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this report and that is an analysis, very indept analysis, carried out by cnn by the american enterprises institute critical threats project and the institute for the study of war, which, among other things determines that israel after 10 months has only defeated three casan battalions in gas right, they they claim kazam the khassam brigades the armed win of hamas has 24 batallions in gaza, they say they have only defeated three and this is why you continue to see fighting flare up across the street, which less remind our viewers is just a tiny piece of land right, it's about the size of the city of philadelphia i think actually smaller, so this is the idea right, i mean... they have defeated three casan battalians after 10, we know this ball is much stronger force, we know iran obviously is much stronger force and we know the yeminees, i do think whether now or in the next round of um escalation and aggressions um we are going to see the targeting of us assets and other um foreign assets like uk assets, the uk is very active on the ground, always quiet about it um that uh that's what we wouldn't h

then the american enterprise institute event with a book american covenant talking about the u.s.stitution and bringing americans together. michigan governor gretchen whitmer talks about her life and politics. watch book tv and find a full schedule or watch online anytime at book tv.org. ♪ >> c-span's coverage of political party conventions, we had to chicago. watch live as the party puts forth their presidential nominee. here democratic leaders talk about the track record in vision for the next four years as they ate to retain the white house. the dnc live monday, august 19 on c-span, c-span now or c-span. org. visit our website for the latest updates into watchful coverage of the convention. you can catch up any time on demand on c-span.org/campaign or by scanning the code. lly shackleford, president and ceo of the first liberty

to my left with ben ippolito, senior fellow and economic policy studies at the american enterprise institute. we have loren adler who is a fellow and associate director at the center on health policy at the brookings institution. we have andrea ducas who is the vice president of health policy at the center for american progress and we have joe albanese who is the senior policy analyst with paragon health institute. so thanks for joining us everyone. i do briefly wondered knowledge there might be some people in the realm who just the pretty fun to hear from some some former health sectors it might not know its neutral payments are. suggest i'm sure you gathered them up from the last panel but to establish a level set here, site-neutral payments are yet give we want to pay the same price for the same service regards of where it's provided. so if it's an x-ray we should be paying the same amount whether it's administered and hospital outpatient department or doctor's office. right now medicare is bank different prices for these services and i think we'll get into the nitty-gritty details furthe

[inaudible conversations] announcer: now from the same event, analysts from the american enterprise institute and the brookings institution discussing the impact of the supreme court's chevron ruling for

suggested broadening the coalition to include the center for american progress and the american enterprise institute. we contacted policy experts at each of those organizations and they enthusiastically agreed to participate. so thank you to loren, andrea ducas and ben ippolito at ai who will participate on her second panel. they will join my colleague perricone joe. that panel will be moderated by rachel cohrs zhang. today's discussion will feature an area of strong bipartisan agreement. medicare payments should be the same for services that can be safely and effectively provided at hospital outpatient departments, ambulatory surgical centers and physician offices. typically they are much higher when provided in hospitals. medicare site-neutral payments would be entered mean a lower cost of patients and taxpayers, and medicare site-neutral payments would reduce the incentive that hospitals have to acquire physician practices acquisition which is been shown to raise commercial health prices. today we will explore both the case or medicare site-neutral payments and considerations for how to overcome

[inaudible conversations] announcer: now from the same event, analysts from the american enterprise institute and the brookings institution discussing the impact of the supreme court's chevron ruling for the three branches of government and the possibility of more lawyers being hired by federal agencies for litigation purposes. [inaudible conversations] >> hello, everybody. we are going to get started with the next part of our gathering which will consist of two panels of experts. first implications for congress, and then for the administrative agencies. these will both be moderated by katie from brookings. let me turn things over to her. >> first implications for congress. and then for the administrative agencies. these will both be moderated by a kid from brookings. let me turn things over to her. if you want to ask questions of these panels, you can do so by e-mail or twitter. you can do if you are watching us online and you want to ask questions of these panels, you can do so by e-mail or twitter. you can do that by following the instructions you would find right next to where you are wat

