Overton, president of the joint center for political and economic studies. The donor class through people who are in office and who are running for office are those same people over and over very often, in the state legislatures and the local things and the families and so on, they are the ones who are corrupt. Right. And theyre the ones who are corrupting democracy. And the other people are not getting the benefits of it because theyre not acting collectively to counteract it and havent found a way to counteract it, in all of these years. On sunday, in depth, live with guest steve forbes, author and publisher of forbes magazine. Hell join us to talk about his life and his latest book, reviving america, in which he argues for repealing the Nations Health care law. Other recent tilthsss include money, freedom manifesto, how capitalism will save us and power, ambition and glory. Then join book tv as we take a tour of the Shakespeare Library in washington, d. C. Go to book tv. Org for the
Events today including a town hall in rothschild. Fourll be there live at 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Bernie sanders is in milwaukee to give remarks with Hillary Clinton at the founders gala. It will include speeches from senators al franken and tammy baldwin. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] every election cycle, we are reminded how important it is for citizens to be reformed informed. Vehicle for empowering people to make good choices. It really is like youre getting a seven course fivestar meal of policy. Boy do i sound like a nerd right there. For political way junkies to track the government as it happens. Most have a television on their desk, and cspan is on. I think it is a great way to stay informed. There are many cspan fans on the hill. When i go back today, they will say i saw you on cspan. Like the history of Grain
To keep the Government Shutdown. Talk to Republican Leadership . We went over their heads to the American People. Ted cruz is a fraud. We must stop it. We cannot accept it. Knuckleheads. The house needs to keep doing what its been doing which is stranding strong. In this republican Government Shutdown hurting the children of america. Certainly hurting us. We make no apologies. This is madness. You still havent figured out what its all about, have you . Starting to feel like this ending. No deal as far as were concerned. Surprise let me get one wave before you take me. Thank you and god bless you. This hour, the president is in a meeting at the white house with Senate Democratic leadership to discuss the ongoing negotiations. The meeting which was Just Announced is latest development in whats been a tumultuous 12th day of the Government Shutdown. Things got a bit heated on the house floor with House Democrats calling out the gop colleagues for changing the rules and preventing a vote to
Youre watching booktv, television for serious readers. Up next, Sheryll Cashin argues that affirmative action policies in education do little to help the truly disadvantaged. She says these policies should be replaced with affirmative action admission policies based on where a child grows up instead of the color of his or her skin. This is about 90 minutes. We are going to go ahead and get started. Welcome to the joint center. My names spencer overton, im the interim president of joint center. I want to start off by thanking brian smedley, carla gallant as well as the rest of the joint center team that pulled this together. Thanks, jerry span, as well as roger clegg for responding, coming in and responding. In april of 2013, i pestered sheryll aboutvw lunch. Sometimes d. C. Can seem so focused on the next position or titles, and i felt like, hey, this is someone who i admire, we can kind of have lunch, build intellectual community, throw around ideas. But sheryll was busy. She said, he
To reflect reality. They have disabled generations from understanding language in a way to contact reality and does have disabled them from using. The down of American Education makes also its a good thing some possible or at least very difficult. I dont know how many people could have followed the argument i just made. Why . Because that takes an Attention Span longer than a few minutes for a few seconds. The American Educational system destroys Attention Spans, among other things, sl is historical knowledge, it better, it better. My name is mary. Im an independent observer. Youre talking about peace, but im beginning the impression that we are promoting are justifying more. You are making an error in the assumption that the natural state of one species is to stay in the natural state of calm for, perpetual conflict. As a matter of fact, there are studies. I dont remember the name of the psychologists, but it was presented to president lincoln. Like i said, i dont remember the names.