popular. >> tony blair had quite a big role in that. >> well if you were hired in that role today howould you help him regain his reputation? i feel very sad about the way that tony is-ville vilified in british media. he does incredible work around the world. have you got any idea how much he has given away to charities? $10 million. does anybody ever write about that? no. does anybody write about the fact that he's employing over 200 people. many of them in the poorest parts of africa to run projects. >> nonetheless his reputation today is pretty much toxic particularly linked to iraq and the fall out from it. >> that's clearly very difficult but if you look at him in the historical context, northern island, bank of england independence minimum wage biggest schools and hospital building program since the welfare state, tony blair i think was a terrific prime minister and even in relation to iraq what is happening now in the middle east clearly very very difficult. what his critics like to say is none of this would be happening, if they hadn't gone and that's not so. >> we really appr

and the outlook and personalities behind the parties for the most famous spin doctor tony blair, a former campaign manager. >> the head of hsbc will be questioned over the tax evasion scandal. >> the last-minute decision by the treasury select came off of the emergence that he had held a swiss bank account by a panamanian company. that starts at 2:15 london time and they will answer questions about tax avoidance and if the institution is too big to manage. >> let's go to anna edwards on what we can expect from the treasury committee. >> have we mentioned it is an election year? the most senior bankers are going in front of the u.k. treasury select committee and politicians get a chance to grill the executives about what the bank was doing and how they change things since then. the bank says they are sorry for what they did and the allegation was made that they helped tax evasion by criminals in 2007. the bankers said sorry and took out full-page ads to say sorry. more on that. they said they change the bank a great deal since that time. the late edition said that the bank account is estab

say why do you focus africa when a lot of them call for george bush and tony blair to face trial for lie to go their people. >> there are very legitmit criticisms. of the 26 cases it has looked at every single one has been african. it has real failings in the types of crimes it can look at. however, the way in which the idea of sovereignty has been allied with presidents only with leaders, how leaders can't be brought to justice but leaders of rebel organizations can does sort of stick in the face for inpunitive. the challenge for the icc, in order to get any credibility back across the african african continent, they need to demonstrate it's not an institution controlled by outside forces. in netanyahu's speech to the icc yesterday on -- sorry to the african union about the icc, he alluded to the outside forces to which for political and economic reasons he says are trying to control the continent. now, that is significantly overstated and they are not trying to control the continent necessarily through overthrowing him that. wouldn't necessarily be to anyone -- you know to the u.s.

that, i think, really brings us to the key point people like tony blair jose-maria asnar, the former prime minister of spain have stressed we are facing an ideology anti-western, and anti-semitic attacks and attempted murder and directed against anybody who criticizes the ideology and the religion these radicals hole. it's about time we understand that. if we do understand it, then i think the steps to take going forward are pretty clear. this is a war they're waging against us, not random acts of violence. >> it is a war and extraordinary call from prime minister net netanyahu for jews to come home, come to israel. isn't it astounding jews, christians under attack by this radical ideology? >> it is clear it is a radical ideology extremist terrorist ideology based on a religion. i think what netanyahu is saying the jews made the mistake in 1930s in the germany. jews lived in germany for centuries and surely it can't happen to us here but it did. >> it did and it is. thank you for your insight. >> in nigeria, the president is calling on the u.s. millimeter to help to help fight boko h

kind of discussions that had taken place globally in the 1990's under president clinton and then tony blair. i think the biggest difference between then and now is the centrality of inequality as something that is affecting the middle class and affecting the prospects for middle-class growth. if the income distribution in the u.s. was the same as 1979, there would be $1 trillion more in the hands of the lower 80%. $11,000 per family. there would be $1 trillion less in the hands of the top 1%. largely the top 1%. the other 19% is not changed very much. that would be 750,000 dollars on less per family. there has been a re-distribution that has worked to the detriment of the middle class. we have made it worse for the middle class with a set of changes that have come in. less progressive taxation than we did then. we are investing less in the public sector than we did then. less in the way of protections to strengthen worker rights as we moved to a kind of task rabbit economy where people get hired to perform tasks without benefits where the union movement has not been supported as strongly as

