i would like to see a uniform tax credit available about 2500 for the adults are 8,000 of family of for that is what it cost to put people through medicaid so that is enough money to get medicaid like insurance said you could not let them get that if they wanted but the vast majority will not want to be in medicaid. >> from john goodman the guttman institute here is the book a better choice. health care solutions for america. >> booktv travel to free their best to libertarian conference while there we interviewed former congressman and allen west. >> host: day you miss congress? >> that is what i have done my entire life in the military with that issue period -- to generate it goes on with that institution. >> host: would you consider running again? >> that is up to god and it is important you go to his will i just moved to be the of president and ceo of national policy and analysis to have thought they would offer me that incredible position. >> host: what is the focus? >> tax policy retirement and health care and education national security policy but now i think national security is a lot more prominent issue for the american people. >> host: what is the advantage or disadvantage to be located in dallas? immigrate in vintage is we're not inside the beltway so we're not jaded by the political machinations that go of their intellect to say we are part of the waffle house crowd because of a policy solutions you can talk think tanks and academics but the everyday american citizen has to understand with the electoral process. >> we invite ted you tear talk about this. "guardian of the republic" autobiography? >> it makes me who i am today. >> host: that is quite of a title. >> dad who's served in world war ii, in vietnam now myself and my nephew, i do think it is appropriate that is what we're doing. >> you were these people? to repair the nicknames from mom and dad they were incredible it just isn't what they could do for us bordet's hermann sr. and, jr. and also the august before the family and the example that they set for the west family and that is what i try to water today. >> host: what type of work did they do? >> we were lower and middle-income we grew up in atlanta fans free europe where martin the 30 years from. but after they move to a land said he was a nursing assistant at the veterans hospital my mother was not in the military issue was a civilian worker with the district headquarters in atlanta. >> host: what got you into the military? >> with the data to serve san sending them to hear stories and older brother served as a marine infantry meant and i will never forget the time at easter he said backup replica of a dress uniform for me to wear to church and i was so proud. the day when older brother and dad sat down with me they wanted to be the first officer my dad was a corporal the brother a lance corporal so i started 1976 in j rotc and then went to tennessee and then the rest is history. >> comedy service stations? >> 13 countries three combat zones. so the third generation that has served in combat. >> you talk about what happened in iraq in your book. what was that situation? >> my father and older brother told me the most important responsibility for commanding officers to take care of your men especially in combat for them to know you have a genuine care and concern because they will do the mission so when word was out there was an increase of threats against my unit even personally against me as a commander we found out there is an iraqi police officer leaking information he was not forthcoming with the people that were assigned to us if you know, the culture over there they will not be very compliant so i made the decision to use psychological intimidation and i printemps then i went and reported that to my commanding officer. >> did you get results? >> it did go down of the attacks that was important to make sure that those ambushes were not occurring as we had seen. people said it was part of the normal cycle the top to the soldiers on the ground there know what went on but you should be willing to put your career on the line early under life for those men who serve with you that is the most important thing for a commander. in a baby unrealistic but i made up promise to the parents and the spouse and children i would do everything possible to bring them back. >> would you do it again? >> absolutely. >> how did you get to congress? >> interesting i was a civilian military adviser to the afghan army and in 2006 there is a change for the democrats lost and i got a phone call or any mail from a woman who worked in politics and we had a meeting when i had a break from afghanistan and she talked running for congress. i said the most important thing for me is to stay alive but she said what is so important just because she retire and hang period reform does not be the oath that you took to support the constitution has ended. that was very forthright for me so i saw that is a continuation of the service i have given this country is in uniform. >> host: in your book "guardian of the republic" you talk about for lauderdale. >> it was incredible. that savior blacks were not allowed to go to the fort lauderdale beach to use the ocean they had a separate beach. put the year i was sworn into congress 50 years later my 50th birthday at was a representative of fort lauderdale beach. the only happens in america and i want people to understand the american dream the dr. king's dream the embodiment of the y ma battery were bored or rework come from you could have ever level of success that you want it is true about the pursuit not that somebody can guarantee your happiness. >> host: to tell the book about a black woman on the campaign trail? >> i was in port st. lucie and it was interesting because she felt somehow i had betrayed my race of black people because i was a conservative republican but if you go back to read their ridings in understand property washington the first black conservative it was education self-reliance and zero entreprenuership if we still had those three principles and conditions of the black community you would see a different black community not what you see happening in baltimore and chicago but to a parent households like i had. you have seen the breakdown of the family. it was quite interesting that she sees me as the sellout by the guy have been true to the principles how my parents raised me. >> host: today the hunt for the black conservative leads us to a metaphorical treat with the end goal is still career death. >> is interesting that