american history tv on c-span3. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] rep. brady: good morning. welcome to the heritage foundation. there's a lot of work left to do this congress if republicans are going to make good on their promise to make america great again. the last major overhaul as we know was in 1986 before the internet, before the ipad, before the iphone, before the boom of the 1990's, before the downturn of 2008. before the emergence of the 1099 economy. a lot has changed and yet our tax code remains essentially the same. double taxing american investment, rewarding those who send jobs overseas while overtaxing those creating jobs here at home. a tax code that fixes these problems won't solve all of our nation's challenges. and the struggles of american businesses are not comprehensive of our nation's broader anxieties. but growth matters and that means

he was an american citizen and thought he should be protected by the american constitution. he was worried about the people who were not be able -- would not be able to become citizens. he met with the first lady and she praised the patriotism of the nise-e who joined the american army in large numbers after the selected service in 1940 and added that in reality they are americans and america has a place for all oil servants, regardless of race or citizenship here it -- all loyal servants, regardless of race or citizenship. >> he actually named his daughter for her. many years later, i interviewed togo to knoc -- togo tanaka. he said he used to respond with -- correspond with ms. roosevelt while he was in cap. he did not remember what was in any of these that they had exchanged. this was long before iphones and scanners, i could go to hyde park and make a photocopy. he said he would appreciate that. this was a copy of his letter to her and discovered that not only was it her response to him but it was a copy of his wedding photo. his wife apparently had died not too long bef

meaning americans who may affect cancer, americans who areutism pregnant, americans with a child withutism could be forced to pay thousands and thousands of dollars more just to get coverage. what else does this newest piece of legislation, this attempted trumpcare again, what else does it do? well, it seems the medicaid expansion and it establishes a per-capita cap and reduction of medicaid. by ending medicaid as we know it, after over 50 years of this program, by suddenly tapping it and ultimately giving block grants to states, we know that it will affect dramatically the people that this program and these expansions have covered. who gets covered by medicaid course who will be affected? well, in america right now over half of all low income families rely on medicaid.ur to out of three of our seniors living in nursing homes rely on- medicaid. half, half of all the birth and the united states of america our children, our future, our greatest natural resource, half are covered by medicaid. here is our reality. we are getting a program that benefits us all, our seniors, our children, a

americans waste money -- [applause] americans waste so much money. dollars and many hours each year to comply with our ridiculously complex tax code. more than 90% of americans use a system -- use the assistance to prepare their taxes. framework, the vast majority of families will be able to file their taxes on a single sheet of paper. [applause] president trump: we are also repealing the alternative minimum tax or amt. it's about time. [applause] the amt isrump: actually a shadow tax system that requires many people to calculate their taxes" different ways and pay the higher of the the amt will make even less sense, because we are repealing many of the special interest tax rates that it was designed to deal with. we are making our taxes simple again. we are simplifying our tax system. to protect millions of small businesses and the american farmer, we are finally ending the crushing, horrible, unfair estate tax, or as it is often referred to, the death tax. [applause] [sustained applause] president trump: that means, ,specially for small businesses

true tax reform is about rewarding american -- hardworking americans, not rewarding washington special interests. it's about growing our economy from the bottom up by offering the american people a better chance to find a well-paying job and start a fulfilling career, whether you're just fresh out of college or if you want to break into a new line of work. so that brings me to our second crucial objective. bigger paychecks. each of the bold ideas i discussed so far will help americans grow professionally, but just as crucial our tax code helps grow your paycheck and standard of living. as i mentioned we're delivering lower rates for american families so they can keep more of the income you earn. the income you save, the income you spend and the income that you invest. but to truly unlock the growth of paychecks nationwide, we also have to unleash business investment in the united states. that's why for the very first time we're offering our businesses the ability to fully write off their purchases of new equipment to keep at a higher level in year one. full expensing is one i am really

