Session ends. We will email several pictures of the session to all the reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. As regular attendees know, if you would like to ask a question, please do the traditional thing and send me a signal. I will happily call on one and all the time we have available. I will start by offering my guests the opportunity to make some opening comments. Thanks again for doing this. First of all, when we think the Christian Science monitor for doing this again. I look forward to it every labor day. I want to thank each one of you for coming out this morning. I know you came out for this, but i want to say thank you anyway and wish you all a happy labor day. I will be relatively brief in my comments so we can get to as many questions and have a discussion. Overall, we have seen some gains in the economy recently, but for most workers, it continues to be an economy stagnation, not a recovery. We did a recent poll. I think it sums things up. We asked people heres th
The feedback between consumers was to say the least very lengthy. Thats as much history as im going to bore you with this morning, but i wanted to go down memory lane because i think its going to accentuate something. We call it the data factory. I want to spend a couple of minutes explaining the powers that have enabled the enormous rise of the data factory in the last 10 years. So a few quick thoughts. First, the explosion of bandwidth and the change here has been unlike anything anyone has ever seen before in any comparable time over the last 25 years. The second is in storage. Its hard for us to imagine today that about 14 of stored information existed believe it or not on vinyl records. Then we all know what has happened with computers and computation. 25 years ago, most of the Computing Power in the universe was in a pocket calculator. Obviously, that has shifted dramatically as the years have gone by. The other thing that has helped change everything for consumers and workers ev
Guest but the interesting thing is, this is a discussion where strategy and tactics and policy. Was that the right call to shut down the government . A lot of people came out of it feeling as though that was not the right strategy. We have seen the Republican Party make a turn. You are seeing a lot more in terms of oversight in terms of focusing on the problems with the law and that has gotten some support from democrats, who also have their own tough questions for the administration. To the extent the Republican Party has turned its attention away from the appeal, the public focus has been a fairly successful strategy. You have seen their Approval Ratings bounce back. About theral articles chamber of commerce and businesses and republicans fighting back against the tea party side. Guest we have heard this before. The question is, whether this is the year. You do not necessarily feel as is a real strategy for pushing back. There is a will for pushing back. Certain candidates have pushe
Elements that trigger Law Enforcement concern as well as the popular press concern, then suddenly this idea of somebody listening to god and having his followers do things that seem to be aberrant to national norms, thats dangerous, and that needs to be policed and controlled. Wesleyan University Religion professor Peter Gottschalk argues that religious persecution in america has been prevalent since the mid1800s, even committed by the very government that is supposed to protect us from persecution. Sunday night at 9 00, part of book tv this weekend on cspan2. Next discussion with peter they, who cover president ial campaigns. This year he conducted a study on the impact of twitter on media coverage. From the New Hampshire institute of politics in manchester, this is 45 minutes. Hello, i am James Pindell from wmurtv, and peter will talk about the point of the paper and what he is trying to study and where it came from, and then we will ask some questions. The heart of this is your ques
They walk through this house and count the trees and look at the ornaments. And none of this would be possible without the 83 volunteers like diane who came from all across the country to help us decorate. Once again, sacrificing, leaving their families because they start decorating this house the day after thanksgiving. Possible for us to do all this without our volunteers. They are a pleasure to work with. They are highenergy. They are positive. Just look around. Every year, they do themselves. We are so grateful for their hard work and enthusiasm. Season, course of the about 70,000 people will come to see our holiday decorations. Not bad. And i cant imagine a better group of people than all of you to be our very first guests. Dont you feel special . [applause] no one has seen it. Not even the president has seen these. You guys are the first. And truly, it is a treat to make your all the first every season. Because you all do so much for us and we are so proud and so honored and so g