host: kevin kosar is our guest, senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. his podcast is understanding congress. it is set to take place in the joint session today. you can watch on c-span. for the next 30 minutes, we are taking more phone calls if you have questions or comments about this process. (202) 748-8000 for democrats to call in. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. kevin kosar, as folks are calling in, do you think the events of january 6, 2021 changed this process or how this day is viewed in america? guest: i think previously it was something that was largely done on autopilot. your average american certainly paid little attention to it, some exceptions being the dedicated folks who watch c-span and are engaged deeply in our civic life. 2020 one just shattered that and created a sense of anxiety about something that could be trusted to come off well could go off the rails. to make a broader point about that date and what has happened since then, law is something we used to try to coordinate ourselves as human beings. we try

american inprise institute hosted this event. >> gavel us in here. welcome to the american enterprise institute. i am philip wallok, i'm american politics in our political culture and what ales them. welcome to everyone who trudged through the snow to join us in person, and welcome to shows watching on live stream or cspan we're talking about what i call the woe gotten one 18th congress. defined by as one in a deplorable state, delapidated derelicts, god forsaken, ram sackeled and run down. that is my big take away for 118. it was a troubled congress in very many ways. it was also a wild ride that forced textbook authors about congress to make serious revisions it upended a lot of assumptions about how congress does its work. so we'll relive some of the drama of the woe begone one 18, then to 119 that will be and think about whether it is has good prospects for being somewhat more productive. i'm launching into a little bit of a discussion here to start us off, but first, i want to introduce my two copanellists. for first panel. i'll have a discussion with. first, katherine mcmahon is, author of

the american enterprise institute hosted this event. philip: all right. i will gavel us in here this morning. welcome to the american enterprise institute. my name is philip wallach. i am a senior fellow here in the department that studies social, cultural, and constitutional studies. so that is the big picture on american politics and our political culture and what ails them. welcome to everyone who trudged through the snow to join us in person. welcome to those of you watching on the livestream or on c-span. we are here today to talk about what i call the will be gone 1/18 congress. will be gone -- woebegone 118th congress. synonyms, derelict, sham godforsaken, ramshackle, rundown. two, deeply affected by woe. synonyms, sad, lamentable. that is my big take away for the 118th. it was a troubled congress in many ways. it was also a wild ride that has forced textbook authors about congress to make some serious revisions, because it up and did a lot of assumptions about how congress does its work. so we are going to relive some of the drama of the woebegone

i'm a senior scholar at the american enterprise institute. and i had the great honor of having known jimmy for a quarter of a century now it is mark. mark is a veteran journalist whose work mostly in asia, including serving as the editor in chief of the south china morning post and the publisher and editor in chief of hong kong's, the mark has a ph.d. in history from the university hong kong and is the author of today hong kong tomorrow the world what china's crackdown about his plans to end freedom everywhere. mark is currently president of the committee for freedom in hong foundation. our format today will be pretty simple. mark is going to start us off with a discussion ten, ten, 12 minutes is a slideshow that he'll be showing and mark and i'll have a back and forth and then we'll take questions the last half of our so mark please for years. well thank gary thanks to everyone at the american enterprise institute i'm delighted to be and as gary i'm going to start off with a slideshow. can i ask how many of you have been to hong kong? most o

relations, and corey sharkey, the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the american enterprise institute. richard, let me start with you. you you now have so many opinions that you that you express on your substack blog that i feel you name it. >> if you're going to say that. >> what is it? remind me of the name. >> home and away. home and away. >> and if you want to hear richard haass views on foreign policy or golf, you can get both of them. but on foreign policy, i want to ask you, do you really think that trump is going to do something serious about ukraine? you've been arguing for a long time that there is a deal to be had. the borders are not going to change. the ukrainians need to accept that, and the russians need to accept that ukraine will get some kind of security guarantees. so my real question is for that to work, trump will have to pressure putin because putin needs to accept the deal. the leverage on zelenskyy is obvious. we say we will withhold aid. what makes you hopeful that that could happen, that that trump could pressure putin or try to pressure putin? >> well, first

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the american enterprise institute hosted this event. philip: all right.will gavel us in here this morning.

