If saudi intervened they would attack. This is going to be a long war. Its not over today. Its not a oneday success saudi arabia for my experience will see a lot of devastation because of the Houthi Houthi militants who were able to defeat president hadi within hours will have a very hard time with saudi arabia. But they are insistent that they have the manpower to do so with 10s of thousands ready to fight for them. The saudis say they want the houthis to take part in the pretty cal process wont this push them in to too long . Anything is possible. But as of now the houthi, we have to forget the idea of dialogue and talks doesnt make sense that you bombard a nation and then call for dialogue. Right now the houthis have a clear reason why there is no dialogue and i was hopeful before that the houthis would be involved. But for now this is the beginning of the war. You have been watching al jazerras rolling coverage of the saudi arabialed air strikes on yemens capital in sanaa against H
Our systems were not designed to not pay our bills. The legal issues are many. I do not know how you could make the legal issues are many. I do not know how you could make the decisions and i do not think the legal authorities are clear at all and i do not think the administrative process would permit the system to work. We write roughly 80 million checks per month. The systems are automated tube a because for 224 years, the policy of congress and every president is we pay our bills. You cannot go into those systems and easily make them pay some things and not other things. They were not designed that way because it was never the policy of this government to be in a position that we would have to be in if we could not pay all our bills. If you were to prioritize, its my understanding, we know what youre out pay obligations are to some degree. We have a Social Security payment due and major medicare bills do. On the other hand, knowing the revenues are a little bit sketchy. Could you go
James meredith at the university of ol miss. I like to pick out subjects that i feel have a lot on like to pick out these subjects that i feel have a lot of resonance to our cultural history, biography. Paul hendricksons most recent work, hemingways bonet is the name of the book. Thank you for joining us on booktv. Thank you for having me. Sander and Stuart Taylor talk about affirmative action, oral arguments in fisher versus university of texas. They agreed with the initial goals of affirmative action. That now believe it hurts the minorities. This is about an hour and a half. Thank you very much. Thank you for roger and cato for sponsoring this event, it is great to have such a great kickoff to the book which is being officially published today. I am going to start and talk a little bit about the central idea itself and some of what we found in the book. I will try to relate this more to what is happening tomorrow. I am particularly glad to be doing this at cato because it stood for
Those in with all of these other sources. Host david, thank you very much. I urge everyone to read the book and, later, you can look at the context in those transcripts of these tape recording as they come out over the next year. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. On affirmative action in the prelim to the Supreme Court hearing of oral argument in fisher be the university of texas. The authors report the agree with the National Goals of affirmative action but now agree the system hurts more than helps minorities. This is about an hour and a half. [applause] thank you very much for that introduction, and thank you to roger and cato for hosting this event. Im thankful to have such a good kick off to the book, which is actually being officially published today. As roger mentioned i am going to start and talk a little bit about the mismatch idea itself and some of what we have done in the book. Stewart is going to try to relate this Martin Fisher and what will be happening tomorrow. I a
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