american and post- american world. she's a contributing writer at the new york times magazine and is currently living in istanbul. in trying to describe this book to other people i tried by myself stumbling because i think it's many books in one. it's a book about you going abroad and american in 2007 learning about the muslim world in turkey and the surrounding region. it's a book about that region, but also a book that's relevant today as we see things over the summer with charlottesville and things in our own country with the election of donald trump. it's a book about what is america and what is it mean to be an american. can you talk about how would you describe what this book is? >> guest: the fact that it seems like there's many books in one is the genesis of the book. i moved to turkey with the idea that i was going to become a real foreign correspondent is going to read about foreign countries. i had never been anywhere and i had never been to turkey. i had lived in london for maybe three months. was a very tr

he teaches american, african-american, and public history. i'm delighted he's able to join us tonight. please welcome spencer crew. [applause] prof. crew: hello. can you hear me okay? terrific. thank you for coming tonight. it's the middle of the week. and you all came out to be a part of this conversation. i'm pleased to have you here. i wanted to talk about this image from jacob lawrence. it is a 60-piece art creation. what is interesting about it is lawrence created it as a result of learning more about his own family. that his parents were migrants to the north. i think from virginia, if i remember correctly. he learned about the migration by talking to them and talking to other members of his family as well as other people in his neighborhood. it intrigued him so much he wanted to capture that story, capture that history, understood all the parts to it. i want to start with this because what i will talk to you about is the stories and the history he learned. like to talk about it because i am, in fact, the grandchild of migrants. migrate

because when americans are in need, americans pull together.nd we know we can always count on the courageous members of our nation's military to be there every step of the way, just like more than 400 air force medical personnel who have deployed to florida to help care for the sick and the injured. to the men and women who proudly wear the air force uniform, who keep our country safe and who fill our hearts with pride, thank you for your service and devotion to america. thank you. [applause] president trump: i am truly thrilled to join you as this really incredibly milestone. 70 years since the founding of the united states air force, congratulations. [cheers and applause] president trump: we're celebrating 70 years of history, 70 years of heroes and 70 years of victory. i also want to thank all of the amazing family members whose sacrifice make it possible. we love you, celebrate you and everything you do, thank you. [applause] president trump: for seven decades, the united states air force has pushed the boundaries of science and technology,

personale to which attacks are leveled on the american president and other high american officials willy according to immediate political circumstances in soviet-american relations. such attacks are part of a more general assault by the soviet media, which blames the u.s. for the arms race and says that washington follows a policy of state terrorism and international banditry. policy ishe u.s. arms a next her of hypocrisy and cynicism. on racial and social problems, the united states is depicted as a country plagued by discrimination, where the situation is getting worse rather than better. according to moscow television, so-called civil rights are a fiction, racism and racial discrimination continue to be the shame of resin they america, was white racists stepping of activity. there is said to be no equality of opportunity with neither blacks or hispanics getting a fair chance in american society. pictures racial problems as permeating american life. minor offense to get little attention from u.s. media are presented in the soviet union as typical. for example, in chicago, a -- unionhu

american. and italian-americans have a reputation for having less self-control an british protestants. again, these were cultural stereo types. but the fact that dimaggio had absorbed this anglo-american stoic demeanor. dimaggio was known as -- that's a term you don't hear much anymore. but we live in the moderate epicenter those sort of mediterranean dissent. they're adopting this sort of standard of victorian. that's sort of the individual. they sort of struggle for self-control in the individual. to have your rational capacities control your emotions. likewise social policy follows the same model. do everything we can to get individuals to control themselves. in other words, social policy is supposed to award virtue and punish vice. we want our social institution, our political institution, our cultural institution to help cultivate these virtues and minimize these vicess. one of the most interesting things about america in the 19th century and into the 20th century. and one of the things th

american, wounded american officer being brought into independence hall. we've recreated the interior, very exacting here. we know about this particular scene through the diary of a quaker woman named elizabeth drinker. we depict two quaker women who were part of a delegation who came to see these prisoners being brought in and to offer assistance and caring for the wounded. this allows us to talk about yet another community of people. those were pacifists or desired to be neutral. what is their experience living in occupied city here in this case, philadelphia. while all of this is taking place here in neighborhood we are in, in the museum of the american revolution, washington is marched into a desolate piece of ground called valley forge. 20 miles west of us. this becomes the scene of a six-month winter encampment of the continental army. probably the most famous image of the march into valley forge is this painting from the collection of the museum of the american revolution. this is the "march to valley peeping soldiers on the 19th of marching in to t

