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youyou have thought perhaps crucial decade or two of loss doctrine. >> i think that is one of the big problems we face. in 2012 the obama administration so we will not be doing prolonged stability operations. there's a sense that we have done counterinsurgency. it was messy and we didn't like it. ifif we remove our capability to do it then we won't do it again. we will we have seen historically is that we get surprised by these kind of wars. we didn't want to do counterinsurgency. bush came to power and so we would not do these things. we end up being in iraq. things go south. afghanistan's, we turn things over to the europeans they can handle it. we decide it is in our interest to go back in and do counterinsurgency. we're poorer predicting the next war. the idea that we can no we don't have to do one of these things again is dangerous and ultimately if we are not prepared the people who we will pay the most other people in the armed forces who will not be prepared for the war. >> with america's retreat, six, six and a half years has come the advance of other powers russia, china ira

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your cousin's name is jj it was a vociferous advocate of murderous revolutionary violence will help youyou do if he knocked on your door today? i would turn them into the fbi because he destroyed the left. >> they did not developed any favors. >> right. so one of the interventions that you make to the story is that you demonstrate that, yes,that yes after the terrible accident that happened in a townhouse in lower manhattan in march of 1970 several members of the weather underground themselves up accidentally. you.out that that moved the whether underground to a policy of only undertaking bombings that would only damage property and that people. prior to that they had a very different idea in mind. >> that has been the central message, they never intended to hurt us all these after the townhouse that is the path they embarked upon. they did fairly conventional protest bombings, issuing -- >> and bathrooms. >> why in bathrooms? >> the fbi began to take them was seriously and told the terrible toilet bombers. in a public building they were the one place where you are given privacy close the

john is a youyou heard stolen from a federal agent. he reported the gun stolen out of his car. sanchez says he found it in a t-shirt on the ground. do you buy it? >> i don't buy it. first of all, the guy has been convicted of seven felonies. it's not like he is the minister at the local church and he tells the truth all the time and he has a great background. i have learned over the years, chasing fugitives for 25-plus years, that they don't tell the truth all the time. of course the real point is here it doesn't matter how or where he got the gun. what was he doing there on that pier after he has been deported from the united states five times and convicted of seven felonies? what do you have to do before somehow this federal government and state and local law enforcement decide that we need to track these guy snzs? >> this is something you have dealt with when you talk about crime and immigration. you fought and won to get a list of sex oweffenders in america. >> it took almost four years to get the adam walsh through congress. >> named edd after your son. >> i learned the mo

if that's all you put on the evening news at night, would youyou would go broke.ure of evening news will be to make people into two dimensional cartoons instead of three dimensional people. it's just the nature of the beast. i think -- you need to always keep your caution light burning in the back of your head on that. i also think the nature is -- suppose we were in a campaign against each other. he would havenarrative and i would have mine. we would try to convince you that our narrative was better than the other. that's okay. but the people covering the campaign, they develop a narrative, too. a story line. it's almost impossible for the real story to be the same as the story line. it's very hard for the american people to be well informed if the story lines swamp the real story. you just have to keep all that in mind as you try to be good citizens. and still show up. most important thing is showing up. >> we want some people to show up for the second class of scholars. we're launching the recruitment today. people can apply, those who are watching. for those w

. >> youyou are watching booktv on c-span2. .. also when the three day weekend can put a price lawrence wright on his career. life inside the white house residence. >> up next, former white house correspondent kate andersen brower talked about a life in the white house residence. there interferes with white house butler's dominates another staff commission reports what it's like to take care of the first family in the cantonese studio apartments. -- from the kennedys to the obama's. >> welcome everyone. thank you for spending your weekend with us at barnes & noble in bethesda. we're excited to welcome best-selling author kate andersen brower with her extraordinary book "the residence: inside the private world of the white house." my name is amelia duroska. i am the business development manager in the noble in bethesda and all of us are so happy you are with us today. kate andersen brower has written a meticulously researched and fascinating book that chronicles 50 years of service by white house residence staff and she's going to

it was say it was -- >> youyou think it's an error. they say it did show a statistical significance. bottom line let's not argue about polls. does it worry you they did see a dip in his polls following the comments? sglt purpose . >> the purpose is to get sampling. 8% of the roll is not a significant sample. if you look at the -- >> you are not going to see a dip? >> i don't guarantee. what i snow is that mr.know is mr. trump is at 24%. i want to be mr. trump at 24% leading the polls and not being apology apology aa apologetic. >> will you be with veterans tomorrow? >> absolutely. >>> the shooter who killed five military men. was he inspired by isis? >>> convicted killer david sweat shocking new details on how he and a fellow prisoner broke out from the max muchlimum security prison. a live report is coming up. >>> a great white shark pulls a surfer under, all of it caught on camera. how did he survive? a very close brush with death. i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is