on expectations of the 119th congress will continue in about 10 minutes here from the american enterprise institute. shortly, we will hear from josh ruder from the government affairs institute, and kevin gosar and phillip waltz, both with adi. this will wrap up at about noon eastern, after which we will turn to the life and legacy of former president jimmy carter as he lives in state at the rotunda of the u.s. capital. the 39th president will continue to lie in state until tomorrow's funeral services, each will take place at washington national cathedral. we have live coverage starting at 10 a clock a.m. eastern on the c-span network. in the meantime, we wait for the discussion on expectations for the 119th congress to get underway. the american enterprise institute. >> put it here. that way -- that way -- so. >> welcome back to the program. host: you just joined us. tell us what you learned about your first term in congress and your priorities for this one. guest: some of my priorities are the same priorities that i had when i came in. the overarching priority is showing up and protecting the demo

this morning, it has been kevin kosar of the american enterprise institute.s where you can find his work. we appreciate your time. that is going to do it for us on the washington journal. we will see you later this afternoon for that certification process in the house and joint session. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ ♪ >> president jimmy carter, the 39th president of the united states and the longest lived leader passed away last month at the age of 100. join c-span for the live coverage of the funeral. today, the public will have the opportunity to pay their respects as president carter lies in repose. on tuesday,

then it discussion on parental rights and child welfare from the american enterprise institute. attending a briefing with federal officials on the wildfires. announcer: c-span's "washington journal," our live forum involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics, and public policy, from washington, d.c. and across the country. coming up tomorrow morning, we preview pete hegseth with leo shane, military times deputy editor. and massachusetts democratic honest woman lori trahan hand joins us to discuss tomorrow's vote about banning transgender athletes. then ryan walker discusses his organization's efforts to get trump's cabinet picks confirmed and future work with the incoming administration. c-span's "washington journal." join in the conversation live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. announcer: tuesday, president elect trump's defense department nominee pete hegseth wilappear at a confirmation hearing. the former fox news host reviews the sewer -- and work for veterans advocacy group. he also earned a masters degr

. >> american enterprise institute and host of the understanding conkers podcast.ning us to understand today's political count and certification process, kevin kosar. before we get to the why, explain what is going to happen in this joint session at 1 p.m. eastern. >> guest: good morning, john. see you. today's an important day, the second to last step in the process we use in america to select a president. process begin back in november with the german election. after that we had the electoral college. now we move on to the process by which congress receives from the states their reports of who voted for which candidate, then congress proceeds to count them out loud and to officially declare who one. this is a rare joint session of congress so we will see the house intercession to date around 1:00 and then we will see the senators file into the chamber, and join their legislative colleagues. and then one by one they will open the envelopes and see who each state voted for and officially announced the result. >> host: is there any surprise in this process? >> guest

enterprise institute hosted this event. >> alright i will gavel us in here this morning. welcome to the american enterprise institute.name is philip i am a senior fellow here in the department that studies social, cultural constitutional studies. the bigger picture on american politics and our political culture, and what ails them. welcome to everyone who trudged through the snow to join us in person. welcome to those of you watching on a live stream or c-span. we are here today to talk about the will be gone one 18th congress. will be gone defined by as one, and a deplorable state, synonyms dilapidated, derelict, godforsaken ramshackle run down. two, built with their deeply affected by woe synonyms sad, lamentable. that is my big take away for the one 18th. as a troubled congress in many ways. it was also a wild ride that's going to force textbook authors about congress to make some serious revisions. it upended a lot of assumptions about how congress does its work. so we are going to relive some of the drama of the one 18th. and in the second hour we will turn to the one 19th that will be and think about it has goo

. >> congressional researchers thenew 119th congress at an evet hosted by the american enterprise institute for in washington d.c. they talked about that new republican majority in the house for the relationship between new conversational administration, campaign finance elon musk influence. >> alright let's get started with the second panel here. we look at that one 19th that willhe be. let me first start by introducing my coat panelists. to my immediate rate joshua hooter he is a senior fellow with georgetown university government affairs in scituate where he teaches courses on american government, congress advance process, separation of powers in the federal budget process or prior to joining the government affairs institute in 2013 he worked on the hill as an american political science associational congressional fellow priest writing a book on the history of congressional procedure and politics since 1879. small topic. first small book i'm sure. i look we look forward too it. into his right is my colleague kevin. kevin is a senior fellow setting congress as well as the administrative s

