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I wanted to write demand the impossible a radical manifesto, i am in the majority of public opinion. I am not a barricaded minority with some weird outlier ideas which i am in the majority with issues like war and peace, mass incarceration. I wanted to take it out of the frame given to us and make it in the form of a manifesto, this is what we are fighting for. I wanted to say, lets take one example. Healthcare. Obamacare or the way it has always been. I reject that. I want free healthcare for a...

Three titles that will be published in the fall. Host harold meyerson, in your upcoming book michael rose, the use of the word manifesto. It is an attempt to write clarity, all these issues we debate have been framed incorrectly or in a way that narrows the imaginative landscape. I wanted to write demand the impossible a radical manifesto, i am in the majority of public opinion. I am not a barricaded minority with some weird outlier ideas which i am in the majority with issues like war and peace...

Cspan all right. You say also in the acknowledgments that, i have spent countless hours discussing this book with my beloved partner in life and work with whom i spent countless hours. who is your husband . Guest my husband is steven postrel. Hes a phd economist who teaches Business Strategy at ucirvine down in orange county. We live in los angeles. We met when we were 18 years old, freshmen at princeton. And weve been, you know, were just kind of soul mates, andintellectual and otherwise. Cspan...

That front. Guest part of the challenge in wrapping this management arms around the challenge is that it has, it is been at this odd quirk of the way it was set up. Is legally prohibited from investigating its own workers misconduct. Investigate your coworkers misconduct. Instead, because of the way that they had anp, argument for doing it this way. All of those have to go to the Inspector General for the department of homeland security. Is the dhs igs who is never had the resources to police th...

Circle award in nonfiction. All this and more on booktv, television for serious readers. For a complete schedule for today and for this coming weekend, booktv. Org. Next, from the first bill of rights day book festival, yuval eleven discusses his book the great debate edmund burke, thomas paine and the birth of the right and left. [inaudible conversations] [applause] ladies and gentlemen welcome to the second installment of our thrilling, firstever National Constitution center bill of rights boo...

Into harms way without necessary readiness. Im having a very difficult time in light of the six months that weve been at war in iraq and syria against isis and in light of the president s authorization for the yoous of military force or aumf that is now before congress for this krgsz. Im having a very hard time understanding what the strategy is. And i want to make sure that, as my colleagues have said, that we fund our military well beyond the budget caps in the sequester levels. I agree with t...

And that also and this is very important and this gets back to the earlier discussion of sequester if its in the base budget, it is the base upon which we build our future budgets, and we need stability. We need a horizon so that we know what our budget is going to be not only this year but in years to come. Otherwise, we cant spend it efficiently, and we cant spend it strategically. We need that kind of horizon and sequester is what robs us of that, and thats why its bad in a manage yearal sens...

Deeper impact because you have to get the money where you have to get it. You cant shed it quickliness. You cant shed excess infrastructure quickly enough. You cant terminate contracts because of the penalties involved. Even if youre taking more than you should out of readiness. I think readiness suffers more than you think. Thank you. Mr. Secretary, i share in the terms of my colleagues and the other o if i believes in the detriments of sequestration. But im also skbresed in efficient ways. Spe...

Military level over there and things at the political level, both of which are change inging. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And general dempsey, i join my colleagues in sending warm wishes your way and thank you you for your more years of serving o our great nation. Mr. Mccord, i would like to chat about the budget thats upcoming. The House Budget Committee chairman proposed boosting the Defense Budget with an increase of allocation. Is an oko dollar just as useful as a base budg...

Administrations budget request and a number of other of other issues that are before us. I would say one of the Key Takeaways the last few months has been the growing number of threats to our technological superiority. We have had classified and unclassified sessions on that and to me, it is one of the key challenges that we chase that we face. As i mentioned secretary, i was perusing my bookshelf, and i came upon a very brilliant edition called keeping the edge, looking towards the future and t...