central to this effort is a series of gatherings aei will be hosting across the country. sparked by the conference we held in may in old parkland texas that brought together brilliant minds such as bob woodson who is in the room, to discuss some of the approaches tackle the challenges facing americans of all races. we will hold our first free conference in birmingham alabama this november 2 to the fourth bringing together civic academic, nonprofit, business and faith leaders on how to implement the lessons we learned about upward mobility. we aim to lift agents of agency around the country. people leading by example combating unhelpful narratives and lighting the way toward lives rich and relationship health and well-being. this is why i'm so excited to welcome tim scott to aei today to talk about the american dream. i can thing about few people whose life stories and work reinforce what's needed to move from poverty to prosperity. just last week senator scott hosted the school choice breakfast to discuss ways to empower every single family in america with the resources t

actions for the communities that have not yet experienced of the american dream as a senior fellow at aei and someone whose run public charter schools more than a decade, i am obsessed with the goal of upward mobility. one of the factors that drive whether a young person of any background acquires the habits of minds and skills that typically lead to success as adults in my time with thousands of young people working at teach for americahe the gates foundatn and now launching the network of charter high schools in the bronx, i've worked with kids from every conceivable background. i've seen children grow up in disadvantaged situations and unfortunately sometimes re-create that disadvantage as they enter young adult hood but i've also seen many kids emerge from poverty or crime or dysfunction and lead lives of their own choosing. the question is what makes the difference. in my experience young people that thrive as adults usually have a sense of personal agency which i define as the force of their free will guided by moral discernment to learn right from wrong. they've usually formed stro

the institutes that we know drive human flourishing and today i'm pleased to announce the cost of aei's free initiative where we will the movement of local leaders who are already reinvigorating these crucial institutions that help develop agency in young people. central to this effort is a series of gatherings we will be hosting across the country sparked by the conference we held in may in old parkland texas that brought together brilliant minds such as bob woodson to discuss alternative approaches to tackle the challenges acing americans of all races. we will hold our first free conference in birmingham alabama this november 2 through the fourth bringing together civic, academic, nonprofit business and faith leaders for important discussions on how to implement the lessons we have learned about upward mobility . we aim to uplift agents of agency across the scountry. people leading by example, combating unhelpful narratives and lighting the way towards lives rich in relationship and well-being. this is why i'm so excited to welcome senator tim scott to the aei today to talk about the

as a senior fellow at aei, someone who has run a public park charter schools in the bronx for more thanam obsessed with the goal of itupward mobility. one of the factors that normally drive whether a young person with any background requires the habits of mind and skills that typically lead to success as adults. and mymy time with thousands of young people from working at teach for america, the white house, mtv, to the gates foundation were now launching a network of international public charter high schools in the bronx i work with kids from every conceivable background, children grow up and disadvantage situations, and sometimes re-create that disadvantage as they enter young adulthood. i have also seen many kids emerge from poverty, or crime, or dysfunction and lead lives of their own choosing. the question is, what makes the difference? in my expanse of young people will ultimately thrive as adults have usually had a sense of personal agency. which i defined as the force of their free will, guided by moral discernment learned right from wrong. they have usually formed a strong famil

i'm program manager here at aei. i want to learn a little bit more about dr. king's reliance on the declaration of independence. was that rhetorical move long standing in his thought and was a controversial within the civil rights movement in other words, was it seen perhaps were the were there those critiqued him for using this document written by a white man written at a time when slavery was widespread or were was this generally agreed upon as a as a rallying point? was there any controversy over the use of the declaration of independence. not as much as you might think, but, yeah, there was there were a lot of people who said, why are you quoting all those white folks? they were slaveholders. as i said, there was some tension in the movement to dismiss the thing as and yet if you want something that's going to appeal to everybody, the lines in, order to realize fundamental change. you can't start anywhere else. frankly, i think studied the constitution more than he did more than he did the declaration of independence. but let freedom and those lines you kn

i just want you to know that because we're so lucky that we have robert, head of aei, and that we really are and that his put her on this meeting today. and i want to thank. i think that's very important. and it's important remember our history and it's it's i've i've got a famous father, you know, and and you've got a wonderful father whose was really courageous because he really did. we'll hear about it maybe more in the next half hour. 45 minutes. but john doar was there with james. meredith was there and jackson and was all the time in the most dangerous places, working with people who were accustomed to working with the department of justice, talking with people, getting the fbi to do the right thing, which was really really difficult. and i hope we'll get into that at one point. yes thank you. yeah. okay. so you didn't point out that robert ran my 86 campaign. yeah, actually i did not know that. yeah, well, that's a little detail. we don't advertise a lot. he doesn't want to, but. there are some secrets he to keep. i'm also number one. let's get back to. let's go. let's go back to

