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coming up sunday morning, michael marone, author and resident fellow at the american enterprise institutealks about his new book, "how america's political parties change and how they don't," and law professor and author frank bowman examines the history of impeachment in his book "high crimes and misdemeanors." be sure to watch "washington journal," sunday morning and join the discussion. now, portions of this week's democratic national committee women's leadership forum. you will hear from house beaker nancy pelosi on the upcoming -- pelosi onker nancy the upcoming impeachment inquiry and the passing of representative elijah cummings. after that, joe biden. ♪ >> house democrats are down with n.d.p. nancy pelosi, the once and future speaker of the united states. >> nancy pelosi is the most powerful woman in american political history. >> please don't characterize the spring -- the strength i bring to this meeting. >> she's been speaker of the house not once, but twice. and chief critic of president trump. >> that's the way you clap when your husband finally puts the toilet paper on the ro

katherine zimmerman is a resident fellow at the american enterprise institute and she has testified beforer groups. she's in washington. you heard jeremy bowen referring to this not being the. what do you think it means for so—called islamic state 7 think it means for so—called islamic state? it remains to be seen but we can be sure that islamic state will appoint a new leader, it will recover and reset. we need to look globally at the branches to see whether they remain part of islamic state. there is a risk that the global network falls apart, the same way when a summer global network falls apart, the same way when a summer bin laden was killed. al-qaeda could seize the opportunity to research on the global stage and take the mantle back from islamic state. going back to the leadership, what about those people that were around abu bakr al—baghdadi, in the top tier? people that were around abu bakr al-baghdadi, in the top tier? the us has been actively targeting that top tier and the reports came out today that the us killed the stomach state's spokesperson, that the us is going to be exp

katherine zimmerman is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute.sional testimony on terror groups. i asked her what the death of al baghdadi means for so—called islamic state. it really remains to be seen what it means for islamic state but we can be sure that the islamic state will appoint a new leader, that it will recover from this and reset. we need to look globally at the branches to see whether they actually remain part of the islamic state. so there's a risk that the global network falls apart, the same way there was that risk when the us killed 0sama bin laden. and there is also the chance that al-qaeda seizes the opportunity to resurge on the global stage and take that mantle back from the islamic state. first of all, going back to the leadership, what about those people that were around al—baghdadi, in the top tier, if you like? the us has been actively targeting that top tier and the reports came out today that the us killed the islamic stateste‘s spokesperson, that the us is going to be exploiting the intelligence that was recovered at

i'm tim carney, a visiting fellow here at american enterprise institute as well as being the commentary editor at the "washington examiner." we are here to talk about health care but i want to ask a a specific question about health care. it's a question that some people on the free enterprise side, the free-market conservative or libertarian side don't always ask, who benefits. i think sometimes people on the right or right of center are uncomfortable with that question in policy debates because they say why should it matter who benefits? we see elizabeth warren will say tax cut is bad because rich people benefit. but i think it's actually a very important thing to talk about. one influences are debates get a free member and 20 -- 2008 campaign and the passage of obamacare, barack obama thought it was important to point out that he was battling the health care sector, that he was battling the drug drugmakers oe was battling the insurers. very important and interestingly, he was not telling the truth when he said that. it shaped the way obamacare turned out, that the hospitals and drugma

staff writer, the co-author of the almanac of american politics, a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute, his work available online, washingtonexaminer.com. you traveled to all 50 states and all 435 congressional districts. >> guest: i perhaps rank with the c-span bus, when i started writing the book of american politics, the co-author, 1970-70 when it occurred to me i had never set foot in most congressional districts. i set about in my travels to make sure that i did and when i landed it, ted stevens in anchorage, alaska, february 1998, my 50th state and 435th congressional district so i have kept up with redistricting. when they change the boundaries i made sure i have been 12 district once again. >> our guest is michael barone. i want to get your reaction to this editorial this morning in terms of where it leads senate republicans and from the senate republican leader who is a supporter of the president who said it has been a great mistake to pull out of syria. withdraw us forces from syria is a grave strategic the steak and we use us less safe, emboldens our enemies, weakens importa

