back with us is charles of the mercatus center at the george mason university.niversity, the social security and medicaid trust fund. that yearly forecast came out late friday afternoon about the long-term health of social security and medicare. what did that report find? guest: that report found would all have found for several years now. unfortunately, these reports tell of that we are going to have to make some pretty substantial changes to align the benefits with their project -- rejected tax revenue if we want to preserve and retain the type of social security and medicare programs that we now have. host: how long are we expected to have social security and medicare fully funded? guest: that is a great question. i'd like to answer that in a very bifurcated way. you also tsipras reporting focusing on the dates of depletion of the social security trust funds and the medicare hospital insurance trust fund. and those dates respectively are 2033 for the old-age and survivors insurance trust fund with social security, what people think of as retirement that. 2034

there is new evidence from michael clemens, a researcher at george mason university, he sold that she shows we have been underestimating the benefits of refugees because we haven't been accounting for the demand affect. when you bring people here and they start working, that is also the benefit of u.s. natives as ll. we are clearly in the black on refugees in terms of the spending we have. it is a great investment that pays back more than what we are payingn. host: do they get a stipend of some type, do they get health care of some type, what are the benefits when they come to your united states -- come to the united states? guest: they receive some financial support at the beginning but the current programs are geared to quickly get them into t workforce so that they can become contributors. if you talk with refugees, that is what they will tell you. they show up here, yes, they are in need, they had to leave their home country, but they were assets. when you talk to them, they will tell you, i was a journalist back in afghanistan, i was a doctor, i was aurse, i was a lawyer. an iraq

people didn't build them out about the new jennifer. victor is a professor of political science at george mason university. she joins us live from fairfax, virginia, thanks for being with us. i just wanna ask your reaction festival to the so extraordinary situation of trump, a pleading not guilty to these charges. yes. so i suppose we expected the not guilty, i guess the, the main thing that i think we've learned so far is little bit more about the nature of the charges. so i understand it is $34.00 felony counts, which is significant, of course. and on the one hand, you know, i think we are somewhat accustomed to hearing donald trump's spoken about as, as he engages in something that nobody else has ever done before. you know, he is the 1st person to run for office, for the presidency. and when it, who had never held office before, the 1st person in the presidency to have been impeached twice and so forth. so we are at another 1st. he is a record breaker. if you want to look at it that way. but unfortunately, the reason we are here is because these are the systems of accountability and justice

i should add that's bringing jennifer victor, who's a professor of political science at george mason university, shown this lie from fairfax, virginia. and i suppose one thing that we, we should say about the way things are played out. today's was some concern. there was some concern before the court case that the protest might become violent. there was a warning from the city police to, you know, to, for everyone to, to take it easy if you'd like to leave things to go off quite smoothly. there was no, there was no, no violence there. yeah, probably a fair amount of credit goes to the local security services and a fair amount of advanced planning on behalf of all of the other parties involved here who took this seriously. so tell me i agree that come on the, on the, on the court case itself, trump, please be not guilty to 34 counts. but he's also very made it very clear that he feels that this is a witch hunt against him. and he's attacked the very kind of nature of the judicial system in a way. how damaging is that for the country to have people questioning whether or not the judici

george mason university, the social security and medicaid trust fund.t yearly forecast came out late friday afternoon about the long-term health of social security and medicare. what did that report find? guest: that report found would all have found for several years now. unfortunately, these reports tell of that we are going to have to make some pretty substantial changes to align the benefits with their project -- rejected tax revenue if we want to preserve and retain the type of social security and medicare programs that we now have. host: how long are we expected to have social security and medicare fully funded? guest: that is a great question. i'd like to answer that in a very bifurcated way. you also tsipras reporting focusing on the dates of depletion of the social security trust funds and the medicare hospital insurance trust fund. and those dates respectively are 2033 for the old-age and survivors insurance trust fund with social security, what people think of as retirement that. 2034 for the combined trust fund. 2041 for the medicare hospita

former fbi profiler, director of the science program at george mason university. welcome it. getting a little complicated but let me start first lots of folks out street crime. now we know the alleged killer it may have been over his own sister that lee was visiting the sister back and forth from the hotel, over to the apartment when you see in terms of the dynamics going on here, what happened that night? >> based on the court documents it seems as though a situation had preexisted the attack. that came to the statement by one of the witnesses that overheard what is a phone conversation with a suspect in the victim were discussing the sister suspect was expect object upset. then secondarily it got the suspect and the victim driving to a location. it's quite interesting they are driving to a location in the suspects vehicle. it appears as though they both get out of the vehicle which is also interesting to me because that tends to show proprietary interest if you know you're going to attack someone with a knife you do not want blood in your own car so somehow the suspect was

