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>> well, the economy certainly is slowing down. the impact of europe, conditions in asia, and the fact that we really haven't fixed the structural problems that broke the economy in the first place, you know, the stimulus has worn off, and unless we start to do a better job on things we've talked about in the past here like trade, the banks, health care, energy policy, we're not going to have that kind of self-sustaining growth tt will give us the middle class that president obama speaks. >> jared, i want to go to you and focus on one particular aspect of this. obviously, there's a l...

touchstone for politics insofar as, you know, our political decisions affect the economy. so, in other words, a case for entrepreneurship and making that viable. and i have to say that one thing that's quite important for that is health care. i would not have been able to go into business if it weren't for the fact that my wife had a job with health care. and i think there's a lot of people out there who that is, you know, the stumbling block. so -- >> host: you can read his book, or health fix your motorcycle. "shop class is soulcraft" by matthew crawford. >> coming up next, booktv ...

the worst prison weapon i heard about in the course of the time i was incarcerated which is to lack of fought which is a daunting weapon but not 1i found used, more of a legend for me. that is a huge fear. the fear of violence is a fear that certainly my family and friends have for me and i was afraid of violence myself, though the very have limited amount of information i've been able to gather about women in prison as opposed to men in prison indicate to me that maybe that might not be what i was facing but still, i think that day that i felt surrendered in handan vary, the main th...

sure. but i hope and i think that maybe we are slowly moving away from that. .. and so, i berti hosted the u.s. ashcan world country and woman counsel there. we did videoconferencing into afghanistan with the minister of education in the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan. the ambassador was with us from dallas along with several ashcan scholars and from other afghan women who were doing projects in afghanistan, came as the secretary-general who is a bulgarian case. they are very act of literacy. and this u.s. afghan women's council was focused on literacy for afghan women and girls. and...

dismantling it, but toward we have another one called "the breeding of planet earth," which i think he may have seen. right. these films, they trot on a couple of scientists whom we all think should know a lot better supporting the skeptics side. i could mention a few names. willie is one of them. the question shows. the kids asked this. i am sort of tongue tied. what might be motivating these guys? you know, i just wonder if you bump into them and can give me a clue that i can tell the kids? >> it is fruitless to speculate on sort of motivation, it seems to me, a particular people. ...