marc: this is where arthur brooks' point about ideology comes into play. there is an allergy to ideology , at least in the president and a lot of his supporters. the fact is if you don't have the ideas that will create innovative policy you will not , get anywhere. you will easily fall into the paralysis we have seen in washington for 16 years. >> thank you for your time, please come back. >> thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] ♪ >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> former fbi director james comey will testify thursday before the senate intelligence committee investigating russian activities during the last year's election. c-span3 will have live coverage for the open part of the hearings at 10:00 a.m. eastern. you can watch live onli

>> text, newsmakers with arthur brooks. trump's announcement that he is withdrawing the united states from the paris climate change agreement. debatehat, a free-speech on campus. >> is the resident of the nearly 80-year-old american enterprise institute. he is the author of 11 books. his latest is "the conservative heart." i am pleased to have at the table mark fisher, senior editor of "the washington post." and the co-author of the book written by more than two dozen post reporters. up first.are mark: donald trump has never been known for ideological consistency. he has at various times in his life called himself a liberal and a conservative. he changed party registrations six times. boon to the conservative cross or a hindrance? >> nobody knows. we are have a lot of data. really depends on the reactions that conservatives have. we know that populism will largely evaporate in the next few years, depending on what happens in the bottom 80% of the comedy. -- economy. time, we would see the popularity of conventional republic

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c-span's newsmakers interviewed arthur brooks. he talked about the opioid crisis being felt in many communities. >> looking over the political landscape, it was clear it was a fear-based political movement going on. whether you were talking about , unexpectedable popularity of bernie sanders, or when you look at cities and towns and the men, white with a college education who are 45 to 54, 300 20% increase in drug increasedeaths, a 78% in suicides, that is an economy of despair. the answer to despair is dignity. we are putting together an entire new program that is a social entrepreneurship opportunity to talk about, how do we work on vocational education so people are needed in the american economy? how do we deal with the american test with the opioid crisis? how do we do justice reform so every or is in the water? 70% of people in prison as far as we can tell our unemployed. what are we going to do that? we need to turn despair into dignity. it gets me up in the morning. wrote about the opioid crisis because everywhere i went i

on c-span.org and here on the c-span networks, "newsmakers," arthur brooks is our guest and the president of the american enterprise institute at 10:00 eastern time, 7:00 on the west coast. this is the headline from the sunday times -- carnage of the london bridge as terrorists target revelers at a tweet from president donald j. trump, we need to be smart, vigilant and tough, we are the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as a next level of safety. that's where we begin with our guest, bill press, author and talkshow host. guest: nice to see you. with brian mann and friends or steve scully and friends. host: let's begin with the president's tweets. your reaction. guest: separate them if we can. this alarming news and tragic top of anlondon, on earlier attack on the london bridge on top of the manchester attack on top of what we saw in paris and amsterdam. it's appalling that this terrorism is really struck -- coming to the heart of europe. host: third time in three months in great britain. guest: third time in three months in great britain. i think it's very troublin

. >> next, "newsmakers" with the president of the american enterprise institute, arthur brooks.

the head of aei, arthur brooks and i had dinner recently and we are here for the trump listening session when they brought african-american leaders. leslie, you and stefrl others in this room were likely here when we began talking about the transition and what we should think about and talk about with respect to not just the hrvegs bcu community, but the african-american community, the black community, whatever term you want to use. i'm really glad to be here. as i thought about what i would say in nine minutes or so, it was -- we just had our board meeting. the thurgood marshall board chsz about 20 people and there was a real discussion and i'd like you to go because i think it sets the code for the road ahead for hbcus. i'll take you to the end of it and walk you back. we ended with one statement that i think really it made me kind of stop and reflect. we thought about hbcus. we wear our t-shirts. we're proud of being alumni of hbcus. my board is half white republican very wealth eye white men from the midwest and they give us a lot of money. so people are proud of hbcus. st question b

on c-span.org and here on the c-span networks, "newsmakers," arthur brooks is our guest and the president of the american enterprise institute at 10:00 eastern time, 7:00 on the west coast. this is the headline from the sunday times -- carnage of the london bridge as terrorists target revelers at a tweet from president donald j. trump, we need to be smart, vigilant and tough, we are the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as a next level of safety. that's where we