consequently third parties and the american system their access to the ballot and the electoral system is what we're talking about today. first speaker is our author jim benetton it scholar at george mason university and holds the chair of political economy at public policy and the department of economics he received his ph.d. 1970 from case western reserve and specialized in research with public policy and bureaucracy labor unions and health charities. founder and editor of the labor research and publish more than 60 articles in professional journals such as the american economic review and public choice. he has written it many books, the author of destroying democracy published by the cato institute in 1986. please welcome jim bennett, our author day. [applause] >> thank you. thank you to our host here at cato institute who was a little surprised to learn that around later re teeing a forward to this book by credentials crumbled and the after words was written by bill read past chair of the national libertarian committee and i am sandwiched between the two extremes of the political e

outside of the two-party system. and that's because we have systemic barriers, even if you have a supremely qualified candidate, even if you have popular support. we have systemic barriers that have made it difficult to compete, and there is no level playing field. so when jim bennett writes in his book the system is rigged and nobody cares, i know what he speaks. let's start with the ballot access. actually, let's start back with a regulatory system. if you haven't had the pleasure of reading 11 cfr, the code of regulations for campaign finance that i suggest you do so. as one person i get it at the federal election commission, explained to me it is like asking a lawyer -- rather, i said i'm a lawyer. i will be able to figure this out. and he said, no, it's really like asking a general practitioner, a doctor, to perform brain surgery, and you have to learn all of this while you are doing your other job 24/7. it is extremely difficult to navigate the regulatory and even though, even the people who work at the federal

the federal system? most people in those states would say they have a cleaner government and the federal system. >> i promised the gentleman behind christina. >> thank you. my name is aaron rose. i live in seattle washington and my question that was just asked. i want to go back to the question then, and i voted for ralph nader and i'm still recanting for that sin. >> that is

our system as we all know -- all 100 of us know that our system is broken. people are losing their homes because they get sick. people are dying because they can't afford a cure. this is just not acceptable in our america, mr. president. and that's why we're here on a saturday night. if you watch the news over the past few months, you probably noticed there is a wide range of opinions on how we should fix things p and that's how it -- and that's how it should be mr. president. we need all the ideas that we can get. if you also watch the debate in the senate over the last few days, you probably noticed something else as well. i don't believe a single person in this body has stood up at any point and said that we're okay doing nothing at all. therefore in the weeks ahead -- the presiding officer: the time has expired. mr. dodd: to have a full and open debate, mr. president, to every provision in this bill. but tonight's vote is nothing more than a choice. a choice between doing something or doing nothing. and i would urge my colleagues to -- this evening to jo

kinds of systems the pies that can be applied they can do things, make the electoral system more reflective of the will of the people. at the end of the day of the want consent to come from the government we have to look at how we felt and the systems in place that offer choices for who we can vote for in order to be able to maximize consent of the government. >> i will second that. i think that is excellent. >> thanks very much. now, let's go down to the front here with christina and the gentleman behind her. >> hello, my name is christina taliban. i am the founder and chair of the free elections-- and also the libertarian candidates. the libertarian nomination for california's secretary of state. currently an initiative in support of the top two primary is on the ballot in california for june 2010. how the demopublicans have rigged the system and left independents out in the cold primary at the top two vote getters in the primary the only names did appear on the november vali vinnette that means one political parties represented. the tup to primaries are the biggest threat to the existenc

kinds of systems devised that can be applied that can do things -- that can make the electoral system more reflective of the will of the people. at the end of the day, if you want consents to come from the governed, we have to look at how we vote and the system in place that offered choices for who we can vote for in order to be able to maximize consent of the governed. . . >> the top two vote getters are the primary, the only names to appear on the november of ballot. the primary is the biggest threat to the existence of third party is in our 50 years. my question is, in almost 200 races, almost only two candidates. they ran unopposed race. what is your position on the top to primary and how do you think this will affect third-party candidate races nationwide? thank you very much. >> i don't like that idea because i rightly think each of the political parties should have whoever their nominee is on the ballot during the general election. the ballot access rules ought to be relaxed. that is just kind of an extension of this open primary system that some states try to put in that can e

is the sound system -- i'm getting a little --. i got that thing so i could communicate with my kids. i don't think that's going to be necessary at this particular moment. thank you, mr. chairman. bob, i've got some questions, too. i think we need to work our way through this. as the chairman indicated, this is not scripture we're starting off with here. it's a work in progress, a working draft. i know you and senator warner have been working on some of these things across the aisle. you and i had a very good exchange on some of the energy issues you referenced and ended up agreeing even though we had reservations, ended up thinking on balance it was worth going forward with. so i hope we can replicate that process here. i'm going to compliment the chairman for reaching out in spite of the fact that there's still a lot of work to do. you've had extensive conversations with senator shelby and your staff with his staff. and so, bob, if you've got issues, come see the chairman, come see senator warner, come see me. let's see if we can

