joining us from washington, d.c., resident scholar at the american enterprise institute.come to you all. china is clearly the biggest economy in this grouping. why is china so in favor of that? >> the headlines all over the world seems to be echoing the belief that china will be benefiting from this agreement because it is the largest free-trade agreement ever. it comprises 30% of all the gdp in the world. having said so, china is an economy that is also trying to carefully navigate its way into the future in light of the pandemic. in spite of what we have seen in pfizer and moderna, where the vaccine has an efficiency rate of more than 92%-94%. so, china is actually very secure and safe in its own cocoon. however, china is a country that relies on globalization, to benefit from all the benefits of free trade, if i may put it that way. china could gain from it. whether china's leadership had agreed on october 29, just a month ago, they have basically come out with a five year plan to steer china into an economy that could provide high-quality growth. at the back of the mi

and then offering comments after they get done talking today a resident fellow at the american enterprise institute maybe the following already. >> and then how big business and big government steal your money. and a leading expert on corporate welfare but with all of that i will turn it over but if you want to tell us about welfare for the rich and how millionaires and billionaires keep ending up with our tax dollars. >> my pleasure. thank you to all of you for joining us today. we are delighted to be around friends and colleagues. and we especially think michael for being our mc and then of course tim carney for taking part. thank you to you all. and that the regular welfare program then we realize a great deal of subsidy payments we are very provide an as a core member of society and then to subsidize the incredible number of things with the different set of ways. is not surprising that the government word subsidize wind and solar but we subsidized coal. we subsidized oil and gas. and then to be characterized by head crane some years ago. and those and that is just what they are. and then contin

he had in mind probably giving a big check to the american enterprise institute which was the one notable conservative think tank at the time. this letter though was intercepted and ed is aware of this trip so he basically hijacks the trip and arranges to meet with joseph coors and says i've got a better idea. we should have a very aggressive, small kind of green beret conservative think tank in washington that doesn't just put out white papers that people read and put on their shelf but that's out there creating action so he arranges to have a meeting to talk about this idea. but ed fuller is a smart guy and realizes it will have more impact if it doesn't happen in some restaurant in a hotel in downtown washington, but if it happens in the white house where richard nixon was still in office at the time. and lynn noffsinger who was a like-minded conservative working in the white house, so they arranged for this meeting to be held in lynn noffsinger's office in the old executive office building to impress joseph coors. they walk into the meeting and joseph says these guys think i should gi

for more we have michael maas a visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute mike why does taiwan matter but taiwan maybe a small island but it is way above its weight so it's consistently a top trip and trading partner for the united states it occupies a key note in the global supply chain so if you like your i phone your laptop your smart watch you better hope nothing untoward happens to taiwan but but more fundamentally a world that is safer the united states and its allies around the world is a safe is a world that is safe for democracy like west berlin during the cold war taiwan says that democracy is front line. you know if. it's fending off threats to its very existence from an authoritarian became a minister taiwan would ever fall to chinese their predations and other world would suffer grievous loss and china would be in a position to dominate asia in a way that that there would only benefit the chinese communist party. and for close observers of taiwan u.s. and china relations the last 4 years under trump has been pretty eventful some people may remember that phone call

is stan boyd, a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome to you all. i'll start with you. kim, bang were quiet. china is clearly the biggest economy in this group in what are its priorities now that this deal is signed? why is china so in favor of it? were the headlines all over the world or seems to be accurate in the believe that china will be gaining from this agreement because it's the largest agreement free trade agreement ever. it comprises 30 percent of all the g.d.p. in the world. but having sits, or china is an economy that is all saw trying to, can't fully navigate its way into the future in light of the pandemic that it just came out from. and also the pandemic which might become and that it would out the world in spite of what we have seen in face a bio and or even modern where vaccine has been. ephesians series of more than 92 to 94 percent. so all china is actually very secure. and very seat in its own cookoo. however, china is a country that relies immensely on globalisation to benefit for our all that from, from all the benefits of retr