karl sabo is vice president and general counsel at net choice, a professor of internet law at george masonentlemen, thank you very much. when you hear elon musk say, this take a listen. >> a.i. is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production. in the sense that it is -- it has the potential -- it is not trivial. it has the potential of civilization destruction. >> bret: what do you think when you hear that? >> well, i'm not sure i agree with the hyperbole of civilizational destruction. >> what i'm most concerned about, bret and we saw it in the previous segment the ability to manipulate people for nefarious purposes and i don't think that being able to recreate a lost loved one is necessarily nefarious but certainly what we are seeing on the cyber side is unprecedented levels of cyberattacks. targeted fbiing fbi phishing at, a.i. tools to make them much more sophisticated and harder to attack that's why cyber world is going to cost $10 trillion this year. something we absolutely have to look out for and get more resilient in defending

i want to acknowledge rachel, who is in internet george mason. and lindsay is a robbins graduate, works at my senate. give lindsay a big round. [applause] here is a little known secret about virginia. virginia has one of the most active space programs of any state because there is a nasa facility operated by nasa, but also in tandem with the commonwealth of virginia on wallace island. does anybody know where wallace's? it is nourishing configured if you would past will over there. for decades, this has been a site that has been launches into the atmosphere or beyond. it is not know as well as the other facilities because they are not man's branches. they are very frequent watches. i was there 2 fridays ago. they did a lodge of iraq [. i hope you have a chance. the pace of launches is picking up because it is not only nasa missions, but it is a program called the antares program run by -- northern virginia. brockett labs is a new zealand company that uses the launchpad's. there are are the defense and until launches that take place there. if even

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right now is net choice vice president and general counsel, also professor of internet law at a george masonk's efforts with this new a.i. company. first, talk about the potential regulation. can you regulate a.i.? what would had that look like? what is your reaction? >>> thanks for having me on. the last thing america needs is innovation at the speed of congress. congress can barely pass gas. we don't need them regulating a.i. as one of your previous guests mentioned, china is not slowing down. they are moving fast. with a.i., the question is not if, but where. do we want a.i., the next decade of innovation, to come from america or do we want a it to come from somewhere else? we've already seen this administration give away our energy independence. the last thing we can afford is to give away our technological independence through cumbersome and burdensome regulation that will slow down good actors from creating life saving technology that we're seeing today. maria: yeah, i mean, what i'm worried about is using these machines, these artificial intelligence machines in the military. i mean,

alphabetically and start with an associate professor at the school of policy and government at george mason university, and nonresident senior fellow, his book explaining the strategy can separate us was published by cornell university press and 2017 and won the 2019 international studies association award for the best book in international security studies. his work has appeared in journals such as international organizations, journal of global security studies, journal of strategic studies the politics and religion and security studies where he published a paper we will get into today i hope, asking why did the united states invade iraq. he has a phd in political science from the university of chicago. the vice president for the center for renewing america was previously senior advisor and later executive director at concerned veterans for america. he helped to oversee the campaign to end the wars in afghanistan, iraq, and syria and played a key role in passing the v.a. accountability act, the v.a. mission act and other significant reforms the department of the trump administration peer h

he did the same thing at george mason, leading them to their first ever final four, and at that timew their out of state admissions increased by 40% fred. so he knows all about how big this moment is. listen it's a very special time for the university of miami. we are great academic institution, top 50 school in the country and now everybody's talking basketball, so it's great for both the academics goes more students will be hitting our website and for basketball. we'll have more fans next year at our games. nothing quite like the final four. fred drawing in fans who don't even necessarily watch basketball during the regular season. so much hype. this is the first time since 1970 that there are three teams making their first ever final four appearance will see who can battle it out. in just a few hours. it'll be florida atlantic university, taking on those sand diego state aztecs fans. and then after that, it will be the u miami taking on yukon. my god, they are pumped up so exciting. alright, coy wire appreciate thanks for taking us to energy stadium. all right. we'll be right back

