constitution in a way they were before. you can't write a brief today trying to construe what the statute means without first going through the words of the statute, what a dictionary might say and then you can go on to legislative history and purpose and all that but the kind of a different way of talking about things and if you go back to the eclectic way that these things would go, courts will go on for five or ten pages about why they're quoting the statute. he was very influential but not in the traditional way we talk about influential justices. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> my name is jessica, i'm the chief of staff that young america foundation and i would like to welcome you all for national headquarters. and especially like to welcome our viewers online as well as those watching on c-span. today we're also joined by our 41 national journalism center intern, welcome. young america foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to introducing young people to the conservative movement through compelling

campus lectures and activism initiatives and by providing educational resources that students are not receiving their classrooms. the foundation leads the young conservative movement by promoting the ideas of limited government and traditional values of free enterprise and exstrong national sent to the next iteration. the programs are shaped in great part by the leading conservative regular time, talent and resources to reach our students today. our guest is one such person who played a critical role for nearly three decades. speaker of the u.s. house of representatives newt gingrich has been a longtime ally and friend of young america foundation regularly during and after his time in congress. he has also addressed our students porters in santa barbara california and along with his wife, they filmed one of the many documentaries ronald reagan rendezvous with

destiny. we are honored to host. it's no surprise that the speaker understands the importance of reaching and educating young people with the principles that make america great. prior to his career in public service he taught history in environmental studies at west georgia college. as congressman chris cox once said he the teacher who did not stop teaching when he left campus. first elected to congress in 1978 he represent the six district of georgia for 20 years. in 1985 elected speaker of the house where he served until 1999. in his first speech as beaker he told theer young audience he felt compelled to public service at an out early age eoting some people had to be willing to dedicate their lives to protecting life, our freedom and our people. i have an obligation to do my share of the job. what a job he did pretty well known as the architect of contract with america which

led conservatives to victory in 19 for casting the majority of the u.s. house of representatives for the first time in four decades. under his leadership a past welfare reform the first balanced budget in a generation first tax at 16 years.ea at the leadership ranks remain committed to inspiring young people speaking to audiences. inin 1997 he held a press conference in front of 400 students on capitol hill. the event was covered by every major news network and broadcast live on c-span. following his time in congress he launched the center for transformation in 2003 and served as general chairman of american solutions for winning the. [inaudible] as an author he has published 36 books including 15 fiction and nonfiction new york times bestsellers in his latest book is transamerica.

today he's a fox news contributor. time magazine named him man of the year 1985 inside leaders make things possible. exceptional leaders make them inevitable. newt gingrich belongs to the category of exceptional. we wholeheartedly agree. please join me in welcoming newt gingrich. [applause] >> thank you very much. i'm glad toe hear. we are delighted to have him your today to cover the things we talk about. i'm delighted with have the chance talk to you. in theta young america foundation plays a very important role. let me ask you a question for those of you who are students, how many of you would say there's a liberal bias on your campus?

[laughter] i'm serious. is there anybody here who would say there's not a liberal bias? >> the largest lie. that does have a bias. that's great anyone watching this will have some sense ofnd what this is all about and why young america foundation matters. part of the reason i wrote transamerica is that we are in a long-term struggle that is literally a cultural civil war and those of you who are in the middle of classes, how many of you have a professor who, if you gave it directly conservative answer on your test would give you a lower grade. raise your hand if you had professors that would mark you down as a form of giving the wrong answer by definition.

