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autobiography to orphans. who paying my student loans. i was recently looking at that famous jfk inauguration speech. ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. i great line, right? [ applause ] really, a gutsy line for a politician. think about it. it s his first day in the office. he says my fellow americans, don t look at me. you want something done, do it yourself. that is refreshing isn t it? that s what i want to hear more of. from now on, when i m looking at candidates, i only have one thing on my wish list. give me this one thing and all the other things fall in place. give me freedom. it s sad that we have to say that. it supposed to be a given. remember the constitution? the first amendment is all about freedom. there s a reason the founding fathers put it first. thanks all the while of white guys. [ applause ] the bureaucrats in charge said freedom is great. it would have to wait. we re in a climate crisis. we re in a health
[applause] primary thank you so much and look forward to the discussion. Thank you and i want to thank everyone for coming back of the room is pretty full. Its really what everyone was waiting for you spent the whole morning here. Last night i went to sleep, i was thinking this event is set up perfectly, the sequencing of the panel first the director women will give us the percentage of gdp in which it becomes guns available. There will come in and tell us that night is falling for the last it is in order, the economy will collapse and this cannot both will in the afternoon and saved america and eventually have statues all around the country. The panels for those of you who did not quite go where i laid out and assume we are here to talk about how to raise taxes in the subpanel about policy not politics policy does not operate in a vacuum, its a political something of those work earlier today. I want to talk about ways in which we operate. Ill ask this way, why the reduction so hard, w
New york city who is helping us to h great and educated guide fr teachers speeded you canan finih watching this if you go to our website at cspan. Org. We will live there to take your life to a conference on federal spending and debt. Current debt, which is around 100 of gdp is at a level we havent seen since world war ii and is a growing cause of concern. Tackling this problem presents a variety of challenges. Today were fortunate to have a group of very smart and accomplished people who are going to share their insights. Well get to hear a variety of perspectives. To do this, we have a mix of panels, discussions and speakers. Well hear about the economic and fiscal challenges caused by the debt. The impact of debt on invests and consumers, the roles played by Social Security. Approaches for analysting fiscal policies and finally a discussion of potential policy options. And a number of dimensions of the debt challenge. For our first panel we have two distinguished speakers, arguably
Hello and welcome to the program, the detention of dozens of people working in the media in india has been condemned by journalists organizations, as well as press freedom and civil rights groups. The government says the raids were covered out carried out to protect National Security claiming media organizations are using chinese funding to undermine the state. The government opponents say the Police Action is a sign of further erosion of press freedom in a country often praised for being the Worlds Largest democracy. So, what is happening to indias media . And just how free is journalism they are . We will be discussing all of that and more with our guests shortly but first this report. Media office raids and journalists questioned, scenes becoming common in india. On tuesday it was the turn of a news portal critical of the government, police searched the office of news click in the homes of several writers. Dozens of them were detained, interrogated and released. Their laptops and mo