Around the world, and the council of international affairs, i would like to welcome you all to this session within our program, s hades of red and blue. The reason why we have convened this session has been because we think it is essential to bring together, sometimes for the first time, people who are distributed across the political spectrum in which, all too often in my country and here, there is very little by way of conversation and a lot of shouting at people. Yet, we are all facing issues of profound importance, which we think are better addressed why allowing for moments of principled disagreements, when people of different convictions might come together and respectfully engage. Of all of the topics we will be talking about during the course one thatay, one is will be addressed this afternoon. Before i go to the panels, housekeeping things. If you are a person who tweets, we have managed to come up with the world longest which is hastag,htag, which is shadesofredandblue. The t
Good evening, everybody and welcome. I am the executive rector of the Ethics Center in along with our partners which is a network of australians dotted the carnegierld, council on ethics and national affairs, i would like you to welcome you to the session within our program, shades of red and blue. The reason why we have convened this session, that is our partners have been because we think it is essential to bring together sometimes for the first did people who this to be across the political spectrum within which spectrum within there is little by way of and a lot of shouting at people. We are all facing issues of profound importance which we think are better addressed by allowing for moments of principled disagreement, moments when people of conviction from different perspectives might come together and respectfully engage. Of all the topics we will be talking about between the course of this day, one of the most sensitive is that which is going to be addressed this afternoon. He fo
Ter, looking at ethnics looking at ethics and religion. This is about an hour. Good evening, everybody, and welcome. My name is simon longstaff. Director ofcutive the Ethics Center and along with our partners which is a network of australians dotted around the world, the Carnegie Council on ethics and international affairs, i would like to welcome you all here to this session within our program, shades of red and blue. The reason why we have convened this session, that is our partners have been because we think it is essential to bring together sometimes for the first time people who this to be did across the political spectrum within which spectrum within which there is little by way of conversation and a lot of shouting at people. We are all facing issues of profound importance which we think are better addressed by allowing for moments of principled disagreement, moments when people of conviction from different perspectives might come together and respectfully engage. Of all the top
Dagen who writes letters . Connell when was the last time you wrote a letter to somebody . 15 years ago . Dagen probably a thank you letter, probably. Connell the market up. Housing we will talk about. Obamacare. Some mixed earning report reporo talk about with Nicole Petallides. Nicole good evening, dagen and connell. The s p and the dow are gaining. Were seeing these records coming off of another record high 32 times this year, but is worth noting and the dow 100 points away from alltime highs as well. That being said we continue to watch names, and we have to focus on apple which traded as high as 539 and change. Right now pulling back. Third consecutive quarter of profit declines. Beating revenue, they continue to sell millions of ipad and iphone. Dagen the head of the agency in charge of overseeing the rollout of the obamacare website facing some tough questions before congress. Connell starting with rich edson. Rich how may people have managed to enroll in obamacare because of th
I had the opportunity to here that of the 32 billion of being spent on this, nearly 1 billion of that will be going to an individual that should not receive it. What you have instituted at the Community College to discourage and present waste fraud and abuse, could you expand upon that and could we reauthorize the student education act . Yes, one of the was and it permitted daily attendance process and we tide that process so that if a student is but a circle time right now, before that money will the process goes over to check to see that student has in fact started attending the class that the aid is going to be paying for. If they have not had an attendance record, the Financial Aid does not go through so we have closed the loophole between students eligible for class. And the students are fully aware of that . Yes, they are. And every semester him as you might imagine, we do have a faculty that does not record attendance and a student comes in wanting to know where their money is.