for more we have michael maas a visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute mike why does taiwan matter . but taiwan maybe a small island but it punches way above its weight so it's a consistently a top trip and top 15 trading partner for the united states it occupies a key note in the global supply chain so if you like your i phone your laptop your smart watch you better hope nothing untoward happens to taiwan but more fundamentally a world that is safer the united states and its allies around the world is a safe is a world that is safe for democracy you know like west berlin during the cold war i want sits at democracies from line. you know if it's fending off threats to its very existence from an authoritarian became a minister taiwan were to ever fall to chinese depredations you know the world would suffer a grievous loss and china would be in a position to dominate asia in a way that that would only benefit the chinese communist party and for a close observers of taiwan u.s. and china relations the last 4 years and has been pretty eventful some people may remember that phone

joining me tonight, look who it is american enterprise institute, washington examiner senior politicallonists tim carney. welcome back tim. >> great to be back kennedy. kennedy: many idea of your colleagues at the examiner sent to the president absolutely, go ahead, let's see the challenges let's let it play out. it seems like there was a weirdness. you closer to asking the president to concede? and if so why? >> the examiner, we wrote after the election president ron trump you have every right to fight. to make sure no state certified too early or anything like that. but her editorial at the end of last week said it's time to concede. lost the race. the reason they did a hand recount in georgia, they looked into the problem in pennsylvania. in pennsylvania the creepy thing where the judges rewrote election law to a lead late absentee ballots are mailed and balanced account. it turns out the number of late absentee ballots with a tiny fraction of biden's large margin of victory in pennsylvania. any irregularities there are, we don't know what they meant, they will not make a difference

miller, managing director at fiscal note markets and jimmy, economic policy analyst at the american enterprise instituteso listen, stephanie, we've got obviously it's monday. we're still looking at an uncertain senate so we're sort of basking in the glow or misery depending on what side you're on of the election the last couple of days. but how soon should our focus turn to that still up in the air fight over the senate? >> so, while i you know totally agree that whatever the senate election outcome is in georgia, so whether or not the two seats flip to democrats, giving them majority or they stay republican, maintaining the republican majority, that 50/50 margin if democrats win is going to be very, very tight so they'll have the harris tiebreaker, but as most viewers know, most policy doesn't take 51 votes in the senate, it takes 60 votes you're at quite a deficit. and to the point you all were making earlier, there's now a clear mandate by voters that is we do not support a blue wave. nevertheless, the party that can control the senate floor has a lot of power they get to pick what bills come to the

of the national election crisis task force, norman orenstein, resident scholar of the american enterprise institute and joshua gautzler, executive director for georgetown law's -- he's also the former senior director for the counterterrorism at the national security council. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me. full disclosure, i've also been part of that task force. which is why every time we have this conversation you two come to mind. norm, i want to start with you. we are right now it seems that the president has tried to create every single lever to create doubt and sow doubt in the election system and try to call it fraudulent. but he seems to have been stumped by all legal angles. what do you make of this? what other avenues may he have? >> you know, he's now 1 for 20 or 1 for 21 on legal challenges. which really tells you something. and he's been forced to make rudy giuliani the voice of his administration and the legal process, which shows a sense of desperation right there. the thing about all of this that's heartened me a little bit, maria teresa, is that all the election officia

joining us now, economic policy analyst for the american enterprise institute.u warn closing schools has been far more damaging to students than we thought, especially low-income schools. can you explain? >> yeah, i think there's been a tremendous underappreciation of how bad it is when kids don't go to school. and you can say, well, they did virtual learning. but as more research has come out and in the piece i write about a study in the netherlands where, which has great broadband penetration. the lockdowns weren't as severe. government did a great job making sure kids had all the technical equipment they needed. what that study found was kids didn't learn. kids didn't learn anything. upper income kids did a little better. lower income kids did far, far worse. they regressed tremendously. and during this entire debate, since last march, we have under appreciated that just virtual learning, especially for younger kids, is really tantamount to those kids not going to school. and long term, there's one thing even economic research agrees on is kids not going to s

joining me is the chief economist at pantheon economics and michael strain is with the american enterprise institute. welcome to you both. michael, let me is that right with you what do you think it the odds are of a stimulus bill coming if we maybe game out different scenarios. in what scenario would it be most likely to happen before the end of the year and in what scenario would it be least likely, do you think >> i guess the most likely scenario is the scenario where president trump wins re-election and the republicans hold senate because that kind of freezes in place a political status quo that makes the election less important and that makes the turnover to a new congress and new presidential term in january less important i don't think that's going to happen i mean, i think, well, you know, like everybody else, that the smart money is on vice president biden winning. the least likely scenario i guess is the flip of that. if there are big gains for the democratic party in the senate, if the party expands its majorities in the house, if japanese biden gets elected tomorrow, you know, then i thi

