Where we are right now in las vegas. What is freedom fest . Its the intellectual at the entertainment capital of the world. This is the most unique events in las vegas because usually las vegas is about entertainment and so forth. But we are renaissance gathering where we taught philosophy, history, science, technology, healthy living, music and dance. A liberal arts education. We have over 300 speakers, we have many authors. One of the subtitles is great ideas great books and great thinkers. We are one of the few organizations that has a conference where the center of our exhibit hall is a bookstore. We sell people hundreds of books and freedom fest. We are delighted to have book tv as part of the freedom fest. Host what political philosophy is behind freedom fest . Guest we are nonpartisan, we have a lot of wealthy investors here and its hard to pinpoint politically what investors are for example two years ago we had donald trump came at the last minute. He appears seven 11 on 2015.
Inquiry which was why does it appear that the Justice Department failed to prosecute executives . So, lets begin. Why . Guest thanks so much for having me. I can later this conversation. So i think this is the flip side of mass incarceration in this country where we have a too. Justice system. One group of people disproportionately poor to support the people of color are punished too seriously, to punitively. And that was that what im writing about which is a class of people rich and powerful who seem to have impunity to commit crime. Im talking about executives at the highest levels of Corporate America, not just bankers, not just in the aftermath of the financial crisis. This is been a problem thats been building before the financial crisis. It persists today and it affects not just executives of the big banks but industrial companies, retailers, pharmaceutical companies, tech companies. This is a pervasive problem with bringing Corporate America to heal. Host in your book you talk a
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our honored guests, members of the house of representatives, the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of United States. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the United States house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. [applause] good morning and welcome to the United States capitol. This is a red letter day for the american people, and i am glad you are all here and are taking part in the celebration. Since the era of reconstruction, this chamber, which once was the hall of the house of representatives, has become home to statues sent by the states. Today, we gather to dedicate a National Statue of the late rosa parks in recognition of her many contributions to this nation and to the cause of freedom. It is the first statue of an africanamerican woman to be placed in this capital. [applause]we are honored to be joined by the president of the United States and members of his and ministration his
Ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the United States house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. [applause] good morning and welcome to the United States capitol. This is a red letter day for the american people, and i am glad you are all here and are taking part in the celebration. Since the era of reconstruction, this chamber, which once was the hall of the house of representatives, has become home to statues sent by the states. Today, we gather to dedicate a National Statue of the late rosa parks in recognition of her many contributions to this nation and to the cause of freedom. It is the first statue of an africanamerican woman to be placed in this capital. [applause] we are honored to be joined by the president of the United States and members of his and ministration his administration. [applause] this is a homecoming of sorts for mrs. Parks, who for more than 20 years was an assistant to representative john conyers of michigan. [applause] i want to thank all of the m
Was put on machine guns, the regulation. We havent had a mass killing with a machine gun since. I feel these socalled assault weapons that have certain characteristics should fall in that category and be banned. Thank you mr. Heslin, thank you very much. At one point steinbeck had to write a small paragraph that said basically, people are asking what happened. This was after his wife joined him in seattle and when he says we get is not charlie and john. And somebody must have said tim hey wheres charlie . Yes disappeared. Stained steinbeck wrote a a page and a half of legal tablet saying people thats what happened to charlie. When my lady fair join me in Seattle Charlie took his third position in the family and he is fine. Obviously that never appeared in the book is what they didnt do is the editors went in and just expunged elaine entirely from the west coast, almost 30 days of elaines presents with john on the west coast. They werent camping out and they werent in america they were