Every year the committee invites the Homeland Department of security to brief us on the affairs. To question the administrations policy as well as an opportunity for the department to take responsibility for its actions. It is a pleasure to have secretary johnson here. This is our first opportunity to question him publicly since his exact action on immigration in november. In another is an injunction we can get a good idea of what to expect from the programs based on the way the department has incremented the program. It appears that applications for deferred action are being rubberstamped. Evidenced by the fact that criminals and gang members are receiving special benefits despite supposed policies against it. Take the case of the recipient recipient, accused of murdering four people. Last week the department admitted that he had received dock a despite his gang membership which was known to adjudicators and despite being in department proceedings. Deportment proceedings. It is not cl
Common core. The idea is that this is common core that you have assessments is really not true and people have been opting out. Florida had the most meaningful accountability system in the country. We also have the greatest learning gains in the country. They go together by the way. Its a comprehensive reforms that create the rise of achievement. We were on the nape test, you cant teach for that test. We were 29th out of 31 in 1997 on the fourth grade reading test. Ten years later we were six out of 50. Florida hispanic kids do two grade levels ahead of their counterparts and equal to 33 states on this test. Low income are in the top five. Africanamerican are in the top five in these tests. The reason is that we have meaningful assessments and we have robust accountability and we have School Choice that puts pressure on a system that wouldnt otherwise move. Eliminating elements of the accountability system would get a bad result. When a third of our kids are 40 at the best or career re
All . Walter i use it because it is a way of looking at things. It makes you think about the arguments on the other side. But it makes you focus on facts, first. That has always been one of my theories. It supported that. But mainly, it made you think about the other person. Brian we asked you to chat with us because they want to know more about the way you look at things. I want to show you something that happened 30 years ago. Your first appearance here on cspan. See how much has changed. The Nuclear Debate itself has generally been in the hands in the last 10 years of the extremes. People said you had to have more Nuclear Weapons or the rugs would attack, and people said if you have more theres going to be a war. And i think this sort of debate by the extremes created a lot of the talk about were all going to be killed. I did a documentary called defense of the United States and one of the feelings i wanted to show is that, at that point, we were building thousands of warheads. Peop
1975. Brian what is a significant change in this country that you watched . Walter partisan politics. I really worry now about the system that politics has become. Democracy is built on the idea of compromise. You cannot make it work unless you compromise. Brian your column fine print where did you get the name . Walter ben bradley used to complain that i didnt make sense to most people. I named it fine print because i try to look at things people forget about. Brian how often do you write . Walter i started twice a week and i cut back to once a week because i am writing a book. Brian how old were you when you cut your law degree . Walter i was 68. Brian why did you do it . Walter both of my parents lived to 95. The typical age of retirement at the post is 70. And i figured i had another 20 years to go. A good friend of mine said, what are you be a lawyer . I had covered a lot of trials. My oldest son is a lawyer. And so i went to law school thinking of a practice law. Brian do you use
1975. Brian what is a significant change in this country that you watched . Walter partisan politics. I really worry now about the system that politics has become. Democracy is built on the idea of compromise. You cannot make it work unless you compromise. Brian your column fine print where did you get the name . Walter ben bradley used to complain that i didnt make sense to most people. I named it fine print because i try to look at things people forget about. Brian how often do you write . Walter i started twice a week and i cut back to once a week because i am writing a book. Brian how old were you when you cut your law degree . Walter i was 68. Brian why did you do it . Walter both of my parents lived to 95. The typical age of retirement at the post is 70. And i figured i had another 20 years to go. A good friend of mine said, what are you be a lawyer . I had covered a lot of trials. My oldest son is a lawyer. And so i went to law school thinking of a practice law. Brian do you use