hosted by the brookings institution, the american enterprise institute, and tulane university's murphy institute, this is an hour and a half. >> good morning, everyone. thank you. somebody's awake. good morning. i'm the president of brookings institution. we're a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to finding bold, pragmatic solutions to society's pressing challenges. thank you for joining us today and especially thank you to our co-host, the american enterprise institute, and the murphy institute. i'd also like to recognize brookings scholars. in was an effort that many doubted would come to fruition, given our country's deep divisions. and yet here we are. the state of the nation report released today is a result of scholars from across the political spectrum coming together, debating, challenging each other and remarkably finding common ground. they agreed on 15 topics and 37 measures, they captured critical aspects of our nation's well-being. and this wasn't just half-hearted agreement. each topic and measure had to secure super majority support. the state of the nation report undersc

discussion on the challenges facing the united states hosted by the brookings institute, the american enterprise institute, and tulane university. that is said to get underway momentarily in washington. [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] cecilia: i am president of the brookings institute. thank you for joining me. thank you to our cohost, the american enterprise institute. i would also like to thank brookings scholars carol graham and doug harris, who spearheaded the entire effort. this was an effort that many doubted would come to fruition given our country's deep divisions. yet here we are. the state of the nation report released today as a result of scholars from across the political spectrum coming together, debating and challenging each other and remarkably finding common ground. they agreed on 15 topics and 37 measures that captured critical aspects of our nation's well-being, and this was not just halfhearted agreement. each topic had to secu

thank you to our cohost, the american enterprise institute and the murphy institute. i would also like to recognize brookings scholars carol graham , who contributed to the state of the nation report, and of course doug harris, who spearheaded the entire effort. this was an effort that many doubted would come to fruition, given our country trophy has divisions. and yet, here we are. the state of the nation report released today is a result of scholars across the political spectrum coming together, debating, challenging each other, and remarkably finding common ground. they agreed on 15 topics and 37 measures that captured critical aspects of our nation's well-being, and this was not just halfhearted agreement. each topic and measure had to secure super majority support. the state of the nation report underscores the value of gathering and giving voice to diverse perspectives, which is at the heart of our work at brookings. without i will turn things over to robert door, president of the american enterprise institute, a great leader and friend and neighbor. the stage i

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this was hosted by the american enterprise institute, it's juries over an hour. >> okay. good afternoon, everyone. i'm robert, the president of the american enterprise institute and i'm very happy to welcome you all to this discussion this afternoon on higher education reform and higher education gemmily with michael elliot the president of emmers college. there you go. [applause] >> that's what i like to hear. i spent some time in the hudson valley of new york not far from western and central massachusetts and i know how beautiful emerest is. i'm particularly hope that you're here michael. ai is also very involved in the discussion of what needs to change in higher education so i begin by saying what we love about colleges and universities of the country but i want you all to know and i certainly want michael to neglect that we think there needs to be some change. confidence in higher education in colleges and universities is way down, polls show that, only 36% of americans have quite a lot of confidence in higher education, down from 57% in 2015. worst, 32% have little o

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hosted by the brookings institution, the american enterprise institute, and tulane universities murphy institute, this is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] >> well good morning, everyone. thank you. good morning. so i'm cecilia rouse come the president of the brookings institution. we're a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to finding both pragmatic solutions. thank you for joining us today and especially thank you to our cohost the american enterprise institute and the murphy institute. i would like to recognize brookings scholars carol graham who contribute to the state nation report and, of course, doug harris who spearheaded the entire effort. this was an effort that many doubted would come to fruition given our country's deep divisions. and yet here we are. the state of the nation report released today is a result of scholars from across the political spectrum coming together, debating, challenging each other and remarkably finding common ground. thanks for inviting me. thank doug and the teams up with his report together organizing it and doing the hard work. this is th

