the american people cannot believe they're being spied on willy-nilly for no particular reason. and i think a concern of this administration has been not just in the wake of snowed, but before, with the controversy over drones. they need to demystify to a certain degree just exactly what we are doing. so what struck me today about what the president said is, we're going to keep this court, okay, but eventually we're going to declassify some of those opinions that they offer, so you lift the veil a little bit. so the american people can see just how they deliberate. what was interesting to me was he didn't suggest that you ought to change the way this court is appointed. right now the chief justice appoints members of that court. he -- he's going to leave that up to congress. if congress wants to change that. also, he didn't say what we would do with all of this large quantity of data that we collect. he's also sort of punting that over to the congress. but overall, i think what he was trying to do today was say to the american people, look, we're not just willy-nilly spying and

the library was being built, we put it in a place and the constitution stops us from willy nilly grabbing it off the shelves. that's a question that needs to be contested in the courts. >> you did hear the president just say they are going to stop willy nilly grabbing things right now -- >> there is a number of presidential directives and initial review and significantly scaling back from three steps to two steps the bulk collection metadata. when you hook at data at that scope, that's a lot of people caught up. >> i think there was an implicit admission that there's been overclassification of data. i thnk he mentioned a number of times how they were going to release some opinions other information. he mentioned and wanted to highlight how much information was going to be released and review period on when they are going to be releasing more data. that's a real problem. part of the thing is we collect so much stuff and sort it out as chris pointed out earlier, you can't sort through that stuff. it lends itself to abuse in secretty and who knows what happens. >> the president did go out of

evy day the administration changes the law willy-nilly. the idea if you give the irs more money they will collect more money? at's like those multiplier laws they passed. no miper effect. waste of money. get a new agency, start over. >> steve, it's not aevenue enhancer. it is an enforcer. this is an enforceme agency and you judge an agency on the basis of whether it's doing good work or not and a lot of americans would say it's not. >> the thing is the irs is the government revenueengine. it's a revenue maker. everything else is a revenue taker. if they can prove more money they can get a better return on that investment and make money for the government i think give it a shot. there's a new commissioner. cleaning up the problems they had with evething last year. fresh start. let's give them the money to do their job and make more money for the government. >> mike, we have seen how they have used that money improperly. r political purposes or that's what it's accused of doing. >> i find this whole notion absurd of why they want money. basi

who is really accountable to no one except the governor of the state of michigan and really is willy nilly making policy decisions that affect the lives of city workers and citizens in the city of detroit and at the same time saying all of this stuff in the name of improving city services while he plans to take fifty percent of the lights out of the city of detroit i don't know how that's going to improve lives there's been no real reduction in crime and so we're not protected so there is no counterbalancing in improvement in city services as well there is just an attack on working people in the city of detroit you know and then on top of that they're trying to sell off all that are are selling off you know pretty much everything that's not nailed down and even the stuff is nailed out there going after pastor ball like it's always a pleasure seeing you thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you so much for having me. coming up marriage equality and gay rights are very touchy subjects in the world of professional sports but could speaking out in favor of marriage equality get to be eno

that's our birth right of americans to throw our money around willy-nilly. there are a few things to keep in mind when we look at overdraft fees. the owe new ownus is on us to kk of our money. unless you have a burning jones to go out and support the ban banking industry with these billions of dollars of fees racking up, do something about it, and there are tools at your disposal that will help you not get caught in the overdraft fee vortex. >> what are some of those tools? >> well, the first thing as we heard, opt out from overdraft protection. since 2010 federal law has given you the power and the right to step away from that, and it's just smart. if you don't have the money to cover a transaction, this will just cut off the transaction. now there is a couple of things. paper check don't apply to this, and recurring payments don't apply but basically as you're throwing your debit card around, if you opt out, boom. if the money is not in your account it's not going to go through. that's just smart. also set up notifications if you're approaching a certain t

people willy-nilly call, call, call and we don't like to change your numbers. >> people do care. when you survey people and you ask if they care about their privacy and they want companies to do this, they say no. we can't go out e-mail. you cannot go without credit cards. if you are not on facebook and you are 22, you don't have a social life. a lot of these systems have become so embedded in our lives that we don't really have a choice so the market's failing. it is not there is a more privacy friendly facebook alternative you can choose. >> also, bruce, there is a lot we choose to be blind to not to know. we don't bother to read the agreement on facebook. a lot of people don't. i can't say for sure i read the whole thing. >> i haven't. >> nobody has. remember what's salient. when you go online and use your cell phone, talk to your friends and get your information. that is right in front of you. all the stuff about privacy and freedom and nsa and surveillance and advertising, that is diffuse. as people, we are really bad at near-term gain and long-term harm. it is like dieting.

