from the hudson institute, nice to see you again. i wanted to start with iran. launched strikes against syria, iraq and pakistan. what is there and the game? guest: they are trying to establish themselves as a regional power which is something they've done for the pa fewthey work through proxiese houthis, hezbollah, hamas. they try to use these proxy groups. so force their neighbors to establish action to drive competition in the region. host: i ran head pakistan and they responded today and iran says been killed. where does this go? will there be an issue? guest:zc it's another region whe there is a dispute between iran and pakistan and area of pakistan just south of iran. that area has been somewhat contested. they are trying to force pakistan to defend thatas well q and saudi arabia. this is their effort to try to expand its control in the middle east. it has decided to take action against a nuclear armed power. they are working with proxies against other countries but this direct attack on pakistan puts pakistan and direct confrontation. iran feels assembled

welcome to the hudson institute, i'm john walters. i'm pleased to welcome you here to this excellent discussion on china's influence operations in the united states and most importantly, how to counter beijing's malign influence. this event is the latest installment in the house intelligence committee series, an effort to try to talk to the american people in the open about some of the pending and important intelligence issues. make sure that we still have a government with the public is informed and able to understand what the problems are and what the solutions are. i want to commend eric shared today and hg this. i think it is something that is not done enough, that is, talking to the american people about important policy issues. as i said, we are joined today by michael waltz. he will moderate today's discussion and represents florida's sixth district. he's a decorated combat veteran, the first green beret to serve in congress. continues his remarkable career of service as a member of the house foreign affairs committee, armed se

from the hudson institute, nice to see you again. i wanted to start with iran. earlier this week they launched strikes against syria, iraq and pakistan. what is there and the game? guest: they are trying to establish themselves as a regional power which is something they've done for the past few decades. they work through proxies like houthis, hezbollah, hamas. they try to use these proxy groups. so force their neighbors to establish itself as a country with freedom of action to drive competition in the region. host: i ran head pakistan and they responded today and iran says people have been killed. where does this go? will there be an issue? guest: it's another region where there is a dispute between iran and pakistan and area of pakistan just south of iran. that area has been somewhat contested. they are trying to force pakistan to defend that border. as well as pushing back on iraq and saudi arabia. this is their effort to try to expand its field of control in the middle east. it has decided to take action against a nuclear armed power. they are working with

. >> a discussion on the latest concern -- th two guests joining u the hudson institute and the director for the security in the middle east and joined by ben friedman of defense priorities who served as the policy director, thank you for giving us your time this morning. we've been at this war with hamas over 100 days, what's your assessment? guest:he israelis set a pretty high bar for themsels saying they going to eliminate hamas and have not achieved that yet. they suffered some othe worst casualties of the war e other day and theres a larger problem om the united states perspective with escalation in iraq and syria where he was forces are stationed there and are taking fire in the red sea where the cooties --houthisnd thbrits and others are firing at yen where thehohi government is. there is a danger of escalation potentially and even a war with iran which we are trying to avoid. i think it's high time the united states pushed harder for a sort of cease-fire but also a fferent policy in the middle east that would limit our liabilities and look forhe exits. host: same question to you.

joined n blark, from the center of defense networks and technology from the hudson institute.d to see you. guest: good to see you. host: i want to start with iran. earlier they launched strikes against syria, iraq, and pakistan. what is going on? what is their end game and what are they trying to achieve? guest: iran is trying to establish in the middle east wh is something they're doing the past couple decades and they've been working through proxies with the houthi in yemen and hezbollah and hamas and some of the sympathizers in iraq. ■group. so force their neighbors to establish itself as a country with freedom of action to drive competition in the region. i ran head pakistan and they and iran says people have been killed. where does this go? guest: it's another region where a dispute between iran and pakistan and area of pakistan just south of iran. thatthey are trying to force pakistan to defend that border. ■1as well as pushing back onraq and saudi arabia. this is their effort to try to expand its field of control in the middle east. it has decided to take action against

india relationship and using what he refers to as soft power dip from the hudson institute, this is an hour. good afternoon. i'd like to welcome all of you. the economic rise china is important for american policymakers and is monitoring extremism. in 2024 across south asia, india, pakistan will hold elections this year. at a time like this it is critical to have a conversation with south asia and the indo pacific with opportunities in the coming year. we are fortunate with of the senior member of the house judiciary end of the foreign committee. a traveler to south asia to remain focused on the region especially the indo pacific. congressman, welcomed hudson. >> it is an honor to be out of such an institute, because you do look out of the world, each part of the.. world in a way tht often in congress and the administration doesn't so it's good to have a think tank that can help give us continuity. >> the relationship that has strong bipartisan support in the country. you said you've long been a strong supporter of the partnership. last june with the joint session of the congress you s

