fea: if i had a dime for every time that was the first uestion. as a historian, i want to make the smooth places rough. the human experience can be a complex experience. it is hard to put into lack-and-white categories. you could make an argument that the founders believed christianity was important to the republic in terms of the last and i made about the role of virtue and sustaining a virtuous republic and in terms that many of them believe the kind of people they wanted running their country where people who were of christian faith. the strongest argument, the state constitutions and the virtuous republic are the strongest arguments to make in favor of the idea that america was founded as a christian nation. this is an historical treatment. it is almost impossible, except for demographics, it is hard to make an argument after the civil war that america is somehow a christian nation and that is because of the 14th amendment. it says that states must abide by the bill of rights. it is designed for slavery, right? the states have to -- they can n

this matter of visa free travel for ukrainians, again, it is uestionable. this will always bring ukrainian labor markets to europe and they will be disadvantaged there. it would be good to do it together in a calm way without agitation. this is the kind of relationship we would like to have with europe. we would like to work together against the issues we are facing today. this is also in regards to terror. our hearts go out to the victims in berlin. when we marked the 75th anniversary of the united nations, i said we should all work together and have a united front. i said, how can you do that when you have sanctions and counter sanctions? how can we work effectively to fight terror? as a result, we suffer attacks. i hope we will be able to restore this cooperation in the uture. >> another journalist from the remlin pool. >> mr. putin, what would you say if you were asked whether or not you should become president in 2018 again, and the opposite? >> it is a provocative question. this guy is a provocateur. well, you will get my standard response. when the t

[applause] >> we will start with two .uestions wondered what your thoughts were when you were being launched into space for the second time. senator glenn: did you mean mercury? talking into a tape recorder and how does that compare to your most recent experience. senator glenn: it was a very different type of flight and different confidence level because the first time up, we had not had a perfect flight ,ecord on some of the boosters but this time around, we had 100 tournament flights and only one failure out of all of those, which is an amazing safety record when you are dealing with speeds and complexities and perg almost five miles second up there and coming back in an atmosphere with high heat out three or four eight in front. so you are dealing with things like that. though, we had a much greater experience level than we did the first time up. my talking into the tape recorder, i did not do as much of that as i had planned before. i had that tape, but it is not particularly valuable. nothing that had not been told 100 times before. in reentry, humming "the battle hymn of the republic"

listed as uestionable. both appear ready to play. matthews, jordan ready to go. >> it was definitely rough. you know, like i said, that was my first missed in sports, not counting the preseason games. you know, at the same time, it's been one of those years, too, obviously it wasn't ideal. i didn't think i would miss my first game at 24. but at the same te se it could always be worse. i'm still blessed and still extremely anxious to put in te se. >>> the flyers as hot as they come. the hottest team in the nhl in in fact, winning seven straight. they host the stars saturday afternoon. thursday, perhaps the game of the year, 6-5 win over edmonton. claude giroux scored three goals. things appear to be coming together for the flyers. >> it's clicking right now. as a tega we're playing some good hockey. everybody's stepping up every ggae and you . yow we're not thinking out there, we know what we have to do. at the start of the year, we had some holes and we dialed down and made sure we put thof te mistakes out of our game and right now w

pursuant to clause of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until approximately 6:30 p.m. today. >> washington journal continues. joining us, mike lillis, a senior reporter for the hill that covers congress extensively. what does it mean to be a house democratic these days? guest: it means you are in a position that you do not think you would be in a month ago. there has been some turmoil. they have been in disarray since the election. they came in. they thought that was going to be a bone to them down ballot. they thought they were going to pick up a significant number of seats. they thought they were going to take the senate. none of those things happened. they are in this position of "what went wrong?" they are going to do an autopsy. set of the commission and say what went wrong and how did we miss these voters? how can we energize our base? we did not do it this time around. to be a democrat is to be questioning the future of the party. host: there is a lot of talk

uestion >> i think we were the first people to ever trac the ivies.ally, they do if you look at the numbers. they do track pretty similarly and that is because this push towards the yield model of investing, the diversified funds , instead of doing stocks and bonds, that you hedge funds, private equity. they do all sorts of, almost like strangely unique rings for a fund that the purpose of it is to be forever. this year did not pay off. carol: one of the worlds most powerful fashion companies is turning his supply chain great. oliver: what may have contributed to accompany living diamonds guard. ♪ oliver: welcome back. carol: still ahead, the men behind gucci doubling down on being environmentally friendly. oliver: investors are lining up to get behind green infrastructure products. we will tell you about the man behind the trend. all of that is ahead on bloomberg businessweek. ♪ oliver: we are with megan murphy to talk about more important issues in the magazine. let's are with the markets and finance section which is about litigating in germany. >>