if you the news media as an outsource of the university, as the university became more liberal the news media follow that pattern and that's why you end up with the news media that we have today. how many of you on election day in 2016 thought hillary would probably win? this is a conservative and audience yet 90% of the hands were not. how many were confident trump would win 12, about three of you. so this is part of wyrick transamerica. i had written last year a book called understanding trump which really was because he so

different after all sorts of aiople coming up to me saying i don't understand what he's hying how he does it so that book really focus on truck. think it whether pretty well over the last year. if you read it now is very relevant because large parts of who he is hasn't changed. i realized that i watched what was going on that a great deal of what were living through the trump is a personality, but things are happening in america have to look at the larger picture of the america trump as president of in order to fully understand the trump presidency. that's why transamerica is different. i have a theory about why the left is so hostile. it goes back to election night. think about all your friends 00re liberals who at about 8:00 p.m. on election eveningab were about to pop the champagne, hillary was going to break the glass ceiling,

you are going to get a left-wing supreme court justice they wouldn't have policies one the left, you can have weakness overseas to raise taxes, life was good and two hours later and some of you may have lived through this there's suddenly staring atat each other beginning to realize thaty not only is she not going to be president but that means that donald j trump is going to be president. i believe what happened was a traumatic event comparable to psychosis. the intensity and speed of the change was so great that most liberals today suffer from a political parents of ptsd. [laughter] the part of trump's genius is he tweets every morning so the

people who go to bed and they spend the night trying not to think of the nightmare that is occurring in the wake up in the morning and they're about to begin a happy day and they see a trump tweet and they suddenly realize, oh my god, he is still president. theyey can't get over it. it's like watching groundhog day as a political film that they just come back to it again and again. that's a big part of why you have this extraordinary level of anger. it's one thing that they were political opponents or ideological opponents but there is a deep personal part of this and it's because, almost like in the middle ages you have a usurper sitting in the white house who shouldn't be there legitimately. trump basically ignores about and what people don't really appreciate about him is he grew up in the new york media market which is the toughest,

nastiest, most competitive media market in the country and he learned by 1985 that if you are willing to fight he would get coverage everyday and trump likes coverage so he has spent the last 33 years fighting and what people say is he gonna get worn out, no, he wakes up in the morning looking for a fight. he enjoys it. ar gained energy from it so that's part of why you have this noise level up here, but under the noise level there are huge things happening. couple examples that are obvious, we now have the lowest black unemployment rate in american history. you would think liberals wouldme be throat because after all this a means in a group who they express deep concern for their now more job opportunities and other ever. two days ago therear was a report that came out that said there's now more vacancies than there are people looking for work. you would think that's good.

the federal reserve in atlanta estimates this quarter the economy will grow at 4.8%. if that happens, that's not only more than twice as fast as ever under obama, but that again to go back into the reagan range and part of what that is signaling is a very good professional economist to said the size of the investment structure is coming down the road, the number of companies investing is stunning. i was with the canadian from two weeks ago and they said virtually every company in canada is looking at moving people to the united states because the new tax code makes us the most competitive country in the world. so you're better off tax wise to be here than anywhere else in the world which is an enormous shift which means you will see a huge amount of

money coming into the u.s. to build factories and create jobs. at the same time you have the deregulation process, the trump team had deregulated, cut red tape more than all the other president since world war ii combined. what does that do? it liberates businesses to invest. for actually seeing the economy starts take off before the text that's because the d regulation process with sending signals that said you should hire more people, do more things the government won't harass you and try to put you out of business. they were already starting down the road of changes. the books not called trump government, is called trumps america. there are very interesting things happening outside ofnm government that are actually going to compel dramatic change in government. we have a whole chapter on

spac space. i'm really passionate about space. it is in fact our future. i'm curious, how many of you would be interested if there is an opportunity to go into space? any of you would be willing to do it? the people who talk about risk emma we lose 15 people year in yosemite because they go hiking on various trails. there are 250 people on mount everest who are frozen and stcan't get off. it's dangerous and yet every year people show up at yosemite and everest so what you have is right at the opening stages of moving from space as a very rare thing done by a very small number of very specialized people to aace as though pioneering and colonization, and a large part of it, this is where trump is an entrepreneur and fits in,