think that these are you know older men you don't just take a heavy duty antibiotic like simply willy nilly because you think there might be check for me first they accuse a man named steven hatfill and deemed to be guilty in a court of public opinion with no evidence whatsoever and a pain and a multimillion dollar dollar settlement the subsequent suspect bruce i have been committing suicide allegedly let's take a look at the press conference and once the government deem the case to be closed. to the point. of. what. percentage for back to the documents because that's the purpose of our press conference today to provide you the documents and the information pertaining to the documents or maybe even if you want to be the jurors because of the order and implication if you would say that it's going to build have started and it would be your and i'm going to go as greenwald says it's been filled with fear ineptitude at best case scenario robbie why do you think that we should have a reason to suspect ivan's as not the anthrax suspect. well. i mean you know tying this back to going green all of

. >> scott doesn't just fly willy-nilly hoping to volunteer, plans his travel hoping he will be bumpedically one would fly nonstop. i would do connection, double connection in one day. knowing the connection is tight. or the second night will be get. >> here is another tip. avoid red eyes. those overnight flights half plenty of seats available. and here is an important secret. define flights that are most likely to bump passengers. go on tine to have very few seats left are your targets. >> unlikely california city emerged on the list of the cities. fresno, 24th on dijal magazine. ranking of the best places people aged 35 and under can make a huge slash. that's because the it is smaller. and there is less comb pa six. top three cities on the list, portland oregon, austin, texas, two, you can't beat the bay, san francisco, takes the third slot. san jose ranked 20th. lee. >> while the other sparts parts of the country shafrp. san francisco the place to be. mild temperatures. we may encounter some of that tomorrow morning as well. numerous flight delays, sfo. the fog this morning. coachfu

i don't just come with stuff like willy nilly. occasion ali, but it is rare.ave to think until your brain hurts. good point to end on. thank you. >> up next, why we're number one. i don't think america missed something. right next door to my office i'll explain when we come back. >>> there is about a month to go until the sochi olympics, stay tuned we'll tell you the correct answer. this week's book of the week is the kenan diaries. he was america's great strategist of containment. these diaries reveal him to be a genuine classical conservative. plus he's a beautiful writer. now for the last look. we have been inundated with the best of 2013. literally in columbus circle. one best round about of 2013. that is according to the brittist roundabout society. digging deeper the roundabout is a thing to be appreciated. according to america's department of transportation replacing cross roads with circles leads to a 90% fall in deaths. unless you drive like chevy chis in europea nxn vacation, we sugt the world build more roundabouts. the answer is norway. when compar

the health care industry for years have been taking away people's coverage willie nilly in huge numbers that was passed was a republican proposal. >> i get that. i don't want to relitigate the whole health care law. so. >> so the point i would like to continue to make is that, yes, as i have said twice now on your show that the president has said. but remember something, the status quo was many, many more people losing their health care. that should be the focus because that's what the law succeeded in doing. >> with the problems in the health care law, a lot of people are suggesting, including our own charles krauthammer, that progressivism has taken a hit, that this is a strike at the heart of big government because people are less inclined now than ever to hand their health care, to hand matters over to the feds. >> it's private insurance. we're giving citizens -- >> who's running it? >> the insurance industry's. >> who's law is it? >> a law that cuts taxes is a law of the legislator. >> who rolled out healthcare.gov? >> can i answer before you get to the next story? what we're doing