>> the primary system is you want an open election system but you also want the parties to be able to have some control over what they do and i don't care what it is the democratic republican party or libertarian party and all of those parties do not want people coming in and voting in their primary fight who don't really believe in their ideas but are only there to spoil the choice, okay, and i recall one of the green party candidate cynthia mckinney said one of the reasons she got defeated was because in the democratic primary election in one of the prior elections republicans crossed over the line to vote for the opponent so that she would lose, and i think parties -- we've gone a long way as jim bennett describes in his book to having the government take over many things the parties did previously. and while i agree with some of those like i don't agree with his criticisms of the australian ballot which the main part of was to make sure we had a secret ballot which is vital to democracy, but i don't think that having switching to a primary system where the parties have absolutely

i ended up getting a fellowship to examine soviet system 6 -- soviet statistics. gorbachev had just come into power. the united states and the west were making loans to the soviet union. new numbers were coming out as to how much money they were borrowing. it was very boring in a very dry study -- and a very dry study. as i was doing that, i wondered why it was that defense spending was costing u.s. taxpayers so much money and then we turn around with our nato partners and make loans to the soviet economy. it all became a policy issue. this paper turned into a book with a very sensationalist title, called "the coming soviet crash" that said that on paper, this country is going bankrupt. that got me involved in defense issues. it got interesting. what i remember seeing you give a speech on this network back in 1989. what i thought it would be useful to take a few minutes too late things out the way gorbachev must be looking at them >> i thought it would be useful to take a few minutes -- >> i thought it would be useful to take a few minutes too late things out to a

so the trick to latch onto it is to get a system that can follow it and track it. so our dish, now, wired to this computer, does a little search about every eight minutes, figures out which is the strongest direction, the strongest signal, and locks onto that and follows that for a little while. in the meantime, it feeds through. and in my office set up in the house, i can watch color soviet television from about 4:30 in the afternoon to about 7:30 in the morning, that comes out of vladivostok. and then i get live soviet radio straight out of moscow all day long. so, it's a pleasure for me to hear the language. i enjoy that. i don't pretend to understand all of it, but i can get some of it. and every once in a while there's something interesting that comes on the news. >> what happened to that system at your home? >> i presume the people who bought our house dismantled it, because, i mean, this was a great big dish. one time a military helicopter just stayed near it, i'm sure taking pictures, as i understood at one time that there were only three such setups. and o

it in terms of our political system, unlike the british system where you have the cabinet and the majority in the house of commons so that your executive and legislative branch comes out of the same party. it doesn't mean you will be reelected, but you can make decisions that will be made legislation. at least there is the chance to implement major programs. we have a system now where the legislator has hundreds of different constituencies and is responsive to various elements and is almost always with depressing ready, you get the depressing ready, you get the putting the national interest ahead of their political interest. it is extraordinarily difficult to deal with the issues, whether it be health care reform or a stimulus program we have a political system that is not conducive to general leadership. it doesn't mean -- is much more difficult to imagine that occurring that it is. this is something that worries me enormously. it is easy to talk about what would be wise international or domestic policy. it is much more difficult to implement it. the fragmentation of political power is an

and as people go from place to place, these health care systems track where they go with a system of electronic medical records, what medications they use, what doctors they see. they focus on patients -- on patients -- when making decisions. so when we talk about these delivery systems being unnecessary, tell that to the 12 million medicare seniors who got readmitted to the hospital within the very first month they were let out of the hospital. we owe so much more to these seniors, and we owe a lot more to the american people. health care reform must stop the rising costs that are bankrupting working families, small businesses and our economy. if you like your coverage, you should be able to keep it. we need to put it in to denials based on preexisting conditions, give people more affordable options including a public option. one thing is khraoerbgs and that is business as usual -- one thing is clear, and that is business as usual cannot be an option. the debate is bigger than politically charged issues. we have to keep our eye on the ball and not get distracted by the same old tire