you ball up and is director of constitutional studies at the american enterprise institute and the author of numerous books and we will start i think with peter. >> thank you very much. it's great to be here with my fellow panelists and thanks to ed at the naval academy for this opportunity. i thought it might be useful and unusual for me at least to approach the panel is topics civic virtue it's decline it's reinvigoration but a somewhat autobiographical perspective. long ago and far away when i went to college the cutting-edge topic was something that we called the grave tone, the critique of liberalism. and we had leading authors and books. i was at college and we read a book called knowledge and politics by roberto unger, a kind of genius underlining both words. we read the writings back of charles taylor and alastair mcintyre. especially influenced by book called after virtue. some of you have studied political theory may be familiar with this book. the core argument of mcintyre's book of great interest for those who are interested the critique of liberalism and liberalism the course

and please -- [laughter] this is the aforementioned norm of the american enterprise institute, has been studying congress for a very long time. >> i came here in 1969, and ot her than chris, who came here as an infant, i think i have more immersion in this institution then anyone else here. first, i want to say we talked about the schedule before. mark russell use to end his shows by saying i want to say to my audience what members of congress say to each other every wednesday night. have a nice weekend. [laughter] one of the things that i pushed for decades was to change the schedule to five days a week from 9:00 a.m. monday to 5:00 p.m. friday, three weeks on and one week off. and during those three weeks, no fundraising, which didn't get very far. which means you still have 15 days a month left to do the fundraising. but of course that was to come even more dominant. i want to raise a couple of larger issues. one, while we've had this set of problems. the tribalism that newt gingrich really generated has metastasized out to the country as a whole. it was accelerated by trump. but kee

"the washington post" columnist american enterprise institute senior fellow marc thiessen.nd meghan hayes communications director for the biden-harris 2020 campaign. meghan, welcome to you, and because you are new, you get the first question. >> thank you. >> john: democrats are working very hard to paint tim walz as a moderate. nancy pelosi said is he eight right down the middle democrat. is he a self-avowed progressive and very progressive record. here is the cover from today's "new york post." out of left field, most radical ticket in history. what do you say? i think she picked someone that she is going to govern with and wants to govern with i think if being progressive means that you have got kids to have lunches and breakfast paid for when they are in school or to, you know, protect women's reproductive freedoms then great we should all be progressive. shy picked a governing partner. he has done more for working families. he speaks their language. he understands what is needed and is he going to be a complete asset to her ticket. >> john: critics would say, marc, tha

matt do you continetti fellow at the american enterprise institute.d kurtz. hugh, thoughts? >> robert kennedy jr. endorsing donald trump is a big deal. and i don't care who says what about it, he had two to five percent in every battleground state. most of that is going to go donald trump. 60% to 75% of that and as was noted, it was a 44,000 vote election in 2020, so that is a very big deal. >> bret: leslie, shake things up? >> it does. but i wouldn't agree that -- i agree it's a big deal, hugh, i will give you that i don't think as a big deal. when i look at the numbers, r.f.k. jr. has been coming down, down, down. latest cbs polling shows a low around 2%. i am concerned about states like michigan and wisconsin where that benefits trump. i think it actually benefits vice president harris in a state like pennsylvania. i don't put a lot of weight in endorsements but i have to say some of these people that are supporting r.f.k. jr. don't want democrats or republicans. they are independents who want a third party candidate and i think some of them will f

in this group, the american enterprise institute came along and they said, wow, if we say that the technocraticng solution, and we do a careful study proposing a right-wing solution and and send it off the congress, then suddenly, we have moved the center to the right because we can choose the left-wing solution or the right- wing solution. but the left-wing solution is just a neutral scientific solution and then the heritage foundation came along. this was in 1973, 1974 and they said let's do away with the peer review. let's just basically create propaganda. make it look like scholarship. creates study like objects to kind of persuade people in congress and the media quite effectively that this is also kind of a neutral study. just for the conservative via and how effective it is is really shown by the 1980 washington post article that you quoted where they said this is the mainstream conservative laundry list. when it was really quite radical extraordinarily extreme group. one of the first things they did, if i may, in 1974, there was kind of a battle over textbooks in west virginia. the scho

