my message is definitely a stomach aei is to the left of brookings. i am really glad that nick has done this book because i think that the acute issues that the great recession have to a large extent not completely passed and what we are now observing is a number of chronic conditions, which the shock and fraction of prime aged men who are not working to send and that is a preexisting condition, something that preceded the great recession, may be cowed or stream the great recession and require something more more they boldly, we can probably talk a little bit, something to make the economy grow faster. nick is going to talk for a few minutes and then i have a couple of flights in response and then we'll chat and bring you into the conversation. if you are watching online, we are able to field questions. go to a website called sli.d.o. and enter a code. aei events. )-right-paren name, type in your question and if we get to it, i'll post it tonight. >> thank you, david. i'm going to discipline myself and expect you to discipline me if i don't discipline

you can tweet at me or at aei or at aei education and we will try to keep up on all that stuff. we even have this feature, so those people watching at home or from their offices, you can submit a question and i even have a device in real-time to keep up with this. if you go to slide.doe and enter the code aei event, all you have to do is enter your name and the question and i will get a copy of it and sometimes during the discussion i will try to put those into the bloodstream so everyone can be heard. sorry for the long throat clearing, i'm almost done talking. order of operations, i hash up, dr. zimmerman comes up and talks about the book, q&a and then i promise to get you out of here by 1015. please join me in welcoming our valued guests doctor john zimmerman. [applause] >> thank you andy and kelsey and aei for welcoming me to this gorgeous new home. this is how god would've made the whole world if he had the money [laughter] it's just beautiful. thanks to andy for his lovely comments. he may be actually the first person who is not a blood relative to praise my book. i'm not

on behalf of aei, the brookings institution and the pacific business group on health, i want to welcome everyone here and everyone watching remotely, including those are watching c-span. we are going to discuss the challenges of providing high-quality healthcare that is affordable for patients, employers and taxpayers. this is clearly a critical topic for government policymakers. the recent election obviously highlighted the disagreements among many people in this country about what's the best way for government to proceed in this area. and, obviously, changes are coming. the expansion of health insurance coverage under the aca has come at a steep price and incoming administration is looking for ways to get costs under control while ensuring that people continue to access to health insurance. employers have long been at the forefront of this struggle for affordable health care. about 159 people and 165 of these are cut by health plans sponsored by employers. the employers. the average premium for family coverage offered by employers was over $18,000 last year, 2016. that's a nearly 50%

thanks to aei, ipbh hosting this morning. we're do work around the accountable care organizations and direct contracting we've been doing with the provider community. this is really born from frustration that i think a lot of employers feel about the high cost of health care. we spend about 2 1/2 billion a year. we have about a half million covered lives. so smaller than some organizations. different maybe than walmart, we do have pockets where we have a high concentration of employees which does inform our strategy for these accountable care organizations but with a frustration with not only the line item of health care expense but year-over-year trend we were experiencing. i've been in this business a while, and it is kind of a sad state when we think 6 or 7% trend is decent. we need to solve for that because it is not sustainable for the long term. we worked a lot of demand-side strategies to asking our employees to pick up more of the task. we believe in the consumerism effect of the hsa. we think that is a great strategy

aey are called angel moms for reason -- because they are a voice to protect all of america's children. their children have not died in vain, believe me. [applause] president trump: let me talk about how in forcing immigration laws can -- people talk about -- enforcingg immigration laws can separate people from their families, but they do not talk about how not enforcing them can separate american people from their families. as your president, i have no greater duty than to protect the lives of the american people. [applause] first, these families lost their loved ones. then they endured a system that while at the same time constantly rewarding those who broke the law. it has beenmilies, one injustice after another, but that all turns around beginning today. [applause] president trump: we are joined here this afternoon by parents whose children were horribly killed by individuals living here illegally. i will now read these parents' .ames and ask them to stand many have become friends of mine over the last two years and have supported me so dearly, and i appreciate it. lost herndoza, w

