unreasonable stance to take, standing pat would have allowed harms to build up over time and the law to go unenforced. >> i hank tthank the gentlemen. i yield time -- >> i just want to make the point that one thing i have seen a pattern of today is that every question seems to be about the consumer financial protection bureau and none about people's applications that arrived in the senate after they were sworn in. >> thank you, and that is where i want to land. it's interesting to me that could be permitted or and the statement from the bush in the administration that considered this, the bush administration did not take that advice. they took the advice of others over the top of that and said this is not legally appropriate, this is done for politically swift to make him look tough. he is in an election year and look tough like i'm going to force these things down their throat and look manly. it opens up all this action and all the actions of the nrb will suddenly go to court so he can politically look better in a campaign year, but this will drag out all of these cases for years now in litigation,

no doubt in this case the president considered that if he didn't act there would be laws left unenforced, laws that he obviously trying to do what he can to put into implementation. we talked a lot about uncertainty today. but i think it's fair to say that the uncertainty doesn't just cut in one direction. there are a lot of americans i suspect who are uncertain about what's happening with the national labor of relations board, what's happening with the consumer of financial protection bureau, and they're concerned about what happens in these laws are not enforced, if there are certain regulations that are not made in this context. i suspect that the president took all of those concerns into account in determining on balance that the time was right for him to act. lastly, i would just want to emphasize that if we look into the past, we will find generally speaking the courts don't overturn recess appointments. i think even like those we were talking about in this case. i think the doctrines that pertain to case or controversy, i think the timing of the lawsuit are all such that's highly

whether this was constitutional and in the meantime wasn't going to apply it and made the law unenforceable and i think that is a good thing. i am interested in free speech. i don't begrudge -- i run into all kinds of crazy opinions every day of the week including right here on c-span. i don't agree with them but don't want to criminalize them. that is all i ask. >> host: are your book about to be sold in canada? >> guest: they are i am glad to say still in favor in canada. that is sent to be banned in canada is not merely a book keys. the statutory penalty had the canadian islamic congress won their case would have been a lifetime publication ban from a on writing and anything to do with islam, europe, terrorism, any of these issues. had someone been offering is long:the ballet, for their christmas season, i would have to recuse myself. it was up lifetime publication ban. >> host: how will the your books so? >> guest: "america alone" was the number-1 bestseller. i hope i'm not giving anything away but these books are focused on american politics. a lot of the ladies said you are the entire

so that section 3 level of the hud regulations has been on the books for 40 years, unenforced.who is fighting for business contracts for our people? >> sounds like a future mayor here. >> we're doing things dimple here, bob. last year, for instance a whole bunch of detroiters launched heva detroit which is delivering capital to underconserve small businesses across the city. it's america's first big micro lending initiative. where people from detroit can make loans to small businesses in their own community over the internet. former president clinton launched this at clinton global initiative last year. we are doing things differently here and the way we are doing things is banding together using the internet and more to work across the community to provide all kinds of capital to those with ideas. there are plenty of folks here with eyes and dreaming and we are doing things differently. i think other cities across the country are looking at detroit now for solutions. >> we have resources here. the great lakes natural resource for alternative energy. we have the motown, the mus