Shawn colvin, welcome. [shawn] thank you. [eric] nice to see you again. [shawn] you too. [eric] its so nice to hear your voice coming out of a record, i have to tell you the great fun ive had over the last couple of weeks listening to this record. It reminds me how much i enjoy hearing your music. Thank you. And its a really great, and interesting, and different record. Its very spare, very raw, and casual. Not is as if pejorative i say that, but it just doesnt feel like its been overproduced and over done. Feel like you all had fun thats a great compliment. [eric] making it. We did, and it was done quickly, a week and a half and [eric] you recorded it in a week and a half . We did. And those are exactly the words we want you to use to describe it. Good. And it was recorded in different places, or it was recorded in one place . No, it was recorded in nashville with buddy miller whos a producer and often its not when he produces, you record at his house, which is what we did and it was
Washington journal continues. Host joining us on the washington journal is dan stein , federation for American Immigration reform or fair. What is fair what positions do you take on immigration . Guest it is an organization that believeS Immigration should serve the national and American Interest and that immigration laws should be enforced and enforceable and we should set them at levels that the low enough level that it does not challenge domestic priorities or confound global objectives. Right now immigration is far too high, it is unsustainable and everybody can see impacts from all across the country. We want to bring it down to 300,000 a year or less and we would like to implement legal reforms to make sure every immigrant is legal. Host how many Illegal Immigrants can come in on a yearly basis currently . Guest a statutory basis would run 750 but is too high. There are administrative techniques in the last two years and we also saw studies the other day, the last two years were
Rockies in colorado springs. [applause] this is a very interesting place for me to stand. I can honestly say im a product of my environment. I grew up in cedar rapids, iowa, the city of about 120,000 folks, the secondlargest city in iowa. My folks were very supportive. They took me by the behind when i needed to and they grabbed the reins when i need to slow down and they scolded me when i did the wrong things. I was a pretty excited young man. I cannot say i was the most excited about school but i was very excited about life. Growing up, life was really good. I had every freedom that every american enjoyed at my fingertips and the got to enjoy them. My parents do not lock their doors to their house because people will not come in of they are not welcome. This is where i grew up. I said i was not a big studier or big on school. One day i was in school and my life changed forever. I was a junior in high school and it was Early Morning and they were doing the viscosity of liquids. I was
Governments request is unprecedented and violates among other things the companys First Amendment rights that protect against compelled speech. On the other side of the corporate story thats capturing the worlds attention is fbi director james comey who earlier today testified on capitol hill. I love encryption, i love priva privacy. When i hear corporations saying were going to take you to a world where no one can look at your stuff part of me thinks, thats great, i dont want anybody looking at my stuff. Then i step back and say, Law Enforcement, which im part of, really does save peoples lives. Rescue kids. Rescue neighborhoods from terrorists. We do that a whole lot through court orders that are search warrants and we do it a whole lot through search warrants of mobile devices. Were going to move to a world where that is not possible anymore . The world will not end but it will be a different world than where we are today. Amon jaffers has been following the story from washington. W
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