from washington and across the country, coming up saturday morning, the american enterprise institute's frederick hess and the education law center's robert kim discuss the trump administration and education policy. then attorney who focuses on national security and federal employment looks at current efforts to reduce the number of government workers. c-span's "washington journal," join in the conversation live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. >> and now, british prime minister starmer address the weekly prime minister's question time before the house of common sense. this is about 40 minutes. about. >> they'll be appalled in sheffield on monday. making it easier for businesses to do business and ensuring a better relationship with our european partners delivers for the british people. i shall have further such meetings later today. >> thank you, mr. speaker. sadly, suicide is the biggest killer of young people under 35. they each lost their precious daughters, sophie, emily and beth to suicide. and they have campaigned tirelessly for sui

this was hosted by the american enterprise institute. it's just over an hour . >>. [inaudible] >> okay, good afternoon everyone. i'm robert doar, president of the american enterprise institute and i am happy to welcome you all to the discussion this afternoon on higher education reform, higher education generally with michael elliott president of amherst college. there you go. that's what i like to hear. i spent some time in the hudson valley of new york not too far from western central massachusetts and i know how beautiful amherst is and i have friends who went there and visit the campus often and i were admired greatly so i'm particularly happy you are here. aei is very involved in the discussion of what needs to change in higher education so i begin by saying a great love but i want you all to know i certainly want michael to know that we think there needs to be a change . the confidence in higher education colleges and universities are way down . polls show that . only 36% of americans have a great deal of quite a lot of confidence in highereducation, down from

boy guy is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and a specialist on political economy of public finance. he joined us from washington dc. welcome to the program. so what do you make? what? okay, in 5 minutes, just have to say, i think it's, i think it's uh, not as a private candidate, i felt compelled to respond to, to the tears that, that trump has announced. obviously to the us actions here are the impossible to defend. um, the trump is lashing out of one of our closest allies and you know, 2 of our coasts trading partners. and he's really just doing so. and i think because since the 1980s he's been obsessed with trade deficits. but you know, i, but i think it's reasonable for canada to respond by how the different governments can find a pass to, to back to where we were before too. but this basically a free trade area between canada and mexico. the united states though, of course, you know, given what's happened over the past 2 days, it's going to be difficult to restore the trust of businesses that have invested so much in supply chains that run across the entire u

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this is hosted by the american enterprise institute. >> welcome to american enterprise institute. th 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, physical abias, sexual abuse, torture, medical neglect. more than who die from cancer and gun violence. how do we balance the protection of those children with the rights of parents to

thank you for joining us today and especially thank you to our cohost american enterprise institute. .. from across the political spectrum. coming together, and debating, challenging each other and finding common ground. they agreed on 15 topics 37 measures captured critical aspects of our natures and being this is not halfhearted agreements, each topic and to measure had majority support. the state of the nation report underscores the value of gathering and giving voice to diverse perspectives which is at the heart. with that i will turn things over too robert doar a great leader and friend. >> it's yours thank you very much. >> i am robert doar i want to thank everyone for being here and thank cecelia for inviting me i think doug and the team up with this report together for organizing it and doing the hard work. like our ai scholars to participate in. i have done them in the past they have proven to be successful in achieving a consensus around our biggest challenges of the country. those consensus lead to policy changes, that lead to advancement for the united states and that is

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todd is now a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute focusing on defense strategy and budgeting, the defense industrial base, space policy, and security. todd, over to you. >> it is a pleasure to be back at csis. there's a lot of familiar faces in the audience. the best thing is i can show up and moderate a panel without having to do anything to organize it. kudos to carrie, mckenna, clayton, and the rest of the team for putting on this all-day event. i can tell you from experience that it is a lot of work. our panel discussion, we will look back at how we got to where we are, what it took to get the space force across the finish line and where we will go in the future, where we should go in the future. i will tee it off in the discussion because the progression towards an independent service for space was not a linear progression. it did not happen just steadily over time and then suddenly, we gave birth to the space force. it was in fits and starts over time. looking back in the history you have to go back to the 1980's when we saw some of the first big efforts at space reorga