that our school system is there for the kids. in the elected department of education. it isn't fair for me. we have an obligation and we are going to fulfill that obligation >> one last question. >> my name is joseph williams and i'm with the "boston globe," and i would like anyone of the panel to talk about who is doing things right as far as closing the achievement gap. everybody knows this is a consistent problem districts are having trouble getting their arms around to raise the bar. boston is one of them. who's doing it right? who's doing successful work in closing the gap between african-americans, latinos, and white students? >> well -- there are certainly some states that have made substantially more progress than others in recent years. interestingly, florida is one of those where when you look at both reading and math you see substantial progress for all groups of kids over the last eight or ten years, but much faster progress for latino and african-american kids than for white kids. which means basically the gaps are n

a universal system.in the times we have described many systems. there are many pieces about what the health-care system is like all over the world. we have heard numerous stories about japan. there are interesting models to look at. it starts with understanding you are not beginning from scratch. there is a system in place. what will it take to build up a new system. the debate we had over how it might be done and with the end result be better. some decided early on that it would be to the stabilizing to try to do that. we would want to build on the employer base health-care system that we have. if for some reason this does not work and the goals are not met, there is little left. single payer may be the right way to go. there is another side of the spectrum which is that the government should pick out of the health-care system altogether. people could use private funds to purchase coverage if they want it or not. in the context of covering the news, we cannot abdicate. -- job is to keep people informed

this senator didn't vote for it six years ago which set up this system which was a cushy system for insurance companies as well as the drug companies. but the fact is we have it, and so this senator said in the finance committee, all right, what i want to do is i want to grandfather the people that have it in florida in, so that on a going forward basis, when this takes effect -- in this bill it takes effect in 2013 -- that when it takes effect, that it's only those new people signing up that will operate under the new system that will make it more streamlined, but that those who have the existing benefits for medicare advantage will not be cut. i offered that amendment along with other senators in the senate finance committee, and that amendment was adopted. so the statements that have been made on this floor about florida medicare advantage recipients being cut in florida is not accurate. on this bill. i fought for that. everybody knew i fought for that. and of the 949,000 medicare advantage recipients in florida, at least 800,000 are operative under the formula that we put in and

judicial system is. but republicans say it will just give undeserved rights to people like khalid sheikh mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind 9/11. >> basically, we're dealing here with people who committed acts of war against us. they shouldn't be tried in our criminal justice system. they should be tried in our military justice system, and it's absolutely inexcusable we're not using the military justice system to try these people. that's why we have such a system. >> if somebody murders americans, and they murder americans in america, they ought to be prosecuted in america. and convicted in america. >> republicans say a civilian trial will also give the alleged terrorists the public platform they want. >>> another debate. could thompson, illinois be the new guantanamo bay? this is two hours west of chicago, and it could become the new home for suspected terrorists. a republican congressman is circulating a letter of opposition addressed to president obama. it says, quote, we should not invite al qae

the trick is to get a system that it follow it and track it.disc now wired to this computer, does a little search about every 8:00 to gave us the from about 4:30 in the afternoon to 11:30 in the morning. and i get live soviet radio all day long i enjoy the language. i don't plea tend to understand all of this. >> what happened to that system at your home? >> i presume the people who bought our house displant aled it. one time the military hospital just stayed near it, i'm sure, taking picture. i love to listen at a certain time everyday. they would go live and play the soviet anthem that came out of world war ii is it was thrown out with the soviet union ended. it was brought back with nifrn sdifrn words. now in north virginia s, you with watch russia today. have you seen that? why are they doing that? >> russia today is is a state controlled broadcast. >> it looks a lot like our american station. i think they tried copy fox news. you will find similar type stories as least the old is approach under the soviet union was to highlight the worst t

our political system it should be underlaid by a value system, namely jewish and christian, that your data- christian ethic, that gives -- the judeo-christian ethic, and gives conscience to those in corporate america who understand that greed is not good. that movie was wrong. in and of itself, the word describes and evil. profit, positive. greed, not good. that values system is so important to a free society. when you walk through the buildings here and you see washington and jefferson and madison, they understood that. what threatens us? government growing so fast, so big that it has an ability to get in the wake and crushed particularly the small businesses in the country, and the life blood of employment in our country for people. separately, the debt that comes from the expansion of big government. it threatens to erode the very strength of our economic system. how are we going to pay for it? are our kids going to have to pay for it? are our grandchildren. to have to pay for it? -- going to have to pay for it? it keeps us from being able to march 4. marc-- march forward. and we h