but it's not government. se. there's a book i recommend to all of you right after you finish reading trumps america. it's fascinating because it takes for billionaires and we really not adjusted to the fact that their people on this planet who are wealthy enough of the equivalent of a company. they have that many assets. in a way richard branson who ran virgin america and was now sold to virgin atlantic and others, has a firm called virgin galactic and i have a spaceship to and is now successfully completed two flights and it is designed to take six passengers and the pilot and copilot up to about 60 miles which is literally at the edge of space so you would write up and have about 15 minutes of being weightless and taking pictures of earth

as seen from 60 miles up. he put a fair amount of money into this thing. he has hundreds of people who put down $250,000 to reserve a seat on one of his flights. the second person who's doing this is paul allen, paul allen was the cofounder of microsoft, he's worth about $46, and allen decided to go, he is building the largest airplane in the world. gesically 2740 sevens that are joined together at the middle and is designed to carry a rocket up to about 50000 feet and then launch. his goal is to make going into space about the same convenient. you would have to go through

training and you would have to go down. that's in your space example. one of his projects is called spacex. he says publicly his goal is to colonize mars. he wants to have lots of people like us show up as pioneers. he figured out early on that the biggest single problem of getting to space was cost and that was simple, you use rockets once. imagine if you took off in an airplane that was the only flight that would make. think how expensive commercial flying would be.

he has been designing his rockets so they will take off and return and some of you may have seen the youtube video of the two rockets that look like a ballet, they come back down parallel to each other in land hd his goald is to have every rocket used at least ten times. he will take at least 40% out of the cost of getting into space and so suddenly you have a different cost structure you can do different things in your different opportunities. the person who is the real example of the wright brothers nnd henry ford is just pesos. he has been a face fanatic since he was about 12 years old.po he got rich for the purpose of going into space, amazon worked better than he expected and is now the wealthiest man in the world, at least for the present time. i felt him a couple months ago, he writes a personal check for a billion dollars

every year. no federal hearings, no government regulations, no congressional investigations, just he hires engineers. no long-term planning no nasa bureaucracy. he just hires a genius. by next year or the year after they will have a rocket called the john glenn which is a w heavylift rocket which is reusable and will literally put 5500 pounds into space and the rocket will come back down, get refueled, take another 5500 pounds into space and the goal is to do everyday. one flight. day. rocket. this is a revolution in capability and it's the reason i use this example because it's happening around the government, not because of the government. nasa provides certain facilities and have a long track record but the truth is

these entrepreneurs are just doing it. they're not asking permission, not sitting around for long planning sessions, they have varying level of government support, but this is what you see happening everywhere. there's a firm you can look up called you daffy. it's audacity without the day. it was invented by the guy who invented the google self driving car and invented first few and taught at stanford and offered a course on advanced computing and offered it online. he had 400 students were registered at stanford and 53000 people who signed up online. frankly it made the stanford faculty pretty mad because they weren't paying tuition.

a considerable number of them finish the course. when he did the final, the top stanford student was number 400 on the final exam with 399 people online who did better. he said he had a very sobering realization that as much as he liked his lectures they were the most effective way to learn but the most effective way was to actually have a relationship where you can ask the computer over and over feeding get itt because the computer never got bored. very hard to ask a professor three or four or five times the same question because you get intimidated by yourself and even professors are willing to put the computer doesn't care. he wanted to go. >> with the so he built this online learning system and

found that the university of california faculty hated it because it was a threat. i once wrote a book that the subtitle was pioneers of the future are prison guards in the past. whoever was the last cycle doesn't get all that excited when the next cycle starts to make them obsolete. so he had the courage, they literally said you could not offer his material at the university of california systems and so he said fine, i'm not even goingot to try to get accredited and he started signing contracts with google, apple, amazon, facebook and if you take his courses and you pass them for the purpose of hiring you they are certified by those companies. he's discovered that an amazing number of people say let me get this straight, i can get a normal degree or i can get a degree that google recognizes for the purpose of hiring me. i can go try that and so, it's

