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is imply, paula standing, an american political analyst on a former deputy director of the american institute. he joins us now from washington, dc. thank you for your time, sir. can i get your initial reaction fast way to this? these 5 deal being ratified by the is riley government. and what do you think it was that finally pushed over the line? a yeah, this deal has been around for over a year. at this point it's been available and israel has opted to not take it choosing instead to engage in the other destruction of goss, i'm carrying out this genocide for the better part of the past year. i don't think was different at this point is that president trump has come in. now there's different interpretations about whether it's meaningful pressure by president trump, or whether it's cutting a deal with nothing, you know. but the ultimate resolve is that israel has actually been forced to accept this. so sufficient of possibilities for a little bit. but to the point of your reporting, we don't know whether we're actually going to make it past phase one. and certainly, there is no agreement about

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communities can design thriving learning environments that will have net a senior fellow at the american institutexcuse me and american enterprise institute 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 be

sounds like the country will be heading to in my profession in accounting, they changed the american institute of certified public accountants to the association of international certified public accountants. from a micro perspective we are seeing this realignment occur already with the licensure offered overseas. i was curious how you would -- how you feel about that. guest: immigration is clearly tied with trade which is tied with offshoring and the ability to not manufacture goods but manufacture ideas overseas, which is the sorts of thing an accountant would do. donald trump -- a lot of republicans in 2016 were talking about immigration. only donald trump made the necessary connection of immigration and trade. you cannot be free-trade with goods and ideas and anti-immigration. you have to be both or neither. i think what you will see as trump understands that is you will see attempts to make sure that trade and ideas and goods only happens when americans are already assured of rising job opportunities up and down the educational spectrum and rising real incomes up and down the income spect

is following through on her campaign promise to really try and restore dignity, to support american institutionshe big questions right now and has been the question since november really, is what is next for kamala harris, i wonder do we have any indication as to what the future could hold for her request in yes, i spoke to more than a dozen people inside her camp. in than a dozen people inside her cam -. , , camp. in the first thing they want to really _ camp. in the first thing they want to really emphasise i camp. in the first thing they want to really emphasise is | want to really emphasise is that she has a job to finish as vice president. we will see a more re—engaged harris over the next final weeks, and that will include a trip in herfinal week to an international trip to multiple regions where we will see her sort of underline herforeign—policy will see her sort of underline her foreign—policy legacy as she tries to figure out what exactly comes after inauguration day. i think that includes quite a few options, one being running for the governor of california, that is a role that some p

this is after over or from the american petroleum institute said u.s.rude stockpiles frank last week, the sixth straight to draw if confirmed later today. oil is stuck in a narrow range since october. brent posting a moderate annual decline, wti in india pretty much where it started but you have investors bracing for a glut this year and that will make it harder for opec-plus to revive production. you have all of the uncertainty around donald trump's presidency and the tensions in the middle east and china's economic recovery, so that is something we will continue to track for you throughout the year. in other news, citigroup and bank of america are to leave a global climate banking group. the latest lenders to exit the net zero banking alliance, coming with wall street under pressure from republican lawmakers to distance themselves from industry groups that support reducing carbon emissions. part of the glasgow financial alliance is cochaired by the chair of bloomberg inc. and michael bloomberg, parent company of bloomberg news. i mentioned we have to

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

question, whether he's going to pick up where he left off and maybe do even more damage to american institutionsd have gotten out of the 2024 race earlier. in los angeles, authorities say the current stretch of strong winds could be almost over, offering a potential reprieve to firefighters — after a week of battling the intense wildfires. fire crews though, are still working to contain major blazes. the la mayor has also said they are "not out of the woods yet" — adding that the santa ana winds could pick up next week. the palisades fire is now 19% contained, while the eaton fire now 45% contained. despite the improved conditions, more than 6.5 million people remain under a criticalfire threat. and the need to provide food and shelter in los angeles amid the wildfires is only growing. for more, we can speak to troy vaughn, ceo, los angeles mission. it's a charity organisation that provides food, clothing and shelter for the homeless in la. troy, thank you forjoining me. tell us about the people you are trying to help. we tell us about the people you are trying to help.— tell us about the people

that set of values that he kept with him, they were born in plains but also through a great american institution, the naval academy. when you think of his story is an american story, anybody can grow up to be president. he kind of fits that bill through not only being born in america but also through the great institution of the naval academy. then his father gets sick. he goes back home. this is a life they carried with it a set of values that last and continue well over the brief. maggie was president. >> norah: that's an excellent point, john dickerson. bob, didn't you have a conversation with jimmy carter where you asked about being remembered for much more than what he did during his presidency? >> i did. i told him at one point, i said "you may be the only president, the only person who's been president that i know who didn't think the presidency was the high point of your life." >> norah: yeah. >> and he laughed. he got a big kick out of it. but he didn't rebut it. what he did tell me and what made that conversation so memorable to me, he said "but i'll tell you this." he said "do you kno

