at how that's evolved over time you see a pattern that has come to be known as the fading american dream where that steadily falls over time such that if you look at kids who are turning thirty today kids born in the middle of the one nine hundred eighty s. only fifty percent of them are earning more than their parents did and in particular they're going to likely to be the goose's of globalization if they don't have high levels of education because one of the benefits of a higher education makes individuals more flexible able to move from one job to another because education is maybe not the only means but it's certainly the primary means by which people can improve their own lot in life and pursue those goals that they have. the promise that the next generation will be better off has always been part of the german identity a modest central european variant of the american dream but if that promise is broken it has consequences. parents will try to maximize their own children's opportunities in life the struggle for status begins with the choice of elementary school. marcus costello is a nurs

patriotic education is part of the curriculum we are hard work u and we are working for our american dream where's: stage doors opening) i thought he was with you? no jack! (sfx: piano plays "twinkle twinkle little star" tommy? (sfx: audience laughing) go get him! don't stop. keep playing. (sfx: pianist playing masterful duet) here we go here's the fun part did you do this? great job! (sfx: audience applause) dad and son: we just finished dinner ahe hates [i hate] homework.. dad: i know he's bright. son: why is it so hard for me? both: he's just got to try harder. i'm trying as hard as i can. narrator: 1 in 5 children struggle with learning and attention issues. go from misunderstanding to understood.org ♪ merry christmas and live from american news headquarters. on this christmas day, our men and women stationed across the world got a special phone call from our president, donald trump. he spoke to members of all five branches of the military. he thanks them for their service and acknowledges the sacrifices they were making. the president who normally spends christmas at his estate in florida sta

this hospital is where the american dream ended for one little boy on christmas eve. the exact cause of eight year old philippe says death is still unclear. and with a fever and vomiting six days after being detained with his father by u.s. border agents. they have traveled from quite a modest sum of thousands of central american migrants to make the journey in recent months. to day after philippe died a funeral was held for another child migrant who died in u.s. custody this month jacqueline calvo's also from guatemala she was just seven years old her mother was to greece tricked him to attend the funeral. explained what drove jacqueline's father to take her to the u.s. . to go to some more is the poverty. there are no prospects here. the crops we grow aren't enough to support a family with a man can love a million. six months ago president trump's administration backtracked on its policy of separating children from their parents at the border following a public outcry. now these deaths are raising more questions about the treatment of migrants by u.s. authorities an

reporter: this hospital is where the american dream ended for one little boy on christmas eve.he exact cause of the it-year-old -- the eight-year-old's death is unclear. he felt deal with fever and vomitingixix days afteter bein detatain with his s father byy . border agents. they had traveled from guatemala with thousands of central american migrants to m make the journey in recent months. the day after he died, a funeral was held for another child migrant who died in u.s. custody this month. jakelin caal was also from guatemala. she was just seven years old. her mother was too grief stricken to attend the funeral. her uncle explained what drove jakelin's father to take her to the u.s. >> it is the property. there are no prospects here. the crops we grow are not enough to support a family. reporter: six months ago, president trump's administration backtracked on its policy of separating children from their parents are the border following a public outcry. now these debts are raising mark rutte -- deaths are raising more quesestions and feeling sharp criticism of the president'

world's strongest economy in two thousand and seventeen it's a country where dishwashers can become millionaires according to the american dream at least but is that dream today in a little more than a myth. according to official figures around fourteen million americans now live in poverty. and at the same time the cost of living keeps on rising the average monthly rent in the us is fifteen hundred dollars and in major urban centers that number climbs to twenty five hundred. of those who can't afford such rents often end up on the streets over half a million people in the u.s. were homeless. when. car turns into work. bedroom everything she needs is folded neatly away here in the back. she sleeps in her car almost every night even though she has a full time job. so. she works as a lecturer teaching english literature at a state university it's her dream job she probably completed her master's degree at age fifty but her studies landed her with nearly insurmountable debts once again and found out how little i make and how much work it takes and i have a strong work ethic i was raised that way. and now. being in the position li