. >> but you'd lien to somebody from aei over the cia analysts? >> i would listen to someone who i think is making a coe gent point, and doing it with good evidence. i don't start from the proposition of i'll listen to x, pau because i like him or don't like him. >> you have 16 intelligence agencies that are basically -- >> here's the thing. >> let's not forget, this is not just about russia, this is also about the dnc and podesta as well. >> i actually don't think there's a problem with what donald trump is saying about some of the plitization of intelligence. i think the question is, where is he getting this alternate theory, right, so if you are going to say that the analysts aren't giving you good information and you're coming up with this other stream of information, where is it coming from? who's giving it to you? that's what i don't understand. >> he knows more. >> but from whom? >> he's going to present more in the next day or so. >> but who is he getting this information from, even theoretically, i don't understand. >> this is what donald

you heard it first here at aei guy talking. in sweden today, some of the aspects of their employment policies or workers. they are heavy on training a skilled. the incentive by showing up for job place. incentive by showing up for work. if we take a look at the welfare reform in the night demand a summit and ranchers that we say that was fairly successful. someone can say eberstadt, you, don't you realize that a good economy in the 90s that is out. fair enough, but there's been very interesting work done in brookings papers on the parsing of the impact of the welfare reform in the macroeconomic environment according to some of that work was actually rather smaller part in the change in 10 days. the last part i emphasize is it's just a scandal that we don't collect data on the social and economics are consensus that the 20 million americans who have got some sort of a felony in their past, but are not behind bars. if we are a forgiving society unity we are, i hope we are, part of what we should want to be doing his feet. not how

people like kentucky senator rand paul has been stressing along with physically conservatives like aei and the heritage foundation. two different things that senators and various lawmakers are trying to contemplate, people also like how quickly the president is making good on campaign promises and they're getting use today that expeddency -- expedient and not only fulfills the campaign promise, but this is the one thing that could truly boost the economy quickly and people like rand paul, we can take care of the spending neutrally a little later on but right now let's get the economy going and get more revenue. neil: we are told that donald trump wants the big cuts out and we are also told that he can live with sort of a roll-out where the corporate thing is done first, but very keen getting the infrastructure thing because not only does he really want that but he thinks it's a way of getting democratic support that could be teed up for, you know, a rate cut for all -- all rates, what do you think of that? >> well, and it may well help with the democrats as we all know donald trump onc

you can tweet @aei or @aeieducation. and we have this news little feature -- neat little feature now, you can submit a question if you'd like, and i even have a device in realtime to keep up with this. so if you go to sly.do -- sli.do, all you've got to do is enter your name and a question, and i will get a copy of it. and then sometime during our discussion or the q and a i will try to put those into the bloodstream so everyone can be heard. sorry for the long throat clearing. i'm almost done talking. order of operations, i hush up,r dr. zimmerman talks about his d book, moderated discussion, qof and a, and i promise to get you out of here and on your day by 10:15. sound good? thanks so much, guys. so please join me in welcoming our valued guest, dr. jon zimmerman. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> sure. >> thanks to andy and kelsey and the aei for welcoming me to this just gorgeous new home. i mean, i -- this is how god would have made the whole world if he had the money. [laughter] and it's just beautiful.e and th

aey were up in new york couple of weeks ago and got to walk around here at trump tower. they see donald trump go on air all the time and call it out. so, i think they are a little young to fully comfort hundred they are excited for the dad a s my wife has been. the only reason i could do this job is because she has been so supportive. what is the biggest challenge, because donald trump is tweeting in the morning, up late at night. keeping up with him is probably the biggest challenge. mr. spicer: he does not stop. out makingriven ab this country better and helping unite the country, create jobs, spur economic growth. and you are right, he does not stop here he keeps going. i think the country is going to benefit from his energy, his enthusiasm, his ideas. host: how did you meet your wife? mr. spicer: through a member of the media. she used to work at wjla, the abc station in washington. we had a mutual friend who thought we would be, who would connect, and she was right. so, we went out to an event outside of washington one saturday. and hit it off. host: she understands

and some of the culinary medical courses, we are now in about 15% of medical schools in the u.s., aey license our curriculum. >> the secret is convincing the students food that is good for you is also good. >> i think it's good. >> i think that it's going to eoste like cardboard. so i think we pleasantly surprise people. >> have you tasted it. >> yes. tastes delicious. very professional. >> are you pretty proud of yourselves? >> pretty proud of ourselves. >> and this is your patients are going to be eating some day? >> they better. >> in the evening the medical students become teachers helping community members like susan bouchon and cynthia edwards caarn the secrets of healthy cooking. >> so your whole family is eating healthier. >> yes, they're eating tofu, they're eating quinoa, they're eating whole oats. they don't know. >> do they like it. >> they like it. they love it. >> my overall cholesterol dropped by like 20 points. my triglycerides dropped by like 17 points. >> at tulane medical school the proof is not in the pudding. it's in the whole wheat pasta with lentils and vegetabl