john adams of the award winning book, the cabinet, george washington and the creation of an american institution. she was also the coeditor from morning of the president's loss and legacy in american culture. she's been published in the washington post and time magazine and the wall street journal. she's a regular guest on a variety of podcasts, including listening to america. she'll be in conversation tonight with dr. catherine al gore, who is herself a noted historian, nonprofit leader and public history innovator. she's the professor emerita of the massachusetts historical society. she is currently a visiting scholar of history at tufts university. she was formerly the nadine and robert scott heim, director of education at the huntington library. before that, she was a professor of history at the university of california riverside. she has written extensively on dolley madison. we were trying to count how many books and we agreed it was for that. she's written on dolley madison, one of which a perfect union. dolley madison and the creation of the american nation was a finalist for the george

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

harvard university and online with the political analyst and former deputy director at the app american institute. thank you all for joining me now. i'm going to start with you. uh, 2024 president elect. donald trump has made around a personnel announcements for his upcoming administration. we have started israel supporter mike huckabee he'll be nominated as in bass that are to israel. mike waltz is set to be national security advisor, marco ruby, it was set to be secretary of state and at least the fabric as un invested. or are you expecting radical change in policy from washington based on these personal decisions, going to be clear. policy was already in such an awful place under the by the administration. however, i do anticipate that things will get worse, especially with someone like a former governor mike huckabee who is a committed, evangelical christian, has talked about the fact that the policy and people do not exist. he's described israeli settlements as simply neighborhoods. what i, what you hear from is really ministers is that they're planning to annex the west bank. you have settl

it was still actually pretty popular institution with the american public. and if you tried to formally withdraw from the nato treaty, he was going to pay some push back, you know, from the pentagon, from other parts of the foreign policy establishment. so i think it's entirely possible you'll stay formally within nato, well declaring and putting lots of pressure on european countries to spend a lot more on defense. and in particular, by saying they should be spending that money here in the united states buying american weapons. he's not going to want to see europe ramp up to tell him defense industries potentially become a competitor to the united states or a more effective competitor on global arms markets. and that may be a more effective trump in strategy. they simply withdrawn from the treaty and removing all american influence from europe strategic future course on. something has repeatedly, as i said earlier, branded himself as the anti war president of to do is how likely is it the he'll be able to retain that title? even under the terms you talked a

pete earle, is the senior economist at the american institute for economic research and believes manyl be unfazed by trump's latest threat. well, the kinds of things that mr trump is trying to get other nations to do — first of all, they take a very long time. manufacturing is not the kind of thing that would pop up overnight — it would take years for many nations to change those arrangements. but even so, no nation is going to accept tariffs on their exports without imposing tariffs on us imports. you know, we've had decades of specialisation that led to different countries with different resources and different climates producing certain goods, while purchasing goods and services from other nations. it's called the law of comparative advantage, and it's worked very well. but trump seems to want to throw out 70 years of market experience and 200 years of economic theory, you know, in a very short amount of time. and, as ever, his speech covered a wide range of topics. one of the other things he did was urge saudi arabia — which is, of course, a major ally of the united states — along

pete earle is from the american institute for economic research — he told me he believes many countriesbe unfazed by trump's latest threats. well, the kinds of things that mr trump is trying to get other nations to do — first of all, they take a very long time. manufacturing is not the kind of thing that would pop up overnight — it would take years for many nations to change those arrangements. but even so, no nation is going to accept tariffs on their exports without imposing tariffs on us imports. you know, we've had decades of specialisation that led to different countries with different resources and different climates producing certain goods, while purchasing goods and services from other nations. it's called the law of comparative advantage, and it's worked very well. but trump seems to want to throw out 70 years of market experience and 200 years of economic theory, you know, in a very short amount of time. and, as ever, his speech covered a wide range of topics. one of the other things he did was urge saudi arabia — which is, of course, a major ally of the united states — along

, the american press interest institute on street and he has been doing yeoman's work in collecting data on student absences and analyzing the data. some quick housekeeping notes before handed off. first, after we hear from panelists, i think we will have a good 15 to 20 minutes of audience q&a. if you are here we will have microphones around, and if you are not here, feel free to email your questions and we will check the email account or on x. if you are here, you can also tweet us. if we have introverts in the room. [laughter] right after the panel we will have a reception and there will be copies of jenny and rebecca's book available and i'm sure they will be happy to sign that copy. thank you for coming and i will handed off to jenny. [applause] >> why don't you all join me? thank you also much for being here. i'm really looking forward to this conversation. we will get into four issues, we will frame the problem, the issue, the challenge, the scope, what are we rebounding from and we will look at what is causing it -- spoiler alert, not just covid. we will look at strategies workin

