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The border, and what could be the first big legislative action and fight of 2013. Just a week after the president s second term inauguration, a consensus over immigration has developed at an unusual speed. The president is due to roll out his own immigration overhaul tuesday in las vegas, but this afternoon a Bipartisan Group of senators unveiled the framework for a major reform bill, including a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants. We still have a long way to go, but this b...

This is press pass, allaccess pass to an extra meet the press conversation. Congressman paul ryans name became well known to the world thanks to being picked by mitt romney to be his running mate in 2012. To share some of his experiences and his thoughts on the future of the Republican Party, he penned a new book. Its called the way forward, renewing the american idea. Congressman ryan joins me now. How are you . Good to see you. Nice to see you. What sort of grabbed me first about the book, not...

Lady. One of the interesting things is the first lady, herself, was not in the room. Mr. Romney was there with his wife, ann romney, but the president was there without the first lady. Michelle obama was not in the room. I think that is what made mr. Romneys joke more awkward than it otherwise might have been. Campaigns can be grueling, exhausting. President obama and i each very lucky to have one person whos always in our corner, someone who we can lean on and someone whos a comforting presence...

I have my beautiful wife, ann, he has bill clinton. Which is a funny joke, but hes also a little bit mean to the first lady, right . Mr. Romney did go on at the end of his remarks to say very nice things, very nice and serious things about the whole obama family. That sort of softened the blow there a little bit. Michelle obama was also the subject of a selfdeprecating joke from president obama, himself. Tomorrow its back to campaigning. Ive been to cities and towns across our great country, and...

Was investing eight hundred Million Pounds, an excellent eight hundred Million Pounds to combat tax avoidance. There was no such investment taking place with 15 cut in the budget. Is the Prime Minister guilty of tax of points for tax evasion . 900 million into specific majors of tax avoidance. All these schemes grew up under years of labour government. They never did a general tax avoidance. They presided over a system where people in the city were paying less taxes than their cleaners and the g...

Raised, at least temporarily, but there are still Big Decisions to be made. You specifically said in the last few days that your priority is to make a big down payment on the debt. A debt crisis that you see in this country. Thats right. What do you specifically require . Whats the priority . What has the president got to do in your point of view . Ill just explain what the speaker said when we passed that bill. Our goal is to get cuts and reforms that put us on a path to balancing the budget in...

Additional revenue. Are you opposed to any additional revenue that could come from tax reform . We offered that back in the fiscal cliff negotiations. The president got his additional revenues. Thats behind us. Those higher revenues occurred, and now we need to focus on getting spending down. Here is the leverage question. Senator schumer said we didnt just get our revenues. We got some. There has to be more that are part of it. The president will say that. So as you are are we for more revenue ...

Critical infrastructure that we call our Water Systems or our electrical electricity Delivery Systems . I mean, these are real questions. What do we need to do . We need to understand that its going to require a cooperation and a collaboration between the Public Sector and the private sector. Look, im a small government guy. I believe in limited government. I also believe that limited government we have ought to work, ought to be robust. And the government, the federal government has a responsib...

Franklin roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. This was back when we did not have television. We had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity, so they could not listen to the radio broadcast to find out what was going on in other parts of the country. He was an economist from columbia university. He was the head of this project. In 1939, when kodak introduced color film, they sent him to have his photographers try out, see what they could do. Kodak was t...

Mid presenting a history of the united in the mid 189th century. The author recounts the ever changing american landscape during this time from the growing borders to the debate over slavery. The civil war, and reconstruction. This is about ab an hour. [applause] thank you, knick. Thank you to all of you for coming tonight. Thank you to the people at Harper Colins to give support and making a beautiful book. As you can see, its quite lovely. Im talking just about the physicality. You can judge t...