an example, the beginning of the future because of poor going to go through artificial intelligence and robotics we're going to have some jobs were people need to beee reeducated that we need to think of new and creative and better ways of learning so people can continuously upgrade their marketable skills otherwise the system doesn't work heard from my perspective you see lots of changes coming down the road. there's 90 drugs currently in place for dealing with alzheimer's. none of them work yet but there's 90 different efforts to develop something and alzheimer's is the biggest public health cost we have. about $20 trillion between now and 2015. is the equivalent of international debt. it's a huge area were going to break through. it's a very serious effort underway to develop a nonaddictive painkiller. you can literally replace all the opioids by having a

painkiller that was effective and had no addiction and that probably will come online in two or three years because we have a pretty good understanding of the biology of doing that. i look around and i see all of these kind of opportunities coming and then you see the left and the left goal is control whether it's a government run health system, a government run school system, you can go down the whole list. the world i'm describing to you iscr not healthy, fun, exciting optimistic o world. what people just got to go out be happy and what didn't really need the bureaucracy and what if they could go out and find a job and they didn't really have absently give them food stamps. in a sense, the whole worldview of can we grow fast enough, create enough new jobs, build a big enough system is really very threatening if you're the

left. secondly, the idea of making america great again by applying it too everybody so you end up having an opportunity to pursue happiness and rise, which violates the left model which is that we should not be considered as individuals. their model is that all of you should be broken up into groups and you should decide then what group you belong to and what group you should be mad at. it's a realne model of divisiveness and a real model of taking the country apart, not putting the country back together. those two competitions are going to be very impressive. in texas, the poultice came out last week senator cruz is now carrying the latino vote, governor abbott is tied with the latino vote, if both of them get much higher percentage than they would've gotten four years ago, if you

have the lowest lack of employment rate in history, people talk to each other. they start saying gee, what if this is working. maybe it's a good idea. there are a lot of things going on that really represent a profound change. let me talk about one last area. i apologize. my throat gets dry. understanding from both in hiade and foreign policy. i think it is very funny that the europeans and the canadian , they've decided at the g7 that they're going to gang up on trump. now it's funny because the fastest growing economy in the g7 is united states. this happened reagan, when he first went to his very first meeting, they basically treated him like this kid didn't know what he was doing and he just that in the corner. he came back two years later with the fastest growing economy in the world and

suddenly they wanted him at the center of the stage so let's start with that. fastest growing economy by big margin so you might think the other leaders might say to him donald, what are you doing right. instead they're mad at him because he pulled out of the paris agreement on the environment and he pulled out of the iranian agreement and he's involved in a terror for, and i noticed justin trudeau and president macron picked a fight and he came right back at them. he said the h canadians have hundred 47% on american farm goods. he said you want to pick a fight? the canadian economy depends on us very heavily. they can get very irritated with us but they can't fight us. in the case of macron, the hoench economy still underperforms.

he's a lot like trump. he's tried very hard to m reform france and he's having a very hard time doing it, even though he has absolute control of the national assembly but the truth is the french people are that excited about being reformed. they have a long history, the rural workers have been striking two days a week for months just to send a signal that were not happy. : : : they are not necessarily the people who decided to lecture us on the economy. in addition trump did something very profound. from world war ii until 2016 we used the american economy to prop up -- so need your help somehow you got a good deal. for a very long time it made perfect sense because the soviet union was our major competitor and two because when they came

out of world war ii we were half the world's economy. remember everybody else had done bombed and we were the one country that had not suffered any civilian war pandemic so we were huge portion of the world and we could afford to be generous. over the last 25 years that has all disappeared. we have agreed to work with the chinese and to let them into the world trade organization with the hopes that they would become part of a rules-based modern system. the director of national intelligence under obama not under trump said two years ago the chinese stole $460 billion in intellectual property in one year. that's more than our total sales in china. trump is taking the position that we are going to defend that intellectual property. that's going to lead to friction. he's taken the position that if