an example of the american dream at its most extraordinary. the fighter who climbed up where he dedicated his work for the generations that would follow. he has been so generous to his colleagues and this institution and the state and the nation. he has given us so much he retires with great congratulations most distinguished career in a very warmest wishes for a peaceful and happy retirement. >> mister chairman i know there will be others that will

the american dream isn't a handout it's something you work for when i couldn't afford college college of the ozarks gave me the chance to work for my degree i'll graduate debt free from a college where as class work and patriotic education is part of the curriculum we are hard work u and we are working for our american dream >> time for tucker's final exam where the news professionals are interrogated. see if they can actually remember the events they cover every day. this week's final examine is a new york special. we have kennedy, the last nonguest host in the building. and also with us from fox news headlines 24/7 carley shimkus and actually speaking of guest hosting, carley will actually be in this slot on monday night but for some reason we're going to stick her outside for the duration of the show and then kennedy will follow carley. so this is the fox new year's eve team. you will get a heads up on it and worth tuning. in contestants, hands on buzzers. i'm going to ask the questions. the first one to buzz in questions tgets to answer. you shall answer once and i shall acknowledge you rules set by game show committee in gentleman n.i.e. havgeneva.ar just blasted alexandria oca

. >> there was a euphoria where the american dream of owning a home converged with the american dream risk-free investments, or you might say the myth of risk-free investments. >> new numbers out tonight suggest more than ever that the housing sector of the american economy is something of a house of cards. >> the housing bubble started to come undone in 2006, 2007 and suddenly, people started to default, and then they started to default in big numbers. it really became a domino effect and that devastated whole communities. >> from bad to worse, home prices experienced their biggest drop in more than 20 years. >> two out of ten who bought their homes in the last ten years are already upside down. >> there were good intentions in this country about increased homeownership, but in the last years of this bubble, that's ground cover for some pernicious activities. >> americans have seen their property values plummet and the country edge closer towards a recession. and at the heart of the problem is something called the subprime mortgage crisis. >> loans made to borrowers with low credit s

american dream. this is in her book, behold america. sunday night on c-span's q&a. lawrence kansas, where we are learning about history. we take you inside the wilcox collection of political movements, the largest assembly of political literature in the country. the collection is a celebration of free speech. it is one of the largest collections of its kind in the world. both left and right wing collections on the political spectrum. the wilcox collection was acquired by the university of kansas library in 1965. we just celebrated our 50th anniversary. it was established by laird wilcox, who was at the time a slightly older than usual student here at the university. in the leftterested and right wing materials when he was very young. his grandparents, aunts and goals were all politically intense. they would have long discussions at the dinner table. some of them are right wingers or somewhere on the left. unbeknownst to his parents, he set up a po box and began writing to these organizations asking them for materials, and they sent them to him. when he arrived at the university of kansas,

an example of the american dream at its most extraordinary. the fighter who climbed up where he dedicated his work for the generations that would follow. he has been so generous to his colleagues and this institution and the state and the nation. he has given us so much he retires with great congratulations most distinguished career in a very warmest wishes for a peaceful and happy retirement. >> mister chairman i know there will be others that will speak here in a few minutes. but just by wage for a couple minutes would like to say if you had told thiss body or the country in the winter of 2017 in this congress you would pass a bipartisan ten year reauthorization of the children's health insurance plan with plenty of finance members here you would be charged with hallucinating. people would say no way. it couldn't possibly happen. if you had said in the winter of 2017 that you are going to pass a major set of reforms on foster care reforms that the children's defense fund had been dreaming about for decades they simply would have said impossible. it could not possibly happen