cooper, the american enterprise institute is greatly appreciated for making a difference, promoting limited government, expanded freedom. it's crucial for addressing the challenges of american families, and we want to thank you for a.e.i. in your testimony, you note that the grad plus program provides unlimited loans to students, allowing them to borrow institutionally determine attendance. in other words, whether a school says is 10,000 or 10 million, the federal government will provide a loan. the creation is go inside with doubling the amount of graduate students' borrowing. given the structure of uncapped lending, is there evidence that colleges abuse this to unduly increase tuition? >> there is absolutely evidence to that effect. as you mentioned, the grad plus program is unlimited. students can borrow up to the cost of attendance as defined by the institution, which means that the institution says it cost $200,000 or $200 million, students are legally allowed to borrow up to that limit, defined by the institution. and this has resulted in increase in tuition at the graduate level. for

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that's washington post associate editor jonathan capehart and mathew continetti from the american enterprise instituted brooks is away. good to see you both. so donald trump and his allies are making quick progress toward their stated goal of the deconstruction of the administrative state. we have takeovers and the hollowing out of major government agencies offering severance agreement to government workers, federal grants and loans now tied up in the courts. are the shockwaves being felt across the government signs of a super committed new administration shaking up the status quo or are we witnessing the full assault on the limits of executive power? jonathan: both. both. remember, donald trump campaigned -- he told us this is what he was going to do. project 2025 is all about doing what is happening right now and so they are trying to deconstruct, as i think steve bannon said, the administrative state, and as i said last week, president trump and elon musk in particular are taking a wrecking ball to the federal government by sowing chaos and confusion and fear, but he's following through on what he

and audrey wong, jeanne kirkpatrick fellow at the american enterprise institute and assistant professor of political science and relations at the university of southern california. welcome to the panelists. let me begin with jessica brandt. 2024 was described as the year of elections and many of the world's major democracies, including the u.s.. what is your assessment of the role played by foreign governments and other actors in their efforts to exert malign influence during the election campaign and election itself? >> inc. you for having me and enabling me to participate in conversations that lead up to the report. maybe i can start by highlighting three big trends that shape the landscape heading into the election. the first was a greater number of more diverse capable actors who interested in conducting these operations, state and nonstate. the second is the rise of commercial firms providing influence for hire services, which had the effect of increasing the number of actors conducting these kinds of operations, making them more sophisticated, making it much harder to track the in

"the washington post" columnist, american enterprise institute marc thiessen "the five" co-host jessica tarlov and ben domenech. by the way that press conference is streaming on foxnews.com if you want to continue to watch it and we will monitor it for news. marc, your thoughts on this move, the reciprocal tariff move. also announced was that india is going to agree to buy large amounts of american oil and natural gas. that's a shift for india that has been buying a lot of cheap oil from russia since it invaded ukraine. canada and mexico. i don't know how anyone could on to reciprocal terrorists. just saying okay if you do that, we are not going to unilaterally surrender we will tariff you back in the exact same way you are terr terrify spacing us. we pay annually about $370 billion in tariffs, only take in 750. when supreme say donald trump is terror happy the world it tariff happy. trying to equalize things. in india most important relationship we have to counter china and modi is in very many ways an indian donald trump. you know, he said he coined the phrase miga miga and maga make

that is washington post associate editor jonathan capehart and mathew continetti with the american enterprise institute. donald and his allies are making quick progress of their city goal of the deconstruction of the administrative state. we have takeovers in the hollowing out of major government agencies, offering severance agreements, pausing edible grants and loans. are those shock waves being felt across the government signs of a super committed new administration shaking up the status quo, or are we witnessing the full assault on the limits of executive power? >> both. donald trump campaigned, he told us what this is what he was going to do. project 2025 is all about doing what is happening right now, so they are trying to deconstruct as steve bannon said the administrative state, and as i said last week, president trump and elon musk are taking a wrecking ball to the federal government by sowing chaos and confusion and fear, but he is following through on what he promised to do. geoff: how do you see it? >> i think jonathan is right. this was a promise he made to, promise kept. what is important

