Allows them to allocate a certain amount of money to the candidates running for office and the candidates can take those vouchers would say a 50dollar voucher here if they agree to limit the contribution that they take to the vouchers in a small competition, lets say 100 frankly. 50 dollars would be about 7 billion in 2014 the total amount spent by Congress Shall candidates was 1. 5 billion. Which means that this is real money to point his the voucher system would mean that money comes from many people and not just the. 04 were not just a. 024 . So it filters perhaps because it is not everybody that is going to participate, but it isnt biased in the way that the Current System is biased by allocating the funding to the tiny tiny fraction of the 1 . Democrats have been pushing this idea of matching funds John Sarbanes from maryland, the governor by the the peoples act that basically takes the small contributions and multiplies them up to 91 to make them much more valuable. As a 100 beco
Tell me when youre ready to go in. I just want to get them all in here. Let me sign the ones that are [inaudible] i want them to buy books and come here. Hello, tucker. We had a funning isment. Lets do it fun segment. Lets do it again this weekend. Ive got parents weekend. Oh, ill do it. No, i mean fox and friends. Thats what i mean. Ill do it from l. A. For you guys. I actually like l. A. Can you do it the first weekend in november . Skip this weekend but the next one . I actually like getting up at four a. M. Because you get there and back, i never knew how close the l. A. Fox studio was until i did fox friends on the weekend. Its ten minutes. Usually its an hour during the day. Ten minutes there, ten minutes back, its still dark in l. A. , so i go right back to bed. Its a weird name. [inaudible] do you live . Its towards santa monica from west hollywood. Oh, it is. Whats its a funny name. I cant believe im blanking, but ive gotten no sleep for the last few weeks pause theyre brutal.
Thank you. [applause] on the half of Mechanics Institute and asia society thank you for coming and we look forward to seeing you at our next [applause] please come up. Next on booktv from the 18th annual texas book festival. A discussion with authors on mexico. Ere this is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon, thank you for coming tonight. Were happy to be here. Here at the texas bookernoon. Festival. Ng tonit. A few notes of business they asked me to tell everyone to please turn off your cell phonet so you dont interrupt the inven. With that, let me get dirty. I am shannon oneil. I work at the council on Foreign Relations very focused on next month america more broadly unedited and pleasure tonight at talking with two wonderful gentleman, who have written wonderful books are really impressive impressive books about mexico. The first one on my right is ricardo ainslie. His book is called the fight to save juarez. This book tells the story of the border city, which many of you know ive had
Preparation for the opening of these museums or, excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon sign for mintons mayhouse was taken off and given to the play mouths was taken off and given to the yet to be opened africanamerican museum at the smithsonian. And i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a praise where the schomburg a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in china town. [laughter] real. Yeah, thats very real. Michael, ive heard you express that before, and i think its absolutely something anyone who cares needs to have their eye trained on. I also think as long as there are black people in the streets of harlem and im just hike, even as i say that, all these encounters i overhear and pass through and cross through in the most amazing poetic ways, like that is its own space making. And i have my own inner debate about, you know, i had a conversation with a friend about the we were looking at the ren
Its the only place where republicans can win. Speeding out even though its phenomenal to be in orange Orange County and he loved being here the Nixon Library, a lot of conservatives shy away from president nixon because after all he was impeached for having the nsa spy on our citizenry. [laughter] for sticking the irs on his political opponents and for dan denning diplomats abroad. And for telling ad buy to the American People. If you like your health care insurance, you can keep your insurance. [applause] now, i know, its like the standards of treason. I am a lawyer and so you look at precedence and if you look at what people have been tried for treason for you now tokyo rose, gosh we have a lot of people i think you ma want to try for treason over the past few years but apparently we have just dropped for example jane fonda. Apparently with jane fonda we dropped any prosecutions for treason and the same thing for impeachment. One of the articles of impeachment for nixon who wasnt imp