trillion in debt, and continued -- in the status quo the rather than the american middle class and dream. the president has to win whereon is because the flyover states have descended into poverty. they've just been sucked dry and the money has been transferred to china. we've got a president who has the guts to speak the truth. on all of these issues. it takes my breath away. i think why are you saying tha it is true, do you agree? yes, but why are you saying that? it is amazing to watch him . >> the tone i hear from some people who identify themselves as republicans. many as conservatives. they say, i just wish he would not tweet. i just wish he would not talk like that. you mean speak the truth? you may speak to you directly and personally? as president of the united states one of you ever seen a president do what he is doing now? >> people always against anything new. they were against the lithograph. they said andrew greg jackson was using the lithograph. they said short, fat bald john quincy adams will not be elected president if you use lithograph. then they were against harris because he used music pinout donal

. >> you you write that the american dream is faise and thero savior coming. so wherewe go from her'se? whext for you and what's next for us? >> brown: well, there's a big question, huh? a >> there we goot of big questions. i don't write that i know ofh thatre's no savior coming, so anything's possible, i suppose. but people ask me al time where do we go from here, and mn quesn return is where is heg.? there's n.s. in the world that can lead you to a destination withou current location. so a lot of people read this book and say when i read it i felt that i was reading a history of america, no memoir. and i think if i've done my job well, what i've done wih this book is to help us understand how we got here and wrehee are, and my hope is that we go to a placehat is whole, that is free, rather than a place th trying to make america great again, i think we ought to try to mar lives and country whole and free for the first time. >> brown: the book is "there ll be no miracles here," casey gerary. thank you uch for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> brown: and before we

the american dream isn't a handout it's something you work for when i couldn't afford college college of the ozarks gave me the chance to work for my degree i'll graduate debt free from a college where character is as important as class work and patriotic education is part of the curriculum we are hard work u and we are working for our american dream ♪ ♪ >>> it's an embarrassment any time the government shuts down, this being no exception. we have to work at it until we get to an agreement where a majority say yes. and i think we had that. until the president, you know, went off his medicine and who the hell knows what happened? >> lisa: that was massachusetts jim mcgovern on the state of the government shut down show down as we head to day seven tomorrow. the house she did there will not be any votes this week. the senate is quiet but president trump is not tweeting this isn't about the wall. everybody knows that a wall will work perfectly. in israel the wall works 99.9%. this is only about the dems not letting donald trump and the republicans have a win. they may have the ten senate votes but we have the issue. border security, 2020. rich edson is live in washington, d.c. tonight

we want to get, make in this country back into the place where everyone has a fair shot at creating they are own version of the american dreamthin that, you know, is making sure we have universal health care coverage, making sure that our education system really serves everyone. that kind of, you know, bold, broader vision is something that, you know, the whole party believes in. where we disagree sometimes is the process and the pathway by which we get there. >> we've just come off midterm elections where the democrats took back control of the house with a pretty significant, by a pretty significant margin, with a pretty significant win. obviously, the republicans in's creased their majority in the senate. what lessons do you think the party needs to draw from those elections where the party clearly did well in a lot of the suburban parts of the country? what was the message that resonated, do you think? >> well, i think there were a lot of messages. one is that this is a diverse country, and i think we see this is going to be the most diverse congress in the history of the country in terms of representation by women and mi

american dream. we're part of it. this is our era. this is america's energy era. nextera energy >> the present and investor over where to the dinner. trish: neither were aware you are saying now. spat correct. trish: should they have been aware? >> it's in interesting collective and would speak to i thank to a me is the problem we are having more h broadly with china and the bad behavior. trish: that was the assistant to the president for trade policy peter navarro telling me the president and his team are totally unaware of the rest of the cfo of that giant chinese telecom company huawei. the arrest was made hours before president trump in present xi jinping agreed to a 90-day trade truce. news tonight that executive fraud accused of of attempting to evade u.s.-iranian sanctions for five years and now facing up to 30 years in a u.s. prison. china author gordon chang joins me right now and is at all a coincidence? i find it amazing that they are going out in arresting this woman who is at dig, dig deal to chinese t society and they never bothered to tell the president while he's sitting down to dinner with xi jinping

