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Communication, the out reach and the working together of everybody and i did have a visit to supervisor cohens office and i did talk to her chief and she was not too happy with me, particularly on the communication aspect of things. Particularly when we had said it on the last hearing. To talk about and her position was that there was not enough notice given to her and this is their legislation and they were not involved. And kind of just struck me that this was the last thing that i wanted to h...

I wrote about facts, not what i believe. Of course in the First Administration he gained after he went into training after the assassination recovery inch your 70s, thats no small accomplishment. We do thank you, tom, for this special look, and as he does say, its a very factbased, very interesting focus on a period of the president s life that we dont often see as clearly. We do thank you again for coming to join us, and thank tom. Thank you for having me. [applause] up next, author and think t...

And what were doing when we burn fossil fuels, is that we are taking carbon that was buried under the earth over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and we are transferring it back up into the atmosphere. So were basically running geological history backwards and at a very high speed. Were taking a process that took hundreds of millions of years to run in one direction, and were running it in the other direction in a matter of centuries. And if you were an alien and you came to visit th...

The government of bhutan, i should say the king of bhutan about 30 years ago realized that a process of development, of economic development, was great. It would pull millions of people out of poverty. People wouldnt starve to death, but it wasnt enough for human flourishing. So instead of counting narrowly the amount of money people had per capita, he had the idea of trying to measure the amount of happiness. He started an index called Gross National happiness. Thats wher he started an index ca...

The working families of discussion are prepared to take on the big money interests. Dont tell my wife that. She does not necessarily agree. Of power to turn off the tv right now. On the other hand i understand political realities. When you take on the billionaire, it aint easy. And if i do something i want to do well and it is important not just from my ego. It is important for millions of people who share the same set of beliefs that ill. So to so to do it well we would have to put together the...

Period. The are russians have flown ons. Several yearlong missions. Its but if we look at the tools wih weve got today we can see if ht theres anything in the human system, to see if there is that something that degrades that hasnt reached study grade in terms of human degradation in keeping humans alive. How important is it to simulate a mars mission in lower earth orbit that way, and how close do you have to make it to a real mars mission to be a ma value . Do you build i n the to communicatio...

We cant hear you. Here it comes. Yeah, for each question identify the organization. Hello. Identify yourself and your position. Im a humble tax reporter and analyst. There three of us. Im not an expert about Social Security, but my understanding is that surpluses of the program for a given year invest in a trust fund and treasury bonds. They have a low yield. There was a plan to privatize Social Security. It would seem to me that having a slightly more normal its endless. For example, raisings a...

Senate, theres only 100. They probably know each other. They might not like each other anymore but at least there oohs a chance of them being acquaintances if not good friends. Journalist david mark on the world of political terminology sunday night at 8 00 eastern. Jennifer epstein has been following todays immigration developments. She is White House Reporter with politico. Lets break this down, first of all. What specifically will the president announce . So the white house hasnt actually wha...

So this court has routinely cited cases under those customs statutes as illuminating the meaning of the probable cause standard and is therefore illuminating so you disagree with justice storey when he looked at those cases and made the point i just made . You think he was wrong . Theres no doubt in those cases the question the court was ultimately answering is are those customs officers liable . But the way it was answering that question was by determining whether those officers had probable ca...

And where are we going from here. Last august 2014, i traveled from damascus to washington, d. C. , with a fortune of maps and photos. I thought it might be a good idea to share with you ten out of them today. This is the first one. This reflects the situation in syria in summer 2013. We are talking about july august, 2013. The red color refers to the areas controlled by the regime, and his militia supporting him, like hezbollah in syria, and so on and so forth. The green area referred to the ar...