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brian: how long in advance did you plan that? eric: well, to be perfectly honest, as with all of my answers, i will be bold and mili-mouth simultaneously. i did not planet. i really thought, maybe i will do that. a lot of people think of me as somebody who does comedy. i can be and often am but often i m deadly serious. i thought i would be standing next to the president speaking to 3500 of the most important people in the world here in d.c., who knows how i will feel in the moment. i do not know. so i had the idea i might to do , that. i thought maybe i would give him the book later. but if i feel, as the new yorker i would use the word chutzpah. if i feel in the moment to pull off the goofiness, i will do it. i honestly had no idea whether i would feel confident enough to joke with the president. turns out i did. but i just i had no idea. i was prepared because i had the books. know,en that was, you last-minute. brian: what impact has there been on bonhoeffer now th ....
couldn t get the full accounting accounting. the 300 billion doesn t include come under budget how much is going into that basic research to find the basis for the major mental illness? roughly 50% spirit what is your total budget? 1.45. 12% are going to hiv. by the way, my state has ever had per capita incidence of hiv and my patient population a disproportionate number of hiv. i am absolutely where of the nature of the issue of hiv but it does seem, if we have too few dollars going to the brain initiative and you ve got roughly $800 million going to something that basic research or something which is costing us at least 300 billion, probably far more, as important as the it seems like we should be throwing everything we have an understanding that basic sort of science regarding that. the 12% where does that come from? i mean i guess my priority, when i go back and look and we are spending $19,000 per death on hiv, ma i ve a sense we probably spending probably ....
we have disagreed about aspects of the application of first amendment principles to situations from campaign-finance to the regulation of political speech but agreed about hate speech and centrality of the american tradition. and both mark and bill talked about something we have seen throughout the state, that there is a real value to bringing people to disagree fundamentally together. as those of us on the stage and in the audience are, listening respectfully to each other, so we can identify areas of agreement and disagreement. your job, ladies and gentlemen is to go have a drink, which you have earned, but to answer the question i just raised to the panelists. think about what each of you will do over the next year to celebrate freedom, participate in debates about it, and encourage other americans the same to do the same. this is about self education. educate yourself. you have to learn about the ordinance on all sides of these debates so you can make informed dec ....
even if there is not an immediate lifting of the sanctions. on the pnd, i can tell you the , french are keen of having we re not going to let the pnd issue under the carpet. the negotiations, for the moment, obviously they are not moving forward quickly. it means that the iranians make the calculation that it could be easier to get concessions from the ministers with some dramatization. a good deal of dramatization. it is also theater. there are some theatricals in negotiation. really, don t listen to the outside declarations. the sanctions will be lifted in an incremental, reversible conditional way. each side will have to be able to prepare its public for the opinion. peter: i think he was mindful of protocol. it contains provisions that provide for access to military science. i think where mindful of that protocol. peter: there is that, there are also proper inspections separate from protocol. there has to be a proper inspection regime so that we can if we have re ....
george w. bush at southern methodist university. commencement addresses begin at noon eastern here on c-span. george bush: when i mention the speech through some of my pals they were surprised i was going to give it. i have not given a commencement speech since leaving office. my decision is quite practical. i got a phone call from my landlord. [laughter] gerald turner. rather than reasoning raising the rent or holding the security deposit, i was surprised to hear him ask if i believe in free speech. [laughter] i said, yes. he said, perfect, this is your chance to get one. i am truly honored to be here. you can see all of george w. bush plus commencement speech bush s commencement speech tomorrow noon. sunday night at midnight some provisions of the patriot act require. mitch mcconnell wants to extend all of the act, but ran call rand paul opposes. to try to come up with a legislative compromise, mitch mcconnell has called senate back in one day early on sunday ....