the american enterprise from -- from the american enterprise institute, this is about one hour. >> good morning. my name isnat malkus and i get to take us through our panel with state decision-makers and we have an excellent panel and i'm going to introduce them now and we are going to jump into a discussion of school choice in the state and what education scholarships might mean there. i have three state policymakers here today. kimberly yee is the 36th treasurer of arizona and we are glad to have you here. she stewards of $40 billion state budget and makes sure the checks go to whom they need to go to. treasurer yee has a number of firsts. the first asian-american elected to statewide office in arizona. will the first chinese-american republican woman to win a major statewide office in the united states. she was senate majority leader in arizona, not the first, but notably followed sandra day o'connor so that is worth mentioning. she chaired the senate education committee and helped create the nation's first education savings account into thousand 11. interestingly, has a pattern i th

according to a new calculation by the american enterprise institute, medicare for all would cost about per person per year. multiply that by 22 million illegal immigrants and you get to $220 billion every year. even in an era of supersized numbers, that's a ton of cash. that is for some perspective ten times the entire budget of nasa, it's also more than the current veterans administration budget, the va budget which means that america would quite literally be spending more on illegal immigrant health care than it does on veterans. melissa francis cohost of "outnumbered." she also cohosts at fox business, and thankfully, she joins us tonight. you are the numbers person, you are one of the good people who went to harvard. >> melissa: [laughs] >> tucker: it's true. there aren't many, you are one. >> melissa: well, thank you. >> tucker: assess our math. it's true, there aren't many, you are one. assess our assessment. our numbers we are throwing out their correct? >> melissa: the number you quote on the number of illegal aliens, who knows what that number really is? there's no way of know

joining me now, marc thiessen cohost of the american enterprise institute podcast and fox news contributor, always good to have you. i love this podcast, thus the question that we have every day. you answer that question, what do you want to hear tonight? do you think it is unusual, is that time a good or bad? simone sanders doesn't want to take credit for that interview and she also doesn't want to own it but she gives respects his right to what he wants to do, he's a grown man. >> i'll answer the question she didn't, they are unhappy because it makes it much more unlikely that cnn and "the new york times" will avoid the question tonight. >> martha: maybe it's we have to get past this, we have to get it out there, we might as well take the questions on it and deal with it. >> the morning of the debate is bad timing. if you listen to her interview, every question that you asked was look at donald trump. joe biden the other day was asked to did you have a conflict of interest, he said i'm not going to answer that, talk about donald trump. if that's what they are trying to do. it's possible

ther, betsy devos speaks at american enterprise institute on tax credits on scholarships for school choice. ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal, live with news and policy issues that impact you. wednesday morning, we will discuss legal challenges to roe v. wade with the president and ceo of americans united for life. then, former senior counsel to the whitewater investigation will join us. we will talk about impeachment efforts in the whistleblower complaint against president trump. also, we will discuss what is happening to asylum-seekers when they reach the u.s.-mexico border with cq roll call. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 p.m. eastern, wednesday morning. join the discussion. he served on the house intelligence committee as their senior counsel from 2011 to 2013, now with george mason university law school, founder of their national security institute, welcome to the program this morning. , and on your experience there is other committee on this inquiry, what national security concerns did you hear coming out of that one piece of evidence from that memorandum on th

the american enterprise from -- from the american enterprise institute, this is about one hour. >> good morning. my name isnat malkus and i get to take us through our panel with state decision-makers and we have an excellent panel and i'm going to introduce them now and we are going to jump into a discussion of school choice in the state and what education scholarships might mean there. i have three state policymakers here today. kimberly yee is the 36th

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he is a fellow at the american enterprise institute. and he is a contributor to cbs news. a seniorly, he is fellow at national review institute, our partner. take it away. >> thank you, todd, for that generous introduction. i would like to join todd in thanking my friends at the pacific legal foundation, my colleagues, national review institute for putting this event together, and to jones day for hosting it. i would like to thank all of you for coming here for what is very likely the only conversation taking place in the city today that does not mention a certain word starting with i. it seems that this is always the most informative hour about the supreme court i spend every year. so i come here as much for education as for anything else. we've got a lot of cases that we're going to run through and some very distinguished practitioners to talk about them. you've got bios available, or if not, you can look them up. so i will just give you a very, very abbreviated one. michael carvin, who will be speaking first, is the issues and appeals partner at jones day. thomas goldste

