publishers, the text is only marginally gay and was published only because of the intervention of richard heller caught the public translator that sent it back and he insisted that they reconsider. it was reviewed in the sunday times favorably but strangely enough as a mystery. [laughter] my next novel was dismissed because it said i'd still been in the closet but lost my head once i started writing explicitly. my next book states that aspire designed to a street travel writer, a good choice potentially but unbeknownst to the editors, his parents just died in a car crash and he became a practicing orthodox jew and despised my project on moral grounds. i kept reading and reading for a group of newly liberated gay writers called ironically the vibrant. i wrote my first breakthrough novel and i remember susan said from now on i wouldn't have to worry about starving to death. my dearest friend of 60 years listened to hundreds of pages only after her death in reading her journal did i discover she wasn't interested in fiction on the history and philosophy and encouraging me my husband had inherited t

we don't need bans on assault-style weapons that even justice scalia said in "heller" in 2008 and 2009 were not protected by the second amendment. who will be the useful idiots that will continue to do the gun lobby's business and continue to push an agenda that's not focused on gun safety. it's not even focused on gun rights because we support the second amendment, we support gun rights, we believe that the right to keep and bear arms actually means americans have the right to keep and bear arms and it has nothing do with malicious. who will be the useful idiots that will promote an agenda that's not about gun rights and safety but instead is just about the bloody bottom line? selling more guns that can be used to kill more people. mika, that's the question and i'll be curious to see what republicans cower in the corner on capitol hill today and what useful idiots in the media go out and trot out their same tired excuses for why we can't do everything while revenue from the nra and other gun groups flood into their web sites, their tv channels, or maybe their think tanks. it's just of

. >> senator heller. >> mr. chairman, thank you. mr. secretary, thanks for taking time for being with us today. i'm sure you recall last august when you cave to las vegas, had a roundtable with some prominent business leaders in my state, and what i'm pleased about is that the promises and the questions and concerns that were shared at that roundtable were delivered four months later in december with the tax bill that did file. last week, i had a town hall meeting out of my office with nfib. we called thousands of small businesses in the state of nevada. hundreds were on the line. and questions were asked specifically of with this new tax bill out there, what do you anticipate your business practices will be for this year? 90%, 90% of the small businesses in nevada said that they were planning on expanding their business. that they're going to hire more employees. that they're going to provide bonuses. pay raises and increase the minimum wage for their business. 90% said they'd either do parts or some or all of those business activities

again, i talk about heller all the time, but heller in 2008 in scalia's opinion completely change the equation. you can protect yourself. you can protect your family. that's changed the debate. >> well, dianne feinstein, who was the leader on the original assault weapon ban in 1994, because of her experiences in california with mass murders, she is now proposing a change in the age for people who can buy these horrible weapons. that's the kind of reasonable thing. you know, it was ronald reagan, really, because of jim brady and his personal connection that helped the brady bill go through by changing his position on guns when we were all covering that. >> in '94. he actually made calls to congressman like scott klug saying i needs your vote here. ronald reagan put that over the top. >> and it was assigned in 1993 in the white house by bill clinton the same day that he awarded the medal of fro come to the woman for whom this high school is named and he asked her to stay and attend the brady bill signing. >> that's incredible. >> that assault ban in '94 was almost a congressional accide

they can't because that's unconstitutional now because of heller, because of d.c. versus heller in 2008. they can't do it. we need to take away these weapons of war. look at these mass shootings. look at what's happened. and mika, donald trump can no longer say we can do nothing. what if our leaders said after 9/11 we can't do nothing, our thoughts and prayers are with you. after orlando we can do anything, our thoughts around prayers are with you. after newtown, president obama tried to do something. our thoughts and prayers are with you and the 20 little kids who are slaughtered before christmas vacation and now parkland? are republicans going to keep saying we can do nothing? mika, they can do something. this is an epidemic and all they keep doing is making excuses. they have to take care of an epidemic like an opioid epidemic. >>> we'll have more on the show plus the indicted former aide to president trump what's reportedly finalizing a plea deal with robert mueller. >>> and the president's push for immigration reform goes down in defeat in the u.s. senate. get

at the heller school for social policy and management at brandeis university of opal leader in work place transformation and institutional change. his list to reach his from four to the united auto workers to australia as their worker commission. led the first day colder alignment map across the network and cofounded the champaign urbana community lab. it's really quite a panel that we bring you today and together with this panel we hope to walk you through the fabrication revolution as well as thinking more deeply about the social context for these revolutionary technologies. thank you again so much for joining us and without further ado i turned over to our panel. >> thank you. pleasure to be here. i want to start here. this is the most famous graph in history. gordon moore in 1964 plotted the number of transistors on the new integrated circuits. on the linear graph it looked like nothing was happening but done the arithmetic graph they lined up so he said wait a minute they are doubling. what happens is that continues for 10 years? so he wrote this article about if people -- the articl