bit more about you, tell you how grateful i am to you for all that you've done for the american enterprise institute over the years and for america. i grew up reading the almanac of american politics, and i loved it from the first time i started reading it. your voice i could hear. then i still hear now. whenever you open your mouth. but don't open it yet. oh, well, today's event is part of the edward and helen handbook forms at aei. these forums provide a platform to host prominent authors for discussion of their books on issues of national significance. and we are very grateful to edward and helen hanse for their tremendous support of aei and deep commitment to our mission, which make conversations like this one possible. michael brown, as i mentioned, has been a fellow at aei for many years. he's one of our nation's preeminent political analysts and election experts and is currently a columnist for the washington examiner. he's the author of many books in american politics and history, including the yearly editions of the almanac of american politics from 1972 to 2006. the most authoritative annu

matthew continetti fellow at the american enterprise institute and katie pavlich.ottom line, katy at this, this tracks other polls who has this ties. depends on the day who is up one or two. all of those been the margin of error. maybe a late night on looking into the numbers. kamala harris as the new nominee for the democrats has done her job in the sense of bringing back the coalition, bringing base voters back into the party. getting them enthused about wanting to go out and vote for democrats. she has also been able to present herself as a new candidate rather than the vice president who is tied to all of joe biden's policies. people are saying that she has the benefit of the doubt when she is presenting herself in limited ways to the american public about who she is as a candidate. also, these numbers show that the trump campaign is having to defend a lot of turf that they previously were running away with when they were competing against joe biden. they really were going to be able to focus on michigan, pennsylvania, the blue wall, wisconsin, now they have to

fellow at the american enterprise institute, julian turner.tatement by former president trump. his response was why didn't he do it when he was president? >> by the way, it's hard to talk about this stuff right now because we are happy that evan gershkovich is back, our colleague's back. it is hard to get into the back and forth, but i'll tell you he did do it when he was president. donald trump freed more hostages, american hostages, in four years than barack obama and joe biden did in eight when he was president. he did it without doing any ransoms for hostages, turning over terrorists, sending plain loads of cash to tehran. all of it creates an incentive for more hostage taking. and joe biden came in and basically reinstated the obama-biden policy, paid $6 billion to the iranian regime. we are back into the business of paying ransom for hostages. we are happy the hostages are home but it creates the incentive for more hostagetaking and crises. >> bret: this is putin's m.o., you had an interview back in 2020. we have a clip for it. said it u

let's bring in our panel, matthew continetti, fellow at the american enterprise institute.and chief at "the federalist" and jeff mason white house correspondent for reuters. jeff, i will start with you. i guess one of the big things about that interview was constant disconnect between tucker the page and wanting to be a fresh start and getting out of the era as she said but then realizing she has been vice president for the last three and a half years. >> it's a tough needle to thread as it were. and i think she tried to do that by saying when she was pressed by that by danna barb that she is referring to a broader period of time implication time was the she started talking about the issue of lifting people up something she likes to talk about on the dnc trail and did at the dnc as well. she tried to make that broader. but certainly she is aware of and addressed this as well whether it was satisfactorily or not, the fact that people are upset with the biden economy and bidenomics and certainly prices. that's why she has come out with some policy positions about trying to br

byron york, matthew con continue netty, fellow at the american enterprise institute and axios politicalaign saying, you know what? she actually is for tracking. do you know what? she is not going to run on medicare for all. but they are coming out in these releases and is that effective? can this campaign operate on that on those major shifts? >> i mean, it is striking that, you know, we have on the record video clips of kamala harris from just a few years ago saying that she does support fracking ban, saying that she would decriminalize border crossings, saying that, you know, she is favor in buy back programs for assault weapons and now all we get are background statements from the campaign saying that she has totally shifted her stance on all of those things. and maybe it's enough for now, but it's not going to be enough until november. and we continue to hear from people on both sides of the aisle, especially republicans who want her to come out and answer for these policy shifts. these complete reversals of policies she has been behind for a long time. and they also think it's inte