is following through on her campaign promise to really try and restore dignity, to support american institutionsrs ago. yeah, of course. one of the big questions right now — and i think has been the question since november, really — is what is next for kamala harris? i wonder do we have any indication as to what the future could hold for her? yes, i spoke to more than a dozen people inside her camp about this and i think and the first thing they want to really emphasise is that she has a job to finish as vice president. so, we will see a more re—engaged harris over the next final weeks, and that will include a trip in herfinal week to — an international trip — to multiple regions where we'll see her sort of underline herforeign policy legacy as she tries to figure out what exactly comes after inauguration day. and i think that includes quite a few options, one being running for the governor of california — that's a role that some people inside harris world really want to see her finish off her career — they've referred to it as a capstone. but that would mean if she won, she would be sworn in ri

parliament speak a come into the on the nomination of the for my georgia and president by the american institute saying that she likes another georgian president, stuck has really had never sub the interest of georgia almost 12 years ago. a similar gesture was extended to another ex president mikhail psychiatry, bailey at tufts university. both of them willingly took up the offer, despite having pledge allegiance to georgia alone. so cash really later became a ukrainian citizen, and zora bishop, billy to eventually is likely to return to her native france. it is clear now to our compatriots, exactly as we have been saying, all along that neither of them has ever been in the service of georgia and both of them went back to the entity that employed them. so now the editor in chief, all the goods and farm georgia news agency said that nothing should have been expected from the former president of georgia, except pandering to western influence is the price for it to grow is the what is happening in georgia is a typical special operation by foreign intelligence services, as it is currently fashionabl

i have a list and full the deputy director of the arab american institute. he says, palestinians traveling to the homes of adults will attend to an area which has been decimated by these by the ministry. so there's no question that israel hasn't business to actually take over at north of gaza. that is part of the reason why they have early destroyed it and expelled people from the area. so while this is a small promising side that they're now through disagreement, going to allow people to return, they are allowing them to return to an area that is utterly devastated. there is no indication they're going to allow them to rebuild their holes in that area. and israel has time and again violated their commitments during cease fires. they've killed several palestinians already. they've violated the ceasefire and love it on hundreds of times. so the situation remains incredibly precarious. and even though this is a small positive development and in a very confined context, looking at the fact that we do have the spotter emissions and the gaza and the fact that the

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table for example for an exchange of biological samples to make them important vaccines, also american institutionsuch more unsafe and insecure. . insecure. in the executive order, insecure. in the executive order. the _ insecure. in the executive order, the president - insecure. in the executive order, the president wasl insecure. in the executive - order, the president was very clear that he feels that, quote, the who continues to demand unfairly onerous payments from the united states, far out of proportion with what other countries pay. in particular he mentioned china. does he not have a point that the us does now pay a lot more than other countries that use it, for example china? it is important to realise, there are two important sources of income for the who. through the so—called core contributions, and frankly speaking, the us gives 260 million, china almost 200, so not a big difference, but the big difference is in what we call voluntary contributions, and there, the us traditionally goes through the who while china for global health goes bilateral. we have a 96 member states and the us

my guest tonight is the president of the american institute for boys and men and author of the book,odern man is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it." please welcome richard reeves. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ well, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> desi: i sure appreciate it. this book, "of boys and men," is a reboot of "of mice and men." correct? >> correct. i thought i would go back to literary canon and turn it into a book with so many charts in it. if you remember, "of mice and men" did not have any charts in it. this has got lots of charts in it. so much better. >> desi: i was so happy you made that change and i always felt the problem was with the mice. so you corrected that. >> i am here for you. >> desi: i guess none of these questions will work. start from the beginning. you've spent most of your career researching gender inequality, poverty, family policy, and a lot of your research lead you to write this book, which was on obama's reading list over the summer. congratulations. [cheers and applause] no big deal. i never thou

using american manpower both as a national security tool to empower international institutions. ecause this is not only an american issue. and more importantly working with allies i think that european colleagues can do the same. and in a more practical level i have one example of many. i think that supporting ukraine is super important. if we can deliver a a particur outcome that can be measurable with ukraine victory because the putin gets away with ukraine, that will have a terrible impact for our colleagues in taiwan. it will have terrible impact for guyana with maduro's territorial ambitions. you would basically bring the authoritarian playbook to a whole new level. i think it shows a more deliverable and measurable outcome we need a win. we need a victory that can fire a force wave of democratic victory. it can be a measure. >> absolutely. can you talk about, all a bit of the work you do with liberty caucus to support dissidents and help protect them from some of these measures that we've been talking. >> with yes. very creative idea that some dissidents had to gather two y

