dan bolz, the chief correspondent at the washington post and we once again pleased to have him here again. dan: thank you. charlie: 60 days and counting. dan: 60 days and counting down. charlie: the first week after labor day. dan: it s an interesting week. the polls look tighter than in august. we had the first semiencounter with the two candidates. and as you say charlie: not together. dan: a preview, but not really, they weren t on the stage at the same time. so, it will be a quite different dynamic. but the race after labor day, as much as become before, things become engaged in a different way. we have seen hillary clinton out much more talking to the press that she hasn t been done. charlie: not a full-fledged press conference, but on the plane and elsewhere taking questions. dan: so she is more accessible than she has been. she was getting criticized for that. donald trump is trying to stay scripted and with teleprompters. charlie: is he better on the campaign trai
in every state except iowa, voters in gop contest have been more conservative than they were in 2008. in every state, voters in democratic contests, have been more liberal. 2008, according to an abc analyst, liberals were 39% of voters there. in every state except vermont and new hampshire, a majority or plurality of voters in democratic contests have said to the next president should continue obama s policy. in vermont and new hampshire, more voters wanted the next president to be more liberal in his policy. in all of these contest, a significant chunk of voters to be morepresident liberal. in every poll, the economy has been the top issue. in vermont, not surprisingly, the economy tied with income inequality. health care has been tied for second place in most states. terrorism ranked behind each of these issues for democrats everywhere. ,n 13 democratic contests voters said the economic system favors the rich. in new york and a few other states, voters have been asked about
evaluating indications of global restructuring and the extent of taxation. in 2010 and 2011, we saw the report on task risks regarding tax losses, and you saw reports in 2011 about the need for transparency disclosure and a 2012 report on hybrid mismatches dubbed theon 2 was us. this never resulted in the political call to action we are seeing now being played out in a number of jurisdictions. nor did the prior initiatives received a fraction of the attention that has been the hallmark of the bep initiative. whoy most tax professionals might be able to cite letter and verse of the action plan never noticed or worried about the prior reports or initiatives and thought they were of immediate concern. why now? what is new? it is not the oecd that power and influence are, what is the power behind the movement? environmentolitical and the public and political environment, largely outside the united states, that really launched the oecd initiative into what it is today. we know a n
caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the presenceon on of race in this cycle, coming up. 10: 45, the president speaks to graduates of howard university at a ceremony in washington, d.c.. booktv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here are some programs to watch for. 1:30, booktv is at the 13th annual black writing conference in new york. discussions onel hip on, gender, as well as panels on diversity and writing programs and black writers in the digital age. at 7:30, a pulitzer prize examinesistorian thomas jefferson from early influences to political ideology . on sunday night at 9:00, afterwards with peter marks, author of good for the money. he discusses how a former cbo theved the company after 2008 crisis and made the company become profitable again. he was the only person who thought this was possible, essentially. the government did not this was going to happen. the company certainly did not think this was going to happen, and th
lyndon johnson was certainly an imperial president. i think what we see in johnson we start to see the cusp of the end of the imperial presidents in the united states. there have been presidents the acted in three fleet since then. the bush, no doubt about that. but he was the last person i think to understand the use and abuse of power. unfortunately, he abused it in many respects. as did many of the presidents who succeeded him. but he wasn t the last person who understood because of his constant demand of power within the united states he understood much better how to maneuver power overseas. he was less interested in what went on overseas and, unfortunately, his presidency was really defined by his adventure in vietnam which were almost less than in many respects. he inherited that. he did not making any better, no doubt about that but he did understand the use of power and especially within the united states. he was i think one of the last presidents who did it truly u