adam smith: no. as we were discussing this, i often said, we have not suffered casualties in syria and now we have. it is worth noting, unfortunately i served on the benghazi committee, can you imagine if president obama had announced we were going to be unilaterally withdraw from syria and days later a terrorist attack happened? can you imagine how the republicans would have reacted? i am not that irresponsible or partisan. i do not draw that connection. i think the president's decisions, doing so much of what he does by tweet on the spur of the moment, does undermine our ability to have the allies we need. isis has no doubt been trying to hit us. anyone who drew a connection between those two, we would be making it up. it does underline a very important point that when the president said isis is defeated so we can leave, he was clearly wrong. isis have been greatly diminished by a plan president obama put in place and the president trump carried out, to his credit, to really produce isis is power.

german adam smith. let me -- chairman adam smith. these two reporters who cover todaylitary, tom for usa and john donnelly covering the military. thank you for coming back to newsmakers. , i want toet started ask for an update on the shutdown. it is day 35 of the partial federal shutdown. it seems like there is movement but we just learned the laguardia airport and other major u.s. airports are calling for flight delays because of staffing shortages. what can you tell our audience about if there is movement toward resolution. adam smith: the senate has made a reasonable proposal to reopen the government for three weeks and debate border security. people have to keep in mind this is a relatively new crisis in president trump's mind. president trump submitted his budget request in february of 2018. the house and senate both passed the budget request. there was 1.6 billion for a barrier. all of a sudden after democrats won in november, he decided it was a crisis and he needed more money. this is a new thought on his part. it is perfectl

adam smith: our witnesses -- we're working on that. the north com commander is confirmed and we want the assistant secretary in charge of the area to come, as well. we are working on who the civilian at the pentagon will be. e want transparency. what is the purpose of active duty troops that are sent there? it is a great cost to the pentagon. these troops are not doing the training they need to be prepared to meet the national security threats that are paramount. what are they doing at the border? why is it necessary to have active duty troops at the border? i don't think that has been explained. we want to understand. there are larger concerns about the demilitarization of the border. the u.s. military is constitutionally prohibited from enforcing law in the u.s. if they crossed over the line, the white house has been ambiguous, the pentagon has not. secretary mattis was clear they will not do that. we want to make sure the lines do not get blurred and the military is not being used as domestic law enforcement. >> you mentioned cost.

[applause] >> on "newsmakers," congressman adam smith, chair of the armed services committee, talked about the president's decision to withdraw troops from afghanistan, deploying troops to the u.s.-mexican border, and the 's possible use of emergency authority. >> the president is considering using emergency authority to tap funds and move it to build his border barrier. i cannot imagine congress being able to legislate any -- anything in time to stop him immediately, but do you think the longer term, there might we bipartisan support for limiting presidential authority to move money like this without the congress yucca >> absolutely. this is based on a 1976 law, so it is a legislative created conw they give the president various options to take money from various pots. there's a lot of different areas. in my world, it is the military construction budget that he could tap for this type of purpose, and i do not think there is an emergency, even under the 1976 law, so there would immediately be a lawsuit, but taking billions of dollars out of the pentagon's military construction budget

adam smith didn't anticipate this. part of this was the methodist church and john wesley who told people that if they were involved in the slave trade, they were committing a sin. any involvement in it. there was an enormous religious commitment to it and when there was such a strong religious commitment to this by a large part of the population, then the elite understood if they didn't go along with it, this would also be the destabilizing the british society. the became a coalition between this mass movement in the elite that were controlling the legislative process in britain. the passed laws against the slave trade. the first in the world to do this on a scale because the british were the largest power of the world. they set off to do this. they didn't just set it off and saying they were gonna do it, the quotes i have of this that is trying in the middle of nowhere to stop the slave trade, a consequence that britain for many decades spent almost 4% of its national budget annually fighting it. because of it, countr