recently george's a gay activist what he said about justice clarence thomas is horrible and despicable to say he was a clown and a black face so this is the means by which people will disparage and attack to undermine black conservatism. this is a new but i do think it is threatening to people that want to have vague political hold of the community. we need to have those voices and i tell people if you were going to invest money you need to diversify but if you were in the black community why would you put all political investment into one? they will take you for granted in india their party was not even consider you so it is important to talk about principles and values. the great society programs one of the things lyndon johnson fought for that any woman with a child out of wedlock and government would continue to provide a check if there was no man in the home today it is 25% with the man in the home so if i would bring that out makes me a sellout then i am proud >> host: are there more black conservatives they and is let on or seems to be in your view? >> absolutely. traveling all across the country to the airports when i was flying out here one of the gentleman from the wheelchair service new exactly who was and what i stood for and he said thank you there are a lot of us out here and you are a voice it isn't about party but principal faith and family and booker t. washington that says quality education and opens so many doors and that self-reliance and a larger for a new version of paul and i grew up i saw a black professional offices doctors and lawyers but you don't see that anymore which is the cradle of black entrepreneur will development that is what we need to restore public and would have been in chicago over the weekend a young black man a seven year old child murdered looking at baltimore were destroyed to should not be that way. >> host: the day we're taping this is the day south carolina took down the confederate flag from the state capital. >> it is interesting and the governor took the right approach and not about the external actors to manipulate but what we really need to do is not focus if you have a confederate flag and the dukes of hazzard to be pulled off television but how about those inner-city communities what happened in south carolina where is horrible that was a ratio at one dash recessed social pact but we do not need to take that to the level to say america is a racist nation to say do we need to have a resemblance of that have a resemblance of that flag and they changed it but for people to manipulate it like rahm emanuel said don't let a good prices go to waste any to focus of the real crisis of the quality of life and desegregation and inner-city. >> we'll a member of the congressional black caucus? >> i remember when i joined people would ask how can you do that? has said there only to a qualifying criteria a member of congress and blackened eye of in. it was interesting but jobless the civil-rights i i:he came down to campaign against the no clue about my background prepared he was my representative growing upper when i met him at the swearing-in ceremony is said it is in order to beat you i tell her about my parents he was absolutely shocked so we need to have those voices so we don't become polarized because i want to restore the greatness of the black community in and the inner-city that property washington had when he discovered tuskegee institute. >> to spend a lot of time on philosophers in your book who are your favorites? >> without a doubt job of blocking is the classic liberal philosopher who cable up the with the natural rights theory versus divide rights that each and every person has a connection to their creator with these individual rights of life liberty and property which celebrated 2397 of the greatest papers the world has ever know the declaration of independence jefferson said that here in america individual has rights in down from their creator from the pursuit of happiness and that is of makes this country so exceptional. >> host: road in is aware that you see in your book often. >> that is the disgraced samurai who belong has a master ipc ronan in myself as a young black man. bypass isn't about serving a particular master by principals and ideas. that is what my sword is strong for it is so humbling when a master flew to washington d.c. to present me with a samurai sword that is on display in my office. >> you name date gasparino -- dana perino. i agree fox is contributor rashid immelt me to tell me i had the story than needed to be told she is a hard person to say no so i wrote the book i was just so pleased and honored not for myself because the testimony to my parents. >> would you do we have freedom best? >> as the ceo of the policy analysis i was here for the opening speech and i am on panels throughout the week. >> host: won more controversial issue is your choice of motorcycle. [laughter] >> this is not a harley. >> 2005 honda the november series if anybody would get on the bike with fuel injection it is one of the smoothest ride you will ever find most charlie people don't maya to be pulling up to ride with them. >> how often do you ride? >> this past sunday i got out with the bench of national guard guys and we had a barbeque. maybe every of the weekend. >> host: former congressman and author and now a think tank president "guardian of the republic" is the day above the book. here is the cover. booktv on c-span2. >> the photographs that have been taken by other satellites going around mars exhibit a very strange object:mars. it isn't a face but a vertical object that cast a shadow. of the canadiens dash epb 2006 did a study to send a spacecraft robot to the moon of marrs said the russians have been trying to get better three times and they have all failed. the photographs that we see by the sun casting a shadow and knowing exactly where the sun was at the time the picture was taken, but they can measure to come up with a calculation that this object is 90 meters high. that is a football field. in this study that the canadians did, and all the engineers contributing felt this was sufficiently unusual so they call this the model with after the 2001 arthur clarke movie where the apes were doing things on the moon and there was a big object and that was called the model with. it is still there. i have seen the pictures of that. and i think strangely it was a natural occurrence. no evidence merely one way or the of there but it disturbs people that heard me describe

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