the healthcare industry for years has been taking away people's coverage willy nilly in huge coverageeeded to be done. >> the law passed was a republican proposal. >> i don't want to relitigate this. >> sometimes the beginning of my answers lead to an end that will answer your question. >> here we go again. >> the point i would like to continue to make is, yes, have i said twice on your show the president said. but the status quo was many more people losing their health insurance. >> i understand that. that is what the law succeeded in. >> with the problems with the healthcare law some people are suggesting including charles krauthammer. >> who i listen to on healthcare. >> it is progressivism has taken a hit, this is a strike at the heart of big government because people are less inclined than others to hand their healthcare to hand matters over to the feds. >> over to the feds? it's private insurance. >> who is running it? >> the insurance industry. >> whose law was this? who forced this. >> every law is the law of the legislature. a law at that cuts taxes is a law of the legislatur

government-sponsored plans from the mandate, for minimum coverage, that fun rule change that i go do willy-nilly when it comes to obamacare when they feel like it. so, i'm not super confident the irs will have all this no line and be attentive to this issue, and make things run smoothly. >> do we know who these irs agents will be? here's how it works. in the irs if you don't pay your taxes they come after you, garnish your wages go after your property. if you don't sign up for obamacare they don't have those teeth. are these the same agents doing both jobs? >> i think they're among the same pool, yes, and it's all housed under the irs. i'm not sure exactly what the process is for figuring out who does that job. but it does strike me as problematic for them to be changing the rules and writing the rules in january after this has gone into effect, and then we'll just kind of see what happens at some point. the thing about the irs,s take any sort of government problem where you have inefficiencies and incompetence and abuse as we have seen quite colorful include at the irs. all these problems on st

one the largest search engines in china, and he said we follow the law and don't censor things willy-nilly based on our personal desire to, we're following the law, point-blank. if we didn't follow the law, we would be shut down. jordan robertson covers security for bloomberg news and gordon chang, author. we'll continue this conversation after this quick break. also coming up, why is top talent such a top priority for tech companies? and how important are engineers in particular? we'll dig into the value of a good engineer with twitter's former head of engineering mike an ots later in the show. -- mike abbots later in the show. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west," i'm emily chang. we turn to our top story, what caused china's internet outage and just how powerful is the great firewall? with us from new york is gordon chan, author of "the coming collapse of china" who lived and worked in china for many years and cory johnson along with jordan. you mentioned some upcoming challenges at baidu and this company benefited from the chinese government control on the internet, companies like goo

neil: wouldn't that be legal area, customers willy-nilly, doing business as usual not knowing they haveeen hacked and already compromiseed? >> this is where the free market come in. i think customers victimized by neiman marcus. again using them as an example. neil: understood. >> will learn twice. neiman marcus is not a good example because it is such a unique store. any store where there are many of them, many sores, that knows about the hacking and didn't reveal it runs risk of losing customers. eventually the free market will establish retail establishments impervious to hacking. may charge a little more but they will guaranty if you come here your credit card information will never fall into the hands of bad guys. neil: well, wouldn't iting incumbent, judge, on retailers to to never even be seen as potentially covering up? >> yes. neil: you remind me the cover that gets you nothe crime. >> be far better off revealing it and saying we learned about it two hours ago. we learned how massive it is. in the past two hours here are the steps we have taken to -- neil: sense of delaying cou

i don't just come up with stuff willy-nilly. occasionally but it's rare. you do have to think. until your brain hurts, you haven't tried hard enough. >> elon musk, a good point to end on. thank you. thank you. >>> up next, why we're number one. i don't mean america. i mean something right next door to my office. to my office. i'll explain when we come back. t at 1406 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. ...and the little room above the strip mall off roble avenue. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had the power to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the world's great stories. that began much the same way ours did. in a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪ i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. >>> about a month to go until the soc

and the reason is that the intelligence community actually doesn't collect and disseminate willy-nilly, you know, stuff about overseas targets that has no foreign intelligence valley. they don't do it not because it's illegal but because it's a total waste of their time. when you have a program and you limit it and you say now foreigners have privacy rights in belgium or tajikistan and we're only going, we'll have minimization rules that only cause us to disseminate met through a foreign intelligence values, values, i suspect that is not going to cause big problems either in any foreign intelligence agency that's doing its job with minimal confidence. i actually think this might be an area where the spiritual statement goes a long way without actually changing very much. i will be very -- it will be very interesting to see what documents, if any, gets produced that over the next few months that implement this at a more granular level. finally, one of the big surprises in the review group report, because it wasn't a feature in any of the snowden elites, and it doesn't involve the nsa, i

