Frankly i did my time, i did it like a man, i paid the price and the law says i can run and im running. Sreenivasan those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. We begin with the secret service. Director pierson offered her resignation today because she believed that it was in the best interest of the agency to which she has dedicated her career. Sreenivasan from White House Press secretary josh earnest, the official announcement this afternoon, pierson offered to resign, and th
In 2012 which didnt look at race at all if looked at only the differences only on one side which was white america. The reason he did that was to not look at race and to say we are organizing in a way that is leaving the bottom behind. We need to bring the fullness of American Society and opportunity. We need to do that more aggressively. Host numbers are on the screen if you want to talk to our guest. President of the American Enterprise institute and the author of these policy books. Who really cares, the surprising truth about the compassionate conservatism, it came out in 2006. Gross national happiness. Why happiness matters for america and how we can get more out of that came out in 2008. The battle how the fight between Big Government and Free Enterprise will shape americas future into the road to freedom is the most recent account to win the fight for Free Enterprise that came out in 2012. You also list is in friedman and Saint John Paul to as some of your favorite people are bi
Guest it came to me, i thinki used the word karma; theres lots of bad puns in writing a book about automobiles, but karmy karma waswe had a working title, carbound, that nobody, including me, liked. And my editor asked me for a list of cars, kind of a brainstorming thing. I sent it to him. He called back and he said, were going to call it asphalt nation. and i said, oh, thats good. Wheredwhere did that come from . and he said, it was on your paper. so somehow in this list of playing with metaphors, that one surfaced and that was the title of the book. Cspan whats the point of your book . Guest the subtitle, how the automobile took over america and how we can take it back, which they came up with, but i thought it was kind of rinkydink. But its been very helpful. If somebody says, whats your book about . and its how the automobile took over america, how the servant became a master and how we can alter that relationship, end automobile dependency. Cspan has anybody ever been successful i
In the the pew Research Director examines how the demographic changes in america are likely to shake u. S. Culture this program is about one hour. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Tell me about ida b. Fuller. Well, he was from vermont in the first person to receive Security Check after 1940. And it was a monthly check for little over 22. Ida b. Fuller is covered have to live for another 22 years in the course of his 35 years the tax cut coming it doesnt sound like much in todays dollars and one she retired chinle contributed for three years. And she got back a return of a concert contribution. Which is that the system is that its absolutely the best for the first firstgeneration and very good for the next generation as well. So it isnt the demographic trouble because way back then we had 30, 40, nifty, even 150 workers per retiree. Then it goes down precipitously and we have the rate of 10,000 per day and will do so every day between now and 2030. When we get to the e
Now, as far as the whole thing there are all different people. Some of them were College Students who were also working. Some of them were living at home like maria was living at home and going to college. Some of them had jobs. There was a musician who was very much involved who made a good living as a Computer Programmer and some of them mostly shoplifted and lived in squat so there were all sorts of different people. Unfortunately we have run out of time but i want to thank you for your questions. You manage to touch on many of the areas. I hope to would have more time to explore and theyre so much more in the book. Mosh a guess and will be sunning outside and i would like to ask all of you to think about supporting this program but rings these kinds of writers to los angeles, and donations of course i am sure if you talk to Louise Steinman outside you can figure out a way to handle that. Look forward to her new work. She is riding she is writing on the tsarnaev brothers and the bos