. >> dana: joined me now is the american enterprise institute fellow and fox news contributor, let'start with just there. this has been going on for about three weeks, this question of why he didn't reveal and be forthcoming. and now he basically says, "oh, yeah, i should've done that. i'm sorry." his leg when he cut it? >> not at all. he has a major credibility problem. first, during the meal and probe, he said he told the american people, he looked us in the eye and said he had seen evidence of crimes on a scale comparable to watergate. and the newly released the report and it turned out it was untrue. he used his position as chairman of the intelligence committee to comply therewith secret evidence the rest of us weren't seeing that incriminate a donald trump. turns out that was alive. then he coordinated with the whistleblower, the whistleblower comes to his office and he says, literally, that he didn't talk to him, the guy didn't come to him. if it hadn't been for the whistleblower, for the ig, but have never known about it. it wasn't that he misspoke, it wasn't that he -- he fl

secretary devos is joined by white house advisor kellyanne conway at the event hosted by the american enterprise institute. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. thank you to aei for posting this important forum today. robert, thank you for your hospitality and for a principled conservative leadership, especially now in your new role. it's always a pleasure to be back here with so many friends. our ideas are advanced by the work of the institute and there are many who worked for the cost of education freedom and for our nation's students especially rick so i'm looking forward to our conversation today. we are here to talk about education freedom scholarships and let me say a few things about our proposal to set the table before our discussion. here's what it is. a 5 billion-dollar annual federal income tax credit for voluntary contributions to 5o1c3 nonprofit organizations that provide scholarships to students. the key element of the proposal is freedom. freedom for everyone involved. students, families, teachers, schools, states, any and all could choose to participate or they can elect not to participa

secretary devos was joined by white house counselor kellyanne conway at the american enterprise institute . >> good morning everybody and welcome to ai. my name is robert gore and i'm so pleased to have you here this morning for this important discussion of education policy in the united states. we are particularly gratified and happy to have the secretary of education betsy devos with us, her husband, council president kellyanne conway. it's an honor to have them here for this discussion on a topic that is particularly important to ai and our education policy team led by rick s area and we're also pleased to have , i like to say that ai is a washington based think tank but we are not a washington focused think tank so we have three distinguished leaders around the country from tennessee to arizona and pennsylvania and they will talk about how some of these issues we're talking about in washington to parents and schools in those parts of the country. really that's what our discussion is all about. how can we make our schools better read a little bit about just to get a sense of how i come

>> joining our discussion now is a congressional historian and resident scholar at the american enterprise institutewinning columnist for "the washington post." and both of them thought they had seen it all in the world of presidential impeachments. let's start with you and your historical view of this. does it feel like we're at that spot where the fork in the road sends the president in one direction and the vice president in another? >> absolutely. and of course this is not uncommon with crime families. but, you know, i think there are two opponents to make here. one is if you look at this in a kind of way if trump got impeached and both were removed nancy pelosi becomes president. so that's one part of it. i think the second part we have going on here is that we have clearly an effort to try and shield himself, the president, a little bit more from some of the blame going on. and when you look at the article, a deeply reported one by greg miller, greg jaffy, and ashley parker and "the post," pence's response is what i didn't know a thing when we know his defense advisor, his national security ad

from the american enterprise institute, this is one hour. mr. doar: good morning, everybody, and welcome to aei. my name is robert doar and i'm so pleased to have you all here this morning for this important discussion of education in the united states. we are particularly gratified and happy to have the secretary of education, betsy devos with us, her husband dick, couselor to the president kellyanne conway, a great honor to have them all here for this important discussion of a topic that's particularly important to aei and our education policy team. and we're also pleased to have, i like to say that aei is a washington-based think tank, but we're not a washington-focused think tank. and so we have three distinguished leaders around the country, from tennessee, arizona and pennsylvania, and they will talk about how some of the issues in washington affect the children and parents in those parts of the country, and really, that's what our discussion is all about. how can we make our schools better. now, a little bit just to give a sense of how i

delegation going home early and now for a potential deal derek joins me asia economist at the american enterprise institute and michelle caruso-cabrera is in the house as well. welcome. derek, i'll start with you is this all about avoiding this tariff hike next week that may be coming? because it doesn't sound like the u.s. is getting a lot out of this here. >> yeah if it's just for the october 15th bump, it's going to be very little the currency test is meaningless. so that would be a deal to say hey, we're not fighting. wouldn't really accomplish anything also on the table though is is the december 15th inclusion of more chinese goods under tariff, which is a much bigger deal and if that were to be postponed you would expect to hear from the chy needs side so you think it's meaningless, this sort of currency agreement that they might come to. >> yeah. we saw u the text when secretary mnuchin was first talking about it and he said it was the strongest ever it doesn't do anything it's a monitoring deal that allows the u.s. to act in a certain conditions when we can already act ourselves under any condition