but now he's at least on the list and form a deputy director of the arab american institute of jones as live from washington dc. mazda c sante will comes into effect on sunday. we don't know when is 0 our the time it starts. but with so many stages and phases to this deal, we still have to be extremely cautious. don't wait. we certainly do. we have to keep in mind as you were referring was just mentioned that as we're considering awaiting the start of the cease fire, israel is just accelerating it's bombing of cause a killing more than 80 people today throughout the gaza strip. more than 30 of whom since that deal was announced. and the fact that no matter what happens, garza is going to be a concentration camp that is in ruins with tens of thousands of people have been having been killed. with many more buried under the rubble was still don't know the full extent of this genocide and countless children of lost parents and all have lost limbs. the situation and gaza is incredibly dire and everybody's just waiting for the 1st bit of good news. just for this cease fire to essentially c

the american institute in taiwan conducted a survey of taiwanese companies with presence here in the united states, and 79% of them reported that double taxation of income is a considerable factor that prevents them from investing more in the u.s. but there is a solution which is the legislation before us today. specifically, this bill reduces the withholding of taxes and lays the groundwork for the treasury department to finalize the details of a permanent arrangement based on the model income tax treaty that we have can with scores -- that we have with scores of other countries. to mitigate double taxation, prevent abuse, allow for resolution, and exchange key tax information that will help revenue authorities in both jurisdictions. this bill will ensure that our nation can take full advantage of the historic investments that we've made under the biden-harris administration, like the bipartisan chips and science act. because of that law, new chip fabs are under construction in places like ohio and operational and producing chips in arizona. but these factories are enormously compli

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had become really quite concerned about the possibility of communist infiltration into major american institutions, including the united states government and senator mccarthy, who was a first term senator from wisconsin, took advantage of that public concern. and his position on certain key committees in the senate to start raising allegations, making allegations against various institutions in the government, particularly in the military and in aspects of the state department. and he used his position as a congressional investigator to hold numerous hearings, both in private and in public, to explore these allegations and then to make further accusations about the infiltration of of of communists in american government and american society. mr. townsend, was the red scare alleged intimate thing at that time in the late forties, early fifties? well, i think it's hard to say what's legitimate and what's not. there was there's no doubt that the historical record indicates that there was you know, there were communists who would infiltrated and were spying on the united states. there's no doubt abou

but more often it undermined the legitimacy as an american institution, as slate of slavery, as an american. now, many soldiers, the reality of enslavement, jarring and revelatory, its pure ugliness sharpened opinions and helped push, push pope's army toward a reckoning on the profound issues of war, property and humanity. saw wretched living conditions, one man wrote. see the poor, ignorant wretches living away their earthly in an extensive and well-ordered hell. he called the overseer the master's pimp of hell. he advises townspeople at home, judge them harshly and well. they saw scars. many soldiers right of and of course they were the exception, not the rule. but they they. they wrote of often young men in to the lines with scars on their back. they witnessed astonishment the many light skinned people who were enslaved and. and they draw the. conclusion about that that they were the products of sexual exploitation of enslaved by white men. a colonel in from indiana who was no champion of racial justice wrote home of the own unholy lust that was an affront to the moral concepts that unde

institution. i also think, and as i'm sitting here in a room with former members of congress, since 1789 until january 6 this year, 10, 427 americans have served in this institution. and that is somewhat of a goose bump causing statistic, right? each of you places yourself in that history and has to think about your role in it and part of the work william and i are doing and members of our committee are doing is ensure those who come after us, we're trying to keen up the campsite a little bit. >> and god bless you for it. sort of in the spirit of writing a mash note, the work you all are doing is important. it's detailed. it seems to be getting done. i wrote a reality check about it on cmm a few months ago because it was a sign of hope and progress. what caused you to ghettoing and have hope you could get something done in such a divided, dysfunctional environment? >> so maybe i'll say a little bit about the genesis of the committee and then i'll talk a little bit about why we took the approach we took. >> so this all started about four years ago about a conversation about house rules. about six months before the election of 2018,

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narrowly be impeachment, such impeachment will provide divisiveness and call legitimacy the american institutions. the american people are watching, you have the votes, you may have the muscle but not national consensus and will go down no infamy in the history of the nation. how about this one? i think the key point is that the republicans are still running a railroad job with no attempt at proll and today when the democrats offered amendments, motions, first discuss and adopt so that we know we are dealing, standards for impeachment that was voted down or ruled out of order. start looking at the question before we have a vote, that was voted down an ruled out of order, frankly the whole question of materials should be released is secondary. that's all discussed. set up a fair process as to whether the country put country through impeachment proceeding. that was ruled out of order. i guess 20 years makes a difference. it's an interesting time. we have having a factless impeachment. you heard one-sided presentation about the president. today we will present the other side, so conveniently left ou

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