coming up later this month, we have dean heller gherkin from yale law school. how the right and left can unite around federalism. march 15, joseph ellis and john meacham will discuss renewing the founders' promise. march 20, i'm so excited, the hardcopy of this thrilling new book about an underappreciated constitutional hero, william howard taft. judge ginsburg will interview me about our most judicial president and presidential chief justice, and a man who lost 75 pounds on a paleo diet after he left his unwanted presidency. now it is my great pleasure to colleague, friend, collaborator, visionary head of c-span, susan swain. [applause] note to self, never follow jeff rosen at the podium. happy presidents' day. we are going to talk about the supreme court tonight. what could be more fitting than one of the most important responsibilities that presidents have during their term in office, to select judicial appointees to the supreme court? it is really very appropriate. i want to echo jeff rosen's comments about our relationship. as long as there's been a nation

the focus there is going to be on the decade old heller supreme court decisions for citizens to own handguns. you can see that people are starting to file into the ballroom over to our right. there is very, very heavy security at this event which has a very young crowd. there are police officers everywhere and also tsa agents going through everybody's bags, a custom any time that the vice president or the president are going to appear at an event. >> bill: which other speakers are getting the most attention? we'll hear from a lot of them. >> it's a pair of populist politicians from europe, bill. you got france's la pen, the runner up in the presidential race there and farage from great britain. a dozen members from the trump cabinet and started with an upbeat intro video. things are underway here in maryland. >> bill: we'll cover mike pence next hour. >> sandra: we're awaiting another big meeting at the white house. president trump will be sitting down with state and local officials this morning on protecting our nation's schools. this after yesterday's emotional listening session at the whi

patricia brown heller is one of those children. she's the oldest the fr. she tells the story about her involvement working in the restaurant. she says she pretty much cut her teeth in the restaurant. she was the fastest peeler and potato slicer at the wish bone. she says on the order of 200 pounds a day. she was working in the family's restaurant, again, cutting those potatoes, peeling them every morning, cutting them every morning. pat decided that the restaurant was not going to be her career, and decided to go another route. she was the long time state director for the former senator murkowski, my father, senator frank murkowski. then when i came to the senate, she continued on as my state director in 2003. but peggy has always, as her siblings have been, a true fixture along with her parents at the lucky wish bone. the demands of the business required growth in the workforce and george and peggy maintained a high standard and demanded much of their employees. many chose to stay. they were adopted into the browns' extended family. and if you ask people

they are also considering a 7 acre property on heller avenue. the location that gets picked will be home to some 20 to 40 tiny houses. you may remember just last year the city of san jose approved a pilot program to build the small homes. one is 150 square feet. the city will hold public meetings over the next few months to discuss the three locations. >>> now we know how much google is expected to pay for a property in downtown san jose to be used for a massive expansion project. according to the mercury news, a pricing agreement was agreed to for land that will be used for office space, a transit building and other amenities. google will pay $67 million for nine parcels of land at six addresses in downtown san jose. still not clear when google could break ground. >>> the time is 7:38. more news after this. stay with us. hey hun. look at all this extra room i have on this king size ikea bed. are you wearing a... duvet cover? why yes. yes i am. where's mom? we finally redid our bedroom and she's prettttttttttty into it. what's your dream? at ike

. >> senator heller. >> thank you. and thanks for taking time to be with us today. i'm sure you recall last august when you came to las vegas with a roundtable with business leaders in my state, the promises and questions and concerns that were shared at that roundtable were delivered much later in december with a tax bill -- last week i had a town hall meeting out of my office with nfib, we called thousands of small businesses hundreds on the line and questions were asked specifically of what the new tax bill, what you anticipate your business practices will be for this year. 90% of small business in nevada said they were planning on expanding their business, going to hire more employees, provide bonuses, pipe pay raises and increase the minimum wage to their business, 90% said they would do parts or all or some of those business activities. a professional survey by any means, i was pleased to know the white house and what your department attempted to do in december i do believe are being delivered. what we are seeing in nevada. we have had self point casino doubli

they decided not to follow through with actually a heller water revision we'll have to wait and see as well they put in another condition of the offer being they buy nxp at 110 or not buy it at all. if qualcomm does want to succeed in buying nxp, they'll have to pay the 110 current price that it contracts to pay for the company. we'll see today if we'll pay 132 or whatever the number may be. that would be a reason for broadcom to say we are walking though, it does remain unclear whether they would go to the vote there is this intention to go to a vote regardless of whether or not qualcomm engages them. yes, they're trying to apply maximum pressure to get qualcomm shareholders to say to management just talk to them and see what you can work on antitrust if anything athat's amendable to you my expectation on what i am hearing that's not going to happen they're not going to engage. iss can play an important role and this may play to their favor. antitrust is a key risk. >> are they not, qualcomm shareholders that's making that case to management saying please get there in take. >> hock ta

heller back in the 1960's and all that, but we have not seen that in 20 to 30 years. still: the germans are traumatized. i do not know if we are traumatized i the 1970's, but it is difficult looking at the fundamentals to see that happen. francine: if inflation goes up, should we be traumatized by inflation? lookin europe, can we through inflation at 2.5%, or should we stick to 2%? daniel: slightly different targets with the fed and europe. if the fed really believes that they want 2% on average, that means there should be some metric radware inflation is. we have been below 2% for a long time, and we should have it above 2%. we have not much further to go. we wanted more inflation, we are getting it. this caused a bit of a s hock in the equity markets. so it is good for equities. francine: let me bring you to my charge, and this is the spread between five-year and a 30 year treasury's. -- 30 year treasuries. daniel: things are different this time. if we look at what has been happening with this spread, people concerned about the fault in the spread, the decline, wond

