Real. We sometimes duplicate and cause campuses to spend more time filling out forms and working with students to have a session in forming incoming freshmen about what the responsibilities are. But each of you be willing to give us specific suggestions about how you see title ix and its rules and regulations clearly the knew regulations allow they can be improved, where the conflict how they can be made more clear so that campuses have the flexibility you talk about. Ill call you present. Would you be willing to do that and to give it to us and has specific a form as you could. Welcome the opportunity to do that. And i no you are so large and it is such a good system that you are bound to have plenty of people waiting through rules and regulations. We dont know what this means and this duplicates this and you have been in so many different positions that you know exactly what im talking about a particularly when he that by around september in order to included in the reauthorization a
We are glad to be back. Has been said, this is our fifth year so for those of you who know how the military works, i now qualify for my silver oakleaf cluster. Every year it has been an absolute joy to see you and feel the commitment you make to our children. Dededee will remind you that there are things that you have to do and then there are things that we get to do. We get to spend time with people like you. As we come to the end of our career, that is the part we will really miss. Really briefly, then i will turn it over to dd and then we will bring a panel of distinguished questioners, today in history Chris Kristofferson was born. Some of you are old enough to remember Chris Kristofferson. He kind of crosses generations. Many of us are member him as a countrywestern remember him as a countrywestern singer with johnny cash and the highwayman. Others remember him as an actor in the blade movies as whis tler and in a dolphin tale. He has done pretty good for himself in entertainment.
Number of indian citizens. I think it would be real smart for us to continue in conversations with and cooperations with india on those issues i think we have a Prime Minister who is interested in having a relationship with united dates and making it even stronger. It is a huge market for American Products as well. Paul you are discussing this in your initial comments, the funding of the military. This is from brad, a native of new jersey. He asked given the depth of problems surrounding the u. S. , how can we have Foreign Policy and defense needs . Paul governor christie we have to we have to take out entitlement reforms and reestablish funding we have. Right now 71 of federal spending is entitlement. We should continue we wont have any money to spend on anything else if we continue. Interest rates go up, then things are going to get really interesting. That is why we put out a detailed plan on entitlement reform, saving 1. 2 trillion over the next 10 years. We have to reapportion spe
Booktv on cspan2. To our digital bookstore and finally the lit fest loves social media. So feel free to take pictures, post messages and upload them to twitter, instagram, facebook hughesing the prlf2015. Please turn off your cell phones and flash on the camera and i will introduce our moderator rick perlstein. I will give a short introduction were Bryan Burrough although for the research in his most recent book days of rage i joke we should call him bryan burrows. Thank you. I am here all week. And he writes for vanity fair, he writes books, and the book for which he is best known other than his most recent one is barbarians of the gates that came out in 1990 over the merger of rjr reynolds and nabisco. His latest book is an accomplishment of research, story telling and moral inquiry. And it is something based on the facts we know and that is domestic terrorism. He takes the story back to 1969 or so. And all the way up through the middle of the 1980s. And one of the striking facts in
Steve on the ultima pass. We are just off of that westbound 580. We have a motorcycle accident westbound 580 just before the north exit. This had been already a slow commute but now it is even slower involving a motorcyclist in a construction truck because it is construction going on on the ultima pass. Now 205 is backed up a lot more than it normally is in 580 is very slow. If you drive from tracy or you are driving in lets say from even further than that and use the tracy triangle you need an extra 20 minutes just to stay on schedule. Hearing this you may want to even leave the house a half hour earlier. Downstream livermore and dublin looks pretty good all the way into castro valley. 880 and oakland looking good in both directions. At the bay bridge we are getting a little bit of a crowd. Seconds ago as south was talking officials in florida announced irma has been downgraded from hurricane to a Tropical Storm moving towards the western florida peninsula. Made landfall yesterday as