you have these perspectives and i think you quote adam smith.you talk about the adam smith perspective which would say that is the state's fault for smuggling that the invisible hand should work in the state is keeping people from trading in meeting supply and demand. you should not be faulting folks. that's the adam smith perspective and then you said from the perspective of the french monarchy, if you operate outside the legitimate channels of trade you're automatically criminal. it's authority, but you.to something which is interesting. you say that we today at this new stage of illicit trade and where we are technologically, we need a new framework for how we discuss it. why is that? >> now as i.out in our commerce it's so large and consequences are so pernicious. it is undermining the sustainability of life in the planet, last year 60000 americans died from buying fentanyl. fentanyl is not something you buy on street corner or if you do buy it locally somebody has probably bought it over the web. it is something that is killing more america

it came from what adam smith calls the obvious and simple plan.iberty, and justice. by which he meant the quality of social standing, the kind respect that all americans according to each other or should. liberty to open the hairdressing salon or invent the internet and equal justice before the law. here i want to quarrel with someone in the audience who might be traditional conservatives who don't believe in equality. i don't believe in what i call french style equality. equality after the event. cutting down of toll puppets. i do believe in equality that adam smith spoke up. equal rights to venture. so at age 26 and certainly by 76, you are supposed to know this kind of thing. you are supposed to know that socialism has starkly work but there are some reasons it doesn't work. even though it works in small societies. among friends dividing up a pizza with the obnoxious if you are so-called friends said paid for the pizza i should get most of the slices. that's friendship destroying. you wouldn't want to do that. so among friends, all things held

your thoughts about the armed services committee chair, adam smith today, the democrat, acknowledgedthe president has the authority to declare a national emergency. and immediately, of course, the chair of the intelligence committee saying wait a minute, i don't think he does. any question in your mind that he has the authority to do so? >> no, lou. i'm quite confident he does. and if he choose to do this, it will be done appropriately and according to law. he has good legal counsel and he will follow the law in whatever course he choose to take. lou: why would anybody knowing that we have a national emergency affecting millions and millions of americans costing this country hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, why would the democrats make this a political issue instead of deal with their spnt which i responsibility which is to confront a national crisis, the border security? >> the democrats don't represent the country anymore. they represent their own power. all they want is power. it's all about a power game for them. lou: and the hell with the country? >> exactly. they'r

arguing for those emergency powers, the president quoted democrat adam smith, the chairman of the house armed services committee ...tweeting, "yes, there is a provision in law that says a president can declare an emergency."the quote from smith's abc appearance on sunday... where he also said:rep. adam smith/(d) chairman, armed services committee"in this case, i think the president would be wide open to a court challenge saying, where is the emergency? you have to establish that in order to do thissmith telling cnn today: rep. adam smith/(d) chairman, armed services committee"i think it would be a huge mistake to declare a national emergency. there is no national emergency."trump is now planning a prime time address on tuesday and a trip to the border on thursday in hopes to persuade americans to support his border wall proposal...but a weekend of staff-level negotiations -- led by vice president mike pence -- didn't bring either side closer to a deal, sources tell cnn.the white house outlining its requests in a letter -- including more money for urgent humanitarian needs, extra detenti

what adam smith was saying in terms of impeachment and the seriousness is absolutely true. we have to all look at exactly what the democrats plan to do here. you had speaker pelosi in her remarks talking about the importance of working across the aisle to get things done and then a mere few hours later, you had video of congresswoman talib. i think at the end of the day, they need to understand and recognize that impeachment is not a political thing. it never should be, that it tears at the very fabric of our constitution if it is, and to be pronouncing on that issue, you know, of just having been sworn in, without having any evidence at all, can't be anything but political. so i think that's the key thing in terms of what we saw over the course of the last few days. >> let's talk about the shutdown. you heard congressman smith say he believes the president has the legal authority to declare a national emergency and have the military build the wall. should he invoke it? >> you know, nobody wants him to invoke it and i don't believe the president wants to invoke it. we all h