with a system. it's outrageous. it's intolerable and we can't afford to let it go on any longer and one of the things we do in this bill is crack down on these health insurance company abuses in a very strong and robust way. again, i deeply regret that our republican colleagues refuse to join in this reform effort. they have chosen to defend the status quo, protect the insurance companies and their profits over the health of the american people. indeed my friends on the republican side are joined at the hip, seen talking points, distortions, seem on truth about this bill, the same bogus cooked up studies, the same determination to obstruct and kill any health care reform effort. as i said earlier this time they will not succeed. the more the american people learn about this bill and what's in this bill the more they like it and the more they are demanding that we get the job done. president obama pledged we would do health reform and not add to the deficit. we have done that with this bill to read the congressional

they will destroy the american health care system, the best health care system in the world, and they are the main reason why i will vote no on this bill. i yield to senator inhofe. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. snowe: thank you, mr. president. as i rise this evening after months of effort and countless hours of meetings, discussions, markup in the senate finance committee to craft a health care reform bill, i had hoped to come to the floor today to talk strictly about the substance and policy about one of the most complex and intricate undertakings that the congress has ever confronted. instead we're dprontd with procedural gyrations that are as baffling to those outside the beltway as they are to those in some of the most critical elements in health care reform. as one who worked constructively to forge solutions to this endemic problem plaguing our health care health care system, i think it is imperative to assure affordable health insurance to the people of this country. it must be done so in an effective and common sense, and biparti

the state of virginia says it was eventually able to restore the system.rmation-- including names, social security numbers and prescriptions-- can be used, sold or exploited, according to the f.b.i. did the virginia prescription- monitoring program pay the $10 million? >> henry: i can't discuss that. >> kroft: you say this is an active investigation. i mean, this is a matter of public record. i mean, this actually happened. >> henry: this is an active investigation that we're still involved in, and we are coordinating with the victim. they're cooperating with us, and we're actively involved with them and other state and local law enforcement agencies. >> kroft: so whoever did this is still at large. >> henry: i imagine. >> kroft: as serious as the electronic theft and extortion of hundreds of millions of dollars might seem, they pale in comparison to some of the other possible scenarios that are no longer outside the realm of possibility. they include an assault on the fiber-optic networks that run the world's financial systems. admiral mcconnell, the form

it in terms of our political system, unlike the british system where you have the cabinet and the majority in the house of commons so that your executive and legislative branch comes out of the same party. it doesn't mean you will be reelected, but you can make decisions that will be made legislation. at least there is the chance to implement major programs. we have a system now where the legislator has hundreds of different constituencies and is responsive to various elements and is almost always with depressing ready, you get the sense of people not putting the national interest ahead of their political interest. it is extraordinarily difficult to deal with the issues, whether it be health care reform or a stimulus program we have a political system that is not conducive to general leadership. it doesn't mean -- is much more difficult to imagine that occurring that it is. this is something that worries me enormously. it is easy to talk about what would be wise international or domestic policy. it is much more difficult to implement it. the fragmentation of political power is an enormous

to spend a trillion dollar band-aid to cover a failed system. this bill, the democrats have made a dramatic mistake on. this bill needs to be defeated. we need to get on a single-payer path, defeat this bill and start all over with the obvious solution that stairs as in the face, one that is in touch with the needs of the american people, one that will prevent death and that is a single-payer system expanded and improved medicare for all. please join us as we try to remake the economy. we see health care is an essential step toward giving people control of their lives and join us at mobilize for health care.org to challenge the senate to put in place some real provisions that can improve this bill if they don't do it, we should defeated. thank you very much. >> thank you kevin. carol, mikuak, margaret. i was listening to c-span this morning in a call-in show and they were talking about the war in afghanistan. apparently president obama is to send some 30,000 more troops over. the calls were overwhelmingly opposed, left, right, center, independen

and in this case the system of constitutional checks and balances in the system and perform like a system. whenever you see lots of different failures i think that system of things occur again and again and they're usually not result of people failures but system problems and that is what we found in our book that we need to look back -- we've been having problems and execution now for decades. they did an all-star in the last eight years or anything like that and we need to fix those problems in order to do better moving forward. >> one of the biggest government boondoggles i think in texas was the super collider -- was that a taste of a underestimating of the cost. what you think of that going belly up? >> i wouldn't say that we spent a lot of time examining that in the end. i don't think we can answer that. very well. >> on you're subject of achieving energy independence, back in the thirties in the fdr administration and the federal government built these massive hydroelectric projects which now provide about 7% of our electric power. when do you think of it the possibility of today g