democratic specialist leslie marshall and matthew continetti fellow at the american enterprise institute is going to be a challenge in some parts. >> it was messi but it was an example of donald trump showing that he is willing to spend his political capital for mike johnson knowing that that relationship in the coming year is going to be crucial to get his legislative agenda. when you saw those: decided not to vote initially on the first round of balloting, and donald trump got on the vote and actually reminded ralph norman the congressman we just saw that he endorsed nikki haley in the republican primary and norman got behind trump pretty soon thereafter or got behind johnson pretty soon thereafter as a result of trump's lobbying. it's a reminder freedom caucus members. rebels are actually in some of the most pro-trump districts. getting them all on board getting the party unified. >> bret: apparently speaker phone kind of conference call in the office off the house chamber where the president-elect essentially told all of them a vote against the american people and disrespecting me le

francesca chambers and matthew continetti fellow at the american enterprise institute.king to victims though are trying to put together their life. what is left. and 10 people have died. but there is -- there is going to be a lot of fallout politically and in those communities about what happened and didn't happen. >> absolutely, bret. after hurricane katrina hit new orleans we often forget there was huge political shakeups in louisiana. new orleans lost population. all political geography changed in that state and city. i expect something to happen similarly to los angeles and to california. you know, disasters do happen and we can't predict them. what we can do is make sure our politics are right so that we're in the best position to deal with them and to recover from them. when you look at some of the conversations we have been having about california's forest management, about its water management, about its insurance markets. about basic competence, i think you can draw a direct line between some of those policies and some of the failures that have been on display

. >> let's bring in our panel, "the washington post" columnist and american enterprise institute senioraushaar is a fox news political analyst and democratic strategist meghan hays. thank you all for coming on. marc thiessen to you first with all the red flags that christopher wray has kind of raised over the past couple of years, pointing a lot to the border. are you surprised that the fbi did not have this new orleans suspect on their radar? >> a little bit, yeah. but it just shows that almost a quarter century after the 9/11 attack the forces of islamic radicalism are still a threat to us. we have homegrown terrorists. we have hundreds of people on the terror watch list who snuck across our southern border and then abroad. the terrorist's goal was to get control of t the state with weapons of mass destruction. they just did that in syria. isis off chute overthrew the assad regime and led by a guy al-qaeda terrorist inspired by the 9/11 attacks to go fight the americans in iraq. is he thought leader of the state that has massive stockpiles of chemical weapons. donald trump is inheriti

joining me now, norm, american enterprise institute, the author of the book "one nation under trump,uide for the perplexed, disillusioned, desperate and not yet deported." john walsh joins me as well, the host of the podcast social contract with joe walsh, the author of book "f silence." thank you for being with us. joe, you and i were having a conversation on monday before all this happened and that was the idea that the republican conference is somewhat decentralized. going back to the days when you were an active member of the tea party. mike johnson says he wants to be more member centric, he wants more decentralized, he wants the speakership to perhaps be weaker. and that suits anywhere from the six to the 38 members of the freedom caucus who want more power for themselves. talk to me about that goal and how it fits in with the agenda and the things that have to happen in this congress. >> ali, good to be with you. it's a noble goal on paper. john boehner, who was speaker back when i was in the house to wrestle in us tea party members, he tried to do the same. in practice, it's

american enterprise institute senior fellow marc thiessen and axios political reporter stef kight.al days, about the actions, about the oil and gas, natural gas stuff off the coast. about a lot of things here. what else the assessment from political watchers? >> well, it's giving the democratic party a lot of the headaches as there are parting shots at biden's own party. democrats are trying to figure out how to moderate their message. how to work with donald trump in some cases. you have the pardon of hunter biden. you have ending the commutation of the death penalty for some of the most hardened violent criminals on death row. the presidential medal of freedom to george soros. this past week. he is -- and also the energy policy both limiting offshore drilling and raising the price of gas stoves as part of some of these executive orders. this is a gift for republicans that are now trump has some ways to roll these executive orders back and really hit the democratic party pretty hard on political emmys. >> bret: that is what has people scratching their head. you have an election. p

design thriving learning environments that will have net a senior fellow at the american institute excuse me and american enterprisenstitute just down street. he's been doing work in collecting data on absences. we are going to see some of that dating in it that in a few minutes. couple of housekeeping notes, first after we have the panelist i think a good 15 -- 20 minutes of audience q and a. if you are here we will have microphones around for if you are not here but watching us live please feel free to either e-mail your questions to events at brookings.edu will beat checking that e-mail account. or on x using # disengagement. if you are here you can tweet us if we have internetworking in the room. for second for those you view it here in person but after the panel will have a reception copy of jenny and her back is a book available i think you have a couple authors happy to sign for you but thank you all for coming and going hand off to jenny. [applause] >> why don't you all join me. >> we weren't sure. we thought you were going to be at the podium. >> think you also much for being here. i'm really looking forwa