companies, in american jobs and american workers. our tax plan will give these companies a chance to bring back these funds and bring 'em back and spend it in cities and towns all across our country. the numbers you're talking about are staggering. [applause] the numbers we're talking about are probably between $3.5-$5 trillion that cannot come back -- and think of to it, the democrats want it to come back, the republicans want it to come back. they have for years and nothing gets done. we're going to get it done. [applause] we're going to be switching from a worldwide tax system that encourages companies to keep their funds offshore to a territorial system that encourages companies to bring their profits back home to america where that money belongs. it is our time to invest in our country. we want to build our communities, and we want to build beautiful new ones, and we want to rebuild the old ones. and we want to hire -- and you may have heard the term once or twice before. the fact is we want to just like that beautiful man's hat

court made corporation people if you will is simply to look beyond the corporation and throughout american history the supreme court has granted corporations expansive constitutional rights, often ignoring the corporate form saying we need to protect the rights of the people who come together to form the corporation and while that idea probably made a lot of sense in the early 1800s as corporations were spot-- small it's hard to know if the same idea makes the same degree of sense in a world where you have general motors, hundreds of thousands of shareholders and many hold only invest in the company for a matter of moments as a play on the market or does it still makes sense to break through the corporate form and see those people the need or should we try to separate the rights of the corporation from the rights of the underlying people. >> was this baked into the convent-- constitution in any way? >> the framers never considered whether corporations should have constitutional protection it never came up in any ratifying conventions and they never thought about by debt in part because in

. >> next on american artifacts, a visit to philadelphia's museum of american revolution. in the first of a two-part program, we learned about the location and design. we explore the origins of the untiltion in 1760 up 1776. president ande ceo of the resume of the american revolution and i am standing on the plaza at the corner of third and chestnut streets in old city philadelphia. philadelphia was the headquarters of the revolution, where delegates came and protests first mounted, where the declaration of independence was written 200 yards away at independence hall. this really is the most central element of the american revolution, the birth of our nation, which is why this museum is located here. just down the street from me is the first bank of the united states. that is alexander hamilton's branch bank when he launched our nation's banking system. it is also the first building constructed by the united states of america. so we have truly are or the -- our where the nation began and it is the right place to tell the entire story of the american revolution, which is ou

he teaches american, african-american, and public history. i'm delighted he's able to join us tonight. please welcome spencer crew. [applause] prof. crew: hello. can he

we love our american flag. [applause] the soul of a country is found in the people who make it a home , and we owe it to our citizens to provide them with a future of opportunity where they can earn a living with dignity and purpose and pride. we can build this future together as one team, one people, and one great american family. this can be run a bird as the moment we took control of our destiny and shows -- remembered as the moment we took control of our dignity and chose american prosperity and pride. with your help and your voice, we will bring back our jobs, bring back our wealth, and for every citizen across this land, we will bring back our great american dream. thank you. god bless you, and god bless america. thank you very much everybody. [applause] thank you. ♪ hi[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] florida gov. rick scott spoke about the ongoin

"exporting american dreams: thurgood marshall's american -- thurgood marshall's african journey." "cold war civil rights: race in the image of american democracy" from princeton in 2000. and two edited collections "legal borderlands," and" september 11 in history." mary's next book, entitled "going to war: an american history" is under contract with oxford university press. mary's research has been supported by the guggenheim, mellon fellowships, the institute for advanced studies at princeton, and numerous other foundations. her books have been distinguished by her passion for social justice and progress by extensive research, by cogent analysis, and by very careful articulation of ideas and evaluation. peer reviews have bestowed numerous accolades on mary's work. the book on thurgood marshall was described as "a gem of a book" and "a work of true genius." reviews of "wartime" described it as "a provocative meditation and a fascinating and nuanced narrative." mary helps explain the journal of american history noted, "why national security continues to have such influence on ameri