russell rumbaugh talks about the navy's priority in the fiscal year 2025 budget at the american enterprise institute in washington, d.c. >> good morning i am honored to have the assistant secretary of the navy russell rumbaugh desisted for financial management and comptroller. none as a navy comptroller. i've known russ very, very long time i been friends and colleagues for many years and he's been worked in a variety of positions and dod in the think tanks. in a most recently came into the department of navy from aerospace and previously worked at the simpson center another think tankwo in d.c. and the congressional research service for many years and a u.s. army infantry officer, we don't talk about that with the navy folks maybe i'll ask about the army budget and how much the navy took from them this year. it is a pleasure to have russ here from this discussion and will be taking questions from the audience in the room and online. when we turn to that if you're online you can startst e-mailing questions i think there's a link on the site where you put it in by e-mail and i get a read out loud lik

eastern the american enterprise institute's event, with his book "american covenant," about the powerf the u.s. constitution and its ability to bringmericans together. michigan governor gretchen whitmer with her book talks about her life, leadership, and journey in politics. much book tv every sunday on c-span two, and find a full schedule on your program guide, or watch online at any time at booktv.org. >> new data from the bureau of labor statistics this morning showed a slowdown in job growth in july from the previous month, with the national economy adding only 114,000 jobs. the n employment rate also ticked upwards to 4.3%, from 4.1%. these fall below expectations of an addition of 175,000 jobs, and a steady unemployment rate. ♪ >>'s 1979, in partnership with the cable industry, c-span has provided complete coverage of the halls of congress, from the house and senate floors, to congressional hearings, party briefings, and committee meetings. c-span gives you a front row seat to how issues are debated and decided, with no commentary, no interruptions, and completely unfiltered. c-

management russell rumbaugh talks about the navy's priorities and fy2021 budget at the american enterprise institute in washington dc. >> good morning everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm todd erickson senior fellow at the programs here. i'm honored to have with us candidate assistant secretary of the navy russell rumbaugh, for financial management and comptroller. otherwise known as navy comptroller. i've known russ for long time he's worked in a variety of positions both dod and on the hill and think tanks actually. he most recently came in to the department of the navy from aerospace corporation previously worked at the stenson center. another think tank here in dc work with congressional research service for many years. he actually began his career as a u.s. army infantry officer. we will also be taking questions from the audience in the room and online. if you're online you can start emailing questions i think there is a link on the site where you can send them in via email and i get to read them often ipad. then we will open it up for questions in the room as well later on. let's jump right

. >> but the data paints a very different picture cnn, the american enterprise institute, and the institute for the study of war all comb through thousands of claims by the idf. and hamas is military wing, qassam brigades what we found was evidence of a significant hamas resurgence have a look at the gaza strip. israel believes there are 24 hamas battalions spread throughout the territory we analyzed 16 of these in northern and central gaza the most targeted areas in israel's nine month offensive our research shows that out of these 16 only two have been destroyed nine degraded, but still functional five are currently combat effective, able to carry out missions against israeli forces even as israel uses its full military might hamas has been able to partially rebuilt and nearly half of these battalions and it says, it's replenishing its ranks. >> but them hello needle a high-ranking israeli officers told cnn they agree everywhere hamas rears its head, we will enter can this ping pong stay forever? >> no our society is not built for this, and neither is the international community take a lo

right everybody, welcome to the american enterprise institute. my pleasure to welcome you to tim carney's wonderful important new book of family unfriendly. how our culture made raising kids much t harder than it needs to be. the calmness of the washington examiner. his work is a lot of us know focuses on family and community. civil society on religion and american politics. he has been published widely in the "new york times" and wall street journal, russian post, atlantic at l3 seem on tv a lot. tim's work is unique. he describes a broad social trends by beginning from the experience of real people. he thanks in the bottom up not from a top-down pay for that reason he has an understanding of how people thrive and how people fail. what holds us together. what divides us deeply humane and sympathetic. even as it's always rooted in a moral fundamental. his goal is to prove his grandmother is right. if you want to be happy you should get married you should have kids. you should go to church. he should show up for your neighbors and treat people wel

military unit this is a terrorist unit that is embedded within the society of the 16 that the american enterprise institute and the institute for the study of war analyzed you had basically about two that were destroyed just to degraded nine of them that you see here, mainly in the north and a little bit in the center. but then you look at this five or combat effective, the fact that these units are combat effective now means that they can do stuff against the israelis, whether in gaza, where even outside of gaza and seven of these units, maybe not as effective as the others are totally reconstituted now, so this mean instead, hamas, it can able, is able to regrow itself. it can do things that you would not expect it to do. if you bring a whole bunch of forces to bear on a particular place? it's like that. what it proves is that those forces are not as effective as the ideology. >> yeah, very interesting fascinating. look there, colonel. thank you. we do appreciate it. and still ahead, emergency officials warning of a life-threatening situation that's developing in portions of florida and georgia. tropical

