you quickly get back to the trendline you have here. this is the first time that a current recovery. rather than going back to the normal trendline is actually getting better. rather than where we normally would be after any recovery and where we actually are in terms of income growth is getting larger and larger with each passing month. we've never seen something like that. it wasn't true during the other recoveries we've had and it's something we really need to think about. the growth is so slow that work falling further and further behind ruth normally be at this point. one of the reasons why i wrote this book is we are in the debates at the sequester rehabbed and will be getting an a debt ceiling minutes later run. there's a lot of claims to be made the president said we just can't even cut the growth of spending because if we do that's going to hurt economic growth. you look at the president's statement overtime. if you go back and actually read the presidential debate with john mccain over and over again, obama promised to make a

here are a lot of trendlines that play in favor of the nonislamist. >> thank you jeff. thank you, jeff. we will open up the discussion. i'm going to start with some questions for my panelists. what i would like to do first is turned to you for reactions. starting with this whole analysis that jeff is presenting about the balance of power in the losing influence or declining influence of the islamists, the fracturing within, and so forth. to what extent do you agree with hese analyses? maybe also the question as to what extent these elections play a role to other factors in the transition. because they are not isolated. i want to make sure we think of the broad ore context here. let's start with summer. >> sure. i need to command jeff and his co-author for their report. it is a very interesting report. it is a very good report. what we should immediately take away is the fact that now, when elections actually have integrity, and the voting pattern mean something, we can empirically study outcomes. we could not do this before, because the primary deterrent in -- determina