and also norm ornstein, a congressional historian, resident scholar at the american enterprise instituteum. this table is stacked with text messages that you have all been studying as quickly as you can while the congressman has been talking. david, go ahead. >> i don't know if the seriousness of the conversation you just had did justice to the rich comedy of these text messages. this is like a high school musical about evil wrongdoers. i'm looking at one here of july 25th of 2019. kurt volker, good lunch, thanks. heard from white house. he will investigate, quote, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. good luck. see you tomorrow. so the visit to the white house, it's in a text message is predicated on getting to the bottom of trump's crazy fantasies. >> so there is china in july in a text message. they're texting about china investigating the bidens in july. >> they're texting about getting the ukrainians to endorse this insane theory that trump has that seth rich is the person who actually hacked -- >> i'm sorry, was that referring

our discussion now is norm orrstein, congressional historian and resident scholar at the american enterprise institutend all-round washington wiseman who has been advising policymakers in washington for decades. and rick wilson is with us, a republican strategist and contribute tore the daily beast. he is the author of "everything trump touches dies." rick, i can never quite get through the title without cracking a little bit. norm, let me begin with you. we just saw h.r. mcmaster do it, wow, it looked easy when he did it. >> and it is easy. this is black-letter law and norms and built and baked into our political system. to watch cory gardner and before him joni ernst try not to even answer the simplest question here, really shows the dilemma they feel and felt for the last two-plus years. they've enabled donald trump. they have bowed to the way in which he has intimidated them with pressure including from that base that is in their states. and they've sat through what we now see as a level of corruption that is unparalleled in our history. it's like you go into a house and there's a body and suddenl

joining us is a congressional historian at american enterprise institute.ed on mark esperanto. i just couldn't laugh it off yesterday. and i think this is the mood thing. we all laugh at this stuff and other stuff when we see it, we just look at it and realize how far we've fallen and how dangerous a place we are in now. >> so, lawrence, when i first saw this, i went to twitter and typed in esper to see if maybe this was auto correct, which has happened to all of us. it wasn't. this is what he typed in. the word is kakistocracy, government by the least and most unscrupulous among us, the worst kind of government. this reflects a sloppiness, as you say, a lack of concern, not even knowing the names of his own cabinet members besides making up quotes from them. that is unlike we have ever seen in american history. >> matt, the staff, the staff lets this sit out there for over two hours yesterday. and apparently no one knows there's a problem. >> yeah. it's really incredible. i mean, look, i was a staffer on the hill for years, like you were. i worked in the e

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he is a former program manager of the education policy studies department of the american enterprise institute and has a ba from yale another. andrew polack has experience in scrap metal and real estate but everything changed when his daughter meadow was murder by neck on february 14th last user now dedicates his life to making schools safe again. founded a nonprofit, americans for children's lives and school safety thing accord towards ensuring the family of victims receive justice. [applause] , i i want to thank you for or coming i was never into politics before this happened. actually the first time i voted wouldness 2016. so, i didn't -- when i looked -- all i wanted to know is, why my daughter meadow was murdered at the school. how i could bring my daughter -- i moved from long island and to an upper middle class neighborhood in broward, and i thought like every a parent, that the school is safe, and i didn't really look into really what was going on at the schools. which something i live with to this day, not knowing what was going on the schools. so, february 14th was valentine's day, a

is a former program manager of the education policy studies department of the american enterprise institute and has a ba from yale university. andrew pollack is an unlikely political activist, an entrepreneur and this is meant with experience in scrap metal and real estate but everything changed when his daughter meadow was murdered on february 14 of last year. in a dedicate his life to making schools safe again. he said a nonprofit, americans for children's lives and school safety, or class which is geared towards ensuring the families of victims get answers and justice. to begin, ladies and gentlemen, andrew pollack. [applause] >> hey, everyone. i'd like to thank everyone for coming and i'm going to tell you a little about my story which is kind of rough for me to do but i'm going to do it for you. i was never into politics before this happened. actually the first time i voted was in 2016. so when i looked on the want to know was why my daughter that it was murdered at the school, how i could bring my daughter, i moved from long island to it upper-middle-class neighborhood in broward and