russell rumbaugh, talks about the navy's priorities and fiscal year 2025 budget at the american enterprise institute in washington d.c. >> good morning. everyone. thank you for joining us, i'm a senior fellow for the institute of policy. i'm honored back with us for the discussion, the assistant secretary of the navy, russell rumbaugh. assistant secretary of the navy for financial management and comptroller otherwise known as navy comptroller. and known russ for a long time, friends and colleagues for many years, he's worked in a variety of positions both in dod. and on the hill and in think tanks, actually, and he most recently came into the department of the navy from the aerospace corporation and worked at the stimson center and other think tank in d.c. and worked in congressional service for many years and began his career as a u.s. army infantry officer. and don't talk about that with the navy folks. and maybe we'll talk about the budget and how much they took from this year. we'll also be taking questions from the audience, in the room and online. so, when we turn to that, if you're online, yo

welcome to the american enterprise institute. i'm yuval levin v, and it's my pleasure to welcome you to this discussion of timken this wonderful and important new book family how our culture made raising kids much harder than it needs to. tim is a senior fellow here at aei and a columnist at the washington examiner. his work is a lot of us know he focuses on family and on civil society, on religion, american politics. he's published widely beyond his columns, too, in the new york times, the wall street journal, the washington post, the atlantic and elsewhere. you see on tv a lot. tim's work is unique. he describes broad social trends by beginning from the experience of real people. he thinks from the bottom up, not from the top down. and for that reason, i think he has an understanding of how people thrive and how people fail. what holds together, what divides us. that is just deeply humane and sympathetic, even as it's always rooted in some moral fundamentals. his goal really is to prove your grandmother was right. if you want t

and also, he was a member of american enterprise institute. whenever you're back, you're welcome to have lunch with me in the white house at any time. and this this wonderful friendship arose, i think here i want page to pick it up because she can tell the next installment of an airplane trip and what happened in the post-presidency. and so he. well, i since to bring this back to modern day you were in the middle of debate season so it's tonight tomorrow night tonight right so when you go home if you watch it having been taped or if you're watching it, remember that president carter or governor carter and president ford, when they were on stage, governor carter always said, my distinguished opponents view is and he always said the words my distinguished opponents. that was i mean, that was the civility between them, even when they were running against each other. and so that just gives you a basis for understanding when two men are running for the highest office in the land. there's a way to do it with civility and president carter tells said

research of mccroskey policy llc and previously was broken director of economic policy at the american enterprise institute and she is going to lead us off with a few remarks about the project overall before we get into our panel. so please join in giving everyone a warm welcome, and hope to talk with you more at the reception. [applause] >> thank you so much, tara, and for all of you being here. so appreciative. in 2017 i was a member of the brookings working group on paid leave with aei. that . that experience taught me two things. one was the power of relationships. a lot of us were in the group are still in touch and doing projects together today. some were part of the seller. the other was a part of the by person group to develop something new and not just to reduce the lowest common denominator. it carried over into this convergence project and it's a grateful for that. how to support families with young kids has been the heart of my professional and personal work. i research family policies in the last 15 years and i have three young children myself age eight, six and three. like some repairs and re

from the american enterprise institute, this is about an hour and a half.leased to say is te longest running. is this true? how many years? john: 1982, began. chris: the longest running item of this nature, election analysis. we have been in the tech space before it was cool, and we appreciate you being here. this is -- i am going to use a word i deplore. it is a historic election cycle this year. and it is unlike, in many ways, what i've covered in my 25 years as a political journalist. we are extraordinarily glad you are here and extraordinarily glad we have such excellent friends and colleagues to do it with. john: thank you, chris. chris stirewalt and i, john fortier, are the cohosts of the election watch. we are joined by rotating panels, including some ai people --aei people, including ruy teixeira. he spent a number of years being an expert on election demographics, worked with us on the states of change, a great project which really looked at the way american demographics were changing. and the author of "the emerging democratic majority," which you

