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to trim all muof these programs. you want to skut with a scalpel as opposed to a chain saw. will there will be some areas where we actually increase spending. >> a live look at times square the day after the. good morning, its friday, january 28th. >> did i hear that right? >> i dont know. clarify. >> the president is talking about just taking a scalpel to a $14.5 trillion debt and that actually increasing money in some areas. did he say that? maybe it was lost in trance hags. >> it mi...

up next former columnist for the "baltimore sun" presents a biography of a vice presidential biden. mr. witncover discusses his book at the womens national democratic club here in washington. its about 50 minutes. >> i would like to talk about the challenge of writing a biography of a public figure. its a problem because most of these people have public impressions about them and writing a biography i have to get beyond that. true of writing several other books including robert kennedy...

worlds leading figures and built up quite a reputation for himself as a foreign policy expert. one of the highlights was a visit to, to then yugoslavia when he confronted the bosnian strongman, slobodan milosevic, and called him a war criminal to his face. controversy came up over that as well as some people said, well, it really didnt happen. but i have in the book here a picture of biden shaking his fist over the table at milosevic. [laughter] later chapters in this book talk about b...

>> im thrilled to be here for the fourth year in a row speaking at the national apologetics conference. alex mentioned that i have a new job. im the president of the kings college in new york city. its a christian college, with a quite unique mission. most christian colleges, and sometimes are a shelter from society. they protect christian students from what is deemed often right as the toxic influence of mainstream institutions. one of the dangers, however, is that when you insulate y...

>> because they didnt. reality intervened very quickly. and the same is true with the holocaust which is one of the reasons why its such a difficult subject. people think there has to be, you know, there has to be a plan with proper paragraphs with hitlers signature at the bottom and, of course, there is no such thing. hitler and himmler talked about this themselves, there are thousands and thousands of indications about what they talked about, but one is never going to find a plan whi...

three of them came to live with a vonnegut family. so they had quite a large household, seven children, and vonnegut at that time was writing books that at that time were less familiar, but he has published several books and articles for magazines, as well as working a job as a car salesman for sob. the expense of writing about dresden and what happened to him was tremendously difficult for vonnegut. it took him about 20 years to be able to publish the book, slaughterhouse-five. jane, ...

shias army and the developed arabs. .. >> ive spoken to a few people who work in the green zone and the way they describe it sound like an american compound. they have their american bars and they have their own parties and dont fill out in the city. the kind of security, the u.s. embassy, so i guess my question is what exactly comprises the green zone and what is going on there? if there is no occupation what is -- can you clarify? >> the green zone has changed over the years. initial...

>> occurred in the year 2000. something that shocked a lot of people. it didnt shock some of us who were watching it because the old anti-semitism was never really ca that are sized out, it was never purged out. probably the country that did most in facing its history in terms of antiseminhl was germany but the rest of europe some played victim, austria played victim, denied it, etc. and so the problem -- and then came the new anti-semitism which was the anti-semitism relating to israe...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applauding] >> thank you very much. that was a very generous introduction. after to you, what a privilege to be here. just to give you an idea of how much president reagan did to me : not only as a young student, a year of income and later as a congressman, the fourth floor of the capital. the famous building at three long built, there is exactly one painting, one portrait, one declaration in my office. in this office that used to be...

i know you two both work for "the new new yorker," but i was looking for a deeper connection to ask you about your writing, i noticed in davids new book in the peace about the obsessive conan doles hand and scholar who is mysterious found dead. you say that arthur conan dole in 1906 began to turn his powers to solve mysteries, including the case of serial killer. thats something that you have in common with detectives. that you turn your powers of observations on the world to solve rea...