. >> the american enterprise institute here in washington hosted a virtual event with former second ladyne cheney who discussed four of the first presidents who haled from virginia. >> i am not opposed to taking down the confederate soldiers the confederate liters. they were traitors to thedown, union and i think to take those statues down is fine. but i do -- i'm appalled actually when statues of washington fall or when the d.c. government has a commission that suggests if we aren't to explain the washington mopment and the everjefferson memorial better than maybe way should be moved to some other place. they can't do this because those statues and monuments are on private land, but i'm appalled at this, and the hook is usually they were slaveholder. they new slave-holding was wrong, they -- jefferson i think called it's stain on virginia, and others of them spoke of out as a moral sin, and jefferson called it's sin against god. so they were fully aware of the dilemma in which they lived, the contradictions in which they existed. but they found themselves unable to -- the circumstances

normal ornstein, who is a political scientist at the conservative american enterprise institute saying that the president is essentially checked out of his public duties. are you concerned at all about that? is this a good thing or a bad thing? >> well, we should all be concerned about it, and i believe norm is right. i think he has checked out. and i think he's checked out because that's the nature of the man. he didn't win, and so, he's going to do everything that he can to sort of, a, not acknowledge that, and b, put on a different kind of front, and that's why he has all these supporters out here along the streets of washington today without masks, sort of, you know, championing a cause that is not just over but done. so, the president knows this. he doesn't want to play anymore. he wants to take his marbles and go and pout, and that's what he's going to do. so, joe biden has to do what he has to do to get ready to become president. and mitch mcconnell and senate republicans have to do two things -- one, stay out of the way of all of those maga-loving individuals out there, to not

mcgurn, "wall street journal" columnist and editorial board member and marc thiessen, american enterprise institute scholar and fox news contributor. welcome to all of you, good to have all of you tonight. bill, let me begin with you, bill, on this breaking news. it's a very -- it's a real move and it's a symbolic move that the president has now said that the gsa should begin this transition preparation process. >> yeah. i think it's as close as we may get to a concession. and an acknowledgment that the wheels are turning, the space is running out his appeal and you know, my own view is i think the president is entitled to make whatever legal challenge he wants a long as it's constitutional, but i didn't think it would change the results. it doesn't look to have been successful in that direction anywhere, and i think he -- i don't know whether he really will run again in 2024. but i would say he has a much more immediate interest and that is in having those senate races in georgia go republican, because if they don't, a lot of his achievements -- you know, the judges, the revived economy, tax cuts

. >>> joining us to discuss, director of economic policy studies at the american enterprise institutechael strain. let's talk about steve mnuchin cutting these programs. i said it before. he's not taking the money and redeploying it elsewhere. he's cutting them. neil barowski who oversaw t.a.r.p. is saying this is beyond reckless. it's specifically designed to kneecap the incoming biden administration. what do you think about this? >> well, i think it's clearly a mistake. these -- some of these programs are troubled, and the reason that they are troubled, at least in my view is the treasury department in the first place. these are fed programs, but because of the way that the law works, the treasury department had to actually set the parameters for these programs or at a minimum approve those parameters. and i think the programs were in some cases not set up very well. they weren't set up to succeed. they haven't really succeeded and now instead of trying to fix them, secretary mnuchin seems to be trying to end them, which i think is not the right thing to do. congress appropriated th

shockey, director of foreign policy studies at the american enterprise institute.g together on our shared interest, have a full and frank discussion, come visit me on downing street or the office or are they more substantive on concrete issues? >> you have clearly read a whole bunch of diplomatic readouts of calls, to have gotten the language so right. yes, they are mostly diplomatic congratulations and not very substantive. eric: so okay, i know that diplomatic, state department type language but this is something else. many of these people obviously know biden very well for many years, having been vice president, having been a senator. but the state department is blocking, we're told, the communications. it usually goes through state because you don't want any wires crossed. how troubling is that? what does that mean? what should the trump administration do to change that? >> well, the trump administration should permit the beginning of the transition process, so that the state department is aware of what's being said to president-elect biden and involved in the

