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>> he was one of the early ceos at wamu during the 1980's and i thought it was important to start out because he represents a time in the banking system that has been lost. he represents a time when and banks were much smaller and a very customer focused in the communities suddenly, and wamu during that time was known as the son of the family as i'm sure a lot of you know, and lee pepper infused the bank with an amazing culture where we known across the region as a great place to do banking. it was terrific for employees who worked there and a terrific for customers and then all of t...

bailout was necessary. but basically they went too far and certainly afterwards they used the financial crisis as an excuse to overregulated with dodd-frank, et cetera. >> we are interviewing you year of freedom fest in los vegas. do you find a lot of opposition to the idea? to some of the ideas in the book including the flat tax? >> i think that that is what this event is about. it's about three people and free markets and people understand what is in this book and that is the whole idea that you best serve the needs of people by the free enterprise. that's what it's about and what ...

>> we called them teachers commonly called the nurses come only called him liberians come only called them firefighters come only called them police officers, they were the pillars of our community. they were our everyday heroes. we look up to them. we were taught to respect them. we were taught to say, yes, ma'am, and no, sir to them. and they never abandon us. not one time. no matter how big the fire, no matter how heinous the crime, no matter how slow learner. we say no, we are a better country than that, we are going to let these people up and treat them right. [applause] [appla...

basically we are not safe because we have a big government, we are not safe because there is a lot of -- we are safe because people assume they have to protect themselves and one of the reasons we were given the second amendment to make sure we were safe. [applause] unfortunately in my lifetime there's been a transition away from the way we look at our local police, let alone the federal police. we have a 100,000 federal bureaucrats now who regulate us and our property and marched into our business is and they are carrying guns. i would say those are the guns we ought to regulate. [a...

from the united states and from the imf, a $45 billion recommended that the europeans put in place the same sort of external financing facility of some kind. now why don't think he was saying europe needs a loan from the united states it is a currency quite different from mexico, 1994, but there is agreement or a lot of thinking along the lines of a package of support within the year rose known for example banks stopping by italian debt. so i asked the question if it was $45 billion to save the day in 1995, how much is it today? we had good discussion and afterwards a very distinguis...