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we will leave a decent time for uestion and answer, but i want to pre-flag something bigger than who occupies the white house, or presides over one third of the federal government from january 2017-2021. the challenges in front of us are larger. first, what the american idea is. second, why this is such a disruptive moment. not the presidential election, but the era. the last 20 years or 30 years, and the next 20 years or 30 years. we live in a disruptive moment. i am a historian by back ground. that means you are a killjoy at parties. when people tell you this is truly unique, usually the historian's job is to say, actually there is more continuity than discontinuity. we are not special. we think our moment is unique because we are narcissists. in this case, what we are going through is historically unique. i want to talk about the economic change that we think of is affecting all of our institutions. he disruptive moment and moments we are going through. i want to segment a different subset of what this looks like in the present. i want to talk about a national agenda, if we were h

was,uestion that was left whether it would be possible to carry forward this global effort to deal with the highly critical problem of environmental catastrophe if the leader of the free world, the richest and most powerful country in history, would pull out completely -- as a beauty be the case. that is the stated goal of the regards -- who's regards climate change as a hoax and whose policy is to maximize the use of fossil fuels and regulations, the environmental protection agency established by richard nixon, which is a measure of where politics has shifted to the right and the vast generation, and in other ways, accelerate the race to destruction. that was essentially the end of the marrakesh conference. -- so thated without might signal the end of the world, even if not quite in the intended sense. in fact, what happened in marrakesh was a quite astounding spectacle. the hope of the world for saving us from this impending disaster .as china authoritarian, harsh china. that is where hopes were placed. at the same time, the leader of the free world, the richest, most powerful country

pursuant to clause 8, rule 20, further proceedings on the uestion will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from utah seek recognition? chafechafe mr. speaker, i move the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 5790, the federal bureau of investigation whistleblower protection enhancement act of 2016 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: a bill to provide adequate protections for whistleblowers at the federal bureau of investigation. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from utah, mr. chafe et cetera and the gentlewoman from from michigan, mrs. lawrence, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from utah. chafechafe i yield myself such time as i may consume. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. chafechafe i rise in support of h.r. 5970 as amended. we have great respect

pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition -- seek recognition? mr. goodlatte: i move to pass h.r. 6431, the promote travel, commerce and national security act of 2016. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 6431, a bill to ensure united states jurisdiction over offenses committed by united states personnel stationed in canada and furtherance of border security initiatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte, and the gentlewoman from texas, ms. i yield myself such time as i may consume jackson lee, will each control 20 -- ms. jackson lee, will each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. goodlatte: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on h.r. 64 31 currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without object

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gottheimer: good uestion. i grew up in north jersey not far from where i live now. i went to public school. my dad owned a small business, my mom was a schoolteacher. i learned like most people the value of hard work, but also the importance of giving back when you can. my dad always taught me, the private sector leads the way. it is important to make sure we do everything to thrive but also standing by people who stand by us. which is why i spent a lot of time focusing on standing by first responders and make sure we do right by veterans, women's issues and families. i have a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old who remain the most important things in the world, and my wife, but i think we both agree the kids come first. as a parent, what guides me every day is doing right by them. i think that is what drives a lot here, their kids and grandkids. it is why we realize at the end of the day what is most important is building a good future for them. >> what did your kids say when they find out you won? rep. gottheimer: my daughter -- we didn't find out until about midnight. my

