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Cspan3, a conversation from Brookings Institution on potential increased Infrastructure Spending. During a president ial campaign, donald trump said he wanted to spend more on roads, bridges and airports here in the u. S. Were a little behind schedule so im going to talk fast. Im really pleased that what we wanted to do was bring together people who have done work in the area of infrastructure to talk about where there is evidence, where there is not evidence, where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and ...

Where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and so we have a panel that is one part water and three parts transportation. Newsha ajami is Senior Research associate at the Stanford Woods Institute for the environment, director of urban water policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not for janet yellen or anybody else at the fed. And Cliff Win...

Good afternoon and welcome to the eighth annual tucson festival of books, one of the largest book festivals in the country. My name is ron barber. I am glad to see such a big crowd. Must be a lot of political junkies in the room. Raise your hand. I thought so. Me too. That is why i am glad to moderate. We want to thank cspan which is broadcasting this panel live. Also booktv and Cox Communications for sponsorship of the venue. The presentation will last about an hour. The last 15 or 20 minutes we will reserve for questions and answers from the panel. We ask you to hold your questions for the e...

Think the islamic people who are not terrorists do not condemn them . They dont openly condemn them . Why is that . You have not heard any examples of that . There are stories in the paper that areut groups forming, muslim groups that are forming International Groups to criticize and denounce what isis is doing. Georgia, democrat, good morning. Caller good morning to you. I think the president s speech was on point. We are not going to militarily be able to destroy terrorism. We can slow them down, stop them from coming here, but we are not going to destroy terrorism altogether. Host i have to...

A captive audience. You can work with them in so many different ways to make sure that you do more and get that recidivism rate down to the 20 percent where taxpayers are no longer paying 30 some thought to 530 some odd thousand dollars a year to house these people. It is a win win for everyone involved. The notion of talking about reentry and figuring out Practical Solutions is something we need to continue to dialogue as we go forward. Thank you for that. We have time for two really good and short questions. [applauding] [inaudible question] and if you look at the issue of wrongful convictio...