just in the african-american community but in america, history to a great degree has fallen by the wayside. >> not as much as i would like to see, i think. the thing that pops into my mind in discussion of how history is giving us context, i think the lack of history has had african-americans, young african-americans strive for things that are more acquainted with the american dream, getting wealth, being executives, having money, and then if you're not in a position where you feel like you can achieve those things, you may be achieving wealth in the ways that we see rappers and young people achieving wealth in items of clothing and jewelry and things like that, because they're not exposed to what historically has been achievement, so they are creating achievement out of what capitalism is giving them. for me, i think people are more so kind of obsessed with popular culture as it pertains to african-americans and how we have defined and ex-employmented our popular culture more so than our history in letting that define us. >> let me take a quick break and return with more right after this.

it's almost like arts education has fallen by the wayside. if i were to give you any encouragement i would say make them go to hill auditorium and hear radiohead. make them go to the festival. just let people think in a more creative way than the route that we have now in the business school curriculum. that is the only thing. one of my favorite places. >> thanks very much. we will open it up to the audience for questions. >> i am very interested in hearing what we have to say. >> i think we have microphones on either i'll. anyone would like to ask miche a question. >> start down here. >> hi, miche. the chrysler situation overlaps both of your books. do you have high hopes that a fiat-chrysler deal is finally going to work? >> yeah. thanks for mentioning that chrysler is in both of my books good call. it is interesting. when the end of detroit came out there run by time lord, chrysler. management control has been given over to fiat's with a lot of help from our federal government. chrysler is one of those companies i talk about that is an opp

it is almost like the old liberal arts education that has fallen by the wayside. i guess i would give you encouragement, i would say make them go to the auditorium to hear radio head or go to the festival and let people think in a more creative way than the route that we have now in the business school curriculum. that is the only thing. >> host: thank you very much. now we will open to the audience. we have microphones in either i will if anybody like to ask a question. >> the chrysler's situation overlaps both books. do have day high hope that chrysler fee got a merger will work? what about the employment of southeast michigan? >> guest: thank you for mentioning that. win "the end of detroit" can now it was time a chrysler but now it has been given to fiat with a lot of help from our federal government chrysler is in the opportunity to remake itself because it will not be the chrysler that it was. if you look at the numbers come of my colleague is here, you will see it is smaller than on debt record you put the two career and autumn makers together, they are big

and i think journalist in many cases have fallen by the wayside. >> okay come of the question is aboutic and other interest that exists in the world that prevents the jena, the europeans, candidate, other countries of good will so to speak from doing anything to stop the killing. and, the speaker specifically pointed to china being a player and the holes it in these complex into uganda with this year is an incipient, a low level eliminationist assault that takes place in which has not quite escalated perhaps to the levels we call eliminationism and so therefore what do we do? there are several responses that deal with different aspects of the problem and i will just be telegraphic about them. the first is, people raise all kinds of objections and i'm not saying you were doing this that people raise all kinds of objections. people say what did do with this difficult case and what do you do with that can you applied the principle of the time and if you don't house that a principle and so on and so forth. my response is this thing that they gave earlier, which is if we start doing the eas

because they're going to go by the wayside, campaign restrictions. think it is an opportunity back in states like alabama that did not have disclosure requirements that now they can clearly say we cannot transparency in this process. so it's an opportunity for the half states, roughly half and half, that didn't really have campaign finance restrictions or disclosure to at least enact disclosure. so i think the answer is both yes and no. >> i answered the question pretty much the same. this won't be the first time i disagree with brad. we disagreed with the number of decisions i made was in the federal elections commission. but i think they gasper comes comes from the fact that since there has been no effective limit on what corporations believe they could stand in elections. so this doesn't signal big departure from what the state of the law was. and what's good about this is it does bring focus within corporations that activities to date have largely been not transparent to which no one was accountable. and i think to the extent it brings greater ac

too -- goes to the nuclear industry or carbon sequestration, the new ideas are going to go to the waysideded by private donations by individuals across the country. we applied the foundations, but that is a big challenge. host: and the democratic investors or large donations from wealthy individuals? guest: we are a non-partisan 501c3. host: on the republican line, you are next. caller: how are you this morning? my question is, being on the conservative side of the republicans, why is a utility in texas not put on line rather than spend all the money -- the billions of dollars -- for a new company, for a new reactor to go on line? guest: 1 it brings up a good point. there are several reactors around the company that were not completed, and we need to look at whether those should be completed. we have had a lot of success in bringing reactors that were at some sites -- at some stage of completion back online. we of recently gone from 103 reactors to 140. that is one of the first place is the industry looked at. we brought a reactor online just a year and a half ago. it is one of the reason