they are not what brought the system down. what brought the system down is all the speculation that wall street, mostly invested banks created. >> but the american people really have not gotten that kind of explanation. they have not had the guys to cause this problem in front of the tv cameras answering our questions. >> that is really a good thing. some of these guys have been in front of various committees mostly talking about the bonuses. their is a good thing and a bad thing about that. certainly the bonuses are egregious, particularly now. but if we just focus on the bonuses we lose sight of the practices that actually contributed to the bonuses. it will be really nice if you even get these people in front to said their bursar. >> in addition to that the american people are owed an explanation of what happened. and then the understanding that the congress is trying to make sure that this doesn't happen again. what a think you are implying is these guys are moving very aggressively to bring this back to exactly where we w

for the entire system. we think of some assistance should be provided but with important qualifications. we don't think that should for -- take the form of capital investment. government ownership of financial institutions is not something we want to do. there should be a systemic risk determination. there should be certification that there is a systemic issues. if there was a default on any of that touch-tone system-wide systems, that should trigger something so that the taxpayers would be not affected. >> what do you make of the funds set aside by banks to cover loan losses rose in the third quarter they were 7% less than a second corporate is that a glimmer of hope that banks have more money? >> i like to see glimmers of hope everywhere. i think we need to live with this a bit longer. the fourth quarter will probably see an increase at least in charge-offs. if i were guessing, i think in the fourth quarter i think we will probably seek greater earnings because of those numbers. i would not read too much

. >> what would vanderbilt say to obama right now about what is going on with our financial system of our economy? what would his advice be? >> he would wonder, first of all, how a black man became president. that would astound him. that is a difficult question. should we make this the last questions? this is the sort of question that historians hate. frankly anyone of you could get up and make a pronouncement on this. it is utterly unthinkable. what i would say on this, there are too counterbalancing sides to him. he believes in laissez-faire, which is a radical philosophy in his youth but neatly citizen. he didn't believe in the government getting involved in the economy. as he once put it when they were trying to pass a law in new york state to regulate the railroads, he saw it in terms of private interest being the key to it will economy. if you can pass a law that makes effectively that's fine, but i don't think you can. he thought society works by everybody's pursuing their own interest. on the other hand he grasps the economy. the federal government took on unprecedented involv

it's a broken system.we've got to do is we've got to have this thorough evaluation of a broken system so that all these agencies, public agencies, including me. i got the first call in 2007 from one of my residents who said, point blank, councilman, there's an odor in the neighborhood -- >> did you go to the area? >> i within to the area. >> did you smell it? >> i never smelt it but i got to believe my resident, but i immediately call the health department. and the health department has gone out there. you had police that had gone out there. a sheriff who had gone out there. you have had state inspectors who have gone out there and for some strange reason no one could not identify the smell of dying corpse. >> ted seely, i have to go back to you because you're the one with the expert on drug addicts. inside that house there's no way that you think have missed it, and yet it would just seem that the need to have that drug is more important than -- oh my gosh, something really smells foul here. i have to get

this is a free enterprise system. just a year ago i was reading an article in newsweek magazine, a long feature article, three or four pages. at an end of the first paragraph, something jumped off the page that said business as usual was beginning to read like the end of the world. it struck me not because it was a new revelation for me but because it was a mainstream news magazine saying this. business as usual is no longer an option, no longer a viable option. we have got to change quickly and the key changes needed, plan b has four component, stabilizing climate, eradicating poverty, stabilizing population and restoring the economy's natural support system the progress land and fisheries and so forth. we don't really have any choice if we want to sustain civilization. i was in a meeting in raleigh, north carolina. someone -- i can't remember for sure -- was at that meeting. it was called something like the american society of higher educator's for sustainability. for sustainable -- i can't remember exactly but that

that requires a different system. we have advocated for a matrix that looks at that and provides pilots with enough rest before, during, and after the trips so they don't have to ever go to work and be in a fatigued state. host: why should that come from the federal government as opposed to regulations the industry it imposes on itself? guest: the industry is not strong enough to impose regulations on itself. now, there is a responsibility both on pilots and operators, the airlines themselves, but there must be a strong underlying set of federal regulations that govern how we operate airplanes, how we operate our -- scheduling systems. host: talk about pilot pay. sometimes it is surprising how little they make even flying busy schedules. are they paid for the time they're in the air, and what would you like to see happen? guest: most of the pace systems are governed by the air. as if you paid a relief pitcher by the piece -- pitch. roughly our pay is somewhere between 55 or 85 hours a day a month. that is billable hou