mark: that's a wonderful uestion. >> i wish i would have said, though it doesn't seem so at the moment the interest of the american people are directly involved on what happens in europe and the united states will have the greatest degree of leverage at the beginning before things get very bad and we should intervene and very much against our interest to have a combrinding, terrible ar on the continent. and the best way to stay out is o prevent this conflict. i fear we would not have had the perceptiveness. at the beginning of those wars i was firmly against the united intervening and didn't engage our national interest which is pretty much what wilson thought when he became president. the great challenge of a statesman is to be far seeing enough to see the country's interest at a time we can be sponsibly supported with a minimum amount of expenditure, blood and treasure. wilson was not in that position. his aids didn't tell him that clearly at the beginning of the first world war. f.d.r. saw it clearly but mainly because of his experience at assistant secretary of the navy and secreta

i would still like to probe on these uestions.and to ask you to go deeper and interact with one another. the international evel, what may be the reaction from other countries, even after the recent -- the recent exit from the united states on two issues, about the paris greement or the climate change deemed under construction, we have not put the pieces together, we do not have the review part, fundamental to ultimate success. to deliver on the real part if the united states is not playing is traditional leadership role. we heard about the importance of a -- making shortly funding was there so developing countries could make progress in their emission reduction targets. what happens if the united states is not there to provide the funds that we assumed would be there? you can address one another and your expectations of the international response and the future of the climate change regime it the united states advocates its leadership -- abdicated its eadership. >> i am grateful we will not disappear. whatever happens, i do see th

let me open the floor to .uestions right here in the front. and please, identify yourself and keep the questions short. >> i work for the secretary of mandarin. >> identify yourself. a passenger.i am the secretary of mandarin, you said, don't pay attention to what is being said but something happened after the election day such as, the treaty opposed from taiwan. and we do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. to be honest, for the chinese , once concerned, are the exports. so, in your view, how do the police called issues enhance the relationship between china and america? say, i thinkto campaigns are one thing, but once the person has been elected makes yous i said, may question where this is going. i do think it is important for president-elect trump and his people to know the reaction that it has created. i think that what will be important are the other people that he chooses in the government and how they will look at it. i have to tell you at this moment it is unclear. the most important thing now is for everybody to stay calm and

pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on december 7, 2016, at 12:24 p.m. appointments, united states-china economic security review commission, virgin islands of the united states centennial commission. with best wishes, i am, signed sincerely, karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote and yeas and nays are ordered. on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. recorded votes on postponed questions will be taken later. for what purpose does the gentleman from alaska seek recognition? mr. young: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 329, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title o

i've asked them to each speak for about 10 minutes and we'll have a uestion and answer session and discussion. we're going to go first with jason then steve benton then dan mitchell. jason is a senior research fellow at the mercada center george mason university and teaches economics at the johns hopkins and virginia tech. he is a former acting assistant commissioner at social security administration and chief economist there. served as joint economic committee as an economist and is a very fine public finance economist working both in tax policy and entitlements. stephen is a senior fellow at the tax foundation. he went to the university of chicago as did i, but steve unlike me actually learned something while he was there. he served in the reagan treasury, was at the institute of research on economics of taxation for many years, and after norm died served as its president. he is an extremely fine tax economist and he and his colleagues and foundation put together computable tax policy model there that is second to none, actually probably more better, it's the very best in the united states.

more about,uestion is their public support for public finance in general or about vouchers and particular? >> generally. the food stamps for politicians mode when he was asked about public financing. i do not think it is happening on the federal level. i think if anything is going to happen on the federal level it is going to be a further loosening of campaign finance restrictions, especially limits on party fundraising. i think that will be the first to go. the new supreme court with the new strike down of what remains of the money rolls which will put parties in. some on the federal level, not only do i have no hope for any kind of public financing much let's vouchers, but on the state and local level, i think the campaign for public financing is greater and the vouchers is greater and we know that because we are starting to see places such as seattle adopt vouchers. we will have to see how they play out as much as an alternative i like, small donations which new york city and other places has as well. thing is, and empowers voters by giving voters the chance to decide and donate to pol

a growing body of research shows that people of color are more likely to be stopped, frisk, .uestions, charged and detained african-americans are more likely to be arrested, likely to be sentenced to more time for the same crime and one of the consequences of this is that around one million fathers are behind bars, one in nine african-american kids have a parent in prison. what does this lead to? it leads to enormous troubles between the community and our law enforcement officers. here we have a chart showing a difference in trust between whites and nonwhites, for whites, trusting the police is 60% and nonwhites 49%. how does the community feel about their law enforcement? 52% for latinos to 4%. how many people in the community feel that the police use excessive force? for whites, 74 percent feel they 34% feelor blacks only they do not use excessive force. present discusses reform and he talks about community, the cellblock in the courtroom. another way to look at that is no entry, entry and reentry. we want to keep people out of the system in the first place. we want no entry. how ar

