseases even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. what makes a big splash in the world of hi-tech business what turns events science into i ching products they don't understand all these is going to be followed russian innovators to easy majors and broad and their big breakthrough back home spotlight on stoke on technology update here on. we've got the future covered. welcome back to spotlight in just a reminder my guest in the studio today is alex's crown an expert in international security at the royal institute of international affairs well we've been talking about gadhafi and there will be talk about the oppres

in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him. from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this national security add their wall in this to international affairs spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with. welcome to the. what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns advanced science into i can't use products they don't understand all these is going to be followed russian innovators to eat your betters abroad and their big break through back home sunlight on stone on technology update here on on. we've got the future coverage. welcome back to spotlight how i am our love and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is alex's crown an expert in international security at the royal institute of international affairs well we've been talking about khadafi and there will be talk about the mill trip ration and you compared it to to a saw it's been fighting with one hand behind the tide to back but many experts say that

your sense of the future of chinese-u.s.elations, now that jon huntsman is in the race, we will not know what will happen with a republic abomination. my sense is that china will be higher up, whatever that means on the political agenda, over the next couple of years as we move towards the race to the white house. >> things will be very choppy. there are a bunch of people in washington and beijing doing their utmost best to make sure it does not get out of control. we will have a lot of mistrust, statements, some politically motivated -- >tavis: anti-china rhetoric. >> we should take a look at that. they are feeling that they now have the right to say something. tavis: john chan, a one to thank you for coming on. janet, it was good to have you one as well. i enjoyed my trip there as well. i have enjoyed this week of shows and our all-star panel tonight. that is our show tonight on china. see you next time on pbs. until then, good night, los angeles. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visits t

do you sense that? >> i do sense that. let's face it. when he was faced with this decision whether or not to go forward, you had what appeared to be a very credible witness, what appeared to be a quick report which lends her story some credibility, and a defendant who was about to leave the country. in a situation like that, you do have to make the tough call. she also testified in front of the grand jury, a grand jury indicted him. at that time, i think they did what was the right thing to do. they continued their investigation, which is what they are supposed to do. in looking into her background when they had the time to do so, they uncovered all these things. i think the district attorney has done the right thing by believing her at first, presenting her story to a grand jury. that is what the process is. then continuing the investigation, they found real credibility problems and turned it over, as holly mentioned, to the defense, which is what they are required to do. the district attorney has acted above board within the law. i thi

here you don't have any sense of what the options are necessarily.you don't necessarily know what else is on the menu, and part of what this is about, i think, sort of trying to make this more passive of the media that -- >> host: make online a more passive media? >> guest: yes, so he essentially what i certainly love about the internet is that it's an interactive thing. steve jobsites said -- said you have to be leaning forward, and at the same time that's not actually, if what you're trying to do is deliver ads for media that has ads or whatever doesn't necessarily what you want because people are going to click over to some other site so how do you provide a stream of things that keep you there watching youtube instead of quitting over to facebook or whatever and when you talk about a competitive environment, that is what people have realized is the way you do that, how do you do enough of the leg work that people stick with you finding the next thing. >> host: everybody in america has grown up in an environment where an advertiser can get so much

in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him . from being in power in some sense says alex's crowd expert on this national security add their oil industry international fans spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with. twenty years ago largest country in. the digital. each began a journey. where did it take them. to the. welcome back to spotlight has been just a reminder my guest in the studio today is alex's crown an expert on international security at the royal institute of international affairs well we've been talking about khadafi and there will be talk about the trip ration and you compared it to to a saw it's been fighting with one hand behind the tide is back but many experts say that even. even if we try to to to to evaluate the operations there have been carried out that it was a true fiasco do you do you agree with that the mill truly the military did a lousy really lousy job on the ground i think this is symptomatic of the west's attention deficit disor

it makes sense to me that the number of antigens in vaccines overwhelm developing immune systems. the reason i found that interesting was because that was very ant thet call to the approach and language my peers used when it came to other topics where there was an intersection between science and public policy. for instance, global warming. if we had a conversation and someone said, well, we had three feet of snow last year: it just doesn't feel to me like we could be going through global warming or a conversation involving evolution where someone said it doesn't seem right to me that we could be from apes. those attitudes that the same group of peers were incredibly dismissive of and very much looked down their nose towards, you know, these stupid people who don't understand or accept the science involving the other topics, and what was interesting to me was not that they were wrong in their opinion because actually i didn't know at the time whether vaccines seeps were or were not connected in a way to developmental disorders like autism, but this is how they went about making th