they put a 2.5% tariffs on cars the chinese put a tariffs on cars. we are not going to play a game where you charge 10 times as much as we do. that's going to lead to friction. people need to understand this but if you have an american president who puts america first instead of putting some kind of fake world global system first that can create tension first because it's a huge change and second because as the biggest country in the world we put ourselves first where formidable even the chinese as much as they have grown cannot possibly compete with us in a head-to-head contest. they might be able to and 30, 40 or 50 years but they can't right now. they are going to catch up. these are the kinds of changes that are underway that are amazing. trump and you understand a lot

more about trump and "trump's america". trump has a belief in his ability to learn and his ability to negotiate. one of the things that i think people say makes him different he listens to everybody. when he was in saudi arabia the king of saudi arabia was with him every single day for three days and every time they were in public the king of saudi arabia was next to them and they were talking. it's not just transactional, did you have a nice desert yesterday he does this all day everyday. he picks people's brains. he listens to them in ways where they'll still be talking about watching how you react in feeding back information. that worked and that didn't work and that strong and that's not drawn. the traditional model which is i wonder what we should do about x

leaving 25 really bright staffers three from the brookings institution and three from the young america's foundation fighting over the paper for seven weeks and finally da'ish his answers i think i will call the presence of three in the prime minister japan and see how it feels. the volume of information he takes him is astonishing. his willingness to be tough. this is not a guy who is afraid. it's not necessarily his courage. john paul ii is to say be not afraid. didn't say have courage. trump operates a lot like that. i have no idea what's going to happen in singapore but i think it's possible that they love a very successful meeting.

i think it's also possible that morning about at this time they will walk out. that's a range of options. we did a movie that was mentioned earlier shots at the ranch about the life of from oregon. we went to iceland and it was his little house where reagan and her child met in 1987. it's this great scene we had in the movie straight out of the news real where reagan was holding out for missile defense. gorbachev was at him on everything. we can have arms limitations and we can have this treaty or that treaty but you have to give up your missile tests. reagan kept saying no, not doing it. gorbachev said that we are not going to give you anything. reagan said well, then that's fine. we are not doing that.

they walk outside and there's racing where reagan who was not normally this aggressive is literally in gorbachev's face and saying you did this. you made a mistake. you screwed up. you are going to regret this. it's clear that reagan is really angry. i was in congress at the time about the sophisticated people came back and said this is a terrible mistake. he is such a good deal. six months later gorbachev came to washington and gave reagan every single thing you wanted. trump understands that model. the most powerful nation the world and you were the one applying sanctions and bring economic pressure to bear. you actually don't have to say

yes. so be very interesting to see how he negotiates with kim jong un next week. how about ipods and open for questions. here's a chance to be a journalist. they are going to rush up with the microphones. we have an exciting moment here. you have your first victim right here. you have to be more assertive and grab him when he walks past you. >> i wonder if many of the entrepreneurs you have mentioned paul allen elon musk jeff bezos they found a lot of their success in the previous eight years of the obama administration so i wonder how that correlates to trump's america.

>> they were zones if the government hadn't been able to up yet. most of america still relatively healthy despite a government. the impact of large government high taxes slows everything down they have the current regulatory and tax environment we would eat 50% further down the road than we are right now. right here. and then we'll come back over there. >> would the talk to people about how black unemployment is at its lowest in history the common response here is well donald trump's doing what obama was doing. >> all at would say is it's astonishing that in eight years where they never once got the growth rate above 2% we are being told it would be

impossible to get the 3% through were told that trump was elected there would be a depression and we were told to get used to the new normal. just put in new normal and search in your search engine and see how many left-wing economist show up saying you know people shouldn't be complaining. i was struck with this. i first would into office when jimmy carter was president and we have a really slow. macroeconomic growth with the high inflation rate and carter went on tv one night and he became known as -- but the essence of it was we all feel miserable because we are miserable and it's her own fault and all of your miserable and we blame you. the country thought about it and ronald reagan had this line he used in his campaign. he said a recession is when your brother-in-law's unemployed. depression is when you are unemployed. of recovery is when jimmy carter's unemployed.