american dream at its most extraordinary. the pittsburgh fighter who climbed up from working poverty and became the gentleman of the senate, where he dedicated his work to strengthening that ladder for the generations that would follow. orrin has been so generous to his colleagues, to this institution, to his state and the nation he served, he has given us so much. he retires with great congratulations on a most distinguished clear and our very warmest wishes for a peaceful and happy retirement. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: first, mr. president, let me add my words of fond farewell to the senior senator from utah. back in the good old days we worked on a whole lot things together when the place was a little less partisan, immigration, patents, so many things. he was a fine legitimator, fine craftsman, and i wish he and his entire, large, beautiful family the best as he retires. i'd also note that leader mcconnell talked about the good bipartisan work we created on the farm bill, did something good for his state, hemp, something he cared about for a long time. i hope the leader, and i'll talk about t

because he likes china now he thinks china -- that's where the american dream lives now >> that's notr forget we are the finest nation on earth >> don't look at me. address him. >> we have a lot of things to work on, but we're doing better than we were go back -- i'll give you a for instance one of the greatest things to happen in my opinion in america is that people who are gay no long ver to live with this horrible feeling of what do they call it? outing it's their right to live that. god bless them if they're happy -- >> acceptance on the rise. >> i'm telling you we're better as a nation than we were we're more tolerant. we got a lot of work to do don't misunderstand me we got a long way to go to get to the promised land but don't sell america short >> in history the quality of life is up >> look at idiots like me. i'm i'm 83 and arguing with someone wherever it is >> glaxo you were associated with home depot in some way? >> something to do with it >> the futures which is also -- think about that how much employees >> 480,000 >> how much market -- you know, how much shareholder val

american dream. in her book "behold america." sunday night at 8:00 eastern on -span's "q&a." >> c spap, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress. the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c., and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite rovider. >> the u.s. house is gaveling in next, they'll take up the farm bill, which sets farm subsidies, crop insurance, nutrition assistance, and rural development programs for the next five years. first up, the rule for that farm bill. bloomberg writes that rule contains an unrelated provision that would block lawmakers from forcing the chamber to vote on certain yemen legislation until a new congress takes over in january. debate and vote on that rule coming up shortly in the u.s. house. live coverage now here on c-span.

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the american dream isn't a it's something you work for when i couldn't afford college college of the ozarks gave me the chance to work for my degree i'll graduate debt free from a college wheretant as class work and patriotic education is part of the curriculum we are hard work u and we are working for our american dream ♪ >> jesse, are you feeling this? with 11 days until christmas, the stress to find the perfect gift for everyone on your list likely kicking in right about now. you may want to give some extra thought to the gift idea before going out shopping this weekend. a new study says most people have already forgotten about the presence they received last year. while another survey says that a majority of people have received gifts they don't want and will never use. jesse, what did you get for your mom and dad last year? >> what did they get from you? >> something wanted but i never used. >> the michael jackson zipper. >> exactly what he wanted but never used. >> we don't hang out usually. maybe i would. >> do you wear it? >> special occasions. listen, i prefer cash for christmas for tax purposes. it's nice and clean. i also don't like sweaters. this is why. you do n

could avoid the worst outcome and make the country one where there's a feeling of solidarity and cohesion we filigreed estate in the american dream but some of us will have to make sacrifices for some compromise in the positions we cling onto on the immigration issue in the safety net and a variety of other issues but if we are going to do that, we have a very bright future ahead of us. >> host: and you would include the victims of inequality across the board. we are not simply talking about immigrants but that is a very large and important share of the population. >> guest: absolutely. one way to talk about my book is the narrative around immigrati immigration, to talk about how we engage in nationbuilding at home. how do we see to it that we deal with some of the poverty and exclusion at the bottom of our society and being sure that those folks are prepared for the future? >> host: thank you for the marvelous contribution to the understanding around immigration far as i said at the beginning of the fresh new ideas and we will look to continue the conversation. >> guest: thank you very much. music was a big part of my life. i wr