but if all of this loan guarantee goes to nuclear, then these better ideas of going to fall by the waysidehost: individual donations. any democratic investor, a large donation from individual investors, are they smaller donations? guest: we are a nonpartisan, small group. host: next phone call. republican line. caller: being on the conservative side of the republicans, as a resident of texas, why is nuclear not being put on line, rather than spending billions of dollars for a new company, for a new reactor to go online? guest: he brings of a good point. there are several reactors around the country that were not completed. we are currently looking at whether or not they should be completed to go online. that is why we have recently gone from 103 reactors to 104 reactors going active. tva has brought a reactor online, at cost, one year ago. that is one of the reasons why we think we can manage new projects, and on cost. host: any idea about jobs, jobs created from this? guest: at the tva site, they had about 200 jobs. in other reactors, it makes up about 800 jobs. host: next phone call. cal

but of all this money goes to carbon sequestration, better ideas will fall by the wayside.onations? guest: we are a tax-exempt organization, we are not partisan. host: winchester, va. republican line. go ahead. caller: being on the conservative side of the republicans, one utility company i have been two in texas, why have they not been put on line? rather than spending all the money, the billions of dollars, for a new company? for a new reactor to go on line? that is my question. host: a good point. there are several reactors around the country that were not completed and we are currently looking at whether those should be completed in terms of going on-line. they have had a lot of success in recent years in bringing reactors in some stage of completion back online. we have gone from 103 to 104 commercial reactors. one of the first places that the industry work, we had to except -- >> we will leave this pre recorded segment for an update on u.s. relief efforts in haiti , joined from the pentagon, the deputy commander of the southern command in miami, answering questions fr

it seems like the urgency has fallen by the wayside lately. host: houston, chris, republican.. congressman, i understand the democratic position regarding health care reform and i also understand the democratic plan is to tax the american people for 10 full years and only providing health-care coverage for a fraction of the time did i and an insurance agent in -- and if i told the client i would make them pay for 10 years and only give them six years of coverage, i would get laughed at. secondly, what are we going to do when the treasury bubble bursts and china wants us to repay our debt? furthermore, what will happen 10 years from now when medicare is bankrupt and social security is on a similar path and we need even more funding to continue on with all of these entitlements? where will we get the funding from that? from god or moses? guest: those are good questions. let me try to answer them. the plan is a permanent plan, not just for five years or 10 years. the congressional budget office has looked at this over a 20- year period and said that there will be about $1 trillio

because they're going to go by the wayside, campaign restrictions.opportunity back in states like alabama that did not have disclosure requirements that now they can clearly say we cannot transparency in this process. so it's an opportunity for the half states, roughly half and half, that didn't really have campaign finance restrictions or disclosure to at least enact disclosure. so i think the answer is both yes and no. >> i answered the question pretty much the same. this won't be the first time i disagree with brad. we disagreed with the number of decisions i made was in the federal elections commission. but i think they gasper comes comes from the fact that since there has been no effective limit on what corporations believe they could stand in elections. so this doesn't signal big departure from what the state of the law was. and what's good about this is it does bring focus within corporations that activities to date have largely been not transparent to which no one was accountable. and i think to the extent it brings greater accountability and

we have jobs that are going to go by the wayside if we're not prepared to get in there.with passing a house bill gives us a foundation. but this is a political and economic issue. people also know it is an environmental and moral issue. i focus on the strategic interests of the united states. we have to continue to show leadership on a global issue. we have to get our economy moving in the direction where we will reap the benefits. >> thank you. senator lugar? >> i appreciate very much your commendation of the efforts of your apartment and our efforts on security. the staff worked between your staff and the staff of this committee. i hope that will continue intensively in the weeks ahead. perhaps the chairman will entertain another hearing on suggestions you have made combined with hours to move this along. it has passed out of our committee. i think it has broad support in congress as a whole. secondly, i would note that in the budget it calls for 10 american centers of diplomacy. it is not clear where those would be located. the chinese have now established 60 centers

of urgency and decision making, this agency has allowed so many workers in america to fall by the waysidend not have a chance to stand p for themselves -- to stand up for themselves. occasionologicaoccasionally, its outrageous levels. we saw that with the case of lilly ledbetter. she was being discriminated against in the workplace. the laws couldn't protect her -- at least they didn't protect her. when she took her case to the court, the supreme court of the united states threw her out even though she had clearly been discriminated against. we had to change the law in america because discrimination does take place in the workplace and because we say in this country people should be treated fairly. now comes the unions and say -- they come to us and say, we want to change the way that we organize the workplace. they put together the employee free choice act. that is their term for the legislation that has been offered, and it offers a new alternative to gaging whether a majority truly wants to organize in the workplace. now, that bill has been considered in the other body. it has not been