youyou know over the square trying to tie to the mound and you have a higher efficient. s worst distribution in china than you do in the united states. and you have massive corruption all right. and you have environmental deeing regages i think it is a big problem per for the government. they have a lot of challenges i think nationalist issues feed into those and cant rewrite the history book overnight and perception overnight even though they don't like the north korean regime and they have problem with it and real problems for their diplomacy. >> one last thing and then go to the floor and this is domestic, she and the anticorruption campaign has brought big figures to heal how does that fit into the design and plan for china and also isn't it very high risk given the people he's going after? >> i think it is high risk. i think he's assertive leader by personality. appears to be not just internationally but domestically. he seems to be ideas about where he wants the chinese party to mauve and he seems to understand that the -- corruption issue was a major destabilizing

youyou see that clearly in the gulf and you see that in that region. and i will not speculate on the outcomes of the announcement was made this morning with respect to whether it will fundamentally change iranian behavior, but that is, of course, an important question. will irani and behavior change is a direct result potentially of being more completely assimilated into the committee of nations as a result of this agreement? it remains to be determined, but it is clearly a.of interest and strong attention for our neighbors and allies in the region and we will become an important.overtime. but even though we are committed to the defeat, committed to the support of the iraq and are great iraqi ambassador here this morning not only are we committed ultimately to there political outcome in syria which sees in the end a transition to a government that is represented or supported by the syrian people that does not include bishara al-assad, that sometimes creates tension. as some states view individual entities in the syrian no space differently than other m

. >> thank youyou, mr. chairman. like a lot of members and citizens i am concerned about the last amounts of data that cfp be collects on all citizens related to financial transactions. i have a proposal to allow any citizen to see what personally identifiable information that cfp be has collected at least once a year. would you support that? wwor we do not have been a name. we do not have an address. we do not have an account number. we are interested in what goes on in the market. >> do you collect it before you scrub it? >> we asked for the data to be scrubbed. therefore it comes to us. >> who gets it into scrubs it? >> it depends on which database we are talking about. i would be happy to have a full briefing for you on this. so somebody involved in the process has that? >> typically it's scrubbed before comes to the agency so private companies have all this data. they care very much what you and i do in our personal transactions and they are always marketing to us on that. that is where the focus should be. we d

youyou have two choices on what to do with your after-tax income. away or in the future. what is consuming in the future? saving and investing. now, let's think about how the federal tax system treats those two choices. if you consume your after-tax income right away the federal government by and large leaves you alone. yet, we have a federal accept accept -- excise tax on gasoline, bows and arrows , but other than a few obscure things they're is really no federal tax on consuming your income. what happens if you save and invest your income? in other words, consume your income in the future? between the capitol gains tax, corporate income tax, double tax on dividends it is possible for that single dollar of income to be taxed over and over and over again you don't have to be a wild eyed supply sider to think that if you have even low tax rates but those low tax rates impose multiple times that you are going to be doing something that is going to dramatically were significantly affect people's decisions on whether to consume the income today or in th

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youyou will here it a million times but it bears repeating. washington is failing us's. myus'. my fellow mayors feel that command i believe americans feel that. as the rhetoric is shifted and it is a very right moment. i came here veterans ago i met with tom donahue's and richard trump to "mentioned this is one other thought the top issue. how often do we get that coalition together? not very often. majority leader mccarthy. they talked about how important integration was. inwas. in many ways this was me of the shift in marriage equality. there was a day that the rhetoric shifted and people talked about how we can achieve some measure of inequality. they're might have been disagreements. but they're was a shift that happened and it is happening. that is positive. at the same the same time we have not seen any action come along with it. they're is bipartisan rhetoric something that has transcended at the city level. we as mayors and cities are leaving because we must. we have to fill the vacuum frommy practical necessity for our communities just as fixing the water main fulfilli

i would like a commitment that youyou would be willing to put a plan in writing that we could follow., i would make a commitment. i think you identified. retaliation as the real issue we're trying to grapple with in the wake of the report. i can assure you leadership across the department has been catholic in addition an effort to set the right climate for retaliation is unacceptable. >> i will put a question for the record about the unused the report sagar report card out and consider another was investigation -- sigar. you of course were not found to be a problem in this budget is a problem the investigation found no problem and in reality it was a huge problem so we set off on a building for 64 $36 million that's never going to be used and is sitting empty of accounting which we avoid that. my final question is if you have -- if you don't have time to do it now i want to be tricky to take on isis in afghanistan. i know they're trying to move everywhere eric this is a shia-sunni issue and that is something that is prevalent throughout the region and with your experience in afghanist

er youyou get health insurance. you get hospitalization, a doctor's benefit. when you pay into medical insurance, another kind of social insurance, when you get laid of course, you get assistance so you can continue to feed your family and go on with not as good a lifestyle but at least have enough to get along. that's why social insurance matters. what's troubling about all this -- there are still people in this country particularly conservative republicans who just don't like social insurance. they don't like social security, they don't like unemployment insurance, and they don't like medicare. they'll tell you they do. very few politicians running for office say they don't like medicare. but we know that because -- if in fact they get elected we know what they do in their office. they try to privatize social security as president bush d they--as president bush d they try to voucherize medicare, as paul ryan tried to do, and we know what so many republicans conservatives, the most conservative republicans think about unemployment insurance when they try to c