uestion is is this due to dollars scarcity. it's sort of a short term liquidity issue.l wind up lasting? sources ofmited funding. there is new regulation out there. this is a persistent theme in the market. i love keeping my eye on this because it's all about dollar strength at the end of the day. it is seasonal. at the end of the year it winds up getting a worse. it does not resource in january. david: i love them both. they are both terrific. of the year, i am interested in the funding stress on the dollar. i missed her and she is back. weing up in the next hour, look it u.s. home prices. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: welcome to bloomberg daybreak. we are 30 minutes to the opening bell in new york. here is where we stand, you must equity futures relatively flat. light volume all across the board. the dollar grinding higher across all major markets, up by about 2/10 of 1% against the yen. a bit of selloff happening in the bond market. you have an auction coming up, what will that do to the supply issue, and crude grinding higher. bank: the european central determines mont

pursuant to clause 8, rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject to the call of the chair. kudos go out to fred upton, chairman of the commerce committee, timur fi who work sod hard on these pieces of legislation, and i want to thank the democrats for working with us in good faith for getting this legislation across the fin herb line. another issue, i believe the senate will be taking up later today is the 10-year extension of the iran sanctions act. that's something we passed near unanimously in the house. that's something that needs to get done. we have completed the conference report on the defense authorization bill, the ndaa bill. that gives our troops a much-needed 2.1% pay increase, this is extremely important to give our war fighters what they need, to give our military the reforms they need to stretch our military dollars further. that's something we're excited about bringing to the floor. we're getting close on the wrda conference report. we hope to bring th

pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? mr. latta: thank you, mr. speaker. i move the house suspend the rules and pass the resolution, h.res. 939, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 939, resolution expressing the sense of the house of representatives that access to digital communication tools and connectivity is necessary to prepare youth in the united states to compete in the 21st century economy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman says that h.res. 939 t the desk is not amended. mr. latta: mr. speaker, it's correct. it's not amended. it's h.res. 939. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will redesignate the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 939, resolution expressing the sense of the house of representatives that access to digital communication tools and connectivity is necessary to prepare youth in the united states to compete in a 21st century economy. the speaker pro te

pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> i move the house suspend the les and pass h.r. 5015 the combat tax fairness act of 2016 as amended. the clerk: h.r. 5015 and severance payments to individuals, retired or separated from services in the armed forces and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. brady, and the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. neal, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. brady: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 5015 currently under consideration. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. brady: we have responsibility to support the brave men and women who protect our nation especially those injured in the line of duty. the bill we are

rely on the free exchange of ideas .nd information on their end as chairman, i'm going to submit .uestionsor the record i have some involving appropriations at the moment. i'm very concerned about this, i know you are. >> thank you senator leahy. your question and those submitted will be submitted without objection. we're now going to turn to our witnesses. i'm going to introduce them and then we will swear them in and hear from the witnesses. we will start from the left and move to the right. randall stephenson is the ceo of at&t. he was named to his current position in 2007. since then, at&t has invested to be a global leader in providing integrated communication services to businesses and consumers. hang on. i've got to make sure that i don't mess yours up with someone else. video entertainment, high speed internet to ip network services and the internet of things. mr. stephenson began the career with southwestern bell's telephone company in 1992 in oklahoma. he served as the company vice president and chief financial officer from 2001 to 2004 and from 2004 to 2007 was the chief operati

there is a uestion in the back. >> i was wondering, the extent to which the scr, or churchill, new ofe atlantic charter at the time when they were making it or pronouncing it thtat it would be the hook for everything that would come ater. that this would be the justification for the united nations charter and the brentwood institutions, or is there more evidence that it was thought and just the immediate terms of the day and later on they realized we can use this to justify certain actions and constrained other actors and close off pathways where we do not want to go. did they have foresight to the extent that it seems? >> that is a great question and i will give you a lawyerly answer. kind of both. there was a sense of fdr dictating a diary entry in the historical approach -- the world historical importance that they were talking to each other and laying out this vision of the postwar world. in a part of the material i could not go through, i talk about how something that is this abstract and vague has to be anything at all. that it has to be metabolized through second and third tier