that was one of his themes. it's eerily similar. the left-wing knesset felt the carter had the best economy could get and within a year and a half of reagan taking office he began to exclusively change everything. we are doing the same thing here. i think it's very hard to make the argument that you could say we'd still be a 2% growth and obama did ring us out with the long period of one or 2% growth so what's the difference in revenue and what's the difference in job creation between 2% growth in what's currently happening. trump claims he has added $7 trillion. his policies have added $7 trillion with policies. it's much more fun to say, i had $7 trillion. it's just a style he has which i think he learned very on early on as an entrepreneur.

it's going to be very hard to argue that if this continues then again we have a lot of things to make -- to do to make this continue but if it continues i think what you'll see is kanye west which is at what point do we get to this? i'm confident that if they work out an agreement in singapore and they walk out front and they announce that the north koreans are giving up their nuclear weapons by in wednesday evening "the news york times" headline will be dramatic effort by heroic kim jong-un despite trump's personality. somebody right there.

>> i was just wondering if you look at president trump's background he has actually been fairly liberal on a lot of issues in the past. he's pro-choice on the abortion questions in favor of socialized medicine. i believe after its 2012 presidential election he accused romney of being too conservative and heartless on immigration and yet he is a staunchly pro-life anti-illegal ella grace -- immigration president who wants to overturn obamacare. would he think the change in policy and i guess political direction i'm president trump spark? >> i always tell people trump is not a conservative. if you mean barry goldwater or ronald reagan and william f. luckily trump's the most effective anti-liberal in american history. it's not because he is

conservative. it's because he applies common sense and so much of modern liberalism is and if you apply common sense of falls apart. i take seriously the story he tells about the women he got to know who has been in wise to have an abortion and her daughter was with her as she was telling the story. that was the decisive moment did i give him that one. he also said he would contemplate legalizing marijuana you can't assume that trump is going to walk into the room having spent 30 years thinking this stuff through. reagan became, reagan originally was an fdr democrat and made commercials for harry truman and hubert humphrey. when hubert humphrey was the anti-communist liberal running against a procommunist liberal which tells you just how bad that period was and reagan became an anti-communist. when he married nancy her father was a very right-wing medical

doctor and gradually through a series of conversations reagan began to be more and more anti-tax. he was hired by general lack tech. the education of ronald reagan which i recommend very highly is a very short book about the times the 80 years he spent at general electric. he had as a mentor to have government regulations. i worked with reagan for years. when i read this book and understood what he was doing it was that decisive of a book. he learned from the sky. but around the country and gave three and 75 speeches to blue-collar audiences with q&a and with picture taking. the time he ran for president he was interacting with blue-collar workers talking about ideas but the guy who hired him as a very conservative person. reagan in 1946 to 1965 reagan

refused to fly. he was in a very bad airplane flight and i think they got caught in a thunderstorm. he didn't fly again until the fall of 1965. he gets a call one evening from his brother in san francisco who says they are a group of guys who would like to have breakfast with you in the morning to talk about supporting the governor. he said well you know i don't fly and we can't get to san francisco that fast. he said well you get to decide if you want to be governor. i will be at the wisenhunt up on him. next stay with reagan for the first time in 20 years gets on an airplane which tells you how vicious he was. he is riding a train and he didn't gamble and the world books.