of course, one of the major speed bumps in the military system, unique to the military system, and is that you cannot have a capital sentence carried out to execution ofexecution wit the approval of the president of the united states. interestingly, in the case from 1960, the case of private bennett, the last person to be executed, president eisenhower had approved his sentence and approved the execution in the late 1950's. by the time inauguration day came around in 1961, bennett was still alive. the question was presented a second time, this time to president kennedy, as to whether the execution should go forward. president kennedy obviously did not stop it. >> recently, since that execution, the five folks that have been on death row, there has only been one that was approved. that was in 2008 by president bush. that is the great case. -- that is the gray case. it is going through the civil habeas review. that is the one that is farthest along the line. >> [unintelligible] >> one of the issues that you see is that several of these cases have been appealed. in the process, they have

start over from scratch and enact a single payer system. medicare for all, which is both humane and financially solvent. thank you. >> good morning. my name is dr. carol paris. i am a practicing psychiatrist and a member of positions for national health program. another set of voices missing from this debate beside the voices of the underinsured and the uninsured, all the voices of america's doctors. here is what america's doctors think. 59% of u.s. physicians now support national health insurance. that is up from 49% in 2002. this is according to a study in the annals of internal medicine, 2008. since the lead author -- such as the lead author, many claim to speak for doctors. we ask doctors directly. we found that contrary to conventional wisdom, most doctors support the government creating national health insurance. why? according to the co-author, another pnhp member, "physicians failed are fragmented and for- profit insurance system is obstructing good patient care." as a practicing physician for 20 years, i see every day how the greed

one has written that our economic system and our political system should be underlaid by a value systemmely the judeo-christian ethic that gives courage to politicians to do the right things, which they are increasingly not doing, and secondly gives conscious to those in corporate america that understand that greed is not good. that movie was wrong when the man said greed is good. it is not good. in it doublets of the word describes an evil. profit come up positive. greed, not good. that value system is so important to a free society, and when you walk through the buildings and you see washington and jefferson and madison, they understood it prett. what threatens us? government growing so fast and so big that it has the ability to get in the way and crushed the small businesses in this country, the lifeblood of the employment in this country for people. small business matters, and they get it. secondly, the debt that comes from the expansion of big government, threatening to erode the very strength of our economic system. how are we going to pay for it? are our kids going to have to pay

next to each other with an auction system -- an auction is as close as you get to a perfect market system. there is fictitious bidding, etc., but that is where you see it on greater and greater scale. you need greater powers to make sure that the rules are observed. >> can one say that profit is actually aligned with transparency? >> not always. it can be, but it could also be aligned with, as we said jamaat analyst who wanted to manipulate the value of their stock. it could be aligned just as easily with gaining the system. >> i am a student at harvard business school. i feel like i'm the only one here. i really enjoyed your analysis. i think it is a spot on as well. >> thank you. >> maybe this is just because of my educational training, but with the analysis part being right, their recommendations sounded very lawyerly. they should not be allowed to do that, etc. i would be curious in designing systems, what are the one are two things that you think we could do that would fundamentally health organization's realign themselves, beyond making things illegal. if there's something structura

the military justice system, like the civilian justice system, has a process for screening jurors, or members. it's called voyeur dear examination, and it a-- voir dire compassion examination, and it affords the military attorneys to pose questions to the potential jurors, just to make sure they haven't been exposed to overwhelming prejudicial publicity or that they don't come to the process with fixed views one way or the other that would preclude them from proper service as members of the court-martial. so that is certainly going to be an issue. it's going to be a challenge wherever this case is held. and the same is true, by the way -- just to switch gears a little bit -- to the prosecutions that have just been moved from guantanamo to the southern district of new york. there are going to be issues with finding jurors that are fit to sit. >> one unique thing about it is because major hasan is higher ranking, he has the pool of jurors, if you will, which is much, much smaller, because he's entitled to a jury or panel members of officers. so, again, within the military structure, the

we need to strengthen the system overall time i create stronger infrastructure so that the system can stand pressure on firms. we need to make sure that all systemically critical firms are subject to strong consolidated supervision, which looks at all the risks across the company. and most importantly, and i think this is absolutely critical. and if congress looks to do financial regulatory form i hope they put this at the top of the priority list. we need to have some alternative to bankruptcy or bailout. we need to have another way to close firms that have come to the brink of failure without destroying the rest of the system, but in a way that will allow losses to creditors, and will therefore bring back the discipline that will in the future a feeling firm will be allowed to fail. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much mr. chairman and thank you henry and thank you matt for your questions. lunch will be served now. just a reminder in terms of future events in the new year, we do have a date with new york fed president, bill dudley, and with the bank of japan governor. and so