, for working americans. it's just wrong, and i'm going to explain some of the reasons that all of us should be outraged by this bill, this bill, this new bill. this new bill which says need yachtly -- immediately the individual mandate and accompanying mandate -- company mandate are wiped out. what does that do? it means instantly in 2018 and 2019 it's a destructive, race to the bottom insurance pools. if there's no pool, no mandate, then only those who are sicker sign up. those who are sicker are more expensive. so then more people drop out of the health care pool and the pool becomes even more expensive. it just shoots right out of sight. so we're not talking just about damage that would be done in 2020. we're talking about damage that would be done next year and the year after. what happens when the insurance companies say there's only two years left on this and the health care pool has a big hole in it, healthy people are gushing out and only the sickest people remain? they're going to drop out of provid

rebuild american cities and towns.hat is how we will all succeed together and grow together as one team, one people and one american family. we want it to happen here. tax reform has not historically been a partisan issue and it does not have to be a partisan issue today. i really believe we're going to have numerous democrats come over and sign because it's the right thing to do. i believe that it's the right thing to do and i know many of them and they're telling me it is the right thing to do. president reagan's tax cuts were passed with significant bipartisan majorities at a time when there was a democrat majority in the house and a democrat speaker, tip o'neill. before that democrat president john f. kennedy championed tax cuts that surged the economy and massively reduced unemployment. as president kennedy very wisely said, the single most important fiscal weapon available to strengthen the national economy is the federal tax policy, the right kind of tax cut at the right time, at the right time, this is the righ

it's 35% latino, 30% asian-american, 2% african-american, 2% arab-american. it's one of the most diversive youth districts in the country. we have a congressman voting with donald trump 97% of the time, so he just doesn't fit the community. we have two colleges in our district, cal poly pomona and we also have cal state fullerton. so we have a large student population. and the last election, the 18-34 population was roughly 35% of the vote. the biggest question in these midterm elections with younger voters is are they going to turn out? and i'm a firm believer as a millennial and someone who still has student debt, that you turn out when you talk about the basics of the pocketbook, what people are worried about. there are only three candidates in my lifetime as a voter that even mentioned the words student debt -- barack obama, elizabeth warren, and bernie sanders. not surprisingly, they're three of the most popular candidates with people under the age of 35, because they're talking about the kitchen table issues that affect people. so a lot of my campaign i

alview of americans. all of this was coming as a kind of revelation to me in the first i was horrified and it seems like what you are not supposed to do as a journalist, it became more complicated and as i became more aware of my weaknesses and my blind spot, i didn't really feel comfortable writing a book about turkey as much as i thought what i could write about was the experience of your country from afar and that i might be the more powerful story that i can tell. you start out the scene where there was a political disaster a few years back and they were asking you why did he wait for this horrible tragedy to come. can you talk about that? >> guest: that was an interesting case because what i was thinking when one miner asked me that come it reminded me that a lot of journalists in earlier years we have been focused on this debate and i think some people including myself have been paying attention to how he was actually changing the country. we know now a lot of land from which the neoliberalism that

we left our american flag. -- we love our american flag. the soul of a country is found in the people who make it a home we owe it to our citizens to provide them with a future of opportunity where they can earn a living with dignity and purpose and pride. we can build this future together as one team, one people, and one great american family. as then be remembered moment we took control of our destiny and chose a future of american patriotism, prosperity and pride. voiceour help, and your we will bring back our jobs, we will bring back our wealth, and for every citizen across his land, we will bring back our great american dream. , god you, god bless you bless america. thank you very much, everybody, thank you. >> the president met with florida gov. rick scott at the white house. they talked about his trip to puerto rico. after his meeting governor scott spoke with reporters. >>

