he dies under robert ely s command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. he feels this loss very sharply. i am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington? [laughter] .. so i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host: and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. and today we are live on the campus of the university of southern california home of the los angeles times festival of books. today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies publishing industry, biographies of world leaders and science, and we ll also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your
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pat brown understood how critical water is. if i am elected governor i m going to invest in water, not the train. water in schools have to come first. i think the question was how do you expect to win? you don t have expectation to win because things have been [indiscernible] they re calling california a failed state. another greece. it is a serious surplus. that is impressive. jobs, we are cutting arts programs in science, and now we have injected $2000 per student because of proposition 30. i think people know california is not perfect. we have our problems. what momentum do we have now. the next question is for governor brown. parts ofor brown, many california depend on the water that comes from northern california. the federal government said your plan for new tunnels will break the law. what will you do? thank you for bringing that up. in southern and northern california. water is frome the north and the people are in the south. my father passed opposition want o
, about the amount of time children have to eat. i ve heard from students that by the time they get to the line five got five minutes, so they take a couple bites and the food goes in the trash because they don t have time. i know this gets into a broader of the school districts and how we define lunch and so on. but i want wondered if you could tell us about this issue of time and the impact on it and whether a is engaging school boards or local leaders to find solutions to this. lunch is aeat school serious concern. district, as school administrators are pressured to they shavest scores, minutes off of the school lunch increase theer to instructional time. each, the staff at location is based on the number of meals served at that location. so i don t just have the ability three people so i can increase the points of quickly.nd serve them and we are looking at ways that increase the number of students we serve and decrease the amount of time that they spend in line. it is
next year. did you make any commitments? we are above 2%. we are one of only four countries. estonia, greece, and britain in the european union, and america, four out of 28. we have stayed above 2% even at a time when we have one of the biggest budget deficits anywhere in the world. i think that is important. i think it is worth looking at what the declaration says pretty what is remarkable is there has always been the 2% pledge in nato, but it has never been set out as clearly as this. clear what has been signed up to. it makes a differentiation. 2% shouldose meeting aim to continue. some year after year have not been spending 2%. it says allies whose current proportion of gdp spent is below on this level will default any toward [indiscernible] an aim to move toward the 2% within a decade. i would give argue there s a lot that has been achieved. proper training missions that will go to countries like jordan and georgia and iraq. here an important breakthrough in terms of