. >> another book by peter peterson. >> he's lived a fairly phenomenal life. he was born in 1926, raised by greek immigrants, was born into the depression era in nebraska, found himself the secretary of commerce for nixon. chairman, ceo of lehman brothers and later co-founded the blackstone group. here we are in the greatest recession since the great depression, and he's got sort of a bird's eye view of this that few people would have. >> who is po bronson and ashley merriman? >> po bronson is author of the number one best seller what should i do with my life, ashley merriman is a science journalist, and they've taken a look much as dubber in and leavitt did for the economy and friedman did for globalization, they're taking a cultural look at the way we raise children, and they've discovered there are certain key twists that science has overlooked. and recent research shows that conventional wisdom of raising our kids is all wrong, so they won a national magazine award for a piece they did on praise for new york magazine. turns out overpraising your children w

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the safe commission has broad bipartisan support outside of congress, including the peter j. peterson foundation, the business round-table, the concord coalition, the national federation of independent business, the brookings institution. i think if you can get concord coalition and brookings institution to support a piece of legislation, it's got to be pretty bipartisan and fair. and also the committee for a responsible federal budget. all of these back the safe commission concept as the way to tackle tax reform and our entitlement crisis. as you may know, madam president, recently chinese prime minister ja jew ry expressed his concern about the -- quote -- "huge amount of money chinese has invested in the united states" -- saying -- quote -- "to be honest, i'm definitely a little worried." he then went on to call on the u.s. to maintain its good credit, to honor its promises and to guarantee the safety of china's assets. madam president, i hope this frightens you as much as it frightens me. china is the united states largest foreign creditor, holding an estimated $1 trillio

"after words" with nicholas schmidle and ralph peters continues. >> host: ayaan ralph peterson, and we are having a great time today, at least i am, talking with nicholas speed, the author of "to live or to perish forever" a superb and remarkably timely book on his two recent years and pakistan, a country very much in the headlines and is granted dominate headlines for some time to come. nick, one of the striking things about this series of tales is the time spent with taliban of fighting drugs with pakistanis but the other side of the taliban, the enforcers, people bringing sharia law to the northwest frontier and perhaps you could start us off by just telling us how you got there, introduce, something you could read from this book that will explain how you got in there. >> guest: the first thing is we were talking last time about abdul aziz ghazi. after he died he'd been my introduction to all of these and after ghazi died i wrote a piece titled farewell my jihadi friend, which was sort of a single off to this guy who helped at a complex time in my life. the article was published in