But the schools right down the street. If we run out the door right now, we can catch it case open . Closed. Okay, well wow. Since were not doing any police work, i just wanted to mention its teds Retirement Party tonight, and somebody ate all the buffalo wings out of the fridge. Case closed. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, checks and unbalanced. Plus, stephen welcomes Bryan Cranston. Rupaul charles. And musical guest bonnie raitt. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hello i love it. I love it. Thanks, everybody. Please, have a seat, up here, down there. Thank you, one and all. What a lovely, lovely greeting. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. You know, folks, i love new york, because it is not washington, d. C. Its bad down there. Its bad, its like the battle of winterfell down there. This morning, donald trump asserted
Do that way and one of the things i wrote down that wasnt in my campaign, but as i took office, my major job was to spend money. Not to save money. But to spend money, but to spend it in the right way. And then as i analyzed and had when i was on the counsel, the very negative funding for us is property tax. If you raise property tax they want to hang you by the nearest tree. If theres not a tree, theyll just run over you with their pick up truck either way. But you dont mess with property tax, so i got our city out of the property tax business. We fund our city basically by two sources. Sales tax and eweutility franchise and when you do that, people dont care where you spend money. As long as you dont raise their taxes, they are fine and we raise the taxes by good, Economic Growth that ill talk about in a minute and so, that is where we have come from and that is a that has allowed me to do that in that way. Philosophically for my goals my overarching goal or principle is if it doesnt
Solutions that could be brought to bear. And i know a key point of all that is the coordination between the various entities that are involved to bring it together. One of the reasons why, again the Safety Management system approach, i think, is going to be so valuable for our transit agencies in terms of safety is that youll need to ask the question. You know for my system how important is the connection with pedestrian interface. Do i have a number of is this a centerpiece, say, for my new bike network im building in my community because im actually encouraging lots of people to come to my station on bikes. Therefore, who would i work with at the Public Works Department in the jurisdiction where i am to ensure that the right, you know lighting or fixtures or something are in place. So, i think all of that is to say were recognizing its a very dynamic and very sort of casespecific area, like so much of what we need to do. Its not a blanket, here is the format i need to fill out to mak
Thank you, i yield back, thank you. Gentleman from georgia is recognizes. Thank you, mr. Chairman to the witnesses being here today, i appreciate you being here. I dont know when in my lifetime ive been more concerned about the internal security of america, not just from our safety and security, but our economic security. And on several fronts for different reasons. One of the things that i know has been spoken about here and at other times is the threat of isis. As not only being what i understand the most well funded the best organized terrorist organization in the history. But also there ability to effectively use the internet and social media. Theres one thing to use social media. Those of us engaged in politics, we spend a lot of time studying the effective use of social media. How do you come up and stand out amongst billions of users across the world . And it appears that isis is doing a very good job. Theyre effectively marketing to our youth which is especially concerning to m
Madison writes 20 essays in a row. He did that well hamilton was practicing law. Then madison had to run to be a Convention Delegate for ratification. Then hamilton writes 20 in a row. You have this partnership that begins with them working together and then and in these extended solos. It is a very interesting process. Brian lamb when did you get the idea of separating your book into founders. I will ask you to give us a little bit about each one of them and how they relate to madison. Starting with George Washington. David stewart with washington you know that he was the man. He was the Great American hero the Great American leader. Without him, there is no country. And so, when i discovered madisons connection with washington, he was always going to be in a second position. Washington was the out the mail the alpha male. Others in that generation had problems. Madison came to terms with it but always they felt uncomfortable. Madison was able to say i accept that George Washington is