Prism. On that one, they are the only community, the only community in the poll, that had strong feeling about its just their position on that issue is religiously motivated. Now here, we havent done all the analysis yet. There will be more analysis of the data when we look at further demographics as weve done in the past one. But i would suggest that if you look here, just at the democrats and republicans alone, it tells you that there is something of a world view that you have to analyze. Just by looking at the differences on some critical issues. Now, going back to tamars question about attitudes toward the muslim worlds ive been doing that polling for a dozen years across arab countries on multiple issues, including attitude towards extremism and al qaeda. Weve asked many questions originally about al qaeda specifically. There is something to be learned here because initially when we probed about attitudes toward al al qaeda over the past decade and a half, certainly after 9 11, wh
And that was hed asked you about mindless austerity, mindless sequestration cuts, ndless which was both in your written testimony and your spoken testimony. Do you really mindean mindless or was that a misspeak . What i mean by that is we sspea should look to make smart cuts hould in programs that arent working. It doesnt say smart. It says mindless. The implication of mindless is that it t applies a kind of across the board one size fits all approach to cutting spending as opposed to what i think were trying to do in our budget, which is to be much mortar getted. Fair enough. But i guess the point the chairman was getting at is given that bob woodward wrote about it and he says it was the brain child of jack lew in the white house. Was the president not smart in offering that proposal . I think the history was it was something that was thought to be so bad that it would neverd neve go into effect. So i dont think anybody at the time thought it was a smart strategy for reducing our bud
Republicans economic agenda, included massive unpaid tax cuts for the rich. Two unpaid wars and a doctrine of no regulation no supervision of wall street. It is this radical agenda that precipitated the financial meltdown and shattered our economy. How bad was it . On the night of thursday, september 18th 2008, the secretary of the treasury came to the capital for an emergency meeting with congressional leaders to inform us of the severity of the meltdown. When i asked the chairman of the fed, at the time ben bernanke what he thought of what the treasury secretary was telling us . He told the leaders, if we do not act immediately, we will not have an economy by monday. This was thursday evening. Thats where we were, september 18th 2008. In order to stop the meltdown of americas financial institutions, it was necessary for us to pass the troubled assets release program tarp supported largely by democrats and later we enacted historic consumer wall street reforms with dodd frank regulati
Years. Ill continue with the introduction, but i want to say a couple things. First of all, please silence your cell phones, tweet up a storm if you want, but silence your cell phones. To tweet, its pelosiatbrookings. And also, we will be circulating cards for you to ask your questions, im going to try to ask as many of them as i can. I want to thank all the folks of brookings who have worked very hard. Nancy pelosi has proudly represented californias district for 27 years. She has led the House Democrats for over a decade. The first woman in American History to serve as speaker the american recovery and reinvestment act and quite a lot of other legislation as well. As you will hear from the remarks, proper legislative been an advocate of clean energy, Government Transparency and accountability it is a pleasure to welcome nancy pelosi to brookings. Thank you for joining us today. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. Its an honor, its really an honor to be he
Executive order on immigration. Talking about the possibility of the u. S. Sending arms to ukrainian forces. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. This sunday, david brooks, columnist for the new york times, on writing an article and awards he gives that at the end of your. The sydney awards are given to the best magazine essay of the year and they can be journals like the new yorker or the atlantic. If they come around out around that christmas week, and the idea is to step back and not read tweets, even newspaper articles, but to step back and have the time to read something deeper and something longer. It is to celebrate those longer pieces. I do believe magazines change history. The new republic, until its recent destruction was the most influential political magazine of the 20th century, changed history. It created a voice for new liberalism. It gave it a voice. Sunday night at 8