danielle pletka of the american enterprise institute. woodruff swan of the daily beast, and dan balz, chief correspondent for "the washington post." peter nicklaus wrote the following. the country is entering a new and precarious phase in which the central question about president trump is not whether he's coming unstrung but how unstrung he's going to get. the question is whether trump's base starts to noting or care that the man they elected, facing pressures he's never seen before, is devolving unmistakenly into a different sort of man. joshua johnson, it certainly feels like there's something different about the president this week, perhaps. >> not to me. >> yeah? >> people have been talking about whether donald trump is unraveling. i think he's just unwrapping. there's nothing that we have seen this week that has not at peace with everything we have known about donald trump thus far. this is still the same person who has dealt in conspiracy theories including against barack obama who was in fact born in the united states. the same p

didn't sculler with the american enterprise institute to talk about those talking joining us on the skype from washington there's a theme here quite clearly people get upset at changes and in some cases they are successful in their projects you know look at lebanon they have actually had reforms and changes chile it seems to be happening as well but i guess the key is really that not getting to this place not getting to this position in the 1st place our governments just getting something wrong here. well there are certainly a number of governments i think worldwide that govern terribly that are exploited and done libertarian but i don't think that's necessarily were drives these these protests i think under one hand we're dealing with the continuing fallout from the global financial crisis as we've seen people struggle economically put it past decade or so we've seen the rise of new technologies that may make it a little easier to coordinate protests. and we you know we also need this space to be able to protest and so i don't think it's a coincidence that many of these protests are taki

and the senior vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the american enterprise institute. yes, and also an msnbc contributor. that's a lot of title we just threw out. >> i know. >> we got to get you some more title. leanne and saheel, i want to get at how are we going to get you all this done? >> it's an insurmountable task. we only have a few weeks to fund the government. this is happening with this impeachment inquiry and as jeff mentioned, the president has an incentive for the government shutdown. he can change the -- the -- the topic of the conversation to his pet issues, which are the wall, immigration. distract away from impeachment. then again, there is usmca. there is one thought about that nafta 2.0 that perhaps nancy pelosi has more of an incentive to get it passed because she can show -- then show -- that she can walk and chew gum at the same time. >> and that's the thing she would choose to use as that proof. >> because a lot of her members want that to pass as well. so that could be a good win for them while they're impeaching the president. >> and the democ

panelists at the american enterprise institute include healthcare policy experts and journalists. this is 1:15. >> thank you, everyone, for coming. i'm tim carney. i'm a visiting fellow here at the american enter price institute as being the commentary editor at the washington examiner. we are here talking about health care and we want to ask a specific question about health care and it's a question of the free enterprise side and the free market consentive or libertarian side don't always ask -- in latin or who benefits? i think sometimes people on the right or right of enter are uncomfortable with that question because they say why should it matter who benefits because we see elizabeth warren will say a tax cut is bad because rich people benefit, but i think it's actually a very important thing to talk about. one definitely influences our debates. if you remember in the 2008 campaign and the passage of obamacare, barack obama certainly thought it was very important to point out that he was battling, you know, the health care sector. that he was battling the drugmakers or he was b

i'm tim carney, i'm a visiting fellow here at the american enterprise institute as well as being a -- the commentary ted tor at the "washington examiner." we're here to talk about health care. but i want to ask a specific question about health care. and it's a question that some people on the free enterprise side, the free market conservative or libertiarian side don't always ask. kui, bono in latin, or who benefits. i think sometimes people on the right or right of center are uncomfortable with that question in policy debates because they say why should it matter who benefits? because we see elizabeth warren will say a tax cut is bad because rich people benefit. but i think it's actually a very important thing to talk about. one, it definitely influences our debates. if you remember in the 2008 campaign and the passage of obamacare, barack obama certainly thought it was very important to point out that he was battling, you know, the health care sector, battling the drug makers or battling the insurers. and very importantly and interestingly, he was nol telling the truth when he said