arguing for those emergency powers, the president quoted democrat adam smith, the chairman of the house armed services committee ...tweeting, "yes, there is a provision in law that says a president can declare an emergency." the quote from smith's abc appearance on sunday... where he also said:rep. adam smith/(d) chairman, armed services committee"in this case, i think the president would be wide open to a court challenge saying, where is the emergency? you have to establish that in order to do rep. adam smith/(d) chairman, armed servicesomplanning a prim address on tuesday and a trip to the border ions -- led by vice president mike pence -- didn't bring either side closer to a deal, sources tell cnn. the white house outlining its requests in a letter -- including more money for urgent humanitarian needs, extra detention beds, additional law enforcement personnel -- and changing the wall from concrete to steel... something some democrats prefer.president donald trump: "they don't like concrete, so we'll give them steel."...but on day 17 of the shutdown, it doesn't appear to be ending an

whatsoever. >> the short answer is yes, there is a provision in law that says the president -- lou: adam smith going on to say that there is no question about the president's authority and in fact his responsibility is clear as well. we take up the president's continued commitment for national security and border wall funding. council of economic advisers, kevin hassit. >>> the white house continuing trade talks with china. president trump with his trademark optimism remains confident china is ready to make a deal. >> i spoke to president xi recently. i really believe they want to make a deal. the tariffs have absolutely hurt china very badly but our country is taking in a lot of money through tariffs. a lot of money. a lot of tariffs. steel dumping tariffs and others. i think china wants to get it resolved. their economy is not doing well. they're down close to 38%. that's a lot. and i think that gives them a great incentive to negotiate. lou: this new round of trades talks come as tensions in the southed china sea escalate and the chinese complain strongly about u.s. patrols near disputed is

>> newsmakers with congressman adam smith of washington, chair of the armed services committee. today at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. next, an interim report on military service in the u.s.. who is serving, where they are from and how selective services changed. we will hear a news conference followed by a panel discussion on the reports initial findings. in the event of a draft. this is just under half an hour. >> well, good morning thank you for being here i'm joe haeg >> let me begin by sharing some background.

adam smith's remarks that the pep rally i call it insight you pep rally are going to be moderated by the fact that he is constrained by the folks within the committee, cooper's and others in the folks on armed services were basically want to sustain this network. the thing should happen is that mr. trump needs to put together a couple of pieces that the monstrously advance the arms-control agenda and that would mean he doesn't necessarily extended right now but use to start extension as an incentive to push for modernization and the second thing to put together a package whether the russians agree with that or not but put together a package and put together a story on nonstrategic nuclear forces of great disparity and why we should be thinking about that as the next steps in making it safer. >> thank you, john. rebecca. >> i think in order to -- rebuild and i don't think the consensus is achievable but i do think we need a coalition and i think that coalition will need to be rebuilt. there is three key elements to that. i think first is the recognition that we have to have a balanced

adam smith said seldom dough you getyo two men together that wont turn into an -- an conspiracy. prison gangs. tribalism which is a cliche is getting at that natural human tendency that ma manifests in different ways. to think about it is communism is tribalism with one class. natzi was tribism for one race. there is a thing that clicks on that says we want to be part of our groupat and see the other aa danger. the great thing about the market is it helps us learn to deal with strangers. we evolved for hundreds of thousands of years with serious programming that said do not trust strangers. there is a wonderful book by paul bloom called "just babies." he talks about the programming of iow -- iowa what babies weren with. french babies have a french accent. they distrust people that sound and look different. when they are taught to hit they are wrong. they need to be taught not to hate. they are there the evolutionary environment.t. there h is a huge advantage to being cooperative. the tribe that works togetherle and cooperates will pass on it's genes. the one on that reads earn ra

he started with adam smith's governmentthat private retards activity. military spending, which at that time accounted for almost everything the federal government spent, besides to enter some public debt, was particularly wasteful, because war destroys capital. argued that hamilton's system for funding the debt was a menace. that hamilton system had two major problems. may federal borrowing too easy, because the government did not have to pay anything except the interest on its that. borrowing on those easy terms made spending too easy. and military spending made the government more likely to get into a wasteful war. in the second place, interest payments on the federal debt were shifting money from productive taxpayers to wealthy speculators. they were more likely to waste the money on imported luxuries rather than spend it on the domestic economy. the country could not achieve its potential unless the federal government cut public spending and repaid the national debt. it was political brawls that really mattered. the biggest brawl in which gallatin w