business sosa by the american enterprise institute. it runs just over an hour. >> all right everyone. now that we have settled all the legal issues around parents' rights, we are ready to move on to the medical sphere. the eagle eyed among you will recognize that we dod not have a single in the on this panel, that was not by design. we had a doctor who's going to come, and expert from usc. fortunately the wildfires have made her home the home of many of herom friends and so our thoughts are her but we are going to move on. but as a result i'm going to offer just a few sort of contextual remarks about kind of the medicalic sphere. i'm not a doctor. i do not play one on tv, but i just thought it would be helpful to have a bit more context. ical professionals are responsible for about 13% 13% of child maltreatment reports in this country. 40% of the reports were substantiated versus 26% overall. often doctors and nurses are responsible for reporting the most serious cases of physical abuse as these children are the one show up in emergenc

> congressional researchers and preview the new 119 congress at an event hosted by the american enterprise institute in washington d.c. they talked about that narrow it republican majority in the house the relationship between the new congress of the trump administration. campaign-finance elon musk influence. >> let's get started with the second panel will look at the one 19th of that will be. so, it let me first start by introducing michael panelists to my immediate rate joshua he is a senior fellow with georgetown university government affairs institute he teaches courses on american government advance legislative process and the federal budget process a prior o joining the government affairs institute in 2013 he worked on the hill as american political science congressional fellow he's currently writing a book since 1879 small topic for a small book i am sure. we look forward to it. to his right is my colleague kevin is also a senior fellow at the administrative state, election reform and united states postal service. prior to joining kevin worked at the institute vice president of policy vice pr

he was a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute in washington. it was also a professor at columbia university, worked at the federal reserve board of governors, and served as economic adviser to three present for candidates, george w. bush -- presidential candidates, george w. bush, john mccain and mitt romney. now for the ground rules. we are on the record here so please no live blogging or tweeting. in short, no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway. there's no embargo when the session ends at 9:30. we will email pictures from this breakfast to all the reporters here as soon as the session ends. as you know, as many of you know, i think some of you are first timers, but as most of you know, if you would like to ask a question, send me a signal and i will call on as many of you as time permits. now, chairman hassett, if you would like to make brief opening remarks, the floors you. dr. hassett: thank you. what an honor it is to be at this very well-known breakfast. i am not sure how long it has been a washington institution -- 52 yea

. >> similarly, an american enterprise institute report on the use of a.i.and online content moderation noted it's impossible to internalize the dynamics of running a digital platform without first spending some serious time just sitting and meditating on the dizzying, sublime amounts of speech that we're talking about. 500 million tweets a day come out of comes out to 200 billion tweets each year. more than 50 billion photos have been uploaded to instagram, over 700,000 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every day. joining me now is kate alan duke, an associate professor at saint john's university school of law. her research focuses on technology and private platform governance of online speech. professor welcome back. nice to see you. can facebook be moderated given the sheer volume of all these posts? >> yeah, i mean, facebook is moderated. it has been moderated since its early days. um, going back to 2007 when it was a platform for college students. >> um, they've moderated in various ways over the years. and stephen is completely correct in his asse

the american enterprise institute hosted this discussion. >> perfect. we are going to get started. i will be moderating the third and final panel for the day. i want to thank aei for hosting. this panel needs little introduction because the question is whether the system is effectively protecting or overreaching and it is hardly new. nor is the fact that we often have very interesting and strange political bedfellows in child welfare. in fact, to prepare for the panel i decided to do a quick search to make sure i was going to be using the correct terms. i first stumbled on parental rights movement which wikipedia describes as a socially conservative political movement aimed at restructuring schools ability to teach or practice certain viewpoints on gender, sexuality and race without parental extent -- consent but at the very top of the wikipedia page there was a disclaimer that this was not to be confused with the parents rights movement, which was described as a civil rights movement primarily interested in human rights affecting related to family law, including child custody. i a

confirmation last september to his current post chairman has it was a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute here in washington. he was professor at columbia, worked at the federal reserve board of governors answer this economic advisers to three presidential candidates, george w. bush, john mccain and mitt romney. his current job, his first in the white house. now for the ground rules. we are on the record here so please no live blogging or tweeting. in short no filing of any kind on the breakfast is underway. there's no embargo in the session ends at 9:30 and we will e-mail pictures from this breakfast all the reporters here as soon as the session ends. as you know as many of you know some of your first-timers but as most of you know, if you'd like to ask a question please send me a signal and i will call on as many of you as time permits. chairman hassett if you like to make brief opening remarks for issue. >> thank you linda. what an honor it is to be your at this very well known breakfast. i'm not sure how long the breakfast has been a washington visitation but the christian science mon