hayek for sample and freeman so reagan is reading conservative economics. trump didn't do any of that. trump made money, he invented new things like "the apprentice" and golfed. he doesn't drink. it's not like he was hanging around being wasteful. he is a business guy and he's not a politician. his own ego sense that he could do a better job than anybody else because he got up that morning and said -- otherwise it wouldn't be donald j. trump. that is what propels him. i don't hold him to any kind of automatic ideological check this. what i will say though is when he makes a decision there is a real difference. it's almost like there to trump's. when it's a big decision the iran agreement which 2.5 years

he said it was a bad deal. i had europeans approach me before he ended the grimacing what can we do? you need to come up with a better deal. he's been saying this for two and a half years. it's not a secret. cutting taxes, deregulation, conservative judges. he is totally unpredictable. he couldn't protect himself because he's basically a free spirit on small things. i think your observation is exactly right. it's a very interesting question because trump evolved in part in response to an evolving reality and evolved in part a response to running a cerp hoboken populist in the field with 16 other people. over time he realized that he was going to put together face

than he had to have a frame of reference that enabled him to appeal to this large bloc of people. one of you has to go all the way over here. >> thank you for coming. nolan meyer. i met for dinner with former national security adviser h.r. might master the other night and he wanted me to send my regards to you. my question is when you are speaker of the house he wrote the contract of america. you seem to have an uncanny ability to work with president clinton and get things done. fast-forward 20 years later in a kind of seems like congress is in a perpetual state of gridlock what changes do you think we can

make to get out of this and you think this is an issue of incompetence or partisanship? >> first of all we are not in a perpetual state of gridlock. we just provided the largest tax cut in history of america and we passed a number of other bills. there's a very deep partisan divide and there are at least two parts to what's going on. the gap between the rich -- is much bigger and as i describe in "trump's america" i believe we are in a cultural several war and i mean that literally. these are profound differences in the nature of america. i think that makes it a real challenge. second you have to have the personality to deal with it. i personally would have had no idea how to deal with barack obama. i think he was opaque. barack obama got up every morning knowing the brightest burst on the family would treat

you with contempt. and there was no way to break through. i talked to boehner when he was speaker and i talked to ryan when he was speaker. if i had been speaker i don't know what i would have done because obama by personality is so hard to deal with. clinton for all of his weaknesses is in this domicile in opening human being. about a third of the time you would lie but you just got used to it. as part of the process. you could figure out after while which ones were true and which ones weren't in which once happened and which ones didn't. even a couple occasions that were very, very angry. you don't wear your feelings on your sleeve. this is the business you are in. the other part of that is the

democrats right now to want to work with trump. their goal is for trump to fail. i'm delighted mecom was going to keep the senate in an august. i think he should have done this earlier and i think it's okay but they clearly have no interest in cooperating particularly under the senate or the house leadership. but what i would done more of it is in this goes back to reagan i would figured out issues for the democrats to stay unified. i'd bring it up in such a way that the democratic leadership was consul and a pressure because one third of its members were saying i can't stay with you. i will get heat that comment by vote with you and that was the pressure that breaks apart that partisanship and frankly with trump he is endlessly patient. our legislative leader today i would recognize you have to

spend a lot of time with him. you have to listen to them a lot you have to sort through what you are trying to get done and you have to wear a seatbelt because every once in a while he will do something that you didn't expect and he can expect and you wouldn't have called you to tell you is going to do it so you have to have a seatbelt just to get to the car wreck. >> fernando, university of florida. you were talking about how deregulated the governments -- how do you see the government being deregulated or shrinking in the next couple of years? >> would stay with deregulated first-grader will continue the pressure to reduce the total number of regulations.

i think they will continue to try to find every possible way to make government leaner and faster and more efficient. i suspect they will do some attrition when people were tired but you have to handle that carefully. if you are in the middle of the cancer research project at the national institutes of health -- my guess is you'll be somewhat smaller by the time you are done with the exception that they are expanding homeland security and expanding the system. i think that will continue and giving the rise of a more dangerous world there really won't have any choice. >> right here, right in the middle.