thank you in november. >> the pep rally. >> we were very proud to have congressman adam smith speak at that event. he is not chair of house arms services. for those of you who did not see his talk, it is on plowshares website. john, thank you for that plug. rebecca, i agree with you that there never really was a consensus on modernization and the deal, and the sooner we can stop using the word consensus, the clearer this discussion will get. finally, a question for brian and madeleine, it is my observation that part of the deal on new start was a continuation of arms control, continuation of modernization -- the concept of modernization is not the concept that we had the day and that it changed over time. in particular, there was no commitment to a new icbm at the time of the new start vote and i would like you to tell me if you agree with that. frank: who would like to start? brian: i am happy to take the last question first. the reason i said most of the focus was on nsa and not the recapitalization of the triad was you could see the continued lack of attention for the triad continue

. >> next, newsmakers with adam smith, chair of the armed services committee. this interview was recorded shortly before president trump announced a den

adam smith in the wealth of nations says, seldom will you get treatment of the same trade or business meeting where the conversation will not quickly turn to a conspiracy against the public good. what he meant by that is that people tend to form groups. prison gangs are perfect example of self forming coalition. and so tribalism which has become kind of a clichc today, i really think is getting at that natural human tendency. that manifest itself in different ways. so you know, one way to think about it is communism was tribalism for one class. fascism was tribalism for one nation. so, nazi-ism was tribalism for one race. there is a thing in our brain that clicks on that says we want to be part of our group and see the other as a danger. the great thing about liberal democratic capitalism, about the market, is it helps us learn how to deal with strangers. we evolve for hundreds of thousands of years with some serious programming that says, do not trust strangers. there is a wonderful book by a guy from yale, paul bloom. where he surveys the research done about the programming that bab

adam smith says seldomly get two men of the same trade or business meeting where conversation won't turn to a conspiracy against the public good. what he meant is people tend to form groups. prison gangs are an example of self forming coalitions. tribalism which is a clichÉ today, i think is getting at natural human tendency. one way to think of it is communism was tribalism from one class. fascism was tribalism for one nation. nazis and was tribalism for one race. there is this thing in our brains that clicks on it says we want to be part of our group and see the other is a danger. the great thing about liberal democratic capitalism is it helps us learn how to deal with strangers. we even all for hundreds of thousands of years with serious programming that says do not trust strangers. wonderful book by a guy at yale called just babies where he surveys the research done, the programming that babies, no babies were harmed in the conduct of those experiments but french babies have a french accent. and babies bond quickly with the appearance of their parents and instantly distrust people wh

my name is adam smith. i oversee store design and development for whole foods market here in northern california. i started working for whole foods market in 1999, making sandwiches in the mil valley store, and since that time, i've had the opportunity to be involved in the opening of 50 whole foods markets in the united states, canada, and the u.k. each one of its stores has its own unique character which is by design to respond and serve the unique needs of the community. the whole foods in trinity would provide the neighborhood with a grocery store, providing much needed resource to an under served part of the city. we've heard consistently during our outreach that health is wealth and that healthy food is a key factor in supporting a healthy lifestyle. whole foods quality has made us the industry leader in the grocery community. the store will also create over 200 new job opportunities. whole foods market currently employs 1400 team members at our seven existing san francisco locations, 75% of whom are

. >> our guests is representative adam smith of washington a member of the arm armed services committeethank you. for being with. yo thank

house armed services chairman adam smith, the wall in itself -- the wall is not in itself a bad idea. it's been done. they are saying this because they know barriers work. in san diego, illegal trafficked dropped 92% in the last 23 years because of a barrier. in el paso, 95% in 22 years and becomes the safest cities -- one of the safest big cities in america. tucson, arizona, 90% in just 15 years. yuma, arizona, 95% over nine years. so the american public looks to washington and they want to find compromise. and they listen to a governor of california, who's a democrat, new democrat members and democrat leadership and the chair of armed services who said, yes, they would support some money for a barrier. the question raises, what is the offer from the democrats? this entire time, even before the shutdown began, the president has now offered more than three different offers. reasonable. moving more to the democratic side than before. the democrats still have not offered anything back. for those workers who have not been paid, the question is, will speaker pelosi continue to hold her ow

