Theres something wrong inside the American Economic and political system, and thats what this book is about. Host Hedrick Smith is the author. Thank you for being on booktv. From the Fourth Annual boston book festival, a Panel Featuring author edward glaeser. Its about an hour, 15. Good afternoon and thank you very much for coming to this auditorium today. Let me introduce myself, im bob oakes from morning edition on wbur, bostons npr news station. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Im sure some of you are saying, wow, thats bob oakes . [laughter] i thought he was taller [laughter] i thought he was thinner, i thought he had more hair. [laughter] and, you know, the funny thing is that all those things were true last week. [laughter] let me thank all of you for coming here this afternoon and thank the boston book festival for having us. Dont they do a nice job . Isnt this a terrific eventsome. Yes. [applause] lets also thank the Plymouth Rock foundation for sponsoring this particular sessi
Carrot additionally. One of the things that we dont have enough of are programs or grants that encourage and inspire innovation and new practices and new knowledge about this issue when were placing all of our resources in enforcement and were not complementing that with innovation, then i think were creating a situation where we do have box checking instead of new thinking. I understand what youre saying. I guess what youre saying. One thing thats disappointing to me about this is that we depend on College Campuses for innovation for so many things in our society. You have on a College Campus i dont want to pick on michigan, although i kind of would like to pick on michigan. If you were at kansas, id really like to pick on you. Your system. You have law school. You have a medical school. You are training psychologists and psychiatrists. And social workers. You have every discipline and Academic Excellence in every discipline that is needed to come together on this problem. And you hav
Good evening from new york. There are secret Police Operating on the streets of an American City under the direction of the president. In the past week they have been recorded snatching a protesters off the street and forcing him into an unmarked car and shooting another peaceful protester with a nonlethal round in the head. This is all happening in portland, oregon where a protester was standing across the street from unidentified federal Officers Holding nothing but a speaker. He rolled away a canister thrown in his direction, and then this happened. The reason you see him collapse there was because he was shot in the head with a round meant to be nonlethal. His fellow protester carried him away as his blood pooled on the ground. His mother said his face and skull were fractured and that he finished facial Reconstructive Surgery early sunday morning. He still has a tube in the skull to drain the blood. The shot into his head was fired by the federal agents that the president deployed
Cspan. Org. We will go to washington for a discussion of President Bidens trade agenda on cspan. All right, everybody, i will ask our speakers to ok, everybody, let me ask you to find seats. I just have to say how wonderful it is to see real people at a conference. We have been doing Hollywood Squares for so long, and it is good have an actual audience. So much fun to have you here, and i want to say thank you all for coming we always do a little security announcement. Im going to be responsible for you. If anything happens, follow me, we will go out through that door. I will take care of you, dont worry. We will go to National Geographic and ask them to open the icecream parlor. This is a wonderful opportunity this is one of our signature events, to future former u. S. Trade representatives in a dialogue about the world we are in. We do it because this is a most difficult and unusual, and position that we have, because it not only requires strategic intellect, seeing the great purpose
Can watch this segment in its entirety at cspan. Org. We will go to washington for a discussion of President Bidens trade agenda on cspan. All right, everybody, i will ask our speakers to ok, everybody, let me ask you to find seats. I just have to say how wonderful it is to see real people at a conference. We have been doing Hollywood Squares for so long, and it is good have an actual audience. So much fun to have you here, and i want to say thank you all for coming we always do a little security announcement. Im going to be responsible for you. If anything happens, follow me, we will go out through that door. I will take care of you, dont worry. We will go to National Geographic and ask them to open the icecream parlor. This is a wonderful opportunity this is one of our signature events, to future former u. S. Trade representatives in a dialogue about the world we are in. We do it because this is a most difficult and unusual, and position that we have, because it not only requires str