bullies with way through on this, and the information i have, it s going to be just a a train wreck upon a train wreck at election or after election time. how do you count the votes, how do you make sure that there is a fair and square election? we re we re heading into another chapter, chapter 73 of trump world and we re just going to have to watch it day by day, hour by hour. you spoke with the president, i believe, 19 times, for this book. how did it come about? and how did he agree to talk with you? well, i did a book in 2018 fear, on his first two years, and he did not cooperate. i tried to talk to him. he regretted that he, of course, denounced the book. said i was a democratic operative. some people close to him said, oh, by the way, the book is true, and so the president, when i wanted to do the second book, said he would cooperate. i went into the oval office, put my little tape recorder down op the resolute desk and said it s all on the record. i m going t
down. evergreen unified school district sees the closings as a necessity. i do, along with many of my colleagues, support school consolidation because it s the fiscally responsible thing to do. the closing will affect 700 students, the district says the schools were chosen given enrollment trends, cost to operate and maintain and neighboring schools that can take students in. other alternatives could have been cutting class sizes, layoffs across the district. spokeswoman says the closures will impact the least number of students overall. the district saving $450,000 a year. that s the cost to operate a school as it faces a $12 million shortfall. the decision to close schools is not an easy one. many school districts across the state of california are having to go through the same process because of declining enrollment. this is not an evergreen only problem. megatrend consistent with other school districts in the bay area, many families moving to lower-cost areas, de
i m pete davis, senior vice president and past president of the club. the national economist club was started in 196 by herb stein, the chair of the council of economic advisers and it has met roughly 40 weeks out of every year since presenting leading economists talking about issues of the day. today we re very pleased to mark gold wine of the committee for responsible federal budget to talk about the return of trillion dollar deficits. before i introduce mark, let me tell you about some upcoming programs. we have dr. alice rivlin on february 1st at a luncheon right here at the chinatown garden talking about fed policy and maybe a little bit about the budget. she s a former vice chair of the fed and, of course, the founding director of the congressional budget office. we also have commitments to speak in february although the dates haven t been set by the current chair of the council of economic advisers kevin hasset and also the congressional budget office director. mark go
time to her book form today on what washington is wrong, the unelected officials who run thet government and their misconceptions about the american people. many reasons of course it s hard to imagine right now as we are about three weeks after the election that brought president-elect trump to the brink of office, a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed the turnout today for a book form suggest there widespread interest in the content of this book.sa also i am delighted to have today as speakers, one of the authors, ginsburg and cattle who have all worked in a political science senior and jennifer bachner, a new frontier. indeed, donald trump raises the question that has been on the american agenda for some time, which is a deep satisfaction with much of the country out that it s about way the beltway. i remember this all sitting around thinking after having lived in washington where some 25 years now, the life out there may really be differe
game of governing and politics. phil, you made a point that tweeting wasn t the same. some people don t know what the hell it is now but it has changed dramatically since 2008. i put it even further context in, when i was in the white house, a couple of oust would meet up with leon panetta every night and we would look at the three tvs, abc, cbs, whatever the other one was and, see whether our good stories had risen or whether the bad stories had gone down. you could see wolf kind of standing out in the yard there without even an umbrella sometimes. that was a good day if your good story was up. or down. that was all we dealt with. now the, the onslaught of information, moving information all sorts of sinister reasons has fundamentally changed governing and strategies. just three things that kind of pop out to me. and just in phrases. it s, what i hear you guys saying is that that you re underlying fundamental belief that people are coming to washington to get something done.