. >> our guests is representative adam smith of washington a member of the arm armed services committee. thank you. for being with. >> thank you. covering the military, thank you for coming back to news makers. before getting started on our questions for you this morning about military and and pentagon, it seems like there is a bit of movement but we just learned in the news that la guardia airport and other major airports are beginning to call for flighted delays because of staffing shortages so what can you tell our audience? if there is movement towards resolution resolution. >> this is a new crisis in president trump's mind. president trump submitted his request in february and house and senate both passed his budget request. and sutd, after democrats won in november, the president decided there is a crisis and he had to have more money. this is a new thought on his part and it's reasonable to say okay you want to have a debate about border security, we're open to that debate. there is no reason to have the government shut down for something you just six weeks ago decides was import

it goes back to something adam smith wrote in the wealth of nations he writes it is the sole purpose of all in the interest to get only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. it's so self-evident it would be absurd not to prove it. when you say that it's so obvious you don't have to prove it is a bad sign, but in particular this is the perspective that we have embraced for the welfare focus but as long as consumption is rising and living standards are improving, people are going to be happy in this thrust of the economic pie that does reflect the thinking of the country for "the wall street journal" editorial board an and the times editorial board to talk about policy and you can find left of center think tanks and right of center think tanks. but the economic mrs. to stretch the metaphor much too far it ignores baking the pie as long as you get a big enough slice, everybody likes pike so you're going to be happy. but in fact, we know in the sense that isn't what people care about most and so the focus of the book and what i want to talk about today is what

today on newsmakers, congressman adam smith, chair of the armed services committee, talks about , includingssues the supreme court decision on tengion under -- on transgender troops. here are some of his comments. >> do you have a sense for how many troops would be affected by this new policy that will go into effect as soon as the court hurtles are removed? clear, because it is not clear what the policy is going to be. i think that the policy was -- it'sy -- i forget thousands, is the bottom of it. there are thousands of transgender people serving in the military, and again, i don't believe in discrimination. i don't believe in discrimination for no reason. if you are qualified, trained, and able to do the job, you should be able to do the job regardless of your gender status , sexual preference or any of those things. i think the policy the president announced to boot transgender people out of the military and not to allow them back in is wrong. it is not the correct policy, and we will see how the courts decide whether or not is a policy the president can implement -- i don't think it sh

adam smith's remarks at the pep rally i call it, anti-nuclear pep rally are going to have to be moderated by the fact that he is going to be constrained by the folks both within this committee, the coopers and others and the folks on arms services who want to sustain this effort. third thing i think should happen is i think mr. trump needs to put together a couple pieces that demonstrably show knew start incentive for continued modernization and thirtied thing is put together a package, whether the russians are going to agree with it or not, put together a package and story on nuclear forces, the great disparity and why we should be thinking about that as the next steps in making the world safer. >> thank you very much, shawn. rebecca ? >> so i think in order to kind of rebuild, and again, i don't think a consensus is achievable, but i do think we need a coalition and i think that coalition will need to be rebuilt. and i think there is three key elements to that. i think the first is the recognition that we have to have a balanced approach between modernization and arms control. we are no

. ♪ >>> washington state democrat adam smith spoke at an event at the reagan national defense form ande called on president trump to end his america first policy and biltmore military alliances. his remarks ran about 45 minutes. >>> well welcome everybody, thanks for showing up. it's mid afternoon, time when some people start to get distracted so it's great to see everybody here. i am going to read a couple things here because i will mess it up otherwise and then we'll get right to it. i wanted to let everybody know that this is a live audience and the audience may submit questions via rndf app and it is www.rndf2018.org. and people viewing across the country can submit questions via twitter, #rndf. we will get to some of those questions toward the end. but anyway, thanks for everybody for being here. as you know, we are here to talk about allies, particularly in the context for the us and its ilife in the context of this great power competition that we have with china and russia. you know, at other times in history it's maybe singular focuses of problem sets. but in this case, current