kenneth pollack is a scholar at the american enterprise institute, from the national security council under bill clinton. he covered the middle east, particularly iran and iraq. on my left, senior fellow and director of the defense and security program here at mei and served as senior advisor for security -- the office of the secretary of defense or policy for responsibilities for centcom. we will have a discussion, for each of the speakers. we will throw it open to you all. let's get a kick off where we stand. >> it is nice to be back at mei in this fabulous new building. there are other dimensions, and it is the root of everything. it is an issue that is well known to everyone in this room but one we don't like to talk about a lot. the arab allies do not have the capacity to defend themselves. that was driven home in recent weeks and recent years like any number of development across the middle east. the vast majority of americans would love it if our arab allies better defend themselves. for those who recognize there may be reasons we would want to stay anyway at the very least so

panelists at the american enterprise institute include healthcare policy experts and journalists. this is 1:15. >> thank you, everyone, for coming. i'm tim carney. i'm a visiting fellow here at the american enter price institute as being the commentary editor at the washington examiner. we are here talking about health care and we want to ask a specific question about health care and it's a question of the free enterprise side and the free market consentive or libertarian side don't always ask -- in latin or who benefits? i think sometimes people on the right or right of enter are uncomfortable with that question because they say

general votel is right, ken pollack, , resident scholar at e american enterprise institute. he served as a cia and had stints in the national security council under president bill clinton picky covered the middle east and in particular iran and director find a left bilal saab is a senior fellow and director of the defense and security program here at mei and preconcert azucena advisor for security cooperation of the pentagon's office of the secretary of defense for policy with responsibilities for centcom. what we're going to do today is have discussion, starting with each of the speakers, talk for about ten minutes ago asked each question or two as it will throw it open to you all for discussion towards the end but right now think we'll start with ken to give us a kickoff where we stand unless they give it much, eric. thank all of you. it's wonderful to be with my distinct with colleagues. it's nice to be back at mei but in the fabulous new building. so i guess there are a lot of different dimensions to this problem. my job is to start out by talking about i think the subst

the american enterprise institute, he served at the cia and had stints at the security council under bill clinton. he covered the middle east and iran and iraq. a senior fellow and director of the security program here at mei and served as a senior advisor for security cooperation to the pentagon's office of defense for policy, responsibilities for centcom. we will have a discussion, starting with each of the speakers. we will talk for about 10 minutes. i'll ask them a question or two and we will open it up for discussion at the end. for now, we will start with ken to kick us off. thank you, eric. it is wonderful to be with my .istinguished colleagues here guess there are a lot of different dimensions to this problem. my job is to start out by talking about i think the substantive issue the truth at the root of everything, and it's an issue that is well known to everyone in this room, but it's when we don't like to talk about a whole lot. i do, but most people don't. and that is the fundamental problem that our allies do not have the capacity to defend themselves against their primar

from the american enterprise institute, this is one hour. >> good morning, and welcome to ei good morningand welcome to. i am so pleased to have you all here for this important discussion of education policy in the united states. we are particularly gratified and happy to have the secretary

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this is hosted by the american enterprise institute. a brief break as they prepare for a panel discussion on the same topic. we expect to get underway in just a moment. while we wait, comments from earlier in this discussion from education secretary betsy devos. >> thank you all. good morning, and thank you to aei for hosting this important for him today. robert, thanks for your hospitality and for your principled conservative leadership, especially now in your new role. it's always a pleasure to be back here with so many friends speedy school choice in the states and what education scholarships might mean there. i have three state policymakers here today. kimberly yee is 36 treasure of arizona, and were glad to have you here. she's steward $40 billion state budget and make sure the checks go to whom they need to go to. she has a a number of firsts ur her belt is worth mentioning. she is the first asian american elected to statewide office in arizona. she is a first chinese american republican woman to win a major statewide office in th

let's bring in derek corpus christisers, the american enterprise institute focuseding on relations withs what you think was achieved today, how secure it is and what's left to be done. >> well i do think something was achieved today, because if we didn't do this we were on course for tariff hikes and retaliation. you have to walk before you run. we only took a few steps they couldn't get to the deal that postpones the 12/15 are still on step one of phase one happened today. >> we listened to some of the comments as it was translated he said we had had good communication substantial progress seemed defer epgs what can you read further what he had to say about the deal went down on bap behalf of chinese. >> on the chinese side they were vrp alarmed by the president -- the president left osaka sounding like today. we have a huge deal it's beyond trade to world peace then he got angry at agriculture purchases and they were looking to avoid that that's lei huh's primary goal. take the tariffs off the table the chinese can survive a election year in the u.s. but don't want to be hit again the