the senior political analyst for the washington examiner and a resident fellow at the american enterprise institute. he's a fox news channel contributor and coauthor of the almanac american politics. mr. barone has written for many publications, including the economist, the new york times and the sunday times of london. he was previously senior writer at u.s. news and world report and a member of the washington post editorial page. please give him a warm, warm. well thank you very much. it's an honor to be here and it's an honor to be able to introduce the 43rd president of the united states, george walker bush. thank you all. thank you. please be seated. michael, before we begin, i do want to thank you. garlow, for his leadership of the miami community college. i had the honor in the graduate and speech here when i was the president. i am thankful that you've invited me back and i met. i also want to thank you for promoting literacy as a new author. it's in my interest that you promote literacy. i want you to know i did recognize the fact that you have invited my mother, my wife, our daughter. and

from washington and across the country, coming up saturday morning, the american enterprise institute's frederick hess and the education law center's robert kim discuss the trump administration and education policy. then attorney who focuses on national security and federal employment looks at current efforts to reduce the number of government workers. c-span's "washington journal," join in the conversation live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org.

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then, we will have nat malkus, senior fellow at the american institute -- excuse me, american enterprisenstitute. nat has been doing yeoman's work in collecting data on student absences and analyzing that data. i think we will see some of that data in a few minutes. a couple of quick housekeeping notes before handed off to jenny. first, after we hear from the panelists, we will have a good 15 to 20 minutes of audience q&a. if you are here, we will have microphones. if you are watching us live, feel free to either email your questions to events @brookings .edu. we will be checking that email account. or on x using #disengagementgap. i guess if you are here, you could also tweet us using the hashtag, if we have introverts in the room. second, for those of you here in person, right after the panel, we will have a reception and there will be copies of jenny and rebecca's book available, and i am sure they will be happy to sign that for you. i will hand it off to jenny. [applause] jenny: why don't you all join me? we are ready. thank you also much for being here. i'm really looking forward to

matthew con continue netty, scholar at the american enterprise institute.rial board at the "wall street journal." and robert wolf, ceo of 32 advisers. kimberley, let me start with you. first of all, were you shocked by the statement and what about the reaction to it? >> well, i wasn't really shocked and i think one way to look at this as a donald trump negotiation tactic. if you look what he is doing on foreign policy, he is a businessman. he makes big threats. big challenges, so you see what he saw with the tariffs then he you get canada and mexico more at the border. panama, backing away from china. offerings to work more with us. maybe this was thrown out there not necessarily because donald trump wants to run gaza but because he clearly wants to see a different way of thinking among regional players about how to deal with the palestinian problem. the status quo isn't working. so, i think this bears watching to see what comes afterwards and if the asks are in fact coming maybe the players then look at it and think well that's not as bad as having the uni

. >> congressional researchers preview the new 119 congress at an event hosted by the american enterprise instituten washington, d.c.. they talked about the narrow republican majority in the house, the relationship between the new congress and trump administration, campaign-finance, and elon musk's influence. in the senate --

he's an emeritus scholar at the american enterprise institute.lution is just a set of instructions to committees telling them how much money they want them to cut, raise, whatever. and so it's hard for a citizen to read that and make sense of it. it's never going to say cut medicaid, but you have to know when it orders that committee to cut $800 billion. medicaid is the only thing they have to do it. and so we'll get to much more specifics at the next stage, which is the reconciliation bill, where all those cuts get specified. so we're we're marching up toward the specifics now. >> and there's one other thing to keep in mind, lawrence, which is that spending runs out on march 14th, so they have to do at least a stopgap spending measure, even as they do this budget resolution, deal with appropriations and then do their big reconciliation bill, which we should note. they've said they want to increase the debt. ceiling by $4 trillion as well. you and i have been around long enough. you and your time at the finance committee me even longer around the