. >> senator heller? >> mr. secretary, thanks for taking time being with us today. i'm sure you recall last august when you came to las vegas and had a roundtable with prominent business leaders in my state and what i am pleased about is that the promises and the questions and concerns that were shared at that round table were delivered four months later in december with the tax bill that did file. last week, i had a town hall meeting out in my office with nafib and we called thousands of businesses in the state of nevada and hundreds were on the line and questions were asked specifically of with this new tax bill out there. what do you anticipate your business practices will be for this year? 90%. 90% of the small businesses in nevada said they were planning on expanding their business, that they're going to hire more employees, that they're going to provide bonuses, pay raises and increase the minimum wage for their business. 90% said they would do part or all or some of those business activities. now it wasn't a professional survey by any means and i was just ple

that's the heller decision. but while those -- while the gun lobby wants you to believe that courts have interpreted as broadly as you suggest, they simply haven't. and this really is a state -- it's ironic because it's a state's rights issue. the conservatives are usually the ones who say the individual states should decide for themselves what their law should be. that's all i'm saying. i won't pr presume to tell west virginia what their laws should be. should they be able to apply their laws on new york city in this dense environment on new year's eve or in the subways or the stadiums? the answer is of course not. that's why the ccra is such a bad law and so unnecessary. >> maria: go through for us legal versus illegal. there are critics that will push back and say look, stop and frisk was a good program because it eliminated all the illegal guns on the streets. you're talking about taking away legal guns. >> well, if you can bring legal guns into new york city -- >> maria: i think you make a great point, new

whereas the spoufert in its district of columbia versus heller decision recognized the right to keep and bear arms. mr. thompson: whereas the brady prevention act was enacted in 1993. whereas background checks have been successful and every day stop more than 170 felons, some 50 domestic abusers, and nearly 20 fugitives from buying a gun. whereas over two million gun sales were blocked since enactment of the brady handgun violence prevention act. whereas 90% of all background checks are done instantly. whereas the states that require background checks, 47% fewer women are murdered by intimate partners. whereas in states that require background checks, there are 47% firearm suicides. whereas in states that require background checks, 53% fewer law enforcement officers are killed by someone using a gun. whereas 97% of americans polled support background checks for all gun sales. whereas in many states no background check is required to buy a gun online or at a gun show. and whereas the president has said, quote, whether we are republican or democrats must now foe cus on strengthening --

has a right to have a handgun or perhaps a shotgun in their home to protect themselves but scalia in "heller" in 2008 went no further than that and the court has denied one case after another case after another case that has limited the rights to get ar-15s and other assault-style weapons, expanded background checks and the type of things connecticut did and other states have done. so now i can turn to you and say that because there is so much disinformation out there. people say oh, i have a second amendment right to own an ar-15, to buy it when i'm 18 years old. that's not this the constitution which is exactly why doing this on the state level like you guys are doing right now, this really is the future. and the supreme court again has sent a message to states, as long as you let people have h d handguns in their home, go to it, there are limitations to the second amendment, you can protect the people in states the way you see fit. >> in my state, in oregon, we've worked really hard to move forward on common sense gun legislation. since i became governor we've closed the domestic violence

they say somebody that agrees with them on the right to keep and bear arms with heller, that the 2nd amendment means what the 2nd amendment means. that i believe americans should be able to carry. i just do. i also believe -- and i know this will shock a lot of people that watch this show. i think putziting up a sign tha says gun free zones is seen by many as saying kill more people here. all right? now, i know a lot of people that watch that show love the idea of gun free zones. and if it makes you feel better to put up a sign that says gun free zone, you can do it, but i don't feel safer about being in an area with a sign like that or sending my children to schools that have signs that say, gun free zones. so there you go. i've just separated myself from 90% of my audience. but to the nra. >> bring them back. >> no, no, but to the nra, they take somebody with me who is seen as a ne ander that will among liberals on gun issues, they are sending the message and i'm not making this about me. i'm making this about anybody that wants to have a real debate. they're saying that i want to

they'll benefit from the fact that we double the child tax credit, thanks to the fine work of senator heller and others throughout the committee process. at its new level, that credit will save a two-child household $4,000 every year. $4,000 to help them with back-to-school costs. or to kick off a college fund, or to help them afford summer camp tuition and a family vacation instead of choosing one or the other. and tha -- thanks to the tireless work of my colleague from nebraska, senator fischer, the tax cut and jobs act encourages more employers to provide paid family leave. that's good news for millions of american families that will welcome a child this year. now, my democratic colleagues like to speak about the importance of paid leave but not a single one of them voted with us, not one. every democrat in the house and in the senate voted against the bill that included senator fischer's paid family leave and sentence. every one of them voted against the bill that included a bigger standard deduction and the doubling of the child tariff credit and lower income tax rates. fortunately, we