she's a professor of political science at george mason university, joined us now from fairfax. virginia. good to have you with us, jennifer. as we're talking, i think we're going to try and roll the latest pictures that we saw moments ago of donald trump walking through that court. this, this scene is, is very significant. it's difficult to over state how significant this scene is of a former us president in the process of being criminally indicted. right. what kind of mark does that leave on american political life now? yeah, well unfortunately i can't see the images that you are now projecting um, but i can envision them. and i think you're really designing jennifer. it's dawn from walking through a hallway in a court in manhattan. so i'll just for the n and what i got fairly easy to meet you to imagine. and, and you know, you're right to point out that this is a 1st, it is unusual. and on the other hand, when it comes to the politics and political career, donald trump, we are used to putting superlatives about 1st things happening and uniqueness alongside his name and the 1st preside

bring in bill slider who's a political analyst sunday emory's, his public policy professor at george mason university. joining us from washington dc. get to have you with us again, bill slider. so look, i me one pull that i took a look at seems to suggest that only 26 percent of americans think that biden should be running again. this is surely going to worry those around them in the white house as well as the, the democratic parties are not a soon was unclear of the machine. his age was ever she don't, lawyers, there's a pole that says 26 percent of americans think that he should be running again. well, i think you said there's a lot of americans don't think you should be running. the main reason is his age, not particularly popular president, but he's not a wiley and popular president. donald trump was the main problem that americans have with joe bodies. they think he's too old. we'll be the oldest president ever elected. and there's, there's not a lot of evidence of that. he's encouraged. americans worry about a new 80 year old man. be president, and i have the stamina metal he would h

ann phillips, cardi school for peace and conflict resolution at george mason university. she says, when putin first came into office he promoted a common european home and partnership with the west. since then he has adopted a more confrontational position. can any of the panelists speak about what led putin to change from the position of cooperation to confrontation? amb. sullivan: fermi? or me? jill: yes, sir. amb. sullivan: when he first came in as prime minister and then president he was more open to integrating into the west. he now complains about that in his speech yesterday. but it was certainly the case 23 years ago that he was more open to it. i remember in the george w. bush administration i was the deputy secretary of commerce meeting with russian officials in the first decade of this century. and the optimism we all had. but what lurked beneath the surface for president putin was what is attributed to his statement, the great catastrophe of the 21st century was the demise of the soviet union. what i interpret him as saying is he is not lamenting the demise of

so now he's chosen a way nicely for george mason university.does anything on the panel want to respond? the critics who say that the of reagan in bringing down the soviet union has been grossly and i just point to the last weekend in the washington post a book review which made precise for that claim. if you want to start go ahead so it's obviously multiple factors multiple people multiple that that bring you to the of the cold war. but what that criticism often means translates into is it wasn't reagan at all sometimes it's reagan a little bit and i think the sense of this panel is reagan is crucial. now, does that mean that there aren't other things going on? no, i already said it's, you know, multi causal multifactorial. but i didn't mention gorbachev by name except in repeating mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall because i think that it's very important to talk about what he did. but what he did so much of it he was well, nearly all of it he forced into and that's what doesn't get passed on it doesn't get passed on to my students i may not g

there is new evidence from michael clemens, a researcher at george mason university, he sold that shews we have been underestimating the benefits of refugees because we haven't been accounting for the demand affect. when you bring people here and they start working, that is also the benefit of u.s. natives as well. we are clearly in the black on refugees in terms of the spending we have. it is a great investment that pays back more than what we are paying in. host: do they get a stipend of some type, do they get health care of some type, what are the benefits when they come to your united states -- come to the united states? guest: they receive some financial support at the beginning but the current programs are geared to quickly get them into the workforce so that they can become contributors. if you talk with refugees, that is what they will tell you. they show up here, yes, they are in need, they had to leave their home country, but they were assets. when you talk to them, they will tell you, i was a journalist back in afghanistan, i was a doctor, i was a nurse, i was a lawyer. an

this is from doctor anne phillips, fellow, carter school for peace and conflict resolution it george masoniversity. she says, when putin first came into office he promoted a common european home in partnership with the west. since then, he has adopted a more confrontational position. can any of the panelists speak about what led putin to change from a position of cooperation into confrontation. >> for me? well, i agree with the premise that when he first came into office, first as prime minister and then as president, he was certainly more open to integrating into the west. he now complains about that and laments that in his speech yesterday. but it was certainly the case 23 years ago, he was more open to it. i remember back in the george w. bush administration. i was the deputy secretary of commerce, meeting with government officials. and in the first decade of this century, and the optimism that both sides had for russia's instagram shun. but what lurked beneath the surface for president putin was what has been contributed to him as the statement that great catastrophes of the 20th centu