>> guest: i mean that in a historical sense. i mean that in a turn-of-the-century, historical sense of the word. c-span: three and a half years ago what were you doing for a living? >> guest: what i do now, which is work at a corporate law firm that i started. c-span: what kind of law? >> guest: we do special projects for large business institutions. c-span: this book is $18 and 202 pages. >> guest: right. c-span: i just picked this up. this is the cover of u.s. news, and it's "the death of common sense in america." you're on all the television networks. what is it about this book that's gotten people's interest? >> guest: i think what i tried to do is create a vocabulary for people to respond to public problems that they didn't have. now when people confront government, they're told, "well, the rule requires this so you have to do it even though everyone knows it makes no sense." or commonly in america someone says, "give me my rights." we cringe. what do we do about someone's rights? what i explained in the book is those ideas

it didn't make sense.ury hopefully comes back with if they use their common sense. >> judge jeanine: ann, what do you think of those jailhouse tapes? when casey anthony was in jail, her father says, i will do anything to help you. we can go into witness protection. do you think that george anthony is a liar? >> i think he certainly seemed to be when we heard from krystal holloway. there was so much mood music brought in by jose baez, about secret lives, incest, it still sits out there with the for instances he used in -- with the inferences he used in closing arguments. at the end of the day, i think what -- those jailhouse phone calls brought the jury back saying wait a minute, it is not about him. he was there for herk3ñ all along. he was not the most dysfunctional father of the century as he was portrayed to be in the closing argument of jose baez. >> judge jeanine: do you think peter he's a liar because he lied about having an affair with this krystal holloway, a/k/a river cruz? does that moon he would

from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on his national security at their wall institute our international affairs spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. will look cool it makes a big splash in the world of heights or business but transit v. in science you know i just your products just don't understand coke uses cups he followed russian leaders to each of bidders abroad and their feet break through back. sunlight on sunday lunch technology update here on. we've got the future covered. welcome back to spotlight than just two more in the studio today is alex's crowd and their experience at international security at the royal institute of international affairs well we've been talking about they are free and the

there was more sense of what the nation's purpose was and much more a sense of what our shared values were, and i think maybe cohesion as a goal, we might be chasing the wrong, and even for i'm for military service or some sort of national service i guess, for patriotic displays and all the things you talked about, but i'm not sure -- i think those are the mechanics rather than the substance. back at the substance question, but i point to substance. >> jennifer, what do we chase? >> i like what she said and follow-up on that in the sense that when you think about working towards something else that's larger than yourself and doing that and bringing together people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, bringing immigrants together with native born americans, different gender backgrounds, and then working towards something else, that is really the goal, then you start to forget about the things that are different between you and among you and thinking about working towards the goal. i guess i thought about this a lot because some of my friends. are martial artists, and when they w

and they would conjure the sense of another world i was no longer a part of but was connected to. i think the -- i came to the brink of this sort of, you know, really quest gradualy by hearing the names. the other experience i had when i was growing up is music in my grand mother's house. my grand mother live on the first floor of the apartment building the door was open. everyone in the apartment building stopped there after work. they would stop for a drink and play polka, not polka, poker. and lynched to john gibbons play an accordion on his wooden leg. you had the sense of people having come over if not in mass by a great number to this other place with a kind of echo of that place being transposed into the world that became my world. so that of my mother's side of the family. my father's side was more mysterious. over time i heard stories of lost aunts and saint john >> new found land which is not where they are from and a deeper echo further back. i had my grandfather's passport from 1918, you could smell the must on it. all of the mysterious presences were there. my father'

the time to ask where the jobs are canada just created was a ten million ten thousand it makes more sense thirty three million people ten thousand more jobs than the u.s. in fact actually we have a chart here that of the connection we're to go over here is that of your government jobs declining under the obama administration and we're down to half a million jobs in the in the public sector half a million jobs. these layoffs are mostly happening in the red states and in twenty four states have been laying off twenty five states have been hiring and in those states we're also seen g.d.p. go down and and and economies go down you know are republicans killing the economy in order to win the election. and i don't know i mean i would say that they're that they're playing chicken with the budget and playing chicken with the debt ceiling is absolutely a kind of a kamikaze mission and i think that they do and a lot of ways think that it's can this trend continues that they will be reaping the benefits and that is a luxury but i think the bigger thing here is that what they're really doing is are s

from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this national security add their oil industry international affairs squad long will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with. wealthy british scientists on hold since last night on the president's right in front. of the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. and discover it. communicate with the wyoming. test yourself and become free. to. see what nature can give you. twenty years ago when the largest country in. the suitcase is supposed. to teach began the journey. where did it take them. welcome back to spotlight has been just a reminder my guest in the studio today is alex's crown an expert in international security at the royal institute of international affairs well we've been talking about khadafi and there will be talk about the military operation and you compare that to the saudis been fighting with one hand behind the tide is back but many experts say that even. even if we try to to to to evaluate the operations there have been carri

this is a sense of the senate. this is a resolution which i think is a missed opportunity to actually deal with the issue rather than just pretend like we're treating it seriously. when the white house proposes that working families and small businesses, among others, suffer a $400 billion tax increase over the next ten years, it strikes me that in one sense this is like a diet where you say i'm going to give up dessert. i'm not going to eat dessert. but then you binge on the buffet. in other words, it's not real. it's not going to work. to put this in perspective, the federal government is currently borrowing $4 billion every day this year. so actually raising taxes in this amount while this only amounts to ten days of what washington spends, raising taxes by $400 billion over ten years. and while we can see that that is not a -- won't make a serious dent in the deficit and the debt, they are very serious job-killing proposals. it strikes me as just common sense to say if you want more jobs that you make it easier