Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. We begin with late breaking developments in the middle east. Isis fighters have taken control of ramadi and iraqi forces have fled. A spokesman for the governor of Anbar Province says, the city has fallen. Ramadi is now the first Major Urban Center seized by insurgents in iraq since isis launched attacks there last year, this despite continuous air strikes by the u. S. And its allies. The battle reportedly claimed the lives of some 500 civilians and soldiers just in the past two days. Meanwhile in syria, Officials Say Islamic State militants have been pu
Air. Please ask mr. Reid to not to be such an obstructionist and sit down and listen. Have a great day. Guest imitate a few days for that message out to get through from me. Theres a lot of concern about budget deficits. In the period after the downturn, budget deficits for in a range of 10 of the entire gdp, the entire economic output of the u. S. They have come down a little bit. Economists think to be sustainable, budget deficits have to be in the range of 3 of economic output or a lower. The focus of this effort to reduce deficits now is on getting them, in the federal budget deficit to the range of 3 or so. That is what i mean when i say policymakers are not trying to get rid of the budget deficits. Given the economic weakness, a little bit of deficit spending is probably not a terrible thing, at least in the eyes of some budget economists. I think there would be comfort in washington around 3 of gdp. Getting there is a big challenge. There are problems with medicare and Social Se
Emancipation proclamation. But followed by other historians on the controversy and debate. Part of four days of American History tv at 9 30 on cspan3. The president of the United States [applause] thank you. Happy new year to you. Hello, everybody. Thank you. Everybody have a seat. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the white house. I realize that the last thing you want to hear on new years eve is another speech from me. But i do need to talk about the progress being made in congress today. For the last few days, leaders of both parties are working toward an agreement that will prevent a middleclass tax hike from hitting 98 of all americans starting tomorrow. Preventing that tax hike has been my top priority. The last thing that folks like the folks appear on this stage can afford right now is to pay an extra 2,000 in taxes next year. Middleclass families cannot afford it, businesses cannot afford it, our economy cannot afford it. Today, it appears an agreement to prevent this new
Government surveillance are expected together on the 12th anniversary of the patriot act. That is where we let to begin with you. Where we want to begin with you. With european leaders calling for new restrictions on such actions, we are opening up our phone lines to you this morning. How concerned should america be about the government spying on foreign allies and partners . That is our question for you. Republicans can call at 202585 3881. 3880. Rats, 202585 882. Pendents, 2025853 you can also catch us on your favorite social media, twitter and facebook. Or you can email us at journal cspan. Org. That story on u. S. Spying on its allies, revelations about the u. S. Listening in on phone conversations of World Leaders. Are some papers from around the world, the front page of the Guardian Newspaper shows german canceler german chancellor angulo Merkel Angela merkel. Here is a german newspaper talking about the nsa efforts. That is angulo Merkel Angela merkel and some of the folk she ha
And i think by any terms, he is doing great. He is a household word. Those are just two examples of people who were passionate and knowledgeable and found their way into an area that people were not following. It was extraordinarily, these are the people you should be looking to, not me. My path was weird and cannot be followed. Lets open it up to questions from the audience. When you come to the microphone, please give us your name and where you go to school. If anyone would like to come up. Here is our first inquire. He is adjusting it. Until someone gets the courage up, you mentioned nate silver. He offers the fascinating thesis that it is that talking heads on all the cable channels are the ones who are constantly predicting things that, believe it or not, have the worst prognostication records. He said that the amount of minutes you are on television are inversely proportionate to the accuracy of your predictions. I listen to your show every sunday afternoon. I want to know, i saw