hard-working americans deserve theyve a future, and deserve to have an opportunity to obtain the american dream. when america ever moves our resources through moratoriums political is not the class of washington that suffers. it is the hard-working men and women who get laid off from --ir jobs, it is coming communities that fall into despair and his nurses and opportunities diminish for all americans. trillions of dollars of american wealth and millions of jobs have been moved overseas as our politicians here at home have turned their back on america's --ential for energy donovan dominance. it is time to stop the bleeding. it is time to put america first. under president trump, american energy, mind and produced by american hands will make america great again. american energy dominance requires and all of the above energy strategy. all the above. it is not just oil and gas and coal. innovation, advances in technology, energy can be the benefit of all of us. one of the hardest leases head in the last administration -- hitch in the last administration was in west virginia. eight months ago,

don't take my word for it, doctors groups including the american academy of pediatrics, american academy of family physicians and a bunch of other medical specialties pulled the fire alarm when cassidy and graham released their proposal. they sent congress a letter saying it could cost millions of americans their healthcare coverage. they begs republicans not to start down this road again. instead, doctors asked congress to do something that makes a lot more sense, focus on ways to improve health insurance markets in this country starting with discussions that have taken place in the health committee over the last two weeks. that is because there is another important deadline coming up, the date when insurance companies have to set their prices for next year's insurance premiums. over the last couple weeks the two senators who run the health committee, senator alexander on the republican side, senator murray on the democratic side, held a series of hearings on policies, we could pass before the end of september to help lower premiums and make sure when you buy health insurance you get co

, for working americans. it's just wrong, and i'm going to explain some of the reasons that all of us should be outraged by this bill, this bill, this new bill. this new bill which says need yachtly -- immediately the individual mandate and accompanying mandate -- company mandate are wiped out. what does that do? it means instantly in 2018 and 2019 it's a destructive, race to the bottom insurance pools. if there's no pool, no mandate, then only those who are sicker sign up. those who are sicker are more expensive. so then more people drop out of the health care pool and the pool becomes even more expensive. it just shoots right out of sight. so we're not talking just about damage that would be done in 2020. we're talking about damage that would be done next year and the year after. what happens when the insurance companies say there's only two years left on this and the health care pool has a big hole in it, healthy people are gushing out and only the sickest people remain? they're going to drop out of provid

companies, in american jobs and american workers. our tax plan will give these companies a chance to bring back these funds and bring them back and spend it in cities and towns all across our country. the numbers you're talking about are staggering. [applause] the numbers we're talking about are probably between 3.5 and 5 trillion that cannot come back into our -- think of it. the democrats want it to come back, the republicans want it to come back. they have for years. nothing gets done. we're going to get it done. [applause] we're going to be switching from a worldwide tax system that encouraging companies to keep their funds offshore to a territorial system that encourages companies to bring their profits back home to america where that money belongs. it's our time to invest in our country. we want to build our communities and we want to build beautiful new ones. we want to rebuild the old ones. we want to hire. you may have heard the term once or twice before, the fact is, we want it just like that beautiful man's hat. we want to

in the 1946, it the peak of american movie attendance, about 90 million americans went to the movies every week in 1946. about 60% of americans let's say wen to the movies each week. and that fell to about 45 million a week, half, by 1953. and this is perron still falling because of later technological innovations like vcrs and dvds or whatever that netflix, whatever it is, streaming, people don't go to the movies the way they used to. >> patterson says television broke down the family unit because they're watching and not talking. do you disagree with that? into it is something that movies you could say bring people together and the description patterson gives of movie theater as cultural sort of civic institutions, very ornate, had a lot of services and began to decline as a result of television. certainly television reduces personal interaction. television is a mass produced commodity and so one of the things that it's doing is sort of a homogenizing american tastes. broadcast media where everyone's watching the same things is one of the things that is sort of making american life

and i hope the american people l closely. -- and i hope the american people listen closely. after a few months of lying dormant, trumpcare is back. it is meanor. it now lives u $under the name of cassidy-graham. guess what? it is another bill that would drastically cut back on health care funding for americans who need it most. so my colleagues, my fellow americans, this is a red alert moment for the entire country. our health care system again is threatened by a hastily constructed piece of legislation put together in a back room by only one party, no c.b.o. score, not a single hearing, totally -- everyone is totally in the dark about the effects of this bill. and yet there is an effort to rush it forward. this frankenstein monster of a bill that would so harm so many americans just keeps coming back and back and back. and somehow each time it has managed to get worse. here's what we know the new trumpcare bill would do. it would roll back protections for americans with preexisting conditions. it would allow states to impose burdensome requirements as a condition on medicai