adam smith of the state of washington.row if declared he's going to take 4 or $5 billion from the defense department and spend it on the wall? >> number one, we would sue. s it's a 1976 law. i don't think this falls under the heading of a national emergency. i think it would be an illegal act. we would produce legislation to block him and whatever he pass would have to be pass the senate and be signed by the president so would probably go through the courts. >> that's the one thing he brings about, the drugs. is this liking the swine flu? >> he can claim that. but look, boarder security is important. democrats are acknowledging that. a wall is the exact wrong way to do that and we've invested massive amounts of money inboarder security. so much so that number of unauthorized entries are at historic lows. we've inivisted and built a wall where it makes sense. he's fixated oen a wall instead of what would really work for border security. >> there's a lot of people that would like to see this block aide end. a lot of people i

you can find it by reading aristotle's ethics versus thomas aquinas's theological or adam smith's theory or countless other ones. modern liberals, progressives and socialists largely reject this view. john russ said this especially in his influential 1973 book the theory of justice. to progressives, income or wealth inequality is morally problematic no matter the reason for the any quality because our natural endowments, inclinations, character, family, social background are undeserved. if an individual works hard or smart in school, employment or enterprise and is better compensated than others progressives regard that is unfair. does the intelligence and work ethic involved, largely from genetic, family or social factors. using various principles, guideposts or definitions usually involving one of many competing conceptions of any quality or social justice they seek to have government enforced predetermined distribution of economic goods. if this has its roots in carl marx and others, more recently, brian barry and others. individual efforts, merit, are largely irrelevant to this conce

. >> guest: adam smith. >> host: adam smith was contemporary of rousso. he lays out the idea there are natural liberties. the purpose of civilization, of a civil society, is to protect the individual's rights. >> guest: right. >> host: this is totally new kind of idea and rousso says hold on a minute. that is is not the purpose of society. the purpose of society is to enrich, allow people to live authentic, natural lives right? >> guest: famous scene he describes himself, where he is on his way to visit his friend in jail and he find as, totally different, sometimes translations are little different but find as flyer or advertisement for an essay-writing competition, asking the question, have the arts and sciences improved morals in the state of man or something like that? and the essay title was almost surely rhetorical, right? sort of like finding an essay competition at bryn mawr or kenyan, saying, does diversity make us stronger? you're supposed to come out with a clever way of saying yes. this essay, have the arts and sciences made us better. roussea

joining us now is congressman adam smith. congressman smith, mr.irman, thank you for being with us. thank you. >> thanks for the chance, rachel. appreciate it. >> the pentagon chief of staff didn't resign. he was pushed. i want to ask your response and if you're concerned about senior staffing at the pentagon in the wake of secretary mattis' resignation. >> i am. because i'm really concerned about secretary mattis departing. we've read the story. he was the adult in the room, right? he could check some of the worst i impulses, obviously not all of them. he had so much credibility with the military and national security and as a person his word carried a lot of weight and he has a lot of allies and friends in the pentagon and when the president, when secretary mattis resigned, he could no longer work for president trump because he didn't agree with the decisions but the more important part, he didn't agree with the way the president made them in such a chaotic off the top of his headway that was not well thought out and didn't have a plan behind him

saying in part that as adam smith said, the president may have the authority to do it. the president also tweeting let's get our deal done in congress. now so far no progress on getting the shutdown over and getting the president's money for his wall, be that -- which could be the case. still it is important to say that we're moving into a period now where this shutdown could have real teeth. that is because at the end of this week federal workers who have received checks so far will miss their first check. the president asked over the weekend by reporters if he, in fact, feels for those workers. here is what he had to say. >> i can relate and i'm sure that the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustments. they always do. and they'll make adjustments. people understand exactly what is going on. but many of those people that won't be receiving a paycheck, many of those people agree 100%. >> reporter: and poppy, the other thing about whether this should be a concrete wall or steel barrier, i just have to remind you it was just a few weeks ago that the presid

