my name is john, a nonresident senior fellow here at a.e.i. where i work or defense acquisition following a long career in the united states army. it's my pleasure to be joined today by dr. paul stockman, former assistant secretary of defense for homeland definance and america's security affairs in the department of defense. and a senior fellow of john -- of the john hopkins university's applied dissics did shall did-physics lab toamplet we are privileged to be joined by my colleague, a.e.i. senior fellow, elizabeth. dr. stockton's service as an assistant second for president obama put him on his current path of support to industry and government to meet emerging challenges and infrastructure resilience, cybersecurity, and strategy planning. >> now that he's left office he provides strategy advice to major electric utilities, trade associations, and the electrical subsector coordinating council to help them strengthen preparedness against cyber threats. he chairs the grid resilience subcommittee of the department of energy's electricity adviso

the email is listed on the events page, on the a.e.i. website as well. without further delay, i would like to invite dr. stockton to share his opening remarks. dr. stockton: it is an honor to participate in this event. aei has been a source of cutting edge analysis of the threats posed by disinformation and, elisabeth, you and john have both proposed studies. i would like to start with a different cut at the problem. we are familiar with the ongoing chinese and russian campaigns to corrode public faith in democratic governance. there has been less attention to the risk that a severe regional crisis, adversaries will conduct information operations to coerce our behavior. and above all threaten the u.s. public and senior decisionmakers that unless the united states backs down on the crisis and bails out on our allies, then we'll face catastrophic cyberattacks against the power grid, water systems, and other critical infrastructure on which public health and safety depend. chinese military doctrine and capabilities focus on achieving just these coercive eff

also i've been influenced by another scholar at a.e.i. and in particular by the work he's done around social programs in the united states and in i'm making an argument that we are dealing with the drug and we go through that in san fran sicko and that this is not a function of rising property or reagan's cost to the housing budget which is one of the chestnut that progressives like to tell braided, soccer. i'm honored and grateful to be on the stage. >> i'm going to askon the first question predict so we all looked at each other and but anyway, one of the things in th, is an excellent book pretty when .you talk about the history of homelessness, could you encapsulate that for the folks. >> there were goes back to the early 20th century but became a propaganda word in the 1980s and by that, i mean, that it was deliberately chosen to mislead people about the nature of the people we call homeless on the streets and that is not my opinion, this is something that numerous scholars pointed out in the early 90s and harvard broke one of the best

we will all be a.e.i. emeritus scholars by the end of this year and turning this over to those who may shape it in different ways. we're very proud of this program, not only the lone gif and even though we disagree with policy politics among ourselves, we work to be civil and provide analysis grounded in deep historical understanding of politics, something that's very rare in washington these days. now let's get started. each of our panelists will speak for eight minutes. john, you're on tap first to look at the 2022 governor's contests and redistricting. a quick word about virginia and new jersey is certainly in order. last week henry and our other a.e.i. colleague used the same words terrifying to describe the new jersey results for democrats. do you agree? john. john: well, thank you, karlyn. i do want to start with some sense of what midterm elections or what last week's elections or kind of midterm elections were like. the simple point is historically they are not good for the party in power, the part

my name is john, a nonresident senior fellow here at a.e.i. where i work or defense acquisition fol

so what the economists say, including some conservatives like michael strain at a.e.i. and doug holtz-eakin, american action forum, they say this will lead to less inflation because you are adding to the supply-side. by building that bridge, that's a part of the supply-side of the economy rather than the demand side of the economy. so i'm pleased with that, too, because what we want right now is to push back against this inflation, not do something that creates more demand and more inflation. one of my concerns about the other legislation that's being talked about, which is not the infrastructure bill but it's called the reconciliation bill. democrats i have heard today are calling it build back better more often but others call it the tax-and-spend bill. but that's about more surplus spending. i have very concerns about that adding to the inflationary pressures we have already got which are so serious and unlike what the administration said previously, it's not transitory. it's going to be around for a while. every economist i have talked to says they expect it to be a