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in the community, are you seeing more registration on that end that maybe you as ncla, and the community from those kind of groups and would those increases be happening there? and can you be more specific when you talk about weaker investment? are we talking how much money don t you have? how much money isn t the community getting now that was getting before? how many millions is not there? and is that did that money evaporate or go to other groups and are they in the community? provocative questions for the end. all right. the koch brothers. so, look, it s a free world. right? folks should be courting the latino community itch think there s been investments on that end and libra is trying to educate latino busy a conservative agenda, and that s fine. in terms of how many voter registration is they ve done issue don t know because i don t know what their numbers are. but to me, it s we are not afraid about having a debate over ideas. that s fine. and we have ha ....
key to our future success. we ve proven and special elections in 2014, we believe going into 16 we have we have the right makeup of what the electorate will look like. the united states is never static nor are our analytics. we feel very strongly that we will maintain the house majority this election cyclecycle, being presidential, is a little more volatile. we feel very confident that we will maintain the majority. i know my friends, he is on my telecommunications subcommittee and we do a lot of work together but we have these other jobs on our off time. i was here and they said they think they could win 60 or 70 and maybe 70 or 80 after the republican convention. my rebuttal to that is simply show me the list. if you look at the list, you get down and along the way they failed to recruit anybody again. i think it was a bit of a stretch to say they were going to get to 60, 80 or 40. our members are in very strong shape. in the last three weeks we have been pulling ....
host: day tv is on location at american university washington d.c. and pleased to be joined by professor of islamic studies at american university and his book the thistle and the drone how america s war on terror became a global war on tribal islam professor akbar ahmed, is a class of religion? guest: it is more complex. the concept of the clash of civilizations and others a simplistic. a and more than 10 years after 9/11 we should be aware of the conflicts where america is involved. i find many conflicts are rooted in the clash already taking place before and 11 was centered government and the triumph of the community on the border between states. without local history or culture it is impossible to impose simplistic notions but someone did waziristan or yemen is aghast at a clash of civilizations and. 90% had no idea what 9/11 was zero or of some of did not been. would have to be careful how we are analyzing and i maintain there is a crisis already was united ....
i miss some of it public policy. i honestly don t miss the job. i was there for 18 years. kathy and i are enjoying doing other things and we like keeping our own schedule. i like harry reid. he is a friend. but did not like the schedule he kept. host: you are an adviser to goldman sachs. guest: i am teaching at dartmouth and i m on a couple of boards. host: ben from new york city. caller: good morning. i have two questions. the first question is on the super committee. how many people on the committee have signed on to grover norquist pledge of no taxes? if that is the case, the super committee is not really functionable. because these people, if they sign with grover, just like in germany with adolf hitler, if you did not sign on as it now sees sympathizer as a nazi sympathizer, you could be going to jail. whether or not a decision by the supreme court can be overturned. can a supreme court judge be reprimanded or removed from the court for tax purposes or for errors ....