one person involved is tony blair, the one who told president george bush that britain would back the reaction even before it happened. >> learning lessons from iraq is something that is important to many british voters. and when in 2013 parliament voted against possible military bare convention in syria the run up to the iraq war was clearly on many minds. >> one watching closely was rose. her son was killed by a roadside bomb one of the 179 british personnel who died in iraq. >> the families are frustrated. >> john said that he understood the distress caused by the delays. >> from time to time when it's appropriate, and the i write to the prime minister to explain where we got to and where we're going, i got the feelings of the families affected in mind when i do that. >> he said to be patient and trust that the final report will be fair and thorough. but for some people patience is fast running out. >> greece said its optimistic to reach a deal to reduce its debt burden after two key meetings. the new prime minister has been holding talks in brussels. greece's finance minister desc

recently tony blair met with a few of us and gave a great speech on the concerns and the ills of extreme terrorism. he said this, and i haven't forgotten, he said america, it's not your job to be loved. it's your job to lead. today, i beseech the president to lead by clearly defining this expanded extremism that is isis, al qaeda boko haram, al shabeeb, and other radical islamic fundamentalist. where's the outrage? there are times when riding the high horse of justice is our only option. the american people are demanding strength. it is time to speak out. defend our inailentable rights of liberty and life, be courageous, be a leader, mr. president. the world is watching. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the the gentlewoman from new york, ms. stefanik, for five minutes. ms. stefanik: thank you, madam speaker. do you believe in miracles? these were the iconic words uttered by legendary sportscaster al michaels, with just three seconds left in the historic match between team u.s.a. and the soviet national hockey teams in the 19

i think he carved that path, and that became a model for tony blair and others. at the time, it was unique. it was very difficult. the choices were very difficult. one of the choices we are most proud of, i'm personally proud of, is the decision on the earned income tax credit. alice rivlin is right. we could into everything we wanted to do, but when we got to the earned income tax credit, we were, just like it is now relying on bob greenstein at the center for budget and policy. we came in and said, this is not an area we can cut back. you have to be at the full proposal. this would be adding an extra $5 billion, $6 billion. the question was why? this wasn't just an initiative. this was part of your basic value structure you were laying forward, which is the phrase he created. the only way we could do it was with a minimum wage increase and the full earned income tax credit. he let us the debate it for a long time. in the end, he went ahead and stood by it. when people ask, does what you do in government matter, or can you do more outside of government? look at

>> guest: we had great world leaders from tony blair to she moaned perez to hillary clinton barack obamaefore george bush, the elder george bush, have all spoken at the aspen institute. people who are doing new things at the cutting edge of science and policy and technology who are less well known come to aspen ideas festival or our action forum or our strategy groups. eric lander, someone you may not know. hope he writes a book someday so you have him on. he is helping do more sequencing of the genome than mit and harvard but he is the humanist as well so he understands the we will have databases that have our genetic material and help us build new drugs and everything that privacy concerns will be affected and we may have a system where you say count me in, i want my genetic information to be shared so people can make it, those fascinate me. that is why i like being at the institute because it is not just about political stuff, but interesting issues where science intersects society, policy and business that i hope we can have practical solutions. >> host: lee in arizona, go ahead with

>> guest: you know, we've had great world leaders from tony blair to, you know, shimon peres, hillaryknow people -- or barack obama was there before, george bush people -- the elder george bush have all spoken at the aspen institute. i find the people who are doing new things, who are at the cutting edge of say, science and policy and technology who are less well known will come to aspen ideas festival or come to our action forum or come to our strategy groups, you know like eric lander. take him. somebody you may not know. i hope he writes a book someday so you'll have him on. but he does -- he's helping do, complete more sequencing of the genome at mit and hard voir -- harvard. but he's a humanist as well so he understands how we're going of of the day that bases that are going to help us build -- databases that are going to help us build new drugs, but how our privacy concerns are going to be affected. we may have to have a system where we say, count me in. i want my genetic, you know, information to be shared so that people can make things or i don't want it. those fascinate me an