call it a system. each set of camps developed more or less on its own. the first volume of the encyclopedia covers the early camps, about a hundred of those that developed in the first few months after the nazis came to power. and then from those the concentration camps involved in so this was the sort of punitive side purell p.o.w. camps, of course, for a normal part of fighting a war and forced labor camps came into play as the war economy got going and started running out of workers and then there for all kinds of very specialized smaller categories of camps for their own special purposes. >> but nobody in charge say in berlin who is in charge of setting this up? >> know, run by david barack receives and, as a matter of fact, i think it was in a sense part of a nazi system for each pair proceed to want to have its own camps, this was -- we don't have firm evidence of this but i think this was something that for a lot of not the bureaucrats indicated that they have power. i have my own body of prison

six fatalities with this system. still windy along the region with coastal flood warnings in effect. mild weather across the deep south. we're watching for the weather system in to the interior west that has some areas just to the west of denver expecting one to two feet of snowfall. so watch out for that. especially if you're driving through that vicinity. could be a little rough. how about the temperatures? well, if you're traveling to denver, about 39 degrees, atlanta, 79. still going to be kind of a chilly, dreary day in new york city. kind of windy weather developing across the interior west going in to sunday and monday. for hln, i'm karen maginnis. >>> a fowl problem on the new jersey turnpike. >> tammy is going to have her own reality show. we'll be out here collecting tolls. >> tammy the turkey. that's her name. this bold bird is causing a stir two weeks before thanksgiving. >>> somebody might want to tell a jaywalking turkey that thanksgiving is around the corner. that bird has been causing a problem for dr

banking system.ek ago, the federal reserve announced that nine out of ten firms that were determined to have required additional capital were able to fully meet their required capital offers without any further capital from the u.s. treasury, and that aggregate year one common equity at the ten firms increased by more than 77 billion since the conclusion of the assessment. the federal reserve will continue to work with banks to improve the access of creditworthy borrowers to the credit they need to get lending to creditworthy borrowers is good for the economy, but it may also benefit banks by maintaining their profitable relationships with customers. we continue to encourage banks to raise additional capital to support their lending. and we continue to facilitate securitization through our term asset backed securities loan facility, or talf, and support home lending through our purchases of mortgage backed securities. normalizing the flow of bank credit to good borrowers will continue to be a top pri

that shows you how little they understand our system. they said to me, what the hell, we don't understand their system very well either. [applause] [laughter] . .

>> that's the cleveland system. these criminals get -- go do their crime and the system let them right back out. like i said, this situation, hi wasn't monitored. for the health department say they been in his house and for the police to say they went and checked on him because he's a sexual predator, i can't see it adding up. i haven't seen nothing in life yet that smells like death. if you can't decipher death from a roll of sausage, you have another thing coming. they cover up something for the city of cleveland, police, judicial system, somebody's covering up something. i don't feel it's right for all these young ladies to lose their life and nobody did nothing, not even investigate it. >> you picked up on a good point. a lot of people talked about it. said that smell was there for three or four years, thanks for taking the time. our condolences to you and your family. stay strong. >> caller: thank you very much. >>> coming up, a missouri woman accused of cutting in line at wal-mart, now, she's facing up to 15 y

we are doing that across the system. as you have read, we have been very -- have worked very hard to make sure that those institutions that took assistance from the government find themselves with a very tough constraints on compensation just to make sure that the taxpayers' money is going to fix those institutions, not to report with excess of payback packages a set of the senior executives. executives. on that basic framework there is very broad support across the major financial institutions -- major financial systems in europe, in the u.k., and that's important because again without a level playing field these reforms would be ineffective. >> you were just in china. the president i think is spending his last night there now. they have concluded the talks. how would you characterize the economic outcome with respect to our goal versus accomplishment in beijing? >> i think the president made a lot of progress. i think the best test of that is going to be to look at what you're seeing in terms of what china is actually

but you take care of that in a context of a pricing system.ents all do these days. which say we will never get there because we reject the market model as a solution to water issues. >> tell us your response? >> very good. i can hardly answer. but perhaps one slight detail of this, that's the part that said this pressing in the model, which is basically the state is going to tell you so many cents for cubic meter. and let me take the case because it helps to illustrate the case. if you think about you the state going out to australian farmer. and you said, i want to charge you for water. what exactly are going to charge for? the thing that you can exchange that there's a dam and canal and there's pump and people. you pay for all of that. no, no, no, but there's a value to the water. and he says, i've got to pay for that? there is no cost occurred in that. if you look at that some of calculations, that amounts to one or two cents a cubic meter. if you have a trading system, the water is trading the 50% a cubic meter. it's basically no incentive