>> hi joiner with the university. my question is we are halfway through trump's first term and a substantial amount of his first term -- where do you see the a company going in the second phase of this presents a? >> actually i divided "trump's america" into two parts. the first half is what we have accomplished up until now the second half is what we have to do in the challenges we have to meet. think if he continues down the road of deregulation and they continue to be very tough on trade negotiations the economy will then continue to grow dramatic way. i wouldn't be shocked to have 3.5 or four% real growth within the last for five years. somebody had and it may have been

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overwhelmingly the majority population in farming. if you had said to them we are going to be down to eye on what the current numbers and some of you may know the current number it's 3.5 to 4% of a country as farming and we produce a massive surplus which we have to sell somewhere. our farmers are so productive. the average person would have thought you are crazy. i think the same thing is true today. humans have a knack of inventing the next cycle of desirable things at a rate slightly faster than employments over time most of the jobs are better jobs with better salaries and better conditions. i also believed by the way that humans, your generation on average will be over 100. andy will be much healthier. 100 for your generation will probably be 60 and that big of a

difference partly because the store colin people are worn out fiscally. he worked in a steel mill or you plow behind a mule you get physically worn down. most of those nowadays we exercise but that's a volitional thing. you are not being burned out so people will live longer. henry kissinger is now 95 and he works full-time. he would be bored to death. i said to henry we are going to make you retire. he said i would be or to death. people who live longer are going to have a greater range of options. i think it requires to profound things. one is how do we build and this is why alike this model free to look at. we have to build on line convenient mentoring systems that allow you to learn conveniently so if you want to go to valley for six weeks and

take your courses on line, don't care. i don't think you have to go to a campus somewhere be available for two hours a week that the professor is available. only think about how inefficient the current structures are in second thought to rethink finances. i was talking to a relative of mine who is thinking he may retire from the company that he's worked with for 25 years and i said to have a penchant? he said no we never had a pension. we have a 401(k) that they match. we will have to be thinking in terms of each of you on average will have five to seven or more jobs in your lifetime, career kinds of jobs. you have to think about how you were going to change in how you are going to evolve. i worry reinvented myself or for times. people just learn to do that.

>> i have an idea for your next book. i think you are probably the most qualified to handle this but it could be donald trump's guide to creatively handling the ever-changing nature of world events. you could use a system of computers to have all the infinite number of possibilities of events that could be taking place at any given time and this is a reader participation thing. it's your job as a reader to come up with the most viable way of handling this problem and have the system of grading it for all those who should never run for president. >> under our rules anybody can

run for president and the american people get to weed them out. they don't do it because of some rational process. in the end it's who has the makings to be president? although you make a think of a game basically be your own present. the reagan library takes the granada operation and take students in and puts them in situation rooms and say you are now going to get information and you have to make the decision. you have to make it through and that's a pretty good ground rule >> mitchell sanders. he touched a bit on conservative fiscal policy and conservative attitude towards government deregulation.

a larger portion of america is starting to agree with you on that however i think a lot of people need to have conservatism as a social policy. i think a lot of people consider themselves conservative fiscally but more liberal socially. what do you need to do to combat that an adapter that? >> i think it works itself out in different ways. on the one front you could argue the whole question for example of marriage has moved particularly your generation towards what we call the left. .. >> this is a more complicated

pattern. sometimes you build the majority around the issues so you can rally a majority with. part of the politics is to focus on the ones he went on not the ones you loose on. one of the things i am proud of is that i help right the only for balance budgets in a lifetime. i think we will get back to that. we will do a series of short courses on how to balance the budgets. the country is getting right for reclaiming control of its destiny and being honest about what we have to get done. let me just go back to where we started. the young america's foundation is important. it's important because we need people like yourself who are willing to learn conservatism, debate conservatism, and stand

up on campuses and newsrooms and other settings. in the long run, we it gives us a high likelihood of running. it takes people like yourself who are willing to do the work and make the arguments. i'm honored to be here. thank you for letting me talk. [applause] [applause] >> thank you for being here today and for watching on c-span. for more information you can go to our website. the speaker will be taking photos in our lobbies. please exit and line up. there's stuff left over in the kitchen if you like to help yourself. i know you need to get back in for your next session. you have a copy of the book and we will do a photo line if you

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