for more on this, let's bring in our guest joining us is barney frank alex brill who is american enterprise instituteiberal democrat but you listened to some of these numbers. you hear what jason furman had to say you hear what larry somers has said and how these numbers don't match up with anything the cbo is talking about either. is it an honest debate >> well, it's an honest debate i agree with someone, i can't see who's saying what. >> probably robert. >> the question is not -- the question is not a comparative who's paying more or less in the first place you really can't tell there's so much uncertainty there. people's emotions and ideologies influence that the questions are, one, could we use more revenue to accomplish purposes that are important to the society that can only be done through government? secondly, how do we raise that revenue in a way that is not going to interfere with economic growth and then there's also a fairness question who can afford to pay it without having any kind of diminution of their quality of life. so all of those argue for me, yes, we can increase taxes on the we

and also with us is aparana, american enterprise institute phase scholar. larry summers is are you so bothered by the research itself? >> no. i actually have -- >> go ahead. >> i actually have a lot of sympathy even if you believe there is that immense wealth concentration that they produce, the implementation challenge is huge as larry summers points out. as a result of that, due to the fact that you would be getting revenues that are probably 1/8 or less of what the estimate brings into question the idea that you're trying to tie in all of these other social programs to the revenue gains from a wealth tax but what happens if those revenue gains don't actually materialize what happens then? are you just getting more tax avoidance by trying to implement a tax that many other countries around the world have actually let go of because of those challenges. >> what would you do >> sorry, what was the question? >> i was saying, if not a wealth tax, what would you do >> i think there are lots of ways to go about it. i'm a big fan of the wealth tax. you could go a

lawton is currently a visiting scholar with the american enterprise institute. she serves as a visiting researcher at alburg university and as the vice president of stran consult in copenhagen. dr. layton worked as the director at ibm corametrics. she has published dozens of times including forbes, u.s. news and world report and served on president trump's transition team helping to establish his federal communications commission. welcome all of the incredibly distinguished witnesses on our panel. thank you for participating in today's hearing. do you swear under penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information and belief so help you god? let the record show the witnesses answered in the affirmative. thank you. you may be seated. inglitiel 8 i ask you to summarize your testimony within five minutes. there is a timing light on your table. when the light switches from green to yellow, you have one minute to conclude your testimony. when the light turns red, it signals your five minutes has ex

the co-author of the almanac of american politics and currently a senior fellow at the american enterprise institutehis work is available online. you, not know this about you have traveled to all 50 435 congressional districts? guest: i perhaps rank with the c-span bus and getting around the country. when i started writing this almanac on american politics, i was the lead co-author and it occurred to me that i had not ever set foot in most congressional districts. i set about in my travels to make sure that i did and eventually when i landed at pitt stevens airport in alaska in february 1998, that was my 50th state and 435th congressional district. i have kept up with redistricting so that when they change the boundaries, i make sure i have been to all of the district once again. host: our guest is michael barone. before we get to your calls i want to get to your reaction to this editorial in terms of where it leaves senate republicans. this from senate republican leader, it has been a grave mistake to pull out of syria. this is what senator mcconnell wrote today in the washington post. host: publis

visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute, tim carney joins us. great to have you.ost" poll -- >> whoa, tim, are you a nationals fan? >> i am a mets fan who will route for the nationals in these few days. i know all about closer problems on both of those teams. >> yeah, you do. edwin diaz. >> edwin diaz. >> the mets had an exciting year this year, something to really look forward to right? >> it was great, pete alonso, jeff mcneil, it was a lot of fun. >> yeah, so okay. >> all right. >> next year mika has a certain fan in her family who lives and breathes new york mets, so let's -- >> oh, that's true. okay. let's get to that poll. "the washington post" one which found 58% of americans support the house probe, a 21 point increase since july. that seems like a pretty vast increase. now we're getting a first look at our new nbc news wall street journal poll. 31% say congress should hold an impeachment inquiry to determine if trump should be removed from office, and 24% say there is enough evidence to impeach him and remove him from office. that's a combined 55%. and fo