over 70% of americans are against tax breaks for wealthy americans and wealthy corporations. lowering the rate on pass-through entities, that would create a huge loophole, allowing very wealthy americans like hedge fund managers to funnel their income through a business entity in order to avoid the top bracket and pay a much lower rate. so the upper middle-class family making $100,000 or $200,000 or $300,000 could pay 39%. but these wealthy hedge fund managers and lawyers and whoever can through a pass-through pay no corporate tax and then a 25% rate on the rest of their taxes. does that help middle-class americans? absolutely not. does it help the wealthiest who have the lawyers to set up these pass-through entities? absolutely. lowering the top rate, the individual top rate, the top 1% who make above $490,000 a year would get a tax break because their rate would be lowered. god bless them, they made a lot of money. do they need a tax break? i don't think so. but president trump clearly believes, despite his rhetoric, that the wealthy in this country deserve another tax cut

an opportunity is coming for every american. fairness, simplicity, but something that is absolutely crucial. a lot of you have sat through the presentations on what is happening to our society if we do not get economic growth. yeah, we have some tough math ahead of us, but i am going to make you the argument that growth is coming if we make this work, and we are going to make it work. >> next, a man who used to be a member of the ways and means committee. who is now a member of the senate finance mitty. we will take him. sen. portman: ohio. >> i like the energy in this -- sen. portman from ohio. senator portman: this is about to bang. one, it is dealing with the middle-class squeeze, and it is very real. health care is one of the biggest defenses. this is going to give people the opportunity to have a healthier family budget. middle-class tax cuts are part of this. but it goes beyond that. it goes to the economy, having it generate more income and wages. when you look at what the congressional budget office budget office has sai

he teaches american, african-american and public history. i'm delighted he's able to join us tonight. spencer crew. [applause] >> hello. hear me okay? terrific. coming tonight. it's the middle of the week. you all come out to be a part of this conversation. i'm pleased to have you here. i wanted to talk about this image from jacob lawrence. 60-piece art creation. what's interesting about it, lawrence created it as a result of learning more about his own family. parents were migrant to the north. i think from virginia. he learned about the migration by talking to them and talking to other member of his family as in his other people neighborhood. much he wanted to capture that history. i like to start with this because what i'm going to talk to you about are the stories and learned.hat he theke to talk about it, i'm grandchild of migrants. first from south carolina pickens county, south carolina. anybody know pickens county. from there to atlanta, georgia. ohio.here to cleveland, my father was born in cleveland, 1920's. they move northward. wa

with it goes a young american -- with it, goes a young american navy he serves in a guerrilla war of seek and destroy. far from this destroyer, an aircraft carrier, he is the american navy in vietnam. on the station, somewhere in the south china sea, another more familiar view of the american navy in vietnam. the mammoth kitty hawk, the second largest of the u.s. attack carriers, turns into the wind and launches airborne striking force. not far away, along the coast, other units of the u.s. fleet take game, on call from troops fighting a short in place supporting fire on vietcong concentrations. farther south, another kind of arm strength appears to go -- arms strength prepares to go on shore. the most effective means known for holding a piece of ground. the individual fighting man -- the united states marines. ringing] >> in saigon, he works a different job, less glamorous. behind the fighting men is a staff of navy and army and air force personnel who administer support activities for our forces throughout the country. east of saigon, these men have gone beyond. they will launch an

and american family? if youit haven't a -- if you have a parent is a better signal that is paid for by medicaid a if this bill passes. to have a young son or daughter for the treatment they received if the bill passes. to give birth to a child. man we desperately needs help and that child life in many cases could be at risk. >> this is the poorest way of legislating to rush the bill through no cbo's gore. already some republican governors have spoken out with these provider groupsr have come about with the american cancer society their reach eight - - rating agencies to even'' more disruption that other all ec aid bills. and the american people have rejected trump care repeatedly in the numberser are below 20% only one out of five americans once us to pass this bill so there are some on either side of the aisle who say they can work it out so each state would not be hurt as badly. m that they can tweak the formula for one state or another to make it less devastating.oney. first you ever come up with that

