Twitter. Or post your comments on facebook. You can also email us. Well get to your thoughts here in just a minute but joining us on the phone is peeper baker of the New York Times. What is the u. S. Response so far . And what is the president weighing . What are his options . Good morning. Its nice to talk to you. It is a tough situation for barack obama obviously. There are two different distinct issues here as you raised them already. First is for the american side and the european side getting access to the site and getting the bodies out of there sitting in the field many of them still bloated and literally rotting. A terrible ordeal for the families of the victims that only want their loved ones back at this point. The second point is the larger implication. What does it mean for the relations between the west and the rest of the world with russia at this point . The investigation being conducted by american intelligence agencies and others around the world increasingly pointed t
Fellowship former president of the prison fellowship when he was there he liked to talk about the fact that today we lock people up because we are mad at them when we should be reserving prison and jail space for people who we are afraid of. There are obviously people who have committed crimes and who are dangerous enough that they need to be kept away from rest of society. They built the prisons and the prosecutors build them up. I have to say one thing in trying to get real Prison Reform through and we have done most of our work at the state level as im sure doug knows, we have had Great Success working with democrats, republicans conservatives and liberals than with governors who are concerned about two things. One, the way their systems are working or not working in the cost of the systems in many states across the prison system is greater than the cost of a Public Education system and they both work just about as well but maybe a reallocation of resources might be in order. I have
Your specific term. I just want to say this, that the word institutionalization, for these programs, is not one that weve started talking about as a community, say, in the last six months. Under the leadership of the agac, the attorney generals advisory committee, our first chairman was todd jones who had been a former u. S. Attorney in the late 1990s. He came back he said he is a recidivist came back as u. S. Attorney again starting in 2008. Todd preached from day one in institutionalization. Paul did as well, Loretta Lynch as well. Lanny wanted to respond though. I was just going to give an answer to the judges question, one example that my colleagues can talk about what theyre doing in their districts. But the attorney general was mindful of it, so one of the privileges when you are the head of the Criminal Division is you work with the u. S. Sentencing commission and we did do that. We also are able to work with the attorney general and with your colleagues in the u. S. Attorneys o
Mental health is the single biggest driver of well being in this country will he act on a recommendation from the think tank forum and tackle the poorly supported melts by this government signing up to the employers mindful framework and tackle those issues . I will look very carefully at the Center Forward report that he mentions. I think it is important and he helped to do this in government that we now have a situation where Mental Health is given proper parrot of esteem through the pairty of esteem. Weve done good terms of making available for talking therapies for Health Patients but i will look carefully at the report. Youve been watching prime ministers questions. Members will wrap up legislative business this week before they recess for the summer. Prime ministers questions returns in september when members return to the house of commons. To catch up on past prime ministers questions and other British Public Affairs Programs atch any time at cspan. Org. Next, a conversation wit
And 1890s we had concentrations ,f wealth, we had inequality and we had concern about the influence of money in government. We spent the better part of the 1890s giving speeches all over wisconsin. If you were not a speaker for your club or your group, he would give the speech. He went to county fairs, to every kind of event that you could imagine and he built a reputation for himself. By 1900 he was ready to run for governor. Advocating on behalf of the people. He had two issues. Primary. He direct no more selecting candidates for the convention. Two, stock interests. Watch all of our events for madison next saturday at noon eastern. Coming up next to british Prime Minister, David Cameron, takes questions from members of the house of Congress House of commons. Later a discussion of how governing might be done between president obama and the incumbent public and controlled congress. Wednesday, in the british house of commons, David Cameron opened question time but acknowledging who had