here the government gets involved and all of a sudden insurance companies can cancel you willy-nilly. they thought they would get a big deal because they would get more customer, then they had mandates and had to put certain things on and it's skyrocketing. the cost of medical care, when it's all added up, is going to be huge. it's going to be like a tax and the quality of care and what people are going to get-everybody tells me, they're canceling me, charging me more, i'm getting less, and they're furious. the biggest political issue this year. >> we can't get rid of it in the near term. cannot be reversed for some time to come. the question is, is it so entrenched that you really cannot repeal it totally and get rid of it completely? >> you're not going to get rid of it. you're right. they're going to limp along. if republicans live in a fall they may tinker with and it change it, but the only way it's going to disappear quickly is if it's totally self-destructs which is conceivable, everybody quits because they're get nothing where and just opt out. today, if -- even if you're of m

. >> can't just willy-nilly -- >> exactly right.d up doing is either cut costs in some into way by reducing employment, cut overhead by reducing the number of shifts you ran, change your packaging, reduce the size of the products. all sorts of things you can do to try to offset that but it is a cox it is passed on some way or the other. >> you've hit on something crucial that people don't get. this idea that you just automatically can pass it on to customers. value meals are popular for a reason. if you hike the press -- well, people are very kind to think that, well, people will gladly pay if it means everyone gets a little more money. doesn't work out that way. >> the consumer is very loud in terms of what they're willing to pay and not pay. that's why you have the theory of elasticity. in our industry, private label became a threat. one reason we don't have inflation now, despite qe3 and the money the fed sitting on their balance sheet is because there's no pricing power in industry and this becomes a cost to absorb, a cost to ab

but i do not believe the president has the authority to willy-nilly change the law as he has done with for example he employer plan date which is pretty specific is that there wl be implemented no later than 31, 2013. he just changed the law by decree.ntial that is the point of this lawsuit. the president doesn't have the authority and he needs to be on that.d >> [inaudible]? >> i would like to be in this lawsuit because i do want, as mr. clement was pointing out, it extremely important members of congress have the same experience as the other millions americans that are experiencing to their detriment law.ealth care it is one way to force action. we have been receiving thousands of e-mails and alerts -- and they want to see the healthcare law succeed and are shocked by the increase of and shocked by the fact that president obama's promise and now they oken are seeing their premiums double, triple, out of pocket and triple.ble ccess to the doctors it kept them alive taken away and treatments that kept them alive. so, in order to prompt action halls of congress, to start repairing that

the state we are in with our budget situation, we are not to be just exempting people willie nilly because they like to get together. >> make a level playing field. let's revoke everybody else who has already got it you know, we have got it do that too. >> i think the american people really have a very small understanding of how many groups are actually getting exempt from taxation. i think they wouldn't like it if they knew it. >> all right. panel, stay with us. we have much more to talk to you about. right now the friends of abe protects its members identities, fearing the members will be blacklisted in liberal hollywood. a few members of the curve group have gone public including movie, writer and producer lionel chapman. he choice us. -- he joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> nice to see you, greta. >> friends of abe, i know you are north going to tell me who are the members. let me ask you first, are they really fearful they will be blacklisted if they are named as members of the sort of loosely conservative group? this loosely gathered group? >> many are. i mean, a lot of it depends o

fear that a lot of those businesses have is that they can't pay everybody $12 an hour and can't willy-nillygh you say, they're going to have to deal with fewer workers. at the very least, at the outset, some people will lose their jobs. do you buy that? >>ot many. not many at all. again, we're talking about price rises that are so small, 1% at walmart. there was a major study done, and it really shows walmart could give everybody a wage of minimum $12 an hour, but raising prices 1%, which is $12.50 per year for the average walmart shopper. there's another factor that comes in to play. right now the government, the taxpayers, you and i, are spending $250 billion a year in social welfare spending. going to these low-wage workers, because they can't live on their salary. if you have a situation where suddenly they're earning enough to get by, they automatically lose these welfare benefits and the taxpayers would save $40 billion, $50 billion, $ 60 billion a year. >> despite your ample financial success, that your experience working in wall street analytics, top financial services, eventually s