i don't want to think he's trying to be competitive with aei. >> who could compete with aei? >> exactly. it's a great new effort called the foundation for research on equal opportunity. it is not just narrowly focused on health issues. avik, as many of you have seen him on tv over many, many years, is a true health policy expert. with that why don't we start with lynn. we'll go down the row and then argue with each other until you stop us. >> thanks, joe. joe gave us five minutes. so i will try to make three points. >> you can use ten. >> no. no. no. i will stick to five. that's fair. so basically i have three points. two about what's going on now and one i think we need to think about going forward. first i want to begin by saying how happy i was to hear congressman burgess say the word bipartisan seven times. i counted. you should tweet that. this is important. but seriously, that is serious, but second, it is a very serious point to say that there is truly bipartisan support for the value agenda. every single paul ryan budget, go back and look at every single one of them,

i see -- i mean, they're picking people off like crazy at heritage and aei too.more relevant than ever. what are you planning to do in the next four years as president of the heritage to stay as relevant as you've ever been? >> well, president trump is going to be more practical than ideological. he's going to be interested in research that helps him see what really works. he's going to say, here's where we are, here's where we want to go, what's the best way to get there, and that's why we've been talking a lot about the budget. there's a lot of research behind each of the things that we've talked about that could be cut. i think he's going to be looking at your e are search and ours to see what is the best for the american people. he wants to make the government work for every american. when i've talked to him since the election, i've really been encouraged that the thing that's on his mind is how to keep his promises. you don't hear that from too many politicians once they're ele elected. >> talking about promises, one of the things he didn't touch during the

aey said they wanted to build volleyball court. the authorities thought, that is a good idea.ey played vulnerable, that will keep them -- play volleyball, that will keep them busy. they give them permission. they had to have dirt for the volleyball court. that is where they were going to displace that dirt from the tunnel. digging with everything they could. they would put the dirt in their shorts, play volleyball, and shake thedirt. that sounds tedious. it took a little time. they dug about 14 feet down. from there, they dug 180 feet over to a canal. the captain in 1984 when they came over for a reunion. if there was anyone that looks like he came out of central casting in hollywood, it was him. he was senior commander of the prisoners. 25 were selected to go. 44, theyer 23 of june threw a christmas party. a real loud raucous christmas party so there would not be any noise. down the tunnel they went,a nd got into the canal. boatthe guys carried a which was to be preassembled at the river. it was in three parts. they all went out together. they started walking towards phoenix.

thanks to andy and kelsy and the aei for welcoming me to this gordon new home. this ohio god would hey made the whole world if he has the money. thank you to andy for this lovely comments; he play be be thirst person who is not a bloor telltive to-bash blood relative to read my book. my first book i wrote, somebody gave ms. this 800 number and i would describe you your book is doing and i actually called it and i put in the 800 up in and i got robo voice that said, good morning, you have sold -- zero -- books today. that one getting me any closer to god so i haven't done it since. but do my brief message here is that, first of all, nobody is being silenced. we have to be careful how we describe the free speech problem. it is real. but we've got to be really careful's the term wes use to describe it. there are 4,000 places to get a ba in the united states. and if most of them trigger warnings, mike row aggression, save spaces, say what? it's not an issue at all. people have not heard those words. the times ran a story about la a guardia community college in the w

. >> host: what are you doing at aei this year? >> guest: well, my work is to write technology blogs, so i'll be focused on the issues that i think are important to the country, that we want to think well about and kind of spark some discussion. >> host: mark jamison, what do you think about the spectrum auction process that's been ongoing now for about a year? >> guest: i think the fcc took on a monumental task that's incredibly difficult to design an auction where people are both bidding in and people are buying out. and the things that they're bidding in and buying out aren't exactly the same thing. there has to be a recombination and a process. everyone that i've talked with about the world about this including here in d.c. agree this either be a wonderful success or a dismal failure. there wasn't going to be anything in between. and i think in this case the economists working at the fcc and with the fcc, they're world class, and i think they pulled it off. i think they've done a good job. >> host: should wireless broadcasts, c

