You decided to write this book and where the idea originated. The book is 100 percent not about politics 99 about policy but upstream issues prior to row politics and you are right my a background as a business turnaround private by trade i and a historian and spent five years as a College President starting in 37 years old so i was called to to a turnaround i carried cared about this institution i have family connections and my grandpa never went to college worked at this college after World War Two and i grew up on this campus because of my family and it was in trouble. I knew nothing about student culture was restructuring of debt they gaf campuses operation and i got there in one of the things that cause me to lose sleep regularly is tooted culture so i have been in the senate to a half years i am one of five people that have never been a politician but this originates as a worry. You have a story of the Christmas Tree only have decorated that was a key reason to explore this topic
As those two highprofile efforts play out in two of the nations most populaced states, were asking our viewers to weigh in. Should the minimum wage be raised to 15 an hour . If your answer is yes, should it be done on a statebystate basis or as a federal increase . Special lines this morning on the washington journal, minimum wage earners can call in at 2027488000. Business owners, the number is 2027488001. All others can call in this morning at 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media, on twitter, its cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning. The minimum wage increase legislation thats moving through californias legislature is moving quickly this week after that deal was struck early in the week between governor jerry brown and legislators in that state. Heres the l. A. Times talking about the status of that legislation this morning. The plan sailed out of committee yesterday with broad support from democrats and is scheduled for a f
Culture are created and that the government has a positive role to nurture that pluralism, that kind of principled pluralism. So i do think there are some deep political philosophic agreements behind this that are not going to be solved by dealing with the details of cases. How do we deal with pluralism in an increasingly Diverse Society . Very carefully. At the end of the day, i think there needs to be humility and there needs to be empathy. The word empathy is derided in some circles when lawyers say it, but i think its important. I think its important on both sides. We are a Diverse Society. We have people with diverse views, and we cant always get everything we want. Sometimes we should get what we want and sometimes we shouldnt. I think what has disturbed me and many of my colleagues about the weaponization of religious freedom restoration act he said rfra. I did say rfra. When im at church, if i want to pray with only people of the same race and religion and sexual orientation, i
Science about the question of the Reproductive Health and how they suffer and terminally a good deal of agony after theyve gone this particular procedure. Kennedy is acting out in that area. Its always difficult to know where kennedy is going to wind up on any issue that involves the interest because so much of the jurisprudence is driven by the whole constitutions structure of history devoted towards the service of liberty interests but when it comes to the womens liberty of trust interest, they are close to tone deaf in that area. Having said nothing controversial [laughter] i apologize. I misspoke. I think you are the author of a book about justice brennan. So if you want to take thank you. I want to talk about how things have changed. Justice and brennan was in because his catholicism. He behaved deeply in religion but he believed it was personal having religion in the Public Square and public life was divisive. For history sake he was on the court from 1956 to 1990. He participate
Particular. We didnt try to take on the whole envoy question for because the conflict ones had special characteristics. But tom, youre putting your finger on a problem. Because if you looked at the number of special envoys, and its almost the same from one administration to another, youre talking about 25 or more special envoys, and if theyre all supposed to report to the secretary of state, you realize, in addition to all the regular structures, you really have an unworkable structure. [ inaudible ] yeah. So its not bad to put these under some of them under a structured bureau, and therefore have an undersecretary who is handling more of that. And i think we have to be very careful about the proliferation in to areas that, again, sometimes become more symbolic. And i think deserves more attention. On the conflict with other policies, this is very important. We tried to deal with it a little bit, Richard Haass experience working on cyprus in relationship to our relationship with turkey