the american people cannot believe they're being spied on willy-nilly for no particular reason.and i think a concern of this administration has been not just in the wake of snowed, but before, with the controversy over drones. they need to demystify to a certain degree just exactly what we are doing. so what struck me today about what the president said is, we're going to keep this court, okay, but eventually we're going to declassify some of those opinions that they offer, so you lift the veil a little bit. so the american people can see just how they deliberate. what was interesting to me was he didn't suggest that you ought to change the way this court is appointed. right now the chief justice appoints members of that court. he -- he's going to leave that up to congress. if congress wants to change that. also, he didn't say what we would do with all of this large quantity of data

this means going back to the laws after 9/11 and making sure that this information isn't just willie nillyhe government. >> michelle richardson from the aclu, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> after years of wrangling, congress finally passed a budget but lawmakers failed to approve emergency federal jobless benefits for long-term unemployed americans expiring in december and left more than 1.3 million americans without the additional help. right now it is up to the states, most provide 26 weeks of benefits. two, massachusetts and montana, provided more. with me is la shawn daniels palmer, a mother of four whose benefits were cut off at the end of december. and also, pennsylvania democratic congressman matt cartwright. la shawn, you have been working for a job since the summer. you were on the show last month and talked about how concerned you were about losing those federal benefits. you now that that's happened, how are you getting along? >> we're struggling. it's difficult. we're making due until something passes. >> describe the reality of what that feels like to people who haven'

and so i don't see them handing out compliments or willy-nilly handing out victories to either side because they're not really happy with either one. i guess meteorologist would look at this and say it is kind of like an unstable air mass. it is very, very volatile situation but neither side looks to be sort of naturally advantaged by sort of the macro political environment. now, then you say, well, okay. that is the environment. let's get down to sort of cases. i know your next speaker will get more into races but i'm going to do it from sort of a larger sense. we got the house and senate. in house, democrats woo need a 17 net gain to get majority in the house. 17 seats. in big scheme of thing, 17 is not particularly big number. you can look, there is a great, great book, norm ornstein, tom mann and michael maalvin, vital statistic on congress. terrific book. they have it up on the web. they don't publish it in hard copy anymore and up on the web and available for free. it is terrific. go through brookings or aei website but when you go back and look over time, trying to remember what, wha

it is that willie-nilly. >> there are some very excellent evaluators.nk people are ill, meaning ill. i'm sure they value their job and they are trying to help and trying to have good outcomes. the expense is spectacular. when i saw some of the charges that we were going through, relatively simple psychological evaluation, shocked, flabbergasted. you shouldn't be able to charge whatever you want just because the judge says you have to have that evaluation. >> $50 billion. >> if you go see this divorce court, hopefully, it will save a couple of marriages, don't think about divorce. it is a much better idea to stay married. people end up making the same mistake the second time around too. use the health services. get some help with the relationship and don't contemplate divorce. >> go into it always saying, no one is going to win here. it is not going to be a win/win service. don't seek a win. >> the attorneys and evaluators do win in this situation. >> it is awesome. i am looking forward to the premier of it. dr. drew pinsky, thank you so much. once again

brian, the president, you know, has been sort of willy-nilly.h parties with respect to our incestuous borrowing. but it seems like congress, all of congress has stepped back and let the president sort of dictate how this law is enforced. >> well, charles, you know, the president said earlier this week he boasted that he's got a pen, and he's willing to use it to act where congress is not willing to act. so i think the trouble for the president is that, as i point out in the journal this week, the next republican in the white house is going to have the same pen. and he's going to have, i think, far more opportunity to affect a broader rollback of obamacare precisely because of the decisions that this administration has made to suspend and negate some of the key provisions of that law. charles: okay. so a president has been established then, if the republicans are lucky enough to win the house, let's say they win it all. they get the white house, and they control the senate and the house, do you think that they have -- they would be able then to j

