School districts. Spakers gave recommendations for funding inequities and educational opportunities. The American Enterprise institute hosted this event. I want to say good morning to everyone. My name is gerard robinson. Im a resident fellow at the American Enterprise institute. For those of you who are in our audience if this is your first time whom to aei a very beautiful building. If this is your second or third time welcome back. For those of you watching on cspan or through our live steam on aei i want to welcome you as well. Taed i have an opportunity to moderate a very important conversation babout a subject that gets little attention but impacts everyone, School Finance. The law and the road ahead. I have an opportunity to speak today with four attorneys who come at School Finance from different standpoints. Each person will have an opportunity to come to the podium. He or she will speak for ten minutes. Once weve completed all the presentations then we will have a moderated c
Classes for you. Futures in the United States, the s p 500 on a three day losing streak. Look at the euro. 1. 08. The politics, the risk diminishes a little bit. A confluence of different pressures taking us there. Alix part of that has to deal with the new pressures. The pound, look at that, 1. 24. That is up 0. 8 . Gold is going nowhere. It is treading water. Crude oil is up about 0. 6 . Jonathan we start with the French National debate last. Macron and le pen coming out on top. Our Deputy Europe chief covers french politics joining us now. Lets start with macron. Where did he strike his blows . I would caution you on saying this is an actual win for him. He went into this as a potential frontrunner, tied with le pen. What he needed to do was maintain that position. It is fair not to say that he maintained that position. Two polls since the debate last peoplehow that 29 of thought macron did best in the debate. That is better than anybody else. That is a good thing. He probably conso
Reports of prizewinning author lawrence wright, and your phone calls. Near the end of june, watch for the annual roosevelt reading festival could reading vessel. Then author interviews and panel discussions. At the beginning of september were live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival, celebrating its 15th year. Thats just a few of the events this summer on cspan2s book tv. President obama says this is the first memorial day since the end of military operations in afghanistan and the first memorial day since 9 11 that the u. S. Is not involved in a major ground war. The ceremony at Arlington National ceremony is 50 minutes. Present arms. [starspangled banner] order arms. Present arms. [drum roll] [taps] order arms. Ladies and gentlemen the wreath ceremony is complete. The Memorial Day Service will begin shortly. Please take your seats. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please stand and remain standing. The command chaplain, joint force headquarters, and the
Defense secretary ash carter laid the takeover blame securely on iraqi forces saying they had no will to fight. It will not only talk about the statement made but will also ask you in the first 45 minutes to talk about iraq and what the u. S. Should be doing their whether they need more u. S. Forces, doing the same or less. You might have a lot of opinions and you can give us your thoughts. 202 7488000 four democrats. 202 7488001 four republicans. 202 7488002 for independents. Join the conversation on facebook. Send us an email. The Washington Post picked up the statements of ash carter talking about ramadi and the state of Iraqi Security forces. For the full interview, here is a bit of it. [video clip] the iraqi forces showed no will to fight. They were not outnumbered. They vastly outnumbered the opposing forced and yet they failed to fight. They withdrew from the site. That says to me and most of us that we have on young issue an issue with the will of iraqis to fight isil and defen
Presidency will look different to us in 20 years and different again 20 years after that. George w. Bushs presidency must be defined by that events of september 11, 2001, when the United States of america was vicious he attacked by an enemy whose leader, Osama Bin Laden skated as far back as 1983 that the United States stated as far back as 1983 that the United States was the mortal enemy of islam and must be destroyed. On 9 11 he declared that he would do whatever was necessary to protect our country, to keep it safe, and to keep it free. This became the mantra of the g. W. Bush presidency. President reagan had his mantra to bring down the soviet union and end the cold war. President lincoln had his, slavery. So did president bush. His golden war on terror kept us safe, and kept us safe. So lets start with that. President bush told the type of leader he would be at his except speech in august 2000 acceptance speech at the Republican Convention speech. I remember it well because i was