the american enterprise institute, a conservative think-tank, is arguing that by late january, we could000 new cases every day. that would mean about 3,000 people dying every day. is that the time where we close it down, or do we wait until maybe it's even higher, 5,000 people dying? again, i don't have to make that decision but at some point, someone has to make that decision. stuart: do we go into a recession if we have a full-blown lockdown of america's economy? >> the answer is no, if it's a very short one. if it's two, three or four weeks, and you offset it with stimulus, we don't. but if we go into a six-month, three-month period, we could have a double dip. that's why as an economist i would prefer not to close. i want the economy [ inaudible ] but again, people are dying so someone will have to make that decision. i just hope that we can actually mitigate it through various methods so we don't have to close down and not that many people die. but more people are dying every single day. stuart: all right. point taken, anthony. we will see you again real soon. thank you very much i

jon najarian, tiffany mcgee, and also tom lee and also joining the conversation now is american enterprise institute jimmy, i'll start with you just tell me how you are thinking about how this whole thing is unfolding you laid out a bunch of different scenarios. what are you thinking? >> well, if you look at the scenarios i laid out, i spent a lot more time on the blue wave scenario so maybe i wish i had spent more time on the other ones but i did spend some time and i think the one thing that i want to conclude especially looking at what is happening in the senate, that the big down side risk of higher taxes, that seems to be off the table. you're not going to get higher taxes if are republicans continue to control the senate the extent that you worry about the big biden tax increases would be negative for corporate profits, that is not happening >> what about the idea of another tax cut, a middle class tax cut? the president has floated it out there. if he wins re-election, he very likely will keep the senate too. >> i think the problem is that the president has floated that idea, but he's not bac

. >> let's welcome arthur brooks, president emeritus with the american enterprise institute, a contributingfor the atlantic, hosts a podcast, the art of happiness with robert brooks i know what you're going to tell me, you have found some silver lining in the divided cantankerous mess the whole country has found itself in, and you have found a way for us to love each other, even though we're ready to kill each other before we do that. >> a broken record you host the most entrepreneurial show on television, and the one thing we know, every single person watching us, look, some of us are going to be disappointed, some of us are going to be thrilled, i get t but the truth of the matter is anytime there is something like this going on in the country, just like anytime there's something like this going on in a business, this is an opportunity this is an opportunity and let me tell you, let me talk to the people who are listening to the last fantastic segment, really well reported, who are about to get really disappointed i don't know who it's going to be, i can't call that. i'm a pundit half of

not backing his fight joining me now victor davis hanson senior fellow at the hoover institution and american enterprisear and fox news contributor marc thiessen. good to have both of you this evening. mark, you and i spoke earlier today and have you laid out some very specific points that you think the president should do now. have you shared those with the white house and what would you tell them tonight if he were listening to you? >> well, i published them in the "the washington post" and i sent them to the president and he has received them so he knows what my recommendations are i mean, my advice to him is there is a path to a second term it's called the 2024 election. that he is in the as we talked about this morning, he is the first president in 132 years since grover cleveland who has a realistic chance of reclaiming the presidency after having lost it four years earlier. but, in order to do that he needs to pivot and start focusing on the next election instead of this one. he also needs to understand the reason he lost. it's not because of voter fraud. he lost because millions of americans who

outside world, counter to what the president tried to institute which is to put american interests first. it's actually about creating a global enterprisehat allows us to somehow have interests that are outside of our borders and the president tried to rein that back in and say we need to focus on the american people, american interests first. this is what they disagree with. >> tammy: it's interesting because president trump refocused that because we found our supply chain was controlled by the communist party of china. isis grew out of that dynamic. speaking to your point, here is a former defense secretary jim mattis from an article coauthored in foreign affairs magazine this week -- he wrote and did his coauthors, when president biden begins to reevaluate u.s. foreign policy, we hope they will quickly revise the national security strategy to eliminate america first from its content. this clearly is open, they are not hiding this, congressman, who does he think in your point of view that u.s. officials should be putting first if not us? >> general spalding knows because he helped write the strategy, the biggest threat america faces a