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a research fellow at the hudson institute and he is in washington dc for us.uch for joining us so why do you think that the biden administration and the european allies as well have been reluctant to try and seize these assets? and why do you believe that might be changing now? >> it is important to remember ukraine itself as been pushing this idea from the beginning. ukrainians should not be bearing the entire murder. this would be an unprecedented step. they are concerned about financial stability and their attractiveness to other countries who might be deterred from investing their assets here. i think that calculation, was certainly the position that secretary yellen took until a few months ago and i think what it started to change people's minds, in western capital is that firstly, sanctions haven't been having their intended impacts. i think they are starting to explore other ways to explore ukraine and damage the russian economy. >> i want to ask you potentially how could this work so that it would be a success? i'm looking at what you might suggest. as

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hudson institute senior fellow rebecca heinrichs and fox news contributor and host of guy benson show, guy benson. austin's ordeal began december 22 right-hand, when he underwent a procedure at walter reed and returned to intensive care unit last monday with severe pain. austin's next in command was given some duties next day but not told he was in the hospital. the white house had no clue that the secretary of defense was hospitalized. senior pentagon officials and congress learn the news on friday. austin's condition was closely guarded. one dod official was told the secretary was working from home. austin is recovering in the hospital and we wish him the best. i could have done a better job of keeping the public inform. this was my medical procedure and i take full responsibility for disclosure. there is war in europe and middle east, tacks in the middle east and red sea not to mention iran, china, north korea and austin disappears without the white house or secretary of state knowing anything about it. politicians are calling for accountability. >> guy: when you are secretary of d

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security council staff, and now direct the center for peace and security in the middle east at hudson institute, a washington think tank. and ali vaez was a senior political affairs officer at the united nations, and is now the iran project director at the international crisis group, which describes itself as working to prevent conflict around the world. thanks very much, welcome to both of you. michael, what is your assessment so far on u.s. strikes on houthis in yemen and u.s. strikes in iraq on iranian backed groups? michael: they are not going to do the job. the president basically admitted that. maersk also said at the world economic forum that this is going to go on for months, that shipping through the red sea and the suez canal will be disrupted for months, so clearly it's not working. if this is operational prosperity, we are not guarding it. geoff: same question, what is your assessment of the u.s. strikes in yemen and iraq? ali: i agree they are not working, but because we are addressing the symptoms and not the proximate cause, which is the war in gaza. the reality is the houthis ha

. >> marshall, hudson institute. it will always just always fail.'t focus in that direction. so, what is your -- trying to address actual the semiconductor and independence issue. the cost of restoring we have daycares and reasonable price to pay? >> well, by taking julius' advice there, which is to say, whether insights and one is that governments, the public choice insights, government will be corrupted and taken over by powerful people and for the more complicated the policy is, the more we rely on subsidies, r instance, or double bank shots that they love, direct export-import banks oh, we're that's away from the stated purpose. a more direct policy is what we need to do. if we need the chips f military purposes, either the defense budget should include a su we're importing chips, then have a tariff on chips. tariff is aadmany economic circles, but it's a simpler policy. think of all the things we're subsidizing, green energ o u.s. exporters or chips in this case and it ends up getting all megs messed up. make as simple as directly aimed as the

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then brian clark, a senior fellow at the hudson institute, talks about the latest on the israel-hamasacy does not just look like this. it looks like this, where americans can see democracy at work, when citizens are truly informed, our republic thrives. get informed straight from the source on c-span. fiion's capital to wherever you are because the opinion that matters most is your own. this is what democracy looks like. c-span, powerebyable. >> now, supreme court oral arments i relentless inc. versus the department of commerce, one of two cases focuseonhe rule-making process for federal agencies' ability to interpret law under what is known as the chevron doctrine. the justices have until june to doctrine or keep it.