week and aey half ago, police sd 27-year-old was driving erratically in thel3 kensington neighborhoods car, pulled into a spot and two officers approached him. now police initially said he lunged at the officers after officers told him to put down the weapon and try to des escalate the situation, but officers shot and killed eddie. less than 24 hours after police gave that statement, the police commissioner came out and said after watching the body camera footage back, it was very clear that was not what had happened. we still do not have the body camera footage, but an attorney for the family of eddie released new sfgvideo. they found it from the scene. i'll just warn you, this is disturbing video. take a look. >> you can see right there, he was sitting in the car in the driver's seat side. not lung ing at the officer. very different than what that initial report said. at this point, the district attorney's office is investigating. the family said they released this video because they want transparency. they want some answers. the mayor and the police commissioner now less= than 24 h

members of congress are just being aei little bit parochial d narrow in their vision.aybe so it's not my constituents want. and in order to get a law passed in congress to vote on it. they cannot pass laws. that's pretty much what happened with the water projects. carter goes after the democrats are mad. they end up cutting out about half the projects. they come back to members of its own party. in these trying to good government. so, talking to inflation here just briefly. the new relevance of inftion. inflation is twice what is right now atpr the end of carter's presidency.t just got a little text of the speech he gave in the flf 1978 about inflation, what he's going toow do about it. were going to hold on government spending part of going to/federal hiring. get rid of needless regulation. bring that competition. what ideology does this sound like? what party does it sound like liberal or consertive? what you tnk? cracks notypically what you expect to hear out of democratic president. it sounds a lot like what you're goin to hear when you get to carter's successor, r

okay, this news, liz, out of aei. the white house pays female workers less than men?age, white house workers who are female are making less than, on average, men. but really what we learnedded from this is that all the sloganeering and sound bite treatment of complex issues like disparity in pay between men and women really don't serve the public very well, and that's unfortunately what this administration is all about. there is no gender disparity that can be easily sum ised up by discrimination -- summed up by discrimination against women. it's a very complicated issue where women go in and out of the work force because they're also having children -- elizabeth: yeah. >> -- they an want to work part time, all kinds of issues. but, you know, liz, this is an administration in 2019 "the washington post" wrote an article about how joe biden had a problem with women. women didn't like him. men liked him but women didn't. so they kind of adopted all these policies and procedures and slogans like going after gender disparity in pay even though they're not really true. and

so for instance in every sesame street coproduction there's aei neighborhood and all the neighborhoods different so in south africa it's a marketplace, in norway it's a train station, the neighborhood. in the u.s., it seen urban environment that is the idea for that was basically harlem. so, when we went to create the russian production we used the same model sesame street had used in theco different countri. >> successfully, correct? >> they didn't get the amount of pushback. >> no, this was probably one of i thinkt productions most of the productions were either in europe or mexico where i also worked and trained be provided the production but the challenges in this production were enormous. the cultural clashes. i know we are going to talk about this at some point, but we faced tremendous violence with our sponsor, the first sponsor of the show had his car blown up. >> we will get to that. but in terms of the culture, there were many areas that came up during the curriculum seminar where we bring together child educators and the creative team and at this meeting we are trying to dec

this is just aey would uatedn e. they are saying during the iowa caucus, duringey the new hampshire primary, we are going to bench the person who isd at 40 plus points ahead at this point in 2012. mitt romney was five points ahead. >> he was within the margin of error. a rer. this in a republican primary. and they are saying that tha prt candidate cannot be on the ground, that anyone who has studied who is does no tt knows anything about the iowa caucus, knows iowa voters expect you to be there on the ground, shaking hands, standing with them,messag going to diners. and the message is going to be to iowa voters t. s gu you can't vote for this guy because he's on trial. he will no ot be available. j he might go to jail, vote forat somebody else. that's what the governmentg to is trying to do. n ambiguoudo as. e goin you think they're going to getg away with it? it's really up to the house, h isn't it? i mean, the housouse e has to create a degree of pressure and aa degr degree of intensity and focus and determination