whether it is a lot of decisions made willy-nilly or whether it is part of a coherent strategy to reach something with iran, it does not matter. it represents a jettisoning of traditional containment as we have seen it. we saw ourselves as the leader of an alliance. we were allied with the vertical towers. theiring to advance interests against the interests of iran and its allies. interestsis -- their align almost perfectly with the horizontal powers. we have moved very much against what the israelis, with the saudi's, what other members of that axis think we should do with respect to iran, not just on the nuclear question, but also on the regional issues. it is a major change in our policy. i do not understand why the administration feels that it is going to work out in the long run. as i look at what is happening carrying out the wholesale raising of ofghborhoods -- razing neighborhoods, torturing children, raping women. he is the greatest engine of al qaeda that there is in the middle east. the idea that we can somehow reach an accommodation with the iranians and assad seems to me to

i don't think he has thrown information out willy-nilly, despite all accusations made against him, falsemade against him when he initially started releasing this information, that he was some crazy narcissist, whatever. i think this person really sacrificed his life for to reveal this information. jon: well, at same time, judy, he signed a pledge before joining the contractor and nsa, saying, signing a pledge i wouldn't release that information. >> absolutely. people who have been true whistle-blowers like daniel ellsberg who released pentagon paper to my old paper, "the new york times." he did not go to china. he didn't go to china. >> he defended snowden. this is completely different environment than it rused to be. >> i'm well aware of that. >> thomas drake another went through normal channels and got, ended up having his house raided by the fbi. this is a farce, the idea there is normal, you're going to go to congress? really they have been really helpful. i think he has done the best he can do. >> wait, a minute. congress is talking about oversight now. that is snowden's contributio

is spying on everyone with no controls and willie-nilly oversight, and the rpt -- president said all that demon demonization -- is just hogwash. how did he characterize these programs? especially section 216. over the course of the last several months we have heard of them in the attempts of foiling arious terrorist operations. on here i think the president was on a bit more shaky ground. he said multiple attacks have been thwarted. the issue is raised, can you provide us data that backs that up. the only issue he launched into was september 11. he said if n.s.a. had had the mega-data program, it would have realized that when one of the 19 hijackers called home to yemen, he was in san diego. the problem with opening up that pandora's box is, the c.i.a. knew he was in san diego. the problem isn't that we didn't know about it, it is that one hand didn't tell the other hand. i think this is one occasion when the administration will regret having opened up the discussion. it is not really crucial on the president's statement today. the third thing on my mind, is he going to mention edwar

movies heavy watchword seems like they are spying on you and keeping track of everywhere you go and willy- nillyoversight and the president says it is only categorically. all of that is nization.asian -- demo i do characterize effectiveness of these programs? over the course of the last few months we have heard about foiling several terrorist operations. the president and here i think was more on shaky ground. he's in multiple facts were supported, but gave us no examples of that. that is understandable. secrecy -- the only specific and lunch into was september 11. -- launched into was september 11. he said if n.s.a. had had the mega-data program, it would have realized that when one of the 19 hijackers called home to yemen, he was in san diego. the problem with opening up that pandora's box is, the c.i.a. knew he was in san diego. the problem isn't that we didn't know about it, it is that one hand didn't tell the other hand. i think this is one occasion when the administration will regret having opened up the discussion. it is not really crucial on the president's statement today. the third thi

thing is they do not like either side here, and so i do not see them handing out compliments or willy-nilly handing out victories to either side because they are not really happy with either one. i guess a media urologist would say it is like an unstable air meteorologist would say it is like an unstable air mass. that is the, ok, environment, let's get down to cases, and next speaker is going to get into races, but i want to do it from a larger sense. you have the house and the senate. in the house immigrants would need a 17-seat net gain to get a majority in the house. in the big scheme of things, 73 is not a particularly big number. you can look -- there is a great ornstein, tom malbon, and they now have it up on the web. they will publish -- they do not publish on hardcopy anymore. go through the brookings or the aei website. when you go back and look over remember am trying to what my point was -- i'm getting over a chest cold -- 17 is not much. it really is not. but the thing about it is in the new world order, it kind of is a lot, because there are very few competitive districts out

thing is they do not like either side here, and so i do not see them handing out compliments or willy-nillyding out victories to either side because they are not really happy with either one. i guess a meteorologist would say it is like an unstable air mass -- a meteorologist would say it is like an unstable air mass. neither side looks naturally advantaged by the macro political environment. then you say, ok, that is the environment, let's get down to cases, and next speaker is going to get into races, but i want to do it from a larger sense. you have the house and the senate. in the house immigrants would -- democrats would need a 17- seat net gain to get a majority in the house. in the big scheme of things, 73 is not a particularly big number. you can look -- there is a great book that norm ornstein, tom mann, michael malbon, and they now have it up on the web. they will publish -- they do not publish on hardcopy anymore. go through the brookings or the aei website. when you go back and look over time -- i am trying to remember what my point was -- i'm getting over a chest cold -- 17 is