i want to bring innedson institute -- hudson institute's rebeccah heinrichs.nd of forgotten about the potential for nuclear wanter explain these risks. >> as you said, china, both chad russia are determined to break the u.s.-led order. as americans we've grown accustomed since world war ii and through the cold war the united states has been the preeminent power economically, militarily, so we have a system of alliances, freedom of the seas, things that the united states backs by our military. china and russia, north korea, iran seek to break that. and how china and russia are increasingly doing that is they're investing in their nuclear weapons. we saw this with russia when it invaded ukraine. it engaged in nuclear brinksmanship to compel the united states not to support ukraine too much. and now with china, charles, china is investing at a breakneck pace in its nuclear weapons program. and we know that they want to push the united states out of the pacific and especially as they consider taking taiwan by force. we would expect them to engage, i think, in nucl

host: we will leave that right there with ryan clark from the hudson institute. thank you so much for joining us. that is the time we have for today's washington journal and we will be back again at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. we take you live to the house of representatives as they are expected to take up that short-term spending bill. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accu the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. january 18, 2024. i hereby appoint the honorable derrick van orden to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the p

then brian clark, a senior fellow at the hudson institute, talks about the latest on the israel-hamas war and continued u.s. airstrikes on iran-backed houthi rebels in yemen. >> healthy democracy does not just look like this. it looks like this, where americans can see democracy at work, when citizens are truly informed, our republic thrives. get informed straight from the source on c-span. fiion's capital to wherever you are because the opinion that matters most is your own. this is what democracy looks like. c-span, powerebyable. >> now, supreme court oral arments i relentless inc. versus the department of commerce, one of two cases focuseonhe rule-making process for federal agencies' ability to interpret law under what is known as the chevron doctrine. the justices have until june to doctrine or keep it. ■■ chief justice roberts: we'll hearent first this morning in case 22-1219, relentless versus the department of commerce. martinez. oral argument of roman martinez on behalf of the pitners may it please the court: for too long, chevron s distorted the judicial process and undermine

representatives of american foreign policy. thoughts walter meath is a distinguished researcher at the hudson instituteomy and progress towards goals such as decarbonization, gender equality and liquidation. extreme poverty. this agenda is controversial, but there is nothing secret, much less nefarious, about it. at the same time, the davos elite is not imposing this program on a robotic world. they clutch their heads, watching how it gradually collapses. their hopes. conflict is harmful to free trade, and the breakdown of the global security system undermines the economic integration at the heart of the agenda. both the eu and the us impose import restrictions to protect domestic industries from competition between products from china and other countries with cheap labor and weak regulation of production. thus, the goal of free trade is moving further away every year. the very topic of the meeting, restoring trust, confirms that something has gone wrong. they are losing trust in their leaders, not because their brains are filled with misinformation, they are losing trust because they feel that the est

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institutions and the bulk of the country. january the 9th commemorates date when both the incentives declared the creation of their own state triggering the 4 year war, the hudson music sheets as more now from eastern, used to be with the majority of our celebrating years on the creation of the republic. the celebration. so controversial, the constitutional ford in boston the $910.00 green is the 3rd republicans and 9 and 4 years on the decision was made with those other ethnic groups, namely cross and the muslims, or bush, and also live in the country in another part of the country. with cross motion for both me and the majority, people knew these celebrations as the patient. they understand that the creation of the car is what it is todd substitution. and how that will assign especially $71.00 or more. it is in the whole, the celebration economic part of the countries are commemorating today is a possible it is basically one of the 2 regions that led by the session. it's hard to find the together celebration during the positive popcorn front. so the prime minister, presidents manual macro and as a pointed 34 year old gabrielle, i tell who becomes the youngest

hudson boss in a lecture in middle east and languages and cultures out the university of california berkeley, he said is as well as convincing academic genocide, find targeting and destroying education institutions. and gaza considering that is what i like now is facing and accusation of genocide in the international court of justice. it seems that there is a deliberate intent to get great to destroy the academic infrastructure in gaza in such a way to make it impossible for normal life to come by. and we're having 2 things that are taking place. time of the previous one is the destruction of the physical infrastructure was simultaneously also killing a large number of individuals that are within the economic area. the presidents of universities have been killed, dean because of departments, professors a search i think it would fit within the view of the genocide convention, particularly article to section 2 will be causing a serious, lovely or mental harm would scold within the school of what is what the military is doing and garza had some just took us through briefly how important these universities are in terms of educating palestinians who attend the causes and try to improve their lives un