host: you're a senior fellow at aei. does that mean you have a conservative point of view? guest: i think of myself as a center-right person. i am unusually concerned about process and the way we do things. not just a particular set of priorities. host: let's talk about the speech tonight the president will be giving. what are you looking for in terms of how president trump defines his role and his powers? guest: i think president trump and this second term has been very clear he thinks he won a huge victory, a mandate from the american people and that gives him pretty much entitles them to do whatever he thinks is right. of course the president takes an oath to take care of that the laws are faithfully executed. sometimes president trump seems to think that when he finds laws inconvenient or bad they do not apply. i wonder if he will say anything on that score to reassure those of us who are worried they are playing fast and loose with the law in this new administration? i expect president trump to revert to form as a showman. he will tout his accomplishments, he will say

thanks to aei for having us. thanks to christine, who will here momentarily after i will i will miraculously cause her to appear on the stage in order to convert john to christianity this and thank you to yuval for that incredibly kind introduction in which he for more from listing all 232 of the books that john and i have written. so i'm going to try to sort of in a way pick up where john left off talk about some of the arguments in my own book in the context of, the moment that his narrative american religious history sort of brings to right now, because i think i am in the book very self-conscious, only writing into a particular moment that's at least partially captured by some of the data that you've you've just seen and heard discussed and some of the tendencies in politics and religion that john has been discussing. and then at end, i will try and go a little bit sort of come around a little bit and talk about john specific, maybe offer like a very mild form of disagreement that. christine can then pick up

join me on the stage are two of aei's smartest minds in some of the best tax scholars in town. kyle is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute where he studies federal tax policy. he was chief economist and vice president of economic, the macroeconomic tax modeling team, he wrote on various topics including international tax policy, also joining us -- i won't forget this little ipad here. alex who i have known for many years, senior fellow where he studies the impact of tax policy to the u.s. economy as well as fiscal policy, economic policy and the political consequence of health care comer, return and trade policies. i would be remiss if i did not add that they both contributed a chapter to a book i helped edit here, so please join me in welcoming them. let's jump into some of the issues around tax reform. i don't know if jason made news, but i thought the timeline he put out there, if they can hit that with this kind of majority, that would be astounding. give me your reactions. lesser with you, kyle, to what you just heard from chairman smith. >> one thing that

that be the aei of generation that is any invention that dizzy people its possibility but that reasoningcannot be applied to this great charter if all men are created equal, that is final. they are endowed with innate inalienable rights. coolidge didn't say uneasily the oval, as the framers did. he said inalienable and that he modernized in alien animal rights. that is final. governments derive just powers from the consent of the governed. that is final. if progressive was wanted to move beyond those principles, coolidge suggested they were wrong. no advance, no progress. can made beyond these propositions. those who would change. and he was getting at the progressives were in reality reaction theory. just as we discussed this morning, ideas were not more modern, but more ancient than those of the revolutionary fathers. it was the job of government, therefore, to respect old laws, at least these, and to pull back, to restrain itself, to leave room enterprise. and for what coolidge defined as things of the spirit. in this work, coolidge said, government now in the twenties must be like as

host: you're a senior fellow at aei. does that mean you have a conservative point of view?st: i think of myself as a center-right person. i am unusually concerned about process and the way we do things. not just a particular set of priorities. host: let's talk about the speech tonight the president will be giving. what are you looking for in terms of how president trump defines his role and his powers? guest: i think president trump and this second term has been very clear he thinks he won a huge victory, a mandate from the american people and that gives him pretty much entitles them to do whatever he thinks is right. of course the president takes an oath to take care of that the laws are faithfully executed. sometimes president trump seems to think that when he finds laws inconvenient or bad they do not apply. i wonder if he will say anything on that score to reassure those of us who are worried they are playing fast and loose with the law in this new administration? i expect president trump to revert to form as a showman. he will tout his accomplishments, he will say we h

[laughter] >> the farthest right in more ways than one, is a senior fellow here at aei. we are going to ask these panelists to speak for between five and 10 minutes each. i think kendrick is going to kick things off, talking about the politics of these issues on the canadian side, and jamie will zero in on the policy side. finally, derek will give us the inside scoop on how this looks within the trump administration and what we can expect looking ahead. hendrik: thanks so much, it's a pleasure to be here. i have written a paper, from trade wars to tradewinds, how to build a much more positive and close economic union between canada and the united states. we are looking at the reopening of tariff and trade issues. there's two possibilities. canada can go along with the grudging, foot dragging, defensive, we don't want to talk about it. or we are working with the quintessential dealmaker donald trump, who could open up these topics. if we want to talk about economic security, there is a consensus for canada to spend a lot more on the military, so why not talk about an arct

fellow director of the center technology innovation, the brookings institution and the founder of the aei equity lab, a tech policy expert and storyteller. her work has appeared in the washington post and new york times and nbc. cnbc, knpr and the pbs newshour. she has served as an adviser on technology policy issues for government agencies, including the national academies of sciences and the federal communications commission. cody dorsey is the former executive director of the baltimore digital equity coalition, where he works to close the digital in his hometown as executive director. he convenes stakeholders to shape the future of baltimore's commitment to permanently closing the digital divide, as well as across state of maryland, including establish the annual maryland digital day, the first digital equity day in the nation. john d and catherine tea macarthur foundation president john palfrey wrote no one writing today knows the story of the many digital divides in america more than nicol turner lee. she has given us a great gift and author alden moore is called digitally invisible,

investor vibes, aei i. we are back to levels we saw at the financial crisis of 2022.is not that bad but the institutional positioning, market is starting to break down from record highs on every contract we track. if you look at consumer, i don't need to tell you what has been going on. if you look at net approval as a gauge of the political vibes, and i do that because it has been tracking the s&p postelection data same way the polling data was in a 2023 and early 2024, that is also starting to stumble even though to be fair, it is stronger than where it was. we are seeing this on a lot of different levels. the corporate vibes have been a look at more resilient based on that conference board ceo confidence survey but even there, if you look at the tenor of reporting season, we've seen uncertainty really start to eclipse optimism and if you even dig into that ceo confidence survey, employment expectations are starting to shift and a negative way and the consumer survey is also assessing that out. i think we are in the middle of the early stages of the sentiment shock.