2010. you can add climate change to the list of domestic policy issues. president obama is taking on during his second term in office. according to the new york times, the president is preparing new limitations on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. it is believed to be the strongest policy option the executive branch has to combat global warming. the white house is expected to move pretty quickly as it can take years for new regulations to be implemented. president obama hopes to have the new standards in place before he leaves office in 2017. the country s second largest school district is set to provide every student with an ipad. in los angeles, public schools, the tablets will eventually replace conventional textbooks for each of the district s 640,000 students. the initial contract is worth a reported $30 million to apple. the ipads which will cost the district $678 per device will come preloaded with educational software. well, for decades he s
failed. let s be fair to britain s austerity experiment which i am known to disagree with. they said you should do a bit more spending now and a little less spending a year or two now. what they ve talked about is really small beer. i think the government through away a policy option and it s made it difficult of borrowing more, of doing more public investment. that option was open to them, unlike, say, spain, and certainly not greece. they had this option and got rid of it. so when it turned out to their shock, they didn t expect this, that the economy basically flat lined, stopped growing, recovery was aborted, the policy the bank of england has been pursuing is not effective partly because our banking system is not fixed. how does the austerity debate look to you? i think it s important to understand there are different
away a policy option and it s made it difficult of borrowing more, of doing more public investment. that option was open to them, they had this option and got rid of it. shock, they didn t expect this, that the economy basically flat lined, stopped growing, recovery was aborted, the policy the bank of england has been pursuing is not effective partly because our banking system is not fixed. how does the austerity debate look to you? i think it s important to understand there are different austerity debates and what s happening in britain is not the same as what s happening in greece or the united states. the politics and the economies are different. in greece, for example, the greeks don t have the option of borrowing because nobody will lend to them. their ability to borrow is determined as much by the bond market and by their relationship with germany as anything else.
say now that as president, i ended the war in iraq, i wound down the war in afghanistan. and i won the war on terror. well, i want president obama to win all of the battles for the united states that we have thres to our national security. threats to our national security. i want him to be successful. i don t think he is right in offering wishful thinking as the best policy option. now, wishful thinking is not recognizing the reality of the threat to the united states and i think that we have have to be very vigilant. america, you know, it may not be able to love america, but i want people to respect america and i want them to fear america. if they don t do if the world doesn t do what is appropriate, i want them to think that there will be consequences and that america is paying attention. and the president of the united states should be leading that effort not saying wishful thinking will drive my policy. gregg: i want to show our viewers and you if you have a monitor a pic
closing the gun hole loophole or making background checks genuinely comprehensive, mandating they be used in citizen to citizen point of sale. right. that is going to be in the legislation that s sort of the base body and then other stuff in amendments, but the assault weapons ban and magazine clips are not in that base bill. i want to play you this clip and get your response congresswoman from a very thoughtful sort of conservative although interesting ideologically person we have on the show sometimes. he made this distinction between gun control and people control and the difference between the two. you can look at gun control as something that people are advancing as a policy idea. when you peel off the first layer of the cake you see what s in here it s actually people control. if you want to do gun control by doing more people control you should say so. that s a policy option. we should be clear that the