and so i don't see them handing out compliments or willy-nilly handing out victories to either side becausey're not really happy with either one. i guess meteorologist would look at this and say it is kind of like an unstable air mass. it is very, very volatile situation but neither side looks to be sort of naturally advantaged by sor that will resume next week. you can see live house coverage on c-span and the senate right here on c-span2. you're watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs. weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events. and every weekend the latest non-fiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedule on our website. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >>> now a look at the future of ride sharing. the founders of this conversation at the annual tech crunch conference in san francisco in early september lasts about 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> how is it going? good. all right. so the people in the audience, you've been in san francisco a couple of

what is your answer to that if get outy can willy-nilly, what kind of bargain is it? >> there are a couple of answers to that. although the focus on whether a contract is illusory is as part of the analysis under the implied covenant for a bilateral contract. think that same analysis would apply to a frequent flyer which would be understood as a unilateral contract. the second thing you have to understand -- make sure i understand that point? distinction if you go back to the horn books on contract law between a unilateral contract and bilateral contract. a unilateral contract is a outstanding promise that doesn't require an exchange of consideration and the party who makes the promise has the to withdraw the promise until there's performance essentially relying on the why i thinkthat's it's actually a little bit of a mistake to apply that doctrine a frequentg like flyer program. >> i don't understand that wayuse i always thought the these agreements worked were they were agreements that if i number of miles on your plan i was going to get a free ticket and it wasn't

but i do not believe the president has the authority to willy-nilly change the law as he has done withfor example he employer plan date which is pretty specific is that there wl be implemented no later than 31, 2013. he just changed the law by decree.ntial that is the point of this lawsuit. the president doesn't have the authority and he needs to be on that.d >> [inaudible]? >> i would like to be in this lawsuit because i do want, as mr. clement was pointing out, it extremely important members of congress have the same experience as the other millions americans that are experiencing to their detriment law.ealth care it is one way to force action. we have been receiving thousands of e-mails and alerts -- and they want to see the healthcare law succeed and are shocked by the increase of and shocked by the fact that president obama's promise and now they oken are seeing their premiums double, triple, out of pocket and triple.ble ccess to the doctors it kept them alive taken away and treatments that kept them alive. so, in order to prompt action halls of congress, to start repairing that d

whether a lot of decisions made willie nilly or a strait go reach a talk with iran, it doesn't matter. it represents -- traditional containment as we have seen it. traditionally we saw ourselves as a leader of an alliance. we were alied with the vertical powers. in trying to advance interest against the interest of iran and its allies. the israelis today are much more -- their interest line up almost perfectly with the horizontal powers. we have moved very much against what the israelis and other members of that access think we should do with respect to iran. not just on the nuclear question but also on the regional issues. it's a major change in our policy. i don't understand why the administration feels that it's going really work out in the long run. because assad carrying out wholesale raising of neighborhoods, torturing children, raping women, and so on. he's the greatest engine of al qaeda there is in the middle east. the idea how with can reach -- where we tamp it down together seems to be a completely losing strategy. i add one more point. sinned iran policy historically they

what is your answer to that if one party can get out willy- nilly, what kind of bargain is it? >> there are a couple of answers to that. although the focus on whether a contract is illusory is sometimes used as part of the analysis under the implied covenant for a bilateral contract. i don't think that same analysis would apply to a frequent flyer program which would be understood as a unilateral contract. the second thing you have to understand -- >> make sure i understand that point? >> there is a distinction if you go back to the horn books on contract law between a unilateral contract and bilateral contract. a unilateral contract is a typical outstanding promise that doesn't require an exchange of consideration and the party who makes the promise has the ability to withdraw the promise until there's performance essentially relying on the promise and that's why i think it's actually a little bit of a mistake to apply that doctrine to something like a frequent flyer program. >> i don't understand that because i always thought the way these agreements worked were they were agr