michael: i realize this may be etting into a detailed uestion and best ask general nicholson. but deed -- but do you see in the trends? general votel: it is improving. i am encouraged by my interactions with the chief of defense and the minister, who i think are very serious individuals, are well experienced. and they are looking at things not just from a good capital sense, but are from a value sense. what you do with and how you do things. i'm very encouraged by that. i think they police is an area where we will continue to look at the ime am encouraged by some of the things that the president is doing to address corruption in the ranks. there has been the removal of some corrupt military leaders in the past and i think that is well received. i think it sends exactly the right message, that needs to be sent. michael: my last question will be on pakistan. it's a big country. and a big challenge. so i will ask one big, broad question. you can go wherever you wish with it. he just sort of the overall trend we see in afghanistan. a transition in the military leadership has been

welfare uestion on the state.n we have medical and government these programs designed, support going you have people headlong making decisions in the correct how do you ever that? guest: well, i guess that is one of the things i really like idea of the universal basic income. specific on the question of the young woman who has a child and the man does not it.e care of well, i'll tell you one thing, drastically with the universal basic income and test forease of d.n.a. established paternity. right now, when you have a man a child and walks away from the child, it is really hard to collect child support. they just too easily disappear, any money.t have in the case of the universal basic income, all the woman has go before a judge and stablish paternity, which is real easy to do and guess what, the judge can issue an order, a certain amount of child support from that man's his basic income, that will pay for child support, thing in really good terms of the welfare of the child being helped. you a more important thing

insurance program you are roughly getting federal 90%.dy a little over host: brian from madison, ohio, uestionbout medicare or medicaid. go ahead, brian. caller: good morning, john and gentlemen. thank you brian for having foresight to bring c-span along days and i have a experience. in '90-'95, i lived in nevada, regulation, costs were out of control. i was hit by a drunk triefr, broke me. i come to ohio, which has a wonderful healthcare. have private insurance, va care and i have the coverage, of all three, the va is the worst without question. but, what is wonderful about aving all three is that i'm covered pretty much for and the, no extra bills ohio ranked really high our healthcare and i think that there is a lot that learned from states that rovide very well, very good healthcare to fix whatever problems the aca has. host: mr. vladek, on learning states? guest: i think your point is well taken. it.nk you for and the issue of the large the e of variation among states and the way they regulate theate health insurance and way they administer the medicaid program has been a concern to invol

this matter of visa free travel for ukrainians, again, it is uestionable. this will always bring ukrainian labor markets to europe and they will be disadvantaged there. it would be good to do it together in a calm way without agitation. this is the kind of relationship we would like to have with europe. we would like to work together against the issues we are facing today. this is also in regards to terror. our hearts go out to the victims in berlin. when we marked the 75th anniversary of the united nations, i said we should all work together and have a united front. i said, how can you do that when you have sanctions and counter sanctions? how can we work effectively to fight terror? as a result, we suffer attacks. i hope we will be able to restore this cooperation in the uture. >> another journalist from the remlin pool. >> mr. putin, what would you say if you were asked whether or not you should become president in 2018 again, and the opposite? >> it is a provocative question. this guy is a provocateur. well, you will get my standard response. when the t

you're refusing to answer my uestions, and you seem to have a certain tone of contempt towards having figure as a target. you've chosen to have a igure, a net migration target for the whole of immigration and you've chosen to stick with it rather than to change it when you became prime minister. so let me ask you again, just in terms of meeting the net given that rget, none.u. net migration is 196,000, , what, actually at the same level as it was when you became home that ary in 2010, so hasn't changed, after six years, how are you expecting to meet migration target if you have no way to reduce the one.u. migration and you're refusing to say what your plans are for e.u. migration? is, that we said will, of course in due course, have set out, have made decisions, about the arrangements that we wish to have in place for the controls so that people coming within -- from the not possible to say that only one aspect of of ing at the issue migration is the one, the only one that you need to focus on. that you need to think about, from looking at the broader aspect of the net and that's thee