[applause] good morning, everyone. apparently, it s red friday. we re all dressed in red today. [laughter] lots of red in the crowd as well. i hope you re having a good time in washington d.c. the weather is holding out for you, it s not so hot today and not so humid, which is great. how many of you have heard what do you think of when you think of fast and furious? what s the first thing that pops into your head? [inaudible] scandal, for you? anyone think of the movie? [laughter] the series of movies. obama s trying to get people to think that [inaudible] right. exactly. he won t admit that his own justice department sent them to cartels to kill people. well, the embarrassing part about the name fast and furious is that the obama justice department actually named this lethal program after the hollywood movie, and i have the official government slide show, atf slide show cover to prove it. they actually took a screen shot of the hollywood movie cover and put it
do something to counter this. so what they decided to do is loosen up a little, continue some economic liberalization. but the idea was specifically to increase the number of rich business people and the middle class, motto make a free not to make a free society, but to co-opt the educated class which had led the revolution before. and that s what they have right now. so the businessmen and the business leaders and the white collar or class all owe where they are to the communist party and are mostly members of the communist party. so you re not going to have any friction between, say, the entrepreneurs and the business owners and the party because they re, essentially, one and the same. and if anybody bucks the system, they can just be plucked out and replaced with somebody else. i guess the underlying crisis that i address in the book is, um, and on the back of it there s this great photo. people think i m too fixated on it, but it s the president of the united states bow
where we can freely come together and gather and share ideas. lord, we thank you so much for phyllis, her vision, her faithfulness, her unrelenting work and for her unique insight into what makes this nation so excellent. we know that it s you. father, a thank you for each one of use of thank you for each one of these and people. we thank you for the time and pray that continues throughout the day. please bless each one of our speakers as they come out and impart wisdom. we pray that you would bless each one of these young people at that lead today to go out and change the nation, to protect those values that make it so great, to reflect you. we pray that each one of these and people would not grow weary but they would mount up on the wings like eagles. but pinky for the state and ask you to bless it might lead in jesus name. thank you. and we do appreciate the hospitality of the heritage foundation for some 200 students coming from about 100 different colleges. i hope y
coming up next, booktv presents afterwards, an hour-long program where we invite guest host to interview office. this week, katie pavlich and her first book transcended into the contributing editor of townhall magazine explores the controversial can supply operation currently under congressional investigation. she discusses her findings with national journal white house correspondent major garrett. katie pavlich, what is fast and furious? why does it justify a book? what is the essence of this story from your vantage point? essential will start with what the justice department this administration claimed fast and furious going to be and to repeat into what actually happened to the justice department in partnership with other agencies and departments like homeland security claim that the goal was to spend and allow people who come in straw purchasers of? people are coming to gun shops and buy guns for other people, transfer them to criminals, transfer them to cr
we have not refused. chris: has he testified before the committee? he testified for two days. chris: in a public hearing? no, in a private gathering with republicans and democrats under oath. our lawyers were asking those questions. from that we asked for documents. our in te intention is to havem back on a panel along with dennis burke and others. chris: i hate to interrupt but you we have limited time. congressman cummings does that satisfy you? no, i have asked the chairman to bring the atf director nelson before us. he has refused to. we asked for witnesses to come before the public hearing. he has refused to do that. all i m saying is i the chairman in me has a willing partner if we are really going to be about the business of keeping our promise to the terry family. i want to do that. that is so very, very importa t important. but i can tell you that again and i think and i have said it before, chris, i think with