did akemp and i with aei big summit in south carolina. we have been talking about these ideas, now we want to execute them. i believe the multigenerational poverty, the persistent poverty is what we need to go at right away. that, to me, is who is voting - hurting the most. if we can crack ms will be easier to solve. >> where are you going to get cooperation from democrats? where will they fight you? speaker ryan: we're going to test it everywhere. i would like fixing the poverty cliff is something we can all agree on. take someone's benefits, they will have benefit cut offs that hthecentivize taking next step in the workforce. we are a bigger, diverse country with more states, it is harder to do that here. i really do believe that we need to get more local control involved so that we can customize benefits to a person's particular needs. this is the kind of mistake i think we have made before. we think we can come up with a better mousetrap on the way benefits need to be structured but everyone has a slightly different problem, a slightl

there's been lots of speculation in the media, authorities want to avoid that. áey say this investigationll waiting to see ifç there are any coconspirators carried out what is very concerned the authorities here as if this was a coordinated attack. ÷iet paula, you mentioned the profound shock, of course, there is that, but talk to us to about ity. has there been tensions pthere. >> there was a head and just horrific on the islamic center. i mean, u!rosemary, quebec one the provinces in canada having the hardest time trying to come to terms the secular valueszv tt cherish so much and yet still want to be very open and diverse, having said that, manys today, and social media saying that has nothing to do with what happened tonight. it was an act of terrorism, pure and simple as people wereym worshipping, no matter what, you know, awkward there may be, this is something that no one could havezv predicted. >> news joining us on the phone as he makes it in canada with that deadly atda- took place, many thanks to you. >> israel appears to be set to pass a controversial new law over israeliym

and ryan streeter is at aei. steve liesman is with us.ow at the brookings institute. david, you're doing jobs friday with us? >> that shot's not good yet. >> oh, okay. well, give us the state of the current jobs picture. it's not running at the same rate it was, let's say, a year ago, but people still think that's for good reason. still a strong jobs market? >> it's okay. the year-over-year trend has been slowing. i think we're 150. that backs out a year-over-year rate about 1.5%. the economy down shift in the fourth quarter. to me, a lot of those changes, with the right policies in '17, if we get them. in the short term, you're getting weakness, but i don't think it lasts. >> david? i think generally this is a good economy. not incredible but very good. the numbers look good. you've got low unemployment. you've had recent job growth. i think you'll continue to see job growth and so on. the near term, i think the big questions and big uncertainties are on the political side, not on the economic side. >> david wetzel, you're good for us. y

morgan calling this presidency the aei presidency? >> i like that term.think that the aei school could per sue the presidency in great effect. >> thank you. arthur, author of the book. >> thank you. >>> responding to the meeting with the president-elect today. we have details next. >>> welcome back to "power lunch," at&t ceo met with donald trump at trump tower today. we have a statement from at&t explaining the contents of the meeting. mr. stevenson had a very good meeting with president-elect trump earlier today covering a wide range of topics, and the proposed merger with time warner was not a topic of conversation. rather as the country's leading investor of capital for the three of the five years, they focused on how at&t can work with the trump administration to increase investment in the u.s., stimulate job creation in eric, and make american companies more competitive globally, end quote. contents in an official statement from at&t, melissa, back over to you guys. >> if they are not going to talk about it, why have the meeting? right? >> i don't k

aey could only reach non-verifiable commitment -- promises, but not fixed by treaty and a real commitment. and the reason was that the republican congress in the united states would not accept binding commitments. so they were left with something much weaker and looser. the morocco conference intended to carry this forward by putting teeth in that loose, vague agreement. the conference opened on november 7, normal way. november 8, the world meteorological organization presented an assessment of the current state of what is called the anthropocene, the new geological epoch that is marked by radical human modification, destruction of the environment that sustains life. november 9, the conference basically ceased. the question that was left was whether it would be possible to carry forward this global effort to deal with the highly critical problem of environmental catastrophe, if the leader of the free world, the richest and most powerful country in history, would pull out completely, as appeared to be the case. that's the stated goal of the president-elect, who regards climate change as a

first i want to thank aei and brookings for sponsoring this meeting for us. it's a tremendous opportunity to have a dialogue that's nonpartisan and across many points of view to think through what are the successful developments in healthcare policy. one of the sponsors, we represent 60 large employers and purchasers. together they have about 12 million covered lives and they spend about $60 billion every year. they have a strong stake in the improvement of the health care system for their own population and several panel members. it's important to know that while these are tremendous organizations that are investing a great deal of innovation, experimentation and learning, they are not typical of american employers and there are many small and medium-sized employers around the country who don't have the resources or the scale to influence health care as directly as some of these companies can. i think one thing we will talk about are the implications for these strategies for other employers who face many of the same challenges but don't have the resources to