americanization of another sort. buffalo bills wild west in ,urope took place in one year cultural nationalism, queen victoria 18 7 -- her jubilee. this one is in paris. -- there were tons of literal convergence, but there was force a unique opportunity between the late 19th century conception of national -- hertion emerged engagement with the transatlantic american air. the one hand to wild west is a check of how the frontier west global. [coughs] there's european americanization -- on the other hand, the wild west suggests buffalo bills frontier is was, to some extent, and the actual product of immigration. ar many europeans -- accelerated their own process of naturalization. international exploits -- 1893 incorporated into rough riders of the world. this was an americanization as it played out. also there was this of the wild west -- of national consolidation i bringing the outside in even as it sold the story of the wild west. it is not the time, the media coverage of the wild west -- was insatiable. -- had itsge

corporate personhood is foundational to american law. what's unusual is that the court has interpreted corporations to the people for purposes of the constitution and use that idea as a basis for extending fundamental individual rights to corporations as well. >> host: how is that done? how do they become people in that sense? >> guest: one of the most important ways the supreme court made corporations people if you will is simply to look beyond the corporation and throughout american history the supreme court has granted corporations expansive constitutional rights. often ignoring the corporate form and thing we need to protect the rights of the people who come together to form the corporation. while that idea made a lot of sense in the early 1800's as corporations were very small it's hard to know whether that same idea makes the same degree of sense in a world where you have general motors and hundreds of thousands of shareholders many who only invested the company for a matter of moments. is it still makes sense to break through the

the american medical the american nurses association, the american medical colleges, the american hospital association, the catholic hospital association, and the american health care association which represents thousands of nursing homes like the one that just nurses association, the american medical colleges, the american hospital cared for that gentleman we heard such kind words a moment ago from louisiana. again, incredibly the national association of medicaid drkt -- directors from all 50 states, republican states and democratic states, issued an extraordinary letter last week. again, these are folks who run the system. they are actually on the ground. they are in the real world. bubble.he the political bubble of washington and they have unanimously begged the senate to vote no and to stop this rush to undermining and creating a catastrophic damage to america's health care system. the rand corporation issued a report just a couple days ago that talked about the impact of this measure on america's veterans. 1.75 million american veterans use the medicaid program. many in nursing homes

american dream. and when america removes our resources through moratoriums and bans, it's not the political class of washington that suffers. it's the hard working men and women who get laid off from their jobs, it's communities across the country that fall into despair and local businesses and opportunities diminish for all americans. trillions of dollars in american wealth and millions of jobs have been moved overseas as our politicians here at home have turned their back on america's potential for energy dominance. and it's time to stop the bleeding. it's time to put america first. youunder president trump americn energy mined and produced by american hands will make america great again. american energy dominance will require an all-the-above energy strategy. all the above. it's not just oil and gas and coal. but through innovation, advances in technology, energy can be the benefit of all of us. and one of the hardest places hit in the last administration was in west virginia. and eight months ago

, meaning americans who may have had cancer, americans who are pregnant, americans with a child with autism could be forced to pay thousands and thousands of dollars more just to get coverage. what else does this newest piece of legislation, this attempt at trumpcare again, what else does it do? well, it ends the medicaid expansion, and it establishes a per capita cap and reduction of medicaid. by ending medicaid as we know it, after over 50 years of this program, by suddenly capping it and ultimately giving block grants to states, we know that it will affect dramatically the people that this program and these expansions have covered. and who gets covered by medicaid? who will be affected? well, in america right now, over half of all low-income families rely on medicaid. two out of three of our seniors living in nursing homes rely on medicaid. half -- half of all the births in the united states of america are children -- of america, our children, our future, our greatest natural resource, half are covered by medicaid. here is our reality. we are getting a program that benefits us all