enterprise institute in washington, d.c. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the american interest -- and. i am naomi and i focus on the issue of child welfare. here at aei, we are helping the most vulnerable members of our society and children who are in most need of our attention. as many of you know come up to 90 percent of families involved with the child welfare system are suffering from substance use abuse. many are hard-pressed to think of any children they care for whose families have not been dealing with alcohol, drug use, or mental illness. it would not be an exaggeration to say that the drug crisis in this country is actually driving the child where fell crisis. pediatric poisonings are up, parental intoxications are up, young children are being unsupervised for hours or days while their carers get their fix. across the country, tens of thousands of children are being neglected by parents who are too affected by alcohol or drugs to be responsible for their care. research suggests between 400000 and 480,000 children born each year have been prenatally exposed to drugs or alcohol

this was hosted by the american enterprise institute. underway here on c-span2. >> and their best judgments. anytime that we tread on those rights it must be done with good reason and with great care. throughout american history the strength of parents' rights has waxed and waned, but i think this recent year the cry to be given greater to parents rights has reached a peak and those voices are coming from across the political spectrum. certainly the pandemic and the lockdown have grown the desire for more parental control in education among many americans, even those who were heretofor uninjured uninterested in politics. from vaccines to gender transition procedures. at the same time the field of child welfare has seen the growth of government asking them to step back arguing the agency suffer from not only systemic bias, but they're punishing parents for conditions of poverty. and yet, there are hundreds of thousands of children in this country, who are abused and neglected each year, they are suffering from a variety of mal treatments,

around washington that you cawatch on c-span 2, coming up in just about 25 minutes in the american enterprise institutescussion on the relationship between parental rights and children's safety and well-being. again, not :00 a.m. eastern if you want to flip over to that. one more figure today, a security briefings preparation on the inauguration, d.c. mayor muriel bowser is joined by u.s. catol police chief thomas major and others as well on preparations and security measures for president elect donald trump, january 20 inauguration. that is at 11:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span, c-span.org and the free mobile app. and as we talked about before any previous segment, there will be plenty of confirmation hearings to watch this week. there's some 14 hearings, 13 nominees, 11 committees is where these will take place. here's one that is getting a lot enti. defense secretary nominee p take f -- pete hegseththats tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. eastern, c-an.org and the free mobile app. wednesday marco rubio is out for his hearing for the senate foreign relacommtee. he has of course been nominated the trumpet ministrat

that is from the american enterprise institute. you can watch that live starting at 10:00 a.m.ere on c-span after this program. it is also on our app and online at c-span.org. at the same time at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2, outgoing commodity futures trading commission chair roston benham discussing his leadership of the cftc and potential policy changes in the new administration, including cryptocurrency. that is at the brookings institution. that is live at 10:00 a.m. on c-span2, on the app c-span now and online at c-span.org. we are in open forum for about 20 minutes. cindy in mckenna, illinois. republican. caller: good morning, mimi. i would like to say that the democrats seem to like to talk about misinformation. your previous guest is spreading misinformation herself. she said trump did not talk about the price of groceries yesterday in his speech. i watched it. he did. obviously she did not listen to the whole speech. hey brought up the bacon and the apples. i remember i thought he will talk about that apple story, but he didn't. that is all i wanted to say. do they o

american people demand and deserve it. it's overdue. we'll be looking for that and see how it checks out. happy new year. [captions the eran enterprise institutet a discussion at 10:00 a.m. eastern about once what's ahead for 119th congress, the recent speer election and event that is took pceuring the previous session of congress. on c-spa, also at :00 eastern, a conversation with the outgoing cha of the commodity features trading commission. over on c-sn 3, 9:30 eastern, symposium or relationship between russia and china. 1:00 a.m., director of cdc mandy cohen onomtic and public alth threats. lina khan, you can watch vege on c-span now video app or online at c-span.org. great responsibilities fall once again to great democracies. >> this is also a massive victory for democracy and for eedom. ♪ ♪ ♪ president jimmy carter the 39th president of the united states and the nation's longest lived leader passed away last month at the age of 100-6789 join c-span for live coverage of state's funeral. the public will have a chance to honor him wednesday as body remains in state at the u.s. capitol. on thursday the national funeral service will take pla