the american dream isn't a it's something you work for when i couldn't afford college college of the ozarks gave me the chance to work for my degree i'll graduate debt free from a college wherepatriotic education is part of the curriculum we are hard work u and we are working for our american dream child: ♪ i like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas ♪ ♪ i want to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas ♪ ♪ i need to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas ♪ ♪ why can't i eat, eat, eat apples and bananas? ♪ support the feeding america nationwide network of food banks to help provide meals to those in need. join us at feedingamerica.org. lifetime achievement award. pat sajak and i received them at the same time as a tribute to the success of "jeopardy!" and "wheel of fortune," i'm sure. my thanks to the academy. this is a very special day for me. uh, pat kind of alluded to it, um, i am celebrating 50 years of hosting television shows this year, so, i'm kinda superstitious about this, that if you get a lifetime achievement award, it means you're about to check out. check out physically or your career is about to end? - no, i was thinking more physically. - yeah? dropping dead and stuff like

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where he said american dream means giving your all. trying your hardest to accomplish something and then it adds to that, with giving something back. no definition of a successful like can do anything but include serving others. >> we would be remembering him and thinking about him and talking about his legacy. we've got paul rove on among others to share some stories and right now we want to get to our top story futures are serging this morning on positive trade news coming out of the g20 summit the united states and china agreeing to postpone additional tariffs on chinese goods to give the world two largest economies about two months only three months of negotiations to work out their trade disputes. president trump tweeted this last night on confessions made by china writing, quote, china has agreed to reduce and remove tariffs on automobiles on cars coming into china from the u.s.. currently the tariff is 40%. and mitch i want to get into this. this tariff went to 40% just a few months ago. that china actually had reduced from 25%

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the american dream isn't a handout it's something you work for when i couldn't afford college college of the ozarks gave me the chance to work for my degree i'll graduate debt free from a college whereortant as class work and patriotic education is part of the curriculum we are hard work u and we are working for our american dream ♪ >> sean: breaking news, this is a fox news alert. ap is now reporting that general michael flynn has requested probation and community service. earlier today, there was also a deadly shooting in france which is now being treated as a terror incident. trace gallagher joins us live in our west coast newsroom tonight for the latest on both of these stories. >> let's begin with the shooting. the attack happened near the strasbourg famousst christmas market, which is one of the city's biggest attractions. the same christmas market was the focus of an al qaeda plotis back in 2000, although it remains unclear if the market was targeted this evening. the gunfire camean in several bursts, sending people running and panicking into nearby buildings and restaurants. authorities have now confirmed that four people are killed, and a dozen wounded. check that, three pe

where is he now? we're live at their command center coming up next. ♪ ♪ the american dream isn't a handout it's somethingfree from a college where character is as important as class work and patriotic education is part of the curriculum we are hard work u and we are working for our american dream griff: it's a christmas tradition, norad tracking santa as he begins to sleigh journey across the globe. where is he now? brian: lieutenant general christopher coates joins us live from the norad command center. people of norad giving up their christmas to track santa for us. thanks so much. >are you actually hearing us? >> good morning. how are you all today? lisa: good. how are you sir? brian: great. what is santa's biggest hurdle? >> good morning. well, i would say he has a heck of a task in front of him delivering probably billions of gifts all over the world in just 24 hours. i mean, that seems to me the biggest challenge. some might think figuring out who is the naughty and nice is tough but that's perhaps one of his easier tasks. griff: general, we need to know where is santa right now and is he close to

american dream. this is in her book, behold america. sunday night on c-span's q&a. lawrence kansas, where we are learning about history. we take you inside the wilcox collection of political movements, the largest assembly of political literature in the country. the collection is a celebration of free speech. it is one of the largest collections of its kind in the world. both left and right wing collections on the political spectrum.