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left? >> the consequences? >> uh-huh. >> do you have anything in mind? >> no silver! >> one house member suggested your resignation. >> i dont plan on leaving. and there is no truth for the rumor that ive added an inflatable exit to my office. >> welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday, august 12th. with us, we have mike barnicle. msnbc chris jansing! >> i was going to say pulitzer surprise winner. chris jansing. >> hello. >> its getting hot in here. >> you torched that place, man! th...

let me change that -- yes, we must. thank you all very much. . ♪ >> good morning. i am vice-chairman of the peterson foundation. i will be taking you through our program today. a brief note about our foundation and why we are all here. what we confront and how we address it impact my generation and future generations of america. america. that is what this foundation is we dedicated to preserving economic opportunities for tomorrow by making wise fiscal decisions today. from our persp...

time staffers right now. host: we covered that commission hearing commissionthe debt -- hearing commissionthe debt -- the debt >> after that, at a forum on the federal budget deficit and the national debt. bitter, the head of the securities and exchange committee is asked about the fraud charges against goldman sachs. >> the people who are coming to us in the housing market wanted to have the security that gave them exposure to the housing market. that is what they got. the hearing whe...

and its not -- conservatism is not provoked by anger. its not some angry group of people who are out there to promote big corporations or big business. conservatives are about very easy to understand ideas. strong principles. and strong values that translate into equally strong and equally valuable moles and thats what my book is about. my book is about -- my book is about four basic principles. respect for the constitution and the rule of law in general. not just the idea that the con...

>> activist in the movement against mountaintop mining, tells stories of their fight on what they call the destruction of the land for the sake of the coal industry. carmichaels book store in kentucky hosted this event. its about 40 minutes. >> i have to wear my sunglasses, im sorry, im not trying to be cool, i just cant see. i want to read 10 minutes from my new book, along with jason howard, my co-author, who will read of after me and we spent about two and a half years working on th...

that america can ill afford to stop producing men like andrew goodpastor and dwight eisenhower. thank you so much. [applause] >> we had a slide show for you, but unfortunately, we are powerless in the hands of technology these days, so were going to be unable to bring that to you. so do i have any questions that i can answer? yes, sir? >> i just wondered if you -- its a little bit off topic, but the fact that eisenhower, his remarkable brother -- [inaudible] there must have been someth...

>> and not just in the maritime. must make absolutely. >> as former defense secretary knows, we are. i mean, we are ourselves setting people free because there is not sufficient evidence to take them to a court of law. we do that in maritime environment. we do that in afghanistan, but equally where we are seeking to detain people and cooperate with countries, whether its iraq or afghanistan. it is enormously problematic, enormously problematic and enormously controversial. the one or t...

>> good afternoon and welcome to the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas. i am the director here. we are delighted we have such an outstanding crowd and what is going to be a fascinating conference over the next two days. we also want to thank all of our visiting scholars for taking the time out to visit campus here and to be part of this. as those of you who have attended dole institute programs before no, we are a hybrid facility. we have a museum, we have ...

mistake, and i know lisa hinted at this, of having the federal government stepped in and mandate things, where over the last 100 years, state commissions have done it, and that is what we have universal access. that has been done by the state commissions and with the right charters, they can also achieve this transition. >> i think this is where the vision thing comes in. we dont need to know what color the cat is. it needs to catch mice. we already regulate gasoline based on performan...

periods of a decade. in those situations you do need to have i would argue, i would argue apollo actually because it had gemini actually had a lot of successful demonstrations along the way for learning purposes etc.. but, otherwise you are stuck with the iss model and i dont think that is a pretty model. i dont think we want that. .. the jordanian ambassador to the u.s. spoke this morning to thnation council of u.s.-arab relations. his comments on the middle east and relations with t...