and people can people can look that i'm not i'm not wrong that he had aei obsession with ritz-carlton hand lotion and sent staff out to buy it. oh, it doesn't get better than that. but what i loved also ron paul, the former he ran for president, he's a former member of congress he refused to give his children allowance growing up he's of libertÉs and they pride themselves. he and his son, on being sticklers with their office budgets in the house and the senate. yet, according to a 2012 report that you cite in your book he had paid more 300,000 in salaries or fees. let me read this list. his daughter, brother, grandson daughters, mother in law, grand, and grandson in law. talk about being on the dole. this is a real problem. it is. it really is and look, you could argue it's like a your own country store and you hire your family there's a there's a sort of a romantic thing to this. right. and even bobby kennedy, he was probably a great campaign manager for jfk. should bobby kennedy have been the campaign manager? yes. should he have been the attorney general? no. right. i mean, i think

at the lectern by introducing you all to phil and his two interlocutors to fill the sink and fell at aei, please assert atn. a senior felw at the r street next to the pockets of tissue. he also served ase a fellow of the house select committee on the modernization of congress. back in 2019. he under undistracted thes from princeton university and is author of two books, "why and to the edge, legality, legitimacy and the responses to the 2008 financial crisis. seated at the far end of their lives daniel lipinski. and is a distinguished visiting fellow at the hoover institution and pope leo the 13th fellow on social thought at the university of dallas pixieli represented the third district of illinois in the u.s. house of representatives from 2005-2021. his career was quite distinguished congressman lipinski earned a doctorate in political science from dukena university and is the author of congressional communication, content and consequences. in the middle we have reid ribble, the inaugural practitioner residence in political science at the university of wisconsin green bay. he served in

the lectern by introducing you all to phil and his two interlocutors, phil's a senior fellow here at aei previously, worked as a senior fellow at the r street institute and the brookings institution. he also, as a fellow on the house committee on the modernization of congress back in 2019, he earned his doctorate politics from princeton university and is the author of two books why congress and to the edge legality and the responses to 2008 financial crisis. seated at the far end, there is daniel lipinski dans a distinguished visiting fellow at the hoover institution and the pope, leo the 13th fellow on social thought, the university of dallas. he represented the third district of illinois in the us house of representative. from 2005 to 2021. his career quite distinguished. congressman lipinski earned a doctorate in political from duke university and the author of congressional communication, content and consequences in the middle we have reid ribble the inaugural practitioner in residence in political science at the university of wisconsin green bay. he too served in congress and served

you all to phil and his two interlocutors, phil's a senior fellow here at aei previously, worked as a senior fellow at the r street institute and the brookings institution. he also, as a fellow on the house committee on t he also served as a fellow of the house select committee on the modernization of congress. backoc in 2019. the artist doctorate in s from princeton and is the author of two books, "why congress" and the edge, legality legitimacy and the responses to 2008 financial crisis.vi seated at the far it is daniel lipinski, distinguished visiting fellow at the hoover institutiol and fellow unsocial thought university of dallas. to represent the third district if district of illinois the euros house of representatives from 2005 i for 2021. his career was quite distinguished. he earned a doctorate in political science from duke university and is the author of congressional communication, content and consequences. in the middle we have reid ribble, the inaugural t practitioner and residents in political science at the university of wisconsin green bay. he served in congress and s

. >> joining us is a senior fellow in policy at aei what do you mean by uninsurable sp. >> literallythat's what you buy when you operate in any country that's essentially not a western liberal democracy so companies want to buy that in china now because they feel china becoming less stable so last year 68% of companies bought political risk insurance in various companies, up from 25% three years ago. so they are feeling the world becoming less stable, but in china they are now struggling to buy political risk insurance because virtually nobody will offer it anymore very few insurance providers will offer it. so what do you do as a western company or any company operating in china >> the question i would ask is the political risk of doing business in china the function of the chinese government and the risks that the chinese government represents or presents or is the suggestion that actually the risk is actually the risk that the u.s. may present to a company doing business in china who says actually you got to get out of there? >> it's domestic political risk so the sort of risks, s

aei is like a thick tank -- think tank.re will be a housing guide, banking, i will ask if i want to make it easier for people to have families, i neither to be more houses. what is the right rule a state or county could pass that would create more housing but would not cause a backlash? we really do have those sorts of ideas. the idea that it is not propaganda, there are no donors -- nobody is saying write a book about how we should all have more babies. there are no donors saying write a book about their too many subsidies. host: kevin, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. i'm able to have a clear idea on politics. in the case of biden, there is anything proven that he did anything wrong, i would disavow joe biden. i heard you talk about hunter biden and the influence and you gave a good rundown on that. could you give a rundown on the influence jared kushner and ivanka trump got when he was in the white house? guest: they leave don't -- they certainly seems to leave the white house with more connection to fore