good morning, everyone, and welcome to the american enterprise institute. i'm robert doar the president of aei and i am pleased to welcome you to this event where we will reflect on the 50th anniversary of the house judiciary committee's vote recommending the impeachment of richard nixon. today's event is the latest in a long standing effort to learn from our nation's past through a commitment to serious scholarship reflection and public engagement. the task of renewing our nation's institutions is more urgent now than ever these days. and impossible to accomplish without an honest understanding of the forces values and individuals that have shaped our country. for more than 250 years. so i'm proud and honored today that we are joined by two panels of distinguished guests to better understand the events of 1974 and their lessons for the present. now, our first panel will focus on the house judiciary committee by bringing together scholars with veterans of the inquiry. and we are very pleased to have with us today former defense secretary and former united s

to estimates by the institute for the study of war 's critical threats project of the american enterprise instituteof those 24 battalions are incapacitated, meaning they have been destroyed by idf forces. eight battalions are combat-ready, capable of carrying out missions against israeli soldiers in gaza. hamas's readiness analysis for reconstruction has focused on 16. part of its military capabilities at least once in the past six months. how do you do you evaluate? petrovich, this is the revival of hamas's fighting power, well, these are such disappointing results of the 10 months of military campaign that israel has been waging against the gaza strip, that is, it can only boast of one thing, that civilian buildings have been destroyed, more than 36,000 people have died, more than 16 thousand of them are children, yes, there is also a very large humanitarian catastrophe there and so on and so forth, these are the results, in fact, not of the military campaign, its miscalculation, because they fought for it, they recruited for it, the murder of children is now attracting a lot of people to the ran

the american enterprise institute with his book american covenant, the power of the u.s.stitution and its ability to bring american together. michanovernor gretchen whitmer with her book, life, leadership, and her journey in politics. watch book tv, find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime. >> "washington journal" continues. host: bloomberg was first with this story that the wall street journal reporter who has been imprisoned by russia is said to be freed in a major prisoner swap, along with evan gershkovich is paul whelan. a multi country prisoner swap. more on that coming up. we will get your reaction to that news in open forum. we are continuing our conversation, joining us this morning is the executive director of fix the court. your group has advocated for reform to the supreme court. did president biden go far enough? guest: it's definitely a good start. we were pleased to see the president is on board with these reforms, 70%, 80% of the country favors an enforceable ethics code with popular policies that make sense. it's very consistent w

yuval, all of us, our guest, he is with the american enterprise institute of their social, cultural and constitutional study. his numbers are up on the screen case. you want to participate in our conversation this afternoon. he's a contributing editor, the national review. his previous include the fractured republic a time to build but hasn't politics always been relatively performative. there's always been a performative element to politics, no question about it. part of what it is to be a politician is be a public person, is to convey a kind message that people want to hear and like to hear. i think our politics has become more in the era of social media than is healthy for our institutions. there's always a balance between playing an inside in an institution like congress, participating in the bargaining and negotiating. and that has to happen internally and playing an outside role using congress a way to convey a national public message. in our time, the outside role has taken over and a lot of members see their purpose fundamentally as to be political communicators and think of con

boards of the american indian resources the association on indian affairs, the indigenous language institute, natural resources defense council and the national center for american indian enterprisedevelopment. mr. eckhart attended the university of new mexico, where he earned his b.a. and his j.d. so with that, just you allow me a personal note. i originally from new mexico, i'm the pueblo of santa clara. it's small tribe, about a half hour north of santa fe. if anyone has ever been there, please come visit to the tribal economy and. mr. o'clock again it's a privilege to be here with you today and you have the floor. thank you, jennifer. i'm very honored to be asked to participate in this symposium here today. it's a really special. 100 years ago. the indian citizen, but it had indians citizenship act passed and it's really great that that being commemorated here we have come a long way since that time and we at the native american fund have played a key role in it's something i got involved in just kind of by happenstance. i was even though a citizen of the nation of oklahoma, i was born and raised in new mexico in the four corners area, farmington, new mexico. and i, i did wel