Good morning. My name is mark krikorian, executive director of the center for immigration studies, and we have done a series of interviews with important players in the immigration issue, whether in congress or in the administration. And this morning suggests is senator cotton, the junior senator from arkansas. Senator cotton is a harvard law grad, served as an Army Infantry officer in iraq and afghanistan. Hes on several committees, banking, intelligence, Armed Services but we are going to talk about todays immigration. Hes been a leader on immigration issue even before the president kind of raise its profile. I appreciate, senator, you coming in and giving us some time. He will have the bowl for a meeting on the hill, so we will cut this off at 815 a. M. My first question is, your understand six generation arkansan. Arkansas has been attracting more immigrants that used to but its clearly not an immigration state. Its not one of lead immigration states. What is that attracted you to
Host good morning. My name is mark krikorian, executive director of the center for immigration studies, and we have done a series of interviews with important players in the immigration issue, whether in congress or in the administration. This morning touching guest is senator cotton, the junior senator from arkansas. Senator cotton is a harvard law grad, served as an Army Infantry officer in iraq and afghanistan. Hes on several committees, banking, intelligence, Armed Services but we are going to talk about todays immigration. Hes been a leader on immigration issue even before the president kind of raise its raised its profile. I appreciate, senator, you coming in and giving us some time. He will have to bolt for a meeting on the hill, so we will cut this off at 815 a. M. My first question is that you are as i understand six , a generation arkansan. Arkansas has been attracting more immigrants than it used to, but it is clearly not a leading immigration state. What attracted you to ge
Arkansas. Senator cotton is a harvard law grad, served as an Army Infantry officer in iraq and afghanistan. Hes on several committees, banking, intelligence, Armed Services but we are going to talk about todays immigration. Hes been a leader on immigration issue even before the president kind of raised its profile. I appreciate, senator, you coming in and giving us some time. He will have to bolt for a meeting on the hill, so we will cut this off at 8 15 a. M. My first question is that you are as i understand, a sixth generation arkansan. Arkansas has been attracting more immigrants than it used to, but it is clearly not a leading immigration state. What attracted you to get involved in this issue and become something of a thought leader and a debate leader . Sen. Cotton first off thanks for having me here. Thanks for the center for hosting this conversation and also the important work the center does on immigration. Immigration is a central issue for the United States, really for a lo
Officer in the iraq and afghanistan. He is on several committees, banking, intelligence, armed services, but obviously today we are going to talk about immigration. He has been a leader on the immigration issue even before the president raised its profile. I appreciate you coming in and giving us some time. He will have to bolt for a meeting on the hill, so we will cut this off at 8 15. Is irst question understand you are six generation arkansan. Arkansas has been attracting more immigrants than it used to but it is clearly not one of the leading immigration states. What is it that attracted you to get involved in this issue and become something of a debate and thought leader . First of all thank you for having me this morning and thank you for the center for hosting this conversation and for the very important work the centre does on immigration. Immigration is a central issue for the United States, really for a lot of countries around the world. Touches on so many concerns that arkan
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Has dedicatedtty much of his career to intricacies ofhe economic inequality. He has started the conversation, his book capital in the twentyfirst century argues that unrestrained capitalism perpetuates inequality. All krugman has called the most important economic look of the year and may be of the decade. The Current Issue of uber business week proclaims of Bloomberg Businessweek proclaims the Financial Times challenges some of the data used in the book. I am pleased to have Thomas Piketty at this table for the first time. Welcome. A pleasure. Explain this. Explain the phenomenon about you and this book. I dont know. I tried to write a readable book and a readable story. This is a book about the history and commonwealth over two centuries. And i really tried to make it accessible to everyone. Because behind the story of monet you have a literary story. I tried to put it together so been fightingve about inequality for ever. This