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have you here at aei. with the clock running, i want to kind of moved into a broader discussion. we had the opec deal reached in november, and this comes after watching the price go up and down over the year. 2017, the question is will the price hold? the newon for president-elect donald trump and his administration, and also for you producers and non-opec producers. it is an interesting moment. i thought of looking at the price of oil before coming to the event, and it is at about $55. that is about the range they were hoping for back in november. it is an interesting moment to watch. discussion,t with we will give a few moments for opening remarks, and then we --e the full that one moment moment.the full -- one i believe you also served at one point in the bush administration in the white house. >> the reagan administration. >> and we have the coordinator for international energy affairs. he has the bureau energy resources for the department of state. and has become a sort of focal point for international energy diplomacy. , curtailingadership oil off the market, iranian oil sa

on behalf of aei, brooksings institution, and pacific business group on health i want to welcome everyone here and everyone watching remotely including those watching c-span to today's conference. we are going to discuss the challenges of providing health high quality health care that is affordable for patients, employers and taxpayers. this is clearly a critical topic for government policy makers. and rhett se the recent election obviously highlighted the disagreements among many people in this country about what is the best way for government to provide in this area and obviously changes are coming. expansion of health care coverage comes at steep price and incoming administration is blocking for ways to get cost under control while insuring that people continue to have access to health insurance. employers ploi employerses have long been at forefront for affordable health care. about 150 million people under age 65 will be with sponsored care for employers. family coverage was over $18,000 last year, 2016. that's a nearly 60% increase in total premiums. since 2006. health benefits are

aey killed him according to "time magazine" investigation, dozens of iraqi civilians in their homes andlso in a car and up on a ridge. general mattis dismissed the charges against many of the marines accused, personal intervening to clear their names before the justice system had run its course. and in the end, nobody connected of that massacre served a day in prison. in another case -- on amy: i want to go, aaron, to 2008, to what you're talking about. when we spoke to mcclatchy journalist to travel to but he the to interview survivors of the massacre. i want to turn to this short video posted on the mcclatchy website based on her reporting. memorize the places where his four brothers bodies late after they were killed by the u.s. marines. the family counts the day in 2005 and says it was a massacre of the brothers come along with 20 other people following a roadside bomb in haditha. marines raided the house and shot the unarmed men in their head in the back bedroom, the family said. now they are angry that no one is being held accountable. charges against six of the eight marines accu

he is defending those ideals at aei as cochair of the american internationalist project. victor cha has a long legacy of service. he is the asian director at the nsc. he is the author of several books, including "the impossible state." he now serves simultaneously as the director of asian studies at georgetown university, the korean chair at the center for strategic and international studies, and the human freedom fellow at the bush institute, which sounds exhausting just saying all those things. [laughter] michael: and ambassador robert gallucci is perhaps the most respected diplomat in this area, going back to his work as chief u.s. negotiator during the north korean nuclear crisis of 1994. he is the former dean of the school of foreign service at georgetown. now, he is a professor at georgetown and a consultant to the bush institute on this project. welcome, all of you. let me start with the authors of the paper released today. victor, you are making the claim in this paper that "freedom and security are indivisible." why is that true? victor: thank you, michael. first

apple actually is releasing aei little info about its new iphone which it never does.one four.ipne f going forward by looking back.ac sources say apple is reviving the stainless steel frame ofel the iphone four and using tong it perfect the design.n. seems like the last one juste js came out. >> but will it make it lesss resistant to cracking. cck they got to do something about -hat -- >> the glass that did does notot break. >> they got t o do somethingomethi about that.outt. thanks so much steve sve appec >> you're welcome.e welcome >> paris jackson has someasom harsh words reacting to that urban myth trailer in therailert actor playing her father her f michael jackson. jackson >>> alec baldwin appears tors have other plans besides snl for his trump character. kevin is here with the fox beat. beat fios is not cable. we're wired differently. that means incredibly fast 150 meg internet. so in the 3.7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record fly, gary, fly. ...his friend can downlo