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David rolf on the movement to increase workers wages. And those are just a few of the programs youll see this weekend. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now we kick off the weekend with vicki algers critical look at the u. S. Department of education. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Im andrew parks, the assistant director of lectures and seminars. Thank you all for joining us today. I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind everyone in house to silence yo...

Districts and worked on have our white districts and they went for it. Now they realize they made a bad mistake because you have these safe black districts in these allwhite districts. You have a republican establishment that controls everything in the schools in montgomery its interesting. There are three target schools. And i visited two of them. In the schools they are about one third black, one third Asian American because there are a couple of career and automobile plants near there. So a lot of korean americans and a third white. People go there because they get a good education. I would...

Also become a normal fact of planning and programming. Thank you. Just in the last few days the issue of torture has arisen again. General David Petraeus made a statement that id like to quote to you. He says our nation has paid a high price in recent decade for the information gained by the use of techniques beyond those in the field manual and in my view that price far outweighed the value of the information gained through the use of techniques, i. E. , waterboarding. Beyond those in the manual. The manual obviously prohibits water boarding and other forms of torture. Do you agree with gener...

[applause] im not used to the applause. Walter sackson or bringing isaacson for bringing some dignity to the Wilson Center. C. E. O. Of the nd center. I want to recognize my colleagues from the advisory council, especially my cochair, in the middle there, number two. D [laughter] and heres a list of other dignitaries. Let me first recognize my colleagues from that committee. We have on to michael, the director of the program. Formerly of some very Senior Intelligence posts. Crowley, raj day, mike ayden, another of the luminaries from the intel world. David hayman. Jim loy, christian who used t...

Every election cycle will remind us how important it is for citizens to be informed. Home for political junkees and a way to track the government as it happens. Its a great way to stay informed. There are a lot of fans on the hill. My colleagues will say i saw you on cspan. Theres so much more that cspan does to make sure that people outside the beltway knows whats going on inside it. Next, Homeland Security security jay johnson. Topics include counter terrorism, Immigration Enforcement, Cyber Security and refugee admission programs. From the Wilson Center, this is just over an hour. Good morn...