Ive seen pros stents and catholics who swore never, never shake hands, and ive seen a man walk out of a prison cell thats held him for 28 years to become elected president of a majority ruled and free south africa. Ive seen the Carolina Panthers win eight games in a row and go perfect in the nfc south division, so dont tell me its impossible. Its just hard. Thank you very much. Its been a pleasure talking with you today. [laughter] [applause] great stuff, joe, spectacular. As youre thinking of questions, we have a boom mic in the back to bring around to anyone with questions. We will not leave here until we get questions from a student or two, so get them cued up. Im mike holly, board member of the World Affairs council, and as you prepare to ask questions, i have to say one ning, and that is, if youre in the a member of the World Affairs council, we need now to be. Thats true of everyone in the room, but also true for those of us watching on cspan, sign up on our website. Well be glad
Ocean, desert and i said definitely ocean. Desert will kick up radioactive dust and pose a danger to the community. They said fantastic. They called me back a week or two later and said we looked into it. Its too expensive to fill the test so we have to crash the plane in the desert. Can you come up with a reason that we shouldnt put it in the ocean . And decide what about making sure we dont harm fish . I said what about saying theyre visiting the area and this would cause an International Integration . Are the with the fish . [laughter] the lesson you should take from this is television advisers, and dramas do not have a lot of influence. [laughter] on behalf of the council and everyone here tonight, thank you for speaking. [applause] due to the recent discussion on student loan rates in congress, for the next hour book tv brings you portions of author presentations about the cost of Higher Education. We start with a panel from june that included William Bennett come author of is Col
Host youre watching booktv on cspan2, and now joins us live is the author of flash boys. Michael lewis, what is a flash boy . Guest the heroes of the book are the flash boys, and theyre people that discover the stock markets got something funny going on and seek to find out what it is and then build a mechanism to prevent predators in the stock market from getting to prey. Its called flash boys for a couple of reasons, actually. One is that the solution that the main characters come up with requires them to be faster than the highspeed traders who are the predators in the stock market. So theyve got to be, i wanted speed in the title, but i also wanted kind of superhero in the title because they were these, i mean, these characters presented the story, i felt. Theyre not doing anything unnatural, but they do have these weird powers in the Financial Markets right now, and the powers are powers to explain complicated things to people, the power to kind of engender trust in others. But th
To talk about what as long as elements are going to be part of it. Also to strengthen the perception that justice will be here in the hope that we can deter some of the conduct, encourage people to desert, discourage people in the opposition for taking an eye for an eye. Sure. In this respect, what would be your reaction, your advice, if in the fullness of time were faced with the following proposition. President Bashar Al Assad and 200 of his closest enablers are willing to leave syria forth with and bring an end to at least one phase of this conflict. In return for imunite from prosecution. Is that doable under Current Conditions . Is it unthinkable . First of all if we were actually presented with a proposition like this . Well, first of all, ive not seen any evidence that this guy, or the people around them, are ready to go. A hypothetical question. At any point. Thats often whats presented here. Well, if you gave the guy a bull tow or a place to go we could get them out. Usually t
Liberty a minute. Repo book and join the conversation, go to booktv. Org and click on book club to enter the chat room. Next on booktv from the Heritage Foundation in washington, d. C. , a discussion on the legal arguments against the Affordable Care act. Trevor burrus, editor of the book and a panel, all law professors and bloggers for the volokh conspiracy website, talk about the impact of the arguments on the obama to debate, both in public and in the courts. This is about an hour 15. Thank you much for being here, and i applaud you hardy souls who braved the cold weather today in order to be here. We are here today with several distinct which panelists to talk about a fascinating book. It was a fascinating about a fascinating case of National Federation of independent business is versus sebelius, better known as the obamacare case. And as i read this book, i thought that i was really watching some very, very smart people who obviously respect each other but who are in no way, shape