i think it goes all the way back to something adam smith wrote in i will read that quote. it's really quite striking. the wealth of nations he writes the soul purpose of all production india just at the producer had to be attended to only so far as may be necessary or promoting that of the consumer. it's so perfectly self evident that it would be absurd to try to prove it. when it's so obvious they don't have to prove that that's a bad sign but in particular this is what we have embrace. we have embraced the welfare focus that as long as consumption is rising and living standards are improving people are going to be happy. that ultimately is the thrust of the idea of the economic pie. that does reflect the centrist thinking of our country and reflects the wall street editorial board of "the new york times" editorial board. you can find left of center think tanks and right of think tank -- right of center think tanks using it. and to stretch the metaphor much too far is it ignores the baking of the pie. says as long as we get an big enough slice and everybody likes the pie

adam smith/-d- chairman, armed services committee: i think it would be a huge mistake to declare a nationalemergency. there is no national emergency. sen john cornyn/-r- texas: to me injecting a new element to this just makes it more complicated.and while the president continues to prepare for tonight, vice president mike pence trying to continue those negotiations on capitol hill. we know that he is meeting with house republicans today behind closed doors. and then jared kushner also getting involved. we know he at least spoke to one democratic senator. and the message from jared kushner is that the american people will support the president after they hear from him tonight and after they see him at the border. reporting in washington, i'm camila bernal. broadcast the speech live as well as the democratic response. it starts around 6:00. plus-- coming up at 5:30-- tom del becarro -- former chair of the calitalk about what is expected from trump's speech tonight. (vicki) happening now... police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted and robbed a woman in palo alto. kron 4's haaziq m

like in the ricardian sands or the adam smith sense of competitive advantage of exports and subtle than gold and what the way the economies to run before became monitor rise and commodified in financial eyes was nothing to do with that where people made stuff and then they sold it and it was about productivity and production and manufacturing that's all been completely eradicated replaced with game theory monetarist financialization wall street. and interest rate differential is an arbitrage games are played and now we have to go back to actually making stuff and to getting real productive and being humans again when we're a little ways have a game where you pull the sticks out so we're at like the last of the sticks in the game theory of like when that hold that pile explodes but i want to say that china's rise has also provoked a new challenge from the u.s. and other major economies which increasingly see the country as a competitor rather than a cheap source of labor and goods its military might has spurred an arms buildup among its neighbors quote china has stepped into the center o

visit ncicap.org] >> today on "newsmakers," congressman adam smith talks about a number of issues, the supreme court decision on transgendered troops. here are some of his comments. many have a sense of how troops would be unaffected by this new policy that will go into effect as soon as all of the court hurdles are removed? it's hardtive smith: to say. it's not clear what the policy is going to be. i think the policy is -- i forget. it's thousands, bottom line. there are thousands of transgender people serving in the military. again, i do not believe in discrimination. well, i do not believe in discrimination for no reason. if you are qualified and trained and able to do the job, you should be abdul -- able to do the job regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, or anything. the president's choice to boot transgender people out of the military and not allow them back in is wrong, it is not the correct policy. and we will see how the courts decide whether or not it is the policy the president can implement. i do not think it should be. i do not believe that transgender people shou

. >> "newsmakers" with congressman adam smith of washington, chair of the armed services committee, sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. to the brookings institution, the 116th congress is the most educated congress in history with 72% of the house having earned a graduate degree. c-span recently spoke with some of the new members. mark rutte chris pappas was firstd to new hampshire's congressional district. he is a restaurant owner and the first openly gay member of congress from new hampshire. i read democrats have been trying to recruit you to run for a long time. why did you say no before? why did you say yes this time? >> i care deeply about the state i grew up in, where i run a small business, and where i served at the statehouse for a number of years. i needed to make sure i was meeting my responsibility to the voters who elected me to my state office. this seemed like an important time to step up and be counted and to put together the kind of campaign we needed to be able to restore faith in the institutions of our government and to be able to get some things done.