at the same time i was in awe of that system.it does demonstrate that we can give people a fair trial that we are exactly what we say we are. we're a nation of law. i think it's going to be a symbol of american justice. that was the trial of an accused terrorist, 20th hijacker, 9/11 in an article 3 court within a minute's drive away from the scene of that horrific loss of life at the pentagon, and i struggle to find the difference, but i want to draw one point, too. you refer, accurately so, reformed military tribunals, reformed military commissions, and it reflects the fact that because of supreme court decisions in hamdan and actions by congress at the time controlled by the republicans, that we changed -- we have changed the laws when it relates to military tribunals to try to come in conformance with supreme court requirements. you've noted that since 9/11 only three have been successfully tried before military tribunals accused of terrorism. and i want to ask you this question. as you referred the five to military tribunals

the military justice system, like the civilian justice system, has a process for screening jurors, or members. screening jurors, or members. it's called voyeu forit provides the judge to provide questions to the potential jurors just to make sure they have not been exposed to really overwhelming presidentiaprejudicial publicity don't come to the process with fixed opinions that would preclude them from proper service as members of the court martial. that will be an issue. it will be a challenge to wherever this case is held. the same is true, by the way, to the prosecutions that have just been moved from guantanamo to the southern district of new york. there will be issues about finding injuries who are fit to sit. -- fined injurijuries who are fo sit. >> in this case, he is an officer. on there arthere are many enlisd people. they will pick soldiers from within his jurisdiction. smaller subset of that 10% or so. so the pool of folks that you can pick from for a jury of officers, that will be an added wrinkle because of major hasan's rank. >> right. and remember, the members of the ju

a system that is broken.he alternative of the strong public option, without that that is the only way to look at it. guest: i do not know anyone that says that this is a good bill. i read all the papers, watch television, i have not even heard that idea expressed. guest: and when you say something like that to someone in the administration, this is what i hear, i hear it from so many that i think it is a talking point -- we have to get started. we have to put down a marker. we will fix it later. guest: that is not the benchmark. remember the president's address, where he said that so many presidents took up the quest to reform health care, that he would be the final one. that is clearly not true and i think that maybe it is pushed into the new year, and i hope that it will be, there will be time to reflect on what we are doing. guest: these senators told the bill in their grasp. mary landrieu, getting 300 million you said? lieberman, nelson. this final bill to get their votes will be shaved disproportionately

education system tomorrow morning. it will include remarks by education secretary arne duncan and new york mayor michael bloomberg. live on c-span2 at 8:00 eastern. >> thanksgiving day on c-span. bill clinton is on hand to present steven spielberg with the liberty medal from the national constitution center. a discussion assessing the obama presidency. from the jfk library and museum, nick burns on terrorism and nuclear weapons. at 5:00, on ludicris on a youth mentoring. and howard dean on -- and dick armey. >> more now all about fraud and abuse in the medicare and medicaid systems. from "washington journal," this is 45 minutes. host: lewis morris, department of health and human services deputy inspector general. one of his responsibilities is investigating fraud in the medicare and medicaid programs. what kind of fraud are we talking about? guest: it ranges from organized criminals setting up sham medical equipment companies to regrettably some of the large fortune 500 companies in this country. every place we look we

we have to change this system. after you go to university, you are paid a certain amount of wages for a certain amount of time. we have to get away from the whole idea that if you go to university, you have tens of thousands of pounds in debt. that is outrageous. we are encouraged to not get into debt and yet this is what the government is encouraging. that is wrong. we need to scrap these. [applause] >> thank you, mr. speaker. in america, you can expect to pay $50,000 a year for university education here you could only get 35,000 pounds of debt. the gentleman said that if you abolish this, you could university these. i am going to university next year. but i do not expect those who do not go to university to pay for my education from their taxes. why should they pay for my education? i should pay for my education. i will be benefiting from it. i should incur the debt. >> the young man here indicated first. university tuition fees have too long burdened students with debt. it damages the heart of this country. on s

able to m enace the entire system.hey pose the threat to the system that is different from any one institution. the administration's view is that the systemic institutions ought to be governed by the fed. the dodd version is let's combine both of those and create a new agency. i m little worried that to create to that agency would take a long time. >> when we treated homeland security, it took a long time to get that agency going. bringing up england raises points. there it too-big-to-fail banks are being broken up. why not ours? >> we will have to see how this plays out in england. it looks like they're moving to break up some of their biggest banks. there are different ways that banks are combined now. one is just how big they are coming terms of size of assets or size of liabilities. another is water all of the big banks allowed to do? no investment banks are part of commercial banks and the stand- alone investment bank model kind of fell apart in this crisis. so there are very few -- there are only two left and the