coming up saturday morning, the american enterprise institute and the education law center discuss education and trump policy. then a at current efforts to reduce the number of government workers. c-span's "washington journal," join the conversation live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. sunday night on c-span's "q&a, ex-convict, award-winning poet, and yale law school graduate talks about the book and the work done by freedom breeds, an organization he founded that builds libraries in prisons. >> the judge might have been under no illusion that sending me to prison would help. he did say i could get something out of it if i tried. i think this is a testament not just that i got something out of it but that i came home to a world where it might feel overwhelming. it might feel like it is absolutely hard to make a way when you have hurt somebody in the past, but i also came to a world that has radically changed and shifted and created opportunities for people to reflect on the ways in which they have changed and to be welcomed back. >> reginald d

he's an emeritus scholar at the american enterprise institute, and e.j. dionne, an opinion columnist for the washington post and a senior fellow at the brookings institution. he is a government professor at georgetown university. and, norm, let me begin with you. and there is there's so much happening here and so much coming at us that i don't want to target a question for you. i want you to. just air out with us what you've been thinking about as this has been happening. >> you say. >> that of all the powerful introductions you've given on this. >> show that. >> i think is the most powerful and the most chilling, and that is where. >> we are. >> right now. and it is. >> a putsch. >> in progress, occurring very rapidly. >> and we. >> have to fear. >> that our guardrails. >> are just not there. >> most of them are not there. >> little marco rubio was chosen. >> for a reason, and we're seeing that reason. >> he will cave. >> and. >> you know, marco rubio was given all kinds of awards for supporting development. >> and diplomacy. >> now we. >> show where. >>

the american enterprise institute book event law schools gone lawless. thank you all for joining us today. i'm jeff rosen. i'm a nonresident fellow here at the enterprise institute and some of you may know me from past roles i've played government, i've been a lawyer for more than 40 years and i've previously taught at a law school. but those are only two of the many reasons why i'm enthused for today's discussion about a book that addresses law and law schools and the chance to talk with the author of the book. this is a book that will get the attention of law schools but a wider readership as well. so i'm very pleased to have the opportunity to introduce our speaker for today's book event, ilya shapiro, and talk with him about his book, lawless. so first, a few words about ilya

. >> congressional researchers preview the new 119 congress at an event hosted by the american enterprise instituten washington, d.c.. they talked about the narrow republican majority in the house, the relationship between the new congress and trump administration, campaign-finance, and elon musk's influence. in the senate -- >> where we look at the 119th that will be. let me first start by introducing my co-panelists. to my immediate right is joshua ruder. he is a senior fellow with georgetown university' us government affairs institute, where he teaches on advanced legislator process, separation of powers, and the federal budget process. he joined the government affairs institute in 2013. he worked on the hill as an american political science professional. he has been writing on politics since 1999 -- a small topic for a small book. to his right is my colleague kevin cozart. he is also a senior fellow at aei, study in congress as well as the ministries of state, election reform, and the united states postal service. prior to joining aei, kevin worked as vice president of policy, vice president of

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saturday morning, the american enterprise institute's frederick hess and robert kim discuss the trumpinistration and education policy. then attorney mark zaid looks at current efforts to reduce the number of government workers. c-span's washington journal. live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. >> saturdays, watch american history tv's new series, first 100 days. we'll discuss the early months of presidents's administrations. we'll look at accomplishments and setbacks and examine how events impacted presidential terms and the nations. this saturday we'll look at the first 100 days of andrew jackson's presidency. he was elected president in 192. mr. jackson came to office with a vision for the country but his vision was strained by tears controversy. early issues included states rights, tariffs and treatments of native americans. first 100 days, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 2. >> next week on thc-span networks, the house and senate are in session. the house will consider legislation establishing new penalti